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Show Series Explains Public Notices Public notices, or legal advertising adver-tising appear, in this and other newspapers regularly, as provided pro-vided under the laws of all of the states. These notices are a part of the basic right of the people to know what their government gov-ernment does with tax money under the American system. Copyright 1961 By James E. Pollard FINANCIAL REPORT SCnOOL ATIILETIC RECEIPTS (No. 16 in a Series) Now and then one sees in the newspaper in the form of paid advertising a report on local high school athletic receipts and expenditures. Actually these are a part of school revenues and outlays even though they grow out of a student activity. In any case such a report is for the information in-formation of the public which pays most of the cost in most cases. There is no question but that the dissemintion of such information infor-mation where public high schools are concerned is in the public interest. The public has a natural concern in such matters and the information involved is a legitimate legiti-mate and reasonable part of the public's basic right to know. The wonder is that more school boards or other school authorities authori-ties do not take the public into their confidence in this matter. It is not a question of distrusting the school authorities or the athletic ath-letic administration, but one of keeping the public informed. Where detailed reports of this kind are made in the manner described above, they are in the form of a paid public notice. To be fully effective they must be made in a bona fide newspaper of paid general circulation in order to get the widest possible readership and attention. The principle of accounting for public pub-lic revenues and expenditures is so well established in America as to be an essential part of the democratic process. Yet for some unexplained reasons many high schools fail to do this. |
