Show NO MORE l SHORTAGES T THAT HAT no sho shortages have been been discovered In Inthe the he city tr treasury for two or three years Is due to the fact that honest men Inen have been placed in charge But even ven that does not satisfy the city commission which has before it an ordinance e surrounding public money money with such safeguards safeguards safeguards safeguards' safe safe- guards guards' as will guarantee an honest accountIng accounting account- account Ing of every penny The new ordinance which will soon go Into effect merely legalizes those m methods which have been employed for some time or since a new system of accounting has has' provIded provided provided pro pro- vided automatic checks upon the treasury Until these new methods were adopted It was possible for anyone having access to the books to plunder the treasury providing there was someone else whose acquiescence or c connivance made the plundering possible A law is not needed to compel honesty It merely sets up a fear of being detected and prods crooks to greater ingenuity During the time when the city treasury was robbed of a quarter of a million dollars the existence of the shortage must have been known to a large number of city officials dais or admitting they were ignorant of the defalcations they m must st have been altogether altogether altogether alto alto- gether too dumb to be holding city jobs |