Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-07 | Page 4 | Shining Mark of Honesty

Shining Mark of f Honesty ET us hope that the recording angel ever L LET LEr alert for go good d deeds in a naughty world failed d not to record the singular virtue recently displayed by the municipality of Gilroy Cal Calf Gilroy undertook to install a public improvement im im- provement provement something nt-something having to do with I waterworks waterworks and and got a advance from the P W A for the purpose Contracts Contra ts were let and workmen were hir hired 9 anc and when everything everything every every- thing was finished Gilroy discovered that the he work had been done for about 5 per cent less than the estimated cost cost and and the surplus was sent back to the federal authorities P If V A officials themselves say that Gilroy is the only y city in the country which actually finished a P W A job for less than estimates and returned the savings to Uncle Sam At a time when most cities look on Uncle Sam as asSanta asSanta Santa Claus Glaus this example of municipal honesty ought not to go unnoticed