Show I VOICE OF THE P By Telegram Readers Outside Audit Suggested For Utah Liquor Setup Editor Telegram The day of the old country store with its Us cracker clack r barrel is gone but if you like to get a section cross-section of the thinking of a small city or larger one just spend a little time in inthe inthe inthe the lobby of the local post office and as the businessmen and mechanic mechanic mechanics me me- of the he hc community come coma and go the ther r public questions which arc re in iri their minds are arc discussed discussed discussed dis dis- dis- dis cussed back and forth Tho Tim Telegram Invites ite letters from readers on subjects of general Interest L Let Letters e t t e r 8 should be short and antl preferably t Readers must sign their correct names and addresses but if requested an assumed as name or Initials only will be he published Send your letters to The Editor Salt Snit Lake Jake Telegram Letters will sill willbe be p published or rejected at the tho discretion of the editor No contributions can be returned unless a stamped self ad dressed w-essed envelope I Is Just now they are talking about the Utah State Liquor Control commission And at their suggestion I am writing you for a small group We Ve do donot donot donot not want any publicity but we did want to ask you if It you did not think it might be a fine thing to have the Telegram take up the campaign to have a high- high class firm of auditors go over the affairs of the Utah State Liquor r commission Not that we doubt the Integrity Integrity integrity Integ Integ- rity of State Auditor Ferrell Adams but after all he and his workers belong to the same political political political po po- po- po party Besides he has stated that the funds allotted to him do not anticipate such an extensive audit What is better than to take funds from the surplus of the Utah Liquor commission to pay paya a firm of high-class high independent citizens to go through the whole business from A to Z If there is a rotten situation in one agency is it not likely that the parties responsible assuming assuming assuming as as- suming that Jt it Is an inside job have followed the same tactics in other agencies And who knows what a complete audit of the wholesale warehouse will disclose There is so much rumor and supposition that in fairness to al alj departments of state county and city government this mess should be gone one into without fear car or favor The Telegram can put this over in behalf of ot good gov gov- C. C H H. Carlquist Midvale For the Telegrams Telegram's attitude on the liquor situation please read the tho editorial which appeared on this page Jl O Friday Ed Californian Praises Utah Friendly Spirit Editor T Tel Telegram Telegram- e 1 e g r a a. m Correspondent Corre Corre- S S. S A. A of TOD seems a abit abit a. a bit harsh in his estimate of Utah and her people Raised in n Washington state tate and now a resident of California I have traveled 40 o c of our 48 United States and also in Canada Canada Can Can- ada Mexico and Hawaii I feel wen well acquainted with Utah having traveled in this state rath years I 1 The peo peon s stesy stesy sI tesy and kit ki kl t they cy rate goo good neigh leigh Ray Tuttle Yucca 1 Hollywood Cal Y WORD R IT ank Colby Coby TO WATCH ATCH jn rn n a bus and him to a hospital d appendix The rho verb burst is the same in both the present and past tense It will burst it has burst a burst appendix appendix appendix ap ap- ap- ap etc t i Now In very informal speech the word bust often occurs the past participle and past tense is busted as He was busted re reduced reduced reduced re- re fn m In rank to private for forgoing forgoing forgoing going A AV AWOL V 0 L. L We must guard against boom and bust he said This hand is a bust bridge He busted out o of college during his freshman year He won first prize in bronco busting Id I'd lend you the money but Im I'm busted The dictionaries list such expressions expressions ex ex- as slang However they have been in the language for so long a time and are arc now so commonly used that I feel reel that bust noun and verb in the above meanings has become an American Amerlean American Amer Amer- ican lean idiom that eventually will come to be bc quite respectable Meantime however I should not use the word in serious or formal speech or writing Be on guard against an erroneous erroneous erroneous erro erro- final t lit sound in such words as wish wish- once across as asIve as Ive I told you and for or all that I wisht you wouldn't go the street Such speech is careless and dialectal and places one in a bad light Overheard O on a radio tation He is smarting under the NOM nee of being dismissed from office ollice The word ignominy disgrace dishonor was used correctly but the pronunciation tion has a fractured vertebra Ignominy Ignominy Ignominy Igno Igno- miny has only one accent and it falls aIls on the first syllable thus nuh IG |