| Show T 00 t fa i t t As practical as a sack of potatoes throughout the country chambers of commerce 1 civic organizations banks and other groups group sarg ore act actively 1 iveli engaged in seeking to bring more moro to their communities muni ro ties they want the spending 1 and the employment that come with expanded industrial activity 1 lt this is a perfectly natural and desirable state of 4 affairs however in in rural sections odthe nation there Is another arid equally important possibility which hloi isi i gen brally overlooked that is to work for the improvement in iu a scientific and orderly manner of farm production ial for in stanco any regions farm output and farm farin income could bo be rais edby by 20 or 25 per cent the beneficial would bo be tol felt t by everyone and this would WOW le be of lasting service to iho 0 country as a whole whole which 5 must of feeding a swiftly growing population from froia a axed land area greatly increased farm production i is s no impossible in aible idealia ide alit Is as practical as a sack of potatoes it can P bo be accomplished con complis lisle hed by toa maximum ue use of machinery In farming coupled with proven pro land cousert conservation techniques has line been full accuracy py that the W tractor iced farming that revolution is nowhere near complete present makes maltes is pos possible to mechanize the dorkof rk of the land as Oras thet A at 01 factory the of this d country ayn wll depend as in farmin f arming iw pr in indest industry the two j go toge together 1 liko like the fingers of v i hand baia r 1 W B better e it er alig light flit needed on Public business the rho cynical view that tho publics business is no blodys buM businesses ness is proved somewhat correct by the haphazard manner public ia is informed informed ormid about its business in a recent study the utah foundation no profit taip searce organization found that despite a seeming abundance of official data on government operations ppe rations in utah record reporting fall far short of the goal g aa of providing reliable understandable information on public to affairs tho the faults moreover wore uncovered on both state and nd local levels of government t tho the basia trouble asahe foundation dation pointed jointed out bics giesin in the tho absence of well planned planed and aid well kept aco inting j ic records Certainly government report can cabibo be no better th than an the i accounting cco system upon which it is based if the qu quality artty of bf the information is is poor ihen then the r report will be po poor orAnd and if the principal objective of tho system is the achievement 1 of afan an arithmetical waie balance of receipts and j rather than thin of 01 r ang 14 information so 0 that tha ibisi understandable and then the off t bialo are likely to be losta in i a wilderness of figures t but there aro are other obstacles which make government information obtain 1 utah law laic requires in newspaper publication of 61 annu annual lil financial by local units of go ament lj loFever accod wito the foundation t iriani many local governments fail to publish such or are ir tardy elardy W afi doing GO so in Waddi addition tion cities counties and school are supposed to have their accounts acco ints audited or filing the auditor but because of lack of an enforcement provision vi s to n somo some do not corn com the law lawn inor a C coordinated co 0 policy regarding the contents or distribution n biennial state reports the state building board for ex amplo published only copies of its 1952 report whereas the tho Board of alcoholism Alc Ale holism a much smaller arm the standpoint of total 1 expenditures distributed 1 t As for content the foundation tili covered A number of shortcomings graphs charts tapa maps drawings drawl nga and can make moko dull ci cometo life I 1 were used all too seldom the lack of 0 indexes and summaries was waa also noted these are og the simplest ways of df making a report repot tan an adequate medium of tion andyes th eyare neglected f y official i reports should follow the principles of journalism thatis tell the story as completely and interestingly aa as possible fossi blk the public should be able to heartt leal u with ease the sources of revenue revenue and the purposes pitr poses of expenditures and should be provided with comparative coal jarw data ott on previous years jears since government IB is a aou con process and rind it is just as necessary to know where we weare going As where we stand at tho the present moment it would profit it government units immensely to study ho lepit 10 t lo 0 at stockholders which most corpora osue anno ly orp rations facts and andvig fig W thoy mak ethem interesting arid aid understandable because it isao iato their advantage todo BO soa it would also w r ll 11 41 rl t bo be t to t the g e advantage of government units to prepare their reports in ft A similar rianner rA manner anner if that were done the foundation would bof beable to say iq that 01 48 it is fo b obtain information about many many of private bus business ineis i in utah th than it is to secure I 1 information concerning af fairs of locale local 1 P u 4 wo me beleve be r e eve that thattie th atthe alio state should make a thorough 0 ra ugh study of the subject of government reports from the keeping of records to the publication of the information n r ao 70 we plo alsos alp believe I 1 that the whole procedure ia is in inn diw jedof of reformation reformat hii public business after all ischo business tribune bune v |
