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Show Little Chats on Public Notice SCHOOL ATHLETIC RECEIPTS Now and then one sees Jn the newsrrper in the form of a paid adverusing a report on local high school athletic recoipts and expenditures. ex-penditures. Actually these are a part of school revenues and outlays out-lays even though they grow out of a student activity. In any case, such a report Is for the information informa-tion of the public which pays most of the cost in most cases. There Is no question but that the dissemination of such information infor-mation w here 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 do not take the public into their confidence in this matter. It is not a question of distrusting the school authorities or the athletic administration, but one of keeping keep-ing the public informed. Whore detailed reports of this kind are made in the manner described de-scribed above, they are in the form of paid public notice. To uc Lu'Ay effective they must be made in a bona fide newspaper order to get the widest possible readership and attention. The principle of accounting for public revenues and expenditures is so well established in America as to be an essential part of the democratic demo-cratic process. Yet for some unexplained un-explained reasons many high schools fall to do this. |