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Show Little Chats on Public Notice Much has been made in this series of Little Chats on public notice or legal advertising, of the fact that the 50 states have thousands of such requirements. But so does Uncle Sam, too, in a great variety of ways. This is particularly true of government contracts. Some time ago, for example, a Boston newspaper carried a notice no-tice advertising that sealed bids would be received by the "Engineering "En-gineering and Construction Director, Di-rector, Panama Canal Company, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone." This was for the "excavation in the dry of approximately 250,000 of L. F. of material, and the drilling of approximately 200,000 of L. F. of blast holes, and the use of approximately 400,000 pounds of explosives to break up material which will be excavated and disposed of by the Panama Canal Co." The Panama Canal Co., of course. Is not the U. S. government. govern-ment. Cut tiie C2n:4 and the company that operutes it are under governmental control and the canal. In effect, is government govern-ment property. Here, in short, was an advertisement adver-tisement appearing five times In a newspaer several thousand miles from tiie scene of the large scale excavation project for an arm of the federal government. The principal of notice is the same whether for a local or even a personal matter or for the national na-tional government. And the newspaixT of paid general circulation circu-lation renders a public legal service ser-vice in publishing such notices. |