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Show WHY SO MUCH junketim;? Now that transportation agencies are puzzled to meet demands, de-mands, with preference iven to persons identified with the war effort, while responsible officials of public utilities are pleading with patrons to reduce their use of fuel gas and electricity, of telephones and trains until the war is over, it must strike the average taxpayer as inconsistent for his salaried servants to be traveling- to distant cities where conferences con-ferences or conventions are held. Every few days one may read of appropriations and authorizations for city,- county or state officials to attend some sort of gathering scheduled for remote points of interest inter-est between the boundary oceans. There is said to be a time and place for everything, but custodians of tax-raised funds in the varied departments of state and local service seem to be indifferent to wartime conditions, to the need of investing spare cash in victory bonds, to the untimeliness of unnecessary traveling, especially especial-ly at public expense. Many indulgences which may be overlooked in a time of peace and prosperity should be sternly suppressed when every spare dollar is needed for prosecution of the war or will be required for reconversion and rehabilitation after the victory is won. ' Our officeholders ought to be able to get along with a maximum of outside suggestions under existing circumstances, circum-stances, and it is reasonable to suppose the delegates from other cities and states could manage to function somehow without counsel from our salaried spokesmen, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the acknowledged intelligence and experience of Utah's several delegates legally authorized to enjoy the different junkets slated for the season. Salt Lake Tribune. |