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Show LACK OF PUBLICITY PROMOTES SHORTAGE Shortage in public funds is becoming becom-ing so common in Utah that news of a new shortage fails to create much interest. Utah is rather slip-shod in its methods of protecting funds, although al-though the legislature has passed laws which provide that receipts and expenditures of public funds must be advertised in a newspaper of general circulation. This law has been passed on by the supreme court and pronounced pro-nounced constitutional, but, strange as it may seem, public officials resist compliance with the law. But few citizens of the state known to whom, and for what their tax money is spent. The statements which are usually published deals in bulk amounts and mean little or nothing to the taxpayer. tax-payer. Men who are otherwise stickers stick-ers for the enforcement of law, resist re-sist and advocate the violation of j these publication laws, usually on ac-0!int. ac-0!int. of the exnense incurred. The miblication of the expenditure nf miblic funds, as the law requires, would do more to bring economv in expenditures than any other method , that can be devised. Surely such publication pub-lication will bring criticism, and crit- :-;.-,,, v.-;1l force more care in expendi-j re. The publication of expenditure! of nublic funds in every city, countv i-i'l s"' o:il (Kctrict 'n the state would wit a" intense interest. In looking over a newspaper pub-lisl:p(l pub-lisl:p(l in McDonongh county, Illinois, recently, the writer noted that the n-orpcdings of the board of county commissioners was given in detail who got the money, what for and how m-'ch". The naper was a reminder that this practice was followed in the state of Illinois when the writer "deviled" in a print shop there more than fifty years ago. Reflex, |