Show PUBLICITY IS ONLY PANACEA new york oct 1 the annual dinner of alie american association of public accountants was held tonight in the hotel astor among the guests of honor were president Paul Morton OL the equitable life assurance so celly jacob II 11 controller E M grout john R ormer and eugene A philbin sir said that the which are now claiming the attention of investigators and the public were largely due to the fact that unprecedented development aud success of corporate interests in some instances led executive officers to forget that a corporation po ration cannot bo administered like a private concern and that legislative officers owe accountability to choso from whom they derived their powers paul morton said in part 1 I believe I 1 am voicing president Roosevel ts sentiments when J say that it he had his way ho would insist that every great corporation of this country might be investigated once a year by public and independent auditors so that investors might DO pi elected directors informed and employed emp loyes not led into temptation I 1 am of those who believe that the evils arom not having publicity are greater than those from publicity publicity is sure to come and la sure to stay in this country and a time Is near at hand when doctored bookkeeping all be treated in the same way that other Is 1 I know ot no man who has done more to bring about a keener realizing sence of dangers that have threatened our great corporations our financial institutions and our republican form of government than theodore roosevelt |