Show SYSTEM IS BLAMED sirce since the stealing of 0 more than A hundred hlin jred Cao thousand usand dollars of 0 stal funds by a deputy state treasurer came to light within the past week there has been much much criticism thru tide the daily voss and elsewhere of a beslem makes ma ked possible such a steal ireal critics have pointed out that the laws tt rf the state provide amp ule to safeguards it they had been ap gp lied ta have prevented such a thing but ine ifie laws have hava been ig nored cored by those i le tor for ad ministering them and the result js As the times refers r to this criticism at this time for the purpose of giving giring it a lobai local application we the slightest idea that irregularities of any consequence exist or ever did exist in the handling or administration of 0 paro aro funds fudi no holy body does so tar far as we know but neither did state Trea treasurer Burer john walker sus hect irregularities in his department nobody no did why irregularities were possible there are laws on bu our statute books which are designed to protect the cites funds ands among them th budget law the the law which provides provid ts fordan on an independent audit the out on which provides for the publication of a financial statement annually annual ly and some others cut but when these laws are consistently and persistently ignored year after year as they have been in the case ok 0 parowan carowan city there is units opp opportunity for or irregularity I 1 there teen been a published punished hed statement in III eight years to our certain knowledge its been a couple of years since there was any semblance oi of an audit and its a mooted question as to whether hether the audit made ahn then and aid two years previous were strictly as contemplated by the tha statutes and when it comes to budget law compliance there been any to date three years ago no budget was mate two years ago no budget was made a year ao abo 0 the out gou ala mayor and recorder whose choso duty it 11 fa to make one wished the job oh on to sorie ono el a then the coun cl 61 though they approved the drat arati of the budget as submitted failed to make it effective by ordinance as provided and the present administration virtually ignored it As a matter of tact fact the recorder admitted that it if was beyond him to interpret it such looseness as that and we lefer to it impersonally lets the bars bare down tor for as much irregularity as aa the officers desire it if there has hag been none it is due to the integrity of the officers we have had and not to the system syster or to a technical al compliance with laws designed to prevent it legal checks should ha be made use of |