Show formula for f or household budget Is applied to city governments CHICAGO because the housewife who purchases a kitchen spoon faces aces the same problem as the municipal official who shops for a stearn steam shovel the problem of a budget domestic or governmental a quarter of a million women in american cities and towns have begun to apply t their heir expert experience in household budgeting to measure the efficiency of their municipal government since january women in 50 of these communities have initiated surveys of their locial governments which promise to bring about higher standards of economy and efficiency in municipal operations according to mrs melville mucklestone president of the national consumers tax commission whose campaign for tax reduction through education is now active in 45 states working operatively cooperatively co through a unique exchange of ideas plan each of these N C T C groups has asked its mayor to appoint a nonpartisan non partisan committee of citizens and public officials to survey the city comparing its methods and ex tures with those of other municipalities of like size while none of the surveys has been completed the nonpartisan non partisan groups are discovering financial methods which says mrs mucklestone no thrifty housewife would 0 pu put t up with in her own household k for example V the mayor in a r midwest city was discovered to have sold a 50 radio for to a paving contractor just before contracts were let because city mrs aielo melville ile officials neglected mucklestone e to pay their personal residential electric bills to the municipally owned plant another community is in a serious financial condition all members of the school board of a small southern village as well as the tax collector were found by another survey to be ineligible for the positions they hold |