Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-11-08
-TAFT'S PLAN TO
IMPROVE SERVICE
Get Suggestions as TO How
Economy Can Be
Promoted,


BEVERLY, Mass, Oct. /. - Presi
dent Taft has devised an entirely new
plan for promoting economy increas.
ing efficiency and preventing waste of
the Governments money In the exc.
cutive departme nts IN Washington.
lie will discuss his new scheme
with the members ~ his Cabinet at
the special cabinet tosatingssto be held
IN Washington the latter part OF this
month According % the new plan.
the Government service at Washing.
ton will reform itsslfE In other words.
the Innovations and the changes tend
ing to economy will come from the
inside and not from the outside of the
service. Hitherto, 1t has been the in.
variable rule, when there was an at.
tempt to improve the business meth.
DDS of the departments. TO appoint
commissions which had inquisitorial
powers and which Immediately put all
Government employers on the defens.
i've and made them antagonistic to the
agencies named to Investigate and i'm.
prove conditions.
Mr.. Taft from his experience as
Secretary of War has decided that no
Improbable improvemept cad be made
In the service witfrontsthe hearty CO.
operation and. the. enthusiastic sym.
patty. of the clerks. and officials who
have grown up with the Governhental
system and have become thoroughly
| familiar with II.
To Get ideas from Clerks.
Therefore,, his idea Is to have every
clerk, bureau chief or chief OF b divi.
sion, who has an idea of how ecbnomy
can be promoted in the Government,
present his idea to the White House
In person or In writing. He will take
mp with his Cabinet they best hethod
of spending the 100000 appropriated
by the last session OF Congress to
promote efficiency In the departments.
This appropriation was made has the
result OF Senator Aldrich's statement
on the floor OF the Senate that
! $500, 100000 could be saved to the Gov
eminent annually II Its business were
carried on In proper and economical
fashion. In laying the matter before
the Cabinet, the President wilt point
out that the 100000. can be used to
employ certain tsnGhslS " X tsiness
experts who will help put ip& prac.
teal operation 1.-THE, sugssstiot&iof the
bureau chiefs and HE 1clerRsl as to
the best way In which econoipy can
best be subserved. ~
% The Idea OF paying some sHnsiness
experts 100000 for accommodating "a
new plan of running the cleridB work
OF the Government has besbl aban-
doned, for experience has Ia Dit the
President that any scheme fecom-
mended by business expert fils for
new legislation, and II is absolutely
4 impossible to procure sASaSsHs4 iegis.
lation. The experts viii Be used
merely as a. coordinate element In
the new plan. vlJ
To Lessen Red Tape.
The main idea is to avoid d,iplica.
ton OF work, to consolidate bureaus
to lessen the detail and red tnpe of
the Governments work ianh TO save
labor and time. The President be-
lieves that the men, the ambitious and
brainy men in the service are the
ones to indicate how such things can
best be accomplished. Unless he has
the cooperation of the men In the SER
vice, he believes thai all aims 10 pro.
cure economy and efficiency will fal,
short OF their mark.
The experience of the Treasury De.