Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-24
EMPLOYS EXPERTS TO PLACE
MANAGEMENT or NATION ON
BUSINESS DAs,s.
sEcRErAaY NORTON SLATED
FOR POST OF SUPERVISOR
Prssidsnt Spending $4,000 in Order to
Bring About System in Conduct Of
Govsrnmsnt's Big Managerial House.
hoId-PurehasIns Agent, Regulator
and Equalizer.

eminent shall have some Of 1t. The
proof Of this IL at hand.
The president has turned the sena-
torial waiting rooms over to his scien-
tiflc management experts in order that
he might have his proposed revolution
In tho management of the government
conducted under his own eye. In those
rooms at the present time he has at
work an expert in scientific manage
ment to whom he IL paying $4,000 q
year. To help him he has two expert
accountants at $500, one at $4,000,
one at $4,000. one at $4,000. one law
clerk at $500. and four stenoGraphers
at $50 each.
This Is only the beginning. Very
soon he Is going to employ an addt-
tiomal staff Of experts to tho number
Of about six, whom he hopes to get
for $4,000 each. but for whom he Will
pay $1,000 II he can't get them Tor less.
For these men he proposes to 90 INTO
the competitive market and bid Tor
them. us he finds there II no other
way open to secure just the kind OF
talent he knows he must have. In this
connection it il surmised that those
who have picked tho national bank OF
which Charles d. Norton 10 to DO presi-
dent have another guess coming; lof
it is beginning to be beloved thas the
president permitted his secretary 10 re-
sign only that he might use MIN -
general supervisor of the proposed re-
form in the management OK the gov
ernment. It il even suspected that .
new Office 10 to be created to be Known
as that Of "the administrator, winch
Mr.. Norton Is to I'LL.
Wide knowledge Required.
This officer will be sort OF com.
bined purchasing agent, regu!atos anu
equalizer. He will DO expected 70
know all things about all department..
Under his management al tho oats Ao1
all the horses owned BY the govern
ment will be bought at the lowest com.
pe4itive price at the points OF nearest
delivery; and then tho charge wA1 10
longer be made that tho oase eeVon y.
the cavalry horses ut Dee Mo,nes. VIM
Iowa oats all right enough are Dousas
at Cincinnati and shipped from t
back to De- Moines at q totel e1pn.s
Of $40 per hundred. when the nae
oats could be bought 1t Oee Nao'''e' >S'
Sl.3c per hundred.
Under this officer one department ~
Of &ha government viii not buy u.
ink by the bottle. another oy ene pa's.
and another by the pound. Netthes
-,i, a rood share OF the travelling OF
the different departments be done on
single trip tickets when 80 macn 1aones
mirht be saved by q general purchase
Of mileage books and round trip t1ckets
Nor viii each department buy IL own
stationery. typewriters and Office sup-
plies. at widely varying figures. when
IN. government can make q saving OF
At least 10 per cent by purchasing 1or
all thru Q central agency.
In fact, the-e will be q perfectly
balanced system, 90 that when Dill
goes thru the hands Of the auditor
for settlement he win have data by
which 70 head Off such q transaction -
that in Iowa oats something he now
can not do.
But vastly more than all this. when
the president wants to md out why the
government has total Of l11,S22 civil
employees In 1911. while in 1896. only
fifteen years ago. It had but 17s.717. he
will be able to do %. At present ne
can not find out, Altho he has tried.
II he asks:
4u0 VOQU40SlO1 W ZIG SV0ASAy
creased only about 30 per cent during
those fifteen years. while the number
OF civil employees Of the government in
creased more than $50 per cent: Why
u itr'-He will have machine to
tell him.
Can't Get Answer Now.
Il q bureau or q division Of the gov
eminent has been created Tor q pur-
pose. and that purpose has been ac-
comphshed. he viii DO In q position to
ask why that bureau or division 10 not
dispensed with. He can ask It now.
for that matter. but he can not get an
answer. Under scientific management
he will have the answer. No longer
viii the following table perplex him.
United otateo Civil Employee.
(Not including officers ana enlisted
men Of the army ana navy.)
Department or bureau- 1895 1911
state ss.s...s.ss... 12z 74S
......e.... 2S.b%S 27.S3S
War :. ................ 1887 2S.lo3
Justice 90. ........... 7o4 $500.