Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-28
ARMY AND NAVY

In relinquishing the position of
chief Of ordnance of the army, which
he had held for eleven years, to be-
come president of the Army War co..
Iege, Gen. William Crozier, in his an
nual report, takes sharp issue with
those who have been attacking the
scientific management" system
which he has installed in the great
army arsenals.
He refers to alleged misleading
statements which have been made
to the congressional committees
which have been investigating the
workings CT the system and says:
The persistency with which these
statements have been circulated, in
the face of the failure of the COM
mittee to discover any facts to JUS
! tify them, excites more than sus-
lpicion that there is some other rea-
son which animates the opposition
| than the fear that the employees of
the department are going to be over
worked. = @
The bills now pending in congress
prohibiting the employment of this
system are unspaTingly condemned
as being directly in opposition to the
conclusions reached Gy tbe commit
tee, and, he says, are destructive Of
the interests OF the worknen them
selves. -es
Many figures are given to show
, that bath the workmen and the gov
eminent have profited largely Ey the
method of scientific management. At
the WATERFOWL arsenal alone, Gen.
Crozier says, the total saving to the
government would be about 100000
per annum, while the workmeE have
received substantial increases in sal
airy, amounting to about 2S12 per
cent .---.'- ~'......-.
THE workmen," he says, have re-
ceived higher wages, while the net
cost of the work has been reduced,
and none of the Objectionable results
so confidently predicted by the OPP
ponents of the system have devel-
oped. The present situation, there
fore, offers every inducement for the
continuation and extension Of the
system ...~.
That Uncle Sans soldiers arc
thrifty is shown by Paymaster Gen
eral George r. Smith in his last an
nual report. Since the system of
deposits was established in the ranks
of the army in July, 1872, the total
deposits made by soldiers to army
paymasters amounted to $3S, 1858, 798,
of which amount there was repaid
500, A, 290 in principal and $2,20S,-
SIC in interest.
The amount on hand remaining to
the credit of depositors is stated to
I be $3.543,50S. The yearly number of
deFositors has fiuctuated from 1924 in
1851, Ii1,024 in 1901, to 1855 in 1912.
During the fiscal year 1912 the de-
posts amounted to $1,S14,022, and the
Irepayments to s1,7S9,073 in principal
and $106,655 in interest. .
During the period from July /, 1911,
to June 80, 1912, payments were made
to the benefciaries of eighteen Off
GERS, aggregating $32,242, and of 215
enlisted men, aggregating s32,716,
making total disbursed of $64,95
These payments were made with the
utmost promptness.
Paymaster General Smith says that
the successful administration of the
paymaster generals Office lis largely
due to the faithful lators of the
clerks, and | wish to commend them
for the etfc.eHt manner in which they
lave performed their several duties
During the f*ca! year 1912.
Il am in hearty sympathy" says
be, with the present movement
which has for its object the retire.
ment of Gle, As with reasonable com:
pensation after they, have reached
an age which incapaeitates them for
the performance Of their full duties"
Paymaster General T. J. Cowie,
chief Of the naval bureau OF supplies
and accounts, in his annual report
shows that the business transactions
of that bureau during the past fiscal
year involved the sum of $133.449.013.
and that the value of naval stores on
hand is S16S.155, 209. On the construc-
ton of new ships, including labor and
material, was expended S24, 800, Ago.
The cost OF repairs Ia ships nj home
and abroad is shown To lac $9,095, 959,