The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-02-17
POLITICS, NOT
Saving, WANTED
supervisor Pacheco Says Adyer.
tiser Is Right In Questioning
Boards Good Faith.

srenchment in the sudden turning over
II new leaves by the majority Of the
board Of supervisors, il hit the nail
iquarely on the head. The whole re-
Irenchmont talk of the majority Is
political bluf, playing 70 the gal.
ieries, an effort 20 save the faces Of
che members of the road committee for
he long series Of plumbers Il has made
ind for the thousands after thousands
II the Taxpayers money &C has vast.
ed
SO declares Supervisor Pacheco. who
)oints to Sunday 3 caucus OF the super
yisors to prove what he says. 'sThcrc
We sat and talked about retrenchment
md caucussed and talked for three
lolid hours and the net result Of Il ali
sas the decision to dismiss one poor
,tabieman, who draws down the mum.
icent salary Of one dollar and sixty
ents day. just how many blocks Of
God road can DO built out of the money
aved by that retrenchment, you can
'gure out for yourself.
''The Advertiser Is certainly right,
90, when u declares that the least ef-
icient man in the road department
ervico Is being kept on the payroll be.
ause he has a political pull with the
tales about ali tbe other emnioves e
,nsolf ;naanal,ia 80 aa,n;u, ~ NV
Whitehouse says so; Johnny Wilson
avs so; Caldwell Says so; and Kennedy
ays so, and that ought to be pretty
onclusiye. BY keeping North and fir
ng better men, the road committee
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orlneu the Puphc Oh the trueA sonui-
IONS.
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IA Ia. Nan ne nayt n d;s.nnt;ng
bs orgsni1at;on th.t Wn,;tohonsa and
. iaIaS,oiI Ma 1900 ~ Rnt Pat,;a &
l,a,.1 ~ nc ~, a.. 90 az arsonsa,a5
~ noIit;es Nv McCisI,an Mcc'ieI.
an Lnors batter bnt 10 made 4 oats.
40 80 Pot,;e and pet,ia raksd the
hsstnnts ont Nov NJ hands are
mined and he "a irving N raIse an
ficiency cry 10 attract hubble atten-
ION away from his mistakesst =
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on an 'pe p,SPosts ~ snas ~. ~
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,ayers and n s;neereiy n aarne.t IN
~ 800 tsrba 1900 X, o;vas NV
he resnits 20 snndayss cancus a ~
jttle n that TIE vayions denartment
reads ara calling for moro helm instead
N less. and the effort n being made to
zee where savings can be made with.
ut cripplinQ any of the necessary dc.
lartments.
Stin Caucussing. A
.lwa "a st;II.eancnss;ng ~, tha mat.
or of yetrsnrhmant IN ire exnanditnres
~ The city. - said superyisor McCleIlan
yesterday Dbut have faint hone of
eaebing any pIan witbont seriously AZ.
,eeting the efficiency of the working I,
force in one or all departments. Either
that will happen or, by curtailing ex-
penditures in maintenance, we will
reach point where we win have no
Dads at all. We are still at work on the
problem but Judging from the caucus
we held sunday. the outlook IL not
good.
1--WE had all the heads Of depart
ments before us and questioned them
down the line but they could not come
through with any workable plan with
out reducing the number of employees
IN each department below the point Of
efficiency or permit maintenance 10 run
80 low that Il would be ruinous.
"City Engineer Whitehouse went
over his work and could suggest no re.
duetion of EMPLOYEES nor recommend a
surtailment Of the work now progress
mo in the road department,