The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-07-23
Executive Calls Attention to
Fact that He has Never Set
a Specific Amount as Aim
for Saving.
THINKS PEOPLE HAVE
WRONG IMPRESSION
Hasn't Spoken to Anyone
About Laying Off Employees,
and will Talk no More to
Blank Reporters.

what Mayor Doatrrgnt has feared
has come To- pass. somehow me
IMPRESSION has got about that the
has set out To save slO'uvV
or oven see. 0O0-a year la city
expenditures. The mayor made y
when he reluctantly admitted
thai he was planning economy III
municipal business affairs thht ~"
wasn't aiming at any definite sum 10
be saved. but would save as much
as he could; hat ne didn't desire u"
SAY anything about his plans for re-
trcnchmcnt; that he would rather
say he had saved $4,000 than thai
he was going to- II WAS bocaus ne
was afraid the people might expect
him TO do n good deal more than ne
could accomplish that the mayor was
reluctant To speak OF his rctrench-
ment plans in the first place,
Now the mayor wants II repeated
with emphasis that he has not set
out. lust as he stated Tuesday and
Yesterday, To save any definite sum
He has been studying Departmental
accounts. and will save what he can.
As ne stated yesterday, II is his de-
termination TO see that while the city
has an the necessaries II can afford
To pay for. Il won't have "A thing IL
doesn't need.
While the mayor says he hasn't
spoken to anyone about laying OF
employees. he does not deny that
there Is intention to reduce the pay
roll. and AZ "A matter of fact, II u
known that one NJ the first steps
contemplated Ia the policy Of re-
treuchmcnt Is a cut in the payroll
II was said yesterday by "a man In a
position Ia know that the hca OF
one Ftment had already been
told To reduce his force, but against
that statement must be balanced the
mayors statcmcn, that he hash (
spoken To anyone about laying OIL
employees.
The announcement of the re-
trenchment policy has given a shock
tn an the minor employees Of the
city. They feel their jobs gettinE
shaky. IL L. said. however. that none
of those whose work Is necessary
need have any fear. The mayor yes
tcrday was emphatic on the point "i
retaining efficiency In city service
He said he would make no move
that would deprive the city Of any
needed service which Il is receiving
now.
hut the mayor wants his fellow
! citizens please 10 quit thinking o'
him a. shooting at a $4,000 or N@V'
GOO figure. The O,OoO-a-ycar w"'
! brought into the limclight by Coun-
! Gilman skinner. who said at TIM
weeks meeting nat a husineHs maj
who looked owe the city accounts
was OF the opinion that the municl'
I pality could save that sam. IL wac
the mayor VINO gave the eager bul
unthinking taxpayers the ~&2O.oOo-a'
year morsol To- roll under thei'
tongues. He said. we might, a. q
matter of fact, ret out 10 save wv
0OD a year. hut We viii not Try u
save any definite sum
The eager hut %unthinking taxpayer
overlooked the modifying clause. TIT
mayor wishes the people would rea'
more carefully OF hat the reporter
would be very. very careful ahnu
the Impressions they give out Tn
mayor IA. inclined To think that n
ought to quit telling anything 20 re-
porters-eVen to the extent Of no
giving them "a damn thing
Keeling under that shock. this re
porter stops right here.