Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-11-10

M W. business office of the navy Also it is MAS the butcher, the baker the banker the MXNAf tailor aud the grocer of the navy. It fS pays out some $145,000000 year. It
 @G saves Jacks money for him and the
 - savings bank it operates has deposits tggregating $253OO0 It operates two great clothing factories, one at Brooklyn and the other Charles ton, s. O. In another aspect it is one of the biggest purchasing agencies in the country
 So remarkable have been it's achievements in the twevemonth that many requests have come to it recently from business establishments, public and private for information to it's new methods
 The spirit behind the change is that of a boyish looking, wde-eyed, ever-smiling officer, who just tortyive years old-and he does not look it-holds the rank and draws the pay of a rear admiral he being paymaster general of the navy and chief of the bureau Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan he is to outsiders. MT. McGowan is the form of address ne insists upon within the bureau. But in the navy generally by all ranks and all grades he is dubbed behind his back of course, Sammy McGowan.
 In the IA months he has been paymaster general he has made his bureau What is iaSs9r he has secured the saes Mnd enthusiastic support of the entire -oIce. That, to anyone who knows how any government organization is welded to precedent is amazing.
 Somewhat given to the making of epigrams in his instructions, oral and written, Admiral McGowan has uttered two that give hint of the predominant Ing ideas behind his reforms. Make it bureau with small b and navy with big N" is one and Remember that the stores exist for the feet not she fleet for the stores.''
 The paymaster general and his bureau of supplies and accounts have their offices in the great pile known as the state, and navy building on Pennsylvania avenue, fankng the White House on the west When the building was erected some forty years ago it was the largest office building In the world. Each corridor in it has the appear. ance of battalion of barrooms, for each of the many corridor doors has it's middle twothirds masked by shutter door The rooms are all inter. communicating
 ic 3 suite of five rooms Across the hall are seven more rooms. In the navy annex building in a street near by aye some offices of the bureau
 When Paymaster General McGowan took over the job te inaugurated at a cleanup campaign Down from the walls the dusty old pictures Bookcases and file cases went out. Current and absolutely necessary bureau files went into one room in set of steel vertical containers for general purposes, and in the purchasing end across the hall, they likewise were reduced Private libraries also went out Upstairs the navy department maintains splendid naval l- brary. a1l this is available for all purposes.
 Abolish roll-top desks" was the word. Where nat-top desks were not available the department carpenters took off the roll tops. Since then standard office furniture has been adopted for the entire h1reau
 All intercommunicating doors in the suites taken off the hinges Walls were painted in light colors Then the chief of each room or division chief was required to put his desk in the middle of the room with his force grouped about him. NOW the paymaSter general stand in his and look down the line and exactly what is going on.
 But that isn't exactly the point. The object Is not to keep an eye on the people so much as it is to convey the idea of unity The division chief who sequestered in his little nest, might be tempted to write letter to the chief next door, doesn't do 1t under these conditions. He says, Say. Bill, how about and so?" or goes over and discusses it at close range.
 Stationery in use was reduced to the fewest possible simple kinds
 On a shelf handy to the paymaster generals hands is book IA inches long by IS inches wide. In ft is all the information that once oc- to the present duty and availability for sea or shore duty. the case may be, of all of the 230 officers making up the pay corps.
 The pages of the book are faced with trans parent celluloid. When pay officer is sent on cruise his name and the essential date in- scribed on a typewritten slip and inserted at the sea duty. Place by place the slip moves up au- tomatically. and in this way one may observe at glance who is due for shore duty and who for sea duty as. under the law for every two years of shore duty pay officer must take three years of duty.
 And thus with all records. No effort has been spared to reduce them all to the simplest and most graphic form. The messenger force was reorganized and squad told off to act as express messengers. This insures speed in the move ment of papers from desk to desk and to the secretarys office No paper remains more than IS minutes awaiting transmission.
 One of the very first things Paymaster General