Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-11-10

..,sess 5 q .ss.ss syssss ss1ila1i4ed has the 9a. @ securing and charting this information become that it requires little labor and its cost by comparison with the results achieved in as- sisting in intelligent buying, is remarkably low
 Other charts, corrected daily, keep the bureau informed as to the amount of stocks on hand in every detail, not only at the storehouses but on the ships as we'll Since the navy through it's extensive wireless system is ill constant com- munication with every ship afoat, the task of keeping up these charts is not difficult it seems
 Or the bunch of cards making up ships com peny also is producibe the instant.
 Machines have reduced the amount of work in the accounting section than 50 per cent. There are refnements of cost keeping in mili- tary establishment that not known in a private establishment for all expenditures must conform to specific item of an appropria- tion bi and appropriations for the naval estab- lishment found in three different appropria- tion acts.
 Roughly speaking, 3O00,0O0 separate accounts must be kept properly to meet the requirements of the law and to furnish the information to costs, gross and detailed needed Imagine ledger with 3,000,000 accounts!
 Here the cards and mechanism have come in to the extent that half the number of men needed IS months ago required to do the work In addition great deal of new work has been taken
 The use of new card punching machines is re- SponSibe for the larger economies.
 The machine is so arranged that it sorts the punched cards, arranges them in proper groups ascertains the totals of the figures indicated by the punched holes and prints sheet the results. It Is accounting reduced to mechanism
 Of course the usual machines such as adding machines and the like, part of the equipment In fact the whole trend of the reforms in this section has been to reduce everything to a mechanical basis.
 n in. creased efficiency, increased accuracy and in. creased speed. To the casual observer the strik. ing thing is the disappearance of books. Few indeed the books in sight, remarkably slim the fles In other words, the accountancy sys. tenn has been reduced to the simplest dimensions. Ask any man, officer civilian, in the estab. lishment how the whole organization has been made over in such time, and he instantly will tell you that Sammy McGowan did it. And then he will grow confidential and tell you what he esteems is the secret of the whole accomplish. ment, the spirit that McGowan has put into his entire force. We don't tolerate grouches" your informant will say. We all belong to the Don't Worry club and McGowan is its president"
 Another thing this paymaster general has done is to establish in Washington, with the approval of the secretary of the navy school for navy pay officers. These officers appointed from civil life on competitive examination They sc into the service equipped with good academic education, but with knowledge of the navy and it's needs Hence the new service school which has in this years class 15 young officers who being trained in their new profession
 Admiral McGowan himself is product o civilian training When he secured his appoint ment in the pay corps in 1894 he was South Carolina newspaper who had worked his way through college and law school by running a brick yard and serving ticket agent at railway station Maybe there he got the training which has made him great business executive
 The fact that he has spent most of his nava career at sea accounts for his insistence that the kept in mind
 When he left the Atlantic fleet to go ashore as paymaster general his commanding officer, Ad miral Badger said of him, He has made the pa, department of the fleet smoothly working mil ftary machine
 That is the ideal he holds up to his burea, and corps: Make it a smooth running military machine"