Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1920-04-21

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to print on. 1t is very serious"
Il was going to tell you a diff
ferent story tonight but since you
asked this question it reminds me
of the report made by the COM
mittee of our Congress in Wash
ington that has been looking in
the waste of paper and money by
the various branches Of our gov
eminent.
That Committee is called the
Joint Committee on Printing, and
is made of men belonging to both
the Senate and the House of Rep
res~entatives. Snator Reed Smoot
of Utah is vchairman of this COM
mittee and Representative Edgar
r. Kriess of Pennsylvania is vice
chairman. This committee has
been Investigating or looking into
the way in which the various
branches of our government have
been spending money for printing
They found that there have been
26G journals, magazines and other
kinds of printed matter printed
by the government and that this
printing has been costing the vow
eminent about $2,500,0O0 every
year. To show you what this in
yestigation has done this commit
tee made regulations which has
stopped the printing of all of
of these documents, thereby saw
ing the governmnt aDout $l,200,-
900 a year. | am going to read to.
you something from the report of
this committee which was read in
the house of Representatives a
few days ago by Representative
Xreiss. AS is well KNOWN reads
he report, the scarcity of paper
nd it's abnormal price have Wit
'ly affected the printing business
Turing the war. Many times it
has been almost impossible to get
'aper at any price. This situation
COUPLED with the enormous re-
luirements for paper by the war
ctivities of the Government and
is extravaganza use by the various
publicity and propaganda bureaus
as made the work of the commit
tee most difficult and trying but
t S believed the record proves it's
efforts to effect economies have
been highly successful even un-
'er adverse conditions
People ask of course, Just how
has this committee saved the gov
eminent money? | will tell you
one thing which will show you
low they saved the government
money, by supervising the print
ing. For the first eight months of
he fiscal year 1919 the pSnting
~ the government Printing Of
ice in Washington where almost
II of the government printing is
done cost $8,060,I69.95. For the
first eight months of the fiscal
year 1920 the amount was only
s7,065, 373.08, which meant that
1894, 1861 less was spent than
the year before. The fiscal year
ends June 80.
Before | tell you about another
phase CT this matter | must tell
'ou that members of Congress in
Washington must pay at least the
3Cst of printing of any speeches
which they may have made and
they order to send out to
various people. That is not true of
the administrative officers of the
government. Their speeches are
paid for by the government. From
the first of July 1916 to Septem-
Der Is, 1919 over 20, la, 900 copies
Of these speeches were printed.
This number does not include any
speeches made by members of
That number of copies
took S94,101 pounds of white pa
per and 557,683 pounds of manila
paper for envelopes or a total of
,45l,7 84 pounds of paper"
Another thing this committee
found was the great waste shown
II sending of government bulle-
ms and publications from the var
Gus gOvernmnt departments such
rs the Department Of Agriculture.
From January 5, 1918 to Febru-
NY 10, 1920, over 100000 pieces
If government printed matter
sent to one individual alone
~ order of three branches Of the
sovernment-the Department of
Agriculture, the Public Health
Service and the Burea of Minis.
The biggest part of these were
'ent out in quantities of 5000 and
EACH"
II don't know the name but the
individual conducts a newspaper
and one of the most i'm
,ortant things which this service
Ices is to send out Government
publications. TIL committee does
lot know what profit this indivd-
lal made by getting these pub.