Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-04
UNANIMOUS FOR ECONOMY
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES
ALL FAVOR BUDGET SYSTEM
Declare Their Opinion That Sounde.t
OF business Principles Gull for
Such Plum.

whelming demand for natio ma S oSea-
omy. and the widespread belief that
sb b1Gde s5ch system ncdmo Is the only way in
Is shown In the attitude OF the presi-
piled to inquiry by the National Bud
get Gommittce that they favor the i'm
m me, a ad,option Of the budget sys-
These men are General John +
SFpeTshing Asst9rney; General !. Mtchc il
dent OF Columbia University; Herbert
Hoover and James w. Gerard: Govern
4 Isrsn IalYih Coolidge, Of Massachusetts,
g. F snr9sl OF OF ITea,nsylv3nia and Lynn
Ecoemy Paramount Issue.
some OF these men are active poll
IN the internal affairs of their parties
lot years, and they realize that not
H Hn1S Tor the national good. but also
paramount issue. 1t has become a
Hitni thing 70 the average man. the
tremely good campaign material
Ihesc statements controvert the re-
cent testimony o; John j. Fitzgerald
chairman OF the House committee ON
appropriations. Btfore the Senate
ri,zGerald said that economy is not
popular. Nobody wants to paw
laxcs" he said, but everybody wants
Consress to spend a lot Of money
Apparently these presidential cand :
oates think otherwise.
"overnor coolidge, whose handling
ever lght a land date for the Repub-
ilcan nominau?n. pointed cut the sue
can sec no reason why the bcnc-
mis o; thus system. could not he APP
n PIC TO the nation" he ea!d. II favor
operative head OF the rovcrnmcnt
should be required to tormui H,"''s and
The needs Of ali Eovernment aci!vl
ties within reasonable sum to be
raised by taxation"
Palmer for Dusiness Principles,
Attorney General Pa liner. whose hand
iins of alien properties was one OF
the biggest war jobs, and whose work
wac so effective that he was appointed
position. is emphatic in his dcclaration
1Gr business principles in government.
y became convinced carly in my OK
pcriencc as member OF Congress- tha :
INC haphazard method or appropriatinC
Tor thc governments ncccssitics whicb
had GROWN up IN the dcvclopmen, az
nc rules Of the House OF Rnprns"n,. 4.
I've I've COS, me government untold mil
ions OF dollars and resulted in a crna;
lack OF efficiency in an branches az
inc PUBIC service There should hc
IONS OF appropriations for one depart
ment TO those OF another but also +,
nnoto caeriui regard for the propcr, rc-
20 OF the government
NO great business enterprise could
iohE survive II conducted withou, a
puuSct accurately fixed in advance and
so quit as to make both ends meet
Is .inlc that the government should
DC conducted upon well accented husi
ness principles. Tho budget systern
would NIX responsibility with uncrrinE
precision, increase tho efficiency nf
every branch Of the government and
result in almost !ncalculablc saving
OF expense TO the people
,onernmcnt Is IL: Z. l.. Factor.
Or Butler shows that Colossal gov
crnincnt extravaganza" is a contribut-
: ing factor 10 the high cost OF living,
nha points out that the Governme mt
must do It's share by checking cxirayn
Eance and stopping waste. by bringing
me cost OF the governments business
within the income OF the year by
stimulating production in all possible
ways, and by lending it's aid 10 the
study of improved methods OF distripu-