The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1920-01-13
MR.. L0WDEN Tells
HOW ILLINOIS CUT
BUREAU EXPENSES
Union College Head, at Bank
ers' Dinner, Assails New"
Order of Things.

| Governor Frank o. Jowdcn, OF Illinois.
ono OF the leading candidates for the RE
publican nomination for President. and
DR.. Charles III. Richmond. president OF
Union College, shared the honors as
speakers at the dinner OF the Associates
Banka of the City of New York at the
Waldorf-Astoria last evening.
Governor Luwden told how the CONSOLE
dation of is boards and commissions into
nine departments and the establishment
of budget system had brought about
ECONOMIES in Illinois, topic OF great
local interest because of the efforts to
effect similar consolidation here lie
declared that increasing taxes and cx-
penses of government had reached the
point where economy in government. fed
eral. State and municipal, was necessary
to preserve initiative in business.
DIR. Richmond said that the first duty
of the citizens OF the United States was to
keep 1t strong nation. He declared that
the great war had brought about changes
but had not changed the fundamental
elements of human life or human char
lacter.
do not let us become obsessed by the
word new" said the educator. at is n
very old word, and sometimes means
very old thing, sometimes even a thing
discredited long ago. We have the new
Freedom the new democracy the new
diplomacy and the new order and the
ever hopeful world has been hailing these
announcements with the eagerness Of those
who wait for the morning.
But what do we find? We find that
under the new freedom the government
has taken away most of our old liberties
and the labor unions are trying to take
away the rest.
I'VE find that the new democracy is
only Bolshevism without it's whiskers and
dressed in evening clothes or in clerical
vestments or in academic cap and gown.
Tho new diplomacy '--'opcn covenants,
openly arrived at-differs from the old
diplomacy only in the fact that it is less
open and less diplomatic"
Governor Lowden said that when he be-
came Governor the 125 boards and depart
ments in Illinois tended naturally toward
lnefficiency and extravaganza. All of
these, except the Public Utilities, Civil
Service ard Industrial con; missions, had
been abolished he said, and their work
distributed among departments Of Public
Welfare, Public Health, Public Works and
Buildings, Trade and Commerce. Mines
and Minerals, Registration and Education
and Finance Each department is headed
by director assisted by an advisory COM
mittee which serves without pay
The director of finance, he explained,
prepares budget of estimated expendi-
lures and receipts to be submitted TO
each regular session of the General AS
sembly, which meets every two years
Governor Lowden said that in approving
cr Disappointing vouchers, the director
gathered information which enabled him
to judge inteligently5 what appropria-
tions should be. The last budget sub
mitted. he said, was passed with only a
few changes
Governor Lowden said that the general
property tax rate for State purposes had
been reduced from ninety cents on each
one hundred dollars in 1917 to seventy
five cents in 1917 largely because OF
economy made possible by the budset
system and the reduction in the number
Of departments.
1.-THE new system Governor Lowden
said, has been in operation more than
two years and in results has surpassed
our expectations. We now have at the
seat of government nine responsible
heads of departments in daily touch with
the Governor. who, therefore, can exer-
else a proper supervision over the affairs
of the State. Extravaganza and incom-
potency are easily discovered and cor
lrected."
Walter u. Frew presided and about
seven hundred persons were present.
Among those at the guests table were
the Rev. DR.. George Alexander, George
r. Baker, Guy u. BowerTnan, j. Herbert
Case, Henry +. Dawson, Edward J. Gal
lien, Alexander Gilbert, William J. Gilpin.
Charles A. Hanna, A. Barton Hepburn,
Pierre Jay, -. Irving Mead, William A.
Nash. William III. Porter and Jacob I'll.
Schiff