The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-07-15
CASH WATCHDOG
is A LIVE Wire
McCarl Will Help Maintain Harmony
Between Congress and Executive
Branches.

Washington, July 12.-J.R r. McCarl.
of Nebraska, has been selected bv
President Harding as the new COMP
t%roller general of the United States.
This is a newly created office, equal
to that of the director g%eneralship
held by Charles G.. Dawes. McCarl
has charge of expediting the entire
work of auditing the accounts of the
Federal government and reducing it's
cost. Dawes will look after the task
of doing away with overlapping bu-
reaus and departments, reducing
them to a unified whole land submit
ting estimates to Congress. Both will
carry out the great plan conceived by
the last Republican Congress of bring
ing government expenditure down to
date and saving the taxpayers of the
country many hundreds of millions of
dollars.
The President indicated he wanted
a Observation-Disclosures man" for
both places. He got him in Dawes,
who is wealthy. has made a success
in the Middle West in the reoganiza-
ton of properties, and served under
Pershing in the A. f. F. He also got
him in McCarl-not in fact, but po-
tentially. McCarl was a poor boy,
graduated from the University of Ne
braska, became secretary to Senator
Norris and then was made executive
secretary of the Republican Congress
sional Committee. He there demon
strated by his thoroughness and vision
that in the larger owrk he would be
the man capable of attaining the ut
most results.
These are the requisites which the
President and members of Congress
felt necessary for the post:
The Comptroller General must be
absolutely honest and utterly fearless
because he will be in fact the "watch-
dog of the treasury"
He must be a keen judge of ability
and character because he must so Sc
lect and place subordinates as to in
sure the best possible results.
He should be a lawyer because the
matters reaching him for decision will
in most instances involve O construc-
ton of a Federal enactment appropri-
ating funds.
He should have unlimited energy
and should be young enough to have
and to apply to his work that rare
qualify VI push anu eIllHuSldSW CIldI
will not down.
He must have the qualities of a
diplomat because he will be a most
serviceable point of contact between
Congress and the several executive
departments.
McCarl, whose acquaintance with
public men is large and who is at the
same time a t%ireless worker, fills the
bill. AS n prominent member of
the House put it, che is now in the
prime of life, about forty years of
age, and has in most completeness the
qualifications necessary. Thoroughly
honest, with contagious energy, a
keen judge of character and ability,
a tried executive, a graduate of the
College of Law of the University of
Nebraska, with more than ten years
actual practice in the courts of Ne
braska, Kansas and Colorado, ad-
mitted to practice in all Federal
courts, thoroughly devoted to the pub
lie interest in the largest sense, held
in high regard by members of Con-
gress, | do not know of a time when
there was greater unanimity of rec
ommendation for appointment than in
his case"
With two olive wires" to direct, the
work of the organization will go on at
a rapid rate during the following
months. Under the Wilson admins
t~ration the government may be said to
have been sick.