Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-25
DAWES R|D|CULES
T. HELP GIVEN HIM

WASHINGTON, June 23.-Charles
G. Dawes, of Chicago, chosen by
President Harding to head the new
government budget system, announc-
ed after conference with the presi-
dent today that he would call on a
number of experienced business men
to serve in the budget bureau with
out pay, because he considered the
staff provided by congress wholly in
adequate.
Mr.. Dawes declared in a statement
that if the budget system was to be
success, reliance must be placed on
something else than the pitiful ma
chinery provided by law"
"One might as we'll be handed a
toothpick," added the statement,
with which to tunnel Pixies Peak"
Mr.. Dawes said he would ask that
two army officers who distinguished
themselves for organization work in
the American eXpeditionary forces be
detailed to the bureau and had ask
ed his business associate in Chicago,
William T. Abbott, to serve tempo
rarily as acting assistant director.
The two army officers are Briga-
der General George Van Horn
Moseley, former assistant chief of
staff in General Pershing's head
quarters in France, and Colonel Hen
ry Smither, former assistant chief
of staff in the service supply. Both
were associated with Mr.. Dawes in
France during the war.
Mr.. Dawes statement said In
I'VE all know the desperate condi-
ton of the business of the country
at present-industrial, agricultural
and commercial-and that'i it is stag.
gering under tremendous burden of
taxation from which 1t must be re-
lieved if it is to properly revive
Congress has passed the budget
law in order to give the president
the machinery with which to secure
the Information necessary for him
TO direct the reform of government
business administration and save
taxes.
Let us see what congress has
done to give the director OF the budg-
ct the machinery to attempt this CO.
lossal task. He is given an appro-
priation of two hundred and twe1-
and employees and an assistant in
each department appointed by the
cabinet head. But from the two
hundred and twenty-five thousand
sistant director of the budget, ne
can employ for this stupendous work
only four men of his own selection
at not over six thousand dallors
n.
he is compelled to take his chances
on men to be certified to him by the
civil service commission.
'One might as we'll be handed
toothpick with which t. tunnel
Pixies Peak.
1T is evident that if this, the
greatest business crisis which our
government has ever confronted, is
to be properly met, chief reliance Will
have to be PLACED upon sometning
vided by law with which to exercise
the wide powers extended to the
budget bureau"
II am therefore accepting the po-
sition of director of the budget only
with the idea that the patriotism of
the bureau chiefs and the country
as whole can be so aroused In this
emergency that it VIII be met as
was the emergency of war -FOUR years
ago. Unless the bureau chiefs of the
departments and the leading bust
ness men Of the country respond to
the call of the president as they did
four years ago, the situation is hope
less so far as any material relief
for two years is concerned from
this source.
ask the president to invite a number
of leading American business men
to come to Washington to serve
without compensation. IN an advisory
capacity to the budget bureau.
':As\ soon as possible, pending the
organization of my office and before
August 1. l will call together en-
masse all the bureau chiefs of the
departments and their assistants in
Washington and explain my pur-
poses. They, and they alone, being
in intimate and close contact with
current governmental business and
each fully cognizant of the situation
in his own bureau, must form the
chief basis of the hope of the presi-
dent, of congress and of our people,
for the accomplishment OF this work
by December l. Called before the
representatives of the budget bu-
.rau, who if .they respond to this
appeal, will include the best bust
! ness minds of the nation, they must
furnish the information and, in
many cases, the suggestions of the
changes in methods to insure econ
Ornv through coordination