Evening star., 1921-06-30
PRESIDENT AND DAWES LAUNCH
BUDGET ERA IN DRAMATIC WAY
500U. S. Officials Applaud Chief Executive
New Director Makes Stirring Address
in Demanding Support.

grown up an impression that the public
treasures are ineXhauStible things. and
with it conviction that no efficiency
1 and no economy are ever to be thought
OF i'll public expense.
we want to reverse things. Con-
sress. in order to aid in the change of
policy. has provided. for the first time
| in the history of the federal government,
| my privilege and my responsibility to
| choose the director of the budget. After
J Il conference with him, it was decided
| that the way to begin with an efficient
system under the budget was to look to
those who are in fact responsible for
government efficiency and economy.
sometimes in our habits we overlook
| those who really do things in this world.
| and in the federal government there are
tens OF thousands of public servants
to bring about Il satisfactory admins
tration of affairs. but whom the public
never knows.
| l want to bring into this picture of a
drive for efficiency and economy you
servants of the government who are
directly responsible for Il better order of
i affairs. if it is to he brought about.
/ And so today. with the heads of the
various departments of the government.
! with whom | meet in council twice d
week. l have asked you to assemble. to
present to you the new director of the
budget and to say to you that every
resolution. every commitment. every de-
termination of the administration is to
join with you and have you Join with us
in inaugurating the new efficiency and
| economy of administration in these
United States
Gen. Dawes Jum,x From Platform.
Gen. Dawes jumped from the plat
form down into a Spact between the
press tables. in order, he said. to
get mentally clos"r" to his audi
terms the work which faced the gov
ernment officials in reducing the cost
| of running the government and IN
! putting it on a business foundation.
He told them that the government
must be humaniZed and that the new
era on which the government was
about to enter would mark the bring
ing out from Il submerged state the
hundreds of government officials who
have tried for years to do their duty.
but who had their efforts nullified by
those officials who came in full of con-
ceit and ambition. but who knew
nothing about the work they were do
He WIS dramatic in the presentation
of his plans and his demands to the
officials. Turning to the President. he
adm noni shed individual members of the
cabinet for not appointing their bud
get officers so that the work could go
forward, faced the reporters and ap-
pealed to the newspapers through
them to let the budget bureau sub
merge and do its work effectively. and
looking directly into the eyes of every
bureau and division chief. told them
that when his representatives came
after Information it must be given
them. because he had the power of the
l'PrrSident.
The President. he said, must be
made. the head of the business ad
minist ration of the government from
now on. in fact as well as in theory
Has Power OF President.
The first thing that must be made
clear. he said. lis my right to get
Information. for in this field l have
the power of the chief executive.
When my representatives call on YOU.
it is not to seek material for criti-
cism or praise: 1t is to get material
for the head of the administration.
am the eyes and ears of the chief
executive. am entitled to informa-
tion over the head of your depart
mcnt until the budget system ceases
TO exist. and the budget machinery
must last as long AS the republic.
Establishing. the budget system
he continued. lis simply putting into
effect condition that prevails in
any big corporation. TIL" head Of
the corporation is responsible and he
has the right to get whatever he
wants, whether from the washer
woman who scrubs the floors to the
, first vice president
Gen. Dawes pointed out that there
could be no feeling of resentment in
the cabinet. Where there is to be a
change of policy it will first be dis
cussed with the cabinet head. Every
thing will be open. he pointed out.
and he sought to make 1t clear that
his office was in no way to be consid-
cred a detective agency.
That the forces of the executive
and legislatice branches are to work
together in the regroupinE was phint-
ed out by the director The President
has decided. he said. that Congress
shall take the lead in the regroupins
of governmental bureaus. He has
"co-ordinated the co-ordinating agents