The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-21

DAWES CALLS HALT
TOPRINTING WASTE
Hopes to Cut 100000
From Annual Outlay Of
S15,000,000.
CONGRESS SPEECHES HIT
Outside Plants, Five i'm New
York City, Will Be AT
fected.
CONGRESS SPEECHES HIT
Special Despatch TO THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
WasbinrfOu ID. g.. JuIy 20.

New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c., July 20.
Director of the Budget Dawes to-day
launched into the task of pruning down
the Governments $17.Ooo.oOO printing
bill. He declared war on printing
wastes and said abuses in that direction
are to be stopped.
His programme was outlined at 4
general printing conference of sixty
representatives Of Government bureaus.
The plan for large economies in print
ing follow suggestions in a letter to
President Harding by Public Printer
Carter. endorsed both by the President
and Mr.. Dawes.
The conference resulted in complete
coordination in administrative agencies
to limit Government printing to absolute
needs.
AS a first step Public Printer Carter
announced he will al once name from his
official personnel a acquisitions review
board. This board. approved by the
President, will mean that hereafter it
will be impossible for buerau and divi-
sion chiefs in Government departments
or officials in legislative and judicial
all sorts of jobs without some considera-
tion as to the necessity for them.
The programme as agreed upon by
Gen. Dawes to-day contemplates rigid
economy in Congress as we'll as other
branches. The full support of the Joint
Congressional Committee on Printing
has been pledged to Mr.. Dawes in his
purpose to reduce Congressional print
ing, including speeches, and other pub
locations, and to effect drastic economies
in the distribution of publications Of all
kinds
Congress will probably be forced to
cconomize in many ways, officials said
after the conference. One large item is
an outlay OF s1,000,Oo0 annually for
editing the speeches of Senators and
Representatives and other printed mat
ter fsom Government bureaus. Most Of
this sum Is expended in checking and
revising proofs after they have been
turned out OF the Government Printing
OFFICE. Greater care in preparation Of
speeches and other matter in advance Of
its going to the composing room is re-
lied upon to effect large saving.
Other economies to be instituted in
clude consolidation of many independent
printing plants maintained by the Gov
eminent throughout the country outside
the jurisdiction of the Public Printer.
There is said to be about $50 of these,
five being located In New York. Among
the things which have practically
doubled the Governments printing bill
in the last ten years, 1t Is said, Is the
tremendous demand made on the Gov
eminent Printing Office to handle jobs
which are of doubtful value to the pub
lie at large.
Thousands of types of publications
may be discontinued as result of the
economy programme, including docu-
ments sent throughout the country under
Congressional franks. Such publications
are to be reduced i'm numbers Econom-
les will be effected through standardiz-
ing forms and sizes of publications. A
ban will be put on all novel jobs which
have In the past been turned over to the
Public Printer to be done at large OK
pense A check on this kind of waste
will be exercised by the acquisitions re-
view board.
According to figures submitted to-day
the Government spends $13.000.000 for
printing in the Government Printing Of
flee. Another $4,000 is spent in out
side plants. 100000 more is spent for
multigraphing.
Some officials predicted to-day that the
entire bill can be reduced probably
SIS. 0OO. 900 a year by staudardizing and
coordinating the work and imposing
strict limitations on future expenditures
of this kind
Gen. Dawes has named Albert r..
Barnes of Chicago. an experienced
printer, as his personal adviser In the
general printing conference on matters
relating to expenditures of this kind.