Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-06-30
.EXH0RTS 500
OFFICIALS To
GUT BUDGETS.
President, Cabinet. Bu-
reau Chiefs, Cajoled,
Threatened, .Reassured
Comptroller Urges to
Burn Night Oil for
Economy Sake.

Washington, June 29.-President
Harding, the cabinet and six hpndred
odd officials who guide government
expenditures, met Wednesday with DI-
rector Dawes, Of the new budget sys-
TEN to lay what was hailed as the
foundation for new era Of economy In
federal administration. The president
opened the conference with the de-
ciaration that 1'there Is not menace
in the world today like growing public
Indebtedness and mounting expendi-
tures." He referred to the gathering
as first and extraordinary method
adopted to meet emergency, and gave
way to Mr.. Dawes.
The new director promptly jumped
off the platform, "to get mentally
Closer" he said, to his audience and
in the As minute talk which followed,
alternately cajoled, threatened and re-
assured his auditors, addressed the
president and admonished the cabinet
members personally. In concluding he
ordered the bureau chiefs to their feet,
and holding up his hand, recited the
following pledge addressed to the pres
ident:
He Administers Oath.
These men, Of whom / am one,
realize the perplexities of your posi-
ton, realize that the business Of the
country is PROSTATE, that its working
c1en are out Of employment, that we
are faced with inexorable necessity Of
reducing expenditures and we pro-
pose, just as we did four years ago,
to win the war, to try to do it. And
that's all we can do
The little governors auditorium set
aside for the gathering was crammed
to its doors and windowsills and the
occupants were sweltering in the heat
when the secret service men forced
through to the stage President Hard
ing's party. with Vice President Coo
hdge, General Pershing, and the cab
met. Major generals and rear adj
mirals with their stiffly uniformed
aides sat packed in close ranks among
civilians, and there was also q sprink-
ling of women.
Greets "Fellow Workers.
President Harding greeted them all
as fellow workers" while Director
Dawes hailed them Unfortunately an
friends" folks and people,. His
job was to be the "eyes and ears Of
the executive, not the fingers" he
told them; to get information" from q
told them; to get information" from q
washerwoman or a vice president"
not to run detective bureau, but
make pictures for the president and
for congress-
"You have right to the informa-
ton he said, turning to President
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business corporation has the right and'
need to use it, for yours is the res
to get the facts" he exclaimed, swing
will be exercised"
To Cut Appropriations.
The first picture" he had to make,
with the assistance OF the congress-
tional reorganization commission,
would be of present appropriations, be
explained. and he wanted budget rep
on the job in each de-
partment burning the night lights"
TO get it out in July"
The front rank Of his auditors was
Kept lodging as he gyrated. and swung
sull arm gestures. trampGng around
he harrassed newspaper men in the
pit. as he emphasized his point.
I'VE propose just the organisation
which is the backbone Of every huSi-
less.'' he said. Under the old system,
t has always been the practice 81 &
i've bureau to hold up congress- for
it had q chance to spend.
know. because I did it myself when
was running bureau before.
Now they have to 70 the other way,
Ind just for my reputation, I've got to
ut that S225, 600 appropriation for the
'udget bureau just 25 per cent, II il
axes my salary this year.