The Newark journal., 1922-02-02
By EDWARD c. LOWRY
Copyright. Western Newspaper Union

active for a number of years but they are keeping Up their personnel in antici~ patton of work in the future. We could save $30oGaQoo year. in my judgment. by doing away with useless bureaus and dupiication Of activities.
 Some of the Implications are ridlcu- ious and absurd. For instance. the gov ernHent seeks To protect the wild animals in the national parks. IT a brown kadiak bear has twin cubs. one brown and one black as often happens, and one should shoot the brown cub he must make his settlement with one department But it he shoots it's full brother the black cub he must settle with another department IT you were te shoot a fox ia Alaska your settlement would be with the Department ef Agriculture. while If you trapped the same fox you must make your settlement with the Department Of Commerce.
 The government issued last year through it's several bureaus and depart ments Is eookbooks. The last one that was issued was published by the board or vocational education. This is Q board organized by the congress for the purpose Of rehahilitaung crippled soldiers of the World war, 10 prevent, as far as possible. their becoming derellcts in life IL may be of interest to state that while the government has been issuing 16 cookbooks and consuming vast quantities of print paper in these and similar useless publi- cations, 1900 country town newspapers have suspended in the last three months because hey could not secure print paper
 Mir Reavis and a great many others have sensed the feeling in the eoun- try and in congress that the time has come to put an end to all this sort of thing. He gives reasons for his belief:
 One of the reasons is that the people demand that their taxation be reduced. For many years We have been collecting the revenues of this government through systems of indirect taxation. Tie reve- nues have been collected through a pro- tective tariff and by excise taxation on intoxicating liquors Indirect taxation of this kind prevents the people from realiz- ing fully just who IS paying the expenses Of the government There was a time when the expenses of the government amounted to only 12 cents per capita per year Today the annual per capita ex- pense exceeds 54o. This tremendous ex- pense has made t necessary 10 resort to direct taxation and the people have sud denly become painfully aware Of who pays the expenses of the government
 am very certain that the elimination Of applications and overlapping Tn the de par4ments will result in the saving of millions Of dollars. There is no reason why it should not be done.
 There is every reason, in the presence of the strife and turmoil that prevail in this country and of the unrest occasioned by the high cost or the necessaries of life. that the government should be put upon a sane. efficient and economical basis.
 Whoever by public clamor or other means can induce congress aud the executive departments to organize the routine business of the national gov ernment will have performed q great public service. Note that I say "or- ganlze" and not "reorganize." for In no proper sense has the federal busi- ness ever been organized