The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-05-25
Copyright. Western Newspaper Union
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WRITE TO THESE MEN.

The chief defects, Or places where
waste is. apparent in the conduct Of
the business Of the government, that
I have pointed out in these articles,
have been, first, the excessive proper
ton of the government income that
went for military expenditures; e C
ond, the chaotic condition and lack
Of adequate supervision and control
of expenditures, which have been in
part remedied by the Introduction Of
the budget system; and third, the hap
hazard organization of the govern
ment departments and the morgan
lied condition that prevailed in gov
eminent employment.
The remedy for two of these condi-
tons I have treated briefly in the
two Immediately preceding articles. !
come now to the matter of reorganiza-
ton of the departments and the re-
classification of government en-
ployees. A beginning has been made
on both Of these matters.
A joint committee of the two houses
of congress, with Walter f. Brown as
chairman, Is studying the whole ques-
ton Of organization Of the government
and the function of the various de-
partments and bureaus and independ-
ent establishments. I cannot too
strongly advise you to keep yourself
In contact with the work that joint
committee is doing.
| / have given you the names Of the
members of the committee In another
article but I will repeat them here.
They are Senators Smoot Of Utah,
Wadsworth Of New York and Harrison
Of Mississippi; Representatives Reavis
of Nebraska, Temple Of Pennsylvania
and Moore Of Virginia. Write to any
Of them or to Mr.. Brown, the chair
man Of the committee, who represents
the President, with headquarters in
the house office building here at Wash.
ington. aE
This is the third or fourth attempt
that has been made to effect a general
Reorganization Of the conduct Of the
business Of the executive departments.
They have all failed through lack OF
interest. There was lack Of public in.
terest,. and consequently lack Of inter
est In congress.
This joint committee 10 at work now
It is collecting facts. IT IL finding out
the actual condition. It Is studying
the departments. Presently it will
make a report to congress. II you
will show an active. insistent interest
In the work that it Ii doing, congress
will take action. II you do not show
this interest, there L. every chance In
the world that no action viii be taken
and that things will remain much Al
ever.
Hundreds Of special interests are
clamoring for the attention Of con
gress. All Of them are organized
Most OF them keep Representatives
here at Washington. They present t.
individual members Of congress in q
hundred skillful, shrewd, subtle ways
arguments to support the legislation
they are seeking to advance. It would
take two or three columns Of thii
newspaper merely to print q list Of
the organizations and associations that
are here to keep congress- mindful Of
their interests.
In this great clamOr the common
public interest II likely to be sub
merged. In fact, too often 1t has beer
submerged. This matter Of economics
and recognizing the business Of thu
government and taking up the tedious
details OF administrations Ii a dull bust
ness. It has been neglected and put
on time after time becalse OF a lacl
of public interest and driving forca
behind Il.
II you win supply this driving forct
now ana display 4 sustained interest
ron can NJ least put the business b
government OF the United States u
m eficient basis. Congress has beer
negligent becauss you have been negli
rent, but now 1t la0t the thing I'M
run along y far Tint sornsthIng INNS
y done about &