Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-20
MORE BUSINESS METHODS
IN GOVERNMENT URGED
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

fcations issued by various depart
ments or bureaus none OF which
| conformed exactly with the specih-
| cations which must be met in deal.
ing with private buyers. Thus 1t
has been practically impossible to
produce a standard article that
would meet all ordinary require
ments, governmental and CONNER
ciSl.
DR.. STATIONS board aims 10
bring into line with the best COM
mercial practice not only the spec
| ifications which are to be approved
by the board in the future but also
those which have already approved
OF the latter there are about 40
and these will be revised at inter-
walls of about one year.
The specifications which have al
ready been submitted to the Amer
lean Engineering. Standards Com
| mittee under the new cooperative
arrangements owe the following:
+! Hose for various industrial purpo-
ses. wood screws, sterilizing equip
/ ment. cotton duck, phosphor tin,
silicon copper and pig lead.
1t is the unanimous opinion OF
Federal officials and the officers OF
the American Engineering Stand
| ards Committee that this coopera-
tiGn between manufacturing indus
tries, the government ana other
; consumers will result in a widening
Of the source of supply for ell
| government requirements and IN
important economies not only TO the
government but to other consumers
of those products which are also
.a-.s-NI I,v H. ant dnnarf
ments. 1t is expected h a this sav-
ing will amount to many millions OF
doi1a-s each years
What Standardization Does
The first thing that standardiza-
ton does. according to r. q. Ag-
new secretary of the American En-
cheering Standards Committee. is
to enable buyer or seller to speak
thG same language and to make Il
possible to compel competitive
| sellers to do likewise. In thus piac-
ing tenders ON an easily COMPARE
BILE basis fairness in competition
is promoted both in domestic and
in foreign trade.
Mass production is made possible
with the result that unit costs iC
the public are lowered. The matter
/ VI SCl4 4iI6 olotho 10
which makes deliveries quicker
The big idea is to save money FOL
the government, which benefits ev
erybody, and at the same tinf'
make possible better products il
all lines of industry. which will b.
to tho advantage of all consumers
public and private.
The work of the Stratton boar,
in cooperation with the represen
tatives of the American Engineer
ing Standards Committee Is direct
Iy in line with the drive for tn
III elimination of wastes in industr
and may be said to be a part of il
1t all goes to show that bushes
men are taking a genuine interes
in government affairs and may mar
n the end of the era characterized b
the saying that "everybody's bust
ness Is n~obody's business"
One of these days a board of
commission may be created to elm
mate wastes in politics and poll
ical campaigns land then the mi
lenium will be in sight. 1t ma
also be expected that soone or late
, those who believe in and subscrib
to the slogan more business /
government and less government
business will start a movement t
! put a man in the White House VIII
is ~distinctively a business man.
Some years ago in a prel1minar
campaign an organization wa
formed in New York thai under
took to get a line on public sent
ment as to a business man candi
date for President. Advertisement
were published throughout tn
country asking for responses frol
those who believed in the genera
proposition that inasmuch as tn
government is a monumental bus
ness enterprise the man at the hec
of it should be the biggest an
ablest business executive WI
could be found. No candidate W.
advocated but 1t was said that
number of men were available an
one of whom might fill the bill.
The returns from this propagand
were surprisingly large. it is sal,
and the organization soon had
mailing list of hundreds of thou
ands of voters in all parts Of tt
country who had indicated a desii
to cooperate in q campaign for
business man candidate. For son
reason the movement died a-borl
i'm but it went far enough to 1,
dicate that when a real nght
started along those lines the oil