Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-02-17
By EDWARD G.LOWRY
C0pyright. western Newspaper Unioa

active for a number of years but they
are keeping up their personnel in antici-
patton of work in the future. We could
save s3o0, 10000 a year. in my judgment,
by doing away with useless bureaus and
duplication Of activities
Some of the Implications are ridicu-
lous and absurd. For instance, the gov
eminent seeks to protect the wild animals
in the national parks. II i brown kadiak
! bear has twin cubs, one brown and one
black, as often happens, and one should
shoot the brown cub he must re-xe his
settlement with one department but If
he shoots its fun brother, the black cub.
he must settle with another department
If you we're to shoot a fox in Alaska your
settlement would be with the Department
of 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 cookbooks The last one that
was issued was published by the board
OF vocational education. This is a board
organized by the congress for the purpose
of rehabiltating crippled soldiers of the
World war, to prevent as far as possible
their becoming derelicts in life It
may be of interest to state that while the
government has been issuing is cook books
and consuming vast quantities OF print
paper In these and similar useless pubii-
cations. 1900 country town newspapers
have suspended in the last three months
because they could not secure print paper
Mr.. Reayis and great many others
have sensed the feeling in the coun-
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. The reve-
nues have been collected through 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 tfne
when the expenses of the government
amounted to only u cents per capita per
year. Today the annual per capita ex-
pense exceeds $40. This tremendous ex-
pense has made it necessary to 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 Implications and overlapping in the de-
partments viii 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 of the necessaries of life,
that the government should be put upon
a sane, efficient and economical basis
Whoever by public cIamor or other
means can induce congress and tine
executive departments to organize the
routine business of the national gov
eminent will have performed a great
public service. Note that say "or-
ganize" and not "reorganize," for in
no proper sense has the federal bust
ness ever been organized.