Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-19
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this saving will mount to many mil
lions Of dollars each year.
What Standardization Does
The first thing that standa rdization
does, according to P. 6. Agnew. secre-
tary Of the American engineering
standards committee, is to enable buyer
and seller to speak the same language
and to make it possible to compel COM
petitive sellers to do likewise. In thus
placing tenders on an easily compare
Bile basis, fairness in competition is
promoted both in domestic and in for
egn trade.
Mass production is made possible,
with the result that unit costs to the
public are lowered. The matter of
carrying stocks is simplified which
makes deliveries quicker. The big idea
Is to SAVE money for the government,
which benefits everybody, and at the
same time make possible better prod
ucts in all lines of industry, which will
be to the advantage of all consumers,
public and private.
The work of the Stratton board in
cooperation with the representatives
of the American engineering standards
committee is directly in line with the
drive for the elimination of wastes in
industry and may be said to be a part
of it. 1t all goes to show that business
men are taking a genuine interest in
government affairs and may mark tie
end of the era characterized by the say
ing that "eyreybody's business is no.
| body's business"
One Of these days a board or a COM
| mission may be created to eliminate
wastes in politics and political cam
| paigns and then the millennium will be
in sight. 1t may also be expected that
| sooner or later those who believe in
and subscribe to the slogan more
business in government and less gov
| eminent in business" will start a
| movement to put a man in the White
| House who is distinctively a business
man.
Some years G in a preliminary
| campaign an organization was formed
in New York that undertook to get a
| line on public sentiment as to a bus
mess mar candidate for president. Ad-
| vertisements were published through
out the country asking for responses
from those who believed in the general
proposition that inasmuch as the gov
| m is a monumental business en-
terprise the man at the head Of it
| should be the biggest and ablest bus
inessl executive who could be found.
| No candidate was advocated. but it
! was said that a number of men were
available, any one of whom might fill
the bill.
The returns from this propaganda
wehe surprisingly large, it is said, and
the organization Don had q mailing
list of hundreds Of thousands Of vot-
ers in all parts of the country who had
Indicated a desire TO cooperate IN a
campaign for a business man candidate.
For some reason. the movement died
a%-bornin','' but it went far enough to
| Indicate that when n real fight is start
ed along those lines the old-llne poll
| ticians and statesmen will have cause
to sit up and take notice.
OF the men in sight who might lead
! such a fight, those IN the republican
side include such as Herbert Hoover.
former Governor Frank Lewden of
! Illinois. and Clifford Pinchot of Penn
sylyania, while on the democratic side,
William Gibbs McAdoo looms up prom
inently and James VI. Cox, the nominee
of 1920, may claim to be more Of a
| business than a professional man.
, Henry Ford, who is suspected of pres
idential aspirations, is a business man.
but he is also somewhat of In anom-
ally. He has been a candidate for a
republican nomination and then the
democratic nominee for the same of
flee, so no one may be quite sure of
his politics at this time, and he is
looked upon as Il radical rather than
as Il business mans candidate.
However, if, and when it should APP
pear, that the running is good for bus
mess men, there is little doubt that
there will be a sufficiency of entries
who can qualify.