The Glenwood post., 1923-06-28
uade Ted's Bed Time Stories
Current Events for the Childron
and 0rown-ups, Too
UNCLE SANS co-oRDINAToRs
SAVE MONEY

"Come on in the house now and
get to bed" called Jacks mother.
"You we been out there long enough. -
"Aw, mother, please let me stay
out while longer,' answered Jack.
tWe are having such a good time.'
"Listen here, Jack" replied his
mother. "Ruth is in the house and
you must mind mother at once and
come right in, or else will tell Uncle
Ted to let you go to bed without a
story"
This was enough Jack likes to
play, but he always enjoys Uncle Ted Is
stories, so he quickly obeyed his
mother.
"Here I am, Uncle Ted,n said Jack.
"Mother said I had to come in, SO
please tell US a story"
"That's just what IN do,' replied
Uncle Ted. "I1l tell you about our
money savers in Washington. You
know, kiddies, it is a mighty comforta-
BILE feeling to any man to know that he
has some money in the bank, but it is
a mighty bad feeling to have no money
and still owe lot. Eleven months
ago that is the way our government
felt. The best minds Of our federal
that by this time our Uncle Sam g
books would show deficit of between
*5oo.ooo,ooo and $500, 900, ,oooI"
"That' 3 a lot Of money! said Jack.
"You inst bet it is, Jack. But
here is the good news from Washing
ton. Instead Of that. this deficit has
been done away with and in its place
we find that we have 5000, 100000 or
more on the credit side of the books
in the United States treasury. That
sounds easy, but to accomplish this
has been probably the greatest piece
of work ever attempted at Washing
ton. II has meant the hardest work
every day, keeping track of every
penny spent by our government and
cutting down wherever possible on the
smallest as well ms the biggest item
in each and every branch of our fed.
eral machinery. In other words. it
has been accomplished because the
present adm 'nistration has been de.
termined to run our government as
anv group of men would run a business
in which they had their own money
invested. It has meant watching a
million little things and not shouting
to the world about one or two big
items of saving.
'To begin with. congress established
budget bureau to make estimates of
money needed, and it was the business
of that bureau to cut out all avoida-
BILE expenses. Then congress went
over those estimates very carefully
and cut out anything else they thought
we could get along without Then,
too, an important part of saving money
for the taxpayers was the general su-
pervision of all the departments so
that two of them would not be doing
exactly the same work and so that
they would do their buying in the
most efficient manner.
President Harding put General IT.
M. Lord in charge of the budget bu-
reau and appointed Colonel Fl. C.
Smther chief coordinator. 1t is large
ly through the ability and zeal of
these two men, with the cordial CO.
operation of the heads of departments,
that an enormous deficit has been
turned into n surplus. Pres'd Hard
ing's chief ideas of having a chief CO..
ordinator and his selection of man
for the position have been fully justi
fled by the results Colonel Smither
has secured.
AT the time the budget bureau was
created the war and navy departments,
the shipping board, public health ser.
vice, and several other branches of the
government had n lot of material of
all kinds on hand gathered for use dur.
ing the war. One job to be accomp-
lished was to sell this material or dis.
pose of it so that it would not bring
n great loss to the government and
at the same time not hurt the various