The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-11
Workers At National Capital
~ HfKsERT CORY
By HERDERT COREY

Th.v A sn;.ss - ~, = ~ "a Ny L.
kstssrs, Lord of the Bureau If the
Budget, COmptroller-G General McCarl.
and Brown of the Efficiency Bureau.
They stand together In the effort to
keep Uncle Sam from 0verspending
himsef. Usually they get run over.
" ~ true
Zip, says Congress, In its side
splitting imitation Of Black Face al
Jolson, goes q billiOnl
But they pick themselves up and
group themselves again in the high
road ana by and By they get run over
some more Then they do Il again.
LORD an the Budget Bureau gives the
esumates o. the spending departments
close shave MeCari as comptroller.
general sees totit that they have legal
authority for spending, or else the
spending doesn't 60. Brown in the
Hrriciency bureau figures out new
ways In which the departments can
save money.
Keep Clipping Down Bills
Ihey keep chipping an hundred
Inousana ooiiars here and an hundred
thousand ! dollars there off the annual
Dli payapie. it y true that the tax
pssysr vii nov De apie to lind any trace
y sneIf Work when ne Walks up to the
casnlers office. But II is there, all
rlgnt.
Inc sum total OF this nation 8 apnual
spending would be more appalling than
it y now 4 itswere not for Lord and
McCarl and Brown. OF course, the
spenaers ao not Ike Brown and McCarl
ana Loru. Chairman Madden Of the
49, 1850 e slsan,i on appropriations
a aoss ~ ueaenu Brown on the floor the
- vs,o. uays When con ressman mad
= - = plac.. ne aom1tted fhqt ne
s spsAs1 y, au 'a1 q me cnalr-
tns s1uFeau O. Nfuclency.
aaaIsu = nos popuiar, ne SAID. MT.
49, y 800 Lnat nc, ninseK p ike
~, 49, r.ss,, - !. y nay can qne ex-
~, sds,,.s ~ III saon compina-
st o ~, Is az 49, 49, sns eas9ry arg
IL ;,t. ~ y, As kualysah ~ oL .ne pup-
~. a,ss, $50. y &. NJ. Msaden not
P,,t y. $500 II ~ psssOna,ity OF brown.
~. ~ Wo.,u ". ssanu ~ ana see MIN
w - A'.!us1iss.,
a Tribute Ernao Madden
ne has great ability. He has great
courage: ne VIII do his duty as he
sees e.
II Herbert p. Brown has corrugated
EDGES they 90 not appear except in the
line Of duty His is a controversial
task and the better contfoversialists
rarely use powder puffs. Externally
ne e tau, slender, gray, pleasant, wears
spec.acies IN relays and speaks with
convieuon ana confidence in a voice
snat carries suggestion of humor.
10 one VIII deny that he knews his
lop, Tor ne made It. He brought the
bureaW sof Efficiency up by hand. 80
10 speak. The contention of those who
quarrel with him is that he does not
know their jobs. Yet be goes right on
SAVING the government money. That
The Bureau has fifty-two men,
saio AT. Madden. They are the
s mose eLLicient men employed anywhere.
. lney are an experts. They are clean,
Lney nave experience. They have
! Svnsage 70 40 the things that should
Oe uone.
~, A9Proylnga Sloppy Methods
~ bureau Oh Efticiency is one of
~ sns laEiyuss agencies that have been
- gl0ukNs INFO existence In the effort to
Improve the sloppy business methods
~ ~. ING government. Various presidents
v ....a.I ~, m0aned about them, but not
s.San 1neeuore nooseyeits time was
80. shlns one, ne named commits
S ~ ~ departmental methods, which
~ w, w se1 very xar. President Taft
1880 a.l1E VIA commission on e
11olly ana efficiency, which did not get
nywnere e. all II spattered the de-
parsments with questionaires