Evening star., 1924-01-13
Real Workers i'm the National Capital

proved that the time was not ripe,
and 100000 was saved. Unwise
specifications were unnecessarily In
creasing the price Of bed sheets. T
N T and black powder, rapidly de-
teriorating in storage, were turned
over to the good roads people for i'm
mediate use. Under the old plan the
explosives would have-been sold for
less than value and then rebought.
In. 1924 s1.25o.ooo will be saved
year authors changes" cost the gov
ernment s22s,O00. Nowadays the re-
sponsible officials are cautioned to
correct their copy before 1t goes to
the printer. Fourteen different boat
services have been used in New York
ferent services to elbow each other
in the same boat $4,000 will be saved
each year.
Other Savings Elected.
The bureau of standards saved
$4,000 by reforming the use of the
telephone in the District of Columbia
alone. A pointed inquiry cut the
number Of sick reports" in one es-
tablishment from an average of 1000
a day to fewer than IS a day.
I'VE must buy some furniture at
Justice reported to the bureau of the
budget. Formerly the department
would have bought first and reported
later. This plan has gone out since a
clerk in one department bought two
typewriters, regardless of the fScr
that the government had thousands
of good wartime typewriters in stor-
age. and paid for them himself. The
budget bureau looked into its records.
THE Treasury has furniture in
storage at Newark" was the report.
ury wanted to ship that furniture 10
Oklahoma City. where a new Office
was to be opened. This being re-
ported. the bureau found that Justice
had furniture in storage at Oklahoma
City. Storage receipts were swapped.
Post Once Department. Saves.
The Post ONCE Department got in
terested in the new scheme. 1t put
its very good brains to work, with
the result that $3,ooo,ooo was saved
last year by the introduction of new
methods. In Boston every govern
ment activity bought its own gaso-
line on it's own contract. Now all is
bought on the contract that had
proven by experience to be the best.
he fOSC OIIlCe. Lne Army, tHc navy,
and the Department of Agriculture
co-operated in the transfer of coal.
Once the coal needed would have been
bought. The coal on hand, where 1t
was not needed, would have Stacked
away.
has been kept up for one reason and
another, but it was not paying its
way. A proposition to shift its occu-
pancy brought together the repre-
sentatiyes of three departments, each
of whom regarded the two others as
barnyard. The bureau got them tc-
gether over a table. they got ac-
quainted, absorbed the new idea of
doing the governments business in a
business way, and the transfer was
made. Patriotic societies protested
on the ground that the transfer was
desecration.
No Blood Fighting Mt Old Fort.
THE only fighting ever done ct the
old fort was between the three ON
GERS over the transfer" said Gen.
Lord
Government bureaus are using the
mail and long distance telephones in
stead of sending clerks on long jour
neys. Just like business houses do
Millions-it is hard to discover just
shipping board by the substitution
of new ideas for the lack of ideas in
the management of its fleet. Trucks
and tractors to the value OF $780,
100000 have been transferred from
the departments where they are not
needed to the departments which
want them. Freight specifications
have not only been formulated, but
are being obeyed. Once carload of
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