Evening star., 1925-11-02

mates and thence to Congress. They
are linked by blood relationship with
the board. these agencies are: indeed,
are part of its very bone and Sinew.
But they function after the money Is
appropriated.
They escort the dollars from the
Treasury to the spenders and stand
hard by during The spending process
to see that every minted coin every
engraved bank note works TO it's full
| capacity. There are, as stated, II Of
| these agencies. They are captained
| by 2 colonel. II. G.. Smither, who Is
| designated chief co-ordinator. Bureau
of the Budget. Each of the agencies
| they are termed Federal boards-is
| chairmaned by Government official.
Each board has a membership, gen
orally drawn from all departments,
| running up to 80 men.
They get together at least once a
month to plan new ways of saving
money. There is d round-table dis
| cussion of every plan. 1t is either ap-
| proved, disapproved or deferred. If
| approved, it is recommended for
| adoption to each branch OF the eXecu'
| tive government The recommends
ton IS made in the name of the
| President-and it had better be at
tended to, or therell be trouble by
and by.
r X X
Three hundred men or thereabouts
with a sprinkling of women thus con
| stitute the ways and means Of carry
| ing out the Coolidge campaign for
more business and more saving IN
government. These men and women
| have been worth. on the average
! 81 900 900 apiece to the President and
/ the taxpayers, for have they not. by
united effort carried out in the Presi
| dent S name, made possible 100000.
| 900 in surplus, out of which is to come
the next cut in Federal taxes?
Some OF the Presidents critics 50
not. They say that the surplus Is
/ due to combination of high tax
rate and A tapering off of wartime
activities But the workers themselves
point TO the facts and the savings
and let it got at that. They can show
and do, record of proposals adopted
almost without number. each looking
| forward to the saving of a few dollars
! or the saving Of many dollars.
! Whether the savings would have
| been made anyhow-that is some
| thing else. Apparently it does not
concern the 800. They only say the
savings have been made. They are
not if men: they do not attempt tc
| Sd "Hdl MOulu nave HdPpcicd II
| y X
! The business OF the Federal Gov
ernment has been split II ways and
| over each fraction sits one of the
| saving boards. Their activities dove
, tail into a perfectly fitting and func
tioning whole. They have cut rec
tape and thrown ii out the window
Formalities of Gher days have dis
| appeared. What one board has an.
other can have.
l. What has been done in the way ol
spectacular savings already has beer
| told. With the big savings the pub
lie is familiar. OF the little savings
II knows little. Yet there We're thou
sands of these little Sd wings within the
past 12 months. They are as i'm
portant, in their way, as the large
ones They help swell the Trea surl
! surplus and make possible u larger
mea sure OF tax reduction than Coulc
/ be had without such savings.
A hurried estimate of these little
| savings places their total at not less
than $4,000. 900 a year. What they
are and how they work out. 8 related
| in this series of articles, has beer
taken from the records of the boards
themselves and of the Bureau of the
! Budget Hence there is no guessworl'
| about them They are presented as
part OF the record, for what it is
! worth.
,Copvrisht. 1928