Evening star., 1925-09-19
HOW UNCLE SAM SAVES
BY WILLIAM r. HELM. JR.

| office of the supervising architect.
| Through program of remodeling and
enlargins public buildings, that office
obtained an additional $1,000 square
| feet of Office space in 1925 at a cost
of about 100000.
"Sixty-SiX thousand square feet at
| a low rental value of 81 foot" says
| the report. Capitalized at Az per
| cent aggregates S1.466 .666 For this
! purpose the expenditure amounted to
100000. or a consequent saving of
S1.o66 ,666.'
The Government Printing Office re-
| ports reduction of s195.775 in over
time, Sunday and holiday work in
| 1925 as compared with 1924. BY the
| apparently insignificant item of using
solid type instead of loaded for some
| of It's publications the Federal Trade
| Commission saved $1,2s0 during the
| year BY using both sides of a sheet
of paper for mimeographing instead
of one AS heretofore, the War De-
partment reports a saving of S63
| month.
BY substituting cotton waste for
cheesecloth for cleaning purposes the
Department of Agriculture saved 1854
Reduction of land offices throughout
the country, Secretary Work reports.
resulted in savings totaling S273,00O
during the year. Seventy-five persons
were discharged by the Bureau Of In
dian Affairs, reducing the pay roll
by 900.
| "A still greater decrease is antici-
pated," says the report of this saving.
"a call having been made upon the
superintendents of the various Indian
reservations to decrease their person
mel by 800 during the next few
months"
The Recla nation Service reports
| that "a balance estimated at S9S5,Oo0
! out of the appropriations for Federal
irrigation projects remained 'unex.
pended at the close Of the year due to
the curtailment of projects" The
Geological Survey dispensed with the
services of % persons, reducing it's
pay roll by S41,500 annually.
At st. Elizabeths Hospital.
A reduction of cents a day in the
cost of caring for the inmates at the
| Government operated st. Elizabeth
Hospital for the insane) at Washing
ton reduced operating expenses of
that institution by 1924, 500 during the
year. Expenditures at the Federal
penitentiary at Atlanta were cut 10
per cent for the year. The immigra-
ton authorities saved an estimated
$4,000 by reshipping foreign one
way large number of alien seamen
| hiSSohS 1n lne OnfloQ
States, thus avoiding the expenses of
deportation.
| Through ali the departments the
story is the same. Here the flame
Of economy has f1ared to a length
where its burning affects personnel
and salaries, there it f1ickers low. feed
| ing on the obvious fuel High or low,
the flame burns throughout the exec
utive branch of the Federal service
1t has been lighted and is burning.
That flame has left many a scar on
men and women at one time in the
Government service. Economy Is a
ruthless thing when 1t operates to
| divorce man and his job. 1t has
operated in that fashion many times
hundreds, perhaps thousands-dur.
ing the fiscal year 1925. New faces
there have been at the cashiers win
dow; old faces with familiar smiles
have faded into memories.
There have been heartburnings and
sullen rebellion here and there where
the acid of saving has bit deeply. OF
these mutterings the President has
heard the echo. That they affect him.
this correspondent happens to know
but too well. But there will be no
swerving from his determined way
the way of further savings where pos
| sible, a fact with which the cor
respondent likewise has been made
familiar.
CThe End)
Copyright, 1925.l