New Britain herald., 1925-09-09
VET BUREAU SAVES
 C0NSIDERABLESUM
Over Sizty-Nine Millions Turned
 Back Into Treasury
HAS PARED EXPENSES
Each Year Finds Government Body Turning Back Greater Amount as War Goes Into Past--Cost of Pa. tents

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 Washington, Sept, R-By cut. Iing down expenses all along ths line the veterans bureau. which has required nearly half billion dollars 10 operate in the last few years, re. turned to the treasury sss,70l 900 or Its appropriation of s4s1.s57.sas Tor the fiscal year ending June 80 last.
 The saving, detailed report of which has just been made to Dt. rector Lord of the budget by Frank I. Hines director of the bureau, was made despite an increase in com. pensation payments for disability ana death benefits from $f15,4s4,9e1
 Tor the fiscal year 1924-25 to s12s.-
 Ssf'4b7 last year. The increase of
 more than $14.oo0,o0o was dus
 largely to liberalizing provisions of
 the world war veterans act of last year
 Further economies are promised
 by Director Hines, whose return last
 June came close to being half of
 the total remitted by all government ldepartm
 Fares Down Budget
 Each year finds the veteranS' bu.
 reau pairing down its huge budget
 and the $4o5,71S,55s appropriation for the current fiscal year is expect-
 ed by bureau officials to be material.
 ly reduced in revising preliminary , estimates for 1926-27 in anticipation
 or further cuts in administrative
 costs and salaries.
 While material savings in running
 the governments biggest independ-
 ent agency were accomplished in the
 transfer from federal to private en- { ployers' payrolls of men who com II pleted vocational rehabilitation courses, the expenses generally were - shaved all the way down to the r price paid for envelopes.
 l. Under the law the bureau could if not induct into vocational training g any veteran after June 30 last, and IS since there were not enough students II enrolled to maintain them. all of the @l vocational schools were closed
 during the year. private institutions D, being permitted to complete the 4 training of students
 as Big slices in costs also were ac ,e complished by reduction in person of nel, with net decrease of nor, sr than 10000 employees in the regiona of offices and about 200 in tho centra of o office.
 " Cost of Patients M The cost per day per patient in 5; ta hospitals was cut 62 cents, from '0 $4.57 to sS.95, during the ter .o months ending April l, 1925. com. " pared with the previous ten months so although operating expenses in so creased. due to additional facilitie, 'o provided for in the Reed-J Johnson " act from $15,S51, ,0O0 for S,46s,S1' n patient days to s1S.T26,2os for {, 's 471S7S days.
 IT More than $60,000 was saved b, |. permitting medical officers in charg Il of hospitals to purchase their owl Ie food and supplies. Adnninistrativ ','es expenses under the World war ad ell 5usted compensation act were shave, to sS14,950; printing and binding oi $1OS,0O0, and office rent, s1o1,5S3.
 Approximately half a million dol m lars was topped off the cost of trans ,h' porting patients; expense of medics is- examinations and treatments wa 'iy cut SS4,000: dental examinations Ail S25,000, an dtravel of employees, tn 'rt cost of which came under severe al VII tack during the senate veterans ir s's vestigation. was kept 10 the mini 'n- mum of ''actual and visible neces
 sity."
 ng Reduction in building costs, r, rly vised accounting systems and stand ne ardization of stocks of drugs, chem is- icals and hospital apparatus provit nd cd further miscellaneous economic