Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-28
LORD WOULD LIKE
TOKEEP H|SPOST,
FRIENDS DECLARE
Question Debated Whether
He Will Be Continued as
Budget Chief.
FINAL u. S. BUSINESS
Meeting SET TONIGHT
President Coolidge Will Deliver
His Last Message on the Fl.
nances Of the Nation.

When the last Senni-annual meeting
Of the business organization of the
Government convenes tonight in Mem
orial Continental Hall, President Cool
idge will deliver his last message on
the finances of the Union, but ques-
ton of lively interest in Government
circles today was whether it will be the
last message also Of Director Herbert
M. Lord of the Bureau of the Budget,
or whether Gen. Lord will be continued
in this post by President-elect Hoover
Gen. Lord has served as Director OF
the Budget under two Presidents, Hard
ing and Coolidge, and while personally
is noncommittal, his friends admitted
today that the general would like to
continue in his present post.
The work Of Gen. Lord as director of
the budget Is well known to the incom-
ing President. Herbert Hoover was one
of the original Harding cabinet, which
took Office nearly eight years ago, and
Gen. Lord has served nearly that long
directly under the President as director
of the budget since July /, 1922.
At that time he succeeded the first
director of the budget, Charles G.
DaWeS, now vice freSlQenC.
Record PIeases Coolidge.
Gen. Lord is known to have made q
record very pleasing to President Cool
idge, and In his association with not
only the President, but all members of
the cabinet, he has come closely in con-
tact for years with the work OF Herbert
Hoover as Secretary of Commerce. Ac-
COrdiy1r oil 1ndjro ffnaS Er IYNnUnr
Is thoroughly familiar with the methods
of Gen. Lord and his record as director
of the budget.
AS q matter Of fact, the cabinet
officers. including Mr.. Hoover himself
have been in the position of having to
submit their annual estimates of ap-
preparations to Gen. Lord as an inter-
mediary between the cabinet officers
and the President. Strangely enough
the budget director who thus wields
such influence in the shaping of Gov
eminent appropriations is not member
Of the cabinet himself, but operates
directly under the President.
Curiously. also. the Bureau OF the
Budget. according to the budget and
accounting act which established 1t, is
for administrative purposes o bureau OF
the Treasury Department. Gen. Lord
1lnSS C3ACU ukOn CAlC GACoAoSAb ~ vAAS
White House about once a week during
his administration. He usually sees the
President on Friday during busy periods
when the budget is being shaped. He
sometimes sees the President oftener.
Was Chief Of Finance.
Gen. Lord, who comes from Maine
was promoted to budget director from
the post of chief of finance of the
Army. where he held the rank of
brigadier general. He was not West
Point graduate, but rose from the COM
missioned ranks of the Army, which
he entered first as a major. serving as
an additional paymaster. He was for
merly in newspaper work and at one
time was clerk Of the House ways and
means committee. He was decorated
with the Distinguished Service Medal
for his work in the Army during the
World War. He Is member Of the
Christian Science Church.
The business meeting tonight at
Memorial Continental Hall will open
at $50 o'clock.