Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03

many local governments, II the burden
Of taxation Is to be lightened to cor
respond to the curtailment Of public
income and other sources of taxation"
1.-THE first step is daring economy"
AYERS the Newark Evening News, with
the statement as to the possibilities in
the coming year: 1.-THE new administra-
ton has clean slate. 1t can cut Gov
eminent salaries as other incomes have
been cut, it can eliminate frills and
useless Government bureaus. 1t can
redistribute the burdens Of taxation
more intelligently SO as to interfere less
with economic recovery-as, for ex-
ample, by q general sales tax. And If it
has the vision, 1t can use the debts and
other problems with Europe as bargain
ing points to restore trade and rebuild
industry. We need a policy of enlight-
ened selfshness."
Reviewing the various divisions Of the
expense schedule of the Federal Gov
eminent, the Fort Worth Star-Tele-
gram makes the estimate: I'm round
Numbers, the Federal expenditures for
the current year are distributed as fol-
lows, In millions Of dollars: Service on
tie debt, 1,137; national defense, $40;
agricultural relief, 1877; postal service.
806; Treasury Department. 275; other
departments, ATS; veterans relief, 949;
emergency relief, 1922. Where may these
Where may further savings be effected
by the new administration.
Taking the items one by one: The pub
lie debt item is fixed and cannot be re-
duced. In respect to national defense,
Mr.. Hoover has suggested increase
rather than decrease in appropriations
II the Geneva conference fails to achieve
substantial results. The agricultural re-
lief item Is relatively small and its fur
thur reduction would involve abolition
of the Farm Board. The next three
items represent routine expenditures,
where economies must be by slow reor-
ganization rather than by stroke of
the pen. The post ONCE deficit might
be reduced by raising rates, but that
Is doubtful expedient, since raising
revenue, and in any event such a course
would be tantamount to raise In taxes.
There Is left only the veterans relief
There are useless expenditures made
which could be cut on to aggregate the
billion dollars of Mr.. Roosevelt's esti-
mate or the several hundred millions of
Mr.. Hoover's, but they would meet with
such resistance that they would have
short shrift," thinks the Charleston
Is. c. Evening Post. The Charlotte
Observer advises: lone part Of the bud
get which might be greatly reduced Is
the outlay for public buildings, rivers
and harbors and Federal aid roads.
President Hoover, in instructing the
Bureau of the Budget to cut by $780,
000. 900 the total of necessary appropri-
tions, suggested that much Of the saw
ing could come In the building pro-
gram. Such action, however, neces-
sarily limits the Governments work.
relief program" The head OF the ILL
nois Manufacturers Association Is
quoted by the San Antonio Express as
declaring that Should Congress reduce
Federal expenditures by billion dol
lars year, it would give new impetus
to industry" The Express adds; "In
demanding governmental economy on
such scale. the association speaks not
only for the industrialists, but for the
citizens generally. UnQuestionably, such
q scaling down Of expenses as means
to balance the budget substitute for
new taxes-would contribute greatly to
the better feeling 20 vital to recovery