The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-09

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 DO-AS-DONE-BY-DEPT..
 Lit Brothers, giant Philadelphia department store, has struck new high in pushing the sales of war bonds and savings stamps.
 George Johnson, president of the huge establishment has turned over his entire force of HOO sales people for selling war securities as a Number 1 must" Every counter in the store, from the basement to the top floor, has a stock of bonds and stamps and eevry customer hears sales talk on buying some.
 In preparation for this drive, the sales force took courses on war bond selling from U. s. Treas ury instructor.
 TYDINGs ECONOMY
 Sen. Willard Tydings is chair- man of a special Senate commit, te whose purpose, he says, is to promote economy in the federal government. To date, the Roose- velt-hating Maryland Democrat has chalked up very peculiar rec ord in this pursuit.
 Last week, Tydings issued re- port charging that news releases issued by government agencies are "one of the most wastful actlvi- ties of the federal bureaucracy" As evidence he showed that hand- outs issued on one day weighed I6h pounds.
 To experienced Washington oh- servers there were two puzzling features about Tydings' report.
 One was that his charges were extremely old news. It needed no Senate investigation to revealed that thousands of dollars are wasted in government press re- leases. It's a story that has been harped on for years; also one about which Congress. with power to end the waste, has done nothing,
 The other puzzle was where the economy was in Tydings' loudly ballyhoced ee0n0mlzing.
 To prepare his report. Tydlngs sent out large stacks Of question naires to the government agencies. One department alone received 8 pounds of questlonDalres, TO re- ply to these auestionnatFes re- aHiged 70 pounds of paper and an expenditure for clerical work Of se,se6 in public funds, This was for one department alope-e Fela- lively minor one,
 C0pseVVatiVeIV, t is safe te estimate tbat TydiDgS report cost taxpayers n0t less taap Sbh0,000 - eag information that has been kpeWn for years end which could have been eeng flFMe1 in details by making 2 few telephone eailS t0 aFv ef seVe1al seeFes ef Washington news bureaus,
 But, Of course, that N0uldHt have been the political Way 70 eeon0miEe, And politics ls Rlls important to the p0litiessasslAsial boys on Capitol ELL
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