Evening star., 1949-12-13
PaceGivesP AN
For Schedule Of
Reorganization
Budget Director Tells
Session Groundwork
Will Be Ready in 1850
By Froncis P. Douolos

DdoSSO D4CSCOA d14h aSC
predicted today that the basic
work on carrying out the Gov
ernment reorganization plans rec
commended by the Hoover Com
mission will be completed in the
coming year.
while I cannot reveal the exact
nature of the additional actions
which the President is consider
ing" Mr.. Pace said. Il can say
that he has had staff analyses
prepared covering virtually the
entire range of the commission s
reports"
Mr.. Pace addressed luncheon
meeting of the National Reor-
ganization Conference at the
Shoreham Hotel. The conference
is being held by the Citizens
Committee for the Hoover Report.
johnson Receives Award.
Another event at the luncheon
was the presentation of the COM
mittee's economy award to De-
fense Secretary johnson in recog-
milton of his outstanding services
in carrying out economy recon-
mendations of the Hoover COM
mission.
Mr.. Pace said President Tru-
man has instituted a man
agement improvement program
throughout the entire Govern
ment and has taken these steps:
/. Call on all agency heads to
review their operations system
atically and continuously.
2. Directed his Advisory Com
mittee on Management Improve
ment to keep before department
heads the need for specific i'm
provements.
Hoover Lists Priorities.
The conference turned today to
the consideration of adalinistra-
tive improvements and economies
in various departments after re-
ceiving from former President
Hoover a list of eight priorities in
reorganization which Mr.. Hoover
said would save the Government
$4,000. .000. 600 a year.
The eight-point program put
Civil Service reorganization first
on the list of objectives. Other
points dealt with budget and ac-
counting machinery, Post Office
Department. Federal Hospital
Service. water conservation serv-
ices, grazing and forest lands in
the Agriculture Department, a
central transportation agency.
and relieving the President of di-
rect responsibility over IS different
agencies.
Mr.. Hoover warned that, with
present high expenditures and a
deficit of more than S. ,000, 900 900,
the Government may be turning
two Frankenstein monsters loose
in the land" He labeled them
Higher Taxes" and Imitation"
Hawley Discusses Proposal.
DR.. Paul r. Hawley, former di-
rector of the Veterans Admins
tration medical services and now
head of prepaid hospital and med
ican service organizations in Chi
cago, today discussed the Hoover
Commissions proposals for con-
solidation of the Gvernment's hos
pital services. The commission
recommended that practically all
of the military. general and sta
ton hospitals be consolidated with
those of the Veterans Administra-
ton and the Public Health Service.
DR.. Hawley urged the unifica-
tion-although not necessarily
complete-of Army. Navy and All
Force hospitals and asserted that
within military commands medi-
cal personnel must be military
personnel" He said there must
be complete military control of al
medical services in all theaters o1
war and much of the medica,
service in the zone of the interior
He said that with the exception
of the Public Health Services dis
ease prevention functions and the
problems peculiar to the armed
forces. practically all other Fed
eral medical responsibility is lin
tied to such groups as veterans
merchant seamen, Indians, Fed
. eral prisoners and dependents OF
certain Government employees
With a few exceptions, he said
all Of these groups could be cared
for cheaper and better in a single
Federal hospital system.
The meeting heard also that the
organization of the State Depart.
ment has been simplifed in line