Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1929, Page 7

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Copyright 1329 by The Rex Co, As director of the Bureau of the Tinited States Budget, or, to put it an- other way, as the President’s chief of finance, I had charge, under his direc- tion, of the preparation of the annual estimates of Government spendings and of the supervision of expenditures total- ing more than $25,000,000,000. For many years, the last seven of which 1 spent as director of the budget, I have been a Government em- ploye. It has been my good fortune to hold intimate contact with the great, going business we call the Government of the United States. As I lock back over this period of service with its thousands of contacts and incidents, one clear, outstanding conviction is indelibly in my mind—the United States Government is the best managed big business in the world. Its mammoth expenditures of from $3,500,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 a year are wisely administered. The Govern- ment gets virtually 100 cents’ worth of value for every dollar that goes out of the Treasury. Its half-million and more civilian employes are efficient, alert, loyal and devoted to their work. The proportion of instances where this is not true is negligible. My personal contacts while I was director of the budget were largely | with heads of departments, boards com- missions and bureaus charged with carrying on the vast and complicated work of the Federal Government. It has all passed in review before the Budget Bureau many timees. For all agencies entrusted with the Govern- ment’s far-flung enterprises and infer- ests must come alike to the Public Treasury for sustenance, and the way to the Treasury for the last seven years i"“d more lay through the Budget Bureau. | Hence, the Budget Bureau has come | to acquire a knowledge of the workings !of the Government no other agenc: \ JULY... W ‘he danger month for worn down buying opportunity to get the finest tives ever made at the best prices ever offered. Tire quality is hard to see—but you can always recognize the brand. When you see genuine Goodrich Tires — Silvertowns, Cavaliers, Commanders — offered at the above money-saving prices, then you will know it is time to unbutton the old pocketbook and invest your > tire money in sure mileage-makers. Spending a Billion Dollars HERBERT M. LORD’S OWN STORY Of His Work as Director of United Statés Budget. This is one of a series of personal reminiscences, after seven years’ service, during which Gen. Lord supervised the expenditure of more than $25,000,000,000 in Government funds. _ AS TOLD TO WILLIAM P. HELM, JR. possibly could have. The whole sweep- ing panorama has stretched before us periodically; we have not only seen it in its entirety, but we have looked closely at iis details, the high lights and shadows that go to make up the picture. Indeed, there is no detail whatever of the Federal Government'’s business with which the Budget Bu- reau has not become intimately familiar. The All-Seeing Budget Bureau. And whether those details concern an engineering problem in Alaska, intri- cate plans of flood control, the hire of an additional clerk in Shanghai, en- graving of money or the reduction of taxes, it is the Budget Bureau's busi- ness to study and know them. ‘The Budget Bureau knows. Not only from the 10 men who constitute the President's cabinet and the larger group who head the independent offices of | the Government, but it knows from the rank and file from the clerks in the | Federal offices, the messengers, the char- For a long time it was my custom to | devote part of each day to strolling, un- | announced, into a Government depart- ment—often as not through a side en- | trance or the back door—to talk with those with whom I would not come in contact otherwise. So I have heard the complaints alike of cabinet officials and | the humblest clerks, have seen their common pride in what they were doing | and witnessed their efforts to do it well. Out of that long and intimate con- tact there has grown upon me the reali- zation that there is no body of workers | with quite the esprit de corps, the pride of service and the loyalty of the Fed- ‘FY!l employes. Here and there in the | mammoth chorus one finds a discordant | note—in what private business with half and stamina against any other group, large or small, under the sun. ‘We have witnessed a revolution in Government management the past eight years. Waste has been eliminated large- ly, eficiency has been enhanced greatly, economy has been the watchword. The old way has passed. The new way i sures the taxpayers full return on all they place in the public Treasury. The spendthrift and the profligate no longer find even a niche in the Government service, Their day is done. The Old and the New. ‘That revolution has been due almost wholly to the adoption of the budget system of Government finance. Con- sider, for a moment, the old way and the new. Under the old system the annual ap- propriations for carrying on the Govern- ment's work were made without either knowledge or thought of what the ‘Treasury would be able to provide in funds. Each department head once a year made an estimate of his require- ments for the coming fiscal year and sent it to the Treasury. The Treasury had no authority to change these esti- mates in any way. It merely collected them, had them printed and bound and sent them on as they were to Congress. No department, board or commission considered the needs or work of any other branch of the Governm Each was a self-contained unit, going ahead with its own plans. And it was only hu- man nature for each executive to con- sider the work of his own department, board or bureau as of greater impor- tance than any other work in the Fed- eral establishment. It was only human nature for him to desire and labor to ex- pand his activities as field after field opened alluringly before him. Congress struggled with the estimates, cut them, changed them and appro- priated in greater or less degree as the arguments and influence of the various department and board heads prevailed. After appropriating the money Congress left it to each branch of the Govern- ment to spend the funds wisely and well, Became Subject of Attack. No thought of the cloth from which the garment was to be cut, no careful measurement he funds the Treas- ury would provide for the payment of ali these various bills, no follow through on their expenditure to insure the A free tube to fit your tire with every Silvertown purchase. A glance at any tube price list will show yon the generosity of this unusual offer. | a million_workers will one not find an | spending of the money elther effictently | occasional shirker? 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