Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1929, Page 18

Spending a. illion Dollars HERBERT M. LORD’S OWN STORY- ©Of His Work as Director service, during than $25,000,000,000 in Government As Told to Willlam P, Helm, Jr. ©Of course, we were not uniformly suc- cessful in the Budget Bureau in saving by co-ordinating work. I recall one instance when the Government had a considerable number of odd metal con- tainers, manufactured for war purposes and apparently useless for anything else. ‘The war had ended and the containers were among the surplus to be sold, but nobody could use them. A zealous Government worker had an idea the containers could be converted rather inexpensively into articles that could be sold. As I remember it, the cost of conversion was approximately $20 a container, The idea was ap- proved and a few of the containers ‘"rfte converted into marketable prod- uc At that point the sales foroe discov- ered the converted containers. It pro- ceeded to sell them at §15 each, al- of United States B This is a series o -sonal reminiscences, after seven uflou:{uch. Gen. ’Lgr"d c‘umul the expenditure of more facturing its own furniture and metal polish, doing so at one-fifth the cost of the commercial article. So it Investigate, co-ordinate and co-operate. They are not poetic words, but in the Treasury they make :’ jingle that rhymes with tax reduc- jon, Coolidge “Adequate Defense Man.” President Coolidge was always an ade- quate defense man, although he did not believe ‘in appropriating unnecessarily for either Army or Navy. More than | sig! one dollar in every six the cost of running the Government, Budget Bu- reau analysis discloses, goes for Army and Navy. The exact percentage for the fiscal year 1930 is 17.68. A some- what larger item covers the cost of past wars — military pensions, retirement pay, life insurance and so on. ‘These two items, both concerning na- out that constitute ding factor in prepara- for | tion of the annual estimates. " They are )tu ebt, accounts for 16.93 per cent; and public debt retire- Tos 14,63 per cents & total ot 3150 per X per i Sont of expenditures attributable o, the critics say, its cost the :umunt cn‘ud':?bla to fl:r e ment because of defense A Should that be done tg:“ mrma run to 67.17 per cent. ym more than 67 cents goes to defray the cost of national defense. tion here, however, may afford an in- ht into the purposes for which the Nation’s hi levies are spent in part. The dead hand rests heavily on the Federal Treasury. 8o, too, do the so-called continuing appropriations. They are sums ap- propriated by some law of other years, and continue on and on indefinitely. I do not wish to appear in the light of saying they are unwise or extravagent. there, they are the law, the money must be appropriated. . (Next: Saving $5,000 lmDuy on a Tele- (Copyrisnt, 1920, by North American News- paper Alliance.) U. S. FLYERS PARIS BOUND Yancey and Williams Expected to —Beach Le Bourget Today. ROME, July 16 (#). transatlantic “aviatbrs Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Q. Willlams are ex- pected to land at Littorio Airdrome be- fore dark from Turin and Northern Italy, where they visited yesterday and this morning. They will fly their plane, the Path- finder, to Paris at § . tomorrow, ar- riving at Le Bourget at noon. DEPUTY IN TENNESSEE FACES ASSAULT HEARING Officer Who Shot Youth in Alleged ‘Liquor Chase Willing to Appear. By the Associated Press. ‘TULLAHOMA, Tenn,, July 16.—Bruce H. Ashburne, Franklin County deputy sheriff, will be given preliminary hear- ing here today on a charge of assault to commit murder in connection with the shooting Saturday of Ewin Smith, 22, in an alleged liquor car chase. He notified Sheriff Bud Landers that he would be here today, accompanied by A. V. McLane, Federal district attor- nei; and W. B. Shofner, deputy prohl- bition ~administrator. - Ashburne has been in Nashville since the shooting. the shot. His son diti and thres com- | termined until today were to arrest e. timate the deputy was willfully avoid- y ly & Chokers Remodeled Edges Repaired and making you a PALM BEACH SUITS Open & charge account EISEMAN’S, 7th & F constabl ‘We remodel and re- - con~ I.-noekl y':n{ cm;ker in Ashburne’s whereabouts were not de- ;tfidn: al :o';ne'ed;:; s i e ittt truly beautiful neck- plece. 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At the Print- ing Office there had been set up as part of the budget procedure a requisitions review board, a committee of hard- headed practical printers. Its duty was to watch for careless or extravagant orders. ‘The board knows printing. It has no interest in the agency submitting the requisition. If there is any indication of extravagance the requisition is in- vestigated. Every requisition must pass | before this board of doubting Thomases. ‘The board lit like a ton of pig iron on that requisition. | Saving Money by Illusion. Philipsborn 606 - 614 ELEVENTH ST. July Clearance of White Kid Shoes 1,400 Prs. Formerly Higher Priced “Pifty thousand coplies?” inquired a $ 5 75 voice in obvious surprise, when one of Pumps, Straps and San- %; Lbh":‘;‘:qflfla%n':hfig;w. no":“f_g:r;“;’:s dals in_beautiful varia- lsnoeoxa a rlnhhke. We asked for only| tions. Spike and Cuban ) coples,” i 21, The requisition was sent back to the || Fleels. All sizes, 274 to 8, officlal who had signed it. He ex- AA to C in the lot. plained that it was a typographical er- Tor, that the typist had added an extra cipher. ~ The " typist, however, didn't sign the requisition—a fact the official couldn't explain away. Mistakes, of course, sometimes hap- pen; illusions, too. Once the Govern: ment saved money by producing an il: Jusion. The Department of Agricul- ;ure nee&ed ? feru:]r‘y lel:x!l\lmll'. lhowaxg our sets of mechanically operaf . o w};o:nd:ne;a suwtngtdew{n trees. T{le me- m the Flelds of f Th O tst d i cl ical apparatus for one set came - within the sum available for the ex- OPTOMETRY = 0s€e atstanding B S — q = Y Fashion and Value Events! So the department installed ‘a lone There is no great success in following alone the RESEARCH N s A . 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