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NEW BONUS MARCH ‘Rank and File” Delegation to Leave New York for Capital Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 29.—Plans for a second “bonus march” on Wash- ington were in readiness today after a meeting of the Committee of Fifty of the self-described veterans’ Rank aad File Committee. Samuel Stember, chairman, told the meeting that 3,000 men were already in Washington with heaZquarters at 905 I street; that 900 more were on their way from th> Wect and that about 1,000 were expected from th> Middle West. It was decided 2t the meeting that one truck containing 40 veterans would leave Union Square for Washington | tomorrow morning as an advance group | to be followed by a second group on Friday. The committee deciced to peti- tion the Board of Aldermen today for trucks, food and clothing for the sec- ond group and also petition the Balti- more & Ohio and Pennsylvania Rail- yoads for free transportation. BALTIMORE DENIES AID. Marchers Warnei No! to Make Trip, Spccial Disp BALTIMORE, Novomuer 2).—Wash- bound hunger ma-chars w i gat focd and transportation no: , accord- beds frcm the Baltimore po: ing to Commissioner Gaither. 5 He said the policy followad in handling the bonus marchers last Summer wil not apply. At that time the police tried to provide food and lodging and %o arrange transportation. “These marchers have been warned mot to make their trip,” Gaither said. “They have been told they would get o co-operation from the cities along their route. So long as they conduct themselves in an orderly manner, there will be no attempt to interfer: with them. They are taking up collections on the streets here now. I understand, to defray the cost of their trip. W2 ate not interfering with them. TWO GROUPS IN CHIO. *Hunger Marchers” Coming Here— Communists Demand Aid. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 29 () —Two groups of itinerants styling themselves “hunger marchers” entered Ohio yesterday end stopped at Toledo and Dayton en route to Washington. Meanwhile, at Cincinnati, a group of avowed Communists demanded aid for another contingent expected there tomorrow. About 500 of the “marchers” travel- ing in 20 touring cars and seven trucks entered Toledo after an escort of Mich- igan State police had brought them to the State line from Detroit. They were taken to the Community Welfare house by Toledo police and fed there. Approximately 50 “marchers” evaded iff’s _deputies nenkr Dnytfln ltnd ntered the city to make speeches at a park. The sheriff had hoped to swing them away from Dayton. They were fed and housed last night at Salvation headquarters. There was no dis- order. Cincinnati police estimated at 200 the delegation of avowed Communists that called at the office of City Man-| ager C. A. Dykstra to demand help | for “marchers.” Police arrested two men and a woman and broke up the group. NEW ENGLANDERS MARCH. NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 29 P —New England’s celi-styled “hunger | marchers,” en rcute to Washington, reached here from Boston yesterday after having picked up recruits in Providence, Hartford and other cities. Carl. Reeve of Boston, captain of the column, said 150 marchers wculd con- tinue their trek tod The arriva's were greeted here by a mass meeting sponsored by the New Haven Unem- ployed Council. The marchers were quartered in a Jodge hall last night. They expected o reach New York tonight. FARMERS LEAVE OMAHA. | Nebraska, Idaho and Oregon Marchers En Route Here. OMAHA, November 29 (P).—Twenty- eight Nebraska, Idaho and Oregon farm marchers today resumed their ournzy to Washington in two covered L’ucks after an overnight stop here. Anton Rosenberg of Newman Grove, Nebr., caravan captain, announced his | group planned to join the North and South Dakota and Montana delegations 8t Denison, lowa, today. The group was en route to a national relief con- ference at Washington, December 7-10. GROUPS LEAVE ST. LOUIS. Hunger Trek and Bonus Marchers Split Forees. ST. LOUIS, November 29 (A).— Crowded into 5 trucks and 12 automo- bles, about 125 “marchers” and 25 *bonus army” veterans left St. Louis to- day for Washington, prepared to dem- onstrate for unemployment relief and dmmediate bonus payment. : ‘The forces divided in East St. Louis, the “bonus marchers” taking to freight trains, and the “marchers” heading for Vincennes, Ind, where they said they had been promised food and lodging overnight. The start of the march was delayed here for ha!f an hour while Henry Smith, Kansas City, Mo., leader of the veterans' group, demanded from officers &f the Unemployed Councils of St. Louis, a communistic organization, that trans- pertation be provided for his men to East St. Louis, Il e Leaders of the march declined to give out names of St. Louis members of the march, saying that members of their families were on the relief rolls here “and their families would be cut off if it were known they were on the march.” Collects Golf Tees. CHICAGO.—An odd hobby has George W. Klewer, and golfers may be interested. He collects golf tees, and now has 750 different varieties. He o highly of the collection he SPECiIAL NOTICES. % 3 N THAT THE NOTICE 1S HEREBY Ivflockhnldfls of e copporation. Wi ne "Chy ol Washineton. ] o1 Gortmbia, on Tuesday: JaRUATY { ‘ t 12 M o'clock. for the election of es cihe' sncuine year ind. such other busi Tees'as may Iawfully come ‘before G "EVERETT, - ' Becretary. I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted by any one other than my- ®lELs1E M_sAXTON, 1924 P Al District 33, TREASURY DEPARTM] ©ffice of the_Comptrolier of the Currency, ‘Washington, D. all ‘persons who inst “The Departmental 0w B Alman, e ust’ be presented to W. - Ceiver. with the legs] proof thereof. within dleallowed. oigned) P, Acting_Comptrolier of AN, PURE, months from this date or they may ! G ANALT, ! Currency. 90¢ - sugsr. Phone Betore 10 am. -+ NEY, . P iy £ S, P rm-m ?%E E SRR s | B ONCITY THREATENSv | ported raw sugar which otherwise would IMcKEE PREPARES w York Executive Drops in Suddenly on Municipal Lodging House. Finds Place Well Kept, but Is Touched by Men Seeki Shelter There. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 29.—Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee, who had an { engagement with a group of bankers {night dip into the lower depths of | depressicn. McKee, who planned to ask for loans so the city can continue what he naid is a $1,000,000-a-month expenditure for | the destitute, appcared at the wind- | swept Battery—Manhattan's southsrn tip—last night. | Pulling his hat down over his eyes | and his overcoat collar up to shut out | the cold, he walked up to Annex No. 2 of the municipal lodging house, where 1,941 homeless men slept in a deserted ferry house. The assistant superintendent touched his hat, flustered. “Good evening, Mr. McKee." “Take me through as if I were a | fellow looking for a night's lodging,” BY VISIT TO CITY'S HOMELESS | for this afternoon, prepared for it by a | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932, FOR AID PLEA JOSEPH V. McKEE. where the Salvation Army takes care of homeless folk. He sald he found splendid conditions there, too. At the municipal lodging house, main branch, an official said there had been a great decrease in the number of skilled mechanics and young men who apply. Came Close to Crying. “To me,” he said, “it is a sign that the worst is over.” caid McKre. Visited Do-mitories. 1 took him in, handed him |a regisira’ card, show2: him ih> | big drum kettles in which stew “made of six different kinds of vegetables” is | cooked. He told how the clothing is | tagged, how nightgowns are provided. Then he took him into the big dormi- tories, where cots stretched away into semi-darkness, relieved by a feeble red light here and there. They walked down an aisle. Gray heads lifted to look—mostly gray heads, very few young ones. ‘The mayor, congratulating the official on tte condition of the lodging house, went next to the waterfront place | plates, crank hot coffee. tasted s | Everyth'ng was fine, he s2id. But the thought of the s'ecping forms stuck in | is mind. { “I came as close to crying tonight | The acting mayor inspected tin as I ever have in my life,” he said. The mayor previously had commented on the deaths of a homeless man and woman, who died of hunger and cold on the streets over the week end. He said they could have been saved had they applied for help; that the city was equipped to take care of them. ‘The bankers, newspapers indicate, are willing to lend the city money for the December unemployment needs. ‘They and McKee and others have been advising economy in other lines. TARFESON SUEAR. PROBED B BOARD | 0’Brien Reveals Action in| Answering Plea of Repre- sentative Gambrill. Five factors, including increased do- mestic production and decreased ex- rts, were stressed today by Robert | L. O’Brien, chairman of the Tariff Com- | CITY TURNS DOWN HUNGER MARCHERS Commissioners Refuse Three Formal Demands Presented by Delegation. (Cortinued_From First Page.) ment. Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, has received reports } mission, as disturbing to American | sugar refineries. { | He listed them in a letter to Repre- | sentative Gambrill, Democrat, of Mary- | land, who had urged use of the flex- ible tariff provisions to lower rates on | Taw sugar. O'Brien said the commission is in-, vestigating sugar tariffs, including the | differential between the raw and re-| fined product. Meanwhile, he listed the | following five adverse factors: i “Decrease in exports of refined sugar. | “Shipments of refined sugar have in- | creased from Hawaii, Puerto Rico and| the Philippine Islands. “While the acreage of sugar beets in the United States has remained rela- tively constant during the last 10 years, the entire yield per acre varies some- what from year to year, and it so hap- pens that production in 1930-31 was 189,000 tons greater than during 1929- | 30. (This naturally resulted in dis- placement of an equal amount of im- have been refined by domestic re- fineries.) “While there has been no extraor- dinary decrease in per capita consump- tion of sugar in the United States dur- ing the depression, it will readily b2 seen that a decrease of 10 pounds per capita would amount to a decrease of 1,200,000,000 pounds, or 600,000 tons. “There has been a small increase in imports of refined sugar from Cuba and other sources. The imports during the first nine months of 1932 have increased approximately 50,000 tons over the first nine montis of 1931.” VETERANS’ PAYMENTS REDUCTION OPPOSED National Committee Against Pre- payment of Bonus Hits Curtailment. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 29 —The Na- tional Committee Against Prepayment of the Bonus adopted a resolution yes- | terday protesting against any curtail- ment of payments to disabled war vet- erans or to dependents of those killed or_incapacitated in the war. In explaining the resolution, S. Stan- wood Menken, chairman of the commit- tee, said: “This committee was organized to fight prepayment of the bonus, as in- dicated in such measures as the Wright- Patman bill that would have taken $2,100,000,000 out of the Txeasury that was not due until 1945 and thereby threatened the country with the neces- sity of going off the gold standard. “However, when we learned that a movement was on foot by Gen. Hines and the Veterans' Administration to cut present payments all along the line | the committee decided to do all in its | power to protest those men who were | wounded and the dependents of those who were killed in the war. This class of veterans and their dependents should receive present payments and more, if available.” Edwin D. Belknap, chairman of the Executive Committee, said a Nation- wide poll conducted by the committee among Congressmen showed “beyond doubt” that no bonus legislation, such as the Patman bill, could be passed at the shart session over a presidential veto. ———— | SUBMARINE LAUNCHED jNew French Vessel Glorieux to Be Ready for Tests in March. CHERBOURG, France, November 29 (#).—The first-class submarine Glorieux was successfully launched here today. She is designed for a surface displac ment of 1,400 tons, a subm dis- placement of 2,000 tons, a surface of 20 knots, and submerged speed of 10_knots. and six lives were lost in an explosion aboard the Persee in September. — Run Down by Towed. Car. | ference indicating not more than 800 already are on the road and that hardly more than 1,000, if that many, finally will reach the Capital. The Commissioners’ “hands off” policy is in line with their decision some time ago to discourage the marchers from coming here. Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, indi- cated yestercay he would place as many obstacles as possible in the path of the army of hunger marchers to dis- courage proposed demonstrations Mon- day at the Capitol and White House. No parade permit will be issued for marchers upon the streets of Washing- ton, he said, unless permission is granted by the Capitol Police Board for the marchers to enter the Capitol grounds. Later Commissioner Reichelderfer and Corporation Counsel Bride went to the Department of Justice for a con- th the Attorney General. BAIL TOTALING $52,000 | SET IN NARCOTIC CASES By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, November 29.—Bail! totaling $52,000 was set yesterday for nine men arrested here Saturday in a roundup of narcotic agents under the direction of Boyd Martin. None of the men was able to furnish bond when arraigned before J. Frank Supplee, United States commissioner, on charges of sale and possession of heroin and morphine and all were re- manded to jail pending preliminary hearings next week. Bail for Tony Bruno, alias Tony Moscato, who claims he was once a member of the late Jack (Legs) Dia- mond gang in New York, was set at $8,000, while that for Harry (Pacey) Silberman and Carman Fallano was set at $1,000 each. Bond for George (Lazy) Lahn, Joe Gallek, Frenk Mateo, Vincent Solers, Salvadore (Spanish Sam) Agut and Richard Clark was put at $5,000 each. All will be given hearings on December 9 except Lahn, whose case will come up on December 6. Citizens Will Hear Remon. John A. Remon, general manager of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., will be the guest sepaker at the meeting of the Logan-Thomas Circle Citizens’ Association, which meets to- | Powers, near Stafford, Va. DR. A. D. COBEY, 8, DIES IN VIRGINIA Washington Dentist Was Former Professor at Na- tional University. Dr. Alexander Dunnington Cobey, 85, for many years prominent in the dental profession here, died late Sunday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. W. F. Funeral services will be held at 1 pm. tomorrow at old Acquia Church, Stafford County, Va. A native of Charles County, Md., Dr. Cobey received his early education in the public schools of that county, and later graduated from Charlotte Hall Academy in St. Marys County. He re- ceived his dental education at Balti- more College of Dental Surgery, which is now a part of the University of Mary- land, and was awarded a degree in 1870. He began his practice in Charles‘ County immediately upon graduation, and continued there until 1892, when he came to this city. He practiced here for 33 years, retiring in 1925 after a continuous vrofessional life of 55 years. For a time he was professor of oper- ative dentisiry on the faculty of Na- tional University School of Dentistry, which later joined the School of Dentis- try of Columbian College. He was an active member of the Episccpal Church and was for many ve! ‘man of the Church of the Adven He was a member of Maconic bodies. Besides hys widow, who was Miss Sarah Frice of Charles County, he is survived by four children, Dr. H. Cobey and Mrs. S. S. Stabler, Wash- ington; Mrs. Powers and Mrs. W. B. Kemp, College Park, Md. “HARD TIMES” BILLS READY FOR CONGRESS| | | Rankin's Measure for Currency Ex- pansion Prepared for Introduction. By the Associated Press. Bills designed to alleviate and €nd | present hard times are ready for intro- duction on the opening day of Con- gress, among them being a measure by Representative Rankin for expansion of the currency. Reciting that the purchasing power of the dollar is 56 per cent above the average of the period from 1921 to 1929, the Mississippi Democrat’s bill calls for issuance of non-interest-bearing Treasury securities to be known as “Liberty notes.” They would be issued in a minimum amount equal to $4 per capita of the population of the country and would be | used to pay the deficit and current expenses of the Government until the | general commodity index of the coun- try rises to 100, it now being about 64. | Some of the notes would be retired | from circulation if the index rose above | 103. The bill assigns the Secretary of | the Treasury Department the respon- sibility of maintaining the value of money at approximateiy the normal index of 100 Rankin said there was a sufficient amount of gold in the Treasury to en- able the expansion without endangering the gold standard. PREPARING FOR DRY LAW | CHANGE HELD PREMATURE By the Associated Press. ‘ CINCINNATI, November 29.—Dr. Daniel Poling of New York. chairman of the Allied Forces for Prohibition, | said yesterdsy, “I am afraid that those who have washed their kegs and pre- pared their malt and started fires un- der their boilers are a little prema- ture.” “I think,” he told a meeting here, | “that it is possible for the drys to de- | feat both beer and repeal in the com- ing session of Congress.” The Allied Forces supported prohibition in the re- cent political campaign. “Certainly, if the recent elections are a mandate to repeal the eighteenth amendment,” Poling added, “they also are a direct mandate to submit no resolution that does not safeguard dry territory and that does not provide | against return of the saloon. | “This short session will never get | through with these two items. Our opponents begin to realize the magni- tude of their problems.” Plan Immigration Meeting. The D. A. R. State Committees on Americanization, Ellis Island, and the Manual for Immigrants will hold a joint meeting tonight at the Department of the Interior at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Sterling Bockoven and Mrs. S. H. Beasley will | give short talks and Mrs. Charles T.| Watson will read an illustrated lecture | on Ellis Island prepared by Mrs. Grace | Brosseau, former president general of the National Society. District’s Heroes in the night in the Northminster Presbyterian Church at Eleventh and R streets. Mr. Remon will speak on the subject “The Telephone Company and the Com- munity.” Proposed.NeW Drill Likely to Replace Old “Squads Right” Based on French System, Command Will Be “Right Face.” A simplified close order drill is being perfected in the Army and promises at an early date to replace the old-time “squads right,” which has been dinned everlastingly into the ears of every Army man. The new drill with which various units in the regular Army and various militia regiments have been ex- perimenting, does away altogether with “squads right” and “squads left” in military exercises. Based on the French system, the command will be “right face” It has already gained the ap- proval of numerous experts because of its efficiency and simplicity. While the new drill has not been officially adopted by the Army, recom- mendations have been made. which make it appear probable to officers at various posts. that it will be approved soon by the War t. During the last 18 months the new infantry drill has been undergoing strenuous tests at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. Experiments there were so successful that the drill was Wi “E!“'.-Ihe eight wnz'am of ‘onr -m s under the Tel- tively ted World War Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel. S recorded in the official cita- tion, Thomas Edward Jones, first lieutenant, Medical Corps, attached to the 368th Infantry, 92d Division, American Expedi- tionary Force, was awarded the Croix de Guerre of France for heroic gal- lantry in action with the enemy near Binarville, France, ._._ September 27, = *:\(r* . 1918. Lieut. Jones ;>3- went out into an & open area, subject 7/~ to_the direct and /__ intense machine- gun fire, to care for a wounded soldier who was being carried by another officer. While he was dreéssing the wounds of this soldier, exposed to the fire of the enemy gunners, a machine-gun bul- let passed between his arms and chest and killed another soldier standing a few yards distant. The courage and scorn of danger displayed by Lieut. Jones inspired all the men who wit- n his fearless ministrations to the disabled. Residence at appointment, District of Columbia. Dr. Jones, later promoted to captain, is now resident assistant surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital and his home is at 1505 Twelfth street. REWARD! Persons_fortunate enoush to of our cars hese new price rewarded with substantial saving. Ford De Luxe Road. 1831 Fard De Luze Road. Pass Coupe .| publican, of Tow: SEEKS PROPOSALS FOR ECONOMY LAW Bingham Requests McCarl to Furnish Committee With Suggestions. Controller General McCarl has been | requested by Senator Bingham, Repub- lican, of Connecticut to furnish the special Economy Committee with any suggestions he may have for changes in the Government economy law. Senator Bingham, who has been | placed in charge of the work of the Economy Committee since the death of Senator Jones of Washington, pointed | out that after adjournment of Congress |last Summer it became necessary for | Controller McCarl to hand down a largz number of decisions interpreting | the economy program and that conse- | quently that official should have con- | siderable information that would help the committee in deciding what changes | should be made in the law at the com- ing session. - Senator Bingham has called the first meeting of the Economy Committee for | Thursday morning, at which time Di- rector of the Budget Roop may be called in to lay before the committee recom- mendations of members of the cabinet dealing with the subject of economy in Government expenditures for the next | fiscal year. One of the most far-reaching pro- visions of the economy law was the y furlough for all Government es, 2nd one of the question: fore the committee is to decide plan Committee are enators Dickinson, Re- . McKellar, Democrat, Bratton, Democrat, of | of Tennessee; | New Mexico, and Byrn South Carolina. BOARD IS GRATIFIED AT SHULER DECISION , Democrat, of |H. A. Lafount, Acting Head of U. S. Radio Commission, Sees ‘Warning in Ruling. By the Associated Press, Gratification was expressed today by Harold A. Lafount, acting chairman of the Radio Commission, over the de- cision of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals upholding the commission’s | refusal to renew the broadcasting li- cense of Rev. Robert P. Shuler of Los Angeles. Lafount told newspaper men the de- | cision was in line with the views of ; the commission and established no new policy. ~ Similar decisions had been handed downg@before, he explained. The Court Appeals held yesterday | that radio attacks it said had been | made by Shuler against the Roman Catholic Church, the Jewish race and public officials were not in the public interest. It also denied Shuler's contention that refusal to renew his license vio- lated the constitutional guarantees of free speech and against taking prop- erty without due process of law. Lafount said the commission plan- ned no further action except to con- tinue to decide other similar cases along the lines of the Shuler ruling. “We think the Court of Appeals’ opinion,” he said, “is adequate warning against using radio stations for attacks on religion and public officials.” ZE5 CLOSES INVESTIGATION OF BUILDING MATERIALS Federal Trade Commission’s Report in “Final Stage of Prepa- ration.” The Federal Trade Commisison has completed its investigation into the building materials industry in connec- tion with the Government’s publec building program, and is completing the report, which is saiG to be in the “final stage of preparation.” The investigation was directed by a Senate resolution,” which ordered the commisison to investigate and report facts relating to the letting of contracts for the construction of Government buildings, particularly with a view to determining whether there are or have been any price fixing or other agree- ments, understandings, or combinations or interests among individuals, part- nerships or corporations engaged in production, manufacture, or sale of building materials with respect to the price or other terms at or under which such materials will be furnished con- tractors or bidders for such construc- tion work. Father Will Join Liberty, America And Justice Here Santiago Iglesias Is New Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico. By the Associated Press. From an American viewpoint, Santi- ago Iglesias, who will be Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner in the new Con- gress, was aptly chosen for the post. On_ establishing his headquarters here he will be with three of his eight daughters, Liberty, America and Jus- tice. Four of the other five are named Fraternity. Equality, Peace and Light. ‘The fifth and eldest is Josefina. His three sons have these names: Santi- ago, jr.; Manolin and Eduardo. The girls’ names, in Spanish, are Libertad, America, Fraternidad, Igualdad, Jus- ticia, Paz and Luz. For several years Iglesias has been an official of the Pan-American Labor Federation, maintaining his offices in ‘Washington. His daughter Liberty is a stenog- rapher with the Chamber of Commerce of the United States; Justice is a stenographer at the Colombian lega- tion and America is her father's secre- tary. The others are in Puerto Ric 811 E St. NW. NORTHWEST MOTOR 6720 Wis. Ave. Wis. 3934 Prompt Delivery The Finest Hard Coal we have seen in 74 years of serving Washing- ton’s fuel needs is our Freshly-mined Super- cleaned Famous Reading Anthracite. | which he is expected to send to Con- | ing figure of {unpleasant details is going to bring DEFINITE PROGRAM IS LACKING ON EVE OF U. S. ECONOMY DRIVE Only Generalities Have Been Offered Thus Far—All Aiming at Veteran's Benefits, With Difficulties Evident. The cost of operating the Pederal Goverament in 1913 was_$700,000,000. The cost in 1832 is $4.000.000,000. Taxpayers are demanding that Congress reduce their burden by cutting expenses. How the money is spent and how sav- ings can be made are being described n & series of five daily articles, of which this is the third. BY EARL W. MILLER. If there is going to be any real re- ducticnein the operating cost of the| Federal Government as a result of the | national economy drive now in prog- ress, sometody or some authority has| got to point ou: specifically the bu- | reaus, services and functions that can | be dispensed with. To date, nobody | has. At the coming short sessicn of Con- gress, there are sure to be some spec- tacular reductions of the budget for the next fiscal year, as compared with that of the fiscal year 1932-33. But these will come mostly from the dis- continuance, or attempted discontinu- ance, of parts of the emergency con- struction program started in the last two years for purposes of unemploy- ment relief. Such reductions will not affect the regular operating cost of the Government and will fall far short of insuring a balanced budget for next year. $500,000,000 Saving. Disregarding the obvious political | obstacles to any curtailment of the construction program as long as large unemployment continues, the utmost practicable reduction from this source will not exceed $500,000,000. The Treasury had a deficit before these expenditures began and would continue to have one if they were wiped out entirely, unless, of course, commodity prices, business volume and the na- tional income should revive so miracu- lously that government revenue would return at once to the boom-time level of four years ago. Otherwise, no matter what is done about the emergency _expenditures, Congress still is going to be faced with alternative of levying more taxes or else trimming the government to fit its reduced income. There is no official, high or low, who believes the Government as it now stands can be made by any process of skimping or saving to stay within the limits of its present revenue. President Hoover presumably will broach the subject of cutting down the Government in a message on reorgani- zation and consolidation of bureaus, gress soon after it c es. knows what his intenideoms are. Veterans' Benefits Cuts Proposed. The one specific suggestion thus far brought forward is the demand of the United States Chamber of Commerce and National Economy League that $400,000,000 or so be cut from the benefits now paid to veterans of the Spanish War and the World War. Such a cut would go a long way toward bal- ancing the budget. But the President has #aid it cannot be made with justice to the veterans and for light on the political practicability of a large-scale withdrawal of veterans’ benefits, once granted, the reader is referred to the history of pension legislation since 1818. In other respects, the national or- ganizations pushing Federal economy thus far have confined themselves to generalities. The Chamber of Com- merce, it is true, has evolved a glib formula, by which every department, bureau and division of the Government simply would be returned to the level of expenditures it enjoyed in 1825, which was the year when the total budget was the lowest since the war. By this method the chamber hopes to reduce the cost of Government by more than $250,000,000. But, like most generalities on the subject, the idea of turning back the clock to the Coolidge economy of 1925 does not hold water on examination. It is true the expenditures of that year, less postal revenues, were only $3,529,- 643,000, as compared with a correspond- $4,075,731,000 in the ap- propriation acts for this year. Relief Increases Budget. If the cost of veterans' benefits is de- ducted in each case, however, and a re- duction is made also for the inescapable cost of public debt service, the com- parative figures for the two years are found to be $1,614,686,000 and $2,060,- 445,000. This latter figure, however, in Jjustice to the present administration, must be reduced again by subtracting, at the very least, the $362,000,000 in special appropriations for unemploy- ment relief which fattened the budget for the current year. The resultant comparison of routine cxpenditures, less veterans' benefits, shows $1,614,686,000 for 1925 and $1,- 698,219,000 for 1932-33. In other words, the increase in routine costs of Govern- ment between the two years has been less than $85,000,000, which is not much when you are discussing billions. Difficult Task. No easy formula that glosses over the Nobody about a real reduction in the cost of the Federal establishment. Some au- thority must examine the departments and bureaus one by one and determine which of their various functions can or ought to be eliminated. After that, the outcome will depend on the amount of pressure the public exerts on Congress. It will be an unpleasant job for any public man, because every Federal func- tion was established in response to a demand on the part of the public or of some group of it, and most of the groups, at least, can be counted on to fight for retention of their special ac- tivity. When the economy battle was on last session, the Democratic leaders of the House did their best to force the President to send them specific recom- mendations for curtailment of Govern- ment actvity, knowing that, if he did, it would hurt him politically. He didn't. His recommendations and the economy bill itself as finally submitted to the House were 90 per cent salary reduc- tion for Government employes and 10 per cent reduction’of Government. The only formula that can be ap- plied to the Federal establishment with a view to reducing its cost is some re- definition of the proper sphere of the Federal Government. Such a formula might assist in determining whether any given function might not better be left to the States or to private initi- ative and whether the expense in any event is justified under existing con- ditions. Is it a justifiable function of the Federal Government, for example, to advise the housewife of the best meth- ods of hanging lace curtains, or might this function better be left to the State or county Governments, or to the housewife’s neighbor? Should the Government help private industry to determine the resistance of chinaware to breakage or aid in im- proving the design of automobile engines? Scope Extensive. ‘The present scope of Federal activity is immense; so great, in fact, that few people have an adequate conception of it. In many directions the Government has extended beyond the “usual” func- tions of protection. law enforcement and regulation. It - ses aid in surpris- ing variety to business, industry and agriculture and, chiefly in an advisory capacity, has_entered the social and educational fleld to a considerable extent. Most of these extensions of the Fed- eral sphere of action have occurred in the last 15 or 20 years, many of them in the nine years of the post-war, Republican-prosperity era. Now that Uncle Sam finds himself under neces- sity of recutting his garment .- suit a reduced amount of cloth, some of them well might be held dispensable, if some- body or other would find the political ccurage to point cut which ones these are. This job of pruning ought to be done deliberately and not in the hurly-burly of congressional action, for the danger is that the popular pressure for econ- omy will result in injudicious slashing of u?pmprhu:ons ar e|Lse ena]kl:l;r;nur- ested groups to cripple regul ac- tivities that happen to annoy them. “Demands for economy may easily become mere parsimony and may ma- terially cripple basically important and necessary Government activities,” warned Henry P. Seideman of the Brook- ings Institute of Government Research, at the recent meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Efficiency Threatened. It has been shown in a previous article that the blind slashing of the budget by the last session of Congress already has placed that Government on famine rations, thre: g its effi- clency. With a few notable exceptions, it is impractical to reduce the routine cost of the Government much, if any farther, except by actual abolishment of some of it functions and services. The exceptions referred to are im- portant, but do not promise much in the way of economies. Most outstand- ing are the subsidies d out to the States with the idea of inducing them to carry on certain activities which the Federal Government itself cannot un- dertake but which Congress thought advisable to encourage. The chief of these subsidies is the Federal aid high- way appropriation of $108,000,000. But 2 dozen others run the total up %o about $160,000,000 annually. Some of these already have been reduced and further. reductions are likely. The high- way subsidy, however, is not apt to be touched because it excels all other Federal expenditures in the extent to which it provides employment. Subsidies paid to air and ocean trans- port companies also are open to reduc- tion, but these amount to a net of only about $36,000,000. A reduction doubt- less would compel a curtailment of service, as the Postmaster General al- ready has authority to cut the subsidies whenever the costs of the shipping and air transport companies it Post Office Opportunities. ‘Two motorious opportunities for cat- ting the cost of the present Government machine without impairing its efficiency are to be found, however, in the Post Office Department. One of these in- volves the political postmasters, of first, second and third grades, whose services in general are so little essential to op- eration of the Postal System that Ber- nard M. Baruch has recommended they be wiped out entirely. The other con- cerns the $106,000,000 rural free de- livery service, which never has been thoroughly reorganized since the end of the horse-and-buggy era and is known to be woefully overmanned. Thus far it has escaped the economy ax because it is politically potent. In the War and Navy Departments are two other notorious instances of political extrav: ce. These are the so-called political navy yards and Army posts maintained in various out-of-thes way corners of the United States in deference to the desires of Congress- men. respectable saving might be achieved from this source without im- pairing the efficiency of the Govern- ment & whit. The Congressmen con- cerned, however, never yet have been able to see it that way, and are un- likely to do so now. Elsewhere in the Government are other instances of extravagance due to g:éma, but these are minor or so im- ded in the Government machine as to be an integral part of it. merely serve to bear out the general proposition that further real reductions in the cost of the Federal Government must come from an actual reduction of the Government, and not from at- tempted economies in its operation. 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