CAN CUT EXPENSES Taft Tells Congress Results of Economy Inquiry. SUBNITS SPECIAL MESSAGE How Increased Efficiency in Govern: ment Service at Lower Cost May Be Obtained, According to Special Commission, Washington. President Taft has sub. mitted to congress 4 special message on economy and efficiency In the govern ment service. The message In part is as follows: To the Senate and House of Representa tives: I submit for the Information of the con gress this report of progress made in the inquiry into the efficiency and economy of the methods of transacting public busi ness Efficiency and economy ment service have been demanded with increasing insistence for a generation Real economy is the result of efficient or ganization. By perfecting the organiza the same benefits may be obtained iss expense A reduction In to- the annual appropriations not elf & proof of economy, accompanied by a d« ney. The needs of the and a large increa expenditure keep the appropriation within the expected revenue la necessary maintenance of publie credit Upon the president rost share of the responsibility for the mands made upon treasury for current administration of branch of the gove CONgress must rest those grants made for in the govern- the is since i rease In off 4 nation may de se of yat total must the rnme resp publie funds purposes of other Plan of the Work, In accordance commission which I organized quiry, has dire to the formul dations func with a | on Indiv and of pushing Ing as many resources and permitted In = the ing vel personne! 81 ve ith and retin and the these i reg Comprehensive Plan of Organization. iz n It ie Lovm oF » measures and activities the forn ancs One of ries which a half mill opinion of tivities car greater, ads The that It be alx by so doing a saving 00 000 a ve Another series mends that the and life saving servi by a pingle bureau, ir ent by two bureaus departments. These in common Geographically, the similarly Incated administratively, they have many of the same problems. It is estimated that dation would result in a saving of lesa than 560.000 an- nually. Abolition of Local Offices. Perhaps the part of the organization In which the greatest economy public ex penditure is possible Is to Be found In the numerous local offices of the govern ment In some instances ment and the discontinuance cal offices are matters of administrative | discretion In other Instances they are established by permanent law in such a manner that thelr discontinuance ls Be. yond the power of the president that of any executive officer The responsibility for the malnthnance of these conditions must naturally be 4! vided between the congress and the age. But that the executive has per. his duty when he has caliad the attention of the congress the mattis; must also be admitted Realizing my re sponsibility in the premises, I have dl. rected the commission fo prepare a re. port setting forth positions In the local services of the government which may be discontinued with advantage, saving which would result from such an. tion and the changes in law which are necessary to carry into effect changes In organization found to be desirable On the coming In of the report, such offices as may be found useless and can be abol- ished will be so treated by executive or der Classification of Local Officers. In my recent message to the congress I urged consideration of the necessity of placing in the classified service all of the local officers under the departments of the treasury, the Interior, postoffice and commerce and labor The next step which must be taken is to require of heads of hureaus In the de. partments at Washington, and of most of the local officers under the departments, qualifications of capacity similar to those now required of certidin heads of buresus and of local officers. The extension of the merit system to these officers and a needed readfustment of salaries will have important effects In securing greater economy and efficiency. In the first place, the possession hy the incumbents of these positions of requisite qualifications must in itself promote effi- clancy In the second place, the removal of lo cal officers from the realm of political patronage In many cases would reducs the pay roll of the fleld services, At the present time the Incumbents of many of these positions leave the actual perform. ance of many of thelr duties to deputies and assistants. The goveramern. often pays two persons for ‘doing work that could eanily be dorie by one. What is t loss to the government cannot ba stated, but that it Is very large cannot bo denied In the third place, so long as local of. ficers are within the sphere of political patronage it is difficult to consider the question of the establishment or discon. tinuance of local offices apart from the effect upon local political situations. Finally, the view that thess various offices are to be filled as a it of perat! nd VEE fa Ei. is upon t evenue itter servi peytiald antage servi yey the ny commiss refars, recommends | ia estimated that srs B1.- lished. It of not less tb ar can be made report illustrating recom : administered stead of as at located In ser of DAve on he pres liffarent | nuch | are | in the sstablish of these lo or cutive formed to the sequence the necessity that the president and members of congress devote to mat- ters of patronage time which they should devotes to questions of policy and admin. istration. i Business Methods. In every case where technical pro- cesses have been studied it has been dem- nomies may be effected. first approached were cloge to practices, The subjects those which lie each administrator, vis, ods of handling and fling correspondence Every office in the government has re- ported its methods to the commission. These reports brought to light the fact that present methods were quite in the reverse of uniform. Bome offices follow the practice of briefing all correspon. dence; some do not. Some have fiat files; others fold all papers before filing. Some use press coples; others retaln only carbon coples Need for Lavor-8aving Office Devices. The use of labor-saving office devices In the service has been made the subject of special Inquiry An impression prevails that the government is not making use ff mechanical devices for economising labor to the same extent as nre effictently managed private enterprises. A study has been made of the extent to which devices of this character are now being employed In the several branches of the Eovernment and the opportunities that exist for thelr more general The efforts of the mission resulted Lise political considerations has for its con. A also in the adoption by several bureaus or copying. The amount of copy work offices In hundred estimated thousand exhibited, to aggregates dollars its offices several The ap- especial. of government demonstrations were introduced about a saving of offices where used # change tn one small office practice will more offset ost of t inquiry Waste in the Distribution of Publle Documents, v1 at this kind Following is of copying have brought per cent. in months. Thi these the whole « 3 outnide the ¢ which have been in. listrib of depart This Is a subject with and adminis The prevail. departmental manufac. nting office feted is delivered to sartment the books or pam- wrapped and addressed: then : nn sent to the postalfice ing Hout wh business ¢, one of the processes vestigated is the ition ment nts 4 the congress heads are f i Har in handl ] have them SEA ER PE fe ey 1 ernment pr omg hora : there they wrted and prepared for st from the pad i when pment postoffice station, th BOv ie they the rails steps fr office a few of this laborious and make the eal equipment | * ee oar use of mpracti wn dolla of govern ess handling. to say lack lirect loss due to juipment is a m eatignted invest stter which Ite ts has been of gation to the Le subject x of Specifications, § he if emtablishin and in ® ations asibility 4 standard specifi aly in the ©» Iy in the 1 ‘ : 1} A seing the direct very of gov nt trading, but al n insuring to & materials fien ar which adapted lly re wat 1 equl are het! SON of the ER ne f specifications 1 rau #44 : price The Budget. i Btates is the na reat dw more that bud & operate mw tn 5 vernment ia ft a budge Th king when it gets and budget owth of democrati an tant part in the devel ” constitutional Ameri rommonwesaith has msibiiity on the pa is fact ane sir in insidered procedures are the doctrines and have m re onder rights. The had t sufNered much m irresp of ita governing agen The consti: al purpose a budget is to make ernment responsive to public opinion responsible for lis acts The Budget as an Annual Program. A budget ne before ie cles on gov and of should be the means for get the legislative branch and before the people a program of business to be 11d be In the th of revenues and should every. rela tion of the to the peopla whether with reference to the ralsing of revenues or the rendering of The principal government ohisetn which the people of CT nited interested include national t before i th definite finan pros. expand prea ARAL cod pictus be tures: ft it sho nature of a comprehend government service in the States TN Ih defense the protection of property the tion reistions and the protection of American Interests abroad. the regulation of commerce and industry: the promotion of agricul: fmberies, forestry and min ing. the promotion of manufacturing ommerce, and banking: the promotion of transportation and communication: the postal service, including postal savings and parcels post. the care for and utiil- sation of the public domain: the promo tion of education, art, science and recre ation: the promotion of the public health the care and education of the Indians and other wards of the nation. These are public-welfare questions In which | assume every citizen has a vital intereat. 1 belleve that every member of congress, as an official representative of the people, each editor, as a non-official representative of public opinion, each citizen, as a beneficiary of the trust isi posed on officers of the government, should be able readily to ascertain how much has been spent for each of these purposes: how much has been appropri. ated for the current year. how much the administration is asking for each of these purposes for the next fApcal year Furthermore, each person interested should have lald before Mim a clear, well digested statement showing In detall whether moneys appropriated have been cconomically spent and whether each dai. vision or office has been efficiently run. This is the information which should be available each year In the form of a budget and in detail acocounts and reports supporting the budget. I nak the continuance of this commis. #lon on economy and efficiency because of the excellent beginning which has been made toward the reorganisation of the machinery of this government on busi neas principles. 1 ask It because Its work is entirely non-partisan in character and ought to apply to every citizen who wishes to give effectiveness to popular government in which we feel a Just prids, The work further commends itself for the reason that the cost of organization amd work has beun carefully considered at every point. Three months were taken in consideration of plans before the In quiry wes begun: six months were then spent in preliminary Investigations before the commission was ged: before March 3, 1011, when I ed for a oon tinuation of the original riation for the current year, only $12,000 had been pans, WM. H TAFT. i prom ar ire, 2? STATE CAPITAL NEWS Protests | & Express Service. | & resort in the Pocono Mountains, { complains to the State Rallroad Com: mission of the express service between i Philadelphia and that locality, saving Express Company must red several be transfer imes before it resches the Pocono region, going by way of Beth lehem and Phillipsburg and Washing on, N. J The Adams people ex plained shat this long route was neces sary because their express matter could not be sent over the tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna & West ern Railroad, which handles the ex. press of the United States Express Company State Appointments. Governor Tener annousred the fol lowing appointments John the B Hospital at Hazleton R. H. Thomas, or the hoe Shigo, Freeland, member of Trustees of ard of the SB tate Mechanicsburg, Board of mem be Agriculture, reappointed Herman V. Amas, Philadelphia Stubbs, Of State and members of nission for the Pres. Records, Osceola, reappoiat Rectors Transferred. Bishop J. W. Shanahan, of the Cath- oilc diocese of Harrisburg, announced these app Rev. Fra: Patric i to St Rev Midway tey Candidatss r 44 Fr ore of £ need Nat the Fig? anou + ty thie n from herty, Mechanics ' Dr. John anon, and Dr. C. Albert i risburg iH med men, iter, Leb Fritchey, Har ical who aspire to represent the three has particular Wilt Check Oyster “Floating.” i Food Commis Dairy at tf Gyeler the thé year when sory od The Commissioner says many towns dealers place fatten” them and but much bivalves water to’ thereby flavor is Aas aad ¢ it destroy not only wl value, Added water against the law added and be reported, it is said as preserva tives numerous arrests will soop Approve Water Requests. The State Water Supply Commission approved the agreement for consolida tion of the Citizens Water and Gas Company and Williamsport Water Company as the Willlamsport Water Company. The commission also ap- proved the application of the Shohola Hydro-Electric Company for a Shohola Township, Pike and the Hooversville Water for a dam near Hoovers eraet Connty Falls pliant in County, Company ville, Som To Inspect Foreign Nursery Stock. State Nursery Inspector Enos B Engle was summoned to Philadelphia make the first inspection of for “ign stock to be received in the port in weeks. A rigid examina tion of the stock will be made to pre vent entrance into the state browntailed moth, gypsy moth and varieties of seale which have been found in former -importations to nursery Prepares Demonstration List. Dr. H. A. Burface, the State Zoolo gist, is preparing the list of demon stration orchards in which Pennayl vania State officials and demonstrators will show farmers and orchard owners low to increase the value of their fruft many per cent. He says he I» fairly swamped with applicants. Bonds Coming Slowly. Although State bonds to the value of £1.560000 will fall due on Feb mary 1, it is not expected that they Xl be presented for redemption The sinking fund ia more Commission Appointed. Governor Tener appointed the fol lowing members of the commission to examine the Panther Creek Val ley Hospital at Coaldale, Behuylkill county: Baird Snyder, Jr, and John A. Quinn, Lansford; John R. Boyle, Zoaldale; Andrew Breslin, Summit. Hill; James Tinley, Tamaqua. This commission was appointed under the aot approved Jume 14, 1911, for the purposs of providing for the trans fer under certain conditions of the 108pital to the Commonwealth ; | REACHED LIMIT OF TORTURE Real Reason Why Burglar Gave Even- ing Papers Chance to Use Effec tive Headline, | A burglar broke Into a New York mansion early the other morning and | found himself after wandering about | the place In the music room. Hearing footsteps approzching, he took refuge behind a screen. From eight to nine the eldest daughter had a singing lesson. From nine to ten the second | daughter took a plano lesson. From 10 to 11 the eldest son got his instruc tion on the violin. From 11 to 12 the younger boy got a lession on the flute and piccolo. Then, at 12:15, the fam fly got together and practiced music mally large” on nll thelr instruments. They were Bambo fixing up for a concert. At 12:45 the y porch-climber staggered from behind - “Imitativeness, the screen. “For heaven's send Jor the police!” he shrieked “Rol ture me no longer!” And in the even ing paper there was the “Nervy Children Capture Burglar.” RECOGNIZED THE ACTION. Walking for Merves. — | The nerves suffer froin want of pure oxygen, They run like a network all through the skin and when they are overwrought the skin is apt to be dry and colorless. Walking Is an excellent tonic for the nerves it gives then strength to control themselves If one has means or léisure, there are plenty of other more enjoyable ex. ercises. But forms dre 80 bene ficial as the regular daily jaunt of four or five miles for oblaluing a good coln- plexion few Mistaken There. The phrenologist was examining the bumps on Sambo’s ! and head “Curiosity arquitiveness abnor. his and of rolled eveballs ghowed two rows white ivory ity ich and cons’ with casual sake entiousness small wh yout Little Nell—I didn’t know that they played “1 Bpy” in church, mamma. Mamma-—What do you mean, my bi child? in Little Nell—-Why, the preacher said “Jet's Play,” and everybody held their Even hands up to their faces, 40 SOI weak mouth indicates “Don” n yu be so xi weak teal Out me headline crack Desperate sereyii ff mnousl a na when to Man and Meter Both Unique, peopl A Kansas City man notified the gas company that his meter slow, Greater honesty than this The man who hides his bushel that WHE IT hath inuing no man a find i838 sometis In Oppressive Trust. Before the Coffee Roasters’ Association, in ses- sion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Noh of Chicago, charged that there is in existence a coffee combine an ““the most monstrous im- position in the history of human commerce.” There is very slight exaggeration about this statement. It comes very close to being literally true. There is u coffee combine in Brazil, from which country comes the bulk of the coffee used in the United States, which is backed by the gov- ernment of Brazil and financed by it, which com- pels American consumers, as Mr. Webb said, “to pay famine prices for coffee when no famine exists."’ The worst thing about this is that the consume ers of the United States have been compelled to put up the money through which this combine, to further cinch them, has been made effective. There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon all coffee entering the United States. Those taxes were denounced as an imposition upon the people; as taxing the poor man's breakfast table, and the like. The taxes were removed. Immediately thereafter Brazil imposed an ex coffee up to the full amount of the former customs taxes in this country. The revenue which for- merly went into the treasury of the United States was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor man’s breakfast coffee continued to cost him the same old price. But this was only the commencement. The “‘valorization’’ plan was evolved in Brazil Through this plan the government, using the rev- enues derived from the export duties for the pur- poses, takes all of the surplus crop in a season of large yields and holds it off the market, thus keeping the supply down to the demands of the market and permitting the planters to receive a much higher price than they would otherwise have done, The United States consumes more Brazilian cof- fee than does the rest of the world. We are the best customers of Brazil, and Brazil buys little from us. Now Brazil is promoting, financing and maintaining a trust designed, and working effect- Standard statistics of the coffee trade show a falling off in sales during the last two years of over two hundred million nds. Authenticated reports from the ostum factories in this city show a tremendous increase in the sale of Postum in a like period of time. While the sales of Postum invariably show marked increase year over year, the extraordinary demand for that well. known breakfast beverage during 1011 is very likely due to a public awakening to the oppression of the coffee trust. Such an awakening naturally Sisposte the multitude who suffer from the ill effects of coffee drinking to be more re- ceptive to knowledge of barm which so often comes as a result of the use of the drug-beverage, coffee. —Batiie Crock Evening News—Dec, 19, 1911, sumers to pay an exorbitant price for they use. What is the remedyl—Seattls Post-In- telligencer— Nov. 19, 1911, POSTUM is a pure food-drink made of the field grains, with a pleasing flavour not unlike high grade Java. A Big Package About 1; lbs. Costs 25 cts. At Grocers Economy to one’s purse is not the main reason for using Postum. : It is absolutely free from any harmful substance such as “caffeine” (the drug in coffee), to which so much of the nervousness, biliousness and indiges- tion of today are due. Thousands of former coffee drinkers now use Postum because they Know from experience the harm that coffee drinking causes. Boil it according to directions (that's easy) and it will become clear to you why — “There’s a Reason” x vo 8 -
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