Show e important facts on commission hat reorganization can do in the years 1949 53 more fed i al reorganization occurred than lirgg any similar period in the tons history here are some ec ee fac fic benefits the U S taxpayer aved from the first hoover port RECORDS by eliminating dobso e records 4 million per year is iw w being saved in floor space h is s is equal to the size of the rehan dise mart in chicago or 5 per cent that of 0 the empire ate building MILITARY unification two parate airlines maintained by the navy and air force have been merged and two separate ocean shipping lines imes maintained by the navy and the army transports Tran tion corps have also been merged LABOR the department of labor has been rebuilt to full cabinet status FRIVOLOUS LOANS the fed eral government can no longer make loans to such enterprises as a a pet hospital b a juke uke box operator c a beauty parlor d an interior decorator and e a snake farm MEDICAL CARE through bet ter coordination of federal hos petals the government has avoided building 16 new hospital beds at a cost of 5 million accounting the practice of shipping freight cars full of old vouchers to washington for audit has been eliminated and more modern methods installed ALASKA the mount mckinley park hotel in alaska has been leased to private industry and an annual loss of has been turned into revenue for the treas ury and incidentally publish ing expensive federal books like THE WOLVES OF MOUNT MC KINLEY is now forbidden BUSINESS enterprises the deficit ridden inland waterways corporation has been liquidated by the government for some 10 mil lion reasons for the new hoover commission despite great advances in the recent past much remains to be done to make our big government waste free and dollar saving con sinuous vigilance by the congress the executive and the public based on the reports of the new hoover commission must spear head the new attack on such lems as PUBLIC LANDS one vast stretch of public land in oregon I 1 owned by the federal govern ment divided into squares one mile by one mile one federal department administers the odd numbered squares and another department part ment administers the even numbered squares this condition has existed since 1916 competition WITH PRIVATE BUSINESS the government runs hotels hotell tugboats and banks it man paper rope rum o 0 cloth ing spectacles and false teeth RED TAPE each year the fed eral government writes and pro duces approximately pieces of paper or pieces of paper for each family in the united states MONEY FOR NOTHING S some orne federal businesses invest their surpluses in government bonds this puts uncle sam in the tion of borrowing his own money and paying interest on it THE PRESIDENT sixty four agencies report directly to the president if he were to spend even one hour a week supervising each he could not possibly have tune time for major decisions and at af fairs of state FOODS the government bought pounds of tomato products on the atlantic coast to ship to the pacific coast for shipment to the atlantic overlapping five large and 30 smaller federal medical terns provide health services which often duplicate |