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Show SENATOR SMOOT ATTACKS BUREAUS THE following article reproduced from "Hardware "Hard-ware Age" the official organ of the Hardware trade in this country, was called to our attention at-tention by one of our local merchants. It is not from a partisan or political organ, but is based on hard common sense and business conceptions. It not only shows up the wasteful practices of the present administration, but also reflects the high standing of Senator Smoot among the big business interests of the nation: Senator Smoot of Utah, probably the best informed member of the Finance and Appropriations Committee Com-mittee of the Senate, in a cartfully prepared statement state-ment recently declared that the work now being done by the War Risk Bureau ought to be distributed between be-tween certain other existing bureaus, including the Pension Office, which has a large force of clerks sperially trained for this work. If this were done says, the services of 9000 employees with salaries, averaging above $1,600 per annum could be dispensed dis-pensed with to-morrow morning. "The ink on Senator Smoot's statement was hardly dry before half a dozen Administration officials attacked at-tacked it, declaring that the system employed by the War Risk Bureau was superior to that suggested and pointing out the hardships that would be suffered by any wholesale discharge of the bureau's employees. em-ployees. "Senator Smoot is a man of great influence in Congress; nevertheless I venture another prediction, predic-tion, namely, that the War Risk Bureau will go serenely ser-enely on its way, duplicating the work of the Pension Office and various other branches of the Government Govern-ment service. |