Show vigorous teamwork will be needed last week the green river journal joined the thi a citizens committee for the hoover report this is a voluntary bipartisan organization for public education in support of federal reorganization you no doubt recall the tremendous success of the first hoover report which was wag formed in 1949 and functioned until 1954 4 72 7 of the first hoover report was adopted and 58 new laws were passed by congress also 41 presidential reorganization plans were approved all of which added up to an annual savings of hundreds of millions of tax dollars july 10 1953 congress unanimously created a new hoover commission with instructions to 1 recommend ways mays to make the executive branch operate more efficiently and economically 2 point out instances citizens will benefit if federal government functions are taken over by state and local governments or private lations Zat ions this task had been completed and as of june 30 1955 the commission officially ceased to exit and now another tremendous job must be done that of getting congress to accept the new recommendations this is where the citizens committee comes in vigorous teamwork will ill be needed both the congress and the administration must have the active encouragement of unbiased citizens of both parties to withstand the pressures which invariably arise in opposition to any real reorganization and any real economy neither one political party nor the the other can do the job alone the executive cannot do it alone nor can the congress nor the citizen they can all succeed together or they can all fail fall together |