Show A 44 1 Business Manager PRESIDENT MARSHALL is never nc obtrusive VICE V and during the Presidents President's ent's absence in Europe and andI I during his illness was placed in a very cry trying position I Under the constitution he might legally have e assumed the tho post of President and discharged the duties of the thc Executive but out of chivalrous regard for Mr Wilson he remained in the tho modest retirement which proverbially pro attends the tile office of vice president However usually when Mr Marshall speaks he be says something In Colher's Colliers Collier's Colliers Collier's Col Col- liers lier's V Weekly he ho has said that it would bo be possible to tomake tomake make tho vice vico president a business manager for the federal government go without any change in the tion Congress could legislate to mako make the tho vice president the intermediary between the President and the tho departments de do- having ring to do with internal affairs could call for in information information in in- In that Capacity the vice president formation from tho the heads beads of departments advice concerning concerning con con- the expenditure of public money and exer- exer ciso cise some ome control subject to the approval or disapproval disapproval pro al of the President In this connection Mr Marshall Marshallis is quoted as ns SD saying Dg A business manager cr in V Washington ashin on could reduce tho the governments government's pay roll in iu that city alone atone by simply by putting the hour eight day into I effect in place of the thc seven hour day The government go clerks get et a full months month's holiday each year car fi fifteen days' days sick leave lea without showing a doctors doctor's certificate and another fifteen days dus on ou showing a certificate certificate nIl all allon on full pay And they work seven hours a da day Yet they go bO about Washington mourning like Rachel for L Lr r children Secreta Secretary Baker lopped of them off the pay roll one Saturday recent recently and by Monday morning he had letters of protest from senators and representatives Yes I am con convinced that a a. business bus bus- iness mess manager with some soma authority would be bo a useful member of or the government It has been intimated before that department heads beads are arc not entirely responsible for tho the armies of in Washington who went there thero as emergency war workers work work- ers and aud who still hang on to tho the pay rolls Prying these away from their jobs results in appeals to their senators and representatives Many congressmen preach economy but usually want it practised on the theother theother theother other fellows fellows' It makes make a difference d whose ox is gored I It t is not a bad suggestion to make the vice ice president the governments government's business manager provided ho be is vested vest est ested ed with authority to hire and fire Then with a comprehensive com corn budget et system there might mig bo be hope bopo of putting putting put put- ting heg government expenditures on a n. business basis |