Show r Let ns as have faith that right makes might and andin I in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty es 28 W we understand it Lincoln V Saving a BillionS Billion S SMOOTS SMOOT'S proposal to reorganize nize all nIl the S business basis government departments on a a. sound from business business bus bus- and approval al is meeting enthusiastic support iness Incas men both in and aUlI out of or Congress His estimate that such rooi gani will wiH save the country a billion by experts as an idle dollars a year is not regarded reg result lt of putting putting- the th depart depart- dream but as fiS a tangible res J n. n publics public's s money t meats ments on a business basis so that the d will trill be asked for on a proper and economical system and in iii the same busi busi- spent and mId will be appropriated 1 glike manner His proposal is fl note not meeting with opposition from t the advocates of or the budget get system s but on the contrary the framers o ot or the budget bill arc are actively supporting the Iho senators senator's plan and working working- in harmony with him indicate the bill will pass at this The days day's dispatches c. c session and and that Senator Smoot will fill head the investigating in gating commission r A billion dollars a a. year is a lot of money The TIle observance ob- ob P servance ser of petty retrenchments stoppage of or small smallE E l leaks aks dismissal of needless and other such J 1 of economies economics will vill be helpful but they will notI not The boldness of Senator I save e a billion dollars a n. year immediate attention and t. t Smoots Smoot's proposal challenges 1 ii admiration He is known to be he a n man of the greatest conservatism statements He does docs not make idle i assertions for vainglorious reasons or political effect i. i He has bas been studying studying- his plan for years r rs and deems it an opportune time to t try ty J an and put it into effect c r The ta task k may be h herculean It is possible before it trenches t. t reaches fruition the senator will be reviled and hated by b mere politicians who fatten at nt the public crib and ake no DO thought of the heedless manner in which the but there is no man manin manin manin money n ne of the people is squandered in the Senate who is better equipped in knowledge of or government go business in experience and in moral courage courage cour cour- age C to undertake the task than is Senator Smoot The time is ripe for the installation of sound business business busi busi- ness m methods in the conduct of the public affairs of the greatest and richest nation on earth Such methods Lave have long been needed but especially during and since sinca sin sinthe the war ar from all accounts a you please scramble scrambler of r extravagance incompetence and waste has been indulged indulged in in- in which hs has b s become a scandal to the tile government government government govern govern- ment and an offense to the frugal and heavily burdened people who are arc called upon lo to furnish the money It is not that the executive administrators are ore dishonest or that they wish to bankrupt the treasury or that they arc indifferent to the burdens put upon the taxpayers but what is i everybody's business is nobody's business and so the saturnalia of extravagance goes on unchecked Unchecked unchecked un un- checked for the lack of strong business leadership Years ago n o Elbert t Hubbard said If a n man write a i better hook honk preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor though he lie build his house housein in jn in the woods the thc world will make a beaten path to his door J Tf If the sage sag of East Aurora were alive toda today he lie would perhaps in include in iu his category a tribute to the man who shall rb rise e above hi his neighbor to put tho the government business on a sound financial basi bash |