Show SECRETARY MEYER PlANS w vw w h hGeorge SOME c I X I i 4 4 t I j jI a fr I t I i Ii il l I 4 J 4 4 4 t tl v l t t S George L Von Meyer Secretary of the Navy who will Revolutionize hIs Department I i BUREAU SYSTEM WILL WILLBE BE DISCARDED IN NAVY Department to Be Put on a Busi Business Business Business ness Basis Under the New Scheme Washington Nov N v 59 Heeding Heading f 9 cry for reform In naval affairs affair Sec Ser Seer i tary Meyer on 00 Wednesday will ate ace the most mOat sweeping changes In t tL navy department since the Went ment ot of the bureau burau system in Himself Hi elt a former director of bank and manufacturing companies he hope hop hops 3 to put the department on a bu s 3 beyond the dream of his peed ee cel Eon ors The keynote of his bis reform is the subordination of ot the bureau chief Summarized changes chanles In the t a Meyer plan plait are The of four responsible ad iu J oJ vl virg er on subject within the four foul groups into which duties of the dt d v pertinent fall tall to be known ac as the aito aih for material the aide for personnel tl tI tIP aide aid for operations of ot the fleet and tl tie tLe a aide for tor Inspections In Grouping of Bureaus The grouping of ot the bureaus Into two divisions of material and person personnel personnel personnel nel according to the nature of ot their duties dutes The establishment of a division of ot operation for t r the fleet The establishment of a comprehensive ive lve ve inspection system The establishment ofa of a modern effi efficient efficient clent cost coast st in lathe the navy nav department ana at navy I The separation I of ot navy yard work into two division on of ot huns hulls and machin machinery ery The of ot the bureau of ot con construction construction The rho abolition of the bureau of equip equipment ment meat Henceforth officers who fight tl tie a ships are to have more influence In ti j navy naY department Chosen Cho n men in Jp n m among them t em areto areto are areto to be the official eyes and ears eaTS of n t f secretary laden Jaden with full r y for tor their reports but not his hands hand Secretary ry Will Be Chief The secretary secret ry retain his admin administrative administrative and executive power for his own exercise and that of ot the assistant secretary of ot the nevy All reforms go gro Into effect December 1 l except the abol Continued on Page Two P MEYER PLANS SOME SWEEPING CHANGES Continued from Page One On o ot of the bureau of ot equipment which congress alone can do doThe doThe doThe The aide for operations from the fleet neet I will be Rear Admiral Richard Wain Waln Wainwright Wainwright I wright commander of the third divis division division ion of the Atlantic fleet neet The aide for personnel will be Rear Admiral W P Potter now chief of the tho bureau bur au bf of navigation I Tile lne aide for material will be near Hear Admiral William Willfam Swift commandant of at atthe the Boston navy yard The aide for inspection will be cap captain tain tam Aaron Ward recently supervisor of the navy harbor who will become a rear admiral on January 9 I Captain Reginald of the th Nicholson I a member of tile board of ot inspection and survey wilt will be made chief of the bureau of ot navigation vice Ice Potter I Meyer Found Confusion I When Mr Meyer lIe er assumed office he I found some confusion in tho the depart department department department ment andin and in the navy yard due to I changes chanles instituted by Secretary Nev N berry a few weeks before the close of I his administration a Steps were taken to ascertain how far tar It was wag desirable I to follow reforms outlined by Secre Secretary Secretary Secretary tary Newberry rry The Th Sperry board was created to re report report report port how the various conflicting or orders order ders dor and regulations could best be rec reconciled recon on led Then came the Lutze board which was asked tomake tom ke recommends recommendations concerning the consolidation of at the bureau of steam engineering with other bureaus a step undertaken by Secretary Newberry Finally Secretary Meyer appointed I the Swift board to consider reports of the other board and to make recommendations recommendations for the improvement of ot business methods of the department With these reports as a basis Secre Secretary Secretary Secretary tary Meyer has evolved his plan of re reform reform reform form The secretary found that the bu bureaus bureaus bureaus of the department were independent ent ant of one another and that he must decide all difficulties between them The aides are to advise him on these points Explanation by the Secretary If It the secretary seeks advice from Individual officers In whom he has con confidence confidence confidence but who have no definite rela relation relation relation tion to the organization of the navy de department department said Meyer today In ex explaining explaining his reforms he gets advice that may ma be good but that Is not re responsible responsible responsible Such recourse to individuals moreover gives no assurance of con continuity continuity of policy nor of ot responsibility According to the Meyer plan the board of construction becomes useless and therefore will be abolished This board was created principally to supervise ship designing and to de decide decide dedde cide questions in dispute between the bureaus when their duties overlapped or when one wished to obtain more space or weight for its purposes in a ship design Under the new plan the operating branch which deals directly with the I military use of ot the fleet will originate military features of a new construe construction construction tion in consultation with the general board of which the new aide for opera operations operations operations will win be a member Other officers also will be called in for tor advice and criticism both before and after the sketch plans have haye been prepared by bytha byth I tha th technical lurEau Will W III Get the Best Advice These officers will be selected be because because because cause of pronounced success in ord ordnance ordnance nance nanco engineering or torpedo work The bureaus will be called upon finally to prepare the actual plans and will willbe Willbe willbe be responsible for their correctness With the growth of ot the business of the tho department Secretary Meyer found that duties similar to those of the equipment bureau were performed by the bureau of ot supplies and accounts construction and repair and by steam engineering In this connection it is isto Isto isto to be noted Rear Admiral W S Cowles of Former President Roosevelt is now the head of ot the bu bureau bureau reau roan At the navy yards Mr Meyer has de decided decided decided I to divide the single manufacturing I ing department established by Mr Newberry into two divisions one of machinery and the other of hulls ac according cording to the general practice in ship I building establishments in this country and with the naval dock yards of Eng land and Germany Commandants and captains at the yards ards will be kept there long enough to insure continuity of policy and commandants will be tho the only representatives of ot the department at the yards yarda Change of Newberry Plan The Newberry plan gave the senior naval constructor at the yards power that Secretary Meyer lodges with the commandant Inefficient work or performance or irregularities under the different bu bureaus bureaus bureaus Secretary Meyer found has been inspected usually by officers of those bureaus reporting directly to them No machinery has existed by which Indo Inde Independent pendent inspections of ships shore sta eta stations stations and technical matters could be had That Mr Meyer will provide by his new division of inspection Extinguishing the bureau of yards and docks the marine corps and tain tam other branches of ot the department I not logically Included In any one of the four divisions of ot duties will be placed under the tha assistant secretary |