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Show REPORT VINDICATES MEW OPERATING PLAm Chief of Ordnance Explains Results of Recently Adopted Scientific Management. WASHINGTON. Dec 8. -Vindication of tho scientific management systems in government arsenals Is the feature of the annual report of ""William Crozler. chief of the ordnance. Under the plans of paying premiums over and abovo regular wages, amduntlng to $22,000 during seventeen seven-teen months, machinists and moldors in tho "Watertown arsenal have Increased the amount of their work two and a half to threo times. General Crozler points out that not only Is time gained In thnt way and much pay saved, but largo economies are effected in overhead charges. One result has been tho reduction of the allotment made for tho "Watertown arsenal by 573.101. At the Frankford arsenal, tho report says, by manufacturing artillery ammunition nnd small arms ammunition, Instead of buying buy-ing from private manufacturers, a saving of rnoro -than 51,500,000 was made during tho year. Tho rcportt announces tho ordnanco bureau bu-reau has finished a number of powerful twelve-inch morlars of now design for tho Panama canal fortification, which up-1 up-1 on test have shown a maximum range of more than eleven miles, compared with eight and a half miles of the most powerful pow-erful type formerly in use. Although by direction of congress, the ordnance bureau will manufacture next year all tho smokeless powder for which funds were appropriated, General Crozler expresses doubt as to tho wisdom of put. ting private manufacturers out of business. busi-ness. Ho regards it as significant that the government monopoly in the manufacture manu-facture of powder has recently been abolished abol-ished in France as tho result of disastrous experience and holds It as the wisest policy for congress to fix what it considers con-siders a reasonable price for powder to bo furnished by contractors, and with that restriction authorize the war department de-partment to give them a fair share of the work of manufacturing. |