Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-02-18 | Page 4 | Everybody Will Cheer

EVERYBODY WILL CHEER P PRESIDENT RESIDENT HOOVER could have chosen no subject to bring before congress at this time that would elicit more genuine than his recommendation for curtailing government government government gov gov- expense by reorganizing the departments departments depart depart- ments bureaus boards commissions and branches of the executive department nt His recommendations he says will call for an additional appropriation of But the message says the saving in the cost of the administration would be many times this sum He invites the attention of congress to A. A the fact that there are between and separate separate separate sep sep- arate governmental units and that when once set up such units have a tendency to grow independently of other units leading to to the overlapping and waste He points necessity of the day for drastic economies which make the problem of governmental re reorganization reorganization reorganization re- re organization one of paramount importance The entire nation has known this all along but it seems to have been necessary for a president to bring the matter out into the sunlight for congress to see it Now that this has been done it is to be hoped that the legislative branch will act speedily to bring about the economies suggested to eliminate waste and duplication Many of the recommendations recommendations appear to have for their object the fixing of responsibility under the control of cabinet officers instead of allowing the Independence in independence independence in- in dependence of many units to bring about costs and growths never anticipated when they were created This in itself holds much promise There has been for a long time the need for an efficiency survey of governmental op operations operations operations op- op and for someone to call a halt on the wholly unnecessary increases in departmental budgets President Hoover is entitled to the gratitude of every taxpayer for these timely recommendations Japan is buying much cotton to use in making gunpowder gunpowder and and to stuff in the cars of statesmen who arc are likely to hear whispers that she is an aggressor nation