Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-13 | Page 7 | Saving a Hundred Million

F 9 1 3 j I Saving a Hundred Million l SENATOR CURTIS suggests to President Coolidge the chopping off of about Hven- Hven useless boards and commissions and land landh lI h h consolidation cons of others in ih existing 43 fi fh r e departments He estimates that thata a hundred hundred hun hun- dred milli million n dollars could be saved If a t IJ hundred million is the total present cost of off f these commissions then the estimate of savIng saying sav- sav Ing is doubtless too high For most of f these boards are not wholly useless Their work A- A ought to be done and it will cost nion money y if Ic gr- gr for some one to do it under any system k r But there is no question that the present method of doing it is needlessly extravagant Jt and and- what wha is wor worse e inefficient I v The situation in In most states is worse than that of the federal government but the cause ause is s the same in all New functions s have l ave been f added to government one one at t 9 t a time and the instrumentalities to handle them have been added without system Now the time has ri T come when in a private business a thorough 1 C reorganization would be in order The same thing is needed in governments It has taken place to tp some some degree in city governments A few sj te notably Illinois have made a beginning of it in state government It has nowhere been done fas jas thoroughly as would have been the case in a private business similarly situated I I If some governor in some state can set setA setI I A the example of doing it right r if some administration adminis ad ad- I minis ministration in the national gO government will wilt go to of things the example will be and the achievement will wilt be hi his his- Tie reforms of the Roosevelt era were I r 1 political and humanitarian The ref reforms re re- re- re f forms now due e are the more prosaic ones of I business But there is is idealism in these too to The cost of of- government of-government has reached the point where it can carigo go no higher Either the waste r m must st be cut out ut or necessary services m mUst st be omitted If we are to have economic social i- i l C I humanitarian or other idealistic progress the first step is IS on the picturesque un path of 4 1 efficiency and economy Whoever can lead r i. i Ys successfully in that will be the Roosevelt of J r a. a new new era 1 T J I