Show Potent S. S B. B Othman Discovers Uncle Sam SamIs Is a Mess of Duplications By Frederick C. C Othman V WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-If If congress ever gets around to senate bill 26 President Truman wont won't have to kiss his bureau chiefs chiefson on both cheeks to get em to work He can knock their skulls together or snick ot off their heads with a White House carvIng carving carving ing knife And probably should On second thought lets let's eliminate that word probably Ive I've been listening to Lindsay C. C Warren the voiced deep-voiced comptroller general genral gen gen- eral ral ral tell what's wrong with Washington Its It's enough to give a taxpayer the shudders The main trouble with ith the government Is theres there's too much of It That's where bill comes In it lets Mr Truman fire bureaucrats bureaucrats bu bu- wholesale f if he wants close departments consolidate their Jobs and get a little sense into our shambles of unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary sary federal agencies You think those words are arc too strong 1 Haw F D U n Was Yas al Polite route The late president Roosevelt called the government a big hig patchwork He was being polite And its it's been getting ever aver since Today it Is a hodgepodge and anda a crazy quilt of ot duplications overlapping inefficiencies and inconsistencies said the comptroller comptroller comp comp- in urging the senate expenditures ex ex- committee to approve approve approve ap ap- ap- ap prove the bill and give Mr T. T a chance to save a few billions billion Mr Warren said hed he'd been doIng doIng doing do- do Ing a little checking around town and had discovered that there were 75 different government government government govern govern- ment offices all having something something something some some- thing to do with transportation And also nine nino separate committees committees committees commit commit- tees to set act up the policy polley on transport under which the 75 should work Vo Worse o and Worse orAe His tale of ot federal bigwigs stepping on each others other's toes got more horrid as it went along Even this nations nation's grizzly bears would seem to bo be confused contused by the tho numerous gentlemen in charge of ot them There arc are 14 outfits now spending taxpayers' taxpayers money said Mr Warren on the conservation of wild life He mentioned as has haa the tho commissIon commission com corn mission of ot president ex-president Herbert Hoover the 29 government agencies In the business of at lendIng lending lending lend lend- ing money the 34 that buy land the 10 that build federal structures structures structures tures the tho 14 11 that worry about trees and the 28 that wrangle among themselves over welfare It 11 may even ba fu that the government government gov gov- Is responsible for the high cost of ot writing paper and ink Mr Warrens Warren's researches at least have turned up 65 different different dif dlf- dif dif- ferent terent bureaus and some Bome arc are whoppers whose sole job i is tho the gathering of ot statistics Rough nough on Machines How many adding machines they W wear ar out per year and tons lons of ot paper they use nobody knows I So Mr Warren was rattling off the list of ot federal offices that should be axed when Sen Joseph McCarthy of ot Wisconsin wondered what ought to be done about those rival dam builders the bureau of ot reclamation and the army anny corps of engineers The senator said Mr Hoovers Hoover's sleuths had discovered that whenever there was a dam to tobe tobe tobe be built bunt these organizations did most of ot the work twice and so 80 far had managed to waste more than Mr Warren said he hc didn't know much about the reclamation fellows but he did think the army engineers were doing a good Job He also warned the senators that soon they'd be listening toa to toa a succession of ot bureaucrats demand demand demand de de- de- de mand that their particular department department de de- de- de be exempted from any reorganization Dont Don't let em get awa away with it ft the comptroller comptroller comp comp- urged Treat cm em all alike aUke And mostly rough Whether congress will agree still is questionable Experts have been trying to reorganize tho the government for tor years without accomplishing much except except ex ex- make it bigger But now that tho the president has to kiss the help on the cheek to get the job done that's going too far Ive I've got hopes that the lawmakers lawmakers law law- maJ makers ers this time may hand him 3 hatchet Copyright United Feature Syndicate |