Show t. t T- T 4 I Penny Pinching I L- L T GOVERNMENTAL GOVERNMENTAL expenses come out of 1 5 v- v the taxpayers Naturally they like governmental governmental governmental gov gov- economy The taxpayers have votes Governments depend on them Consequently Consequently Consequently Con Con- when a government has been economical economical economical eco eco- and wants a popular indorsement it A brags to the taxpaying voters about its economie mie mies Its It's equally natural for the governmental governmental governmental govern govern- mental opposition to say that this economy f i talk is all bunk there bunk there hasn't been any It ItI I may seem as if it ought to be an easy question ques ques- I ion tion to settle but it Modern government government govern- govern S. S ment is on such a large scale and so mixed I. I i.- i. up lip and its expenses are so vast at best and andI theres there's so much indirect taxation which cant can't I I be definitely accounted for and cI clever ver statisticians statis statis- t can do such queer things with figures I that the whole things thing's a puzzle Nevertheless to to give the devil his due I If jf he is a devil or to be fair with an angel if if that's tats what he is the is-the the Coolidge administration adminis adminis- I does make out a pretty good case in f- f behalf of its contention that its it's saved some money Budget Director Lords Lord's latest report is is a case in point Lord and iid Comptroller General General Gen Gen- eral McCarl between them undertook at the presidents president's behest to stop every last cent of Ao waste Eve Every y last cent cent is right right literally J They figured in pennies They made mad government government government govern govern- ment clerks use lead pencils down to mere mer stubs They saved rubber bands and wire clips and used then them over again They stan stan- They economized ir in millions and thousands and hundreds and nickels and cop cop- pers As might have been expected they were warmly hated Penny pinching Saving at the spigot and wasting at the bunghole These were some sonic of the things said about them S It did look like small business Now however Budget Director Lord makes the point that by such methods in four years jc the government has managed to save 1757 1757 5 out of its income It was applied to public debt reduction It isn't for redistribution tion among those who paid it in iii in taxes but Its It's a saving in present and future taxes It would have been spent as it came in if those who accused the administration of penny pinching had had their way yay It took grit to save it Who cares whether it was done on ona a grand scale a million dollars at a clatter or ora ora a dime at a time on rubber bands and lead tead p pencils Its It's more than a a. a billion and three quarters f f c U r r 1 r v w |