Show i iREAL i I SHAKEUP IN U. U a S. S BUREAUS S PROMISED S. S Congress to Get Facts of Duplication of Effort Before Before Before Be Be- fore Pruning Begins WASHINGTON Nov 20 Republican congressional leaders are planning the themos most mos intensive up shake-up of the government government government govern govern- ment bureaus they have ever experienced I Early in the Sixty-seventh Sixty congress if not in the coming short session the ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort will be made to rid the government of bureaus whose work is duplicated in other departments A resolution is being being be be- I ing prepared t to to- c create a special committee committee com com- 1 that is to o uncover eve the c branches that can be spared Its work will in in effect outline a reorganization reorganisation of the government agencies at Washington The changes will result according to i Chairman S. S D D. D Fess Fees pf of the Republican congressional c Campaign committee In Inthe inthe the elimination of a lot of dead wood i SITUATION CAREFULLY STUDIED Mr Fees Fess Representative Reavis of Nebraska and others have been studying I Ithe the situation They have found that in some cases overhead charges chargeS' of admin admin- adminIstration administration could be greatly reduced by cutting out some of the bureaus A complete list of the changes cannot be given until an investigation has been made It is said that nearly every executive department Is engaged in some definite educational function The bureau of education education education ed ed- ed- ed in the interior department conducts conducts con con- ducts duds but a part of the governments government's I educational work Similar functions are i performed under the bureau of Indian a af affairs affairs af- af f fairs in eth tho interior rf department 1 in various various vari vari- a t ous bureaus of the department of agriculture agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture in the child labor bureau of the labor department in the public health service bureau under the treasury department department department de de- and in the board of vocational education for service men Chemistry experiments are conducted in the bureau of standards bureau of chemistry of the department of Agriculture public health service under the treasury and prohibition enforcement division under the commissioner of internal revenue BUREAUCRACY TO GO The Republicans according to Mr Fess Foss have marked for slaughter the system of bureaucracy that has grownup grown grownup up at nt Washington In the following i statement prepared for the World he out outlined the programs O Bureaucratic tf is Bureaucratic a government rapidly coming to be a problem which must be handled with vigor The rule of bureau practice is not to get along with as lIttle little little lit lIt- tle as possible but to secure as much as possible Congress unacquainted ed with the details of bureau work and I disinclined to risk injuring a service becomes becomes becomes be be- comes a victim of grasping bureaus whose concern In results is shown in I Increased se demands n upon the treasury Each department reaching for new newfields newfields newfields fields Inevitably invades the specific fields occupied by other departments Duplication Is unavoidable under this rule In one case there is reported at least nineteen different bureaus handling handling handling han han- hanI I the same subject This practice develops a duplication of bureaus with witha a double overhead charge double force of experts and WORK BEING DUPLICATED The bureau of standards stannards is supposed to represent the highest degree of ability ability abil abil- I ity fly in research along many lines Its work wont is duplicated in many ways Trays in nn the bureau of chemistry of the agricultural department as It is in other departments Congress makes appropriations for tor the agencies of investigation regardless of the number of duplications the unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary essary overhead or the needless force to reach a better result if it properly segregated segregated segregated segre segre- gated officered and served by better trained as well as fewer research workers Recent investigation disclosed some education function in almost every de department department department de- de of the government These functions functions functions centralized under one ono head would insure better results at a great saving of public moneys Congress J must take the necessary steps to get these facts of duplication then the steps for a reorganization to dispense with a surplusage of govern gover government ment servants not only in tn the int t of economy but of efficient service These facts cannot bo be secured from heads l I whose chief concern is expenditure of funds It must be gleaned by independent ent investigators whose whoRe concern Is la how much Is absolutely necessary rather than how much can be secured BUREAUS STILL DEMANDING The real problem is seen in the bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau efforts now put forth to continue the forces enlisted In the war Before the war there thero were reported fewer than I In Washington Today two years after the war ar is actuary over I we still sUU have more mora than double that number on on the pay roll in Washington i Here Here Is the problem of tho the Sixty- Sixty seventh congress Get the facts from independent sources and then use the tho meat axe if necessary Resolution by congress to collect the data classify them and report reorganization to avoid old waste vaste and duplication nUon of efforts will be pressed at an early moment Here lIere is ise isone isone one e chance for a reduction Deduction n of f the cost of gg government e a lowering g f o of t the tho oC I level of cost st of t living and d a basis SI f for r a r re revision revision re- re l vision o of taxation There can be no reduction of taxation unless we reduce the Ue cost of government Tho The Bowory Bowery theatre built In 1926 IUS was waR the first playhouse in New York to be lighted b by gas as A tS |