Show GOVERNMENT S S I I BUSINESS WA S The President Thinks here is isI I Too Much Red Taps Tapa ir it i iS S 4 Them r HE WANTS THEM 1 S McI With lIh of leep Com Coin Commission f f mission and CS I Wa W March I 23 President 1 hail had h II nn nfl Informal meeting lart jat jatI I Tuesday Tue dllY evening at itt thc tho residence of Gliford chief of nf the division loll S of ot forestry with the members of the ti Keep Jep commission loll The commission II II appointed n a 1 your ngo IIO to study the thel l methods of tho the several de lIe departments of ot the government n II S f view to 10 systematizing the th work worl or of till tile tileS S department departments and reducing the amount S 1 of red reil tape to a II minimum t After discussing IIII the work vork of or the commission slon and iid complimenting It II n I the achievement up to this tIne time the Iho theS S president pr delivered nn no address to tu tIo III members r In part the president wild wildA S A year c r ngoI nio go I tim tho Kf P commission lon because benu I had become convinced that the business method of or our government were werl by LI h no tin means III 1111 A i i 1 abreast t of lr if the times IhneN While I think iii there eo Is comparatively r t Ively little I I t I Ic corruption I IS S tion Uon In the tho national governmental eer PI Ire Ice And nd while hint little t I Intend to cut out It yet remains true that there tit Nt lii iii I u It good oO deal of ot clumsiness of work worl 4 RI above nil all the Inevitable tendency t toward mere bureaucratic methods met which every ery Ocr government S i S ho perpetually it fly on hi hIli tI i lie 1 tendency to 10 fell feel n u proud Prout of or duty cluty S performed d If It all itil the papers In n II ni cue cafe i ore ure appropriately docketed referred 4 and unil minutes made about them and then referred tack back without to 10 toi i what Wll t hall become of if the till real ird fact tact at itt ip Issue hAlle Referring to the tho work of or the com coin commission coinS S mission lolI tho the president paid mild I do not hot want ft it diagnosis of ot the th 1 rase I want sn lit n m 1 recommendation Ion how to tl t reach the time tune CUlle I do clo not hot want mere lucre mereto lucreS I S ly h to 10 know that hut ore are had bad t I want ie i to know whet what Is 10 bad hail and ole what 1 11 t IH III to i 5 lit I done clone to It better bett r so o that If It tr legislation J Is necessary I recommend S M lO o that If It BH nil I hope hOlle will vIII b be true In the th f enormous majority of ot cases tho the matter mattI i tan mn be reached by h executive IIvo regula regulation S tion 1 can CU that hat that regulation IN t uedA A great deal I of our government work has IlUs become proverbial for III the red redI I tapo Involved Of or course COUrll much of ot tho 4 I outside criticism upon red tape Is Ie lime duo duoto limer r to or of the Iho tact fact that you I nod I lure are imre to Congress for forS S every dollar we pend while the out Bl eider Is 13 responsible only to himself or orS S thone Interested with him himor hIm hImI I or Of course gentlemen when you t corns mome Om to your IT you Oll will have h vo to deal with broad prin principles I S for the conduct of ot the tho govern Rovern government governS S ment nent business hut but these must bo ho cup RUP t S ported liy by 11 definite plans ready rI lt to bo hit given Immediate effect 1 I believe III In tuh S brOll principles Limit hilt I T do mb not lint want Si i them co en 0 broad that they IhlY will wll not apply to lo any given cane 1 r do II it hOt 1101 you youa OU a il S in III any Il case cace clI e to Lu recommend n u af f Imply dimply for ho sake miko ak of ot making n It change ti But lut never for or a moment imminent In Iii basing your our recommendations upon the conditions actually found and tho time beet liest WilY way va to meet t them S To put the department on the lent bet be l C I working basis tho the president should ha he ilven power to transfer any part of tf the te 2 work vork of ot It n department to another do as III was thumb done In the case cace of the Chic department of oC commerce la lit labor c bor 1101 |