Show THE mE VOICE OF BUSINESS The Forgotten GOyt Reorganization Plan By Arch Booth Executive vice president preil- preil dent of the Chamber of Commerce of 0 the United States Ask Americans as ns the pollsters regularly regularly re do if it they want higher taxes or more inflation and the answer is a n resounding rebounding No But nut a ask k the same people If It they favor cutting specific government programs and they will vote to keep almost every one In fact met people seem to be demandIng demand demand- Ing hag more service from their governments governments govern govern- ments not less WHAT DO we do Well what does docs any businessman do when he wants to expand but cant can't borrow and cant can't raise mise prices He lie looks for ways to become more efficient efficient ef d- ef- ef to increase productivity And that's just what we have to do doIn doIn doIn In government Theres There's plenty of opportunity Take the Federal Government For 40 years it just grooved Pieces were added here and there for transitory reasons They stuck Nobody Knows Representative now Senator Senator- Roth of Delaware made study of federal assistance programs a fe few v years ago He lie found that no one anywhere knows exactly how many programs there are There is no central comprehensive repository of information on all programs pro pro- grams Members of Congress do not have enough enough en en- ou ough h meaningful information The executive branch docs does not have enough meaningful information Potential beneficiaries have virtually no hope of finding out about all programs programs pro pro- grams for which they qualify AND SOMETIMES as many as 10 30 level Cabinet and 15 or more agencies have programs devoted to the same area of activity tt Its It's said that Edison tried different dif dlf ferent combinations before he came up with a successful new storage battery Somebody asked him I if that wasn't wasl a abig abit bit big waste of t time Nonsense h he said I 1 now know things that dont don't work Well that's pretty much the national governments government's method of ot testing pro grams There Is really no accurate mechanism mechanism me me- for measuring the effectiveness of n ft program Or for comparing one method to another Or for avoiding dup dup- The Nixon Proposal To end this confusion President Nixon has proposed major changes in the executive executive executive ex ex- branch lie He wants to create four new Cabinet departments These departments departments de do would be organized organised on functional functional functional lines reflected in their names Human Resources Community Development Develop Develop- Development ment Natural Resources and Economic Development They would They would incorporate under one roof many presently diversified overlapping existing activities ALL THE details of this reorganization tion have n not nat t been resolved When they are arc arc Im I'm sure well we'll find some we like and some we dont don't But I think the concept itself is worthy wor- wor orthy thy of support We need fundamental changes in the structure of our government at all le levels levels le- le vels changes to do two things FIRST TO make the organs of government government government gov gov- more sensitive to genuine broadly broadly bro bro- adly based needs and less sensitive to concentrated pressure Second to better adapt the structure of government to the nature of the problems problems pro pro- it confronts County These river rangers will assist the public in the use of the rivers inform the users of proper outdoor manners and assure compliance with bureau regulations re re- Permits will be issued with special concerning removal of trash and litter Utter of the river users and other stipulations for protection of the environment AS REQUIRED by the National Environmental Environmental Environmental En En- Policy Act personnel have made the required environmental analysis on effects of the program and have established instructions that would be necessary to maintain water quality protect wildlife from harassment and otherwise safeguard the environment Mr Nielson stated Administration of of the Desolation Canyon Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon section of the Green River is under under under un un- un- un der the bureaus bureau's district manager in Price Westwater Canyon of the Colorado Colora Colora- do River and the San Juan River arc are under administration of the Monticello Monticello Monticello Mon- Mon district manager and the upper Green River is under administration of the Vernal district manager THE RIVER rangers will have responsibilities responsibilities responsibilities res res- res- res only for those sections of rivers under administration Persons Persons Persons Per Per- sons going into areas under other administration administration administration ad ad- ministration will have to contact the federal federal federal fed fed- eral or state agencies responsible for those areas |