Show CURB IS 18 SOUGHT IN government COST phil 8 nanna hanna militant editor of 0 the chicago journal of 0 commerce bounded tho the keynote ot of tho the fl final nal session recently of 0 the shannon committee tees nationwide hearings with the suggestion 11 a cost coat accountant in very every bureau in washington only in that way hanna said can the tide toward bureaucracy be W stemmed and a step taken to oust tho the government from private busl bus inosa neso the committee headed by representative senta tive joseph B shannon of mis and composed of 0 fivos robert F rich pennsylvania william H stafford wisconsin and samuel D B gill indiana then adjourned sine die to meet in washington 6 5 to begin atudo aliide ing the mountain of evidence collected in hearings at several cities what s on the price tag la Is only part of th the price editor hanna said explaining that the gorn governments ments policy of figuring its profit profet and loss lossi along a straight line makes tho the bur den ot 0 competition fall doubly hard anthe on tho taxpayer and the business man in a depression there has been a bull market on money raising for the federal government and because the money la Is spent in Nr Washl ashington neton the taxpayers payers han the mistaken idea that they dont pay it he said A concrete example was given in testimony of milton E B robinson jr also of chicago representing tho the national retail coal merchants Mer chanta tion alom who said the government coal yard kard in has operated at a loss of a year in some years from the sort of financial race records ads the coal yard Dreva prepares roii it if would appear they lia have ve the same sori sor of weather tho the year around arounia in lV washing ashing ton on robinson said it if I 1 cou cound 1 I alose down my chicago coal yard and d furnish coal to the government buildings in washington at the price they ther are paying now I 1 could soon waye at all ot of you from arolla a holla royce s the said the governments govern menta coal caught cault afire frodi spontaneous combustion in the hii yard il and was hauled smoking through tho the streets to the capital |