| Show CURB IS 13 SOUGHT IN government COST phil S alanna militant mill tant editor ot of the chicago journal of commerce rounded the keynote ot of the final session recently ot of the shannon Sha committees nationwide hearings with the suggestion a coat accountant in every bureau in washington only in that way 11 tianua allUa said bald can the tide toward bureaucracy be stemmed and a step taken to oust the government from private business the committee headed by representative senta tive joseph D shannon ol of missouri and composed of representatives robert F rich pennsylvania william ir stafford wisconsin and samuel B D indiana then adjourned sins sine die to meet in washington december 5 to begin studying the mountain of 0 evidence collected in hearings at several cities on the price tog tag Is only part ot of thet price editor dianna said eald explaining that tho the governments policy ot of figuring its profit and loss along a straight line makes the burden of competition fall all doubly hard bard on the taxpayer and the business man in a depression there has haa been a bull market on mony raising for the federal government and because the money Is spent in Waa washington hington the taxpayers ayers have the mistaken idea that they dont pay it he said A concrete example was given in testimony of milton 10 robinson jr also of chicago representing the national retail coal merchants association who said the government coal yard in has operated at a loss lose of a year la in some years from the sort of financial records the coal yard prepares it would appear they have the same saine sort of weather the year around in washington robinson said it I 1 could close down my chicago coal yard and furnish coal to the government buildings in washington at the price they are paying now I 1 could soon wave at all of you from a a rolls royce the witness said the governments coal caught afire from spontaneous combustion in the yard and was hauled smoking through the streets to the capital buildings |
