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Show r TREASURY WATCH DOG IS REAL LIVEWIRE WASHINGTON, .July 14. J. It. McCarl of Nebraska has been selected select-ed by President Harding as tho new comptroller of tho United Statos. Thla Is a newly created office, equal to that of the director generalship gener-alship held by Charles O. Dawea. Mc Carl has charge of expending the outline ou-tline work of auditing theaccounta of the federal government and reducing reduc-ing Its cost. Dawoa will look after tho task of doing away with overlapping over-lapping bureaus "and departments, reducing thorn to a unified whole, and submitting estimates to congress Both will carry out the great plan conceived by tho last Republican con grcss of bringing government expenditure expen-diture down to dato and saving the taxpayers of the country many hundreds hun-dreds of millions of dollars. ' Tho prosldent Indicated he wanted a "hundred thousand a year man" for both places. He got him In Dawes, who Is wealthy, has mado a success In the mlddlo west In the reorganization re-organization of properties, and served serv-ed under Pershing in tho A. B. P. Tin also got him In McCarl, not In fact but potentially. McCarl was a poor boy, graduated from the University Uni-versity of Nebraska, became secretary to Senator Norris and then was made executive secretary of the Republican congressional committee. He there demonstrated In his thoroughness I W) and vision that In the larger work liu would be tho no nian capable of attaining the utmost""results. Thcso nre tho requisites which the president and members of congress felt necessary for the post Tho comptroller general must bo absolutely honest and utterly fearless fear-less becauso he will bo in fact tho 'watchdog of tho treasury." Ho must be a keen judge ot ability abil-ity and character becauso ho must so select and place subordinates as to Insure tho best posslblo results. He should be a lawyer because the matters reaching him tor dcclsloa will In most instances Involve a construction con-struction of a federal enactment appropriating ap-propriating funds. ell should have unlimited energy, and should bo young enough to have and to apply to his work that rare quality of push and enthusiasm that will not down . He must have tho qualities of a diplomat because he will be a most servlceablo point ot contact between congress an dtho seevral cecutlve Ce-I Ce-I pnrtments. I McCarl "whoso acquaintance with I public men 13 large and who Is at tho 1 samo tlmo a tireless worker, fills the n . bill. As one prominent member ot A tho houso juts It "Ho Is now in tho 1 prime of life, about forty years or H ago and has in most sompleteness tho J qualifications necessary. Thorough- I ly honest, with contagious energy, a if - keen Judge of character and ability, If a tried executive, a graduate of the 3 College of Law ot tho University ot m , NobraBka, with nioro than ten years J.d actual pratclco in the courts of No- m braska, Kansas and Colorado, ndmlt- 1 tod to practice In all federal courts, iS thoroughly dovoted to tho public tn- I terestlng tho largest Dense, held In B high TCgard by membors of congress, B I .to not Icnvr of a time when thoro I B was greater unanimity ot recoramen- B datlcm for appolntmont thau In his case" M With two llvo wires to direct, tho ' B work ot orgalzatlon will go on at a B mma tm auring ma following B months. Under tho Wilson admlnla- ! jK tratlon tho government may bo said P rx9W I I K to have bn Blclt. I |