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Show ktoppi.mj the leaks . Olias. O. Dawes, named by Pres. Harding to arrange a national budget bud-get and see if he can stop a few financial fi-nancial leaks, has started in to plug up one hole through which the taxpayers tax-payers of this country have long watched their money flow. He is going go-ing to stop the priming of millions of dollars worth of useless government govern-ment reports and pamphlets.. Every taxpayer in America will be glad of this, for every one realizes that a vast amount of money is wasted by the government printing office. In fact, it is conceded that of the seven or more carloads of printed matter leaving the office daily, not more than a sack full is read. And another place where Dawes could save the government money and at the same time show a spirit of fairness to the printers and publishers pub-lishers of this country would be to eliminate the envelope printing practice. prac-tice. The government has no more business printing return cards on envelopes than it has in manufacturing manufactur-ing shoes or marketing its own make of automobile. Yet it has for years entered into unfair competition with the printers of this country by offering, offer-ing, at a few cents more than the paper alone costs, envelopes printed with a return card. It is below the dignity of this nation to stoop to such competition as this, and we feel Delta taxpayers could do no fairer thing than to tell their congressmen so either by word or letter. These envelopes are not only printed print-ed at a loss to the taxpayers but the printers and publishesr who pay taxes tax-es are deprived of that much trade. There is also a loss on various government gov-ernment matter, much of which is serving no better purpose than to furnish lamp-lighters or material for waste-baskets. We predict that 1 Mr. Dawes will pay his' salary several ' hundred times over in the saving he makes in the government printing office alone. |