Show WASTE I II IN N GOVERNMENT i I Is s Honesty In And With Government A Lost Virtue A story of our school days told of a president of the United States of a generation or two ago whose young youngson son came into the presidents president's White House office one day r. r s took a sheet of paper and started to leave the room when I Just a minute son from where did you take that paper The boy told his father from which drawer in a desk he had obtained it Well Tell yo you Yoi put it back son and take one from this my personal drawer That other paper belongs to the Government Government Government Gov Gov- of the United States and must never be used excePt except ex ex- ex- ex 2 for the business of that government Always remember rem ember em- em fV ber that son If we just had a bit more of that spirit today how I much better off wed we'd be But it seems that honesty in government government government gov gov- and honesty with are rapidly becom- becom U i i in ing lost virtues Now it seems the more one can gouge gouget t the government the more he can waste government property g the smarter smarter he is r Tale after tale reach the editor of waste in different government departments The latest tells of the breaking up t t and burning of pile after pile of slightly used lumber at the ther it i atomic reactor plant in Idaho This is lumber for which 1 r farmers in the neighboring region would gladly pay 50 to tl i per thousand feet But instead it is broken up and andI J I burne so so an Idaho man told us on June 26 The best way to do away with this waste vaste and there i must be a lot of it waste of materials manpower etc v is to get more ho honesty esty in government of the type told of in inthe the story fy Y Another way vay is for all of us tax-paying tax ci citizens ns to become ber ber be- be r r come very very vocal about every bit of waste and favoritism y we ve see in government If that lumber burning is going on v up P at the Reactor plant lets let's have it published so the whole nation can know of the waste If men are being paid for doing nothing at Hill Field lets have the facts published Lets Let's bring these things out into the light and maybe President i.- i. Truman will be glad to see his Minimum budget reduced 4 1 not only 5 billions as some have proposed but ten billions r and I more If we cant can't have honesty in government lets let's at least t. t j have merciless publicity t to expose the waste vast and inefficiency y that are rumored so consistently and continually about almost al- al almost al al- most lost every project with which the government has anything 6 to do Theres There's so much smoke there must be some fire and that calls for extinguishers made up of abundant publicity 0 |