Show where your taxes go how uncle sam spends spend your money in conducting your business by dy EDWARD 0 LOWRY author aw aad ad ard to isow 4 a of ty dh 4 s buhei XIV I 1 SYSTEM IS ALL WRONG the treat great difficulty that stands la to the way of discussing uncle sam as an employer ie Is that there ie to DO no such person the men who stala stal A in the relation of employer to their subordinates are nothing but employee employees th m selves and temporary tempora ry ones at that ith a very fleeting tenure e of office cabinet officers and members of to whom the rank and ale file ot of employees look for guidance for or a solution of their problem problems are imply simply fleeting figures that come grill ewie s with their own interest interests to serve they freely enough as a to conditions ot of government employment senator culer cu ler glass mass recently secretary of 0 the treasury trea tury for or example the largely multiplied ailed bustnes of the government cannot be conducted with efficiency and economy unless there be attracted to and retained la a the service a group ot of highly trained well paid and permanent official of supervisory grades of tenure la in some instances and inadequacy of compensation bar have closed the public service to many men of the beet best type or forced them out of ot government employ at the moment of their greatest usefulness the war has increased the public debt more than twenty alve fold told ana nd has augmented the functions and ac ae of the government govern cent la ta many wai the duties are greater and th the are larger than those of other day days to the standards itan darda dards of which it Is I 1 not to be expected that the government will ever return the conditions are such that failure to take the necessary action to invite and hold in the public service men of ex ability and of real distinction ds tine in their fielda fields can result only la in grave burdens to the taxpayers of 0 the country and in possible disaster already the s transaction of the business of the government Is hampered by debich bieles ot of personnel due to the return to private life of many men of large capacity who during the period of active warfare were willing and glad to serve their country at great personal sacrifice I 1 have como come to learn that then there are heroes in the civil establishments aa as well weil as la in the military services self pa pit who toll year in and year out aorl a bare pittance when they could command salaries double or treble the amounts amoul its they receive from the uie government but who for the love of their country cou and for the low loe of their work ork have ejected il alluring luring offers la in the lie field of private enterprise they ere too fine and too patriotic to lee ibbe a thir posts under the compelling force of pa they made willing a durant durin the war but with the lite return of peace pence the government cannot detect to these employees because in justice ju atice to and ani their families they will sooner or later accept the larger opportunities ahalt are open to them in the m world orld c it f I 1 tl il na is and find industry unless tho tile conr props proposes ses to pay them sil 4 11 i lit it nt at least ren reasonably thi noluo of their services seri ices only prompt action t J tn twi C norisa to build up a n r il JAT 1 ced red ahll ch 11 ser lee lideh aai 4 L t alle IL aea ea ot of great ability and lilt higi atrain attainments can prevent mistakes and aud fa failure thires in the transaction of the public business the tile con consequences of alch tia ma b be calamitous fx good who nag a chairman of the appropriations committee of the house Is 18 equally fradki today duplication in the th golero u nent genece 1 I abounds i on every hand for fir ex example ampie eight mp departments j jt 1 0 I the voil so e erni erniest ent ath larye large overhead ver bead agi organizations I 1 I 1 azar I 1 0 n A ni I 1 1 e a CA 3 in engineering work wor k in 1 is navigation irrigation 1 and drainage eleven different nt are engaged in engineering it research s e fircha twelve diffene different at or ganta r eions a engaged in jag food cam 4 sart met do abue 18 erbeal beal ath large tr m ef lazi alons A tl ons are engaged a law i C construction and sixteen in fn surveying and map malt fing sixteen at different bureaus cl M 0 exer over waterpower water Power development nine different mons ti s are collecting information on the con consumption of coal porty forty two differ with overhead expenses are dealing with the question of public public health benith the he ires treasury Trea ury aury department et t th war department the interim Inter for department aad and the labor department each has hits a el bureau deckling witt th the question of 0 education these departments operate lasta acee of cooperation between them ara a excel lional each of these department departments Is manned at all time times with an uon ad to carry the peak of the 1044 and maintains an expensive affy to berte pere Pe onneL rommel A tact of la in the executive ec genf leads to gross ex et trava ince the system la is wrong and ajon cea can change the |