Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-23 | Page 5 | Dr. Butler is for Reducing U. S. Bureaus

r?' OR. BUTLER lo fl FOR REDUCING . ! v 'Treasury Department Only Bf J? Government Branch Ade- p i quately Organized. P( . j MILWAUKEE, April 23. Every -J i' foreseeing man expects that armies will continue to exist for national de-j ';: " lkv fense and as factors in national devel- 3 opment, but hopes that armies will bo loss and less called upon to wago war, 1 Dr. NJcholas' Murray Butler, president J Jf1 of Columbia university, and candidate for the Republican presidential nomi- : t fef uation, told the city club tonight. j J , Speaking on reorganization of the ad-. j 'A minisirative Machinery of the govern-J 1:1 , men., Dr. Butler advocated that thei ;-Jr '.'! name of the war deoartment be! Ttf f'j changed to army department, so that i 'V Vj it would be analogous to the navy de-.('' de-.('' 5J partment. "There is a good deal in a n ' name and its psychological effect upon i J:. , the public mind," he said, "an army dels de-ls H ' pnrhnent would better suit the present ft l public temper and outlook than a war '1 department." fl Mn Bullcr characterized the depart-ft) depart-ft) fj mcnt of the interior as a "waste bas-ty bas-ty ' f kot" where wholly unrelated tasks jsj f were dumped under a system of hap-!f hap-!f 1 ?: hazard assignment of bureaus. ' ,f . j , The treasury department Is the only sj . . governmental branch at "Washington M . !i auectuately organized, thanks to the 'j '-,"'( genius of Alexander Hamilton, he said, 1 ' 4 and even it is cluttered with bureaus A ' and functions which could better be "I" :' taken elsewhere.