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Show DAWES SCOLDS NAVY WASTRELS Budget Director Reveals Inefficiency In-efficiency in Federal Expenditures WASniNT,TOr, Feb. 4. Brandishing Brandish-ing a broom in either hand, itrld Ing rapidly from one end of the plat-lorni plat-lorni to the other md stamping bis I feet until the echoes rang In D, A R hall where the arms i onferencs msi ts in dignified session, CharloH ; Dawes. director of tho budget, I hrought homo to more than a thou-I sand officials assembled Friday In the second business meeting of ths government the appropriateness of his "Hell and Maria ' nickname. Fm more than half an hour he poured forth criticism and praise ,-illko on officials of high nnd low degree. Slopping suddenly In the mld9t of a citation of Instances of lack of cooperation co-operation iiv governmental departments depart-ments with budget bureau coordinators, coordinat-ors, which instances he described as "fly specks'' on the bureau's record of accomplishments, Mr. Dawes i shouted: " here are those brooms"" Three brooms were produced from under n table bv an assistant "There," ih budget director ev Claimed, pounding the floor with the; bundle of one of the brooms. Jis your; broom that meets navy ipeclfioatloni And here are brooms thai do n ' meet those specifications, but sweep Just as well. Tho navy bought IS, 000 of its speclflcntion brooms when It could have had 3.10,000 arm broom j for nothing." Tho budget director went on to MtJ It took a month's persuasion to maKfl 1 tho marine corps adopt a slight Change In color In order to use 100,- 000 armv shirts and save 5 l' 4 000 He told Secretary Denhy. how . i the record of the nay 1 .' coci - tlon with the bureau was the best of the departments. As an Instance of cooperation .:i tho troasurj. he declared that when! It was found there were IS different I purchasing- agencies in thnt depar;- I ment coordination was affected without with-out delay "Socretarv Mellon is a business man," ho added. Legislative and executive heads of the government "determine how the ship sails." but the budget general ' determines how far she sails. " Mr 1 Dawes said at another point, and add-ed: add-ed: "If congress should decide thnt garbage should be spread on the ; White Housp steps much as we lov . the president It would be for the budget bureau to advise how tin-largest tin-largest amount of garbage could be spread In the most economical way." |