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Show SURPLUS OF U. S. GOVERNMENT I RECEIPTS OVER EXPENDITURES ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Feb 3 Announcing Announc-ing prospects of a surplus of s"OV rn mental receipts ovet expenditures this (fiscal year as a result of economics in administration. President Harding 'speaking today ut the second busl-' busl-' neas meeting of the x.v.-rnmet. declared de-clared ho doubted "If anj government I in the world hax made :i mors persistent persist-ent and conscientious endeavor to cut down Its expenditures and institute 'economies and restore sa.ne nnd nor-I nor-I ma! ways again," than nas the Am- li i ir ui government. The president and Director Dawes Of tiie budget, who followed him, announced an-nounced to the meeting, composed of j more than a thousand government officials of-ficials of high and low degrees, thai ; direct savings of $32.000 .000 and Indirect In-direct r.avlngs of more t.jin S 1 ' 4 i"'n -000 had been accomplished In l JS than six months through the operatic i alone of the budget bureau and coordinating co-ordinating agencies. Mr Hording expressed the future opinion that the efforts on the part of the government toward economy had been reflected among the people at large. "I cannot but feel that the goe. rn-tuent rn-tuent has In the budget organization set an example of care and thrift that hua helped greatly to make avlnu fii9hlonable. if to some extent th government has been a leader in so, praiseworthy a cause, we all ought t b (.'ratified to have had a part in tiv affair. Much of the extravaganct the iro ernment 1ms hi-n due to a lack i sense of Individual responsibility and the same Is true In the corporatt I businesses and the private affairs of tho people If our efforts here .-hall set a standard and inspire an anili- itlon for greater economies and higher efficiency, we shall have served not only tho govornmrnt but the whole public particularly well. Perhaps our example will be of service to the m orld " I The president reiterated his opposition opposi-tion to deficiency appropriations sad made a plea for an understanding ; among officials of the government , "that the common good, not de mental advantage, is what all of us must aim " T'loubslng the prospects of n surplus sur-plus instead of n dr ficlt. as was K"n-;erall K"n-;erall expected Mr. llardlnir appealed appeal-ed for a continuation of the "careful and painstaking effort Wlllch b IS be n .made continuously during the flret half of the year,' and added: "In a business su great as the national na-tional government, expected receipts will not frequently bwcM tho total of calculated revenues It seems II that this will ho true durimc the cur-, rent year. But despite this possibility lit now seem probably that the re-Ifltrictions re-Ifltrictions upon expenditure which hao been possible b) reason of the administration's general policy and 'sour splendid co-operation would have resulted in a surplus or receipts for the year. The prospect of such a surplus sur-plus when compared v. ith the estimated estimat-ed deficiency of $24.50O.OOO that was outlined In the budget figures submitted submit-ted to conKreps In December, is certainly cer-tainly an occasion of much satisfaction satisfac-tion to all of us." on |