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Show Government Methods President Hoover Is said to be strongly in favor of readjusting the functions of the various government departments and bureaus, so that related re-lated activities may be grouped together, to-gether, instead of being scattered all over the national, capital. The best illustration of the present chaotic condition of affairs was given by Mr. Hoover himself some time ago, when he said: "The question of governmental aids to navigation is not by any means one of the principal functions of our Government, Gov-ernment, but it must be a sore trial to the hardy mariner. He must obtain his domestic charts from the Department Depart-ment of Commerce, his foreign charts from the Navy Department, and his nautical almanac from the Naval Observatory Ob-servatory and he will in some circumstances cir-cumstances get sailing directions from the army. "In a fog he may get radio signals from both the Navy and Commerce, and listen to fog horns and look for lights and buoys provided him by Commerce; if he sinks, his life is saved by the Treasury. He will anchor an-chor at direction of the Army, who rely upon the Treasury to enforce their will. His boilers and lifeboats are inspected by the Department of Commerce: his crew is certified by one bureau in Commerce, signed off in the presence of another, and inspected at sailing time by the Treasury, and on : arrival by the Department of Labor." This is but on sample of government govern-ment methods and illustrates why inexcusable in-excusable waste is an inevitable accompaniment ac-companiment of government operation opera-tion of anything pertaining to business or industry. |