Show WHAT THE BUDGET SYSTEM MIE MEANS ANS TO OUR OTJE government by florence riddick boys the wave of home economics instruction which has swept across the country in the past few years has made every housewife aware of what the word budget means not that we have many of us adopted it for our own households but it is our negligence which Is to blame tor for that and not that we do not have proper respect for the budget the budget is an outgrowth of the efficiency movement in business wherever it is applied it works for economy it takes account of the funds available or necessary and distributes them to the best advantage it makes a systematic survey of necessities and provides that these shall be supplied but that there shall be no overlapping over lapping nor waste and so it reduces the expenditures to the tha lowest bum aum which will do it avoids running up expenses and finding out afterwards that you have spent a great deal more than you expected to in government it lets each department know how bow much it can have in its work and each department must mu t make plans accordingly when the thrifty housewife buys expensive goods for a dress she spreads the pattern on the goods and twisting and turning it plans for all tho the parts before she cuts into the goods she is then sure that she will not find herself short halt half a sleeve or a skirt gore at the last had she cut the goods recklessly she might have bad to buy more goods this is what the budget system does tor for government funds it cuts the garment according to the cloth it bakes makes the government live within its income and we are the only nation in the world which is doing that today it makes both ends meet because all was planned ahead and the ends were provided tor for in advance but to leave the figurative what tiie budget applied to government expense has done for the taxpayer this y yar mr is to cut appropriations nearly two billion dollars it has shaved down government expense that much in actual taxes the budget has saved each man woman and child in the united states an average of nearly eight dollars this year how did we happen to apply the budget system this year and why not long ago A beginning looking toward a budget system was made under president taft but the democratic administration would have none of 0 it the republican congress congro ss elected in 1918 tried to establish the b budget lid system and to check the extravagance and waste but president wilson vetoed it one of the first acts of 0 this present congress was to pass again the budget bill it was immediately signed by president harding and put rigidly into effect with the result above mentioned to the republican party is due the entire credit of 0 starting the budget system ol of trying to put it through when it was vetoed by a democratic president and of inaugurating it immediately when the republican party came into power |