Show TOO MANY BOARDS in an address to the united states chamber of commerce secretary of commerce herbert hoover states that the U S government is losing millions ons of dollars through sheer waste because of overlapping departments and government bureaus encroaching upon private and state rights in recent years the government has done much to slash federal expenditures by the elimination of extravagance and the cutting down of personnel mr hoover declared but for lack of legislative authority the administration had not been able to reach what was even a greater waste ov overlapping er lapping of bureaus as the result of bad organization of the departments part ments mr hoover said that all boards and commissions having the same general purpose should be under one general head and that the president should be relieved of a great deal of the routine work he now has to do mr fr hoover pointed out that there now were different bureaus boards and commissions employing several hundred thousand persons in the executive establishment and more than forty independent establishments either directly under the president or congress there are too many floating islands in this dismal swamp of independent agencies only technically anchored to the president but really responsible to nobody he continued the shifting income tax policy costs millions in necessitating whole new professions of tax lawyers ta experts tax accountants he said land and I 1 marvel daily at the kindly temper of our oar citizens under these strains one of the greatest dangers in this growth is the steady tide of federal encroachments encroach ments into s tate state authority and beyond this a s teady steady thrust 0 1 I the arms of federal government ini ina t 0 V our private business hoover added |