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Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Author "WMhinjton Cloae-Upa," "Bank and
Financial Syatemi," etc. Contributor Politick!
tod Economic Artteiaa to Leading Periodicals
and a Writer of Recognized Authority od th
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OUT-OF-DATE
MACHINE
A committee made up of three mem
bers of the senate and three members
of the house is now considering the
whole problem of the organization of
the executive departments of the gov
ernment with a view to finding out
how to reorganize them so as to in
crease their efficiency, and decrease
Iheir cost of operation. It is about
time. The great executive depart
ments of the government have not
been reorganized or greatly modern
ized since Alexander Hamilton's day.
Representative Iieavis of Nebraska
Is one of the members of this Joint
congressional committee that is mak
ing the present investigation. He put
the resolution through the house tnat
brought about the appointment of the
committee. He is a part of the na-
tlnmil government machine and he
ought to know what he is talking about
when be snvs that "while the gov
eminent of the United States is the
world's biggest business, It is likewise
the world's worst managed business.
Thnt Is an Indictment and a state
ment of fact that will stand the closest
scrutiny and the most unsparing
nnnlvsia. lint listen to Mr. Reavls:
"Vliv should the Interior department
run an insane asylum and a college for
negroes and a school for the deaf?
How did It get that way Why should
one personnel in the pension bureau
In the Interior department he caring
for the disabled soldiers of the Civil
war and the Spanish American war,
while another personnel in the bureau
of war risk insurance of the treas
ury is caring for the veterans of the
World war? Why this hodgepodge of
totally unrelated purposes which Is re
sulting in endless duplication and ap
palling expense?"
I will let Mr. Reavls go on without
further interruption. As a member
of (he house he has his share of the
responsibility for the conditions he de
scribes :
There are 39 separate governmental
agencies handling engineering, architec
tural and public works functions, all of a
related kind. There Is no good reason why
all these agencies should not he co-ordinated
In one department and about 3S of
the useless organizations done away with.
; There are id government agencies engaged
In surveying ami mapping; mrm mo
separate and distinct agencies engaged In
public building operations; there are 16
agencies authorized to build roads; there
are 19 engaged In hydraulic construction;
there are 1G doing work on rivers; there
are 10 engaged In public land functions;
there are IS doing chemical Investigation
connected with public work operations;
there are Tl doing engineering and re
search. Many of these agencies have been In
active for a number of yecrs, but they
are keeping up Iheir personnel In anticl
n..ttnn of work in the future. We could
fill
in
to
save $:,,oo,o'ie,.iHi a yeiir. In my Judgment,
by doing away with useless bureaus and
duplication of activities.
Some of the duplications are ridicu
lous and absurd. For Instance, the gov
ernment seeks to protect the wild animals
In the national parks. If a brown kadlak
bear has twin cubs, one brown and one
black, as often happens, and one should
shoot the brown cub he most make his
ooiili.rrn.nr with one department., but If
THE"
he shoots Its full brother, the black cub,
he must settle with another department.
If you were to shoot a fox In Alaska your
settlement would be wllh the I icpartnient
of Agriculture, while If you trapped the
same fox you must make your settlement
with the ifej. art merit nf f'omnierce.
The government Issued hist year
through lis several bureaus and depart
ments in cookbooks. The last one that
was issued was publisher! by the board
....ti.mi location. This Is a hoard
organized by the congress for the purpose
of rehabilitating crippled soldiers of the
World war. to prevent, hh far as possible,
their becoming derelicts In life. ... It
may he of Interest to state that while the
government has been Issuing hi cookbooks
and consuming vast quantities of print
In these and similar useless publi
cations. l,30i country town newspapers
have suspended In the last three months
because they could not secure print paper.
Mr. Reavls and a great many others
have sensed the feeling In the coun
try and In congress that the time hn
er.me to Milt lin Mid tO all tills HOlt
of thing. He gives reasons for his
belief :
One of the reasons is that the people
demand thnt their taxation be reduced.
For many years we have been collecting
the revenues of this government through
systems of Indirect taxation. Tb reve
nues have been collected, through a pro
tective tariff and by ex.-lse taxation on
Intoxicating llouors. Indirect taxation or
i,ia .troventu the ieoole from realiz
ing fully lust who is paying the expenses
of the government. There was a time
when the expenses of the government
amounted to only 12 cents per capita per
year Today the annual per capita ex
pense exceeds to. This tremendous ex
pense has made it tie. eesary to resort to
direct taxation, and the people have sud
denly become palnrully aware of who
pays the expenses of 'tie government.
I am very certain that the elimination
j....iu..Hnr.. end overmanning In the de-
r..,-fm.nt. will result In the saving of
millions of dollars. There Is no reason
i. rw.t fri drill
i- .t,w rann In the ftrnnr
of ths strife and turmoil that prevail In
this country nd of the unrest on-mmr;
.... .v- ki.h t.t the necessaries of life.
that the government should b put upon
a asJis, efficient and economical sls
whoever bv nubile clamor or other
.n. ran indue foDfreaa and the-
lecutlve departmenti to organlw the
routine boalneM of the national go
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