American Notes of the Week
(By Cable)
ECONOMY.
While Congressmen are enjoying their summer vacation, except the Senate Finance Committee, which is busy with tariff revision, President Hoover remains hard at work in Washington. Just now he is occupied with plans aiming at greater efficiency and economy in the Government. The Farm Board, with its $500,000,000 appropriation, the appoint- ment of a number of commissions, notably that dealing with law enforcement, together with other constructive policies, naturally tend to increase the expenses of the Federal Govern- ment. President Hoover, however, is also committed to economy and to a budget within the bounds that his pre- decessor fixed. A reduction of taxation is also aimed at. Manifestly if all these objects are to be attained there must be, in addition to the normal increase in revenue, substantial savings somewhere in Federal expenditure. President Hoover is therefore concentrating upon the reorganization and co- ordination of the Federal Departments and Bureaux. Here, as in his predilection for fact-finding commissions and advisory committees of experts, he is extending as President just those methods of the engineer which made his term as Secretary of Commerce noteworthy.
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