THE WAYNESViLLE MOUNTAINEER
Lindsay Warren Tells
Business Men Bare Facts
On Government Spending
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on May 7.
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Controller General
Lindsay C. Warren
Enlightens Business
Leaders
By Ray Tinke r in The National
Whirligig, in Tin.- Charlotte Ob
server. Extravagance: Controller Gen
eral Lindsay (' Warren delivered a
scorching anil enlightening lecture
on government waste and extrava
gance before a private group of the
nation's business men who attend
ed the annual convention of the
Chamber ol Commerce of the Uni
ted Stales, lie blamed his ultra
conservative audience as well as
demogogic politicians for the stead
ily increasing costs at Washington.
The blunt North Carolina Demo
crat surprised his listeners when he
explained that, although he is gen
erally referred lu as the "watch
dog of the Treasury ." Congress has
never given him the authority to j
eliminate wasteful expenditures in :
the executive departments.
"I can send the record of illegal
payments or transactions to the At
torney Cieneial lor action," he said.
"But 1 can do nothing about it
when 1 find lli.it .1 federal agency
is spending billions of dollars reck
lessly, if it is u iil.m tu. .,w All 1
can do in that case is to call it to
the attention oi Cungicss in my
periodical reports."
Mr. Wan en nut'lit have added
that his warnings merely provoked
a few denum latorv speeches on the
Senate or House floor Despite their
cries for economy. Congress rare
ly pursues his tip to crack down on
the offending oiiuial or depart
ment.
Duplication: The Kitty Hawk
fisherman- - he keeps fit lor his penny-pinching
prowling by regular
visits to his shore cottage near
where the Wright brothers first
flew did not spare the bureau
cratic spenders.
Without regard for where the
political chips fell or whom they
hit. he declared that millions of
dollars could be saved annually if
it were not for duplication of ef
forts and projects
He frequently found a dozen dif
ferent agencies engaged in the
same activity, he said. They buy
against each other, bid up for
products and services, create short
ages for the civilian population,
and usually wind up with a surplus
of material.
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Responsible: This paralleling of
their own attack on Washington
bureaucracy brought smiles to the
faces of the business men and in
dustrialists. But he soon dissipated
their self-satisfaction when some
body asked who was primarily re
sponsible for continuing federal
waste and extrf-jance.
"The folks bac; home." he shot
back at them. "The people yell for
economy, but every community
wants funds for itself, and fre
quently for the msot unnecessary
projects.
I "I often note that when a state
; or a city sets out to get some
money from the federal govern
ment, a delegation from the local
! Chamber of Commei usually ap-
pears before Congressional commit
j tees as advocates of the niovc
i ment."
I Overpayments: The Controller
vjenerai men gave an amazing ex
ample of how the taxpayers money
could slip through departmental
j fingers iMt were not for the cheek
j which the 11,000 members of his
j General Accounting Olliee con
stantly make
He disclosed that he had col
lected and turned back to the
Treasury more than $3uo.ooo,(ioo
in overpayments by various govern
ment units in the last three fiscal
years. When he closes his hooks at
the close of the current fiscal year
on June 30, he expects that this
figure will run as high as $:if() -000,000.
This saving contrasts with
his own annual budget of $40 -000,000
for 1947, and a request lor
$36,000,000 for 1948.
"We are the only agency in the
United States Government." he
added, "which not only pays jts
way but makes money for Uncle
Sam."
Eccentric: These overpayments
consisted chiefly of excessive sums
paid to tbe railroads for freight and
passenger services during the war.
The principal offenders in this re
spect were Army-Navy officials,
whose wartime handling of money
"wet blan-
to know is
On Satur-
The date-Kates are in a swivet
over the curfew parents evoked re
cently Kay said she knew it
would happen when the Moms got
toiether st their parents' meeting
subject: What to do about
juvenile delinquency?
oi course all the parents are
apologetic ... it isn't that they
don't trust their own children . . .
i hey "want them to set good ex
amples' for other kids.
But that doesn't make life any J
loMi r for the gang. How can you
go to a party and leave before it j
start-- ' they ask. And . . . "I've i
got to lie home early" girl gets a
reput.il ion of being a
kit ' Hence, no dates.
W hat the kids want
how late is "too late."
day nights if they tell their parents
who l heir company is going to be,
vIh i e they are going, how they ex
pect to get home, why can't they
stay out al least until midnight?
Is this situation spoiling kids'
lun in every town or is it just
happening here'.' Any sparkling
idea your crowd has for eonvine
iii;; parents that most teen-agers
have more common sense than J
lin y are given credit for will be i
heartily welcomed by the heps
hele j
One group of kids solved the'
problem on their own. Here's
w hat they did:
During the war when dads 1
and mothers were busy with war
service activities, the teen-agers
of Tcaneck, V J organized a
dub called "The Little Brown
.lug-." I'njtil Tea neck opened
Town House, an abandoned
school building as a civic center
for recreation, the Little Brown
Jug held its weekly meetings in
a local grammar school. Now
they use the entire recreation
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Mr. and Mrs. Medford Grasty,
of Waynesville, R. F. D. No. 1, an
nounce the birth of a daughter on
May 7.
Mr. and Mrs. Boone Jenkins, of
Cove Creek, announce the birth of
a son on May 7.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bryson, of
Waynesville, announce the birth of
a daughter on May 8.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Rodgers, of
Waynesville, announce the birth of
a son on May 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert White, of
Waynesville, announce the birth of
a son on May 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Glavich, of
Waynesville, announce the birth of
a daughter on May 9.
SON OF THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT, Miguel Aleman, Jr., 14, started out to ' do Broadway" in the manner well
know n to any New York youngster of similar age. At right, he stops in one of the many hot dog stands along
the "gay white way". Next, paying a visit to a penny arcade, he has his picture taken in typical tin-type
fashion with Dr. Carlos Soto, of the Presidential staff,' who had as much fun as did MigueL (International)
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Geographic Board
Has Troubles In
Getting Names
! WASHINGTON i.-T'l Fond par
ents who worry over a name for
i junior can pity the Board of Geo
I graphic names.
I The board hasn't just I he name
to think ilhoul. It has thousands.
I And every time it finishes with
one batch, thousands more are de
I mantling allenlion.
! To make matters worse, a mul
titude of them are just characters,
which mean something probably
to the .Japanese or Tibetans or the
Chinese.
Dr. Meredith
it all (o a House
committee as
board's ease for
board has been
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floor in Town House with a well
equipped game room (pine pong,
skee-roll and friendly card
tames), a readying room and an
auditorium where regular Fri
day night dances are held.
They have an automatic soft
drink machine which dispenses
beverage in a paper cup. Ice cream
i-..also served.
May be this is the answer for
other teen-age groups if they can
j.i-1 their town to back them. All
the time and energy which par
ents put into meetings about
"what to do" might be put to a
useful drive on providing an old
building, or other meeting place
which the kids may decorate, sup
port financially, and call their own.
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member eating an orange occa
sionally will help whiten the
teeth and brighten the (Turns i be- '
sides giving you a few vitamins
. . . try a combination of olive
oil, witch hazel and vinetar as a
suntanning lotion . . . use the
beaten whites of eggs for hair
shampoo . . . nibble on raw car-
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Personnel Office.
was eccentric, at least.
When General Warren was ask
ed why the disbursers of these
funds did not make their own
i check, he explained that exclusive
authority for such an accounting
was given to his organization in
the Transportation Act of 1940.
Other agencies do not have the
necessary facilities.
I He added that the railroads had
' not submitted illegal charges. They
simply charged certain classifica
tion rates which, subsequent re-
I examination disclosed, did not ap
1 ply to the governmer'. shipments.
He did imply. !,...cver, that the
I federal sv :ig officials should
have i .nore conscientious and
b . ,,-like in the first instance.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as Adminis
trator of the estate of Lon Am
nions, deceased, late of Haywood
County, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate .of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned
at Waynesville, North Carolina, on
or before the 16th day of May, 1948
or this notice will be pleaded .in
bar of their recovery. All persons
Indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payment. -
This the 16th day of May, 1947.
Roscoe Helms,
Administrator of. the Estate of,
Lon Amnions,' deceased '"'
1633 May 16-23-30 June 6-13-20
Hurrill explained
Public Lands sub
he pleaded the
new support. The
operating for 56
years by presidential direction.
Dr. Burrill appeared in support of
a bill which would give the Board
statutory authority. The subcom
mittee approved, voting to rec
ommend the- measure to the full
committee.
Dr. Burrill said the board's never-ending
work takes it all the way
from Mudhen Creek in some con
gressman's backyard to militarily
important places in Japan and Eu
rope. Name for Every Place
The idea is lo give every place
a definite name which will be the
same and recognizable on all
maps.
Said Dr. Burrill: A map with
the wrong names wouldn't help
a soldier very much in a foreign
country; and if the Army and Navy
decided to call places by different
names. I here would be no end of
confusion.
"Like a football game without a
referee," he put it.
ItiRht now. the board's work is
mostly for the military intelligence
division, in standardizing olace
names on maps of foreign coun
tries, but there is plenty to do
right at home.
"There's about 20,000 decisions
on domestic names on the board,
and there will be 500,000 before
the business is worked out," he
said.
Every time a cartographer gets
ambitious and draws a more de
tailed map of some locality it
means that more names have to
be decided on. "If you like maps,
you have to have names to nut nn
mem, Dr. Burrill said logically.
I Many Names the Same
One problem is that the same
I name often crops up several times
in one locality. If there are 20
Cedar Creeks in one county, or 15
Mud Lakes, the board tries to give
them different names, something
that will give them a little individ
uality. Rep. Frank A. Barrett fR) of
Wyoming, chairman of the subcom
mittee, was concerned that per
haps the board might name Mud
Lake something else when the cit
izens were fully satisfied with good
old Mud Lake.
Dr. Burrill assured him the
board has no such intention. It
wants to avoid duplication, but the
wishes of the local citizens are the
first consideration. If they like
Mud Lake, the board likes Mud
Lake.
But quite often, the local people
like a little help in fixing upon a
name, he added.
The federal government pays out
aooui jmb.uuu annually in pay to
the men to maintain one National
Guard infantry company through
one weekly drill period and 15 days'
active training in a year.
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. . . m combination of red wine
vinegar and ; water used as a
shampoo rinse will give a red
highlight to brownish mousy
hair.
Cheerio,
VIVIAN.
(You may write Vivian Brown In
care of this paper about hew an
gles in your own gang.)
County-Wide
Singing Held
Sunday Afternoon
A county-wide singing will be
held at the Rocky Branch Baptist
church on the Allen's Creek road
at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, ac
cording to Tom Queen, who is in
charge of the arrangements.
All singing groups in the county
are invited to take part in the pro
gram and are urged to send rep
resentatives to the event.
Plans will be made, Sunday for
the special programs to be given
on the annual July Fourth celebra
tion to be sponsored by the Boost
ers' club.
VISITING CLERGYMAN
AT GRACE CHURCH
The Rev. Boyd Edwards, former
rector of St. Andrews church, of
Pittsburgh, Pa will preach at
Grace Episcoflal church Sunday
morning, May 18, at 11 o'clock.
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Minor Damage Is
Caused By Fire
Tuesday Afternoon
Minor damage was caused bv a
fire that started about 4:45 p. m.
Tuesday in Clyde's Place, a cafe
operated by Clyde Green, on the
highway near Dayton Rubber plant.
The fire started in the wastepa
per basket of a restroom and
burned the walls to some extent
before being extinguished by the
persons in the building, prior to
the arrival of the Waynesville fire
truck.
Three other minor calls were an
swered by Fire Chief Clem Fitz
gerald last week. Some loose oil
from a stove in the Carolina Insur
ance agency office was ignited, but
.was soon put out by an extinguish
er; an auto parked at the Spur sta
tion in which the transmission had
become overheated; and a leaf fire
Thursday at an East Waynesville
residence.
"The fire department prefers to
get a call at any time there is any
danger, rather than having the
people try to put the fire out them-'
Mr. and Mrs. Maurun Grant, of
Bryson City, announce the birth of
a daughter on May 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Scarbora, of
Canton, announce the birth of a
son on May 10.
Mr. and Mrs. James Green, of
Canton, announce the birth of a
son on May 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Voyde Ford, of
Canton, announce the birth of a
daughter on May 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Worley, of
Canton, announce the birth of a
daughter on May 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Louie Cochran, of
selves and not call us until it gets
out of hand," comments Chief Fitz
gerald. "We don't think we have
wasted our time at all if we an
swer a call and find that the fire
has already been put out when we
get there."
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Llyde, announce the
daughter on May 12,
Mr. and Mrs, Paul
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a daughter nn .May 1 j
Mr. and Mrs. RaymJ
Lake Junaluska, ari
birth of a son on Majj
Mr. and Mrs. James
of Waynesville, aiinouJ
of a son on Mav 15.
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