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GEORGE S. BENSON
President—Warding College
Searcy. Jrianr s
HOW TO WASTE $8 BILLION
In John 6:12 Jesus said: “Gath
er up the fragments that remain,
that nothing be lost.” New Testa
ment teaching shows that in the
Bible, as in all human ethics,
waste is considered immoral. The
law of nature says, “Waste not,
want not.”
We will continue to have waste
in our government so long as we
have the loose “tax and spend”
policies of recent times. And the
waste will be hurtful to every one
of us when it is on such a grand
scale as we now have it in Wash
ington.
The following items show you
the price we taxpayers must pay
for a government that is grow
ing with leaps and bounds and
becoming more careless and
wasteful every day.
' High Cost of Firing
A Congressional committee re
cently made a study of the cost
of just dismissing Federal em
ployees. Apparently the Commit
tee got in over its head. It found
that one bureau had run up a cost
c;:' $10,000 just to lay off 32 em
ployees: But when other facts
were learned they made this bu
reau seem thrifty in comparison
to others.
More than 1,530 personnel ac
tions 'red tape* had to be taken
in order to cut 164 employees
from its work force. Four months
were spent in the red tape work
preparatory to dismissing the lGr.
Meanwhile, 399 persons voluntar
ily quit to take work elsewhere.
Onljr 25 of the original 164 act
ually were laid off at the end of
, the four months at red tape work
necessary to discharge them. The
Committee found that to merely
fire these particular 25 employees,
it cost the taxpayers $1,300 per
employee separated!
But this didn’t count the really
big expense of the firing. The
direct administrative cost of lay
ing off these 25 people ran to
around 13,000 man hours, or
$33,500! And the bureau officials
themselves estimated the indirect
costs at $125,000. Therefore the
taxpayers had to pay $158,500 for
dismissing 25 persons from the
Federal payroll!
In the Federal Cupboard
The average housewife keeps
about a pound of coffee in her
cupboard. The federal govern
ment’s Defense Department stored
up 144,000,000 pounds of coffee—
about 50 pounds for each person
in the armed forces.
The little woman who shops for
the family buys approximately an
ounce and a half of black pepper
for each member o'f her family.
But during a nine-months period,
our Federal government bought
nearly two pounds for every
member of the Army!
In the average home there is
usually an extra supply of light
bulbs—five or six is the usual
surplus. But one government
agency bought and kept a 93
year supply on hand!
Time-Off Waste
The average working man in
private employment takes about
three weeks off each year for va
cations and illness. A study of
48,000 employees in four Federal
departments revealed an average
off-duty work record of seven
work-weeks a year—with pay!
Ciiizen Action Needed
Any American citizen can go to
the nearest newsstand or drug
store and get a 50-cent magazine
for 50 cents. The Federal govern
ment pays $10.50 for a 50 cent
magazine. Bookkeeping costs and
red tape average $10 on every
purchase.
The non-partisan Hoover Com
mission found that the govern
ment wastes $1 out of every S10
spent. With an $80-billion budget,
that means $8 billion wasted —
enough to build 1,000,000 modern
five-room homes at today’s high
prices! Waste in government will
continue until citizens stop it by
taking a more active part in their
government.
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Better care of your car's battery
will go a long way toward giving
you trouble-free motoring Battery
failure, in fact, was the cause of
more than 10,000,000 road service
calls last year.
The motorist should remember
that the battery does a hard job day
in and day out, and needs special
care to make sure it will function
properly.
Experts at the Willard Storage
Battery Company emphasize that it
:s not enough to check battery water
level when the car is lubricated. The
battery should have a complete
charge and condition test every
month, and starting in September,
this company’s dealers will be pre
pared to perform this service free
The test will determine whether
your battery has the electrical ca I
pacity required to keep doing
iob properly—it will predict •
possibility of battery failure.
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