WAR ON RED TAPE

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 26, 25 October 1921, Page 5

WAR ON RED TAPE

MAN SAVING AMERICA £150,000,000.N Tho man chiefly responsible for the United States Government's Tax Revision Bill, which has just been presented to the House of Representatives and which it js estimated will reduce the taxes by £150,000,000 a year, is Charles G. Dawes, a wealthy financier, of Chicago. It was because of his reputation for "doing things” that he was appointed by the Government with tho rank of a general officer to purchase all supplies for the American Expeditionary Force in France, and see that the anny got them, sayi the New York cos-respon-dent of the “Daily Chronicle.” As director of the new Department of the Budget, which President Harding induced him to organise, he emphasises his orders and demands for explanation with vehemence, regardless of whom tho person ho addresses may be. Never has deeply rooted bureaucracy had such a shaking up as is going on in the various Federal Departments, where General Dawes (or Mister, as he prefers to be called) js seeing what economies can he effected. Never has red tape been cut so ruthlessly, never have forms and formulae been so rudely disregarded. Officialism is shocked and startled. It is actu- ■ ally being subjected to the hard, com-mon-sense. husiness-is-business methods that have made the chief’s corporations financial successes. And all bureaucratic Washington is in panic. But the taxpayer will not complain.