Review of reviews and world's work . to reassure that portion of the publicwhich has been led to believe that the head ofthe Post Office Department was morecerned with the game of politics than with thedetail- of hi- office. The fact i-. of course,that Mr. Hitchcock is a successful orgaiand director of the important and complexinterests committed to his care. ntafemrtw Now that llu n;ltionaI appropria-tion- lor the current fiscal ;Budget aiY ,|jSp(1M.(| ,,,- an<j while the country i- preparing to elect another I -. it may 1 id time to review the method- employed by Uncle Sam in makinghis an


Review of reviews and world's work . to reassure that portion of the publicwhich has been led to believe that the head ofthe Post Office Department was morecerned with the game of politics than with thedetail- of hi- office. The fact i-. of course,that Mr. Hitchcock is a successful orgaiand director of the important and complexinterests committed to his care. ntafemrtw Now that llu n;ltionaI appropria-tion- lor the current fiscal ;Budget aiY ,|jSp(1M.(| ,,,- an<j while the country i- preparing to elect another I -. it may 1 id time to review the method- employed by Uncle Sam in makinghis annual expenditures, and to considerwhether a somewhat radical change i- not de-manded in those method-. Upon one pointall are agreed that the Governmentspenditures are increasing at an alarming seems only yesterday that Csharply criticized when it appropriated a bil-lion dollars to keep the wheel- moving for aperiod of two years; but to-day a billion dol-lars hardly suffices for a single year. I THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 275. Coprrfgt* tT •** American PreM Asv» . I HON JAMES A. TAWNEY Ol MINNESOTACommittee, who writes on as numljer of the R] imber of the Review, (page lirman om- mitt Appropriations di me of the |>id inr r ,tl of the Hart- Mr. ply qualified to >rth th tion • be proper remedies. in tl miliar with tin- a< rd I Iha* : . in cr. ase in our military expenditures. Still finds in the procedure thai hasgrown up in the course of years in (<?]?itself certain causes which seem to account,to a greal extent, for the growing expendi-ng vt ars. Il< shows thai \\<- haveno well articulated budgel system, althoughan important -tip in thai direction ha beenn by tin i pari o nihility for the annual i ipon the < mi utive. I hen, too, there i no question thai the doing ? in irni y appropriaed the ( menl nun h money. cHoust ii ell isnun nds lily in mu-ni i di in I hall i reform are will i ..ii idi ration l>> all Ion the Approp


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