The Independent . te secretaries—aWelshman, a Scotchman and a lady whois half French and half Scotch. He hasfour or five secretaries, chosen for theirknowledge of public affairs who form con-necting links between the Prime Ministerand the Government departments which arenot represented in the Cabinet. For LloydGeorge has again broken new ground byhaving Ministers who have not seats inParliament. Then he has official secretariesof the Cabinet itself. No record had hither-to been made of Cabinet proceedings, onlya few notes having been taken by thePrime Minister. Lloyd GeoVge has combineda Cabin
The Independent . te secretaries—aWelshman, a Scotchman and a lady whois half French and half Scotch. He hasfour or five secretaries, chosen for theirknowledge of public affairs who form con-necting links between the Prime Ministerand the Government departments which arenot represented in the Cabinet. For LloydGeorge has again broken new ground byhaving Ministers who have not seats inParliament. Then he has official secretariesof the Cabinet itself. No record had hither-to been made of Cabinet proceedings, onlya few notes having been taken by thePrime Minister. Lloyd GeoVge has combineda Cabinet, a War Council, and the Com-mittee of Imperial Defense is one body,and a record is kept of its proceedings. The new Administration does not lack•driving power at the top, and everythingtends to show it will prove itself an efficientworking machine. Lloyd George will keepin touch with all phases of public opinionand in this respect more resembles tinPresident of the United States than anyof his Comptometer Section, Nash Motors Co., Kenosha, Wis. Centralizing the Figure Workof Accounting How They Cut the Expense of Cost Findingin the Jeffery Car Plant By bringing all Cost Calculations, figur-ing of Payroll, Bills of Material, and theProving of Incoming Invoices together intoa central Comptometer Section, the NashMotors Co. of Kenosha, Wisconsin, strucka body blow at the High Cost of Account-ing. In these days of shifting values, casualCost Estimates are dangerous. Safety liesin a Cost Finding System comprehensiveand flexible enough to get the facts—andkeep them up-to-date. That is what theyhave in this office. But as Mr. McCandless. Head of theStatistical Department observed: Valuable as our Cost System is,it would be economically impracticalif we had to handle the calculationsmentally. It would cost too much—more than double what it does now. Theres the Payroll, too—insteadof having it worked up in the various Shop Departments by higher pricedhelp, it
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