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Hoover Report Cost a Dollar
. .
A Word; Could Save Billions
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—Ex-President Herbert Hoover
says he is going fishing for the rest of his life, just
as soon as he fileg the report from his 12-man, non
partisan Commission on Organization of the Execu
tive Branch of the Government.
This report is due next Jan. 13. Mr. Hoover wants
another 30 days. The job couldn’t be done in the
original 18 months allotted.
When Hoover’s report comes out, it will be about
2,000,000 words long. As such it will be worth about
a dollar a word, as appropriations for t}}e total
survey total nearly $2,000,000.
In addition to the reports and annexes, the Hoover
Commission will have bills drafted to change all
the organic laws necessary for carrying out its
recommendations on reorganizing the Federal gov
ernment. It will take quite a flock of new laws to
make these changes, for everything the Federal
Bovernment now does is authorized by Act of Con
gress.
TASK FORCES TACKLED SEPARATE
PROBLEMS
To do its job, Hoover organized the commission
staff into 23 task forces. Each is making. an in
vestigation of one phase of government—the presi
dency, foreign affairs, public works, veterans’ af
fairs, public welfare, supply, agriculture, natural
resources, government lending, fiscal affairs, per
sonnel, and so on. The last two reports, on State
Department and National Defense reorganization,
have just been completed.
Information put out so far on what the Hoover
Commission would recommend has been speculation
based on task force reports. Actually, the commis
sion itself has not decided finally on a single recom
mengdation it will make to the Congress.
A principal approach to the commission’s prob
lem is that the government is now too big. A man
from the moon could recognize that government
employment has jumped from 500,000 in the 1920’s
to 2,000,000 today. In the same period, the budget
has grown from $4,000,000,000 to $40,000,000,000.
About half of this cost increase may be due to
inflation. The rest is simply an indication that the
Federal government is now doing things it never
did before. It may be a sign that the country is drift
ing towards socialism, statism or whatever you
want to call it. »
Mr. Hoover feels that better organization could
save as much as $3,000,000,000 a year, One billion
might be cut from the present $6,000,000,000 Fed
eral payroll, even though bigger salaries were paid
to top executives to get better men. Since 1940,
Congress has increased by 60 per cent the wages
of government employes earning less than SSOOO a
year. Those getting over SSOOO have been increased
only six per cent. New top salaries of $15,000 to
$25,000 are being considered, in place of the present
SIO,OOO maximum.
. Getting better people in the lower-paid jobs is
also part of the program. One study of the Veterans’
Administration shows that it takes four government
employes to do the work done by one clerk on
similar jobs in private insurance company offices.
OTHER PLACES TO SAVE BILLIONS
Another billion saving is in sight in big items, in
cluding cuts of $500,000,000 by eliminating duplica
tion between government agencies working on land
and water conservation, $250,000,000 by reorganiza
tion of the Post Office Department, $250,000,000 by
changing government purchasing and procurement
methods. The third billion in savings would come
through lesser economies all down the line.
President Truman has thrown his full support
behind the Hoover Commission work, in spite of
early post-election rumors to the contrary. Tru--
man feels that making the government efficient’
is onea of the best ways to insure a Democratic
vietory in 1952. ‘
Hoover Commission reforms will, however, e
fought over bitterly. Opposition will come frora
the heads of departments or bureaus wheo dD)’l't
want present responsibilities taken away from th'em
and transferred some place else. Congres sy nen
whose districts are benefitted by Federal fir;]dl of -
fices won’t want them discontinued. Local *poli
ticians will yell. Government employes reorga vized
out of their jobs will yell. Selfish private Jnts rests
who now reap special benefits from certair, ga vern
ment activities won't want them discor’tinue(i.
£ 50 pek cent of the Hoover Comm}’ssion riecom
mendations are adopted by the nex¥ t Congress, it
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_Contrary to popular notions, 1 e water in a fish
owl or tank seldom should b e changed or re
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The Physical Perils
: Of Home
We are prone to believe that a man’s
home is freer of accidents than any other
place to which he may go. Yet that is not
borne out by the facts.
We are wont to believe that careless
automcbile driving causes more accidents
than any other agency. But that likewise
is not in agreement with the facts. It is
true that automobile accidents are larger
in fatal results than accidents in any other
agency, but physicali mishaps in homes
account for the largest number when
taking the record of all accidents into ac
count, { :
The drunken drivers/and the careless
driving of automobiles are a distinct men
ace and should be eliminated by laws
strictly enforced, but carelessness or neg
lect in the homeés of the people continue a
major danger. In 1947 more than thirty
thousand accidents occurred in the United
States, and home accidents accounted for
only 2,000 less than all vehicular acci
dents. So after all, the home is not the
safest place in the world where man is
reasonably certain that he will escape
physical injury.
When an accident occurs on the high
way it furnishes an item for the news
papers and such occutrences are made all
Lhe more spectacular by pictures as well
as sensational articles to attract public
attention. Very seldom is an aecident in a
home published and hardly ever in a sen
sationzl manner. So we come to minimizeé
the perils of the home and to ci'?\ hagize
those on the highway. It is ’We-fgnat‘wrx
are horrified by the aceounts of vehicular
accidents and that w;gt‘g]ge steps to guard
against their recurrénce, but we are prone
to become careless or neglcetful of home
pitfalls. We see no pictures of faulty stair
ways that copld have been repaired, and
pay all too little attention to slippery
rugs or highly polished floors.
There is a lesson in all this for the gen
eral run of people. It is the lessen about
carelessness and the neglect of repairs
around the home.
Many an accident can be prevented by
the exercise of more care and the prover
and prompt attention to needed repairs.
Much can be accomplished by all peovle
ceasing to use kerosene with which to
start a fire in the kitchen stove or the fire
place. That is the cause of the most horri
ble of home accidents. The people need
to be educated in many ways in regard to
the proper physical care of their homes.
" AGood Sign From Berlin
Russia .may not pe willing ;to admit it,
but since the municipal election held in
Berlin Sunday sh eevidently cannot shut
her eyas to the evidence as to which way
the wind is blowing cver there, The So
viets did their best by intimidation and
otherwise to keep the Germans from vot
ing in the American and British zones
Berlin and forbade the residents in the
Russian zone to cast any ballots.
Yet out of the total eligible for voting
in the three western zones, fully eighty
four percent cast their anti-Communist
ballots and even in the Russian zone there
were quite a number who voted in spite of
the Soviet decree. The result of the elec
tion was a pleasant surprise to the anti-
Cemmunists = who were not expecting
more than seventy percent of the eligible
vote to be cast.
Comuparcdé with the interest taken in the
elections throughout the United States
where not over fifty percent of eligible
voters ever go to the polls, the Berlin elec
tion shows up remarkably well and re
veals that the Communists are losing
ground steadily awmong the German peo
ple. It may take a long fime to convince
the Russians that they are waging a los
ing fight against the Western Allies, but
the time will surely come when the Ger
mans definitely ban Communism. It is bet
ter to sufffer delay in the final achieve
ment of victory than io engage in war.
Our arras alone cannot make peace,
but they ygan reduce the probability of
war.—General Omar N. Bradley.
These who worry about radicalism in
our schools and colleges are often either
raactionarvies who themselves do not
bear alle piance to the traditional Ameri
can princiioles or defeatists who despair
of the suc tess of our own philosophy in an
open com)netition.—Dr. James B. Conant,
president, Harvard University. _ , =
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
ECHOES FROM MEMORYLAND
Story Of A Redhead,
John Randolph (“‘Bunk’) Cooper. .
BY T. W. RLED
! They say that a shock of good
red hair signifies that its possessor
Ihus plenty of temper, determina
tion and fighting gualities,
' lam not prepared to assert that
such a saying is absolutely trite. I
am willing to assert that it was
absolutely true concerning a cer
tain college mate of mine some
sixty years ago.
As I recall, it was just about
sixty years ago when 1 was a
Junior that a heavy - set boy drift
ed into Athens from over near
Loganville. His native heath may
have been Walton county or it may
have been Gwinnett county. As 1
[remember he was a Gwinnett
county boy. He was about twenty
years old and he had come to
enter the University of Georgia.i
He was about five feet ten, weigh
ed a little less than ‘two hundred]
pounds, mostly muscle, developed
physically through years of work |
'on the farm, with inadequate pre—l
paration for college and with very
little money. He was one of the‘
boys being helped by a loan from
the Charles McDonald Loan Fund.
He was fully endowed with tem
per, determination and fighting
spirit that was said to be charac
teristic of the redheads.
- That boy was John Randolph
Cooper, who bore the nickepame
of “Bunk.” Now there was a col
lege custom that called for the
“turning” of every new student,
be he Freshman or Senior, Two
of the strongest boys in college
were the official “turners.” Those
who would seize a new student,
sometimes even taking him out of
a classroom, one of each side of
him, turn him over in the air and
when the rear portion of his body
was up in the air to the proper‘
height, the boys, armed with sticks,
paddles or planks, would wear him
out. The “turners” would hold him
up there until he had been given
a thorough initiation. I remem
ber after I was ‘“tored” 1 could
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lynot sit down comfortably for sev
“]erul days. ;
.1 Now “Bunk” Cooper made up his
imind that he was noi going to be
| “turned.” He pulled out a long
[ | bladed pocket - knife, opened it
;land told the boys he would eut
.|the throat of the first man who
| laid his hands upon him. |,
The attacking crowd looked in
| to those blue eyes that were snap
| ping fire and saw the meanacing
-'bulk of two hundred pounds and
|that red head and then decided
-Ithat just then discretion was the]
| better part of valor. For the time
ilbeing the interesting rites were
| suspended.
1 “Bunk” went on upstairs into
.ithe"library room which was then
{in what is now known as the Aca
|demic building. But the crowd
|of students hadn’t given up the
idea of .“turning” “Bunk” Cooper.
1 The boys lingered in front of the
.ibui]ding and waited for “Bunk” to
tcome down. He came out on the
{balcony in front of the library on
{the second floor, shook his red
|head, brandished his knife and
|swore he would use it if necessary.
| Monrol President
Presently five o’clock rolled
around and. the library room was
|closed. “Bunk” had to come down
|then. Bill Florence and Bob No
well were waiting at the door. I
think Bill Forence in now dead,
1 but Bob Nowell, a prominent cot
ton factor, now eighty - one years
jof age, is still living in Monroe.
|He has never moved away from
that town, from which he came to
Ithe University as a student. In
|some way they got the jump on
“Bunk”, pinned his arms behind
him and took charge of that knife.
lThen they hustled him out in the
front of the building. He gave
them a lively time for a few min
utes but their combined strength
|was too much for him.
He was given a sound beating
and when he stood on his feet
‘|again all the belligerency had dis
appeared and his face was wreath
ed in smiles. He had suddenly be
come a real college boy and was
ready to go.down the line with
the boys in the ‘frolic. He was at
once made an official “turner” on
account of his great strength and
in the next few years did his
share of the work in hoisting the
new students in the air while the
' |other students gave them the
. | works.
At that time the college Y. M.
;IC. A. had not come into existence
»lon the campus, and we held a
.| prayer meeting every Friday night
lin the second story of the old “Ivy”
| building, now a part of the front
y|of the Academic Building. After
the prayer meeting was over, a
.|few of use would linger and, de
.l bate the questions that were to be
; |debated in the two literary soc
| | ieties the next day.
|, “Bunk” was one of those who
\|lingered and took part in the arg
,{uments. That was where his de
| termination came into the picture.
As stated before he had little pre
)| paration for entering the Univer
| sity, and although he had a natural
.Joratorical gift, he simply murdered
|the English language in every
| thing he said and the boys would
|laugh to their heart’s content at
| his ludicrous mistakes. “Bunk”
| would shake his red head, and,
| pointing his finger at them, would
|proceed to dress them down,
|though he did not attempt to
| fight.
_ “You may laugh all you want to,
boys, but you might as well know
|that I intend to master my stud
|ies and become a successful de
| bator and- orator. I expect to take
every oratorical honor in the Uni
versity before I graduate.” And
| then the boys would have another
| good laugh. But they didn’t know
Ithe man they were laughing at. |
| “Bunk” did exactly what he said
|he was going to do. He joined
| the Demosthenian literary society,
learned to use good English, made
a very good and satisfactory re
|cord in his studies, became a Sop
|homore declaimer and Junior ora
|tor and was elected by the mem
|bers of that society as Champion
|debater and then was chosen to
|deliver the oration at the annual
celebration of the founding of
|the Demosthenian Society, the]
I highest oratorical honor that could
| be-conferred-on-a student, - .
| “Bunk” had an attraction for
‘|athletics, That was in the days
{before football came to the Uni
| versity campus. He would have
-Imade an all time center, guard or
| tackle. He was mighty in strength
l|but not especially swift' in run
' (ning. He had an abundance of
' |determination and would have
| thought nothing of staying in the
'|line the full sixty minutes game
after game.
- But he did take part in the field
'{day track events in such contests
'las involved strength, such as box
- ling, throwing the hammer, putting
the shot and wrestling. In wrest
-Iling he met more than his equal
‘lin April 1887 when he wrestled
'l with Arnold Broyles, now a retired
‘|lawyer in Atlanta past his eighty
!lsecond milepost.
A Wrestling Match
,’ And that was one wrestling
.{match. The field day exercises
.’were held on the old Northeast
{Georgia Fair Grounds on top floor
|of the Boulevard hill. Before that
.| wrestling match was over and
| Broyles had been declared the
| winner, both contestants = were
| practically naked, their shirts
| disreputable in appearance.
'} In due course of time “Bunk”
graduated and then he earned a
degree in law. He entered the
[ practice in Macon where he re
mained the balance of his life.
|He became a criminal lawyer of
note and carried a number of his
‘cases up to the United States
'/ Supreme Court. I can see him now
'as on several occasions I heard
.~ him make speeches. He had a
- way of shaking that red head,
_}roaring like a bull bellowing, and
|, pounding with his fists upon the
irail or desk in front of him that
| became unforgettable.
He had a flair for politics but
in spite of his eiforts he was al
|ways unsuccessful at the polls.
He had ap abiding ambition to
Igo to the United States Senate
Jand made several races for that
,loi‘fic_e, but could never reach the
top of the tally sheet. But when
ever a race for the Senate was
~ to be run “Bunk” could always be
. regarded as a candidate regard
less of the eventual outcome.
f I remember one charge he made
,gagainst an opponent who had been
. a student at the University and
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1945,
had taken advantage of a loan
from the Brown Scholarship fund,
In a debate he shot a question o
his opponent, asking him if it were
not true that he never paid that
loan back until he was threaten
ed with suit by the University 1,
collect the money due the scho
larship fund. The charge create
somewhat of a sensation at the
time. Now “Bunk” was on safe
ground there for he had alread.
voluntarily and promptly pai
back his loan from that fund.
This article is just one of col
lege memories concerning a red
headed boy from Gwinnett coun
ty, who true to tradition combin
ed red hair, high temper, deter
mination and fighting qualities
throughout life. He didn’t reach
the mountain top, achieving what
we would call only a moderate
position, but he was one fighte,
and was afraid of nothing that
called for grit and determination
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