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it now costs the rost Office I >eI'i'nnient two and a half cent* to print and deliver a penny post card.
The Veterans Administration, at Mie time of the Commission's survey, had 6,500 empty beds in its hospitals, yet VA and other goveminent agencies have planned or are building additional hospitals at u cost of over a billion dollars, whe n 54', of the available beds are not now occupied This is Alice in \V< nderland c
't lakes more than $10 worth of , . pi r work to complete a govern■ .( i.’.al purchase order. For c sample, ' > the time the nec< <sary paper ■ rk is completeil. a M'e typewi ter ribooi, costs 1 he taxpayer about $10
1 urn.ever of labor is recognized I > all industry as expens,vi Vet n ti.e Federal <love■riiiiicr t labor t.ir:n'vi r runs about 25 pet cc nt a late much higher than any private
i- i,«ss could stand, il,,s me tins ‘;,i every year approximately ".. < i; l,i r leave or ente r a gov route, nt mb. The personne l system es clogged with reel tape. The best ■ e : leave because of the low pay -etile, and the inefficient caniiot a .i> he- dischargeel
If enacted into hiw, the Com
: sum recommendation to remedy 'hose* and other defects in conducing eiur Federal business would save 'he taxpayer three to four billion i'dlars a year.
lo play your part in putting a -lop tee this wasteful extravagance, -■■in 1 he1 non-partisan Citjzons ('ornuiittoe, which is working for the ■ nai-tment of the Commission’s suggestions. Write to the Citizen* Committee for Reorganization of 1 he Executive Branch of the Government, 1421 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania. Write veuir I'ungressman. Inform your'-•■If about the Commission Report. 1*11 yeeur neighbors!
Socialized Medicine To
Be Discussed By Bird
Difficulties being encountered in Great Britain in the operation of its system of Socialized Medicine will be discussed bv William ■1. Bird, national affairs advisor. Chamber of Commerce of the I nited States, in *he sixth of eight weekly broadcasts, when he is presented at 7:15 o’clock Tuesday night over radio station M ( VA by the Culpeper Chamber ‘if Pommel ce. Mr. Bin! will discuss the- medical services being given Britons, and eiraw a < umpari.-on of a system 01 -iicia!ized medicine in -America with the medical care being realized by the Ameiican people toelay.
This series of broadcasts is being presented by the local 1 handier in co-e*peration with the national chamber of commerce in the interest of betteu. governme nt through better citizens'llips
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