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THE TENSAS ZEE Ganette Plisia Cpn, Ltd. Offiil Paper of te Paris Tes Scll rd ad Ffth Li Leve District. Pr A NEW SERIES.VOL. XXV ,- ST. JOSEPH, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1915 'UMBU. D • i Ill ri in l_ ibmI ni i e l I., ·· ' +, ofI~c ihe t I U/I III \ III· II r \ \\.~EC~L~I~Ca hb4* 4~ '4 N the bureau of supplies and accounts of the United States navy at Washing ten some surprisling changes have been made in the past year in methods of do business. The brmst the basins office of the navy. Also it is the butcher, the baker, the banker, the taller and the grocer of the navy. It pays out some $145.000,000 a year. It saves Jack's money for him and the srvtng bank it operates has deposits g" g Sng$ati 3 3U000. It operates two great clothinlg ha`eres., ne at Brooklyn and the other at Charles . I C. Is another aspect is one of the biggest Iparehsiag agencles in the country. So remarkable bave been its achievements in the tsivemeath that many requests have come to it Weaty from business establishments, public and vat, for information as to its new methods 'The sprit behind the change is that of a boyish ebtag, wideeyed, ever-smiling oeier, who, just "Srty4ve years old-and bhe does not look it-holds the rank sad draws the pay of a rear admiral, he being paymaster general of the navy and chiet of the brwea. Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan be is o0 oetsMars. Mr. McGowan is the form of address be tsinsl upon within the bureau. But in the navy g , erall. by alt ranks and all rades, he is dubbed, beh Mis back of course, ammy McGowan. In the 14 mouths he has been paymaster general be has mad ever his bureau. What is more, he has eurmed the hearty sad enthusiastic support of the a fo fres. That, to anyone who knows how any ssverameat orgeaniston is wedded to precedent, is Somewhat given to the making of epigrams in his Strfatisens mral and written. Admiral McGowan has uttered two that give a hint of the predominat S. iMeso belid his reforms. "Make It bureau with a email b and navy with a big N." is one, and "remgsr that the stores exist for the feet, not the lest for the stores." The paymaster general and his bureau of supplies a sad bave their offices in the great pilUe thew b dg state, war and navy building, on gsylvaank avenue, flanking the White House on S the wet. When the building was erected some JAsty years ago it was the largest office building ai the world. Each corridor in It has the appear , sce of a batlion of barrooms, for each of the agiy esrrldor doors has its middle two-thirds . asked by a shutter door. The rooms are all inter. ormmaileating. The paymaster general's office is the end one in a sute of five rooms. Across the hall are seven re moms. In the navy annex building, in a street near by. are some more ofces of the bureau. When Paymaster General McGowan took over the job he inaugurated at once a dlean-up campaign. Down bhe the walls came the dusty old pictures. Bookelses and file cases went out. Current and absolutely necessary bureau files went into one room in a set of steel vertical containers, for general purposes, and in the purchasing end, aesse the hall, they likewise were reduced. Plrate libraries also went out. Upstairs the a·4W department maintains a splendid naval 11 brary, sal this is available for all purposes. "Abolish roll-top desks," was the word. Where a S4op desks were not available the department emrpeaters took off the roll tops. Since then standard office furniture has been adopted for the entire bureau. All intercommunicating doors in the suites were taken off the binges. Walls were painted in light colors. Then the chief of each room or Sdvisldo chief was required to put his desk in the middle of the room with his force grouped about him. Now the paymaster general can stand to his room and look down the line and see exactly what is going on. But that isn't exactly the point. The object in not to keep an eye on the people so much as it to to convey the idea of unity. The division chief who, sequestered in his own little nest. might be tempted to write a letter to the chief next door, doesn't do it under these conditions. He says. "Say. Bill. how about so and so?" or goes over and discusses it at close range. Stationery in use was reduced to the fewest possible simple kinds. On a shelf handy to the paymaster general's hands is a book some 14 inches long by 18 inches wide. In it is all the information that once oc cspied a big fileroom. This information pertains to the present duty and availability for sea or share duty, as the case may be. of all of the 230 gecers making up the pay corps. The pages bf the book are faced with trans eruise his name and the essential date are in .eribod on a typewritten slip and inserted at the bottm of the section devoted to pay offcers on -e a duty. Place by place the slip moves up au , teaiea lly, and in this way one may observe at a glace who is due for shore duty and who ! fr sm duty as, under t he law, for every two eats hore duty a pay ofier moust take three da ea duty. thus with all records. No etort has been a to reduce them all to the simplest and meest jra c form. The meseenger force was ermargns ad ad squad told off to act asu uexpress mesagers. This insures speed in the move m net of papers from desk to desk and to the m retas ofeca No paper remasin more than 5 smiutes await s trasmission. oh aW te r ft ir thins Paymastr Gneart The selection of the time for restocking thus is al most automatlcally sus gested. A small card-filing cae contains a remarkable e0 hibition of prices current. Charted on cards are the market price movements for seven years. week by week, of important stai pies. For example,. the butter card shows a well defined curve for each of the seven years. indicat ing the weeks when but ter is high and when low. As these curves closely parallel, a glance at it shows when is the most advantageous time for buying butter in quantlty *º and storing it. nso sys .tematised bas the - - McGowan did was to put a stop to promiscuous letter writing. The true bureaucrat dearly love to write letters. He thinks he is at his best when he is writing letters for the chief to sign, division heads dictating many of the letters which take the bureau chiefs signature. It grati fles the soul of the bureaucrat to grow arrogant and sarcastic in such dictation. Nothing of that sort is tolerated by Admiral McGowan. He insisted that letter writing be re duced to a minimum and that nothing unkind or contentious be put into a letter, especially to another coordinate bureau. After his first gen eral remarks on the subject he followed it up with an "intrabureau order." intrabureau orders being one of his methods of reaching the person nel of his organization. But the striking changes in the service have been worked in the detail of the machinery frst of accounting and then of supplying. Aboard each one of Uncle Sam's fighting craft is a pay ofcer, the ship's business manager. Each ship has a base or home station at some navy yard. At each navy yard is a storehouse, presided over by a pay officer. It is the business of this store house to provide for the ships attached to it Then there are fuel stations-coal and oil-also under jurisdiction of the pay corps, for the pay corps buys everything, save arms and ammuni tion, needed by the ships and their personnel. At present there are in the custody of the store keepers general supplies worth 422.000.000. ex clusive of fuel: $4.000.000 worth of clothing, and $3,000.000 worth of provisions. The problem is not alone to supply immediate needs, but to be ready to supply emergency needs. Just as an army moves on its belly. so is a navy department on its supplies. When a por tioL of the fleet was dispatched the other day to Santo Domingo it required a lot of things not ordinarily carried. It got away promptly because those particular things were forthcoming without delay. Always the bureau is in the market buying in huge quantities on bids and under rigid spedifie tions, for delivery at the most advantaeous points. Two simple record books contain a`' the data on current bids which have been opVned. and these are always open to public inspect ~. But the characteristic of the purchsing si stem is the simple and graphic methods used in teep ing information up to date on existing stoela of fuel and supplies and on current prices Rnch of this Information is reduced to charts am s tional paper. Thus a simple chart tells in spre aid lines up to within 12 hours the exact lua tity of coal and fuel on hand at any sup) ta tion. and another gives the same laert tio as to the amouat a board mny aip et the vy. method of securing and charting this Information become that it requires little labor and its cost, by comparison with the results achieved in asu sisting in intelligent buying is remarkably low. Other charts, corrected daily. keep the bureau informed uas to the amount of stocks on hand in every detail, not only at the storehouses but on the ships as well. Since the navy through its extensive wireless system in constant com munication with every ship afloat, the task of keeping up these charts is not so difficult as It Or the bunch of cards making up a ship's aom prny also to producible on the instant Machines have reduced the amount of work in the accounting section more than 50 per cent. There are refinements of cost keeping in a mill tary establishment that are not known in a private establishment, for all expenditures must conform to some specific item of an appropria tion bill, and appropriations for the naval estab lishment are found in three different appropria tion acts. Roughly speaking. 3,000.000 separate aecounts must be kept properly to meet the requirements of the law and to furnish the information as to costs, gross and detailed, needed. Imagine a ledger with 3,000.000 accounts! Here the cards and mechanism have come in to the extent that half the number of men needed 15 months ago are now required to do the work. In addition a great deal of new work has been taken on. The use of new card punching machines is re sponsible for the larger economies. The machine is so arranged that it sorts the punched cards, arranges them in proper groups, ascertains the totals of the figures in4icated by the punched holes and prints on a sheet the results. It is accounting reduced to mechanism. Of course the usual machines, such as adding machines and the like, are part of the equipment. In fact the whole trend of the reforms Into this section has been to reduce everything to a mechanical basis. The result is great economics in operation, I creased efciency, increased accuracy and to creased speed. To the casual observer the strik ing thing is the disappearance of books. Few indeed are the books in sight, remarkably slim the Iles. In other words, the accountancy sys tem has been reduced to the simplest dimensions. Ask any man. officer or civilian, in the estab lishment how the whole organization has been made over in such a time, and he Instantly will tell you that 8ammy McGowan did it. And thee he will grow confidential and tell you what he esteems is the secret of the whole accomplish ment, the spirit that McGowan has put into his entire force. "We don't tolerate grouches," your informant will say. "We all belong to the Don't Worry club and McGowan is its president." Another thing this paymaster general has done is to establish in Washington, with the approval of the secretary of the navy, a school for nav" pay officers. These officers are appointed from civil life on a competitive examination. They gc into the service equipped with a good academic education. but with no knowledge of the nary and its needs. Hence the new service school which has in this year's class 15 young ofeert who are being trained in their new profession. Admiral McGowan himself is a" product of civilian training. When he secured his appoint ment in the pay corps in 1894 he was a Soutt Carolina newspaper man who had worked his way through college and law school by rqnning a brick yard and serving as a ticket agent at s railway station Maybe there he got the- trainin which has made him a great business executive The fact that he has spent most of his nava career at sea accounts for his insistence that the fSet and not the bureau is the thing ever to be kept it minod. When he left the Atlantic leet to go ashore a paymaster general his commanding omcer. Ad mral Badger, said of him. "He has made the pa department of the leet a smoothly working mi Itary msehia." That is the ideal he holds up to his bires and eares: "Make It a smooth running militar / --rYI Neil Callahan The Vickshurk Boiler and Iron Works Boilers Tubes Pipes Valves and Flttings AU j Sizes Complete Stock aMsaactuurers e Boilers, Smokestacks, Breechings and Tanks SMarine and Plantatien Work a Specialt. 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