during the last six months through coordinating agencies such as your Federal Board, established by the President of the United States through the use of his authority and running the routine business of the Government for the first time upon a business basis. I make this distinction (for Mr. Burke, for instance) as some misapprehension may be had in connection with this matter of policy. The Budget Bureau, is not concerned with policy save that of economy and efficiency. We are concerned with the routine expenditure of money, of proper conduct of routine business. It is our business to see that when money is appropriated by Congress along a certain line or policy with which we have nothing to do, that that money is spent as economically and as judiciously and carefully as possible in order to secure the greatest results along the line of the policy imposed by Congress. If Congress as a matter of policy should pass a law to put garbage on the White House steps, it becomes our duty, regrettable as it might be, to advise Congress and the Executive as to how the largest amount of garbage may be most expeditiously and economically spread on the White House steps. And that is why we are safe in demanding what is absolutely necessary, in every business, in routine matters,—a centralized authority. There is no democracy in a properly organized business so far as routine business is concerned. It is a monarchy, and if the sense of responsibility on the part of the agent to the man at the head of the corporation, who is responsible for the policy, is lost, the business goes to pieces, and, if a private business, you go into the hands of the sheriff. The trouble is that in the past the Presidents of the United States have not done their full duty and assumed the control of the routine business organization of Government. The result is, as is always the case, with a private or public organization, that when the money is spent by parties interested alone in spending the money, the plan of the unit over which the spending head presides takes precedence over the plan of the organization as a whole. Now that has been exactly the situation in the United States up to this time, and in dollars and cents, to say nothing of the matter of the use of facilities, there has been a waste that is incalculable in the past.