Other Form of Name
Chase, Harvey S. (Harvey Stuart), 1861-1946
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1917
Abstract
How can sinews of war have anything to do with The Executive Budget? Why should peace be contrasted with sinews of war and then correlated to the government! Sinews of war is old as a quotation, almost as old as war itself. The financing of the belligerent powers is before our eyes, the sinews peer at us from the pages of every paper. We, as people, are interested in these sinews not primarily as those of war but as those of peace. How ought we to be interested intelligently in the sinews of peace, then! What demands ought we to make upon our government so that we, the citizens, may be more intelligently informed and so that we may be more efficiently served by the ever-spreading branches of the government of the nation! There is a term now in common use which is the key to this desired information and to this efficiency. It is a much abused term and a much misunderstood term. It is expressed in the shortest way by the word budget or, better, by the words the executive budget. What then, is an executive budget? Why should such a dry-as-dust appellation be emphasized as an all-important function of government, now almost wholly neglected?
Relational Format
article
Recommended Citation
Chase, Harvey S., "Executive budget in relation to governmental accounting -- The sinews of war... and peace!" (1917). Individual and Corporate Publications. 124.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/acct_corp/124