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THE RUSE CHEROKEBAN
EPITOMIZED NEWS OF
ESPECIAL INTEREST
Important news op the en.
TIRE WEEK REDUCED FOR
, BUSY READERS
Foreign—
General Christian de Wet, com-
mander in chief of the Boer forces
In thewar of 1899, died at his home
in DeWe^wdorp last week.
—o—
The forces of the augo Slav army
i re to he reduced to 110,000 men.
This is an outcome of an agreement
reached by the Ministry of War and
the parliamentary Budget Committee.
—o—
The French Government. Premier
{Poincare Indicates in a new note to
the economic and financial conference
at Genoa except under stipulations
that "France's rights will be respect-
ed."
——o—
Complaint is made by Mexicans
Who have recently crossed into the
United States that the American im-
migration authorities are continuing
the charge of $8 for entry, despite
the abolition of passports recently.
—o—
A mob of 2,000 Indian Nationalist
Volunteers and villagers attacked the
ipolice officers at Chauri Chauri on
Feb. 4 and killed the entire staff of
officers, the watchman and eight
armed police who were sent as rein-
forcements.
—o—
Shipment of 45,000 tons of wheat
flour and maize to Russia from Ar-^
gentina in February and March hasi
been contracted for. according to the
Herald. The contract was awarded
•to the Skougulunds line, a Norwegian
shipping concern.
—o—
Special instructions have been is-
sued to the Russian Soviet delegates
to the Genoa conference that long
Oiair should be trimmed and leather
jackets and top boots discarded, and
that ihose in the party should dress
in a dignified manner.
—o—
Princess Mary is establishing a
etyle in wedding rings by having a
simple, narrow gold band. The ring
is now being made by Messrs. Ger-
rard, the King's jewelers, who arc
beating it out of Welch gold. The
wedding ring resembles that of the
late Queen Victoria rather than that
of Queen Mary.
WASHINGTON—
Threat of war in the Pacific has
been removed for this generation by
action of the Washington arms con-
ference.
—o—
Texas postmasters nominated:
James I. Carter, Arlington: Okey B.
Cline, Emory, and Alfred M. Finer,
Hondo.
—o—
Unemployment conditions in Texas
Gave not improved since December,
according to the January Review is
sued by the Department of Labor.
—o—
Irving F. Wixon, former acting
Commissioner of iratergration at Bos-
ton and prior to that head of the Im-
migration Service Station at .Mont-
real, has been appointed Assistant
Commissioner General of Immigra-
tion.
—o—
The total population of Texas in
3920, being 4,663,228, included 1,415,-
180 males and 303,844 females 10
years old and over, who were report-
ed as gainfully occupied, according
to figures announced by the Census
Bureau.
/ — o—-
Demand will be made shortly by
members of the House who are for-
mer service men that the United
States make an effort to obtain cus-
tody of Grover C. Bergdoll, now in
Germany, it is said by leaders in the
movement.
Six completed treaties, two others
agreed to in substance, fourteen re-
olutions and ten separate or joint
declarations of national policy, com-
prise the formal and tangible con-
tribution of the arms conference ne-
gotiations to history.
—o—
A bill to reduce the number of
army officers to 12,900, as compared
with 17.000 now authorized. was
transmitted to Congress last week by
General Pershing, as chief of staff,
and introduced by Chairman W&ds-
worth of the Senate Military Com
mtttee.
—O-—
Farmers of the country will not
stand for any more taxes while
"profiteers go unscathed as they did
during the war," Benjamin C. Marsh,
managing director of the Farmers'
National Council, so declared at a
hearing before the House Ways and
Means Committee considering soldier
bonus ltcislation.
—o—
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion has suspended until June 7 the
item in Supplement 3 of Ueland'B
Traffic I. C. C No. 1473, canceling
rates on sheep in double-deck cars.
—o—
Fire which broke out suddenly on
the roof ofthe t'nhed States Treas-
ury Department building last week,
destroyed new construction work,
iBome Government records And a num-
iber of blue-print soldier hospital
drawings, entailing a lots of approxl
IBiately |26,000.'
Cablegrams to the Department of
Commerce from the commercial at-
tache at Mexico City shows little, It
any, improvement in Mexico's eco
nomic situation.
—o—
The United States consumed 55,-
768,000 barrels oF oil more than it
produced during 1921, as Bhown by
figures compiled by the United State*
Geological Survey.
—o—
Graduates of Texas University re-
siding in Washington contemplate
gathering at dinner on March 2 to
celebrate the independenct of tb«
Republic of Texas.
—o—
That strong sentiment exists in th«
South and Southwest against reduo
tion of the army below presenl
strength is reported in a statement
from the War Department.
—o—
Cardinal Achille Rattl, the newlj
elected Pope, Pius XI, was the first
papal nuncio to Poland after its re
construction in 1918. He arrived in
Warsaw in the spring of 1919.
—o—
OOME8TIC—
Beer and wine found anothet
champion in Chicago when the Jar*
uary grand jury, in suumitting it!
report, recommending the manufao
ture of these beverages without th'
saloon.
—o—
Sale of the Missouri & North Ark-
ansas Railroad, which suspended op
eration last July, by its receiver has
been ordered in a decree issued by
United States District Judge Jacob
Triebey.
—o—
Twenty-five miners lost their lives
in the explosion which wrecked e
part of the Gates mine of the H. C.
Frick Coke Company at Gates, Pa.
last week, according to an official
announcement.
—o—
August Anderson Projendahl, for
mer Alaskan capitalist and resident
of Seattle, his wife and four children
were drowned when tneir prviate
yacht, in which they were cruising
the South Seas, was wrecked recent-
ly.
—o—
Construction of the $2,500,000 athle-
tic stadium to be erected at the Uni-
versity of Illinois will be begun
within a short time, it is announced
at a meeting of the board of trustees
of the university at Chicago last
week.
William Jennings Bryan has pre-
sented his former home in Lincoln
to the Presbyterian Church to be
used as a national hospital for in-
capacitated missionaries and teach-
ers and their families who have been
in service in China and Japan.
—o—
The Dallas Railway Company re-
gistered a balance of $2,075.93 above
its authorized return in January, ac-
cording to figures announced by
Supervisor of Public Utilities John
\V. Everman. The balance will be
applied to comppny's surplus reserve
fund.
—o—
The majority of the sixteen stand-
ard railroad unions have sent accept-
ance to John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca. for a conference to discuss an
alliance to combat proposed wage
cuts, according to statements of la-
bor leaders.
—o—
There is a distinct and decisive
improvement in the banking situation
and a generally improved condition
in industrial activities alor.g the
western frontier of the Eleventh Dis-
trict of the Federal Reserve System,
inthe judgment of Judge W. F. Ram-
sey of Dallas.
Following the sale of S2.000,fi00
worth of army merchandise at At-
lanta, Ga., recently, it was announc-
ed that prices paid for 188.000 blan-
kets ranged from $1.26 to $2.07. Buy-
ers from New York. Chicago, St.
Louis and other cities took large
quantities of goods.
—o—
If negotiations now under way be-
tween the Shreveport, La. Chamber
of Commerce and irastern men in-
terested in the project are success-
ful. a fleet of flat-bottomed barges
will be put in operation on Red River
in connection with plans to estab-
lish permanent water transportation
by way of the Red Jtiver to the Mis-
sissippi River.
Arrangements have been made for
the poultry exhibit car. now touring
Northwest Texas, to make a trip over
the Southern Pacific lints beginning
Feb. 12. The Itinerary for the car
follows: Midlothian, Feb 12; Wtixa-
hachie, Feb. 13; Ennis. Feb. 14: Cor-
sicana, Feb. 15; Wortham. Feb. 1(1.
Mexia. Feb. 17; Groesbeck, Feb. 18;
Kosse, Feb. 19; Breff ond, Feb. 20!
Calvert. Feb. 21: Hearne. Feb. 221
Bryan, Feb. 23; College Station, FeB,
24.
Two ocean steamships, the famoO*
Northern Pacific, which made seven
record round trps to France aR a
navy tarnsport dumg the war, and
the freight steamer Thlstlemore, lie
wrecked on the Atlantic Coast.
New Orleans shippers are much
disturbed over the suspension of the
new rail rates by the Interstate Rail-
road Commission, which put New
Orleans on a parity with Galveston
on coffee shipments to tbe Middle
West
Where Your Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money
in Conducting Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Author "Washington Close-Ups," "Banks and Financial Systems." etc. Contributor
Political and Economic Articles to Leading Periodicals and a Writer of Recognised
Authority on the National Government's Business Methods.
Copyright, Western Newspaper Union
XI.
OUR COSTLY NEGLIGENCE
"Co-ordination" is a tired, haggard,
nervous wreck of a word tliut was
nearly worked to death at Washington
during the early days of the war. It
was the first of the dollar-a-ye r words
to come forward to do war work, aud
It was worn to a frazzle. I hate to
drag the poor wan thing out from the
quiet retreat in my dictionary where
it has been resting and recuperating,
but I must say that this lack of co-
ordination, luck of organization, du-
plication, inefficiency, waste, and hap-
hazard hodge-podge structure of the
national governmental machine is no
secret to those at Washington, who
run aud manage it for us, and who are
evi-ri more directly responsible than
we are for the condition into which
it lias fallen.
I submit pleas of avoidance and
confession from both Democrats and
Republicans. It is not a mutter of
politics. It is a matter of proved and
confessed negligence on the part of
the men we have hired to run the ma-
chine. and have kept year after year
in places of trust and power and re-
sponsibility. They haven't kept up
the plant. The form of organization
is grotesquely inadequate. The mor-
ale of the working force is badly im-
paired, as I have set forth at length
in previous articles. We have paid
the price for this, grossly and hugely,
in money and in poor service. This
has been costly negligence on our part.
I said 1 had confessions. Here they
are, Reed Smoot, Republican aud a
senator from Utah, speaking:
The administrative branches of the
government have undergone no funda-
mental change since the organization was
devised by Alexander Hamilton.
No other government in the world
could have gone on as ourR has done, and
paid the bills Involved in our wasteful
methods of administration. We have been
able to do It because this country has
had resources and wealth unparalleled.
But the war has brought us at last to
realize that these will not last always.
We need a complete survey of the whble
situation de novo by a committee of men
willing to recognize that It is a task of
day and night for a year, and very likely,
two years. . . .
There is endless duplication of work
among different departments, and even
in the same department. . . . It is
the same through all the government
functions, and now, when the burden of
carrying our enormous debt Is weighing
on the people, we can no longer neglect
to give It consideration.
When he said these things, Mr.
Siuoot was urging a concrete proposal
to bring about the reformation so bad-
ly needed.
And now Franklin D. Roosevelt, for
seven years assistant secretary of the
navy and recently the Democratic can-
didate for vice president:
The entire Bystem of relationship whloh
exists between congress and the execu-
tive departments la fundamentally wrong.
Let me Illustrate: 1 made an offer one
spring to the appropriations committees
of both house and senate, telling them
that I would tomorrow discharge 16 per
cent of the employees of the Navy de-
partment if they, the committees, would
give me complete authority to take one-
half of the salaries of the employees so
discharged and add It to the salaries of
the other 85 per cent of the employees
still left In the department. ... Of
course, however, under the present sys-
tem congress would not think of giving
executive discretion of this kind.
Congress, for various reasons, has so
tied the hands of the executive officers
of the government that they have no dis-
cretion in the fundamental questions of
employment. . . My own wonder is
that, considering the existing circum-
stances. the employees of the govern-
ment are as efficient as they actually are.
Congress legislates for every minute Item
of employment. . . . There is a lot
of work being done In other departments
which ought properly to be under the
Navy department, and in the same way
there is a lot of work done by the Navy
department which could perfectly prop-
erly be transferred to oth r departments.
After seven years down here In an ex-
ecutive position ... I cannot help the
conclusion that our governmental meth-
ods are cumbersome and wasteful. The
first improvement must come in what Is,
after ail, the source of governmental ac-
tivities—that is, the legislative branch. . . .
This must come from congress. We need
also a reclassification and redistribution
of the work of the executive depart-
ments. This can only come if congress,
working in accord with itself and with
the executives, will discuss the whole
question simultaneously and not merely
piecemeal.
Well, there you are! A Republican
who has been in the legislative branch
of the government for seventeen years,
and it Democrat who has been in tlio
executive branch for seven years, both
telling the same story of how badly
the national business is managed.
The odd thing about it is that our
agents and representatives at Wash-
ington who let this waste and inef-
ficiency run on, year after year, pay
no penalty. We pay the piper to the
tune of millions arid billions—literally
that much. And the condition will en-
dure until we make a real roar about
it. Congress increasingly shakes its
head over the situation and brings in
various proposals of reform, and says
how wrong it all is; but lacking a
lively, inflamed public pressure, uotiv
ing gets done.
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We have not had In our lime a Presi-
dent who was a business man or who
had close acquaintance with business
methods. The Chief Executives have,
for the most part, not been executives
as that term is now understood. Any-
thing but. They regarded tlie govern-
mental machine as one regards a hired
motor car—a piece of mechanism in
which to get somewhere, and with uo
thought of its power-transmission
system or economy of operation.
Mr. Taft did sense the fact that lie
was at tiie head of an organization
whose activities are almost as varied
as those of the entire business world.
Mr. Harding, 1 believe, shares this
feeling.
As Mr. Taft pointed out, this great
organization has never been studied
tn detail as one piece of administra-
tive mechanism. No comprehensive
effort lias been made, until very re-
cently, to list its many activities or to
group them in such a way as to pre-
sent a clear picture of what the gov-
ernment is doing. No satisfactory
statement has ever been published of
the financial transactions of the gov-
ernment as a whole. With large In-
terests at stake congress and the ex-
ecutive have never had all the Infor-
mation which should be currently
available if the most intelligent direc-
tion is to be given to the daily national
business.
Congress, the President and the ad-
ministrative officers have beeu at-
tempting to discharge their duties
without full information as to tlie
agencies through which the work of
the government is being performed.
In the past, services, agencies, bureaus,
what not, have beeu created one by
one as exigencies have seemed to de-
mand, witli little or no reference to
any scheme of organization of the gov-
ernment as a whole.
Mr. Taft pointed out all this and
made an earnest effort to change it.
With what result? Why, Just exactly
none. Congress was cold. The pub-
lic—meaning you and me—was colder.
We didn't tnke any interest in the
project, and therefore congress po-
litely yawned It away Into the tall
grass and out of sight. Mr. Taft was
given enough money to employ an effi-
ciency and economy commission and
to make Inquiry "into the methods of
transacting the public business of the
executive departments and other gov-
ernment establishments."
The inquiry i nn made and the
changes recommended, but nothing
has ever been done about it. This
economy and efficiency commission was
very conservative and cautious. It
took Mr. Tnft's view that the prob-
lem of gi*>d administration is not one
that can be solved at one time. II is
a continuously present one. This
commission, made up of excellent men,
suggested that the revenue-cutter serv-
ice be abolished and its activities be
taken over by other services. It was
estimated that by so doing a saving
of not less than $1,000,000 could be
made.
Another report recommended that
the lighthouse and life-saving services
be administered by a single bureau in-
stead of as at that time, by two bu-
reaus located in different detriments.
It was estimated that this consolida-
tion would result in a saving of not
less than $100,000 yearly.
The abolition of the returns office of
tlie Interior department was recom-
mended, at an estimated direct saving
of about $—>,000 a year, in addition
to a large indirect economy in the
reduction of work to be performed in
the several offices.
The consolidation of the six auditing
offices of tiie treasury and the inclu-
sion in the auditing system of the
seven naval officers who audited cus-
toms accounts at the principal ports
was urged. The change was expected
to produce an Immediate saving of at
least $135,000 yearly.
From this modest start other changes
and reforms and savings were to be
niadt.
Hut we weren't Interested in the
high cost of government or the high
cost of living eleven years ago. Mr.
Taft didn't get a rise out of us. lie
didn't have much of a pull with cou-
gress. either, poor man, and all his in-
quiry went for nothing as far as any
action was concerned.
He aud his commission did bring out
and establish, however, certain facts
and conditions. It was a trustworthy
and competent investigation as far as
It went. That is something to the
good.
There is a patent disposition in con-
gress now to take the whole problem
of the routine administrative processes
of the government tinder consideration
and see how best to improve tbeni.
Whether anything really worth while
will come out of It will defend en-
tirely on the degree of Interest you
display. If you will take the trouble
to show that you know that the na-
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costs too much, and that ;ou are tired
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