The Daily Herald (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 314, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 17, 1922 Page: 2 of 4
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1922
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fir Representative—
EUGENE MILLER
War District Clerk—
J. R MITCHELL.
Per Sheriff.—
JOB GILBERT
8. A. (ANDY) BRA8ELTON.
J. B. (JESS) MILLER
Per Tax Collector—
R. E. (ELY) CARTER
GLADDEN LOVELL
CLYDE BOLEY
P#r County Clerk—
W. H. HUTCHESON
Per County Superintendent—
W. Af’WILSON
C, M. WINSTEAD
For Commissioner Precinct No. 3—
8. R. BRASHEARS
GENE IRION
For County Treasurer—
SCOTT JORDAN
For County Attorney—
JIM L. McCALL.
Pot Commissioner Precinct No. 4—
L G. MAPLES
For Justice Peace Precinct No„1—
HENRY BARBER
A Soviet official named Rakofsky
has been suggested as Russian dele-
gate to the Genoa conference. If
there is anything in names, this
Indicates that Russia expects to get
her share.
Oaertiekt, WwUrn tlmies Ualce
XXI.
OUR COSTLY NEGLIGENCE
“Co-ordination” is a tired, haggurd,
nervous wreck of a word that was
nearly worked to death at Washington
during the early days of the war. It
was the first of the dollar-a-year words
to come forward to do war work, -and
it was worn to a frazile. 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, lack of organisation, du-
plication, inefficiency, waste, and hap-
baxard hodge-podge structure of the
national governmental machine is no
secret to those at Washington, who
run and manage it for us, afid who are
even more directly responsible than
we are for the condition Into which
It has fallen.
I submit pleas of avoidance and
confession from both Democrats and
Republicans. It Is not a matter of
politics. It is a matter of proved and
confessed negligence on the part of
the men we have htred 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 ancl hugely,
in money and In poor service. This
has been costly negligence on our part.
I said I had confessions. Here they
are, Reed Smoot, Republican and a
senator from Utah, speaking:
The administrative branches of the
government have undergone no funda-
mental change since the organisation was
devised by Alexander Hamilton.
No other government In the world
could have gone on as ours 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 alwaya
We need a cqmplete survey of the whole
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
funotlons, and now, when the burden of
.carrying our enormous debt Is weighing
on the people, we can no longer neglect
to glv« It cona'deratlon.
When he said these things, Mr.
Smoot was urging a concrete proposal
to bring abont 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 system of relationship which
exists between congress and the execu-
tive departments Is fundamentally wrong.
Let me Illustrate: I made an offer one
spring to the appropriations committees
Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Speed*
Your Money in Conduct-
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
CoerrisM. Wa-fern Nswipasar Csioa
XXII.
WE’RE COLO TO REFORMS
We have not had in our time 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 the govern-
mental machine as one regards a hired
motor car—a piece of mechanism in
Which to get somewhere, and with no
thought of its power-transmission
system or economy of operation.
Mr. Taft did sense the fact that he
was at the head of an organisation
whose activities are almost as varied
as those of the entire business world.
Mr. Harding, I believe, shares this
feeling.
As Mr. Taft pdlnted out, this great
organization has never been studied
in 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 been at-
tempting to discharge (heir duties
without full information as to the
agencies through which the work of
the government is being performed.
In the past, services, agencies, bureaus,
what not, have been created one by
one as exigencies have seemed to de-
mand, with 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 take any Interest in the
project, and therefore congress po-
litely yawned it nwajt 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 was made ami the
changes recommended, but nothing
has ever been done about It. This
economy and efficiency commission was
very conservative and cautious. It
took Mr. Taft's view that the prob-
lem of good administration is not one
that can be solved at one time. It Is
a continuously present one. This
ANNOUNCEMENT
TO THE MOTOR OAR PUBLIC:
Effective Monday night, January 16th, at midnight, we will -discontinue our Storage and
Auto Repair business at 5th and Throckmorton streets, due to the fact that the building has
been leased over our heads.
However, beginning immediately, January 17th (Tnesday), we will open and maintain
offices in the Mrs. Dan Waggoner building, Room 808, Phone Lamar 886, where we Will con-
tinue to handle automobile bearings for all makes of cars, with service on same.
Then, in abont 60 days, or as soon as remodeling can be completed, we will again occupy
a 25x10 Ofoot section of our present garage building 5th and Throckmorton, reserved for our
use by special arrangement, and will handle a line of Goodyear tires, on which we will give
service as previously. We will also operate an automobile bearings supply store and service
for all makes of cars. We will be prepared to look after the needs of all our old customers
and cur owners in general. j
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In temporarily closing our garage, storage and repair business, we wish to thank our
friends and customers for their generous patronage during the fifteen years we have been in
business, and at the same time to assure them that we have not closed pennahently, but that
we expect to resume garage business early in 1923, in the building at -4th and Throckmorton,
now occupied by the Liberty Garage, on which building we have already secured a long lease,
but which we cannot occupy till early next year. >
HUGH H. LEWIS,
AUTOMOBILE GARAGE
Room 808 Mrs. Dan Waggoner Bldg. (Temporar y Address). Lunar 388. FORT WORTH
Stories of
By Elmo
Stott
Great Scouts
C, Western Newspaper Union.
“BUFFALO CHIP” JIM WANTED
TO BE LIKE BUFFALO BILL
Plain Jim White was his name, bat
along the whole western frontier he
was known as “Buffalo Chip" Jim,
a name which he carried to bis grave.
He had been a boyhood friend of Buf-
falo Bill, and when Cody became an
Indian scoot. White also took np that
For years he was
of both house and senate, telling them commission, made up of excellent men,
lh‘- lfTh^de^^Xoi^r^vy -2- + 8UK«!e8ted that the avenue-cutter serv-
' ^ T' ‘ ’ ice be abolished and Its' Activities be
IRE FOODS
/esffiat real-
ize the value of pure
foods—that take special
pride in uniform and
wholesome bakings,
never fail to use
CALUMET
W POWDER
You have positive proof
of the punty—contains
ifofy such ingredients
as have been officially
approved by the United
States Pure Food
i Authorities.
Contains more than the
ordinary leavening
leading Chefs, Domes-
tic Scientists, Restaur-
ants, Hotels, Railroads
Qian any other brand on earth.
cent ... I_____|________ ____
p&rtment If they, the committees, would
give me complete authority to take one-
halt of the salaries of the employees so
discharged and add It to the salaries of
the other S3 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, haa ao
tied Che hands of the executive officers
of the government that they have no dis-
cretion in the fundamental questiQns of
employment. . . . My own wonder i(
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
I which ought properlv 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 other departments, i
After seven years down here in an ex- !
| ecutlve position ... I cannot halp the
conclusion that our governmental meth-
ods are cumbersome and wasteful. The
I first''improvement must come in what Is,
after all, the source of governmental ac-
ttvttlee—that Is, the legislative branch. . . .
| TWe mdat come from congress. We need
I also a recta salt) cation and redistribution
of the work of the executive depart-
ments. This can only come it eongreaa.
working in accord with Itself and with
the executives, will discuss the whole
question simultaneously and not merely
Mil
WSB,.there you are! A Republican
I who has been In the legislative branch
of the government for seventeen years,
and a Democrat who has been in Jhe
| executive branch for seven years, both
telling the same story of bdw 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
bo penalty. We pay the piper to the
tune of millions and blll|ons-^-ilterally
that much. And the condition 'wW-en*-
tore until we make a real roar about
it. dongress increasingly shakes Its
head over the situation and brings In
various proposals-of reform, and says
bow wrong It all Is; bat lacking a
inflamed public pressure, noth-
: done. ■ >
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taken over by other services. It was
estimated that by so doing a saving
of not less than $1,000,000 couid be
made.
Another report recommended that j
the lighthouse and life-saving services I
be administered by a single bureau in- j
stead of as at that time, by two bu- j
reaus located la different departments. [
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
the Interior department was recom-
| mended, at an estimated direct saving
i of about $25,000 a year, in addition
j to a large Indirect economy In the
i reduction of work to be performed In
| the several offices.
The consolidation of the six auditing
offices of the 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 $136,000 yearly.
From this modest start other changes
and reforms and savings were to be
made.
Bnt 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. He
didn’t have much of a pull with con-
gress, either, poor man, and all his in-
quiry went for nothing as far as any
action was concerned.
He and his commission did bring oat
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 under consideration
(tod see how best to Improve them.
Whether anything really worth while
will come out of It will depend en-
tirely on the degree of interest Bjjfcj
i. display. If'you will take the trouble
to .show that you knew that the in-
occupation,
fnlo Bill's faithful follower—half-
servant. tialf-“psrtner.”. He copied
Buffalo Bill's dress, his speech and
the way he walked. He let his hair
grow long In imitation of Cody. He
was always at the famous scout’s side,
end took more care of Buffalo Bill's
guns and horses than he did of his
own.
Two stories of how.he.got his name
ore told. One Is this: General Sher-
Idaa had arrived at Fort Wallace,
Kan., and was seeking Buffalo Bill to
guide him on a buffalo hunt. White
appeared and fold the general that
Cody was artsy.
“But when Mr. Cody Is away, I’m
Buffalo Bill.” declared White.
“The h—I you are!” said “Little
I’hU” with contempt. "Buffalo chips?
you mean!” And the general stamped
away angrily.
According to the other version of
White’s christening, one night at Fort
Laramie he claimed the right to be
known by some other name than shn-
. pie Jim White, something descriptive
of his close friendship for Buffalo Bill.
“All right,
the Ninth In
•Buffalo Clilps'.r
White was with the Fifth cavalry
when 'it attacked Chief American
Horse's raitip at Hlftu Buttes. S. L).,
in the autumn of i876* After the de-
feat of the Indians, the soldiers began
(ranting down little parties of Sioux
hidden In the gulches and ravines
pear the edge of a 'cliff. He had
raised himself te his feet and was
ready to fire at a warrior down In
the ravine when s shot rang out.
White sprang In the air, clutched
bis hands to his breust and with the
itartled cry of “Oh, my God, hoys,
fofo’ve got me!” he plunged forward
down the slope, shot through the
heart.
“A simple-minded, gentler fron-
tiersman never lived. He was mod-
esty and courtesy Itself, and he bad
three unusual traits for men of his
class—be never drank; I never heard
him Swear, and no man ever heard
Mm lie,” writes Gen. Charles King,
who knew him well and who saw him
die that cold September morning at
Slim Buttes
QUAKER CHURCH. STILL -,i
CLINGS TO SILENT WAITING
to become regnant.
“The world is now stirred as never
before with aspirations for world
brotherhood. To become fruitful,
these aspirations must be based upon
the will to peace. The attainment
of this will is primarily a spiritual
rather than an intellectual process
It must come through spiritual com-
munion with God, and through Him
with man, the brother. Herein lies
the power of silence, through which
we may become in tune with the
infinite.
“This is not the silence of secius-
lion which would lead one from life’s
Buf- responsibilities to the Introspection
of the monastic cell. It is what
Friends term a living silence through
which men ,may become spiritually
energized for the great tasks of
human betterment.
“Spiritual things cannot be dis-
cerned without quiet meditation, the
western world is reminded by Badhu
Sundar Singh, the Hindoo seer. That
American churches are coming to
recognise this fundamental principle
is illustrated by the clarion coll for
spaces of silence mode by The
Churchman, organ of the Episcopal
Church of America. At a tint* wbeq
the soul of America is being stirred
to meet the need of the world, the
Friends wish it for all friends of
peace and good will."
Mexico’s coming on. She has de-
cided to run hereafter by standard
time instead of making her own
time—and you know what kind of a
time that Is.
JOB PRINTING AT THE HERALD
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gpoij, /«as, m hot
wo’ro going to horo
KELLOGG'S tor oat
gap pot, ‘an wo won’t
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AMncjiitril Prttn
Richmond, Iod.. Jan. 13.—On the
| background of an experience of more
jthan 260 years, 'during which the
Quaker church has relfed upon “si-
lent waiting before God” as the
source of spiritual discernment, its
members, known as the Friends
today still believe in the power of
silence. Walter C Woodward, gen-
eral secretary of the Five Years
Meeting of Friends in America and
editor of the American Friend, in a
statement issued here today said
this religious group still believes
that the world may be purified and
strengthened through the power ot,
a living silence. <
“From the constant clash and con
fusion which distract it,” he said,
* fiat you are tsflra cnamoer of tno unseen reality ol
the spirit. If peace and good will
Hill
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