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MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1920
GOVERMENTAL INEFFICIENCY
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, has a right to
speak on governmental inefficiency,
f©r he has a well-earned reputation of
himself being one of the most effi
cient, constructive, and courageous
wen in the service of the government.
He rendered a remarkable service to
the Navy and the country during the
war—a service of action and not of
♦elk.
Recently he gave an address at Har
vard, from which university he grad
uated in 1904-, on “The Americaniza
tion of Governmental Affairs,” an ad
dress devoted entirely to the problem
•f governmental inefficiency.
One instance which Secretary
Roosevelt cited of duplication of gov
ernmental effort would have delight
ed the heart of Sir W. S. Gilbert.
Secretary Roosevelt said:
I want to tell the latest version of
“Little Eve and the Three Bears,”
only in this case there were four. It
nhows one of the delightful situations
we meet. Up in Alaska there are sev
eral species of bears, one of which
happens to be a bear that was found
near one of the original reservations
Maintained by the army when Alaska
was purchased from Russia in 1867
The army people began to exterminate
this bear, and a law was passed pro
tecting him. The carrying out of the
low was given to the war department;
and today the wnr department, after
half a century, continues to maintain
jurisdiction over this particular
species of bear.
Not very far aw'ay on some islands
1* another species of bear. I suppose
that those on the Outside had
•riginally to get to the island on some
kind of vessel, or a cake of ice, so
that the bear wfas placed under the
jurisdiction of the department of com
merce; and the Secretary of Com
merce is the father of those bears.
Then, a little while later, somebody
went into the interior and found won
ierful, big, open spaces, which he as
sumed would some day be wheat
fcelds. I suppose these bears were
placed under the jurisdiction of the
Secretary of Agriculture and today
She Secretary of Agriculture is res
ponsible for their welfare.
Alaska is filled with many differ
ent species of bears, and as they did
not know quRe what to do with all
of those other kinds of bears, they
put them under the Secretary of the
Interior. So, you see, the bears in
Alaska are well taken care of. Four
great departments are responsible;
each maintains a fairly large organi
sation for the protection of bears. Of
oourse that is ridiculous. The same
thing is true in many much more im
portant matters.
Secretary Roosevelt further pointed
out that we had not one navy, but
five. There is the real navy; there is
the navy controlled by the ‘war de
partment, which prior to 1916 had
wore vessels in it than the regular
navy; there is thfe treasury depart
ment navy, consisting of the revenue
witters; and under the department of
commerce there are two more navies,
®«e for the coast and geodetic survey
*»d the other for the lighthouse serv
ice. All of these navies maintain a
separate personnel and separate sys
tems of repair and maintenance.
Likewise, Secretary Roosevelt
pointed out, we have five secret
cervices, maintained by the treasury
iepartment, and the navy department.
So far as the navy department it
self is concerned, Secretary Roose
velt said that he believed that, if
given a free hand, he could increase
the actual number of dollars paid to
its employees by five millions a year,
gad at the same time save the gov
ernment at least fifteen dollars gross,
a net saving of ten million.
We wish that he might have a
chance to try.—New York Outlook,
Exchanges which harp continually
on an existing political ring should
remember that a ring is something
without an end.—Valdez Miner.
What’s become of the man who
wanted little here below?
The old-fashioned tramp was a pest,
but he was no bolshevist.
Eventually the public will learn to
do its coal shopping early.
Many an ex-doughboy is regretting
that he disposed of that old olive drab.
Radicalism may be the spice of life,
but tcy> much spice spoils the flavor.
These new jazz orchestras have
played no part in allaying the unrest.
The reds doa not hesitate to vary
their color scheme with a yellow
streak.
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' How to let go of a strike is .some
times as hard a problem as how to
start one.
The poet seems to he almost alone
in keeping production fully a;.east of
the demand.
It’s better to be safe lhan sorry
that you hurried in front of the auto
mobile truck.
Paris reports that “the reds are un
popular in France,” as well as in the
United States.
As for that interstitial gland rp
juvenation process, our advice is, don’t
monkey with it.
Any man who will try these wood
alcohol highballs of today is certainly
dying for a drink.
There is art in everything. Some
overcoats, for example, are advertised
as “masterpieces.”
i The question of where food goes is
one of the pressing public and private
problems of the day. ♦
According to report the cost of wom
en’s hair switches has also soared out
of sight, to put it baldly.
If patches should become fashion
able, they would probably be too high
priced for the poor to wear.
Berliners are reported to be wearing
paper clothes. Let’s hope they do not
have to go out in a rainstorm.
The amazing thing of it is. the old
swigsters seem to be disappointed to
find that they can live without it.
Perhaps when the railroads are re
vised and amended those accordion
plaited tickets wall go out of stvle.
According to the view of some sour
critics, girls who use rouge are as
| dangerous ns any other kind of ‘Ireds."
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ters in the name of your favorite
tobaeco or cigar.
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Add eight.
Divide by two.
Subtract the number yoa
started with.
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Add one.
Subtract six.
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if the man at the counter can
not tell you the correct answer j
he will treat you to a cigar, j
We are as certain of the su
perior quality of our cigars and
tobacco as we are of solving
this problem.
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