Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 10, 1922, Page 2

o R S -.'l\::%',qamrm; R s i P SuBsior 15 DAILY . PIONEE NG 1 i ADMINISTRATION PROBABLY IS TO RECOMMEND THE SCHEME | »UNDER ANOTHER NAME. TO ‘SAVE MERCHANT MARINE Argumsnts; For and. Against the Plan, Heard .in Congress During Many i Years, Are Being ‘Revived-—Feared by Both ‘Parties, 3 i . .By EDWARD B. CLARK i )Vnshlnztm—lt seems certain to- d‘nyvtut legislation looking to some- thing like a ship subsidy is to be rec-i olnmended by the administration. Ev-! ery. effgrt which has been made to} bulld up. the American werchant ma- rine has resulted in failure. There is o ‘denial that some kind of a ship sybsidy scheme is under cons‘derwi tion. This_renewed. talk of subsidy for ships wakes old men of a good many national legislators and Washington correspondents, Off and on they have beén talking ship subsldy, sometimes utider another pume, all through the 18 years that the correspondent who writes this has been In Washington. iLegislators have stood on their feet to, say’ that through a subsidy the Amer- ican flug can be restored to the seas: of commerce, and that restorgtion can come in no other way. The country, especially the non- coast part of it, shies uat subsidies. the word has an expensive sound.: Men who seem to know the shipping' bustness say, that if there is no sub-; #ldy there will be po Awmerican mer- chaht marine worth the name: Subvention was one word that was used - instead of ship subsidy in anp elder. day, und now it is sald that the rdmivistration will call subsidy ‘re- wuneration” Of course, whatever name is given to it, the sum total will- be the snme thing. There are some subsidy advocates in the shipping board. One of them, « Malue man, knows more about mer- chant warine than any other man in Washiogton. He is a subsldy man be- cquse he believes that only through u sl_x!_)sldy can anything be done. - Men here have respect for his views, but =ome_ of them say that he is un en- thuslast and: that he is wrong. “Senator: La Follette Blamed. Landsmen who live at a distance frqm the coast and who come to Washington as senators and repre- sentatives, or to act In some other capreity, .flod it hard. to understand the’. merchant . warine, matter. Sen- afor La ‘Follette, who is a landsman of 'ldndsmen +save for the fact that, e lives near one of the Great Lakes, is hpld by 'many of the advocates of a grent” American- merchant marine as being partly responsible for the pres- ent b of things waritime. It is cer- 14in ‘that legislation which Mr. La Fol- 1étte fathered is making it difficult for Abe, United States to establish a iuer- chapt marine on a basis of compe- titign with the shipping of other na- Mons, but.long before Lu Follette came to ‘Washington the merchant marine, a8 ‘somebody has put it, was water- logged in the trough of the sea. Under both Republican and Demo- cratle * control congress has looked avith upkindly eyes on subsidy legls- lation. Most of the Democrats look | on it as an unmitigated evil, while most of the Républicans look on it | w8 something to be avoided because it is “dangerous in the districts,” es- | pecially in the Middle West. i There is ove thiug which is certain, | 1£ the United States government shouald subsidize its merchant marine, | ships would sail the seas and fetch and carty goods under the Stars and | Stripes. The argument of the sub-| ‘sidy wen i that new trade rout would be opened and that the advuiu- tage to the people from increased in- dustry: would make up the subsidy a thousand fold. There are others who ‘say that it is an evil thing for the! |government to “pny money to cor- porations.” | Controversy Over Submarin The submarine controversy in the international conference was about 08 virulent, so far as external appear- ‘ances go, within the last few days us it was along about the time that the Lugitanla was sunk. However, no loss of life has been reported up to the| :present- moment, though there has been sonie loss of hope. The international conference las ibeen principally “aps,” but there are; ioceaslonal “downs.” Some of the pes-| simism concerning the general outcome apparenily has been fathered by a ue-i slre for disaster. There can be no, discounting this. ¥n administration circles in Wash-| ington there is some evidence of dis-| appointment that savors ef petulance at.times because of the disposition in | some places to hold that the confer- ‘ente may be a failure because some of the nilnor watters under discussion ihave mot been or.way not be settled to_the satisfaction of all parties con- \cefned. Ausiliary naval crutt in trath .are an auxiliary matter. The settlement of big-ship problews, it seems to the administration's friends. (should be considered a victory big ienough to minimize disappointment be« \cause ‘the questions concerning the amaller_vessels may have to be dais icussed at a later conference. The view 14'thiat most of the floor space has been ' |branches of the service. of supplies, swept while a little dust still remalips to be collected from the corners. . French Playing a Hand. { The French governiment has ‘some! matters which it wauts to have settled! over in Europe. It wants a better un-| derstanding with Great Britain con- cerning certain. continental matters.' The French have been playing a hand.; They kuow the exact position of the, British brethren on the submarine at-! ter and they are trying to secure some’ promises from the island government: before yleldipg on U-boats. This is the way it looks to thé side-line observers; In this conference town. A The truth is that the administratiin does not seem’ to b wWorrylng'paeticu-: Iarly over the smuller mutters’ whi¢h |- have: come to' trouble the conference. It 1ooks upon the fonr-power treaty as belng an assured fact of the future; e belng: |~ |0oks’ upon the naval holiday as a certafnty, and it thinks that In‘n | general way a fim foundation hay, been lald for peaceful proceedings in. the Orient. If a man s given a mil- tion dollars he can afford to look with pquanimity on the possible loss of hun- dreds. | Other Worries of Administration. If the prophets of evil ave right, and it Washington officialdom kuows that they are right, the placidity with which ! the administration looks upon things today is astounding. The truti is that the President and his advisers are per- haps more than satisfied with the way that things have gone. It is known' that they looked fer trouble on certaln iinor matters, and Instead of being worrled at trouble’s appearance they nve somewhat surprised it did not loom targer than it has, ‘ There are other things than tempo- | tary or possibly permanent difficulties’ in the way of n complete conference! ngreement to engage the attentlon of; the administration. The party upon whose success perhaps depends a res nomination for President Harding Is not behaving.itself as well as it might In the person of its representatives in house and senate. There are Repub- ticans who say¥ this boldly. It Is only: fair to say, however, that finally the ndvice of certain wise politicians who, are not in congress seems to have had) Its effect. * War Exhibits in "Museum. Novel writers, essay writers, and even history writers seem to have taken notice of the fact that the, people are tired of reading about the “war. Perhiaps the “tire” is more In the seeming than in the reality, but the truth remains that so-called war. literature s just now at low ebb. Government officials, however, know, that interest in the great war is hound to revive, and that the present generation will have a share of the revival, apd that future generations In' retrospect will have the keenest In- terest in tlie great conflict. = Wash- Ington, therefore, is taking pains to preserve what may be called a com- plete scries of pictures, of material nnd documents ¢oncerning the war for civilization. In the great National museum in Washington today there is in process of emplacement for permanent exhibi- tion purposes every possible thing which the government can lay hands oti which bears a - part in deplcting the progress of the greatest war that the world has’ever known. The gov- | proment has an immensc amount of | material, and u large part of it has | heen turned over to the directors of the National museum for permaneat ownership and permoanent exhibition. When permanent owoership is spoken of it should be suid that in tiuth it rests with the people, for everything that is in the keeping of the National museum belongs in the highest sense to the country. Vast Mass of Material. In the National mwuseum the devel- opment step by step of all the great’ weapons of offense for use on sea and on land is portrayed. The first sve- ¢ vessful heavier-than-air flying wachine, Langley's contrivance, Is on exhibition, ' and with it is the latest of the great alrerafts. 1f any American fn:her! wants to see everything which his son came in touch with in the army or vavy of his country, he cun find it in the National museum, and it nakes no difference whether the lad was an nrtilleryman, an engineer, an infantry- man, n gas man, a machine gunner, an neronaut, or was Content to serve In sy one of the equally necespary The National museum contains every- fhing whieh had anything fo do with gervice in the great war, Tt takes duys.to go through this ivar material. Awmong the most interesting of the eshibits are some of the war pictures which were painted by Ameri- can artists while actually at the front, or in the devastated regions just back of the front. Tt may not be venerally known, but Uncle Sam real- ized in advance the value of paintings of the great war. Xe did not intend to wait .on the possibilities of the fu-: ture to secure them, nor did he intend 10 be compelled, if he could help it fo pay enormous sums for pictures puainted by artists ) working ‘on'‘ their | own rvesponsibility Il the_ embattled, regions. thi ssdbel ‘The result was that the War depnrt--f‘ ment gave conimissions in, the army; to a considerable number of -noted American artists, and then put them under orders “to paint.” 1t should be | sald for these artists that they ran | nl the dangers of war in order to do their work properly and to get into It the spirit of the front. o | Declines Reaponsibility. He—Have you read my latest book of poems? You know they were in- by you. N She—Ob, Mr. Seribbler, T don't think' it's fair to put the blame on me. " the corporation, to he drawn upon as might be necessary to meet any- “timated expenditure involved. H tmee—ee————————— . Summary of the Federal Go{rerhment’s Many Operative Difficulties N By GEN. C..G. DAWES; Director of Budget Bureau. . Heretofore our government, in routine business ¢ administration, has'labored under ditficulties analo-- gous ‘to- those of a private corporation in which: The president of the corporation gave practically. o, attention to its ordinary: routine business. He: m‘o‘ided his responsibility for .the proper conduct of -the_business of . the-corporation, jand neither assumed nor delegated active conirol over it. I'he-administrative vice presidents of the corpora-, “tion were allowed to run their several flepnrhm‘ntsf % Y withpu€ -any enforeed contact in the discussion of! routine business matters of the corporation and as if cach separate de- partment was an independent authority in all watters of routine. : Because of the lack of any outlined business plan, resulting from the I absence of executive pressure and supervision, fhe several departments op-: erated with almost an entire lack of eo-ordination. : The corporation was not operated for profit, and it< principgl Cunds} for operating expenses were obiained by a levy upon stockholders (an ap-; peal to congress for an appropriation, invelving a collection through taxes | or imposts). No balance sheet of the corporation. as a whole was ever; prepared. i, No complete inventories of its propertics existed. No statement ol its cur-i} rent ts, such as salable material and current supplies hadever been' made, nor was there any casy method existing of sceuving it. ¢ When cash was placed by thestockholders at the disposal of the cor-: poration for its purposes, the custom was to notify the different depart-! ments that a certain amount of credit was available with the treasurer of: As a result of all this, tlie corporation, in effect, geldom reconsidered an unwise project entered into by ‘any department. > i The administrative licads of the departments of the corporation were seléeted, as a rule, with less tefercnce to their business qualifications than to their gualifications as advisers to the president of the corporation along | other lines than routine business administration. l i e very poor. A person have little of the goods of thiy e { world_and yet e rich. P fong At Certain Times Robert Louis | gp0 1yoily material and spititual. Ma. Stevenson’s Manuscript Is Said to ‘es of themselves can do lit- . Have Been “Weird. tter how much m that money alone iuch, Money cannot buy wiship, -mercy. Money can- ts. owner an amiable tem- literary taste,. or moral Robert Louis Stevenson’s handwrit- ing was fairly legible when he felt well, although when he not welld poe ive his scrawl, was distinetly weird: = In g pannien his article on -the _genesis of “The | worgy. Money for Individuals. collec- Master of Ballautrae,” he speaks of tively .canzaccomplish nothing: without having ‘been -haunted by a.Story. “col- { mind- and-sogl, put with that money. ceived In Highland ‘rain, -in sthe .blend b qoehodye st furnish these spiritual of the smell of heather and bog plants, | aeqos.~Grit. T and with a mind full of thetAthole | B correspondence and thé memories of the dumlicide Justice.” . , Tngenlouy -surmises. have heen male | as to the meaning of:the last:ivords Sir Graham Balfour now exphuius,: ac-' cording 1o (he Westminster.. Garetté, that after many heads had heen:) called into consuitation. he himself:| eame to the conclusion that-it should rend “Chevalier de Johnstone.” - Tl!e# R Rinuisance. + Chagles, Mag§ehwab said at a afp- ner in Loretigr. ; “Some nien; retirthg from. business at flfl,yfi\_’&'n} b, take bungalows at Los Angeles and do nothing but sit on théir’ front porches and listen to their urteries hardening. A bad thing. “Others join the Atlantic City col- ny: There' they. are sure to become cranks, golf cranks, while their wives, frequenting: the board walk sales in ‘the Japauese shops, become auction Ceranks. Rather a- nuisance; that. “I once spent the week end at an Aflantic City cottage where my Thost and hostess were crauks of this kind. . i My bedroom adjoined theirs and I got Wrien One Is Rich. very little rest, for all night Jong the Possessiong are synouymous With | golf crank. hushand kept shouting In riches. One is rich who has great pos-: his sleep, ‘Fore! and instantly his sessions, But possessions are many | guetion crank wife would yell out, and varied. A person may have much { grour and a half " interpretation may be corvect, for in, one of Stevenson's papers occurs the: combination “brenn.” The late James Murray of the Oxford dictionary asked Stevenson what It meant. ~ Stevenson replled that it was n misprint for “ocean.”, g NEGROES IN FLORIDA IN 1528 Two Africans Were Members of Narvaez' Expeditios-of That Year, According to. History. Ll ' The. first’ record of negro slaves within the_present boundaries of the United States is found in an account of the Spanish® expedition of Nurvaez to Florida tn 1328, which Included two negroes. But the negro was not_ in Florlda to stay” Gntll 1565, when a few landed - with - Memedez' ;colonists. Tt 18 believed the Spanlards had negroes with them in theic unforfunate colony of San Miguel de Gualdape in 1520, which J. Shea Jocates4u the neigh- borhood of . Jamestown, Va. T H. Bancroft, in_ his “Arizona:ad New Mexico,” makes it clear the negro wus In some of the ‘early exploration’ and missionary parties to that territory. Doubtless the negroes :continued - in the province-until the Spupiards were driven out In 1860, (“Introduction of !Se:::o(-v: Into the.! t s 3 can Histor . Mreasuver, owned by the wick, snd a Duteh vessel brought slaves to Jamestown in 1610.. The freasurer Is supposed to be the first glaver fitted out in Amevica. The first American-built slaver was the ship De- sire, a vessel of 120 tons, built at Mar- blehead in 1636, (“The Awerican Slave Trade,” by J. . Spears.) [ November, 1891). The earl of War- Rough on the Family. 5 A notorious war profiteer was talk- | ing to a group of young afeu on & golf club veranda. “Look at me,” the profit- eer sald. “Twenty years ago a poor Doy, Working like a dog, and today. ~—'n jfe chewed violently on nig ci- gar. “Look at me ™ Jie repeated. “See what I've dune for myself.” ‘The young men lovked at him curl- ously, and then one of them said: “Your motive’s ‘good, of course, but I qoesn’t your family object to your pos- ing as a horrible example in this Loudon Opinfon. = SEEK TO RECOVER FUNDS ON FORCED NOTE PAYMENT (By United ‘Press) Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 9.—Suils to recover $7,600 which: they werc forced to pay on’ notes given to sup- port the defunct Grand Forks Amer- ican, former Nonpartisan . League paper, will be heard in district court here today. Henry G. Link, Niagara, G. F. Ul- berg and H. O. Haraldson, the 1atter two of Northwood, contend that they signed the notes us aeccommodations and should not be forced to pay. 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