Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX. Che Casper Daily Cribune t Sunday at Casper, Natrona} n Offices, Tribune Building Issuec every even: € County, Wyo. Public x tio: Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class 22, 1916 matter, Novernber 22, | BUSINESS TEL ‘ES 15 and 16/ Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments} President and Editor CHARLES BARTON 3ER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 Press is exclusively entitled to the use ation of all news credited in this paver and) local news published herein. | Advertising Representatives. Frudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, Ti; 286 Fifth Avenue, New York City: Globe Bi Suite 494, Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- an Francisco, Cal, Copies of the Daily n file in the New York, Chicago, Boston rancisco offices and visitors are -weicome. 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Better roads for Natrona county and more high- ways for Wyoming. for shippers of tho more frequent train \ / SPER | <“S0,000//7- IN THE UNION ALNNOD LS3YYNOS JHL NI IN THE SQUAREST STATE Severing the Red Tape T IS HOPED that out of the present admini: tration we may in truth and im fact obtain something of busines in government. The joint con gressional committee working for more than a year has made recommendations in its report reallocat- ing a number of federal bureaus and other activ-! ities and in short suggesting a complete reorgani- zation of executive departments with a view of abolishing duplication and delay in business. The executive departments have in fact never been or- ganized from a business standpoint, As bureaus and commissions were created they were placed under the wing of one executive department or other, or misplaced as tho case may haye been, and there have remained. Some of the most gro-| tesque activities are vested with the several execu tive departments. In addition to this incongruous and ineflicient} condition, this method of throwing the agencies of the government together in a haphazard manner has made for increasing duplication of work multiplication of expenses. reason for the interminable red tape which is the| curse of administrative effort. The present report is the latest in a long series| of similar ones upon the same subject. All pre- vious investigations and recomemndations have either come to naught, or have been productive of results pitifully small commensurate with the| amount of labor necesary to obtain the facts. With- in the present generation, the two most important were the Keep Commission, appointed by President Roosevelt, and the Taft Commission on Efficiency and Economy. The Keep Commision was appoint ed upon President Roosevelt's own initiative. Its investigation covered a very wide range of sub-| jects. It collected and compiled a vast amount of} valuable data. It made eighteen different reports| on as many different subjects and each report was the basis for very important recommendations. | Owing to the fact that congress made no appro- priation for the printing of the reports as public documents, much valuable data thus collected was lost. However, this commission accomplished some very desirable governmental reforms, among them the standardization of telephone switchboard serv- ice; uniformity of disbursing and collecting of- fices; establishment of a general cost sysiem; tho | | | Democratic congress. This hosility was maintained fuse the issue by | been | There was no Women’s Bureau and no Children’s| | but it is cecded without delay to pigeonhole all of the recom- mendations made by this commission. Democratic department heads were no less hostile than the during the eight years of Democratic control, dur- ing which favoritism, bureaucracy, waste, incom- petency and inefficiency became firmly entrenched in the admin ative ends of the government. ek Drastic Reduction in Payroll T THE CLOSE of last December there were) 83,913 less civilian employes on the government ayrolls than there were when the Harding admin- istration came into power. This by way of redeeming one of the promises of | the party platform and of the presidential can-} didate. | The largest decreases are as follows: Treasury department, 20,307; War department, 46,856; De | partment of Justice, 885; N Commerce, 2,709; Labor, 507; Government Printing Office, 64; Interstate Commerce Commission, 419; Ship- ping Board, 6,031; Panama Canal Zone, 4,628. | The largest proportional decreases are those of the Treasury department, which ‘has cut its forces over one-fourth; the War department, which has cut its force one-half; the Navy, which has cut its force 45 per cent; and the Shipping Board, which has cut its force over 66 per cent. Democrats, unable to criticise this tremendous reduction of federal employes since the Wilson administration went out of power, seek to con- showing the number of employes £ tod: s much higher than it was under the Wilson administration before the war. In other words, they charge that the Harding administration is not as economical in peace times the Wilson administration wa 8. i The manifest unfairness of this comparison is at once evident when we take into consideration the fact that since 1915 there have come into ex- istence, by reason of the war and by reason of legis- lation, great many federal activities which did not exist in the early years of the Wilson regim For instance, there is the Veterans’ Bureau, wh on December 31, 1{ employed 29,863. It not exist in 1915. | There was no Railroad administration in 1915. That federal agency was created by the Wilson regime and administered by McAdoo. It is still in existence trying to close out the mess which Me- Adoo left and to do this it maintains a force of 1y There was no Shipping Board in 1915. The Harding administration found that agency rammed to the guards with Democratic henchmen and under the present administration two-thirds of them have let out. However, until the shipping board | question is settled the board is needed. The present staff consists of There was no That federal agen ien Propert y employes Bureau in 1915.} There was 19 prohibition amendment to the Constitution in 1915 and no Prohibition Bureau! for the purpose of enforcing the } | There was no restrictive immi act in| 1915 and no necessity of a very large force to see to it that the provisions of this act are lived up to.! Bureau in connection with the Labor department in 1915. | The Income Tax Bureau of the Treasury depart-| ment has been vastly increased since 1915 because of the tremendous increase in the amount of busi-| ness it must transact. Eyen with the Wilson re- gime this bureau was four years behind in its au- dits and collections when the Harding administra- tion took charge. And so the list might be continued. The argu- ment that there are more employes in the govern- ment today than there were in 1915 proves noth- ing except the fact that the activities of the gov- ernment have become greater and therefore necessi- tate a larger staff to handle the business, The fair test of the Harding administration as to its ability to eliminte needless employes is fur- nished by comparison of conditions when it came! into power and conditions today. When it came into power there were 640,175 civilians on the payrolls of the government. On December 31 last there were 5i 2, a decrease, as stated above, of 83,913. Not only has the Harding administration reduced the number of public employes by nearly 84,000, a matter of common knowledge that the| various departments are doing more work and do-| ing it with greater dispatch with this reduced force. Take the Department of Commerce, for example. That department is doing infinitely more work] today than ever before in its history. Secretary Hoover has completely reorganized it, adding al score of new activities to serve the business in- terests of the country more promptly and more| effectively. Its work is more up-to-date than ever! ‘before. Yet it has dropped 2,700 from its payrolls in the process of this organization. The same ma; be said of the Department of Justice, the U. 8. Shipping Board and other federal agencies. oa Truth in History wt IS HISTORY? Apparently too many purchasing committees of school system an-j swer--a book to be bought as cheaply as possible. For it is certain that the children of the United) States are not all being taught from the best his- tories, nor even from true histories. And a history that is not true is, worthless, misleading and de- ceiving. History not true, is not history, but propaganda. History which teaches something else than his- creation of « supply commitee; the work- z ‘le of classification of govern-, ment clerks and yraduation of their salaries; the formulation of a sct of uniform regulations for all public employes; the abolition of the printing} of a great amount of unnecessary and unimport-| ant documents, as well as the printing in dupli- cate of many documents and papers. The Taft Commission on Efficiency and Economy was authorized by congress at the direct request of President Taft in 1910 and an appropriation was made to finante its activities. It completed its in- vestigations early in 1912 and among its recommen-| dations was the establishment of a national budget} system. It made a great number of other very val-! uable recommendations and its report contained a world of information and data relative to the activities af all the executive agencies of the} government. Its report in support of a budget system was de nounced by the Democratic congress and was made the subject of hostile provision in the appropria tion | ( x it did during the closing mor Vr aft dministration, he had no o isist upon its proper consider ation The nistration coming into power with ‘ ‘helming majority in congress pro: tory, is history perverted. History of the United States which does not keep forever young the memories of the great men whose traditions are our glory, is no fit book for school or library. For what did Washington, Putnam, Wayne, Lighthorse Harry Lee, Nathan Lule, De- eatur, Farragut, Lincoln, and all the rest, live and die if not to hold a mighty torch of truth and| bravery and patriotism and unselfish devotion to Ame before us all? Did we fight a war of revolution for principles or for money? Did we fight a war of 1812 for principles or gain? Did we fight a war in Mexico for cash or for love of country IT we defeat Spain, put Cuba on its feet and civilize the Philippines for Antrican ideals or to add wealth to our coffers? Did we send millions of men and billions of dollars to Europe for wealth or saye the world’s civilization and freedom? Then let us tell the truth in the books we call histories, which ave not historical unless they tell Che Casper Daily Cribune Grandma, the Demon Chaperone. Sister CLARAS SWEETIE. MAY Look LIKE A DUMB BELL BUT yuUST THE SAME. HE WAS ABLE To RIG UP A DEVICE To TELL WHEN GRANDMA WAS AT HER “LisTENING Post. | | | | Y, STRING PULLS SHE'S ON THE KRUG RIGHT —By Fontaine Fox, “TocAN TELL BY THe WAY THE Plumpness Back in Favor. For many years now the woman| with the figure of a string bean has had things all her own way. Wo men's styles have been designed for her alone, artists haye painted her alone, bewildered men have tried to| get used to the idea of admiring her alone, and her rivals of ficshier mold have been reduced to drinking| vinegar. But now an agitation for the re- vival of the plump beauty has arisen in Paris. And the surprising dis- covery has been made that, although | the string bean woman was invented| in the Paris ateliers of modes, French-| men don’t admire thin women, but are pining for the reappearance of the charmer who made an armful. An ormful of loveless is also the not disagreeable ideal of red blooded | Americans, according to some of them, Curves, Horatio, are the leading amatory desideratum of this average man. He wants his Venus well cushioned, like the robust Venuses of the old Flemish painters. Those Venuses looked as if they couldn't run a block without getting out of breath, to be sure, but, according to this authority, the average man doesn’t pine for a sweetheart who can do the 100 yard dash in ten seconds. “No, ma’am,” he says, ‘the average man would pick a Venus as like as possible to Lillian Russell or to Fay ‘Templeton when those rival queens of day and night were winning hearts in our daddy's: time. “Rscorting a woman was a more formidable task in the old days than it is now. The darlings were mi dignified and not nearly so spry. Their heels were just as high and thelr center of gravity was higher. You had to be careful with ‘em. Their shoes were so tight and their corsets so rigid that they always seemed in danger of toppling over. Yet they seldom did. “But the plump belle of the last generation, although just as earnest- ly desirous of embraces as the giri of; today, didn't lend herself to em bracing nearly as well. Somehow her cious souls who ate it for the sheer love of the conflict. “Removing the squirt leaves the grapefruit absolutely helpless,” said a much piqued breakfa “It may be approached from any ngle and attacked with impunity. an- not fight back. pletely disarmed. n¢ It It has been com- With its squirt the grapefruit made a determined stand against every assault. It was a fog: | man worthy of any cutlery. fan devised his major operations against it and generally bested it. But it resisted every goagge. Its quirt was a masterful defense. The breakfasteer who unfurled his napkin and advanced to the fray was certain | to get his fiflll of fray and julc | “It was always a glorious fight to} the bitter end. And many times have I seen the grapefruit declared win-! ner, It has stopped many a clever spoonsman whose seconds threw in a towel when he received a well) directed squirt to the eye. “Of course, I must admit that the squirt of the grapefruit was as un- certain of direction as a boy with St. Vitus dance. And the innocent spectators at a grapefruit bonspiel none of the joys of victory. Theirs | was a peculiar position. I can hardly blame them for demanding that the fruit be rendered squirtless. Yet at! the same time I should think they would have exhibited more sportsman ship. They could at least grudgingly were always the sufferers. They took | no part in the struggle and tasted | into toddles, hesitations, or camel from kicking up a row. As It is they have spoiled the game for every one. | ow the.new born grapefruit will | be as defenseless as a soft boiled egg. It will merely be an item on the bill of fare. It will passively submit to | all attacks and there will be no glory |in overcoming it. It will be unable to send forth a single dissenting jet. “It does not seem right. It will take much of the fun from my life and the lives of many others. And I'll always regret the decision the growers made. To take advantage of a listless, squirtless grapefruit will always seem to me to be very unfair.” ——___—_—_ Polka Coming Back Twice a month during each normal winter we hear it said ‘that “society is going simply wild” over some new dance—the Elephant Elevation, the Hedgehog Hop, the Mustard Faster ide, or some other intricate gyra- tion. Despite these threatened up- heaals, the fox “~ot, the one step, and the waltz have been virtually the only dances seen off the stage for years. ‘These three stand-bys have been am- plified and jazzed and transformed walks, but they have never given way |seriously even to the tango, still so popular in (Paris. ‘The shimmy, her- alded all over the world as the new {American dance, was nothing but a | sub-division of the fox trat. (The “sta- tionary” shimmy was not a fox trot, concede the did pleasure to those who enjoy the contests and refrain figure got in the way. And her corset, which was like a coat of mail. “There was a certain rigidity about her that gave a touch of unconsclous pathos to every embrace. One felt that she longed to be squeezed, but the only way to make a squeeze felt through her amor, which was ul- ready squeezing her all out of shape below tke bust, was to exert a pres sure so forced as to cause fatigue and mar the sentiment of romance. “No wonder she was more shy and generally emotional than the damsel of today! Kisses were probably not as common then as they are now. It wasn't as easy to get at a girl's mouth, especially if she was a big girl.” Squirtless Grapefruit. Officials of a Western growers’ Association have announced that the squirt has been removed from the grapefruit. This move was neces sary, they explained, not because of complaints from lovers of the fruit, | but on account of objections of those who occupied nelghboring positions | ana subjected to frequent | showerings without participation in the pleasure of the battle. ‘The information concerning the de- elsion to desquirt this popular fruit is viewed with dejection by those pugna. 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The newcomer is really an old friend, considered dead, and almost Expert corsgtier at the Barcle: Shop in the ® 8. Bldg.—Advertiso. ment. —— forgotten—the polka. One of the best-| Get Chamber of Commerce An, nual known leaders of dance orchestra8| sisting ‘Tickets today. Banquct says that if a dance begins to sour,” the polka can always save it. Jazz babies and cake eaters of to- day usually think of the polka as a relative of the Virginia reel, some- thing our grandmothers used to dance in hoop skirts. On the contrary, !t is infinitely livelier, as it is danced today at least, than any of the three standbys. In fact, it looks much too tiring for the dancing man, but he seems to like it. According to the description of one of its most prominent exponents, :t consists of three slides and a hop. or it may be three hops and a slide, but to the uninitiated it looks as if tho man just hopped as fast as possible and the girl tried to keep her feet from under. 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