Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1930, Page 10

A—I0 - FORESEES EXPERTS Needs Salvaging From Politicians. Siaff Correspondent of The Star. educational requirements of all lic officials, is the increasing demand litical scientists, as exemplified in discussions before the Institute of e professors see the day near when will choose mayors as they choose their professional _skill hey see the extension of the manager system to States and gov- nts. is was essentially the plan offered night by Dr. Will Durant, noted osopher, for the “salvaging of de- racy.” Under the preseAt system aid, the sovereignty of the people - T klass city unless he had twice governed | Sherman an THE EVENING trust act and has encour- & second-class ¢ity, and no one eligible | aged the coming together of manufac- as governor uniess | candidate, foolproof. Finance Democracy would be tor Supports Idea. rector of finance of Ohio. power in State government reorganiza- tion, he sald the chief danger was of this _power falling into -dncompetent hands. $ “The record of voters in choosing competent men as Governors has not been conspicuously consistent,” he said | “It scems doubtful thet this situation jcan be improved unless a new corncept is introduced into the theory of admii istrative reorganization—the concept of expert service. The Governor is usually an amateur in the fleld of State ad- ministration—indeed, in any field of ad- ministration. Frequently he is a civilian without governmental experience. What seems to be needed is an expert admin- istrative officer who will have supervi- sion of the administrative affairs of the State just as the city manager does in our larger citles. Under such a plan the Legislature and the Governor would determine policies and the chief admin- istrator would, carry them into effect through the various departments under |his supervision. The admi he had been twice | turers in all mayor of one of the larger citics of his | formulate i State. Every adult would vote, but| order to cut waste, | nobody could. vote for an unqualified | th made | whe! istrator | ment of high Panamaian officials. linec of enterprise to intertrade agreements in duplication and e creations of unnecessary articles, ther we are not coming to the Com- munist ideal from another point of approach. May We not see here within a few years the duplication & the Ger- Much thel same idea was expressed | man iron and stcel cartel in every today by Harvey Walker, assistant di- | line of industry, ever in the chain store Stressing the | field. need of centralization of administrative | ginning to-see thal uncontrolled ex- More and mor: people are be- ploitation of natuai resources means Waste, high cost, ruination. The economic world ‘s upside down and a new way of living must be found.” Panama Declared Danger Spot. Panama is a danger spot between the United States and Great Britain, due to zlleged British gold mining opera- tions on either sid> of the canal, Dr. Henry Kittredge Norton told the insti- tute. ¢ “Panama is coming to mean in Amer- jcan national psvchology,” he said, “what Suez means to the British, Any kind of invasion in that region touches our susceptibilities British corporation is - carrying on operations in the iungles on either side of the canal. This corporation pur- ports to be hunting for gold. It is reported to have spent upward of $3,000,000 in the search though much of this sum has govne for the entertain- No Yet a powerful | STAR, . WASHINGTON, stock-selling game. The gold lupply: appears too limite1 to warrant such an | outlay. Some Americans relate the | British operations to the problem of the defense of the Canal Zone. There is some nervousness over this. It must be added that thus far there has been no attempt to use’ the concessions for | other than commercial purposes.” NON-REFUELING RECORD ‘ Ends Flight in Amphibian Plane. PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y., August 12- (/). —A world’s record for non-re- | fueling endurance flight in an amphib- ian plane, taking off from the water, wes claimed Sunday for W. B. At- | water, veteran Port Washington fiyer, | who disregarded a fractured ankle to g0 aloft and stay up 22 hours, 18 min- utes, 32 seconds in a week end flight| { over Manhasset Bay. urday and landed Sunday afternoon. Atwater broke his left ankle fou days ago when he slipped while walk: | ing. It was in a heavy cast during the flight. The attempt was under official ob- servation of representatives of the Na- | tional Aeronautical Association. They | said no official record for such a flight | had been made | Atwater, Veteran Flyer, r| | automobile squad. He went up Sat- J = i G POLICEMEN AND JAIL HEAD TO GO TO FORT Will Train With Washington Army Reserve Officers for Two Weeks. Included in the list of 61 Washington Army Reserve officers who will report for two weeks' active training duty at, Fort_George Meade, Md.. commencing Sunday, August 17, ar: 2 members of the Police Department and the super- intendent of the District Jail, Lieut. Col. William Lee Peak. The police officers on the list include Licut. Oscar J. Letterman of the sixth precinct, former head of the police vice squad, and Henry M. Jett of the police Jett and Letterman are captains in the Reserves. The two are in the Infantry. B —— COLONIAL ANTHRACITE “Guaranteed No Slate, No Clinkers” Ask the Man Who Uses It Ralph J. Moore Coal Co. 1406 N. Cap. St. Pot. 0970 Pot. 0971 TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, -1930. POLITICIAN, 73, DIES R. T. 0'Connor, “Big Four” Dem- ocrat, Friend of Tammany Chiefs. ST. PAUL, August 12 (#)—Richard T. O'Connor, 73, for half a century prominent in national Democratic politics, died at a hospital yesterday after four years' illness. Although he never held a major political office Mr. O'Connor often had | been called one of the “big four” of | Democratic politics in the Nation. For many years he was closely associated | | em bleeding, itc Rectal Irritations Use the new wonder cones— TORB SUPPOSITORIES Doctors everywhere recommend ers for theis poothing reiet. $1.00 per = 12 Treatments AiVourNeighborhood Druggiot or direct from Toth, Incorporated, Allentown Ps. MONEY BACK CUARANTEE national conventions and presidential campaigns of his party. His widow survives. with Tammany Hall chieftians in New. York and party leaders in Washington and other cities, He was active in INSIST CN THE ORIGINAL For mal de mer Seasickness has no terror for most people who travel with a bottle of our malted milk tablets. They satisfy hunger without overloading the stomach. Also try them for relief from fatigue, throat irritations and sleeplessness. A lunch that travels with you. At the best drug-stores. HORLICK’S RACINE, WISCONSIN become merely the sovereignty of | should be chosen jointly by the Gov-|gold has been produced, but the com- | politicians, = el pany has obtained concessions covering ¢ has become unreal, he | nearly a third of th area of the Repub- ot the decay of the| - Urees Government in Business. | Heaty, T ks on which it once rested | Government control of business must| “The reason for these British activi- | in ;America—free land, free competi- | increase, said Oswald Garrison Villard, tics is something of a mystery. The | 1108, national isolation and the economic | editor of the New York Nation. Despite | character of the men in charge pre- | indgpendence of the individual home- | cries of “Socialism,” he said, this tend- | cludes the possibiuty that it is a mer stedd.” The disappearance of economic | ency is apparent all over the world, — equality, he said, has left vast masses |especially in -the field of natural re- of);fl\ple powerless and has laid them Relieves a Headache or Neuralgi sources, and government is “recognizing ol to easy manirulation by political | its moral responsibility to curb the ap- | makhines, with the educated man prac- | Detites and curb the ambitions and the | ticglly disqualified for office. | | 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first | day, and checks Malaria in three days. Room-Size Axminster Rugs 8.3210.6 or 9x12 ft. sizes at each price. $1.40 81x90 Bleached Sheets $1.09 Full double-bed sheets of heavy, round-thread quality. Free from starch or dressing. ‘Main Floor $35 $42.50 and $45 Grades........0 $55 and $60 profit motives of those who business i3S < daring leads them into new fields. Urges “Foolproof” Democracy. “The thought sometimes. presents he final breakdown of democrac) itself,” he said, “especially in view of he d, “appears in the increasing in- secirity of life in our cities, where the poljtical machines are .in league with the world of erime, and the inability of Cofigress to face the complex economic prablems confronting it every day. I see.no_way out of this domination of our political life by men of third-rate ability and morals except to make edu- cation a qualification for public office. I should like to sce in all our great universities schools of public adminis- tration in which students would be prepared as specifically and technically fory the tasks of government as they nog are prepared for medicine, engi- negring and law. .No one should be ble to municipal office unless he received such training. No one ld be eligible to the mayoralty of a -class city unless he had served twé terms as mayor of a third-class city: no one eligible as mayor of a first- - ASTHMAH— I‘ The most stubborn cases of Hay Fever and Asthma quickly yield o y F_z:v'u':v'hn ms beceme things.of e Rinex today — relief guara OF noney back. Prescribed by phy: $33 the fact that President Hoover is re- ported to be in favor of repealing the | 666 Also in Tablets BOTH SIDES OF 7HAT KST. You Still Need Su o __eo $1.95 Dull-Finish - Chiffon Hose Exquisite 4-thread, 45-gauge sheer chiffon hose (slight irregulars), at a 87c alert to capitalize on! 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