The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1921, Page 13

The Seattle Star (= "«™J ABOUT THIS TIME O’ YEAR PAINTING, THE KITCHEN A no Bacon and Butter by Unemployed Men| to Slump, He Says DNEY, New South Wales, April) LONDON, April 1—Food Con During a demonstration of the| troller McCurdy has announced that @ here Sir W. E. David-|in the spring he looks for a lower the governor, was mobbed and level of prices. Bacon and butter @etachment of the police was| will come down mu other articles, he pre Teall Is Mobbed |Weighs 14 Ounces; Valued at $3,500 LONDON, April 1.—The big gest nugent of gold found in New South Wales for 50 years has been unearthed at Trumkey. The nugget ted. }about $3,509 Gottstein’s Personal Credit Policy Our credit service is indeed a personal one for you. We make terms based upon what you can pay. It is our pleasure to plan with you and show how easily it may be arranged so you can have your own furni- ioe sarees selected to suit your tastes, and payments made easy and t, We have helped thousands; let us help you. M. A. 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SEATTLE'S POPULAR HOME FURNIS HERS | Grass Furniture Reduced ONE-THIRD Mdeal for Summer Back’s Combination Range Gas, Coal, Wood Summer Cooking Made Pleasant 1514-1516 SECOND AVENUE, NEAR PIKE more than| weighs over 14 ounces and is worth | ‘ATTY WASH, |DAWES TELLS PLANS FOR MINISTRY OF DEFENSE FINANC |HOW OUR NAVY STANDS AS COMPARED TO CLOSEST RIVALS MAY JON THE ARMY Regarded as Probable Choice of Harding for Tremendous Task BY BURTON RASCOE CHICAGO, April 1—Gen. Charies G. Dawes is regarded seriously as likely to become the organizer of the proposed coordination of the jarmy and navy departments under a ministry of defense | Dawes | refumed a never the father of the plan cabinet position and vows again to reenter politics, bat he may ald in the reorganization Jonce it tx decided upon. | The need of this reorgantzation ts being urged by army officers as al Pershing has voleed his yval of it ¢ he went Into office, Presi ng told Dawen that he give the government waste and re 4 | MONEY LOST IN | MAL- ADMINISTRATION Dawes, a banker, conceived the plan when general purchasing agent for the American army in France. He found so much red} tape in the army Iteelf that it was > ignore it to a consid ere nt for the efficiency and l eatery of the army. | “Money im betng lort in mal administration.” says Dawes, “and it in the duty of President Harding to give the government, for the first | na time, a business He tells us| that be is going to do tt, and I be [eve be in going to do it, and upon that rests the future prosperity the people of the United Staten | | “The very Orst step which ought | to be taken and which must be taken tf this question of a reduction of expenses is going to be ade quately mot, is the consolidation of the army and navy departments There has got to be a central av thority coordinating them. They supposed to be coordinated by commanderin-chief of the army | And navy, but he hag never done | it, and he won't have time to do it, | now. BACK TO SYSTEM OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON ut if you are going to consoll-| date your duplicate ordnance depart: | ments; if you are going to coords nate hospitalization; if you are go ing to co-ordinate the transport service; if you are going to fit your army and navy together you have got to put them where Alexander Hamilton put them—in one depart: | ment It was one of the greatest | mistakes made in government ad- ministration when these two depart ments were separated. | “There will be no argument made for the consolidation of any minor bureaus, or any other of the hun dred and some odd bureaus that we have, which will not apply with equal or greater force to the dmalgama tion under one secretary of the army and navy departmenta | "That does not mean that you put landsmen on ships, or that you put sallors in command of your arpy; {t doesn't mean that you amalgamate your staffs, but it means that you have somebody with a bird's-eye view who looks upon the army and navy ne entity to be coordin: and who b he to do by ex is now imper non consent.” NO “SUPERMAN” NEEDED; § » ECONOMICALLY ncerning giving the government a business head, Dawes says: “There doesn't have to be any superman’ business tn this coordina | tion. This is a simple matter of ex pending money economically. You ha « have a superimposed central ce © going to pend me in ten separate ¢ “If you are going to consolidate purchasing, for instance, you will avoid having eight or ten different prices paid by the departments and having great surpluses piled up in some departments. Today there is not any agency by which th of each of these separate head. ment as a whole can be asc “These same problems us in the rear of the and I brought it to General Persh- | ing’s attention. MUST ACT WHILE HE'S STILL POPULAR | “It was thru American initiative under General Pershing that we at last got a measure of coordination behind th ied armies. ‘I kno he president of the United States has gota fight on his hands in this business reform of gov ernment and unless something ia done to bring before the people the insue as a whole, when for the first time almost in the history of our government we have got a chance to reform thie disgraceful sys n, it will not be reformed, He has got to get out that plan quick, too; while he is #till popular.” For a let's go to | juicy steak | Boldt's Advertisement, FR IDAY, "AP RIL, 1, 1921. This chart shows the relative strength in capital ships of the three largest navies this year. 32 ships, with displacement of 808,200 tons and mounting 284 guns. GREAT BRITAIN SHIPS ~ oR QQ TONS avr aS on Ta GREAT BRITAIN Great Britain leads with The United States comes second, with one over half as many ships, while Japan comes third, with more than half as many ships as Uncle Sam. While America and Nippon speed build ing of battleships, Great Britain is ce ntering on submarines and airships. To Cook 100 Hens FAIRFAX, hundred | |@nd 40 pies formed a portion of the tribal feast served by Mra Wiliam Pleteber widow, eral ceremonine for | | and two daughters, killed tn an av | tomobii for Burial Feast Okla, April 1-—One! 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