Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-04
SEMI-WEEKLY NO. II.


for the general star apd, supply depart.
ments; they should be nIled by details
from the lire, the men detailed return
ing after awhile to their line duties. 1t IS
of the army composed of men who have
come to fill the positions by the mere fact
of seniority. A system should be adopted
by which there shall be an elimination
grade by grade of those who seem unit
to render the best service in the next
civil war who are still in the army would
seem to require that in the matter OF re-
tirements they be given by law the same
privileges accorded to their comrades in
the navy
Another recommendation which the pres
ident makes in connection with the army
is TOR the reduction OF the paper work
tape" OF this he says:
Every effort should be made to bring
the army to a constantly increasing state
of efficiency. When actual service, no
work save that directly in the line of such
service should be required The paper
be greatly reduced. What is needed is
proved power of command and capacity
is necessary to prevent dry rot in the
transportation and commissary depart
ments.
He also urges the enactment of legis-
latlon in connection with the militia and
they may be better fitted for active serv-
Ice IN time of war, and says:
Our militia law is obsolete and WORTH
less. The organization and armament of
the national guard of the several states,
which are treated as militia in the APP
preparations by the congress, should be
made Identical with those provided for
the regular forces. The obligations and
duties of the guard in time of war should
be carefully defined and a-system estab-
nshed by law under which the method of
procedure of raising volunteer forces
terly impossible in the excitement and
haste of impending war to do this salts
been made long beforehand. Provision
should be made fol-. utilizing in the first
volunteer organizations called out the
training of those citizens who have al
ready had experience under arms, and
especially for the selection in advance of
raised; for careful selection of the kind
necessary is impossible after the outbreak
He praises the veterans of the civil war,
the war with Spain and those who have
Infisn unrsps o serv1Gs IN ne
Philippines, and counsels continued lib
crafty In the nations dealing with them.
The Civil Service.
He recommends the enactment of legis-
lation that will place under the rulings
of the merit system many classes of en-
ommenda ton for this is as follows 9!S rec
Il recommend the passage of a law
which will extend the CLASSIFIED service to
the District of Columbia will at least
enable the president thus to extend it.
In my judgment all laws providing for
the temporary employment of clerks
should hereafter contain a provision that
they be selected under the civil service
law"
He also wishes the merit system to OBJ
tain in the government service in the
colonies, and says:
Philippines or Porto Rico with any regard
to the mans partisan affiliations or serv-
ices with any regard to the political So
cial or personal Influence which he may
have at his command In short heed
should be paid to absolutely nothing save
the mans own character and capacity
and the needs of the service.
The administration of these islands
picion of partisan politics as the admin
1stration of the army and navy. All that
Philippines or Porto Rico is that he re-
fleet honor on his country by the way in
which he makes that countrys rule a
benefit to the peoples who have come un-
der it. This is all that we should ask,
and we cannot afford to be content with
other Recommendations.
Among other recommendations which the
president makes are those asking for leg
Ice along lines outlined in bills introduced
at previous sessions, and he says that:
1T - true that the service is now in the
main eIclent, but standard of excellence
cannot be permanently maintained until
the principles set forth in the bills here
tofore submitted to the congress on this
subject are enacted into law"
He believes the time has arrived when
member of tribe, but as an Individual
and recommends breaking up the tribal
funds, putting stop to the indiscriminate
ments and stopping the ration system. He
recommends also the establishment of an
industrial educational system, and an en-
oeaXor to encourage the Indians to become
cattle raisers rather than agricrlturjsts
Where their lands are unsuited to the latter. |
He recommends liberal appropriations for
the Louisiana Purchase exposition and an
appropriation covering expenses incurred
by the Charleston exposition in removing
government exhibits from the Buffalo ex.
position to that at Charleston.
another of his recommendations is for
census u. s would n
work in the interest of business. statistics. |
economic and social science.
The Postal Service.
He calls attention to the growth of the
postal system and to the fact that the an
nual deficit in this department of the gov
small sum of 1928, 727. This, he says, could
further be increased and possibly a surplus
shown but for the fact that many publ |
cations are now securing the pound rate
as Second-claSs mail matter which are not !
entitled to the same under the law. OF
this he says:
The full measure of postal progress
which might be realized has long been |
hampered and INSTRUCTED by the heavy |
burden imposed the government |
through the intrenched and weu-under-
stood abuses which have grown in con-
nection with second-class mail matter.
The extent of this burden appears when II |
is stated that, while the second-cIass mat
of all the mail, it paid for the last fiscal
year only s4,294, AS of the aggregate postal
of postage, which produces the large loss
thus entailed and which was fixed by the |
congress with the purpose Of encouraging |
the dissemination of public information, |
were limited to the legitimate newspapers |
and periodicals actually contemplated by |
the law, no just exception could be taken. |
That expense would be the recognized and |
accepted cost Of a liberal public policy de- |
Iiberately adopted for a justifiable end |
But much of the matter which enjoys the |
privileged rate is wholly outside of the |
intent of the law and has secured admis- |
SIGN only through evasion of its re- |
Iuirements or through lax construction. |
The proportion of such wrongly included |
matter is estimated by postal experts to |
be one-half of the whole volume of second |
class mail. If it be only one-third or one |
quarter, the magnitude of the burden is |
apparent. The post Office department has |
now undertaken to remove the abuses so |
far as possible by a strtcter application |
Of the law, and it should be sustained in |
is effort
The Chinese Difficulties.
He calls attention to the satisfactory |
settlement of the Chinese difficulties of |
asst year, and this nations part in the /
settlement, and says provisions have !
1een made for insuring the future safety /
" the foreign representa- tiyes. OF the /
promises made by China he says:
participate financially in the work of bet
ering the water approaches to Shanghai
md to Tientsin, the centers of foreign |
rade in central and northern China. and /
N interna tional conservancy board, in
which the Chinese government is largely
represented, has been provided for the
of the Shanghai river and