The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-02-20

Secretary Cortelyou wants a new Blu
reau of Printing and Engraving.
brand new one, and it please you. He
does not want a patched up insanitary
old building. He desires to send tina,
to limbo, and put up a building tina,
will be a credit to the country, and mol
a death trap for the employees, and he
wants something over $3,0O0,0O0 &c
build it. He ought to have it. There
is no use in talking economy. 1t is al
ways the truest economy to give en-
pioyes a healthy, comfortable place in
which to do your work. The Bureau
of Printing and Engraving is death
trap in more ways than one. 1t is over
crowded in every department, it is OLD
and insanitary, and it is SO ancient
in its construction as to be clear out
of date as to modern appliances. Mr..
Cortelyou should have his $3,0O0,000,
and just as much more as is necessary.
Over and over again kids in Con-
gresS who never fought in any war
have been trying to "incapacitate" the
veterans in the Departments SO as to
get rid of them and put in lot OF
young men and women who want to
visit Washington, get a smattering of
education in schools here, and work
in Departments of the Government to
pay their way. They have never sue
ceeded as yet in, passing such bill
but they are at it again. This time
they have put it in the Appropriation
bill, making it obligatory upon "Chiefs
OF Divisions to discharge incompetent
and 'incapacitated" clerks. OF course
everybody can see at glance and with
only half sense that this provision is
aimed at the veterans or their wives
who are employed in the Government
Departments. They now form by large
majority the body of oldest clerks and
there has long been desire to get rid
of the "oid barnacles' and get some
young, fresh blood in. 1t is an out
rage which will scarcely be perpetrated
at this session of Congress anyhow.
Representative Tawney is sponsor for
the item, and if he has a soldier"
District, he will never get back TO Con-
gress on that record, as sure as you
live. The veterans are going fast
enough, what with years and the hard
work that is being crowded upon them
in hope of making them break down
One can't style it anything else but
desire to break them down, for it is
well known fact that the young,
fresh" blood that comes into Govern
nent employ leans upon the veteran
employees. and this young, fresh blood
says debonairly "Oh, let the old fellow
will have to work hard enough after
awhile" and the veterans do work.
Experiments have been tried of putting
this young, fresh blood at the heavy
work in the records divisions, and it
results in the veterans having to do
the work over again. Mighty little of
-tis gets out, but it is true, just the
sarGe. Let the veterans alone. Let
Ede!r wives alone They are all being
must cred out fast enough, the Lord
gnaErs-
important question in the Nad-
ruInistration of the pure food law is in
= cision made public by Secretaries
WIS On, Cortelyou and Straus. 1t bears
upon the controversy regarding the
ia5e ing of sirup. The decision fol-
sows
e have each given careful consid
IN to the labelling, under the pure
law, the thick Visions strip
v.,a.ned by the incomplete hydrolysis
of the starch OF corn and composed es-
sentialiy of dextrose, maltese, and dex-
trine.
'Tn our opinion, it is lawful to label
this strip as corn sirup,' and if to the
corn strip there is added a small per-
centage of refiner's strip, product of
the cane. the mixture, in our judgment,
is not misbranded if labeled corn sirup
with cane flavor"
At a meeting in the interest of the
Presidential candidacy of Senator Rob
ert NJ. La Toilette, of Wisconsin, W. w.
Powell. of Milwaukee, chief of the La
Toilette publicity bureau, said that the
campaign started three weeks ago was
more for the purpose of keeping Sem
ator La Toilette in line for the nomina-
ton in 1912 than in the expectation of
procuring his nomination this year
Representative Bartholdt. of Mis-
souri,, appeared before the House Ju-
dietary Committee the other day in