Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-06

tacks the red-tape administration. The
great organizers of business, the Bal
Inns of the Hamburg-American line,
the GWtuners OF the colossal DeutsChe
bank, and the late Herr Krupp of
Essen all said the same thing. The
administration. they agreed. is honest,
scrupulous, and scholarly, but hope
lessly inefficient because all initia-
tive and brain are killed By eternal
copying and signing OF unemployment
papers, written In a style that dates
from Frederick the Great. OF these
critics, the latest Is Herr Won Gwinner,
president Of the Deutsche bank, who
In the Prussian house Of lords ruth
lessly exposed the Incapable procedure
to which Prussia's finances owe their
evil plight The Turkish per cents.
he showed are little lower than Prus-
sia's: the Italian and even Spanish
loans stand higher than those OF the
rich German empire. The way In
which loans were concluded would
have ruined any business man, he de-
clared Routine killed all government
tai genius. but. said Gwinner, though
talent Is needed for everything, genius
Is required for borrowing a few
months sooner, an angry storm ragged
in the Prussian diet over the mon
strous superiluity OF clerks and writers
in state producing enterprises These
employees produce nothing. but only
heep books. MI needless forms. write
interminable documents, and stamp
millions Of papers In Wilhelmshaven
dockyard II appears. there H. one
administrative" that Is, paper-scrib-
bling. official for every three men en-
gagged I'm manual labor. whereas even
in England. which Is red-taped enough.
the proportion Is one TO 3. And all
men, except the bureaucrats them
selves admit the evil In June 1909
Al ag,,a ted e.
sion TO "to accelerate and simplify the
state procedure" Bm. the bureaucrats
SO managed that 10 out Of 1s MEM
hers were themselves bureaucrats
And TODAY everyone knows that the
13 burcaucrats will FIJI a million pages
with learned arguments. while the five
business men viii say nothing: and
that in the end tho procedure will be
lengthier and more labyrinthine than
before
AWFUL TITLES
Red-tape h. immortal. and all red
taplsts are the same. All have been
trained in exactly the same way. All
have gone TO universities. passed the
faculty OF law. and had the sacra mem
tai Doctor Juris" stuck 20 their
names. From the moment the young
Jurlst becomes unpaid "Referendar'
If no chooses law, he livcs divorce
ed from life because married INSOFAR
ably to a thousand documents, forms,
regulations, prescriptions, and rules OF
procedure And when he has got into
the FIRST five classes" OF the civil
service, and can put before his name
Actual Privy Councillor" he Is the
same man OF documents as Of yore. AS
q young beer-drinklng student he has
more knowledge Of life than 40 years
later as "States-Minlster." His titles,
all Of which end in RAT" or "Coun-
cilor." are as long as his documents.
He signs himself "Ekonomiekommts-
sionsrat" or Observation-Disclosures
rat he may even hope 10 reach the
scsquipedalian rank OF "Oherlan-
observation-disclosures" which the die
tionary briefly defines as IAN official
In Grundstuckszusammenlegungs-
sachen." only a few OF his titles are
brief and pronounceablc There Is, for
instance a "Postrat" and 'Sanitaets-
rat" and even a "Rechnungsrat" The
last Is an official IN the reckoning or
accountancy department. A too witty
American who lately dincd at the
Rheingold restaurant hilariously hall
ed a waiter. See here. Herr Rech-
nungsrat there's mistake in your
reckoning" He paid five dollar fine
for speaking extensively Of the pub
lie service"
Austrian red-tape Is much older
than German, and though not SO ef-
hcienuy infallible. is much more pic
turesque. some OF its procedure dates
from the Holy Roman Empire. The
premier. Baron Bienerth, lately des-
cribed an inquiry into the Petition
Chancellory" Of the Kaiser Franz
Josef
"a petition" ne said. IFS read by
10 separate persons before being put
before the emperor. II the nineteenth
discovers an informality. he returns II
TO the eighteenth with note the eight