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

Especial correspondence
- ERLIN, July 26.-There recently
- appeared in the official police
gazette OF this well-governed
capital an advertisement which
delighted men OF wit. It announced
that on the 18th day OF August, 1879.
Herr Albrecht schmedding. innkeeper
OF Teltow. handed 10 the police as prop
erty found n brass, silvered ring. "of
estimated value OF five pfennings' zone
cent?. The ring had never been
claimed 1t transpires,' concluded the
advertisement. that Herr Albrecht
Schmodding is dead, but II his hets
apply for the ring In legal form, ana
nay the cost OF this advertisement, the
ring viii be delivered TO them or TO
their authorized legal representatives.
Unofficial Germans smiled at thls
conscientious way Of doing business
hui official Germans did not, They
respected the honest police for preserV-
ing the ring from decay for 80 weary
years, and taking care that Herr Al
brecht SchmeddiuE's heirs were not
robbed Of thelr oue-cent heritage, We
should an" they said proudly nave
done the same For they mad beeh
trained to conduct the great empire
pressIve, dignided. Oly1npian, and
much-papcr-c consuming system known
in long-sumerinE Europe as govern
mental red tape" II all the red tape
metaphoricaly used in Europes gov
eminent offices We're Joined together
in one vast string. IT would stretch from
Berlin 10 the star Alpha PerseL make a
million turns round the great nebula
I'm orion. and. still unconsumed, float
ria In
most ADVISES OF interstellar space.
SIMON PURE RED TAPE.
There IL red-tape in England, red
tape in France. ineNtricable tangles or
il IN Austria. and In Russia labyrin-
thine coils But only German red-tap"
has the proper iufallibility and repose
4 French policeman would have kept
the ring only 1--WE years. and given II 90
his best girl a Russian red-tapist
would have stolen II, and palmed 1t OF
on his wife as gold But only Ger
man is capable OF keeping II 30 years
In virgin security, writing an annual
report on its health and offering II
solemnly to the finders heirs N they
pay for an advertisement costing half
a dollar For though Europe Is the
continent Of red-tape. Germany happy
Germany. Is its crown and glory, The
vatican statue OF LAGOON and his
children II the Fatherland's symbol;
but instead ~ being crushed by the
monstrous serpents Of Virgil. Ger
many's sixty millions arc choked and
strangled I'm ineNorable coils Of rudy
tame.
BOT without struggle. 4 silent but
desperate war RACES here as all over
Europe. on one side stands the practi-
cal man who runs his affairs by tele-
phone and scribbles with a stubby
pencil in a greasy notebook. Against
him Is the bureaucratic officials whose
way Of working Is to MI up needless
reams Of fooiscap I'm Ciceronian style,
and with apOcalypttc impressiveness
In the interests Of his class the bust
ness man sometimes tries TO get into
the administration. Sometimes he sue
ceeds. -Four years ago, in despair at
getting a man who would free his coll
onial ministry from red-tape entangle-
ments the kaiser made chief Of that
department the obscure American
trained Jew. Bernard DcrnberE. son of
a poor journalist. and almost the first
minister Of Germany who could not
write Doctor Juris" before his name.
The red tape wave rccoded; then Il
came back with a rush. ana now II has
swept the hated Dernberg back TO the
obscurty from which ne came. He was
q business man. That was his office.
Nobody understood him, he Understood
nobody and though ne got on excel
lently with the genial Buclow. his case
became hopeless when Buclow made
way for Chancellor Bethmann- Hollwcg
a uper-quintessential hurcaucrat who
could no more live without red tape
than n gerapium without red blossoms.
HoPELESsLY INEFFICIENT.
Every business man In Germany at