Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-05
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

On the eve of a presidential election 1t is
natural that more than ordinary interest
should be taken in the way the United States
government is run. Many of our citizens who
will cast the ballot to decide who shall be the
next President have come to US from foreign
shores. It is probable that some of them have
never had an opportunity to really understand
a republican form Of government.
In fact, the native born and those who have
for a long time wanted a complete and COM
pact volume on the actual operations of the
government one that will tell just how a bill
goes through congress; how a constitutional
question is brought to the supreme court;
how the state department looks after a citi-
zen's interests in Paris or the Zulu Islands;
how the army is organized, fed, operated; how
the navy is kept in constant fighting trim;
how tRs- qsatse1jSon 81 monopoly is given to
geHhius through the patent Office; how a thou
sand or ten thousand other things that vitality
affect the ordinary citizen are done, could find
no answer in the libraries Of the world.
A book has recently been published, how
ever, which does answer all these questions
duO. oUdCCo IAo1ouSAly, IL o SNCoI oIu OLI1P iO
manner, the exact workings of every depart
ment at Washington. This book is entitled
s.The American Government" It's author is
Frederic J. Haskin, who is a newspaper man
of years of experience. In such capacity he
has served a large bureau at the national cap
ital which has brought him into contact with
nearly every branch Of the government. He
knows from personal observation how every
part works. He has told this in a simple,
straightforward language.
He takes his reader into the White House
and shows him the daily life there in minute
detail. This chapter is approved by President
Taft. He lifts the lid off the supreme court
chamber and the reader sees the most power
full tribunal at work. This chapter is APP
proved by James H. Mcenney, the clerk of
that august body. The chapter on the state
department is approved by Secretary Knox;
that Of the army by Major General Wood,
chief of staff, and so through the list of thirty
chapters, embracing all the larger parts of the
great governmental machine.
To tell his readers how a bill is enacted into
law by congress, Mr.. Haskin begins with the
drawing of the measure and escorts the reader
into either hall of congress with the member
who has the embryonic law in his pocket
Then the reader goes, like the shadow of the
bill, wherever it goes, through committee
through debate, through conference, through
all vicissitudes until it arrives on the Presi.
dents desk or falls into the legislative gar
bage heap.
This book should be in every home. It is
highly recommended as a text book in the
schools. For a population such as Perth
Amboy has 1t is a most valuable volume, set
ting forth the actual workings of the United
States government as we'll as could be done
In any course of study, There are hundreds
of citizens here who are only too anxious to
learn more about our government. Realiz.
ing this fact the EVENNI GNEWS has made
special arrangements with Mr.. Haskin for dis.
tributing his book in this section.
We do not desire to make any profit OF the
-1aI Orde.
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