The Arvada enterprise., 1913-11-27

not limit the production to the fields
OF their immediate districts.
Change Will Be Unpopular.
This change in the old free-for-all
mailing system probably will be ex-
ceedingly unpopular, and it seems
! likely that quiet attempts will be
/ made 10 induce the party members
who are responsible for its sugges-
tion and the party leaders who have
given It their sanction, to change
their minds and to prevent the pro-
vision from coming to a vote. 1t is
virtually certain, however, that II the
proponents of the plan stick to their
| intention there will be few members
of congress, Democrats, Republicans
| or Progressives, who will care. or
mayhap dare, to vote against it.
It will be put forward by the COM
mittee with the sanction of the post
master general, who 1t is understood
will make favorable reference to it
in his annual report, and with such
| endorsement, coupled with the word
that 1t is in line with the Democratic
| policy of economy, it probably will be
enacted INTO law.
To Cut Printing Bills.
Side by side with this plan to abol-
| ish the franking privilege, 1t is the
intention to introduce a bill which will
cut the printing expenses of the gov
| ernment The joint committee on
printing of house and senate will rec
| ommend that q rule or a law, which
ever is necessary to accomplish the
end, shall be enacted which shall for
bid the wholesale printing of docu-
ments for which there is likely to be
| little demand. There are thousands
of government reports turned out by
| the departments every year to say,
nothing of the thousands of congress
sional reports and documents.
1t is never known in advance how
great a demand there may be for the
! publications, and so in the absence OF
| definite knowledge on the subject it
| has been the custom to print large
numbers of everything which the Off
cial pens produce. Hereafter it is
the intention to have an estimate
made OF the probable popularity of
written reports, and the orders for
printing them will be shortened or
| heightened accordingly.
Will Debate NAVAL Holiday"
Shortly after congress meets in
regular session it will have brought
before it for debate and perhaps for
| passage a resolution introduced by
| Representative Hensley of Missou-
ri declaring readiness to cooperate
with Winston Churchill, lord of
Great Britain's admiralty, in an at
tempt to get the great powers of the
world to agree to stop all warship
building for one year. If this resolu-
tion shall be sanctioned and if other
governments join with the United
States and Great Britain. the Ameri-
can administration plan for three
battleships this year will be kept on
the shelf for another twelve months
at least.
What the Carnegie endowment for
national peace, known to the flippant
as the Peace trust" because it dom
mates the peace endeavor organization
of the world, will say about the Hens
10y l'coiutioh ho olit yCt hIoNo. ~
seems as If so simple method of saw
ing money and at the same time pre-
venting one nation from getting ahead
of another in armament ought to ap-
| peal to the proponents of the cause
of the dove and the plowshare. Since
this matter of calling off the big ar
morers and the big gun makers for
hrpnuht hafnra tho
house the members have been interest.
ed in looking up the armament budget
| figures. Mr.. Taft's economy and eff
cheney commission, which was legis-
lated out of existence last year, made
a report and 1t is now being consulted
| by congressman who thought the COM
mission was of no particular service.
Nearly Half for Defense.
! The members of the commission fig
| ured out on the basis of the estimates
| for the year 1913 that the total gov
/ ernment expenses we're $3.50, 1888 ,261
and that of this sum s4O2,91S,347 was
voted for purposes of national defense,
! leaving s436, 6,6S6,96l for the civil func-
| tions of the government. 1t will be
seen from these figures that the ex-
penditures for preparations for war
| fall little short of the sums needed
for the activities of government along
the lines of the common welfare
/ which run at right angles to those
l leading to war.
II the HensIey resolution does not
pass and If the plan of Winston
| Churchill shall fail, the expenditures
| by the United States next year for
| national defense purposes will be far
larger than those which were voted to
meet the requirements of the last
year. There seems to be justification
/ In the figures for the blunt words of
| Speaker Champ Clark when in sup
/ port OF his fellow Missourian's naval
holiday resolution he Said:
1T Is the strangest thing that NOR.
| tai man ever heard that when we had
three million people and five million
| people and ten million people and fif-
/ teen million people and so on clear
up, we were not afraid of ANYBODY on