Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-29
DISTRIBUTING GOVERNMENT BULLETINS
One of the Days Best Cartoons.
ny FREDERIC j. IIASkI\

II is valuable" privilege to have
the largest publishing house In the
world. with Il splendid stan OF scientific
experts at its command send YOU it's
publications free of charge, OF at a
nominal cost l;ut if this hcucticcnt
publisher issues no catalogue ana gives
YOU scarcely any voice la the selection
OF your own books, merely sending
whatever he plcaScS the privilege be-
comes something between a nuisance
and a Joke.
That is tho present relation between
YOU and the United States government,
which is the biz publisher y bill has
now been introduced into Congress
which is intended to change Ia" whole
system so that your Congressman will
he able To supply YOU with whatever
YOU want Instead Of whatever he has.
Tho energy wasted by The present
government publication system ~ .p-
palling. Uncle Sam maintains an i'm
mcnse stan Of experts In all az his
departments He spends s. 100000 a
Year on his printing plant alone. Yet
the method OF distributing this en-
peusivc and valuable product is FOR the
most part about as Intellectual as IL
could wcll he made.
Useless In Many Gases
II YOU live IN the heart OF Chicago,
YOU know that YOU are as likely rs
not TO ret a bulletin OF the Depart
D
/ beans I'm the arid Southwest II you
are ""'rSI"E over the question OF
"h"'h'r inc tWeh'E-"ci" pasture Is
{ iich enough Tor corn tn" X +. u. car
/ ri'r profanity Leaves IN ia" box q
/ hllpful paper from IN" Coast and Geo
/ dctic Surv"s dealing with tho dredging
! OF Pacific hHthors. This state OF af-
! fairs * Cua 20 the fact that every Sen
! at"r and Representative receives for
/ free distribution among his consttu-
! cnts a certain set number ~ all the
/ government publications. Each mem
/ Der gets his cxac, share neither more
/ nor les of cvoty publication printed
The gentleman from Florida gets as
( many irrigation bulletins as tn. gen
/ tlcmnn from Arizona The members
from Iowa got as many reports from
/ the commissioner OF Navigation as tho
/ r,on,b.rs from X.,, Jersey H.sid,. mo
/ .i,.r,u.r.c ,I.+ .,. ~ ,.,i,r,I T.,
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/ men l." ''h'uN 'h's !" N"l"' Si'G NJ tN
Z ''Nt ~ "Nt"'hs'hE men "H"tHi'h'S
I WIN "ach "th'r. ne senator from
/ NEBRASKA VIII swap "p" NaHN'"t = una
( macs with the senator from lEhod"
} iSliUN l'E ''' 'Nlll'N 90 'Iit Ihl'Sl
/ bulletin on horse breeding.
DI>nd, nntngcs Are obvious
! y story is told az q certain nov Nom
her from tho city Of st Louis, who
found among his publications Tor dis
/ tributlou number OF ui"clv bound
! copies Of treatise ou farm methods
! Knowing that this @cntlcmau'S CnuSti-
= tuc,cy- for the most part confined their
. farming to raising rcrauiunG in pot.
/ several older members offered Ia make
! various changes. M" nov member q
/ vtiSpicions were aroused lie decided
| ;hai tn. ,rcatjscs were valuable. and
! carefully mailed them all to 1t Louis
+ Conc,css laughed hut II vas tho mem
n.r from :, Louis who laughed last
/ For Tho farm ,roa,iscS made a treat
/ nit and wore hailcd with rn,hu-inS,u
! he mo vn,crs In "cucral hovycyn-
! ,bo dis,dv,n,ar,s nr Tho present .ys
rev, ARC ohvioi,s
| Tho now bin substitutes q so-caIlcd
/ v,lun,iUu MAN az 1isirihu,ion Each
r,r,nhc, nC I,nrorcss Is piv.n a cor,,in
fixed annual credit. rcckoncd in dol :
lars a,,d Cents win tho suncrintrn,icnt
! or doc,ncnIe al ~. Government Print
| inc once THO ,moun, has bccn sol
for tho nrcccnt .t 81 son a ycur for
coch ,ncn,hor of the House. ana g 600
q yonr for each senator. In TO This
. limi, ITO m,mbcr ar senator can
srrd v.h,tovcr ,ublicatiore no rlc.sns
IN his constituents lilo cam draw on,
tbc whol.ssu,u In terms of a single nub
lic,tion - mai nuhIic,tion hammer. IN
interest tho nconlc of his section
Thus tho CONGRESSMAN will not got
tho same nruhcr of comics Of Tho Same
n,,l;c,tionc yc,r ,ricr yc,r ybo
..uiota j." ,s Tho present shares Of carb
nc,nbcr az. r,,Icd wcrc rxcd vim :,
few cxrcptions back in 1886. Year
after ycar no cots Zen rcports of iho
bureau of Fisheries. and fifteen ethnol