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violate the rules Of the senate by
marching in in a body and waving
their banners. It takes quite a corps
of policemen to prevent them from en-
terlng the senate and doing minor
damage to the building. And this at q
time when able-boded men are needed
everywhere to win the war.
The problem Of feeding people
In the District of Columbia, espe-
cially the many thousands of new
clerks who have been gathering here,
for the year past and are continuing
to come, is one that is getting rather
serious. The demand for workers OF
all kinds has crippled the domestic
service in Washington. Women who
were cooks and maids In private fam
lilies are now running elevators or do
Ing other kinds of work at good wages
in government departments and busi..
ness houses. The restaurants arS
overcrowded and are without sufficient
help to do the necessary work to pre-
pare and serve food to all the cusA
toners.
II may become an actual necessity To
carry out what many people have rec
commended, that Is. the transfer Of sevs
eral bureaus from Washington to oth-
er cities. During the influenza epi%
daYnin e. oovna 20 n noink xvhara IN aT.
der was issued by an official Of the
war industries board to automobile
owners that they must carry the war
workers to and from their places OF
employment In order to relieve the
congestion on the street cars. Not
only are the war workers greatly In
convenienced by this congestion, but Il
has become a serious situation for the
regular residents, who suffer not only
on account of the greatly increased
prices of supplies which they pur-
chase, but because they cannot get
help to do the work about their houses.
Everybody wants the budget sysA
tenn except congress-" remarked Con-
gresham Kitchln In discussing the ad-
vantages of that system as a restraint
upon extravaganza. AS matter OF
fact very few people care anything
about budget system and still fewer
know what II means. The fact is that
our appropriations go in the most hap
hazard manner. Every division. every
bureau. every department Of the gov
eminent. tries to get all the money it
can and makes extravagant estimates.
A few men in congress try to cut these
estimates down and then congressman
from various states and districts do
all they can to Increase the appropria-
lions, especially II sums are to be spent
IN their sections Then the senate
still further increases the appropria-
tons. That has been going on for
more than quarter Of century.
There may be O few people who
recollect how astounded everybody
was when a billion dollar congress de-
veloped. In few years nobody SEEM
ed to care because the billion dol
lars came every year instead OF
every two years. The increases have
been going on steadily. AS to the
budget system. II Is doubtful whether
II would have any effect II Ia more
than probable that II all the appro-
priations were put In one bill II WOULD
become a very vast '1og-roIling meas
ure and contain so much that nobody
could tell what was meritorious and
what was pure extravagance' Inc
only thing that win call halt upon
these extravagant appropriations Is In
ability Of the people to pay the taxes
when they revolt congress win revolt
With them.