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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Some New Political Duties of the Republicans

expensive and burdensome, but ineffect-
ual from the standpoint of results, was
never better illustrated than during the
war, when a National Council Of De-
fence and various departments and COM
missions were attempting to do one and
the same thing at the same time 1t is
going to be very difficult to associate
many of these officials from their posi-
tons. The wedding out, concentrating
process Is unpopular, especially with the
Jobholder. The only way to rebuild the
structure in Washington is to follow,
without fear or favor, the policy adopted
in some of the states recently, of pro-
viding legislation which will. at one
swoop, consolidate and combine numer-
GUS boards and commissions into a CEN
tralized authority, which centralized
authority must be responsible to the
head Of the government. And in this
regard may I impersonally direct at
tention to the example in New Jersey7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Cooperation, Not
Competition

The President of the United States,
in association with the other executive
departments and constitutional branches
of the government, should be the execu-
tive directing head Of the great business
of the government, which has such won
derful opportunity to cooperate rather
than to compete, with individual initia-
tive and enterprise. The Congress
should be the board of directors, elected
to represent every section of the coun-
try and to legislate both necessary
types of regulation and helpful policies
of cooperation. The various boards and
commissions should be co0rdinated and
commissions with cognnte responsibility
ties combined, the purely superfluous ones
being eliminated entirely. The billions
of dollars appropriated for these ACTIVE
ties should be appropriated through tho
common sense method of u budget; which,
in few words, means II budget COM
mission, equipped with able scientific
investigators and fnanciers, continuous
iy in operation, carefully considering
the needs and activities of each depart
ment, quickly recognizing where one
overlaps the other and, in fact, provd
ing the only opportunity to prevent such
overlapping by beneficial comparisons.
A business system Of financing gov
eminent means Baving--no waste. ABB
sence Of waste Is economy. Economy in
government Is q minimum Of expense
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

with maximum Of service, which, OF
course, is the equivalent of reasonable
taxation. And lower taxation means q
better wage and improved living con-
ditions. 1t is difficult for people to share
profits with those who are working for
them when they have to give all their
earnings to the government in the form
of excess taxes and income taxes. With
government properly run the burden of
taxation would be reduced, leaving more
to be distributed among the workers.
1t is absurd to assume that any Con-
Eress, whatever its political complexion,
can pass upon appropriation bills run
ming into the billions of dollars with
any direct knowledge Of whether they
are economical or wasteful, whether
they are justified or not The inability
fully during war times as we'll as times
of peace should be the final note which
will definitely assure the adoption of
this business system.
The time has come for reorganization.
The possibilities of such system could
he elaborated on without limit. 1t gives
absolutely no improper concentration of
power, as Congress, under the Consti-
tuition, is the final arbiter. 1t permits
the President to be the executive in
SEPARATION and, where important matters
Of policy and consolidation are under
contemplation, to sit as the head of the
budget board and himself become &C.
quainted, as he should be, with the
activities of the government he is sworn
to administer
1t will readily be seen, by investiga-
ton of what has been accomplished in
adopting this policy without fear or
favor, eliminating and consolidating
boards and commissions, the actual say
ing in expenses, not to speak Of the
great advantage in proper functioning
and administration, will reduce, right
from the start, the expense of the gov
eminent so materially that the public
will ask why it has been 80 long neg
lected. And the answer will be easily
forthcoming Simply because no one
with positive force and determination
insisted upon this organization. Tho
actual money that can be saved will
pay interest on every war debt that tho
nation haD negotiated.
We have laid much stress hero on the
actual saving of money, but Just az
important, and in fact moro SO. Is the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

here a little information on the i'm
portant pastime of shooting the bottle
The game is as old as the hills in
Canadian waters, but ! had never be-
fore seen it played
Larry was the case-keeper. His
paraphernalia consisted of quart wine
bottle, around which he had laced q
coarse net of light clothes-lihe. On
the base of the new ne had woven a
four pound lead weight, upon which
the bottle rested firmly and upright.
Seventy-ive feet OF free rope ran away
from the neck. Four feet up Larry
had tied wooden plug which fitted the
bottle quite loosely. 1t was so adjusted
that when the bottle sank to the ex-
tremlty of the rope the plug could be
yanked out with a quick icrk, thus per-
hitting the bottle to fill
At depth of sixty feet lake water
holds about 80 degrees Fahrenheit and
has got any soda-water fountain on
earth whipped to a stiff, coagulated
froth. The bottle always came up
frosted and cold as an iceberg. The
water was as clear as crystal and abso-
lutely pure.
AS a betting proposition, bottle
shooting is par excellence Ali bets
are placed as to where the bubbles will
come up. The displacement Of the plug
permits the air to escape while the
fresh water rushes in. Presently a
thousand liquid pearls burst upon the
surface. If sperm whale had come
up and blown beside US it would have
given US little excitement.
Larry seemed to know just where
the bubbles would appear and picked
up little loose change the first day,
after which we bet him bubbles against
bubbles and paid our losses in wind.
II learned this bottles shooting trick
from mica MINER" ventured Larry.
one high, hot noon, in order to turn
the conversation back to topic that
lay close to his heart Just then a
loon, flying overhead, burst into loud
laughter and the purchase of mica
mine was postponed
We will now step into the bait-cast-
ing finals, for which / am always pre-
pared. | had three four and a half
foot ingle~stickers- and a full
line of jim Heddon overwater and
underwater bats.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

people last November, which confidence
related in nowise to the treaty of peace
but rather to the problems OF recon
struction.
proper non-partisan expose of war
blunders, in order to clarity and prepare
for solid building for the future, is
justified. This, however, should not be
in the spirit Of captous criticism, be-
cause blunders were unavoidable in as
suming the tremendous responsibilities
Of the last few years, buc wnere such
blunders are interfering with a proper
peacetime development and where they
are indicative Of the incapacity of de-
partmental administration they, of
course, must be exposed and Immediately
corrected But where the Republican
party is expected to function, and can
function, is not alone in calling atten-
ton to the blunders Of others but in
putting into effcct-immediate effect
the remedy for domestic problems and
in constructing solid business govern
ment.
Again, accepting the mandate Of the
American people, reorganization of
the great Federal machine is demanded,
in order that it be responsive to the
demands of the times, and that obvious
waste and extravaganza, burdening all
classes of our citizenship, be eliminated.
The Republican party should adopt as
it's slogan "Constructive domestic re-
adjustm ent," which means, in effect that
the Federal government shall be organ
lied as business organization, with a
budget and complete supervision Of ex-
penditures, with revision Of the meth
cd Of securing income and n complete
turning Of the light" on depart
mental extravagances. In modelling
government along these lines of sue
ccssful private business confidence will
be restored, sterilization Of industrial
conditions will follow and the country
will the more quickly return to pre-
war basis.
Washington to-day is burdened with
boards, commissions and departments
II has been said that there are more
than five hundred separate organizations
and many sub-organizations OF the five
hundred, and that the relation between
them ia 30 vague and indefinite that
there Ia virtually no cooperation. Bus,-
ness stands still, not knowing which way
to turn, before the uncertainty Of their
tickle and contradictory "polieics." The
overlapping process, which 10 not only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

when business is good, when the gov
eminent is cooperating, rather than
aimlessly interfering and encouraging
uncertainty when prosperity abounds.
Such party programme no man or
collection of men can successfully COM
bat 1t is a platform dealing with prac-
teal ideas rather than idealism. with
appreciation of the necessities and op
portunities of the government and gov
erned, rather than theorizing on uto-
plan hopes and at the same time en-
couraglng Bolshevism, chaos and dis
order.
Perhaps platforms of the past deal
ing alone with the social structure
have been q little overworked when
the natural desire of all men to i'm
prove their fellow men is not backed
up by the practical cooperation that
gives every man the opportunity he
Graves for and desires. Talk alone,
ideas alone, did not bring us the sys-
tenn of workmen's compensation. regula-
ton OF the industries in the interest of
life and limb and health, better hous-
ing conditions, rehabilitation of the in
Jured in work and all such proper and
necessary results Of a responsive gov
eminent that functions in the interest
Of the governed. They came through
attention to the practical side, through
the application of business methods to
correct principles of government.
through an adjustment of personal
rights and privileges based, not on the
prejudice or pride of opinion, but on
humane consideration for the health,
happiness and freedom of all. The
American people have no desire to be
dependents, nor is it their wish that q
paternalistic government shall go fur
Their than to look after the afflicted and
unfortunate. Because of the solldity of
our institutions and governmental rela-
tionship to them, all men ask merely to
be given an opportunity to reach the
goal Of their greatest ambitions through
themselves alone.
Inc American people, given some
measure Of these opportunities in the
past, have arisen to the highest ma.
tional poaition In the world. The Amer
lean people, with enlarged opportunities,
will respond to "a cooperative govern
mont that assists In allowing them to
lift themselves through their own efforts
rather than dealing mainly in high
sounding platitudes, epigrams and prom
iscs impossible Of performance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
e Black Bass at a Crack-And That's Not All

you TO meet Percy Hamilton He is
going to guide us
In about ten minutes he had team
hitched up and was rushing around the
place like a bowling dervish, loading
canoes, packsacks, fishing tackle and
tents into q farm wagon. He tore
into Mrs. Hamilton's kitchen, grabbed
all the bread he could find, ten pounds
OF the best creamery butter, half
cheese and all the preserves he could
carry. ! never before saw an UMPIRE
pared man get into such magnificent
action.
At six-thirty We were on the road
again, crossing the hill between Nc
Oregon and Grand lakes, a distance of
q quarter Of mile.
Pm glad you fellows showed up"
said Percy. The id farm was
beginning to get on my nerves. To
HI with the hay Nix on the
potatoes, Raus nit the corn No
man could get through the summer
without couple of weeks fishing at
camp in the brush. And say, boys.
the bass are taking the flies three at
crack
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

opportunity that such reorganization
and such modern system of financing
and administration will provide for
making possible real business results
A government has been properly STYLED
the people" The peoples business is.
therefore, the most important. The pos
slbllities it holds for actual benefit to
all classes of citizenship is without
parallel in any private enterprise A
representative government can go to al
most any limit not denied by the Con-
stltutlon-and that is broad instru-
ment when it relates to the happiness
and prosperity and helping of the people.
Just think Of the opportunity that
has been wasted Perhaps now it will
be easier to embrace the opportunity
than heretofore, because of q change of
political complexion in Congress and the
popular demand created by the enor
nous expense of war.
If the Republican party will, in
strong statement, present to the people
Of this country that, eager to Justify
the confidence reposed In it last Novem-
Der, it is preparing to bring about such
a reorganization of the peoples bust
ness, and that its platform, to be adopt
ed at the national convention. will. in
detail. make provision therefor; that
its candidates will be pledged to work
out the details and its Congress to
putting them into practical effect-if
the Republican party does this there
can be no question as to what the next
verdict of the American voters will
be- simply a ratification of the advance
confidence expressed last November.
AS private business IN America has
become broader and stronger, and as
we have become the bankers of the
world because of the energy of our in
dividual business interests, SO the peo-
pie have gradually looked forward to
the time when their government would
cooperate and be responsive to this
business note. Let the Republican party
be the party to open up this new era
of business In government. At the same
time 1t need not and should not neglect
the great humane responsibilities winch
Americas position in the world place
upon her-the social uplift evolved from
everyday life The Republican party
has always met its obligations in this
respect In practical and lasting man.
ner. 1t Is 80 much easier to develop
collective bargaining and peaceful as
ISOLATION between employer md omploye
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
4 Born
Ezaak Walton

In various coves and along sunken
reefs and in sandbars Larrv's father
in-law had set stakes to mark certain
good fishing ground. He was a wizard
IN this particular, and, although a still
fisherman, he seldom planted q buoy in
more than ten feet of water.
Hes q grand basser," said Larry,
land never misses day when the
season is on. If he would put as much
time in mica mining as he has in horn
ing bass out of Grand Lake, he would
be the richest man in the world. One
day we were eating lunch on the shores
of Dam Lake when all of a sudden I
see some mica sticking out of the
ground-some three be four
l tipped pebble at Frank Packard
and got his eye He rose deliberately.
yawned and sauntered toward tie
canoe. The novelist was q man OF few
words but many expressive gestures.
"Goodby, Larry!"
l followed the scribe and we made q
tour Of the bass stakes, around ali of
which we cast with red underwater
plugs. We took two, three and four
fish at each stake. They generally
struck on the first half dozen casts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Drawbacks of q
Fixed Rule

While this recipe seems very simple
it has its drawbacks. The inspectors
batting average as a beaner was high,
and only one set o. bean castings
made by him went bung from the very
gootf. A colony of ants snoaked in at
the soaking stage and q chunk of
rancid pork showed up before the lid
went on. When The lid came off a
handful of ashes and grit did its dis
tardly work. The inspector did not
notice these things. however But
Larry, who was discriminating feeder.
tumbled that something was wrong.
whats the matter with these
beans ?" he snorted.
Il didn't notice anything replied
Packard, who hadn't yet tasted them.
Its news to ne that anybody could
ruin a bean anyhow"
Larry spat something out in his left
hand. "MacGowan, what does that look
like to you? ?"
Mica" said Mac, tossing piece out
Of his own plate. "But 1 don't think it
is very high grade"
Larry threw his beans over his left
shoulder for luck. They ratified down
a bowlder behind him and fell into the
lake like individual buckshot
Personally prefer canned beans to
any other form of bean now known to
science.
That night the inspector. upon whose
stomach something lay rather heavily.
st up at the camp fire and had Larry
read to him from an old issue of .The
Montreal Star" and q battered copy of
"One Thousand and One Anecdotes"
by the late Alfred Il. Miles. Larry
dug it up in deserted cabin on White
leaf Lake. He had reason before dawn
to regret having captured SO rare ana
monotonous a volume. | heard him
mumbling his lines as I turned over
about midnight for the second lap.
Nothing is more magnificent than the
mutual suffering of those who are
dividing misery.
And thus we tore the coupons from
our dividend of liberty. There was
much criticism, but no unhappiness:
many hours of fatigue, but none of
pain.
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These bass ran from three to five
pounds and the trick could be turned
every morning and every night with
absolute certainty. They seldom bit on
flies at these points, but the under
water bats worked with gratifying
regularity.
Our party returned at least FIVE huu-
dred bass to the waters of Grand LaAs
during the ten days we were thelc.
We took all our FISH on either fiies sr
plugs. None of US cared for trolling.
hence that Anticipated method for lur
ing bass was canned completely.
On the morning of the fifth day Ia
spector McLaurin rolled out of his
blanket and announced that he was xs
ing to cook some beans, bush style
He won the title of inspector because
he spent most of his time rummaging
around trying to find certain packages
of shag tobacco which had suddenly
and without any ceremony whatever
disappeared
I print in full the recipe for cooking
beans bush style la McLaurin:
Take one quart of beans and cover
with cold water. Let them stand all
day. At nightfall strain half the
water from the beans; add n cup Of
hot salt pork grease and half cup OF
molasses or maple syrup. lamp dowu
large chunk of checked salt pork for
a centrepiece. Slam the iron lid on this
picture and cover it up with hot sand
and Goals previously prepared in the
camp fire. Let it cook all night In the
morning most of the moisture will have
disappeared, each bean will be sep
arate, the pork Will be done to a crisp
and the palate will be tickled beyond
words
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Now for the
Story

Having reached this point without
any actual fatalities, we Will now go
forth with an angle and fish.
We put the camp in shipshape, hung
out our blankets to fumigate and made
for the canoes. The novelist and the
banker, with full book Of flies, took
the west shore. Larry and took the
east. McLaurin took nap on shore.
Grand Lake, at the point where we
began to fish, was quarter of a mile
wide and ran into an arm toward the
north which was thickly populated
with lily-pads.
"You had better rig up with Dung
hill, Rotal coachman and Brown
Hackle," advised Larry, "and start to
cast when we get UP by those rocks and
lily-pads on the right. Take 'em easy,
now. A short cast will get 'em. Here
we are. There's an idle (ideaD place"
! stripped few feet and dropped the
flies gently. No response.
"a little closer in there. Fan it a
couple of times"
I had forty feet of line out. On the
fourth cast swirl parted the leaves,
but nothing struck. let ten feet more
go. The trio fell like three autumn
leaves. With quick recovery I picked
the end fly from the surface of the pool
and ficked it.
Bang, smash, struck Two
small-mouth black bass got the steel.
Both breasted the air at once.
"I'll hold 'er!" yelled Larry, swinging
the point of the canoe off to the left
"Now give 'em line. Let EN- take it
down. You'll get another one on that
third fly"
Such good fortune was not to come
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

~ EsPlTE personal appeal for
b "a Democratic Congress by the
President of the United States,
and that during the war pc
Rod, when a favorable response to al
most any suggestion from the command
er in chief might reasonably have been
expected as the patriotic verdict
Of loyal American people, the
American people refused the re-
quest, denied the appeal Of the
President and elected Republican ma
jority in both houses of Congress- This
adverse decision, at time when the
President had the great tactical advan-
tage Of complete control of all the de-
partments and activities of the govern
ment, an autocratic supervision never
before permitted in the history Of our
country, decisively demonstrated one of
two things: either popular lack Of con-
fdence in and disapproval Of the Demo
cratic party's administration of the war
or popular conviction, based on the as
sumption Of early peace, that the Re-
publican party was better equipped to
administer the policy Of constructive
domestic readjustment
Perhaps the verdict was brought about
by combination Of both reasons, and
we will assume this to be the case.
Following the elections public attcn-
ton naturally focused upon the peace
conference in Paris, and for the last
few months the main consideration, and
naturally 80, has been Americas final
position with the ratification OF q treatv
Of peace and an alliance Of nationg of
the world to maintain peace. II il
assumed that this peace treaty with n
league Of nations must be disposed Of
during the next few months. Assuming.
further, that the Republican party will
ratify peace treaty with 81 league Of
nations which, they must determine, will
properly protect the sovereignty and
assure the prosperity Of our people. it
must be apparent to all students of the
situation that the Republican party in
power must. therefore. devote itself to
meriting the confidence expressed by tho