Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-08-07

our ShOrSS into that commercial domain
where We are so Justly entitled to en-
ter in "a time peace. lsrent power of !
the Federal Reserve system can DE seen |
lpfolS..,;ig every quarter of the |
globe an widening flow # = :neri- |
can commerce. We vii soon lave a |
If erchant maripe fleet of IL 900. 900 tons |
aggregate. every ship flying the Amer |
lean iag and carrying in American bot |
toms the products of mill and mine and
factory and farm. This would seem to
be a guarantee Of continued prospect
ty. Our facilities for exchange and
credit however, in foreign ports should
be enlarged and under the Federal Re
serve system. banks should be establish
ed in important trading centers.
am impressed also, with the Importance
of improving, if not reorganizing our
iconsular service. The certain increase
in foreign trade would seem to demand
lit. This suggests another change. Our
ambassadors to foreign countries have
had assigned to them a military and a
naval attaches. The staff should be so
enlarged as to include an officer of the
government whose exclusive duty
| would be to make observation and re-
:, port development and Improvement in
educational and social problems gener-
+ ally.
Government bureaus during the war
had close contact with the business or
sanitation of The country. That eN-
perience revealed the modern need of
c reorganization along purely business
lines The advantages of democra-
cy in government need not be recount
ed 1t has been held by experts that
t it involves the disadvantage of dis
f bursements, authorized by the law
i making power without sufficient
knowledge OF the need of the service,
e or the possibilities of extravaganza.
n The answer to this is the budget sys
, tenn. No successful business enterprise
( of any size can operate without it. For
= a hundred years the federal unit, and
= 1.-THE states as we'll, made appropriations
d without determining the difference be-
: tween department need and caprice. at
J, the same time, paying little attention
t to The relation as between income and
: expense Many of the states have
d adopted the budget system, and with
e the success that carries no exception.
n Efficiency has been improved-depart
e mental responsibility has been centered
+ land economies have been effected. The
n same can be done by the federal gov
v eminent The system will reveal at
e once, as it did in the states, a vast sur
= plusage of employees. 1t awakens in
q dividual interest, encourages greater
$ effort and gives opportunity Tor tai
o ent to assert itself. The normal course
o of least resistance, develops in govern
e ment bureaus a hardpan. which retards
n progress. When the realization is made
= pay should be commensurate with ser
n vice Many federal departments whose
n lramifications touch the country Gener-
l. ally have lost valuable men to bust
n nasS This has badlV criDpled pOStOf-
y, fees the railway mail service and 9TH
o ier branches.
= I am convinced after considerable
ir study of the subject that the expense
= OF the government can, without loss OF
o deficiency, be reduced to a maximum OF
IS four billion dollars, including sinking
: fund ana interest on the national debt
d When we enter the League of Ma
Is lions we should at the same time di-
IT minish our cost of armament To con
j. tinue expenditures in either war or the
l. navy departments vast scale, once
~ our membership in the League /:
" assured would seem to be very def
II mite refutation of the advantages OF
If the world plan which we believe i
IT possesses An appealing Fundamental
re in the League method, is the reduction
r of ornaments We cannot afford t.
l. do it, until other nations do likewise
Is dreds of millions of dollars must b'
le spent for ornaments. If we go IN
Or and 1 believe the people will insist OF
J. it, then we can count on economies.
i'll Since the last national convention:
in of the two great parties, world wa
& has been fought historic, unprecedent
.e ed For many many months, civil
l. cation hung in the balance. In the de
l. spair of dark hours, it seemed a.
lie though a world dictator was inevitable
y and that henceforth men and wome1
II would stand at attention, IN the race
n of the drawn sword of military autoc
20 lracy The very soul of America wa:
lie touched as never before with a feal
lie that our liberties were to be taker
rel away What America did needs no re
let iteration here. 1t is known of all men
er History will acclaim it-poets VIII hn'
~ it an inspiration throughout the ages
1t And yet there is not a line in the re-
IT publican platform that breathes al
temotion of pride, or recites our nation
eel al. a achievement in fact II a man IRON
It'll Mars We're to depend upon the repuefl
ID can platform or it's spoken interpreta
i'll ton by the candidate of that party
lrt as his first means of information, h'
le would not find syllable telling hin
n that the war has been won, and tina
IL America has saved the world. How
d ungenerous. how ungracious. all of th1:
Iol is: how unfair that a mere group Of
s. leaders should so bemean themselve:
" in the name of the party of Lincoln ano
I'd Mckinley and Roosevelt
al The discourtesy to the President i:
y an affair of political intrigue History
'e1 win make it odious. AS we'll might i
lc be directed at q wounded soldier OF the
Iei war. One fell in the trench; the
- strength of the other was broken in the
n, enormous labors of his office. But
'ei others were ignored-the men and wo-
e, men who labored at home with an in
e dustry and skill that words cannot
Is recounty! What of the hands thai
e' moved the lathe by day and the needle
e by night? What of the organizations
'-fsuperbiy effective, that conserved fooc
y and fed the world-that carried nour-
it ishment to the very front trench in the