The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-08
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 budget system. No successful business enterprise of any size can operate with out it. For a hundred years the federal unit, and the states as well, made ap- populations without determining the diff ference between department need and caprice, at the same time paying little attention to the relation as between in- come and expense. Many of the states have adopted a budget system, and with a success that carries no exception Elf ficiency has been improyed-depart- mental responsibility has been centered, and economies have been effected. The same can be done by the federal gov ernment. The system will reveal at once ,as it did in the states, vast sur plusage of employees. It awakens indl- vidual interest, encourages greater eff fort, and gives opportunity for talent to assert itself. The normal course of least resistence develops in government bu- reaus a hardpan, which retards prog ress. When the reorganization is made, pay should be commensurate with serv- ice. Many federal departments whose ramificat ations touch the country gener- ally have lost valuable men to busj- ness. This has badly crippled postoffices, the railway mail service and otaer branches.
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 am convinced after considerable study of the subject that the expense of the government can, without loss of eff ficiency, be reduced to a maximum of four billion dollars, including sinking fund and interest on the national debt. When we enter the League of Nations we should at the same time diminish our cost for armament. To continue expend- itures in either the war or the navy de- ct a1a C11r membership in the league is assured, would seem to be very definite refuta- ton of the advantages of the world plan which we believe it possesses. An ap- pealing fundamental in the league meth cd is the reduction of armaments- We cannot afford to do it until other nations do likewise, If we do not enter the league, hundreds of millions of dollars must be spent for armaments. If we go in, and I believe the people will insist on 1t, then we can count on economies
 G. o. P. PRIDE LACKING
 Since the last national convention of the two great parties, a world war has been fought, historic, unprecedented For many, many months, civilization hung in the balance. In the despair of dark hours, 1t seemed as though world dictator was inevitable and that hence forth men and women who had lived in
  face of the drawn sword of military au- tocracy The very soul of America was touched as never before with a fear that our liberties were to be taken away. What America did, needs no reiteration here. It is known of all men. History will acclaim it-poets will find it an in spiratfon throughout the ages. And yet there Is not line In the republican plat form that breathes an emotion of pride or recites our national achievement. In fact, if "a man from Mars were to depend upon the republican platform or it's spoken interpretation, by the candidate of that party, as his first means of in- formation, he would not find syllable telling him that America had saved the world. How ungenerous, how ungracious all of athis is how unfair that mere group of leaders should so demean them selves in the name of the party of Ln- coin and Mckinley and Roosevelt.
 IGNORE OTHERS, ALSO
 The discourtesy to the president is an affair of political intrigue. History will make it odious. As well might it be di- rected at a wounded soldier of the war. One fell in the trench; the strength of the other was broken in the enor- nous labors of his office. But others were ignored-the men and women who labored at home with an industry and a skill that words cannot recount! What of the hands that moved the lathe by day and the