The Cordova daily times., 1920-04-05
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1920
GOVERNMENTAL lNEFFlCIENCY

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, has a right to speak on governmental inefficiency, fer he has a well-earned reputation of himself being one of the most effi- sient, constructive, and courageous naen in the service of the government. He rendered a remarkable service to the Navy and the country during the war-a service of action and not of beIk.
 Recently he gave an address at liar ward, from which university he grad tion of Governmental Affairs" an ad- dress devoted entirely to the problem of governmental inefficiency.
 One instance which Secretary Roosevelt cited of duplication of gov ernmental effort would have delight ed the heart of Sir w. S. Gilbert. Secretary Roosevelt said:
 I want to tell the latest version of Little Eve and the Three Bears" only in this case there were four It shows one of the delightful situations VIC meet. Up in Alaska there are sev- sral species of bears, one of which happens to be bear that was found near one of the original reservations Raaintained by the army when Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867. The army people began to exterminate this bear, and law was passed pro- teeting him. The carrying out of the law was given to the war department; and today the war department, after half a century, continues to maintain Jurisdiction over this particular species of bear.
 Not very far away on some islands Is another species of bear I suppose that those on the Outside had originally to get to the island on some kind of vessel, or a cake of ice, so that the bear was placed under the Jurisdiction of the department of com- nerce; and the Secretary of Com naerce is the father of those bears.
 Then, little while later, somebody went into the interior and found won- serful, big, open spaces, which he as- sumed would some day be wheat helds. l suppose these bears were placed under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture and today the Secretary of Agriculture is res Pensib1e for their welfare.
 Alaska is filled with many differ ent species of bears, and as they did net know quite what to do with all sf those other kinds of bears, they pvt them under the Secretary of the Emterior. So, you see, the bears in Alaska are we'll taken care of. Four great departments are responsible; each maintains a fairly large organi- zation for the protection of bears. Of Sourse that is ridiculous. The same thing is true in many much more im- portant matters
 Secretary Roosevelt further pointed sHt that we had not one navy, but five, There is the real navy; there is the navy controlled by the war de- partment, which prior to 1916 had nore vessels in it than the regular navy; there is the treasury depart ment navy, consisting of the revenue sutters; and under the department of commerce there are two more navies, enc for the coast and geodetic survey and the other for the lighthouse serv- ice. All of these navies maintain a separate personnel and separate sys- tems of repair and maintenance.
 Likewise, Secretary Roosevelt seinted out, we have five secret services, maintained by the treasury department, and the navy department.
 So far as the navy department it. self is concerned, Secretary Roose- welt said that he believed that, if given free hand, he could increase the actual number of dollars paid to its employees by five millions a year, and at the same time save the gov