The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-11-26
Friday, November 70, 1920
SOUND ADVICE EVEN IF DELAYED

come out the shipping Board
mess? Undoubtedly it will.
Heretofore, to a large extent,
saws the Baltimore Sun, the
champions of business reform
in government have been CROP
ing with an intangible set of
facts, with hypothesis which a
defensively armoured bureaucra-
cy prevented them from proving.
Now the facts are at hand. Their
contour is sufficient to convince
any doubling Thomas that what
Washington needs is not so much
a lacking up" or an infusion OF
new blood as a complete over
hauling of it's ways Of doing bus
mess.
Business men can be induced
to so to Washington. 1t is not
necessary to seek the "one-dol-
lar-a-year-man" type that the
war probationary of whom
went to the Capital to enjoy social
display or to fill themselves bonn
bastically with the comfortable
feeling of performing a great
patriotic service for ones coun-
try. Business men can be
brought to Washington to work
and they will stay as long as
they are given the scope that
men of administrative capacity
want. They will demand free
dom from political pulp to a
large extent. It should be given
them. They should be-indeed
if the incoming Administration
really means business. they will
be-given carte blanche to in
stall business methods in the
Federal machinery, and nothing
ought to be allowed to stand be-
tween them and that end.
While Martin ]. Gillen, a
special executive assistant of
the Shipping Board, was testify
ing regarding the boards ac-
count before the Congressi onal
investigating committee, he
said:
81 have told President Wilson
and l have told President-elect
Harding that the big admins
trative job of the Government
should have men of known ad
illustrative ability. Not until we
cut out the political appointments
for these big administrative jobs
and the Democrats are no more
to blame than the Republicans
will we have efficient govern
ment in this country. Too many
politicians get the jobs where
'airplane vision is needed. The
Senate should do more than see
that the Presidents appointees
to administrative berths have
some experience in addition to
being of good moral character.
Mr.. Gillen stated the issue
clearly. It remains to be seen
whether an administration that
has.the solid backing of the bust
ness men of the nation can be
business and mean business
through and through in the
practical operation Of the FEEDER
al establishment. The nation
had been under the impression
that the war activities were
largely conducted by business
men summoned to Washington
for the purpose, and the record
clearly bears out the policy of
the Wilson Administration in
this regard. Unhappily. there
are blanks" among business
men as we'll as among politicians
and the war work in Washing
ton served to bring out in sharp
relief the grotesque clumsiness
of the existing sgovernmentary
machinery, and to make impera-
tive the adoption of new meth
DDS"
Prices are coming down if the
reports in the press are correct
but the drop is very slight to the
ultimate consumer. AS usual
the farmer is the one who makes
the sacrifice Of bearing the first
loss. Farm products are tumb-
ling fast. Wheat is dropping,
while corn and live stock have
reached the level of years ago.
These and other farm products
were produced at high cost prices
and bring a loss that is more ser
ously felt because the drop has
not reached the retail prices.
Farm machinery, fertilizers,
wages, transportation charges
are still high.
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