Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-09

Today this is not the case.
/ may be pardoned if | draw on my
experience of over seven years in an ad-
illustrative position to state unequivo-
cally that the government machinery re-
quires reorganization.
The system, especially since the war,
has become Anticipated.
No mere budget system, much as we
need that, will correct the faults.
First of all the methods of the legis-
lative branch of the national govern
ment, especially in the upper house re-
quire drastic changes.
1t is safe to say that the procedure
of the congress has progressed less with
the times than in any other business
body in the country.
Yet it is upon the congress that every
executive department must wait. APP
peals to the house and senate in the
last session fell on apparently deaf ears.
In the administrative branchA also
great changes must take place.
The functions of the departments
should be redistributed along common
sense lines and methods provided to
standardize and prevent duplication Of
effort.
Further, it is high time that gey-
ernment employment be placed upon
a proper level.
Under the safeguard of civil service
the salaries must approximate those
paid in private employ. Today we are
faced with the fact that the majority of
the most efficient government employees
leave the service when they are becom-
ing most valuable.
The less useful remain.
Many millions of dollars could be
saved to the taxpayers by reclassifica- :
ton of the service, by the payment OF
adequate compensation and by the rigid
elimination of those who fail to measure
up to high standard.
All OF this also has been called to the
attention OF the present congress without
result, and congress. only can authorize
the remedy.
ALREADY PROVED
IN BUSINESS.
1t is particular pleasure to know
that If we are sustained by the people
In the election, the country viii have
as its chief executive man who has
already amply established his reputation
as a successful administrators by the re
organization OF the business methods OF
a great state.
He is an engineer statesman.
The task before the national govern
ment can also be assisted by a sympa-
thetic cooperate between the executive
and the Legislative branches. and in this
work partisanship must not enter.
In the consideration Of the needs or
the country and the conduct Of its at
fairs ! like to dwell particularly on that
part of Lincoln's immortal phrase which
speaks Of government for the people"
Service on the part of men and women
in the government is not enough it must
be unselfsh service, it must be service
with sufficient breadth of view to in.
clude the needs and conditions Of every
kind of citizen. Of every section OF the
land.
Such a body OF workers would make
impossible a return to the conditions of
twenty years ago when men IN the halls
of congress and in the executive branches
almost openly represented special inter
ests or considered the obtaining Of ap-
propriatons for their own localities as
Of more weight than the welfare of the
United States as O whole.
Such spirit Of unselhshness would pre-
vent also the formation OF cllQues or
olIgarchies in the senate for the retard-
ing of public business.
Some people have been saying Of late
I'VE are tired OF progress; we want 10
go back 10 where we we're before; TO 90
about our own business; 10 restore
normal conditions
They are wrong
This is not the wish Of America
We can never go back.
! The good old days" are gone past
forever: We have TO regrets.
For our eyes are trained ahead-for-
ward TO better new days.
In this faith 7 am siren gthened by
the firm belief that the women Of this
nation, now about to receive the ma
tional franchise. win throw their weight
into the scale Of progress and Will he
unbounded by partisan prejudices and
too narrow outlook on national prob
lens