The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-09
ROOSEVELT IS
GIVEN WELCOME
BY HOME FOLKS )
Democratic Vice presidential
Nominee Formally Accepts
the Nomination .
URGES NEW u. S. METHODS
Rearrangement of Manner of
Governments Functioning
Held Important Need
URGES NEW u. S. METHODS

Hyde Park. N. Y. Aug. 9.-Franklin
D. Roosevelt, formally notified and
formally accepting the Democratic
nomination for the Vice-presidency
here today, pledged his party's sup
port to the league Of nations'~and
urged the reorganization of the bus
mess Of our government as an I'M
portant problem confronting the next
national administration.
Neighbors Greet Him
Distinguished Democratic party LEAD,
ers and large assemblage of Duchess
county neighbOrs among whom he has
lived all his life, greeted the nominee.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who arrived here last
evening from Dayton, where he at.
tended the notification ceremonies Of
James NJ. Cox last Saturday, rose early
to assist his family in making prepara-
tions to receive crowd of 10000 at
Springwood, the Roosevelt ancestral
estate.
Mr.. Roosevelt, beginning his speech.
paid a tribute to Governor James NJ.
Cox, saying "In James M. Cox rec
ognize one who can lead this nation
forward in an unhalting march Of
progress"
"In our world problems we must
either shut our eyes," said Mr.. Roose-
velt, "sell our newly built merchant
marine to more far-seeing foreign
powers, crush utterly by embargo and
harrassing legislation our foreign
trade, close our ports and build an
impregnable wall of costly armaments
and i've as the Orient used to live, 4
hermit nation, dreaming Of the past;
or, we must open our eyes and see
that modern civilization has become
so complex and the lives Of civilized
men SO interviewer with the tlives OF
other men in other countries to make
it impossible to be in this world and
not of it. We must see that it is i'm
possible to avoid except by monastic
seclusion those honorable and inti-
mate foreign relations which the
fearful-hearted shudderingly miscall
that DEVILS catchword, international
Complications ;.
Government Shortcomings. =
GAS for our home problem, we have
been awakened by this war into
a startling realization of the
archaic shortcomings of our gov
ernmental machinery and of, the
need for the kind of reorganization
which only a discriminating business
man, experienced in the technicalities
of governmental procedure can carry
out" ..'.
"The league of nations is prac-
tical solution for practical problem,
said Mr.. Roosevelt. Again in his plea
for the league he said: "To the cry
of the French at Verlun: they shall
not pass;' the cheer of our own men
in the Argonne: We shall 60 through
we must add this: 1T shall not oc-
cur again. This is the positive dec
laration of our own wills; that the
world shall be saved from repeti-
,lon of this crime. To this end the
Democratic party offers treaty of
neace, which, to make it treaty for
a real peace, must include a league OF
nations; because this peace treaty, II
our best and bravest are not to have
died in vain, must be no thinly dis.
guised armistice devised by cynical
conquests later on
Would Limit immigration.
Mr.. Roosevelt> placed "among the
most pressing Of these national
needs" the extension Of teaching to
over 100000 of our population above
the age of ten who are illiterate, the
STRENGTHENING of our immigration
laws to exclude the physically and
morally unfit, the improvement OF
working conditions, the extension OF
communications to make rural life
more attractive, the further protec-
ton of child life and of women in in
dustry.
He urged further development Of
our natural resources. Drawing up
on his seven years experience as as
sistant secetary of the navy ne said
that reorganization in government at
fairs is needed.
"First of all the methods of the
legislative branch of the national gov
ernment, especially in the upper house
requires drastic changes" he SAID.
at is safe to say that the procedure
of the congress has progressed less
with the times than in any other bus
iness body in the country. Yet it IS
upon the. congress that every execu-
tive department must wait. Appeals
to the House and Senate in the last
session fell on apparently deaf ears.
Should Hold Employees.
"In the administrative branch also
great changes must take place. The
functions Of the departments should
be redistributed along common-sense
lines and methods provided to stand
ardize and prevent duplication Of eff
fort. Further, it is high time that
government employment be placed
upon proper level. Under the safe
guard Of civil service the salaries
must approximate those paid in pri-
vate only. Today we are faced with
the fact that the majority Of the most
efficient government employees leave
the service when they are becoming
most valuable. The less useful re-
main. Many millions Of dollars could
he saved to the taxpayers by reclass!-
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