The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-10

Many millions of dollars could be saved to the taxpayers by reclassifi- cation 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 at tention of the present Congress with out result and Congress only can au- thorize the remedy.
 'lt Is a particular pleasure to
 know that if we are sustained by
 the people in the election, the
 country will have it's chief
 executive a man who has already
 amply established his reputation
 ns successful administrator by
 the reOrgn nixation of the business
 methods of great state. He Is an
 cnSineer-stntesman. The task be-
 fore the national government can
 also he assisted by a sympathetic
 cooperation between the execu-
 tive and the legislative branches.
 and in this work partisanship must
 not enter.
 Tn consideration of the needs of the country and the conduct of it's affairs, l ike to dwell particularly on that part ct Lincolns 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 un- selfish. it must be service with suffi- cient breadth of view to include the needs and conditions of> every kind of citizen, of every section of the land. Such body of workers would make impos- sible 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- propriations for their own localities as of more weight than the welfare of the United States as a whole. Such a spirit of unselfishness would prevent also the formation of cliaues or legarches in the Senate for the retarding of public busi- ness.
 CANNOT GO BACK 1 Some people have been saying of late: We are tired of progress we want to go | back to where we were before: to go about our business, to restore normal conditions They are wrong This is not l the wish of America. We can never go back The good old days are gone past forever. we have no regrets. For our eyes are trained ahead-forward to better new days. In this faith l am strength ened by the firm belief that the women of this nation now about to receive the national franchise. will throw their weight into the scale of progress and win be unbound by partisan prejudices and a too narrow outlook on national problems We cannot anchor our ship of | state in this world tempest, nor can we return to the placid harbor of long years ago. We must go forward or | founder.
 "America's opportunity is at hand. We can lead the world by a great example; we can prove this nation aiiving, grow l ing thing, with policies that are adequate l to new conditions. In a thousand ways this is our hour of test The democratic zff lar country, richer destiny for our people. | It is a plan of hope. Tn these chiefly l let it be our aim to build up, not to | tear down. Our opposition-is to the things which once existed, in order that they may never return. We oppose money 1 in politics: we oppose the private con trol of national finances; we oppose the treating of human being as commodi- | ties; we oppose the saloon possed city; we oppose starvation wages; we oppose rule by groups or c1iques. In the samt way we oppose a mere period of coma | in our national life.
 THE OBJECTIVE
 l "A greater America is our objectiya Definite and continuing study shall ps made of our industrial, fiscal and socia lproblems. Definite and continuing actor shall result thereforn, and neither tn, study nor the action shall be left tt lemotional caprice the opportunism oi any groups of men. We need a co-opera ltion of the ablest and the 'wisest head! lin the land. irrespective of their politics So we shall grow-sanely humanly, hon lorably, happily-conscious at the end tha we handed on to those that follow us thu knowledge that we have not allowed t' grow dim the light of the Americal spirit brought hither 300 years ago b, Pilgrim fathers.
 ''The coming years are laden