Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-09

inRS, ShaH be expended only by trained
men in accordance with continuing plan.
The golden rule of the true public SER
want is to give to his work the same or
even higher interest and efficiency that
he would give to his private affairs. There
IS no reason why the effectiveness of the
National Government should not ut least
approximate that of well conducted pri-
vate business. Today this is not the case.
| may be pardoned If ! draw on my ex-
perience OF over seven years in an adj
mnistrative position to state tlnequic
vocally that the governmental machinery
requires reorganization The system, es-
pccially since the war, has become an
tiquated No mere budget system much
as we need that, will correct the faults.
First of all the methods of the leRis-
latlve brance of the national government.
especially in the upper House. requires
drastic changes. II Is safe TO say that the
procedure of the Congress has progressed
less with the times than in any other bust
ness body IN the country. Yet il is upon
the Congress that every executive de-
partment must wait. Appeals to the
House and Senate in the last session fell
on apparently deaf ears.
REFORM IN GOVERNMENT
In the administrative branch also prea1
changes must take place. The functions
of the departments should be redstrbut-
cd along cnmmon-senst lines and methods
provided to standarlize and prevent dupi-
cation of effort Further, il is high time
that Government employment bc placed
upon proper level Under the safeguard
| of civil service the salaries must approx
mate those paid IN private employ. To-
| dav we are faced with the fact that the
| ~ tho ,Hf 4
ment employees leave the service when
| thcv arc becoming most valuable The
| less useful remain, Many millions of
| doIlnrs could he saved to the taxpayers
| w rc-clnssl'ication of the service, hy the
| payment of adrquate compensation and
| hv the rigid elimination of those who fail
! To- measure mp 10 high standard All of
| this also has been called to the attention
| Of the present Congress without result
| and Congress only can authorize the
| rcIncdv
| II is particular pleasure 10 know that
| il We arc sustained hy the people m the
/ election tho country will have rs its chief
! executive a man who has already amply
/ established his reputation MS successful
| administrators by the reorganization Of the
! business methods of great state He Is
/ m engineer tatcsmnn The task before
! the national government can also Inc
1 assisted bv a sympathctic cooperation
! between the executive and tho legislative
| branches. and IN this work craftsmanship
must not enter
In the consideration of tho needs IF the
country and the conduct of its affairs
| Ike to dwell particularly on that part oi
Llncolns immortal phrase which speaks
of Government for the People Service
l. las
! Government IS not enough II must be
unsclfsh service, II must hc service with
| sufiiclent breadth ~ view 10 include the
needs and conditions of every kind Of citl-
zen of every section Of the land Such q
| body Of workers would make impossible
return TO tho conditions IF twenty Years
ago when men IN the halls az Congress and
| IN the executive branches almost openly
| represented special interests or considered
/ the obtaining of appropriations for then
/ own localities as Of more weight than the
welfare of the | nitcd States Rs a whole
Such spirit % unschshncss would pre-
vent also the formation Of cllhqucs oI
oligarchiea IN the Senate for the retardng
! Of public business
Some people have been saving Of late
We arc tired of progress we want 10 e.
| back to where we were before, to go about
our own business, to restore normal
conditions They arc wrong THIS IL not
the wish Of America We can never e
back The good old DAYS arc gone
past forever, We have no regrets, toI
our ewes are trained ahead forward
to better now days In this faith ! an
strengthened by the FIRM belief that
the women Of this nation. Now about
to receive the national franchise, vii
4 IL, a
gross and will he unbound 10y partisan
prcludiccs and too narrow outlook on
national problems We cannot anchor
our ship Of state IN this world tempest MOI
can We return to tho placid harbor ot Ions
years ago We must So forward ~ founder
AMERICA orroRTUNITY.
America 6 opportunity is at hand w
can lead the world 10y great example, ",
can prove this nation living. growing
thing with policies that arc adequate {,
new conditions In n thousand WAYS TIM
IS our hour of test The Democratic pro
gram offers . larger life for our country
a richer destiny for our people 1t Is plan
Of hope In these chiefly let II be our ain
to build up. not t0 tear down Our op
position Is to tho things which once cNtste,
IN order that they may never return ",
oppose money IN politics. we oppose TIA
private control OF national finances, ~
oppose the treating of human bemgs q
commodities We oppose the saloon
bossed city. We oppose starvation wages
we oppose rule by groups or cliques II
the same way We oppose mere period O
coma IN our national life
4 greater America is our objective
Definite and continuing study shall h
made of our industrial. fiscal and socIa
problems Definite ard continuing actor
shall result thcreirom. and neither tn
study nor the action shall he left TO emo
tional caprice or the ouportunism Of an,
groups of men We need a co-operatiol
of the ablest and the wisest heads III tn
land, irrespective of their politics. :,
we shall grow-sanely, humanity. honor
ably, happily-Conscious at the end tina
we handed on to those that follow US th
knowledge that we have not allowed e
grow dim the light of the American spiri
brought hithCr three hundred years age
by the Pilgrim fathers,
The coming years are laden with sig
nificance, and much will depend on th'
immediate decision of America This i
the time when men and women must de
terInine for themselves wherein on
future hes look to it for progress. Ii
the establishment of good VIII and mutua
help among nations. in the ending Of war
and the mseries that wars bring, in th'
extension of honorable commerce, N tn,
international settlement which willmakc j
unnecessary to send again two million
Of our men across the sea. | look 70 ou
future for progress, in better citizenship