Milford chronicle., 1921-06-24
WASHINGTON LETTER
Liquidation Proceeding

WASHINGTON, June Especial
correspondence War Depart
ment and the Military Affairs Com
mittees of both the Senate and House
are cooperating in a determined eff
fort to reduce the number OF civilian
employees, liquidate the tremendous
surplus supplies and equipment left
over from the war, and reduce the abb
normal overhead expense under which
tn, department is now laboring. Sen
alOr James w. WadsEortl of New
York, Chairman of the Senate Com
mittee, declares that the Army bill
recently passed by the Senate will
compel a reduction in civilian en-
plOyees of 80 per cent, and that the
similar measure enacted last year
brought a cut of 40 per cent. "The re-
ductiOn is going on very fast" Mr..
WadsWOrth says, "MOst of those civ
ilian employees have been employed
for the purpose of taking care of
these enormous storage depots, the
Army supply bases built during the
war, the powder factories that are
standing idle, owned by the Govern
ment, with valuable machinery and
equipment in them but not yet liqui-
dated. Slowly but surely that stuff
is being liquidated. The Secretary of
War tells us that he is going to liqui-
date it much faster"
War Risk High Speed
Mr.. C. R. Forbes, the recently ap-
pointed director of the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance, has reported to Pres
ident Harding that within 40 days he
will have the work of his Office up to
date. Since Mr.. Forbes took charge,
he has materially speeded up the var
ious branches of the bureau, and in 80
days has taken 10000 soldier-cOmpen-
sation claims from the lost of those
pending, and effected settlement. In
addition, he has made special effort
to secure the immediate hOspitaliza-
tion of all former service men requir-
ing treatment. Mr.. Forbes recently
concluded survey of his bureau with
view to co-Ordinating the work of
it's divisions, and has been so sue
cessful in his plan that he has dis
pensed with the services of 504 en-
ployees with a saving to the Govern
ment of $654,830 in annual salaries.
Portland Centennial
In 1925 the city of Portland, Ore
gOn, is to hold an international expo
sition Ito celebrate the completion Of
transcontinental and Pacific high
ways, the centennial of the invention
of the electromagnetic, and to exem-
plify the development of hydroelec- |
trio energy" To contribute to the |
success of the affair the President has |
been asked, through a resolution |
adopted by the United States Senate,
to invite foreign governments to par
ticipate in the exposition. The resolu- |
tion took the form of others passed |
previous to former events of the kind, |
which have led other nations to send |
extensive exhibits to our country.
Belleau to be Rebuilt
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas
sachusetts took advantage of the op-
portunity offered by the anniversary
of the battle of Belleau Wood to call |
attention to the efforts being made by
a group of women to raise funds with |
which to rebuild the little village of |
Belleau, destroyed in the fighting. The |
place is to be reconstructed as a mem
Orial to the 1000 American dead who |
are buried nearby. At the proper time |
it is the purpose to ask Congress for |
the mail franking privilege in order |
that appeals for funds may be sent |
throughout the country without the |
payment of postage. The Twenty-sixth |
Division, New England Organization, |
participated in the great battle that |
ragged around Belleau Wood, and 200 |
of the men buried there came from
Senator Lodges State. There is |
hardly a State in the Union," said he,
that is not represented in the little
cemetery of the dead near the wood.
1t was a part of a very great battle,
one of the greatest of the war. In
deed, there and at Chateau-Ihierry
was the turning point, when the Of
fensive passed into the hands of the
allied and associated powers"
Lowry Again
Frank C. Lowry, whose activities
are devoted to the cause of the sea-
board sugar reiners, and who some
years ago flooded the country with
against tariff on sugar,
is again in the limellght protesting
against the proposed duty ON sugar.
1t would seem il all conscience as if
The lefInCrs had ieaped profits large
elOl ~ III the pas: three years or
more. without raising a howl because
the beet sugar manufacturers desire
the restoration of the protective tar :
if. The refners wish to get their
raw sugar from Cuba free of duty. so ,
.lhf they Gun run tLC beet sugar men
1ut of th4 market with that handicap. ,
However, Mr.. Lowry will discover
his time that he is not dealing with 6
/ Democratic Congress. :
And China is Protected
Last December the league of ma
ions recommended that the nations
INIT their expenditures for arma-
tents in the next two years TO similar .
for the past year.
china has notified the league that it !!
s her intention to follow that 1ec-
What makes the incl
lent remarkable is that China, not j.
member Of the league. Is the only ma l
ion to take such action. Not one of L
he powers that form the league and 8
irect it's affairs has seen fit tc adopt
or itself the recommendations that d
hey made while acting jointly. .
Saving Wood 7
On July 1st thousands of govern D
lent clerks will be dropped from the
oils. Then there will be cries from "
ertain members of the press, who 7
ave been calling loudly for economy,
hat they have accomplished some C
hing. But the truth is that Congress d
ecreed the cut months ago when it fl