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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1922-08-04
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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1922-08-04
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CAST RIA

Mrs. Mike Gavin and son,
Richard, of Kansas City, spent
Sunday in Lexington with rela-
tives.
Evening star., 1922-11-19

For efficient service and economical
administration Uncle Sam must have
more workshop space. Of modern con-
struction and with careful co-ordina-
tion. The soundest Of business sense
dictates that all government agen-
cies should be housed in government
owned buildingA
Very determined effort will be made
by members Of the public buildings
commission. composed Of congress
men and federal executives best ac-
ouainted with the situation, at this
extraordinary session OF Congress to
put through legislation providing q
public building program for. housing
all government activities in perma-
mont areproof buildings owned by
the government.
It fH intended thus to do away en-
tirely with the paying Of rental
charges. which has been q serious
drain on the Treasury for many years
/ Rent Roll Already Cut.
When the public buildings commits
sion was created. March I, 1919. the
govsrnment was paying for rental
Of onice space in the District Of co-
llmbia nearly sl,soo.oeo annually.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
Incoming Senators and Representatives
Eager to Engage in the Political Fray

democratic and republican parties will be
compelled to set up a definite set of con-
trasting policies to attract new voters and
hold the voters they now have. And that
will be done in the legislation sought in
and effected by Congress.
Every one has heard the complaint
voiced in recent years that the two old
parties were merging toward similar poll
cies to such degree that there was practically
only twilight zone between them in in
stances. The two parties advocated the
same things to such extent that voters were
thrown back upon the necessity of making
their choice upon the personality of candi-
dates.
November election returns showed that
there are two classes of voters forming the
mass of the electorate in the nation, demo-
Gratis and republicans, and that they exist in
such numbers as to make dissenting class
almost negligible. They must be furnished,
it is contended, clearly defined policies.
X X X X
President Harding is likely to surprise the
democrats and radical republicans who are
seeking to put him and the rank and file of
the republicans in the attitude of being re-
dictionaries. He will recommend progressive
legislation and push it, notwithstanding the
effort of democrats to copyright the trade
mark If it is asked wherein, then, will come
the difference between the two parties, re-
publicans answer that it will be shown when
the democrats are driven to the probable
radicalizing of their national platform.
1t is realized, however, that the repubi-
cans must adopt some outstanding cardinal
principles to present to the electorate.
Uncle Joe Cannon recalls the letter written
by Abraham Lincoln to Schuyler Colfax, who
had suggested adoption of local issues in the
national platform, and Mr.. Lincoln insisted
that it were better to stick to three or four
cardinal principles" The republicans are in
tent upon getting them for 1924.
X X X
The most militant element in political con-
ditions for the months to come will be COM
posed of the voters who are working for
modification of the Volstead act. They con-
stitute a determined and encouraged band,
soon to be cemented into an aggressive Or
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Big Building Program Is Needed
To Make Government Efficient

Duo to the commissions activities
and insistence that the various gov
ernment offices vacate rented space
wherever possible, this amount OF
rental for ONCE space has been re-
duced to approximately $45o.o00.
Tho public buildings commission
now finds that It Is almost At the end
Of its resources, with regard to a
further reduction In rentals until the
government -erects some new build
ings.
Tho space demands Of the future
will undoubtedly be on the increase,
as Congress IL constantly imposing
new duties upon, the departments.
A very comprehensive public build
ings program will be needed to take
care Of future requirements as well
as present needs.
A wen ordered program consoli-
dating the many activities of the
various departments in their own
buildings In tho same locality should
result in great saving to the govern
ment. not only In rental costs. but
even moro 90 in increased efficiency
ana the expeditions handling Of gov
srnment business. :.
Tho internal revenue service fur
Evening star., 1922-11-19
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

~ONGRESS, which reassembles tonor..
row in extraordinary session on call
" of the President of the United
States, is expected to focus the at
tention of the country in more than usual
degree. This session will probably run until
the regular session, which begins the t1rst
Monday in December, to end by constitu-
tional limitation March 4. President Hard
ings present disposition is described as ad-
verse to calling an extra session of the Sixty
eighth Congress in the spring. To demo-
cratic leaders and some of the radical re-
publicans is ascrbed intention to compel
spring session, which would be possible OF
accomplishment by filibustering and blocking
the passage of the supply bills.
Belief that the session now beginning will
attract more than ordinary attention is based
upon expectation that a pronounced drive
for what they are pleased to term "progres-
sive legislation" will be made by democrats
and radical republicans, anticipatory of the
presidential campaign Of 1924; upon the
probability that the wet and dry fight will
open at once and upon the prospect of a
spirited contest in the Senate over the mer-
chant marine bill-called by its enemies the
ship subsidy bill to give it black eye at
the outset.
X X
Returning senators and representatives
of both parties showed marked eagerness
to get into the political fight which all
foresee impending, at once, and which will
be waged increasingly through all sessions
of Congress which are scheduled to come
or may come before November, 1924. With
gleefulness and zest they are girding for
the fray and eager to start the battle.
Impressed by the fact that party lines in
the country are fairly divided between the
two old parties, as shown in the recent
elections, neither side is willing to concede
victory to the: other. The coming contest
is regarded as "any mans fight"
X X X
Now this close division of strength as
between the republican and democratic vote
latent in the country, according to the fg-
ures of November J, means one thing, the
political leaders say: 1t means that the
Evening star., 1922-11-19

For the first time in the history of
the American Congress. this. the
Sixty-seventh Congress. will hold four
sessions. Tho present third and ex-
traordinary session. opening Monday.
will close in time for the regular
short session to open on the first
Monday In December.
Previously there have never been
moro than three sessions Of any Con-
gress. although during recent years
the three-session Congress has come
to be the rule rather than. the excep-
ton. Starting with the Sixty-fiirst
Congress. that and each succeeding
Congress has been expanded into
three sessions with the single excep-
tion Of the sixty-fourth Congress-
the only two-term Congress in four
teen years, 1908 to 1879. y
In the F1fty-eight Congress there
were thEes sessiona. - also IN -ths
Evening star., 1922-11-19

Ranization. They are heartened by the de-
velopment of the strength of the movement
for liberalization of the prohibition act in
the late elections.
What everybody is asking now is: Will
either of the old parties dare to advocate in
its national platform assault upon the law
as it stands7 There will be found. it is pre-
dicted, an increasing number of individual
candidates in both parties glad to do so.
The fight over the merchant marine bill
in the House promises to be brief and spec
tacular, ending in its passage toward the end
of this month in the lower body, and it will
then go to the Senate. There have been
many contests in Congress over the subject
of a government-aided merchant marine, but
it is not recalled that in any preceding one
was there such bitterness of feeling between
the opposing groups of thought as exists at
present.
The democrats national committee has
formally declared opposition to the pending
measure to be cardinal democratic policy.
The republican affirmative vote on the meas
ure in the Senate, where the real test of its
enactment is to come, will forecast whether
the upbuilding of an American merchant
marine is to be leading principle of the
republican party in 1924.
X X \ X
Presidential timber in Congress will
thrive and flourish like the green bay tree
from now on, and groundwork will be laid
for many candidatorial blooms. The Novem-
Der election has given impetus to the pros
poets, already latent, of Senator Wadsworth
of New York.
1t is this way: In the defeat of Nathan
L. Miller and Senator Calder. the republican
leadership in the state of New York falls
upon Senator Wadsworth. He will reor-
ganize the party machinery and take COM
mand of it during the coming winter. Sen
ator Wadsworth will, of necessity, be the
outstanding republican figure in the state.
He has remarkable hold on the esteem
and affections of the rank and file of the
party in the state.
The support of the organization of the
republican party in New York is recognized
as presidential asset of vast potentiality.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
9th Congress First in History
To Convene in Four Sessions

Fifty-f fifth and Firty-third, the Forty
sixth and Forty-fifth. Forty-second.
Forty-first and Fortieth, Thirty-sev-
enth, Thirty-fourth, Twenty-seventh.
Twenty-fifth, Thirteenth, Eleventh,
Fifth and First.
It is interesting to note that In the
early days the extra sessions were
held on dates fixed by law rather than
at the call of the President. Congress
itself deciding II and when extra ses-
sions were necessary. The Constitu-
tion, in article 1. section 4, provided
that the Congress should assemble
March 4, 1889. and thereafter "in every
year on the first Monday In De-
cember, unless they shall by law sp-
point q different day" Up to and in
cluding May 20, 1890. eighteen acts
were passed providing for the meet
ing Of Congress on other days In the
year. Since that year Congress has
met regularly on the drst Monday n
December
Evening star., 1922-11-19
''AS SEE IT."
By Willian, AlLe. White.

but 4 vast expanse Of sage brush
and scrub: everywhere tho blazing
sun; everywhere the barren earth,
and. except for the prairie dogs. no
signs Of life for a Journey Of 1000
miles,"
Probably Lord Shaw" did not
mean to include Kansas in the great
American desert. For II he cared
to look out Of the window he would
find Kansas about the same kind of
a country that one sees in Iowa, Ohio
or Michigan, save that the trees are
not forest trees and were set out a
generation ago by the homesteaders.
But west Of Kansas, through Col
orado. New Mexico, Arisona and east
ern California q casual traveller
might think tho country is some-
thing like the picture which Lord
Shaw" paints. From a train window
1t does look bleak; q blazing sun
does seem to smear and blister the
landscape, and there is to the casual
eye no sign Of life for thousand
miles," But to the seeing eye. to the
traveller who knows the country, this
vast semi-arid region is the most
unique and interesting Of our Ameri-
can civilization.
-On the expanse that once was the
American desert are a hundred good
little towns, bright, spick and span.
built in the new bungalow style of
architecture. During ten months of
the year in these green oases irriga-
10 =,
and the iron in the soil paints vivid
colors in dahlias. sweet peas and
zinia. Tho long procession Of the
flowers is q pageant Of joy. These
little towns that range in population
from five hundred to a quarter Of a
million are most exquisitely set
among the mountains, and around
these towns is an agriculture that
harks back to the time Of Abraham.
For the cattle range upon a thousand
hills. In the valley alfalfa, wheat
and sugar beets thrive. And the
wealth Of the region is distributed 80
fairly among the people that no
Utopian could complain Of it. In
these desert and mountain regions
between Kansas and the Pacific ocean
north and south and west are ten
beautiful states, where live nearly
q dozen millions .of people. They are
the scenic states Of the Union. In
them are the great hard metal mines
of our country. From them come
the young cattle and sheep that feed
the world. They grow citrus fruits
and melons for q continent. Lumber
and oil and coal go from the desert
to comfort the whole nation. It 10
q great civilization as different from
tho civilization Of the rest Of the
United States as that Of tho south II
different, or Of New England The
traveller who pulls down his blinds
and misses 1t has seen only q part Of
America and cannot understand 1t
all. For out on the desert We pro-
duce the prototypes which the he.
mon Of the movie land most earnest
ly initiate. The Lord Shaw person
should demand his money back. He
did not see America. He only saw
the part back Of the ladies' entrance.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
Z Y yHAT gang Of highbinders
M and hatchet-throwing tong
Wv men is gathering in the
United States Senate under

YHAT gang OF hignblnder9
NN/ and hatchet-throwing tong
Wv men is gathering in the
United States Senate under
the republican banner these days? The
holdover republican radicals are Capper.
Borah. Ladd, La Toilette. johnson. Nor
ris; the new radicals are shipstead Of
Minnesota, Howell Of Nebraska, Brook
hart Of Iowa, Fraxier Of North Da-
kota, Il he wins. And not far from these
scouts and pioneers Of reform arc Len
root, Cummins. Mccormick and Pepper,
who are much more than mildly pro-
gressive.
These men are 30 placed geographic
caliy that their republican colleagues in
adjacent states or in the states where
a liberal is planted fear to follow the
reactionary program too closely. So
they are giving distinctly liberal cast
to the Senate. Among the democrats
are a dozen other fairly liberal sena-
tors. but none Of the La Toilette, Norris,
Capper, Ladd, Frazier type. These
democrats; men like Kendrick, Pittman,
Pat Harrison and three or four Of the
newly elected democrats, like Ralston OF
/ Indiana. who got the labor vote from
Beveridge; Copeland. who defeated
Calder. and Ferris, who comes from
Michigan to rebuke Newberry. are men
Of liberal tendencies. They will join the
non partisan republicans above named
quickly In any proposition to defeat the
old guard Of either party.
In the Senate easily are thirty votes
which will 60 with the democrats or the
republicans for any progressive meas
ures Party lines rest loosely upon the
backs Of these thirty senators. And for
that matter they rest even more slackly
upon the backs Of the reactionary sena-
tors of both old parties If it is neces-
sary to put across a genuinely reaction
ary proposal AS matters stand today
parties mean 80 little In the Senate and
10 little back home among the people
that It is odd to see the party managers
going through tho idle mummery of
party organization. Yet with all its
false face front. party organisation is
still powerful piece Of machinery. You
cannot elect . republican in Texas nor
q democrat In Iowa.
Evening star., 1922-11-19

nishes very striking example OF
the need for consolidation in one
building or group of buildings. The
bureau is now scattered over a wide
area in eight or nine buildings. The
fact that this bureau. which gathers
in public moneys to meet govern
ment expenditures, is now year or
more behind on various tax collec-
tions is in no small measure due to
the absence of consolidated Offices.
A new building for the internal
revenue Is one Of those most needed
at this time. Those who have been
studying the situation express the
opinion that the logical site OF an
internal revenue building Is at the
juncture Of 18th street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, just across the street
from the Treasury.
Hall of Records Needed.
Another outstanding need that
members of Congress have pledged
themselves to meet at the incoming
session is an archives building and
hall of records. This will not only
make for the safe preservation Of in
valuable records, many Of which are
now in "nretraps," according to mem
bers of the public buildings commits
sion, but it will clear out much valu-
able Office space now being used for
storage in good Office buildings.
The activities Of the Agriculture
Department. which are now housed
In twenty-six different buildings. en-
phasize the absolute necessity for
several buildings closely co-ordinated.
A new central building, connecting
the two marble wings now occupied
by the bureau Of plant industry ana
the bureau Of animal industry. Will
probably be the first constructed for
the department, but even that Will
not relieve the situation. Other ONCE
buildings must be erected In the same
neighborhood.
A new building for the general ac-
counting office is also badly needed.
and Chairman Langley has already
written authorization for this In
public buildings bill he is drafting
The controller general has his force
now distributed in several rented AZ
well as government-owned buildings.
While there has been some sugges-
ton of putting this new building on
Capitol Hill, 1t is considered that eni-
cient service requires its erection
near the Treasury building.
For Storage Of Supplies.
BY no means the least Of new gov
ernment building requirements In tho
capital city is the erection of q giant
storage warehouse. Here would De
kept all Of the storage and stocks
Of the general supply committee ana
of the various. departments OF tho
government. It Is the intention OF
the public buildings commission to
have this storage warehouse on .
railroad siding. whore the contents
can be unloaded, handily from cars
and where trucks can easily be load
cd to move these supplies to the gov
ernment ofdces as they are reautst-
toned.
Fully as essential for economic eif-
cheney in the federal service as any
scheme Of reorganization Of the hum
dreds Of agencies, the public build
ings commission argues. 10 the need
for housing these agencies in modern
fireproof buildings. properly co-ordi"
mated into groups for the expeditions
transaction Of the growing business
Of the federal government
This viii be stressed at the inccm-
Evening star., 1922-11-19
The Great America. Desert.

IRON an esteemed cotemporary In
l. Scotland, the Aberdeen Free
Press, We take m account Of q lee
ture given by person who Is called
Lord Shaw" He is talking to the
'"Torphins M. I. Association" which
sounds like something particularly
good to eat out Of q Dickens novel.
In the course Of his remarks Lord
Shaw, who has crossed the Ameri-
can continent. told his auditors about
his western trip. The Free Press
quotes him thus:
I, 'Trom chicago they 5ourneysd' 70
Kaasas, and here they traversed m
altogether di6erent kind OF country.
|It u the No mans Land. nothing
Evening star., 1922-11-19

Note.-In publishing this article
by the brilliant editor Of the En-
poria Gazette The Star does not
necessarily indorse the views he
expresses. But Mr.. White brings
to the discussion of current
events a fertile mind and an en-
tertaining style, and a discrimi-
mating public will place its own
valuation upon the opinions he
advances
Evening star., 1922-11-19
ne Wet Dry.

,TsHE late election developed . curi-
i our anomaly In certain o. the
Evening star., 1922-11-19
The old Red Guara.

THE passing. Of the Appeal to Rea-
son from an organ Of militant
socialism to the exponent Of rampant
individualism under . new name
marks . serious change in the litera-
ture OF what might be called ram
bunctious agitation. For forty long
years tbs Appeal to Reason has been
the black beast of conservative mid
ale-class Americana who feel that
Continued o. Third Paga.l
Evening star., 1922-11-19
The Optfmist.

POSTMASTER GENERAL WORK
L ought to write q glad book. He
declares that the republican defeat
the other day Is q. good thing, because
It will bring the republicans closer
together. We fancy the election en-
ticinR Bob La Toilette and Hank
Lodge out in q hoopee putting on q
pettinE party, and Senator Brookhart
publicly kissing Senator Moses be-
cause Minnesota defeated Senator
Kellogg and New York defeated
Calder. Il always wanted to be
hanged" said the optimist. "because
TIM tired Of the way my collar
scratches my neck"
Evening star., 1922-11-19

states where prohibition is q new
tangled contraption.. 1t was the
wet dry and sometimes the dry wet
candidate. That means the men who
talked and voted one way and lived
another. Generally these birds got
the contents Of both barrels from the
voters. The wet dry-the man who
voted for prohibition and soused
against twas hit rather harder
than the candidate who voted wet
and practiced abstinence. The politi-
cal freaks were found In the election
almost entirely in states which never
have adopted state prohibition. In
the thirty-four prohibition states past
elections have killed of the wet dry.
He Is as extinct as the dodo out
where the west begins. Two things
have killed him-frst, the lack of
liquor: second. the lack Of votes.
But In those sections Of the country
where a cocktail still is served be-
fore dinner as q sign of social dis
tinction the wet dry has his habitat.
He wants booze for the rich and pro-
hibition for the poor. Until that
OlE0 % AuxC0 VA V1OAAA0ASAOA ia SAO
east still will be IN experiment. A
few shots like tho New Jersey KILL
ing will help to put the fear Of God,
which Is the beginning Of wisdom,
Into the hearts OF tho wet dry states
man. A dry vote cannot get away
with a wet cellar.
The Reds and the Tories.
THE other day Gen. Ludendorf pre-
l. dicted that Germany would turn
to bolshevism. Probably the wish
was father to the thought. It is one
Of the happy condolences Of politics
that the extremes OF politics always
hope to see the other win over the
moderates. Tho dripping red would
rather see the ultra-conservative
come back than the bourgeoisie. And
Ludendorf would naturally rather
see bolshevism descend upon Ger
many than to have the present mid
dle-class government stand the strain
Of the coming winter. 1t 1s easy to
explain this desire Of the extremists
for their antipathies to win. For
they both know that the middle
group will not always stand for the
extremes, and in the melee OF tip
ping over the house the outs expect
to get In. Politics is a great game
II you don't weaken, and II you want
q job badly enough you never do
weaken. Hence the reds cheer for
the monarchists and the tories hope
for the triumph Of tho reds.