Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-06-08


they ana their predecessors have en-
ercised jurisdiction for meny years
do not believe In every instance that
the changes recommended are for the
good of the service. Other cabinet
officers who expect to profit by the en-
largement of their department natural
~ hold that the proposal for the
transfers is much TO be commended.
The report recommending the
changes Is that Of Walter E. Brown Of
Ohio, who is the chairman of what
Is called the joint congressional COM
mission on the reorganization Of gov
ernment departments and bureaus. MIR.
Brown Is the only member of the COM
mission who holds no seat in congress.
So far as the formulation Of the re-
port is concerned he has been the
whole commission.
There have been efforts, more or
less apparent, to make 1t appear that
no bitterness has been shown by any
Of the officials whose departments or
bureaus probably are to be affected.
There has been bitterness and there is
bitterness today. What President Har-
ding, and everybody else wants OF
course, is the good of the service. The
difficulty has been to decide what is
good for the service.
Wallace's Department Hit.
The proposal to transfer the forest
ry bureau from the Department Of
Agriculture to the Department of the
Interior has revived the controversies
of the past. One can hear almost any
thing with one ear that he is willing
to hear In favor of the transfer, and
then with the other he can hear almost
anything that he Is willing to hear
against the transfer. A Solomon is
needed to decide as between Secretary
Wallace and Secretaries Fall and
Hoover.
The Department of Agriculture will
be harder hit than any of the other
departments If the proposed changes
in jurisdiction over certain bureaus of
government shall be MADE. Secretary
HoOvers outfit believes that it better
can care for the bureau of public
roads and the bureau of markets than
1t is possible for Secretary Wallace's
outfit to care for them. The proposal,
it is understood, is to transfer these
two bureaus to the care Of Mr.. Hoover.
President Hardings letter to con-
gress has shown what the budget sys-
tenn and the operations of General
Dawes have done for economy and
efficiency. II is held by persons
here that second only in saving grace
to the operations of the budget will
be that which will come to the govern
ment If the bureau transfers should
be effected. Time alone will tell.
The opponents of some Of the trans
fers say that extravaganza rather than
economy viii result from the adoption
Of the report of Chairman Brown.
There seemingly is point to the
argument Of the Department Of Com
merce that it should have control of
Of the bureau Of public roads, because
roads are the instrument Of commerce.
The same argument might hold true
so far as the bureau of markets is
concerned, but agriculture says that
markets represent the products of
the soil, and that the producers want
the farming department of government
to continue its control.
Memorial Day Plans.
Preparations are being made in
Washington for the annual Me-
mortal day exercises. In Arling-
ton across the Potomac from Wash
ington sleep thousands upon thou
sands Of the country's dead. Fed
eral officers and soldiers and Confed-
crate officers and soldiers, side by side,
and with them the dead of all the
wars, including the Worlds War, in
which American men have gone forth
to the fighting.
Arlington is the camping ground of
an army Lhat never again will bear
arms. Since the last Memorial day
the unknown soldier whose body was
brought from France has found a
resting place in front Of the great am
The people, of course, will
remember the ceremonies attending
the interment on Armistice day of the
body of this soldier who in a high
sense represented all of his fallen COM
rades.
On Memorial day the soldiers Of the
regular army and the volunteer vet
Grams of all the wars will assemble
and march to do honor to the dead.
Northern veterans of the Civil war win
alike the graves of Union
and Confederate soldiers. A little
later, however, there will be another
at Arlington when the
veterans and Daughters
Of the Confederaey win hold a special
memorial service Of their own, in
honor of the southern dead.
Sometime it may be that the Fed
eral and Confederate memorial cere-
monies win be held on the same day.
Grant and Sherman Not There.
Grant and Sherman, the two great