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New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
Bouts Hereabouts
TONIGHT

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Broadway ". A.--PhII Bloom Sc Ui,.
lie Harmon, IL rounds.
Crescent a. C.. Bay Ridge--Amateur
boxing tourney.
Columbus s. e.. Yonkers--Jack terr
stein W.. Tony Caponi. f2 rounds
Brighton s. g., Staten 'sinHd--ras,
Baird VS.. Billy Murphy. IL rounds.
FRIDAY
18th Infantry Armory--Narfs po,,.,,
VS.. Sandy Taylor, ~ rounds
Steeplechase A. A.--Jio1my Keay ..
Soldier BnPtfieid, J2 ROUNDS
surf a. A.-Pepper Martin VS.. Bobby
Joscpbs. t2 rounds.
9th Regiment 3rmory--Ruddy sans.
ders W. Tommy Carlson. IL rounds
Long Branch 4. A.-Bert Snnifheys -
Sammy Goode, ~ rounds.
SATURDAY
0ueensboro Stadiunt--SaiIor Maxtea
ss. Al Reich, ~ rounds
Commonwealth :. C.--.Ioe Duudee We.
Willie Farley. I2 rounds
Ridgewood Grove =. C-~Frefidfe Jacks
VS.. Frankie Eng.e, IL rounds
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

victory was popular, as the entry was
favorite at odds-on.
In the most exciting finish of the
afternoon E. r. Bradley's Blossom
Time outgamed the Oak Ridge Stables
Runelise in the third race, dash of
FIVE furlongs straight These fllies,
practically split choices and both
heavily played, fought it out all the
way. 1t was Blossom Times first ex-
perience in the chute and the flly tried
to bolt a couple of times with Ponce.
When the latter finally got his mount
Strengthened she and the full sister of
Norwich were nose to nose. And that's
About the sixteenth pole Runelise
managed to get her nose in front for
the first time, but Blossom Time came
again with rare gameness and nipped
the favorite in the very last strides.
For the second time at this meeting
Dominique nosed out Lanius in ding
dong finish. The pair met in the clos
ing dash, of six and a half furlongs.
Thunderclap was also among those
present, but evidently as a spectator
His rail position beat Lanius, for, some
what slow to begin, he was soon pTched
off by Dominique and carried to the
outside ali Lne way TOunu Cne turn ana
could never quite make up his disad-
vantage.
Old Valor took the track in the fifth
race at mile and made every post
winning one, covering the distance in
the excellent time of 1877 3-5. The ia
vorite, Duncecap, was much closer than
usual in the early running, but with an
apprentice of Bells caliber had no
chance to beat such q Valor as that
which performed yesterday.
James B. Smiths Liwaito, with La
verne Fator up, made a show of field
of half dozen two-year- olds in the
opening dash, of five and half fur
longs. Fator beat the gate from his
inside position and was never threat
ened. Harry Payne Whitney's Dream
Days, the heavily played favorite, after
furnishing the contention most of the
way, faltered in the last sixteenth and
lost the place to Irish Pat.
Starter Mars Cassidy suspended
Jockey C, H. Miller for five days for
misbehavior at the post in the first
race. Miller had the leg up on Irish
| Pat.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
Lynch to Meet Winner
OF NabIe.Lee Battle

Eddie Mead and his champion, Joe
Lynch, arrived back in town yester-
day after the Pal Moore bout at Mich
igatl City. Mead's first conference re-
garding future matches for Lynch was
with Matchmaker Frank Fiourney, and
at the conclusion Of the, meeting Mead
winner Of the Sammy Nable- Danny Lee
match, which takes place at the Velo-
drome next Monday night.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
Extended Winning the Handicap Feature Belmont Track
argentine Reaches Polo Final
BY Defeating Shelburne House
South Americans Play Brilliantly i'm Open Cham
ponship Match at Rumson and Triumph LIZ to
9; All Members of Winning Team Play Well

RUMSoN N j., Sept 6Argenine overwhelmed Shell
and doing displayed the that has been
the Rumson The South placed them
the finals of the contest for the United States % and the form they
showed makes them strong favortes for the ultimate decision
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
Whitney's Colt administers
Sound Beating 10 Mad Halter
Rancocas Stables Entry Is Beaten by Three
Lengths After Bunting L. Given Breather
Rounding the Turn; Dominique Noses Out Lanus
By w. ]: Macbeth

a Park
bound the best hreeyearold
viii be walkver the
KaiSang Whneys Bunting proved
satisfaction
the Brentwood Handicap mile sixteenth
Yesterdays racing at Park.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
Tour New England This Fall

Motor over Perfect roads: Breathe tonic air !;
enjoy magnificent scenery OF New England at
it's best After the days run find every con.
hotels Or famous resorts. For, road map. ad
dress VIM. NJ. tSIMBALL, sec'y, n. n. Hotel
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
WE'RE COLD TO REFORMS

We have not had in our time Presi-
had close acquaintance with business
methods. The Chief Executives have,
for the most part, not been executives
as that term is now understood. Any
thing but. They regarded the govern
mental machine as one regards Il hired
motor cara piece of mechanism in
which to get somewhere, and with no
thought of its power-transmission
system or economy of operation.
Mr.. Taft did sense the fact that he
was at the head of an organization
whose activities are almost as varied
as those of the entire business world.
Mr.. H;h,ding, | believe, shares this
feeling.
AS Mr.. Taft pointed out, this great
organization has never been studied
in detail as one piece of administra-
tive mechanism. No comprehensive
effort has been made, until very re-
Gently, to list its many activities or to
group them in such II way as to pre-
sent clear picture of what the gov
tTullltHt Is uplhS. NO
statement has ever been published of
the financial transactions of the gov
ernment as Il whole. With large in
terests at stake congress and the eX-
ecutive have never had all the infor-
nation which should be currently
available If the most Intelligent direc-
ton is to be given to the daily national
business.
Congress, the President and the ad-
ministrative officers have been at
tempting to discharge their duties
without full information as to the
agencies through which the work of
the government is being performed.
In the past. services, agencies, bureaus.
what not, have been created one by
one as eXigencieS have seemed to de-
mand, with little or no reference to
any scheme of organization of the gov
ernment as whole.
Mr.. Taft pointed out all this and
made an earnest effort to change it.
With what result? Why, just exactly
none. Congress was cold The pub
lic-meaning you and me-was colder.
We didn't take any interest In the
project, and therefore congress po-
litely yuwned it away into the tall
grass and out of sight. Mr.. Taft was
given enough money to employ an efli-
cheney and economy commission and
to make inquiry Into the methods of
transacting the public business of the
executive departments and other gov
ernment establishments"
The inquiry was made and the
changes recommended, but nothing
hus ever been done about it. This
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17

menta! agencies as the public health
service, the children's bureau. the wom-
ems bureau, the bureau of pensions,
the bureau Of education. and the In
dian service.
Three or four knotty problems Of
reorganization stand in the way of the
completion of the committees report,
and President Harding at an early
date will he called upor ts umpire
the differences 1t has been the under
standing all along that the President
would make the final decision in any
disputed questions creating a deadlock
in the committee. which hopes to COM
plete the work in time to lay it be-
fore congress and enact it into legisla-
tion before the end Of the present
session.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
New u. S. Veterans Vocational Schools

PENING of the United States
Veterans Bureau Vocational
schools at Chllcothe. o., for
merIy Camp Sherman, marks the in
nuguration of a new policy III reha-
bilitating the disabled veterans.
Formerly the trainees were farmeu
ont TO various institutions. Inc vet
erans now will be taken out OF THESE
schools and placed in the government
institution at Chilllcothe. The govern
ment will not take students out OF
accredited universities and colleges
where veterana bureau trainees are
.nking professional courses
The school at Chillicothe is peihs
.opidly equipped with modern 'apor"-
tories and shops for classes in elec-
.ricaI work, printing, steam-httihg,
,nrraving, carpentry, architecture ana
hookbinding, as well as courses along
agriculture. animal husbandry' DAIRY
,ny. cheese and cream making FOREST
nv and similar lines. =, ,,
The closest attention Will ne paiu
to the health of these disabled VET
.ypns. A modern hospital VIII pe
m.,ntaiped on the campus, WIN an
,deou.ts med, :al and nursing s'aH'
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17

w ASHlNGToN shin = The United
w states navy Is 99.T per cent
pure American. Secretary
Denby Is proud of his navy and said
that 1t was the best navy in the world.
backing his statement by figures re-
Gently compiled by the bureau of navi.
gation. which show that on July l na-
tive-born sailors represented 81 80 per
cent; nnturnlized men, 200 per cent ::
colonial natives, 4.S9 per cent. and the
remainder aliens. The last-named mum.
Der only 352 men. At the end of the
hscal year the navy comprised l19 2O5
men. Of which number 100, 457 we're ma
tlves, $500 were born in Guam, Samoa,
the Philippines or Virgin islands and
3,567 were nuturalized citizens.
The figures also show 1t is hand.
picked navy, for, out of 135.993 an
plicants, only 72.3S6 were accepted.
1t Is a healthy navy afloat and
ashore, according to the statement of
the surgeon general.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
Two Cabinet Officers May Be Jobless

1.-TWO cabinet members may find
themselves jobless before the
end of the year under the pro
visions of TIE governmental Organiza-
ton of the administrative branch of
the government.
The committee has already decided
to unite the War and Navy depart
ments. neCessitating the discharge of
one surplus cabinet member-either
Secretary OF War Weeks or Secretary
Gf the Navy DENLY.
II also has under consideration the
merging of the Commerce and Labor
departments, just as they were some
years ago. This consolidation, If car
ried in effect, would leave either Sec
retary of Commerce Hoover or Secre-
tary Of Labor Davis without job in
the cabinet.
The creation of one new cabinet
post is provided for In the reorganiza-
ton scheme. The new department will
be known as the department Of public
welfare and will seek to assemble un-
der one head a number of the govern
mental agencies now attached in H.
logical fashion to departments with
which they have little concern.
In 1t may be grouped such govern
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NJ.
OUR COSTLY NEGLIGENCE

coordination" is tired, haggard
nervous wreck Of word that was
nearly worked to death at Washington
during the early days of the war. 1t
was the first of the dollar-a-year words
to come forward 10 do war work, and
1t was worn to a frazzle. l hate to
drag the poor wan thing out from the
quiet retreat in my dictionary where
1t has been resting and recuperating,
but must say that this lack of CO.
ordination, lack of organization, du-
plication, inefficiency. waste, and hap
hazard hodge-podge structure of the
national governmental machine Is no
secret to those at Washington, who
run and manage it for us, and who are
even more directly responsible than
we are for the condition into which
it has fallen.
l submit pleas of avoidance and
confession from both Democrats and
Republicans. 1t is not matter of
politics. 1t is matter of proved and
confessed negligence on the part of
the men we have hired to run the ma
chine. and have kept year after year
In places of trust and power and re-
sponsibility. They haven't kept up
the plant. The form of organization
is grotesquely inadequate. The NOR
ale of the working force is badly i'm
paired, as | have set forth at length
in previous articles. We have paid
the price for this, grossly and hugely,
in money and in poor service. This
has been costly negligence on our part.
| said l had confessions. Here they
are, Reed Smoot, Republican and Il
senator from Utah. speaking:
The administrative branches of the
government have undergone no funda-
mental change since the organiza ton was
devised by Alexander Hamilton.
No other government in the world
could have gone on ours has done, and
paid the bills involved in our wasteful
methods of administration. We have been
able to do II because this country has
had resources and wealth unparalleled.
But the war has brought us at last TO
realize that these will not last always.
We need complete survey of the whole
situation de novo by a committee of men
| willing to recognize that 1t is a task OF
| day and night for year. and very likely.
| two years.
There is endless duplication of work
among different departments. and even
| In the same department. 1t is
| the same through all the government
| functions. and now when the burden OF
| carrying our enormous deb, is weighing
| on the people. we can no longer neglect
| to give it consideration.
When he said these things, Mr.
| Smoot was urging concrete proposal
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
By Their Leaves Ye Shall Know Them

ciate what it means to the fruit grow
er to have the uncertainty removed
from the purchase of his nursery
stock" says statement issued from
the experiment station.
This fall, with the support of the
Massachusetts Fruit Growers assO-
citation, DR.. Shaw applied his identifi-
cation method to 5000 apple trees in
nurseries in this state. To the amaze
ment of the nursery men, he threw out
nearly 10 per cent of the young trees
for masquerading under false
name.
DR.. Shaw's investigation involved
study of leaves of 200 varieties of ap-
pie trees collected from orchards Of
distant states as well as in New Eng
land He discovered that always there
were certain characteristics invariable
in leaves of the same variety and Il
great many points of difference be-
tween leaves of different varieties.
During his years of research. he ap-
piled his leaf tests to 1.lOO young ap-
pie trees as he set them in his own ey-
perimental plots. Only one tree turned
out. when it came into bearing, to be
different from his marking.
Dr. Shaw does not pretend that any,
body can identify fruit trees by their
leaves. But study, he says. will enabla
the fruit grower to distinguish any
given variety in the nursery.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17

Every accommodation has been made
for the married trainees to insure the
comfort of the student and his family.
Model cottages have been builf ana
furnished by the government.
The administrative head of the
schools will he Colonel Symmonds,
who was chief of the public service
commission of Cuba in 1888.
Plans are made for the accommona-
finn of 5000 or more students at the
ChiIlicothp school.
The National Vocational sch""ls
will take the place of many inferi"
tvpes of schools formerly giving In
struction TO veterans
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
Copyright. Western Newspaper Union

to bring about the reformation so bad
ly needed.
And now Franklin d. Roosevelt, for
seven years assistant secretary of the
navy and recently the Democratic can
didate for vice president:
The entire system Of relationship which
exists between congress and the eSecu-
tive departments is fundamentally wrong.
Let me illustrate: l made offer one
spring to the appropriations committees
of both house and senate. telling them
that l would tomorrow discharge Is per
cent of the employees OF the Navy de-
partment II they. the committees. would
give me complete authority to take one
half of the salaries of the employees SO
discharged and add 1t to the salaries of
the other s. per cent Of the employees
still left in the department. OF
course however. under the present sys-
TEN congress would not think of giving
executive discretion of this kind.
Congress, for various reasons, has SO
tied the hands of the executive officers
of the government that they have no dis
cretion in the fundamental questions of
employment. My own wonder Is
that. considering the existing circum-
| stances. the employees of the govern
ment as efficient as they actually are.
| Congress leg Gisates for every minute Item
| OF employment There Is a lot
| OF work being done in other departments
| which ought properly to be under the
| Navy department. and in the same way
| there is a lot of work done by the Navy
department which could perfectly prop
| erly be transferred to other departments
After seven years down here in an ex-
| ecutivc position ! cannot help the
| conclusion that our governmental meth
| DDS are cumbersome and wasteful. The
first Improvement must come in what is,
| after all, the source of governmental ac-
! tivities-that is. the legislative branch. .
| This must come from congress. We need
also a reclasshcation and redistribution
| of the work of the executive depart
| ments. This only come If congress.
working in accord with itself and with
| the executives. will discuss the whole
question simultaneously and not merely
| piecemeal.
Well, there you are! A Republican
who has been in the legislative branch
of the government for seventeen years,
and Democrat who has been in the
executive branch for seven years, both
telling the same story of how badly
the national business is managed.
The odd thing about it is that our
agents and representatives at Wash
ington who let this waste and inef-
| ficiency run on, year after year, pay
no penalty. We pay the piper to the
tune of millions and Enthusiastically
that much And the condition will en-
dure until we make real roar about
it. Congress increasingly shakes its
head over the situation and brings in
various proposals of reform, and says
how wrong it all is; but lacking a
lively. infamed public pressure. moth.
ing gets done.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17

economy and efficiency commission was
very conservative and cautious. 1t
took Mr.. Taft's view that the prob
lem of good administration is not one
that can be solved at one time. 1t is
continuously present one. This
commission. made up of excellent men,
suggested that the revenue-cutter serv-
ice be abolished and its activities be
taken over by other services. 1t was
estimated that by so doing a saving
of not less than S1,OOO,0O0 could be
made.
Another report recommended that
the lighthouse and life-saving services
be administered by single bureau in
stead of as at that time, by two bu-
reaus located in different departments.
1t was estimated that this conSOlida-
ton would result in saving of not
less than 100000 yearly.
The abolition of the returns office of
the Interior department was recon-
mended, at an estimated direct saving
of about $4,000 a year, in addition
TO a large indirect economy in the
ittuNlioh VI Nolh 70 bt llltu Ill
the several offices.
The consolidation Of the six auditing
offices of the treasury and the inclu-
sion in the auditing system of the
seven naval officers who audited Gus
toms accounts at the principal ports
to produce an Immediate saving of at
least S135,000 yearly.
From this modest start other changes
and reforms and savings were to be
made
But we weren't interested in the
high cost of government or the high
cost of living eleven years ago. Mr..
Taft didn't get rise out of us. He
didn't have much of pull with con-
gress. either, poor man, and all his in
quiry went for nothing as far us any
action was concerned.
He and his commission did bring out
and establish, however, certain facts
and conditions. 1t was trustworthy
and competent investigation as far as
it went. That is something to the
good.
There is patent disposition in con-
gress now to take the whole problem
of the routine administrative processes
of the government under consideration
and see how best to improve them.
Whether anything really worth while
will come out of it will depend en-.
tirely on the degree of interest you
display. If you will take the trouble
to show that you know that the ma
tional business Is mismanaged and
costs too much. and that you are tired
of II, there will be action.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
NATIONAL Capital,
Gla AFFAIRS GiB BiilIB
Navy Is Nearly 100 Per Cent Amer;c,n -

II is a well-behaved navy, too. as
only 6.S per cent of the total number
OF discharges were dishonorable. and
but 6.OS per cent of the total men in
the service during the year deserted.
Good conduct medals In the service to-
tnling over G,0O0. some men having
eight to their credit, also testify to
the character of the enlisted men.
The distribution of men by states
gives New York the lead In both ma
tlvity and residence; 13,452 in the for
mer and 14,17O in the latter. Pennsyl-
Vania comes second in each list, with
9,9ol and 9,299, respectively The ma
tive sons list gives third place to
Massachusetts, fourth to Illinois and
fifth to Texas.
Out of the total, 1925 sailors,
there are llO,O24 white, 5,545 Fill
pinos, 2,S53 negroes, 1856 Chinese, SO
japanese, 139 SamOans, 2i9 Cha
mooros, 296 Hawaiians, 1877 Porto
Ricans and Sc American Indians.
The American navy also is a young
navy, 1850 being under twenty-one
two-thirds of them are twenty-fOur
and under. and only 9O4 are above for
ty-tive, although SO are over sixty and
still active.
Eight per cent of the enlisted men
are married, n total of 9.S36 men. Over
half the men have had previous sea
service and 449 of them have served
over twenty years.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
Mexia Is Now Caw-Abiding Town.

Mexia, Texas.-Mexia and vicinity
winch sheltered gamblers and alleged
pooteggers several weeks ago, under
liie control of state troops, has become
quiet oil town, with nothing to worry
upout but,muddy streets. MeNia grew
up over night" when oil was discov-
erea, and was the objective of the
average "get-rich-quick" undesirables'
vi boom crime began to show up on
.ie police blotter, and continued to IN
crease. Gov Pat NJ. Neff took notice,
Hhd declared martial law Jan. II.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
U. S. Steamer Sunk at Dock.

baltimore, Md.-The United States
'hpping steamship Eastern Dawn
'oaued with grain, presumably for Rus-
',ah relief, was sunk at her moorings
a'ohgside of the Western Maryland
S,ompany's grain elevator at Port Cow
ngton, Baltimore harbor. 1t is report
.u mat one of the sea-cocks of the ves-
vel mad been opened in some mystic
.'ous manner which let in rush OF
"ater that soon flooded the engine ana
Oo'ler rooms and the forward compare
"ent of the vessel
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
commercial inquiries answered and
information gladly furnished without
cost. Address any firm above.
Nine Killed in Gas Explosion.

Birmingham, Ala. - Nine convicts
were killed from a local gas explosion
In the Belle Ellen coal mines in Bibb
county according to reports received
here by c. II. Nesbitt, state mine in
spectOr Mr.. Nesbtt said he had only
received meager report on the acci-
dent, but that the superintendent Of
the mines told him the explosion was
a local one, that all the bodies had
been recovered and that the mine was
clear.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
University confers Honorary Degrees

delphia.-Gcneral Pershing and
Sir Arthur w. Currie, head of McGll
University, will receive the honorary
degree of doctor of laws at the Wash
lhSton's birthday celebration of the
University of Pennsylvania. Sir Ar
tlur who commanded the Canadian
troops during part of the war will be
lhc orator of the day.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
Foot and Mouth Disease in England.

London.-More than 1000 cattle
nave been slaughtered since the out
break of foot and mouth disease in
England. The disease has attacked
some of the best herds of dairy cattle
ana numerous pedigreed flOcks OF
sheep, Yorkshire having suffered bad
~ In this county some of the best
ShorthOrnS are threatened.
The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
Lands Refuses to Resion.

Chicago.-Federal Judge X. NJ. Lam
dis, arbitrator in the controversy be-
tween Chicago contractors and build
ing trades unions, has refused the re-
quest of twenty-six unions that he re-
sign AS arbiter. 81 have no desire to
hang on and would welcome an Oppor-
tunity to kiss you all goodbye" Judge
Lands said, but asserted he felt it his
duty to continue