Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-06-07

mission who holds uo seat iu congress.
So tar as the formulation of The re-
port is concerned be has been tie
whole commission.
There have been efforts. more or
less apparent. Co make 81 appear Jhat
NO bitterness has been shown by amy
Of the officials whose departments or
bureaus probably are 20 bee affected
There has been bitterness and there is
bitterness today What President llar-
ding, and everybody else wants Of
course. is tie good of the service. The
difficulty has been 10 decide what is
good for the service.
Wallace's Department Hit.
The proposal 90 transfer the forest
~ bureau from the Department If
Agriculture 10 the Department of che
Interior has revived the controversies
of the past. one can hear almost any
thing with one ear that he is willing
10 hear IN favor of the transfer, ami
then with the other he can lear almost
anything that he is willing 10 hear
against the transfer. A Solomon is
needed 20 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 "
government shall be made. Secretary
HuOvers outfit believes that il better
can care for the bureau of public
roads and the bureau of markets than
Il is possible for Secretary Wallace's
outfit 10 care for them. The proposal.
il is understood, is 10 transfer these
two bureaus To the'care of Mr.. Hoover.
President Harding's 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
10 the operations of the budget will
be that which will come 10 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 will result from the adoption
Of the report of Chairman Brown.
There seemingly is point 10 the
argument of the Department of Com
merce that IL 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
10 continue its control.
Memorial Day Plans.
Preparations are being made in
Washington for the annual Me-
mortal day exercises. In Airing
ton across the Potomac from Wash
ngton 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 that never again viii 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
phitheater. 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 10 do honor TO the dead.
Northern veterans Of the Civil war will
remember alike the graves of. Union
and Confederate soldiers. A little
later, however, there will be another
observance at Arlington when the
Confederate veterans and Daughters
of the COnfederacy will hold a special
memorial service of their own, in
honor Of the southern dead.
Sometime IL may be that the Fed
eral and Confederate memorial cere-
monies will be held on the same day.
Grant and Sherman Not There.
Grant and Sherman. the two great
est Of the northern chieftains. sleep
elsewhere-one on the shores of the
Hudson and the other in a beautiful
cemetery in the city Of st. Louis.
Their place is in Arlington. Generals.
colonies. sergeants. c0rporals and pri-
Yates are side by side in this encamp-
ment of the dead The silent tents Of
Unionists and Confederates are pitched
not far apart. and ne guard stands be
tween them. Schoiield (federan and
Wheeler (Confederate) sleep almost
side by side. They were friends, then
enemies in war. and then friends again
serving under the same flag. both dy-
ing while in the service of the United