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Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
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WHY GOOD MEN QUIT

Go today into the Treasury depart
ment, the Department OF Agriculture,
the Department Of Commerce, or into
any other establishment Of the govern
ment doing important technical work,
and they win tell you that their chief
difficulty is to retain competent em-
ployees In the supervisory and tech
nicai positions. Their turnover is alb.
normally high in these positions.
Every day men leave the service
to accept private employment at ma
tertally increased salaries, so that the
departments are continuously going
through q process OF selecting and
training executives and technical em-
ployees, only to lose them, as they be-
come really valuable, on account Of
the inadequacy Of their compensation.
The second factor which contrib
utes to the present inenectiveness Of
the government as q business estab-
lishrnent Is found In the improper or
ganization Of the executive branch OF
the government for effective service.
'You are familiar, at least in q general
way, with the defects Of the present
administrative machinery.
You know for example, that the In
terror department now has jurisdiction
over q great number of bureaus Of a
miscellaneous character that have
nothing to do with each other or with
the functions which the Interior de-
partment was originally established to
perform. 555ss
You know that many agencies have
been located in the Treasury. depart
ment, the great fiscal department Of
the government, which are purely nom
fiscal ii character, such as the coast
guard, the public health service, the
supervising architects Office and the
bureau Of war risk insurance.
You know that the great bulk Of
the civil public works Of the govern
nent are. executed under the super
vision Of the War department, although
the bureau Of public roads is located
IN the Department Of Agriculture, and
the reclamation service In the Depart
ment Of the Interior.
You know, furthermore, Of the In
dependent existence outside the juris-
diction Of any Of the great executive
departments Of some 40-oqd boards,
commission Offices and bureaus.
These are merely examples Of con-
-dition that would require volumes to
describe fully, but It is generally
known that the executive branch Of the
government Ii at the present time IL
logically and uneconomically organ
azed In many important particulars.
It should be remembered, however.
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
Announces French Nativity.

Announces French Nativity.
Maurice (Jimmy) Brocco, who with
his partner has for the past two year,
won the Madison Square Garden bt
cycle race, has announced his French
nativity after reports had him an
italian. He was born in Fismes, on
the Vesle river, Department Of thu
Narns, 38 years ago. Fismes wal
recaptured BY American troops In July.
1918, In q desperate encounter.
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
:caDyriehs. Ws.ssaa Nevapapef Uaioa

that even with an ideal personnel and
a perfect organization 1t Is doubtful;
II the high degree Of economy and
efficiency that characterizes private
business can ever be attained in the
government Offices. This is 80 because
economies made by government OFF,
cials are not transformed Into divi-
dends for themselves as they are in
private business.
There Is an impression In congress
and throughout the country that men
Of great ability are not found in gov
ernment service; that the salaries are.
not sufficient to attract and hold them.
On the contrary, there are q great
many people Of distinguished ability
In the government service. One Is
more and more impressed by that fact,
especially since the war sent to Wash
ington so many men Of large means
and famous names with whom the
government employees could be COM
pared. The comparison was time and
again to the advantage Of the govern
ment employee. But the salaries are
not the attraction; 1t is the work IT.
Self. This is well understood BY some
eminent observers Of public life. Sec
retary Of State Hughes declared him
self as follows before the advisory
committees of the war risk insurance
bureau:
It has been my experience that with
the higher officers. the officers Of greater
institutions, where efficiency 10 rewarded
by public representation-while the field
is q limited one because Of the great op-
portunity to men of ability-it is still en-
tirely possible to draw to the public serv-
ice men Of great ability and distinction,
because OF the desire to- render public
service, and the number Of men who are
available for that purpose, while rela-
lively small, is still sufficient II the ap-
pointing officer wants men Of that class.
In order to obtain them, however. he
must give free field. He must not in-
!terfere as to political action to control
administration tendencies and must per-
NIT them to be given the reward which
q well-conducted odice Of importance will
give to its incumbent In the public esti-
nation. 5 *
Now the difficulty increases when you
pass those heads that get tho credit and
come to the technical expert who has
got to do the regular work and upon
whose efficiency the operation Of the de-
partment finally depends. These men are
T, little known. The public hasn't time even
( to learn their names They are interested
In work to Q degree Of being willing to
make sacrifices.
There Is active competition for men Of
brains snd great ability Of that sort. and
the government will never be served un-
less it pays the price for those men. Now
think that 10 plain situation. You
may be able to get a director in the bu-
reau Of war risk insurance for 5000 q
year, or for nothing at all. but you can
not get an actuary. You cannot get in-
surance men. You cannot get superin-
5,tendents. That would be my judgment
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
Post. {. 70 Thanked.

Post u banked.
Omcial letters Of thanks from Lord
Curzon Of Great Britain and the Brit
ish ambassador have been received BY
the American Legion post at Somer
vile, n. J. which held military fu
neral over the body Of q British army
captain. AZ the captain had no rel
iatives In this country. the city wai
about 70 inter the body In the potter'a
field. N 80 a.
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
Ar,nIstlcs Day Cas- ualtIss.

Armlstles Day Casualties.
There were S.012 casualties In tho
y. b. T. on Armistice day, November
y. 1918. according 70 the; adjutant
'gsneral's onice. OF these. 26S were
Killed. 2.7o8 severely wounded, 46e
slightly wounded. IT. slightly gassed
and 282 wounded and gassed, degres
the brunt Of this days casualties.
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
a F:ootIe,s +: Hunt.

'sWhoof!" painted Dottie Dimple-
knees as she sank into a chair in the
theatrical agency Office, "I've simply
run my legs of trying to see the mama
ger Of this show about job in the
chorus"
lady" said Otis, the Office boy, II
amt seen the manager, but IL that's
the case you nights well go back
home. American Legion Weekly. &
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
LEGION POST PICKS BEAUTY
Miles Edith Patterson Crowned by A.
kansas Body as Most Dsautiful
Girl In America.
Arkansas comes forth with liiss
Edith Mae Patterson to prove that. a.

q state. It's prod
ucts are unsur.
passed anywhere
In the world. Miss
Patterson won q
mid : " estern
b eauty contest,
and has subse-
q u emily been
crowned the most
beautiful girl In
America by criti-
cal members Of
the Roy Kinard
most nf tho Amor
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
Carrying On With the
American Legion
Twenty hospitals in three years u
the record Of one disabled fighter dis
covered by the American Legion.

Twenty hospitals In three years 10
the record Of one disabled fighter dis.
covered by the American Legion.
Ex.soldiers who have lost their dis
charge papers viii be able to obtain
duplicates under bill now before
congress. Siai3 .si Il
Assum OF $50, ,0OO, 600 has been raised
by Australia for the use Of her I'M.
employed former soldiers. Another
great sum has been raised to-. buy
land Tor farms to be cultivated BY
them.
Frederick p. Peters, Fort Worth.
Tex, was unconscious when he was
handed over to the American Legion
post 10 that city. Diagnosis revealed
that what he needed most was ham
and eggs.
j Marshal Foch was made an honorary
member Of the Cambridge (Mass.)
Post of the Grand Army Of the Re
public. = delegation Of Civil war
vetsssns pinned . bronze medal %
his chest s
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
CHIEF FuH.MAKER BUSY MAN
President Eivers Of $40 Hommes ct .
chevaux," Forced to Resign az
State Adjutant.

Edward ]. Eivers, national presi-
dent, of 40 hommes ct 8 chevaux"-
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
Z lflE I
Ahl]I'p(l(,AN
LEGION
lcssy for Th. Dsps1tn.nt supplied y
WOO DILL WON HIS EMBLEMs
Henors Evsryxhsrs Tor Sergeant Whe
Extsrmlnatsd Machine Gun =
Nests and Many osrmana

When Sergt. Samuel Woodfll pays
J casual call ON friend nowadays,
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-02
Where Your Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money
in Conducting Your Business
By EDWARD q. LOWRY

Authsr WsaAinson
Authosiy National 0ovsurnents Businssi Methods.
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MAIL FRAUDS.

From the Washington Post.
The nationwide drive against swim
ding use of the mails announced by
the Department of Justice. will re-
ceive the enthusiastic Endorsement OF
the public in general and Of the
duped elements in particular. 1t is
stated that approximately 500 cases.
representing a loss through postal
swindles aggregating more than
s140, 900, 900, are already in the
hands OF United States attorneys and
that a larger number are in course
OF preparation.
Unquestionably the privilege Of
the mails has been abused by the
swindlers who have availed them
selves of this means OF communica-
tion for mulcting unsuspecting in
vestors. The fact that many schemes
so pushed bore evidence OF fraud on
their face does not lessen the need
for restrictions against the use OF the
mails for such purpose and for pun
ishment of those who abuse them.
The public is entitled to the great
est protection that the government
can furnish against fraudulent ap-
proach through the letter box. Even
though many victims have fallen into
traps that their own greed for easy
and quick money has sprung. they
are none the less entitled TO protec-
tion against postal fraud.
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goods manufactured in Manchester anywhere else
outside the United States.
On tho day following the publication Of the editorial
above quoted the of went to the polls and
elected to Congress seventeen Democrats who oppose
protective tariff and one Republican who IS trying TO
keep the statute books tariff law which will en-
the manufacture OF Texas cotton in Texas mills
In the proportion OF II to the people of Texas vote
against their own best interests.
alone the desire that her materials
be made into finished goods home. IT, as the Post
truly says, home manufacture would be billion dollar
that State tho benefits would not be and could
not be enjoyed alone. billion dollar business in Texas
would immense number OF new homes, all to
furnished with goods largely bought in other States
Food for the occupants OF those home would come in
part at least from other States billion dollar
industry would transportation business for
railroads. markets for automobiles greater
consumption OF gasoline more buyers OF books and
magazines. and buyers Of life insurance.
more patrons OF movie shows-there is end to the
OF the benefits the home rather than the
foreign manufacture of goods.
This is all plain that It is amazing that the Post
could support any for seat in either House of
Congress unless he nrst pledged himself support a
arr that would impose import duty at least equal
the difference in OF production of manufactured
'otton goods here and in Europe Asia
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RArrnpeEs DESERVED PUNISHMENT

x,LARENcE H RATLEDGE. OF this city, prince OF
~ dealers in stolen automobiles in Delaware. has
pleaded guilty one indictments found against
him by the grand jury and sent by the Court OF
General Sessions the New Castle County workhOusc
for three years
The sentence was we'll deserved and tho public is
pleased that a man who had operated orazenly and
80 long at last has fallen Of Justice
worsted.
Ratledge, who professed to be reputable automo-
bile dealer made a speciality of dealing IN stolen
Finally following disastrous bootleggng trip from
Virginia which led to his flight from the Delaware
jurisdiction the mask was his operations and
the grand jury indictments against him
Two OF those indictments were for having received
stolen automobiles having his possession
from which the serial numbers had been re-
moved unlawfully. He agreed plead guilty
dctment and upon that plea that he to
the workhouse.
The full extent OF his despcable crirninaty perhaps
be heartily glad that no has been
put behind the bars.
It is worthy OF that Deputy Attorney-General
southerland informed that the State had Sc
cured evidence in thirteen OF stolen from
residents Of Philadelphia Baltimore and New Jersey
that been sold by Ratiedge TO residents OF New
Castle county He asked that maximum sentence be
imposed because Of the extensveness Of me illegal
transactions
Public acknowledgment also should be made OF the
fact that Judge Rice refused positively to extend leni
ency to the confessed cupr saying that is the desire
of the with other agencies in putting
end unlawful business as was that engaged
in by Ratledge.
From whatever angle the Ratedge record NAV he
viewed. It reveals him being man truly worthy Of
long term IN the workhouse
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Ismet Pasha and his party OF
Kemalist delegates composed the
only delegation which arrived yes
terday at Lausanne to take part IN
the Near East conference The date
for the meeting. November H. was
fixed after the Mudania. truce, ana
even though the discussion Of its real
purpose might be postponed until
after a recess It was believed that the
conference would open yesterday.
The French place tho responsibility
of the delay upon the British Gov
ernment, which requested post
ponement until November 27. The
British insist on a preliminary meet
ing of the allied Powers and a clear
statement of the position which they
will take at the conference.
The changes which have como IN
the Near East since the Mudania
treaty have increased the gravity of
the situation there. The Kemalists
are now practically IN possession of
Constant1nople and the peril to for
elgners remaining there has caused
the allied commission to remove
residents Of allied nationalities from
the city and its vicinity as rapidly
as possible. General Harrington
frankly reports that his position is
by both Kemalist regular
troops and by an uprising Of the
Moslem population OF Stamboul.
The ports of the Black Sea and
the Aegean Sea are already crowded
with refugees and their number Is
swollen each day by Christians who
have fed from the interior OF Asia
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II fs a great mistake to think that
the election Of farm bloc Senators
in many Of the Western States nee
essarily means the creation of a new
national party controlled by Western
radicals" No more does II demand
the creation OF a third party which
win seek to fight "radicalism" by
harrnonizing the farmer and the
manufactures. Mr.. Baruch has SEN
sibly turned down an invitation to
lead a third party organized for the
latter purpose. He says that he will
remain Democrat, hoping for lib
eral and constructive" legislation.
He agrees that so far as the needs
and wishes of the farm bloc states
are concerned the present Republi-
can Congress has "a constructive
program OF reform" partly accom-
pllshed and partly on the way to ao-
complishment.
Mr. Baruch knows very we'll what
happened in the farm bloc section.
He says: 1.-The so-called farm bloc
is shown by the movement which
elected a lot of men last Tuesday to
be non-partisan. Republicans and
Democrats were elected in various
States. according TO their position
on the agricultural situation" The
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movement was bipartisan as well
as non-partisan. It cut across party
lines. 1t used the party labels which
were most convenient. It's success in
doing this will necessarily dlscour-
age those who would prefer TO give
the farm bloc movement a third
party form. assuming needlessly all
the handicaps of third partyism
Unless the Republican leaders shut
their eyes to sense the farm bloc can
do its work far better and more ecor
nemically within existing party lines.
It's experienced and intelligent dead
ers will be loath to be branded and
segregated go long as they can
achieve results by regularity.
That is why It is premature to
talk today about. farm bloc or
anti-farm bloc third party. The
present leadership of the farm
group is not the sort TO go off on
third party excursions II 1t can help
it. It is agrarian but 1t is not wild
eyed; 1t is constructive. not cyclonic,
as were the Populists. 1t is as dntent
on its own advantage as any other
political group-the protected
group, the banking
group. for example. 1t is as self-in-
terested, practical and realistic as
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lican majority in tho. Senate will
face a sort OF war crisis nsxt year.
Il will certainly face = crave orias
so far as some fruitful mobilization
OF leadership is needed. Can this
crisis be surmounted, however,
merely by casting seniority adrift
and saddling the distribution OF
honors on the altruistic impulses Of
a party caucus?
Republican Senate leadership was
bad at the last session. There was
too much McCumberism. Yet Mr..
McCumber was not even the titular
leader. It might also be said that
there was too much jeckeying by
groups for tariff advantages or cleo
tioneering purposes, more than a
majority OF the Senate participating
in It. A mere Shift of leaders and
heads OF major committees would
not change all this. =
What a majority requires 10 not
only new leadership, but a new
spirit and a new outlook. McCumber
led on the tariff and the bonus. But
he led only the McCumberites. Some
personal searching of hearts would
be to more advantage than even an
external gesture replacing one pres
ident of tho Republican caucus and
chairman OF the steering committee
by another, or determining Mr.. Nc
Cumber's successor at the head of
the Finance Committee by selection.
A better average Of vigorous and
open-ninded Republioanism is what
will be needed in the new Senate
before any change IN leadership oan
cad anywhere.
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WEDNESDAY,, NOVEMBER is, 1922
EpUoATroN WEEK AND DELAWARE

"A MERIcAN EDUCATION WEEK will be observed In
n Wilmington and other sections Of tho United
States from December to December 9, next
Those educators who inausursted the movement ex-
plain that the purpose OF American Week is TO
focus the attention people the needs Of public
education
we do wish TO overlook the worthwhile achieve
rnens of the schools should face frankly their
SHORTCOMINGS and realize that II they to be made
worthy OF American democracy they must be
greatly improved Any adequate Improvement will call
Sor increasing funds and user and wiser meth
ods OF raising school Ameriea-ehe richest
natin in the worlds abundanty able to AFFORD ade-
auate schools It should be willing TO pay the price
It is encouraging to Delawareans to know that
thanks TO more liberal public policy and to private
benefactlons of magnitude their state is making rapid
strides along all lines educational achievement. In
both the metropolitan and the rural districts however
much yet be done and II American Education
Week be properly under the auspices Of the
State Board of and its subsidiaries It should
result in much benefit the school children in Della
ware.
It that the State Board and the Whining
ton Board should take the the matter of seeing
20 It that Education shall pass without Della
ware receiving substantial benefit from ts observance
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they are. The tinge Of "itbsrsffsmc
or 'radica1ism" In the farm bloc asi-
tation is due to tho fact that it Is the
protest OF an under dog class, which
has suffered IN tho past beoaus. It
was so pathetically urorgarized.
Other groups have had the cflots~
seats at the first table. The far1nsS
has had to take his meals at the
second table. In the group struggle
for governmental recognition he has
been elbowed aside. But no other
group can fairly deny him his claims.
Speaking broadly, the farm bloc lag
islation which Congress has been
considering Is not 'radicas" at aIt.
It simply aims at economic fair play
Mr. Baruch is right when ne says
that most of It would not only not
injure any other class but would
eventually benefit all classes.
The Republican party will be wise
to complete promptly all the sound
legislation which the farmer has
been demanding to improve agricul-
tural conditions. II is only what ne
ought to have. II he gets it NO new
Populist organization is likely to
come out of the prsssnt farm bioo
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ernnents in Europe wanes. The
Near Eastern crisis practically cost
Mr.. Lloyd George the premiership.
Now II looks as IL It were going to
be equally fatal to NJ. Poinoare. The
French Prenhier's speeches, both In
the Senate and ths Chamber, in the
last day or two, in defense Of the
policy of the Cabinet, were received
with marked coldness In both
Houses.
NJ. Poincare, as political fig
ure, in spite OF his intelligence and
that power of logically stating a
situation which so appeals to the
French mind, never excited the per-
sonal enthusiasm inspired by the
speeches of a BRAND OF a Clemen-
ceau. His addresses are admirable
for the clear precision with which
he states his case, but they leave
his hearers cold. He appeals entire
~ 20 their intellects and not 70
their hearts. AS long as he voices
purely national aspiration, on
which all men are at one. all is
well. But when It Is question of
obtaining support for a more per-
sonai policy, the magnetism of his
predecessors fails him.
In England the complexities OF
the Near East situation thrust them
selves forward at the time when the
country Is in the throes of a gen
eral sleotion. The demand Of the
Labor party for a tax on capital is
other elements against
the radicals. The arm Of the Brit
Dish government IS more or less
paraiyzed during this election cam
paign, and II is little wonder that
Lord Curzon insists upon a confer
ence with the allies before meeting
the Turks in peace negotiations.
The prime objects OF British policy
In the Near East are to hold Con-
stantinople and the Straits against
Turkish control. and TO avoid cash
with the Moslem world. 1t IS open
" suggested in Europe that France
Is not particularly anxious to see
Great Britain obtain a grip upon
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ton, at least for the present. There
is. however, one proposal which de-
mands the earliest attention Con-
gress can possibly give it and 1t may
seem strange that 1t is a proposal on
which there can be no difference of
opinion as between drys and vets;
one, In fact, on which any differ
ences that may exist will not be due
to dry or wet sentiment. This is the
correction OF a defect TO which Will
liam Dudley Fou1ke, president Of the
Civil Service Reform League, directs
attention.
Appointees under the volstead act
were exempt from the merit princi-
pie. though OF all Federal officials
they are the ones that should be gov
erned under that principle. Appoint
ments became a part of tho political
patronage in which Senators and
Representatives paid their debts. Ef-
ficiency in making the act operative
was perilously associated with the
political interests OF the one to whom
the appointee owed his job. The
enforcement officer named by a wet
Congressman had an incentive for an
official course in marked CONTRAST
with that of one named By a dry
Congressman.
This defect IN the law explains
many things. 1t explains why men
who were not only densely ignorant
OF the functions of the law, but tenn
peramentally untitled to exercise
suoh functions, were linked with the
operation OF volsteadism. 1t explains
why volstead agents made an un-
seemly use OF their powers, trampled
on private rights even more impor-
tant than Volstead supremacy and