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Hoagland, Cecil B. Normand Lucas, John Cary Sackett, Walter Wallace, Jr. Schweitzer, Meyer David Speer. John Howard laude
 Stohle, Evelyn Florence Stone, Genevieve Agnes Weiner, Esther
 Witney, Dorothy Katharine Whitworth, Natalie Fairchild Daniels. Leo Jack
 Dean, Walter Albert Duhon, John Stephen Federico. Joseph Charles Frye, Benjamin Porter Hall, Floyd Wadsworth McPadden, Edward William Nadine, Maurice
 Mathewson, Richard Duncan Monahan, David Tuite Moskovitz, Sidney Benjamin Neary, James Stewart Ostrofsky, James Norman Parker, William Wilson Saur, Otto Joseph Schwarz, SiegInund Philip Smith, Joseph Jacob Tuft. Thomas Henry Wishengrad, Joseph Martin
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FIsHBONE REMOVED.

X fish bone Which was so securely caught in the throat of J. A. Line han that it threatened to choke him was removed by Dr. J. 1. Margulis of the Emergency Hospital staff who had been summoned with the ambu- lance.
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Otto J. Saur, called ''Dud." by his classmates. belied his nickname time and again when as captain and star tackle of the Hilltop football team, he crashed the opposing line with the explosive force of Big Berthiau shell.
 Dad was the aII-around athlete of the senior class.
 ! member of the varsity football team in his sophomore junior and senior year. he was rated as the best tackle in Connecticut.
 Was point winner on the track team for three years
 Otto is tremendously popular with his classmates and was voted the most prominent men15er of '22.
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Milton J. VreeIand, from his posi- tion of dignity and prestige as presi- dent of the senior class, chiSeled his name in Flames Corridor when he originated and esta blished the SchoI- arsllip Fund. In time the fund will amount to S1O,O0O the interest will aid many poor but deserving seniors to obtain college education
 In addition to his executive ability, M|It has an enviable reputation as an athlete.
 Menfber of the track team during 1T and IS, and the tennis team of '21 and '22.
 An energetic worker, VreeIand has done more for the Hilltop school than any other member of his class.
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methods of correcting these abuses,
want TO tell you that it Is the man be-
hind the budget system. the President of
the United States. who is responsible for
this. We could wipe the budget law off
the statute books to-day and nobody
would see any difference whatever in the
efficiency and economy with which the
business of this Government is to-day.
thank God. being operated under it,
Now stand by him. and II they elect
lawyer or school teacher or who-
ever it is to the Presidency next time,
you keep this sentiment alive, and the
minute he shows indifference the min
ute he relaxes his attention, and these
"Comanches of the Cabinet" acting I'M
der the imuulses of nature which exists
in every man. start to destroy this sys-
tenn. let them feel the weight of public
sentiment. and only nthat way will we
keep what we have gained %
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healthy, able bodied ana presumably
self-respecting young men merely for
performing the duty to civilization OF
their age (Applause).
Praises Presidents Courage.
"And as Mr.. Pratt we'll said, there is
the danger to our budget. 1t was only
because we had a courageous President
that they didn't enact by one or two
votes of the necessary two or three to
put that through, that this Government
was not plunged into the very greatest
of embarrassment, and in my judgment.
something done in the interest of the
soldiers nominally which would have
resulted in the greatest injury to the
soldiers themselves (applause).
1.-THE trouble in this country, one of
the reasons that we have this trouble.
Is the direct primary. We are getting
back to the Constitution of the United
States. We have passed i hope, for
ever In this country those days when
demagogic rats dared to get a nibble at
the foundation of the Constitution in
connection with the initiative. referen-
dun and the recall of the judges, those
things from which the foresight of our
forefathers had protected us and stood
between the free democracy of Russia.
the free democracy which ruined Greece,
the free democracy which has brought in
the name of liberty proud peoples to
absolute destruction and almost ami
hilation.
"Cowardice In Congress-"
THE trouble Is cowardice in Con-
gress, There are men in office that
would barter the interests of their coun-
try in order to stay In office! And If
there is any aggressive opposition--look
at the way they run before an organized
minority whether 1t is minority Of
labor union. whether II is a minority
of maternity association, whether 1t
is minority of a farmers bloc. those
damned towards run and rum Cap
plause).
ut is just as easy to be aggressive in
standing for common sense, and rwish
some of these young men here--I have
had my fill of it in public life, am
any young man would start
out and call spade spade and take
his successive lckings at the hands of
the political bosses, but keep at it right,
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"Hostnity to Plain business"

you have no idea of the hostility of
the representatives OF the status quo
to these simple, plain business PROPOSE
tionsi
There was the navy matter in con-
nectior with brooms; for example. we
had $4,000 army brooms that were
wasted, not used. and the navy wanted
1900 brooms They stood on techni-
cality in order to avoid central control
and refused to take any part of $4,000
brooms for nothing, but would go out
and buy 5000 broons because the straw
of the $4,000 brooms was wrapped with
wire around the stick instead of tin;
but II would sweep as well!
These seem small things, but they
are not small things, for last year. be-
cause we stood on that principle. be-
cause We weren't afraid to bring up
those instances. we transferred $ll2,00o.-
600 of property TO the different depart
ments which otherwise would have been
sold for a song at an actual measurable
cash saving of s27,00o,000 and that was
Gone by men who were already in the
service of the Government. whose sala-
ries combine, l think. 100000.
Tried TO Cut Dawes Stan.
Now a membef or the Cabinet has got
t. take care OF the agencies Of the De-
partment. and my dear friend. Gen.
farbord-he Is the man who commanded
the marine brigade at Belleau Wood and
So we'd the city of Paris-and am saying
that because l have got to be little
hard on him In what ] am going to say
afterward-but he wrote me letter rep
resent'ng the Secretary of War. and he
said: Your enthusiasm for economy is
such that 1t has affected US, and we call
your attention to the fact that you now
have on detail in your office some fiji
teen or twenty officers Of the United
States Army whose salaries amount
TO so and SOL think maybe $4,000
or $4,000 a year-and We suggest that
In the interests of economy these men
be put back to work on the Department
roll-the War Department roll
Now anybody who knows Gen. Har-
bord knows his efficiency-and l want
to say here in connection with Gen.
Hartford and Gen. Pershing and Score
tary Weeks that their department as
been exhibit A in supporting this plan
but even with such friends as that the
interest of their department was such
and their appropriation was such as
would lead him TO write that letter
Officers Had Saved Millions.
to the fact that those men were not
detailed to me, they were detailed to the
President of the United States, the
Commander-in-Ch Chief of the Army; that
they were working under the Com
mander-in Chief of the Army as regu-
larly as If they were working under the
Secretary of War; that those men had
saved millions of dollars as compared
with their $4,000, for that department.
alone, and that s27.000.000 had been
saved by that coordinating organization
that had cost them only 100000 year,
and that /, out of my little appropriation
of $125,000 l want to say, ran that
department on 100000 instead of s125.-
900 that / had given in percentage four
times what any department had given 10
these coordinating agencies In assist
ance--and put in that letter that his
protest sounded like the plaintive call OF
the disturbed peewit when the UNDER
brush in which it was nesting was being
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of unified executive control OF BUSH
ness.
IAN right. then. what did we do?
Under this budget law the budget Of
ficers who were the liaison between my
office and the body OF the business or
ganization were appointed by the Cabi-
net officers. That was great thing to
confront How could we get advice In
terms of the interest of the whole from
man appointed and responsible to the
men who wanted money spent in the in
terests of departments?
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the President presenting that as the bud
get of the United States to Congress?
Not a bit
"Why wasn't it done? Simply because
every President of the United States up
until the time President Harding. a
business man. took his position in that
Office hadn't done his duty as the head
OF the routine administration of the
Government. Everybody did as they
damned please, everybody
"All that the budget OF the United
States was sent In for was simply to
show the addition of the amounts of
money that each man wanted to run his
particular part of the Government with
out any reference to what the needs OF
the Government were as wohle, g
without any reference to the needs OF
the other departments. And most dis
graceful condition of affairs had grown
up.
''It is not too much to say that If
there had been at the beginning of
the war the system which we have
in effect now under the President OF
the United States. a coordinating system,
one under which one plan is followed,
and under which Gen. Harbord here
and the Secretary of War. the POST
master General and the Secretary OF
the Navy work. billions of dollars of
unnecessary waste would have been
saved.
when we went into it-just think OF
it--here vras the War Department sell
ing stuff at II cents on the dollar. and
some enterprising citizen buying 1t ami
reselling 1t at 800 per cent profit TO an
other department of the Government;
nobody was paying any attention 70
anybody else
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that they couldn't spend that $1o.24o.
so I called the Assistant Secretary II
my office again and said. DO you want
to so on the mat before the President
of the United States with me on the
proposition that TO save s10,240 on
the navy expenses you viii put the
United States to the cost of $1,000, DOOR
He took the letter back and we got the
mine sweepers
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healthy. able bodied ana presumably
self-respecting young men merely for
performing the duty to civilization OF
their age (Applause).
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Says PHOEBE SNOW
For part sVell played
In lending aid
To early industries
And trade,
Let History's light
Shine clear and bright
Upon the Road
of Anthracite.
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Arrived at Uniform Policy.

"And so we had to short circuit the
Cabinet and had to short circuit the
budget officers. and we created Gust as
we did under Cen Hartford and Gen.
Pershing in the A. Z. F.) the agencies
which. In the hands of the President of
the United States. gave him the same
power to transmit uniform policy upon
the body of the business organization
that exists in the President OF any well
run private organization. and they gave
us that impartial advice which We
couldn't get from any man appointed in
the interest of the department in con-
nection with the reduction of expenses.
Let me give you some ideas about
that. Let me just give you a few Illus
trations of the difference between the
information / got from men detailed to
me by the President of the United
States or detailed in his service and
given to me.
TAKE the navy. A nah from the
Geodetic Survey came in and wanted
million dollars for ships. Well we
thought they had enough ships in this
Government. They sell them for three
or four thousand dollars apiece now
after they cost three or four hundred
thousand dollars. We thought that We
ought to be able to get them a couple
of ships and so we made an investiga-
ton. | wrote and asked the Secretary
of the Navy to loan two mine sweepers
for the use of the Cieodetic Survey. The
answer came right back, we can't spare
them
went TO Mat with Roosevelt
Let me call your attention to the
fact that under the old system that
would have ended IL. but / simply
want to say that / didn't do this with
any pride, but / didn't take my hat off,
/ didn't wear my shoe leather out run
ming around after these Cabinet officers
after l got this principle established
we were establishing prlnciples-the
principle OF the subordination of the
Cabinet members and bureau chiefs to
the agent of the President. for the pur-
pose of imposing unified plan. so ]
sent for Mr.. Assistant Secretary Roose-
welt and he came to my Office. I didn't
go to his [Laughter.]
And l said. DO you want to so on
the mat with me before the President
of the United States On this proposition !?
tell you that this letter shows that you
are not running your department. You
have got forty-nine mine sweepers that
are gong out Oh COlIlIHlcSloH. Il lney
are kept in commission they won't de-
teriorate so rapidly. If you loan them
to the Coast Geodetic Survey and II we
have a war you can get them back. but
above all If you don't give them to the
Coast Geodetic Survey the United States
Government has got to spend million
dollars to get the ships. Now take the
letter back He took the letter. and he
said we could have the ships
Did that end IT. When the Coast
Geodetic Survey went to get the ships
it transpired that the engines were dis
sembled and it would cost $10.240 to
assemble the engines and fit the ships
for the use of the Coast Geodetic Sur
vey, and the Coast Geodetic Survey
didn't have an appropriation applicable
for that purpose.
az wrote to the Navy Department to
that effect and an answer came back
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stirred Controversies.

'"Then I met the Cabinet enmasse with
him. That precipitated some personal
controversies. by the way. because un-
less the Director of the Budget as the
agent OF the President had the right to
call before him in the matters OF rou-
tine business am not talking about
politics, but in the humble matter OF
the spending of money effectively and
carbohydrates he had the right to
call as agent OF the President those
members OF the Cabinet before him, and
unless he had the right to call upon the
bureau chiefs who were the real adj
illustrators of business in this country.
call upon them for their time and at
tention over the heads of the Cabinet,
they wouldn't start to try to do that
work In connection with getting the ex-
penses down of this Government 1t
was granted. You can see the necessity
for that.
''Supposing we wanted to coordinate
the ships. Surprising. that is in Eng
land, we wanted to have our marine
carry the troops instead of army trans
ports for this tremendous shipping that
we have. and supposing we wanted the
navy TO do some of the work for the
army-coordinating the shipping. All
right.
Was to run as agent of the Presi-
dent. to make a study of that, over to
Secret9ry Weeks, and because he was
my personal friend to wait until the
Senators got through with him, and
slip around the back door so that thew
wouldn't see me and persuade him to
20 to Mr. DENLY with me. and then the
both Of us sit in a back room and wait
TO see him after the Senators had gone
and so they wouldn't see us, and then
having got those two together take those
two to Lasker or Lasker to them?
Central Power Necessary.
There had TO be a central power in
somebody as the agent of the President
to coordinate. and IL you are going 10
coordinate you have to get around
common table the men who had charge
of those things. Now that Is the revo-
luton that has been accomplished.
That wasn't done by the budget law.
This great sentiment. Mr.. Pratt,
which you have been so largely instru-
mental in. building up better business
behind the budget law. found its ex-
preston In the assumption of RESPONSE
Witty by the President Of the United
ftptes as the head of the business or
gsnization. and because he hung on the
Cabinet wall the ak so that every man
~ho didn't play the game would know
snat his head would come off-and don't
Jet anybody here think that President
Aardlng would hesitate to WELD It!
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"Mr. Pratt. Un.ein.h work"

That is the danger of the budget,
that is why I have such an admiration
for this work which Mr.. Pratt has done,
not for any selfish purpose. not in the
interests of any bloc. but in the interests
of his country he has aroused so sue
cessfully public sentiment on this matter
of business And this reorganization.
this revolution, IL you please, in the
business of government under which
our business Is conducted to-day, will
last only so long as the President Of
the United States keeps his full sense
of the responsibility as the head of
the routine business organization of the
Government.
IF he is weak it goes. Look at
Illinois. That great budget law which
was put into force and passed by Gov.
Lowden which resulted in reduced tax
alton and reduced expenses in the State
of Illinois. when I think in practically
every other State in the Union there
was an increase, where is to to-day
under Gov. Len Small? There isn't a
State that Is being worse administered in
a business way than the State of Illi-
nois. with taxation large and expendi-
lures mounting.
what does your budget law amount
enforce it. some fellow who has the axe
over the necks of the men who would
prove traitorous to the interest of your
nation or to youS State?
II interrupted you. Mr.. Pratt, because
whenever l hear this great organization
attempting too much to go into the legal
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keep at common sense, I can promise
him now in the United States the career
OF craftsmanship. which is the only
career In public life worthy of q honor
able mans ambition!
Look what your primary law has
done to Congress Read the roster of
Congress and think OF what the names
meant twenty-five years ago. and read 1t
to-day! That is the danger to the bud
get. the danger to please the American
Legion, to please the farm bloc. to
please the union labor bloc. to please
the maternity bloc. to please the good
roads bloc. IL you please, all of whom
present aggressive minorities, who
threaten these pusillanimous fellows up
there in Congress.