The Colorado statesman., 1922-06-03


So tar 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 it 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. rhe
difficulty has been to decide what is
| good for the service.
| WalIace'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
he harder hit than any of the other
departments if the proposed changes
in jurisdiction over certain bureaus of
government shall be made. Secretary
| HUover's outfit believes that it better
can care for the bureau of public
roads and the bureau of markets than
it 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 Harding's letter to con-
| gress has shown what the budget Sys-
TEN and the operations of General
| Dawes have done for economy and
| efficiency. 1t 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 will 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 countrys 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 will bear
arms Since the last Memorial day
the unknown soldier whose body was
brought from France has found II
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
. / NJ oil ba will nSSnn1hlp
and march to 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 ut Arlington when the
Confederate veterans and Daughters
of the Confederacy will hold 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 will be held on the same day
Grant and Sherman Not There.
Grant and Sherman, the two great
est of the northern chieftans, sleep
elsewhere-one on the shores of the
Hudson and the other in a beautiful
cemetery in the city of st. Louis.
1 Their place is in Arlington. Generals
colonies, sergeants, corporals 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 no guard stands be-
tween them. Schoield (federaD and
Wheeler (Confederate) sleep almost
| side bv 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
States.
There are soldiers of many wars