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Evening star., 1923-09-02
Government Functioning Under Coolidge
Shows That Normally Has Been Attained

axiom, quoting the late President, they are
these:
ITO safeguard America first; to stabilize
America first; to prosper America first; to
think America first; to exalt America first;
to live for and revere America first
Call it the selfishness of nationality if
you will. think it an inspiration to patriotic
devotion. We may do more than prove ex-
emplars to the world OF representative
democracy, where the Constitution and its
liberties are mistaken. We may go on Sc
curely to the destined fulillment and make
a strong and generous nations contribution
to human progress, forecful i'll example, gen
crous in contribution, helpful in all suffering
and fearless in all conflicts.
Let the internationasts dream and the
bolshevist destroy. God pity him for whom
no minstrel raptures SWELL In the spirit
OF the republic, we proclaim Americanism
and acclaim America
Wonder why the republican national COM
nlittee keeps that assertion OF party policy
flying at the masthead, whipping in the politi-
cal breeze? Suppose it is just to torment
Chairman Hull of the democratic national
OF the league of nations as a democratic is
sue in 1924?
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See what Senator Smoot OF Utah has
gone and done He certainly is courting
trouble. He came out in statement at his
home in Salt Lake City, saying he intends to
support propospition in the next Congress
TO impose an internal revenue tax on "lux-
uries." That is where he will pick up the hot
end OF the poker. To distinguish between
luxury and a necessary OF lie will be the
problem. He classifies a $3.50 pair OF shoes
as a necessity, to remain untaxed; while a
$50 pair OF shoes is classed as luxury. He
holds that cheap automobile, for business
or family use, is a necessity, but that when
YOU pay 5000 or more for a car It becomes
a luxury. and the tax gatherer is warranted
III swooping down upon it.
Won't he have a sweet time when he
starts down the list with blue pencil to
Evening star., 1923-09-02
Buffalo May Return
To Ancient Pastures

During it's recent tour of the ma
tional parks, the acknowledgements
sional committee drove over and in
spected portions Of the area in and
on the outskirts of Glacier Park,
Mont. which Is definitely selected as
the site for a proposed national buff
falo preserve.
II Congress takes favorable action
on this project, which now seems
likely, about $50 square miles Of ter
ritory will be added to Glacier Ma
tional Park in the establishment Of
this great buffalo range. This strip
lies adjacent to the Rocky mountains
east Of the present park boundary
lines to st. Marys river and north to
the. Canadian boundary line, includ-
ing the Hudson bay divide and the Milk
River ridge.
Little more than half a century ago
this section was the fayorite grazing
ground of the American buffalo,
which drought drove from the
scorched prairies to the grass country
In the shadows of the mountains.
This always was the greatest natu
raj buffalo range the Indians knew
about anywhere upon the American
continent. because an even distribu-
ton OF rainfall continuously kept the
grass EreeAs
Evening star., 1923-09-02

Conservation and use Of the re-
sources of Alaska was the principle
declared by President Harding and
heartily concurred in by the three Sec
retaries comforting with him. His decla-
ration was voiced with reference partic-
ularly to the fishing industry, the forests
and agriculture. He was emphatic about
not allowing ruthless exploitation by
men who 60 into this vast storehouse
Just to grab out what ready money
they can. Better to destroy a de-
fiant investor than demolish a ma
tional resource" and Secretary
Hoover has come back unequivocally
committed to conservation Of the fish
ing industry. believing with the Pres
ident that guarding against greed"
is all that is necessary "to retain a
permanent asset OF incalculable
value"
Secretary Wallace has come back
convinced that the Department Of
Agriculture, while it Is now doing
much, can do a great deal more for
the agricultural development of
Alaska. The federal government has
done a great deal with promoting
the growing of fruits and vegetables.
lie believes that much more can be
done for the development Of grain and
live stock industries
But he is not going ahead on the
theory that his two-week observa-
tion has given him q thorough
knowledge He Is sending an expert
Evening star., 1923-09-02
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

IN IORMA1-Ci' was word first ap-
NJ piled to general and every day
l use by the late President Harding.
1t caught the popular fancy, i'll
the beginning with questioning raising OF
the eyebrows because Of its unusualness;
then with appreciation as its meaning was
grapsed. II had been in the vocabulary all
along, but the masses had not stumbled
across it,
Normally is now the word applicable to
the state OF affairs existing in the Largest
going concern in the world"--the government
OF the United States. The big machine is
purring along with the smoothness. accuracy
and power OF an immense dynamo, driving
thousands OF units OF activity. The shocking
event at San Francisco, which saddened the
nation. caused but momentary cessation
comparable to the second-lik elimination OF
your electric light as the dynamos arc
charged at the power house.
Normaicy is the watch word OF the ad-
ministration which continues after the late
Presidents DEATH insist on using the word
Continuing and contend that the present is
not new administration, all OF its inherent
the same intents and purposes as hitherto.
Comes Labor day, after which vaca-
tioning will cease and the officials. high and
low, and employees will be trooping back TO
the Capital soon to be followed By Congress
III regular session. Then we will all have
our troubles and norulalcy may get jot.)
In the meantime President Coolidge sticks
TO his desk. glutton for work, and ironing
out problems as they troop in upon him. He
tackled one OF the biggest before him, the
Shipping Boards. first hand. and bids fair to
turn out good job with il.
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Much has been written about the admin
stration carrying OH with the Harding poll
cies.'' What. in point OF fact, the Harding
policies? According to the republican
tional committee, whici, keeps a standing
declaration in IFS publicity output as party
Evening star., 1923-09-02
What's to Be Done for Alaska
BY HENRY 6. WALLACE,
Secretary Of Agriculture.

The Department of Agricul-
ture has three major activities
i'll Alaska:
First, the development and
use OF the forests. We have
now fourteen pulp and paper
wood units surveyed. Each OF
these include ample water
power. Two have already been
sold, and on one the pulp mill
is operating, while the other site
has just been sold. We have in
quiries which indicate that pulp
and paper development is conf
ing along faster than any one
had supposed.
Second, we administer the fur
and game laws. Alaska last year
sold over 100000 worth OF
furs. The fur and game animals
constitute a territorial resource
which, if wisely cared for, will
pay good annual interest on a
hundred million dollars. 1t is
our job to help develop and con-
serve this resource.
Third, our ambition is to help
Alaska grow the food Alaska
needs, instead of shipping it in
long distances and at great ex-
pense. We believe that the ag-
riculture can be made to sustain
Alaskan population as it grows.
Evening star., 1923-09-02
BRITISH POWER ON SEA
LONG COAST SAFEGUARD

troublesome and pregnant with in
ternatinal danger than that other
Misunderstanding specter. known for
more than century past q s the east
ern question:
The cruN OF the whole difficulty IN
connection with Tangier is the care
fully fomented suspicion which has
been created between Great Britain
and France. II that could be smoothed
away, as Il was in the summer or
1914. the so-calIed Tangier confer
ence. now about to be held in Lon
don. would quickly complete its ne
gotiations and bring the entire mat
ter to a satisfactory close
Spain, as we all know, has long
owned the northwest corner Of Mo-
rocco, her mastery of which. how
ever, has always been contested by
the natives and maintained only in
part by means OF constant warfare
upon the natives of the Atlas mount
ain region, who, constituting the
most fierce and fanatic of those
Moorish tribes which at one time
overran and dominated O. whole
Liber!an peninsula. have never ceased
to rebel against Spanish colonial
authority and to carry on against ie
a guerrilla warfare. 1t is warfare
which has cost Spain millions, nay,
perhaps billions Of dollars, WITH 40
corresponding advantages OF any,
kind, economic or otherwise. Hu@-
dreds Of thousands of Spanish lives
have been uselessly sacrificed there
and the military annals of Spain.
while illuminated by some splendid
victories of ephemeral value, have
had their pages darkened by many
cruel and even humiliating disasters.
Drain ON Spain's Treasury.
The drain on the national treasury
OF Spain and upon her army has been
constant and without any compensat-
ing benefit. Even in the least expen-
sive of years, the cost of holding the
so-called Spanish sphere in Morocco
has amounted in the neighborhod OF
$500. 100000. and now that the mill
tary experts at Madrid have come
to the conclusion that, IL native hos
tiiity is to be crushed in the Spanish
sphere of Morocco very large rein
forcements will have to be sent, and
there is to be a corresponding in
crease of expenditure of life and
treasure, the people Of Spain are cry
ing halt. Whole regiments are mu-
tinying Father than submit to their
dispatch to the northern coast OF
Africa, to sacrifice their lives in an
I abominable climate, and to incom-
petent military leadership and made
quate equipment, with the certainty
Of torture in the most atrocious form.
and eventual massacre, If they fall
! into the hands of the enemy. Nor do
they relish the idea of being torn
from their homes. from their fami-
lies. and from their profitable indus
| trial employment at the very time
| when Spanish trade enterprises and
| industries are prospering and thriy-
| ing as never before.
There has been a wonderful economic
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Evening star., 1923-09-02
BY HUBERT WORK.
Secretary of the Interior.

Alaska will have to be de-
veloped from within.
The most important feature III
the development will be the
, government railroad, only now
completed, President Harding
driving the gold spike that
joined the two ends at Nenano.
The best way to advertise
Alaska will be through tourist
travel. The principal immediate
care of the Interior Department
will be the improvement Of the
government railroad to carry
tourist travel.
Recent reports indicate new
discoveries of gold in Alaska.
More prospectors went out into
the hills this summer than for
several years. Oil is being pro-
duced in small but paying guam
titles. A large section Of Alaska
has been set off as a naval oil
reserve. The Standard Oil Com
pany is already drilling under
lease.
What the future holds for
Alaska is, OF course, conjecturai,
but its possibilities seem to be
those OF any new country where
gold, silver and oil are known to
exist.
Evening star., 1923-09-02

separate the lowly goats from the fat sheep
the Swiss-cheesc sandwich from the broiled
lamb chop!
1t is recalled that the late James G. Blaine
had warm experience over this distinction
between luxuries and necessities. There
agitation at the time for reduction of the
tariff. Mr.. Blaine suggested that instead OF
reducing the tariff it would be better to take
the tax off tobacco, as tobacco ncces-
sity TO the workingman and not luxury.
Up rose the clergy, the women and the
reformers in might and fell upon him like the
Washington Monument Tobacco neces-
sity? Horrid It was years before the storm
OF criticism died down.
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Senator Hiram Johnson on his way back
TO California to make survey of his political
fences was quoted at Cheyenne as saying
that he was not ready yet to declare whether
he will announce his candidacy for the presi-
Dental nomination. That statement was con-
strued by politicians here as not closing the
door against possible entry; that he has
open mind on the subject, and may yet de-
eide to throw his hat into the ring
There is no question that the friends OF
i
Johnson's course with deep interest His
entry into contest of President Coolidge's
nomination would be the signal for others to
shy their castor into the ring, it is recog
nzed "Favorite sons would spring up in a
number OF states like mushrooms. And the
simile is not inept for many OF them would
be mushrooms.
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Other candidates. would be designed 1or
a purpose--to hold the vote OF the states
delegation, assembled in the name OF a
iavorite son. for ultimate delivery to Pres-
dent Coolidge. Let il be reiterated, for il has
been stated before in these columns, that the
purpose OF the responsible leaders OF the
publican party is to nominate President
Coolidge, having carried on with the Harding
policies and the policies OF the party in Con
grcss. and so to the country in 1924, and
stake their all on the candidate and the
policies.
Evening star., 1923-09-02
Future Held Bril- ghter as Result
OF Trip Which Cost Presidents Life

| into ALASKA to make careful study
covering several months. There is no
hurry about this because the agri-
cultural season Is about closed and
because agricultural development
msst walt on the growth of popula-
ton, since what agricultural problem
there is, is to feed the people who live
there. conditions being unfavorabie to
| shipping out surplus production.
i No Larger Appropriation.
! So, members of Congress who have
| expected that big appropriations for
Alaska Development work would be
asked as a result OF this trip are
| doomed to disappointment. Secretary
| Wallace does not intend to ask for
any larger appropriation next year,
because he couldn't use it, but hopes
TO do more with the same size appro-
priation.
/ Whatever legislative or administra-
tive changes will be made rega riding
Alaska will be looking solely to more
complete coordination of the federal
activities, in an effort to get as good
I cooperation among the administra-
| tive officers in Washington as now
exists among the agents IN the field
The three cabinet members found that
there is an opportunity for much
more effective cooperation in the ad-
ministration of government bureaus.
1t was found that the men in Alaska
| who represent the government de-
partments are high-type men and are
| cooperating just as much as they
| can.
If the same spirit of cooperation
| is worked up here in Washington it
will be of lasting benefit to the gov
! eminent service.
! A freer hand to the administrative
agents on the job to cooperate will
do more than dozens Of laws those
who have been studying Alaska close
up have agreed.
Evening star., 1923-09-02

HRESIDENT COOLIDGE as a
r. national economist will be
Identical with Calvin Coolidge
as a personal economist. Just
as he has never allowed himself
luxuries that he could not afford, he
will insist that the government, hard
up as it is, must get along without
indulging itself in things which do
not actually help toward comfortable
living for the people Of the country
That. at least, is the prophecy Of the
few men close TO Mr.. Coolidge in
Washington who were close to him
also in Massachusetts,
1t is said that the Presidents
frugality never did and never will
run to a pinch-penny policy where
the money to be spent could reason
ably be expected TO accomplish worth
while results. 1t is said, therefore,
that he will be just as careful 70
see that money is provided for those
governmental activities which give
real service as he will be to make
certain that money IS withheld from
activities that, however interesting
they may be, are not necessary to the
prosperity. comfort and general well
fare of the country.
Useful Branches TO Get Aid.
All governmental activities that are
genuinely useful TO industry, agricuI-
ture, transportation and other
branches Of business will, his friends
say. have the active support OF the
President in regard to appropria-
tions. Generally speaking, il may
be accepted as a fact that the Presi-
dent looks with a more kindly eye
upon liberal expenditures for inter
nal Improvements than upon the out
lay OF money in preparation either
for international relations or inter
national complications that may
never materialize.
Just where the President will draw
the line between necessities and lux
uries remains a question. His inher-
eut frugality, Il is believed. is likely
to cause him to draw it further to
the LETT than many another man in his
shoes would do. Recent protests Of
officials OF the Navy Department at
proposed restrictions of appropria-
tions-said to have been proposed
after the President had conferred
with the director Of the budget-in-
dicate to many in Washington that
MIR. Coolidge will not assume lavish
attitude toward the Army and Navy
! or toward unusual expenditures for
| embassies abroad and the like.
Many Activities of Little Value.
| However, there are said to be
| plenty Of opportunities for looping
| off expenditures from numerous ac-
| t.vities in Washington, many of them
| curious and some of them quaint, that
Evening star., 1923-09-02
BY F.. CUNLIFFE-owEN. C. b. T..

~ THROUGHOUT the great war.
when the most loyal conf
deacc prevailed between Eng
- land and France, born of that
entente cordiale which was the ere
alton and the life work OF King Ed
ward VII. Great Britain concertrat-
ed. bv virtue OF an agreement Win
her ally, the bulk of her naval forces
il. the North sea, the Baltic, the
channel. She likewise undertook the
maritime policing of the great trade
routes of the Atlantic. as well as the
protection OF the Atlantic coasts OF
France and the still more arduous
task of the blockade, not only or the
German coast, but also the far more
difficult task of preventing any sup
plies reaching the enemy from abroad,
even through neutral ports, by the
way Of the Atlantic. By virtue OF
the same thorough and loyal under
standing which then prevailed be-
tween London and Paris, England
withdrew almost the whole of her
fleets of warships which she always
kept in the MEDITERRANEAN. and en-
trusted to the French navy the polio
ing Of that great inland sea, namely,
the maritime high road to her vast
colonial possessions in the orient.
It was that perfect understanding
and unreserved loyalty between these
two partners Of the entente cordiale
which contributed. more than any
other agency, to the eventual humili-
ating defeat of Germany.
Cause OF Moroccan Crisis.
| Had it not been for recent disturb
ances in the relations of the govern
ments OF Great Britain and France,
! the crisis in connection with Morocco
would not have arisen. a crisis which
| is affecting the safety. not only of the
Madrid government, but Of the Span
| ish dynasty. IT is a crisis which, in the
| somewhat forlorn hope of Its settle
ment, the congress OF French, Spanish
and English plenipotentiaries are once
! more assembling this week in London.
| II Is no exaggeration to assert that
| the monarchy Of Spain and the fu-
| ture welfare of that nation, which
! benefited so largely in an economic
way from the great war, are, to a
| great exent, dependent upon the solu-
ton Of the problem, which. though ap-
parently insoluble. could nevertheless
! he easily brought about, If that mu-
tual confidence were restored between
Great Britain and France which led
| the former to entrust to the latter
the care and the protection of all her
| vast interests in the Mediterranean
| throughout the vast international con-
| fiagration.
Nightmare to Statesmen.
| Volumes have been written about
| the Tangier imbrogl!o, which, even
| until the outbreak of the great war
| in 1914, had been TO such an extent
| a nightmare to European and even
/ American statesmen that the late
| Marquis of Salisbury, when premier,
! now near thirty years ago, was wont
to. assert that Il .,was. infinitely more
Evening star., 1923-09-02
COOLIDGE AS ECONOMIST
MAY PARE i. S. BUDGETS
All Things Not Helpful to Actual Com
Portable Living of People
Thought Doomed.

the people Of the country generally
do not know exist. A representative
of a business magazine recently com
piled list Of 1.oof governmental ac-
tivities, most OF which are not Of
benefit or even OF interest TO any
except comparatively small groups OF
people.
Nobody who has investigated the
situation at all believes that there
are any absolutely useless govern
mental expenditures. Reverting to
the personal comparison. the govern
ment spends no money in riotous liv-
ing. It does spend a great deal OF
money for things which are useful.
but not vitally SO, to numerous small
groups. Which of these may be IL
the way OF feeling the pruning HOOK
is largely a matter Of conjecture.
The director Of the budget after a
conference with the President sent
letter to the liason officers Of the
various departments and establish
ments notifying them that 1t is neces-
sary TO cut the appropriation for every
government agency below the pre-
liminary estimates. Whether the
conference with the President had
anything TO do with the sending OF
this letter is not certainly known.
but the latter came hard on the
heels Of the conference.
Total Cuts S30O, 900 600.
The gross amount Of these cuts be
Ifv,,g, ls-1-
estimates is $So0.o0o,0o Except a
few men in the bureau OF the budget.
nobody in Washington knows how =
is pro-rated among the departments
and Independent establishments All
government establishments, were
told at the time they were notified
Of the cut, that they must make
their regular estimates come within
the reduced amount. These regular
estimates are to be submitted within
tho next fifteen days. Any request
for money in excess OF the reduced
sum must be in the form OF a supple
mental statement showing the neces-
sity for the money and the conse-
quences which would result from
failure to secure il. These explana-
tions are TO be made Of the specific
purpose for which additional money
is sought.
The work of putting the final esti-
mates into the form Of an appropria-
tion bill, ordinarily completed by
October l, may be delayed until new
representatives are appointed to mem
bership on the appropriation COM
mittee. -.
Not until the. bill is in something
like final form will it be known just
where the Coolidge pruning knife
has Topped off branches.