The Washington times., 1923-02-20
SAD MUDDLES
FEDERAL BUDGETS
WILL CLEAR

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By HERBERT KAUFMAN
= RESIDENT HARDING is rearranging the Government
/ departments. They're botchy lot at present
constituted.
Three different Secretaries often exercise cashng author
ity the public interest.
Those loosely defined jurisdictions provoke constant
administration quarrels
The Commissioner Of Education in the Interior Depart
ment regularly embarrassed by the public school activities
Of the Department Of Labor.
Interior and Agriculture at Dangers
points the national park situation
And foryseven separate agencies for Amercanzation
without central idea Of hadozen denominators
blthesomely wasted money and time in 1919.
The budget largely eliminates these muddles. A
intelligent classification Of respective Cabinet domains
will make for happier Presidential families and taxpayers
Why Not Start at the Beginning?
(HIEF JUSTICE TAFT is also working for expedition
Y Of public business he recommends a number Of
short cuts in court procedure.
His distinguished opinion fourofive Supreme Court
decisions would be Of extreme interest as well
Layman Judgment very much supports Senator Borah
contention that Constitutional questions should not be
cded by majority Of one.
Buy why go farther back-even to the jures whose
verdicts start the wheels movingf
Is it logical require unanimity in the Of origin
and finally settle the case by seventonne opinion
the alLhighest benefit
BOrnh Sauce for the Gnnder, Too
UT Senator Borah doesn't to object to the pas
sage and defeat Of statutes by margin Of one Con
gressional Sauce for the judicial goose ought
to be sauce for the legislative gander too.
We may also this time fttngy study the obstructive
power Of individuals In both houses whose rules Of procedure
half the delays and confusions that retard
plshment.
Points Of order and fbusters committee strategy and
other paramentarian finesse need thorough airing
well.
These are the cunning that switch and ditch
important and pressing measures.
The Gentleman With the Monkey Wrench
- OPTICIANS love noisy, complicated machinery. Sim
i plified procedure limits the opportunity to throw
monkey wrenehes into the works. They don't want
the peope to understand the processes by which the
country is governed.
If a Charlie Dawes goes through the offices and
cloakrooms Capitol HILL his reports and recommends
tions will furnish scare heads for month
Secret diplomacy has nothing conferences
Why not stenographc records Of House and Senate hob
nobbngs well floor debatesf One hundred and
million stockholders Of these United States should know
everything that when their directors anywhere
Lenin Gould Hardly Ask More
n ERHAPS Brookhart Hefin, who ready to
speak out in meeting almost any OCCASION will
day jerk down the curtain and reveal what's
happening behind the
Hefln countless friends yesterday by forcing mme
date relief for broken-backed American officer.
Brookhar the other hand made proposals that would
promptly break the back Of convalescent prosperity
Lenin himself seldom went to further extremes than
advising 100 cent surplus taxes The Brookhart
luton would take SO cent OF all corporation surpuse
above 100000.
Senator would take all income above certain
point He doesn't say what ought to do for business
when panic sweeps the country and the hay made while the
shines alone feeds envelopes and keeps industry
going.
HOw We Safeguard the HOpeLessly Helpless
v7HAT America needs are lighter taxes. Nothing
w else will bring relief from burdensome living costs
=" He might better introduce bill compelling the
States to standardize insanity statutes.
Caamites like the Wards Island holocaust bitterly ndict
democracy itself
Eighteen hundred unatics of