Evening star., 1935-08-05

which they have brought from suffering,
were unknown in those days, it was
customary to give the patient something
upon which he could bite hard during
an operation. Furthermore, during Colo
nial and Revolutionary times, men who
were to be f1ogged were often presented
with a musket ball to bite so that they
could restrain their cries under the lash.
When President Roosevelt visits the
San Diego Exposition, as he has an
nounced he expects to do during the
course of the trip he is planning to make
this Fall. one of the exhibits he will
doubtless see will be 6-foot model of a
human hand. 1t is part of the Depart
ment Of Justices exhibit, showing the
fingerprint system in operation and is
an appeal for civilian use of this method
of Identification and protection. The
enlarged hand was produced from an
actual model of the hand of one of the
men in the departments Bureau of In
veStigation in Washington.
"BigneSS" is one of the questions
which is being considered these days in
connection with industrial establish
mentS. as we'll as in many other branches
of the Nations economic and financial
field. The "bigneSS" of the Government
itself and its mushroom growth during
the past few years is matter of more
than passing interest How big should
a Government department be to func-
ton properly? Secretary of the Interior
Tckes touched on this Subject during a
hearing on bill proposing to change
the name of the department over which
he presides to the Department of Con-
Servation and Works. The question, de-
volving mainly around the Forest Serv-
ice, arose as to what bureaus should be
placed in the suggested department of
conservation. He declared that If all
the conservation activities should be
added to the already overburdened De-
partment of Agriculture, it would be only
a short time before the unwieldineSS of
the Set-up would be so apparent that you
would have to carve out of the Depart
ment of Agriculture new department of
conservation, just as the Department of
Agriculture was carved out of the De-
partment of the Interior some years ago."
page Mr. Hopson" This is the shout
heard round the country" as the Senate
Utility Lobby Investigation Committee
has been seeking to locate and hale be-
fore it the elusive head of the Associated
Gas & Electric System. The search is
one of the touches of humor added to
serious business; and, like the bit of
comedy which the skillful dramatiSt in
jects into his tragedy at the proper
moment to relieve the strain on the
emotions and break the overpowering
tension of the situation, so the game of
"hide-and-Seek" which the utility mag
nate has been playing with the Senate
committee causes a ripple of laughter
throughout the country, taking away
bit of the heavinesS from the drama
being enacted on the public stage at
the Capitol.
Among the many hard~working off,
cials in Washington these days, and for
many months past, in fact. is Joseph c.
Green-"Joe" to his friendS-the State
Departments expert on international
munition manufacture. He has ap-
peared on "the Hill" during the present
session of Congress, it is a safe aSSer-
ton, to furnish information to commit
tees and subcommittee interested in the
subject of arms making more frequently
than any other Government official.
Copyright. 1880