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The Washington times., 1937-01-12

these departments, and in this
task the President is to act on
the basis of careful research by
the Bureau Of the Budget and
after conference with those prl-
marily affected. Reorganization
is not a mechanical task, but a
human task, because Govern
ment is not a machine, but a liV-
ing organism. With these clear
safeguards, and in view OF our
past muddling with reorganlza-
ton, one cannot but accept the
logic and wisdom of the recon-
mendationS.
I would not have you adopt
this five-point program, however,
without realizing that this repre-
sents an important step in Amer.
lean history. If we do this, we
reduce from over 100 down to a
dozen the operating executive
agencies of the Government, and
we bring many little bureaucra-
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FiUe Recommendations

To meet this situation and
bring our administrative man.
agement up to date, the COM
mittee presents an integrated
five-point program which you
will find set out in it's report.
It includes these major recon-
mendations:
/. Expand the White House
staff so that the President may
have a sufficient group of able
assistants in his own office to
keep him in closer and easier
touch with the widespread af-
fairs of administration, and to
make the Speedier clearance Of
the knowledge needed for execu-
tive decision;
2. Strengthen and develop the
managerial agencies of the Gov
ernment, particularly those deal
ing with the budget and eff
cheney research, with personnel
and with planning, as manage
ment-arms of the Chief Execu-
tive;
8. Extend the merit system
upward, outward and downward
to cover practically all non-pol
icy-determining posts; reorgan-
ize the civil service system as a
part of management under a
single, responsible adminiStra-
tor, and create a citizen board
to serve as the watch dog of the
merit system, and increase the
salaries of key posts throughout
the service so that the Govern
ment may attract and hold in a
career service men and women
of ability and character;
4. Overhaul the one hundred
independent agencies, admins
trations, authorities, boards, and
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American Methods

AS you will see, this program
rests solidly upon the Constitu-
ton and upon the American
way of doing things. There is
nothing in it which is revolu-
tionary, as every element is
drawn from our own experience
either in government or large
scale business.
I indorse this program and
feel confident that it will COM
mend itself to you also with
your knowledge of government,
and to the vast majority Of the
citizens of the country who
want and believe in efficient
Self-goVernment.
No important advance can be
made toward the major objec-
tives of the program without
the passage by the Congress Of
the necessary legislation.
1t will be necessary to provide
for the establishment of two new
departments, a Department of
Social Welfare and a Depart
ment of Public Works, for the
assignment by the President of
all the miscellaneous activities
to the IL major departments
thus provided, for reorganization
of the civil service system, for
undermining and strengthening
the managerial agencies of the
Executive, and for making the
Executive more strictly account
able to the Congress. BY the
creation of two new Departments
nearly 100 agencies now not un-
der regular Departments can be
consolidated as to their admin
istrative functions under a total
of IL regular Departments of the
Government.
The remaining elements Of
the five-point program, though
they must await your action on
the basic legislation, may be
initiated through appropriations
and Executive orders.
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Theodore Roosevelt said over
80 years ago, essentially execu-
tive in its nature"
The Committee accordingly
recommends that reorganization
should be a continuing duty and
authority Of the Chief Executive
on the basis of standards set
by the Congress. To make this
safe, the Committee insists, how
ever, that the Congress keep a
watchful eye upon reorganiza-
ton both through the annual
budget and through the main
tenance of strict executive &C.
countability to the Congress
under the independent audit of
all financial transactions by an
Auditor General.
Under. the proposed plan the
Congress must by law establish
the major departments and de-
termine in advance the general
principles which shall guide the
President in distributing the
work of the Government among
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Practical People

I know your answer, and the
answer of the nation, because,
after all, we are a practical
people. We know good manage
ment in the home, on the farm,
and in business, big and little.
If any nation can find the way
to effective government it
should be the American people
through their own democratic
institutions.
Over a year ago it seemed to
me that this problem of admins
trative management of the EX-
ecutive branch of the Govern
ment should be major order
of business OF this session of the
Congress. Accordingly, after ex-
tended discussions and negotia-
tionS, appointed a Committee
on Administrative Management,
to examine the whole problem
broadly and to suggest for my
guidance and your consideration
a comprehensive and balanced
program for dealing with the
overhead organization and man
agement of the Executive branch
as it is established under the
Constitution.
The committee has now COM
pleted it's work, and I transmit
to you it's report, "Administra.
tive Management in the Govern
ment of the United States" I
have examined this report care
fully and thouPhtfully, and am
convinced that it is a great
document of permanent impor-
tance. I think that the general
program presented by the COM
mittee is adequate, reasonable
and practical, and that it fur
nishes the basis for immediate
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commissions, and place them by
Executive order within one or
the other of the following IL
major executive departments:
State, Treasury, War, Justice,
Post office, Navy, Conservation,
Agriculture, Commerce, Labor,
Social Welfare and Public
Works; and place upon the Ex-
ecutive continuing responsible
ity for the maintenance of et-
fective organization;
5. Establish accountability OF
the Executive to the Congress by
providing a genuine independent
postaudit of all fiscal tranSac-
tions by an Auditor General,
and restore to the Executive
complete responsibility for ac-
counts and current transactions.
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President RooSeuelt'S message
to Congress on reorganization
of the Government tolloUS in
JuH:
To the Congress of the United
States:
I address this message to the
Congress as one who has had
experience as a legislator, as a
subordinate in an executive de-
partment. as the chief executive
of a State and as one on whom,
as President, the constitutional
responsibility for the whole OF
the Executive branch of the
Government has lain for four
years.
Now that we are out Of the
trough of the depression, the
time has come to set our house
in order. The administrative
management of the Govern
ment needs overhauling. We
are confronted not alone by new
activities, some of them tenn
porary in character, but also by
the growth of the work Of the
Government m a tc h ng the
growth of the nation over more
than a generation.
Except for the enactment Of
the Budget and Accounting Act
Of 1921, no extensive change in
management has occurred since
1918, when the Department OF
Labor was established. The
Executive structure Of the Gov
ernment is sadly out Of date.
I am not the first President
to report to the Congress that
antiouated machinery stands in
the way of effective administra-
ton and of adequate control by
the Congress.
Theodore Roosevelt, William
H. Taft. woodrow Wilson and
Herbert Hoover made repeated
but not wholly successful efforts
to deal with the problem. Com
mittees of the Congress have
also rendered distinguished serv-
ice to the nation through their
efforts from time to time to
point the way to improvement
of governmental management
end organization,
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Efficiency Vital

The opportunity and the need
for action now comes to you
and to me. If we have faith in
our republican form of Govern
ment, and in the ideals upon
which it has rested for $50
years, we must devote ourselves
theoretically and courageouSly
to the task of making that Gov
ernment efficient. The great
stake in efficient democracy is
the stake of the common man.
In these troubled years OF
world history, a self-government
cannot long survive unless that
government is an effective and
efficient agency to serve man
kind and carry out the will of
the nation. A government with
out good management is a house
built on sand.
In striving together to make
our Government more efficient,
you and are taking up in our
generation the battle to preserve
that freedom of self-government
which our forefathers fought to
establish and hand down to us.
They struggled against tyranny,
against non-representative con-
trolls, against government by
birth, wealth or class, against
sectionalism.
Our struggle now is against
confusion, against ineffective
ness, against waste, against in
efficiency. This battle, too, must
be won, unless it is to be said
that in our generation national
self-government broke down and
was frittered away in bad man
agement.
Will it be said Democracy
was a great dream, but it could
not do the job?" Or shall we here
and now, without further delay,
make it our business to see that
our American democracy is made
efficient so that it will do the
Job that is required of it by the
events Of our time?
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SALE!
Finest Grapefruit Florida
Has EUer Produced
FLORIDA
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growers move bumper crop into consumption! We pur
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crops produced years. Prices down to ridiculous ow
Thrifty housewives SAVE NOW! Use grapefruit in many
woys at meos and between times too for good health
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
GIVEN
FOR BRINING
UP WAGE BILL

WASHINGTON. Nov. IL. CUP)-
Speaker of the House William B
Bankhead. D., Ala. today outlined
after a White House conference
four possible parliamentary steps
by which house consideration OF
the wage and hour bill may be
obtained.
The steps by which the proposal
could be taken out of the house
rules committee where it was sty-
mied at the last session of con-
greSs. were outlined as:
]. If the rules committee sees
fit. a majority of the group coulo
report the pending measure for
consideration.
2. The measure could be recalled
from the rules committee by the
house labor committee.
3. A modified bill could be pre-
Sented by the house labor commit
tee. and the rules committee make
StipulationS for the new measures
consideration.
4 A motion discharging the rules
committee from further consider
alton of the current Dill could be
adopted by the house on petition
of 2l8 members.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
Speech on Social
Diseases Barred
AS Not Suitable

NEW YORK. Nov Il UP)-The
National Broadcasting company
said today that Gen Hugh S. John
son did not make his usual radio
talk last night because his subject
Social Diseases. was no. suitable
for the radio audience
The speech dealt with public
enemies Nos ] and 3" which john
son described as gonorrhea and
syphilis.
Until recently" said tie manu-
script. 7 would not have been
permitted 10 accuse them by name
on the radio or in my newspaper
column. except perhaps some remote
references under some of their OBJ
scure aliases which would mean
little or nothing to nine listeners
ont Of ten.
Fortunately. that is all changed
now Polls Of public opinion about
this ostrich-like complacency have
condemned It Overwhelmingly BY
expressions by people of all classes
The most meticulous of writers.
newspapers, journals. and the radio
have agreed 10 drag these reptiles
from their holes into the light OF
day and end their hideous power to
harm humanity"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
ACACIA WINS
Al CLUBCUP
AT MEETING

Acacia All club won the cup
for running up the greatest num-
Der of achievement points of any
club in the county.
The winning group took honors
from the Mt Signal club. holders
of the trophy last year. at the
annual achievement meeting at
the county fair grounds WedneS-
day night. Magnolia club came
second after four organizations
Calipatria. Acacia Mt. Signal, and
Magnolia. presented skits.
Lee Landerman. All club dl.
rector. presided at the session. He
introduced Walter Havekorst OF
the Bank of America and c. H. H
Small of the Security First Ma.
tional bank. who presented the
the achievement pins to the boys
and girls who completed the re-
quired projects during the year
The pins are donated by the banks
Following a pot-luck supper
served at $50 O'Clock to $50 club
members. their leaders. and par
entS. group singing was enjoyed
Mrs. Small. Cecil Huff, and Earl
v. C. Northrup judged the skits
in the final competition for the
trophy.
Lewis Copeland. Calipatria. de.
scribed the national broadcast
made by a group of Valley club
members recently and discussed
his famous bee project briefly
Helen Carleton, Imperial. describ
ed club members trip to UCL.A
and the big football game wit.
messed there and Robert Lander
man. El Centre outlined his eX.
periences at the Davis convention
and the state fair Joe Northrup
described the UCLA. and U. OF
c. game.
Robert RawlSton. All club lead
er with a statewide reputation
for his success with the clubs, was
a guest,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
THRONGS SEE
HUGE PARADE
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Continued from Page ID
increasingly even in our own state
government working feveriShly and
to destroy American government,
and institutions"
Only through a higher type o.
citizenship. AN awakened, inform
ed citizenship with full realiza-
ton" of its responsibilities, said
Hatfield will the American gov
ernment continue to exist.
If our government is bad. i
it is weak or corrupt. it is because
We have made it So" the speaker
said. If this government is to
be maintained, it must be main.
tanned by all the people-not by
office holders, not by any group OF
class"
Hatfields talk and the cere-
monies which led up to it followed
the parade. in which first prize
for the best float was won by the
Brawley 20-30 Club. The prize
float was banked with 10,368 hand
made flowers. On ii were mounted
two cannon, and it was dawn by
tiny automobile. Imperial Valley
Kiwanis clubs won second prize
with a float on which a girl posed
as the Statue OF Liberty, while
the Brawley Eagles lodge won
third prize with a float depicting
a lodge meeting devoted to Amer.
lcanism The Imperial Irrigation
District float won honorable men,
ton.
Features of the parade were the
Imperial Valley Boys Band, well
coined with loud applause all along
the line OF march, and the Braw.
ley American Legion posts drum
and bugle corps.
Planes Parade
Hovering high above the parade
were scout planes sent from the
U. S. Army field at March Field
for the day.
The parade drew the crowd tC
the plaza. where ceremonies started
with a flag salute and the "Stal
Spangled Banner" played by the
boys band. Father Joseph Clarkin
pronounced the invocation, 4 rev.
erent plea for peace. After com
munity singing led by Tom Reha
Mayor S. D. Carey spoke III vel.
come TO those from other valley
communities.
Martin j. Munson, county coun-
ell commander. presented com.
manders Of valley veterans or
ganizations, while Katherine +
Keller. first vice-president of the
22nd district, presented auxiliary
leaders.
D. H. Wolford, vice-commander
Of the 22nd district, presented the
speaker.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
Joe Louis YaWns
Thru Film About
His Rise to Title

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. Il. tUP)-
The most of Joe Louis work IL
the movies won't be seen in the
film that has him rising from ham
10 worlds champion in two hours
so minutes flat.
Joe was asleep. He yawned and
dozed off repeatedly in a corner
of the film set ring while fran
tic director tried to argue his
green opponents into taking 8
chance on getting hurt, all for
the sake of a little semi-authentic
action out of Joe for the grinding
cameras.
Joe is the hero, named Joe
Thomas, who slugs his way to the
title in a picture entitled The
Spirit of Youth"
A little director, Harry Fraser,
who thought Joe's short punches
may knockout champions, but
don't show up as wind mill swings
do in the cameras, demonstrated
how Joe was to do it.
John O'Taris. curly haired Local
boy, was first The director yelled
bells rang. and the cameras ground
Louis came out of a nap ano
rushed from his corner. as pei
instructions. O'Taris quickly back
pedaled-out of range of the cam
eras. Three times they did it, un-
til finally O'Taris fell with a con-
vincing thump.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
OUTBREAK MARS
ARNIISTICE SERVICE

LONDON, Nov. Il. tUP)-King
George. his brothers the Dukes o,
Gloucester and Kent, Prime Min
lister Neville Chamberlain anc
other notables stood reverently
rigid before the cenotaph in White.
hall today while a middle ageo
man, his arms failing wildly
forced his way through policemen
and guards OF honor and shouted
Down with war!"
His shout broke the solemn two
minutes silence before the monu.
ment to Great Britain's l,000OOt
World war dead
The disturber was within 10 feet
of the king, lunging forward. one
arm now raised in a gesture O.
denunciation. when police. using
flying tackles. knocked him down
Police reported that the dis,
turber's name was Stanley Storey
and that he had escaped from :
mental hospital in September
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
Messenger Boys
Protest Charges

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. Il. CUP)
One hundred and fifty Postal
Telegraph messenger boys in the
San Francisco Bay metropolitan
area today refused to wear their
uniform in protest against a sly
cent daily rental for the suits
charged by the company.
The messenger boys worked in
civilian clothes. The American Ra-
dio Telegraphists' association. with
which the messengers are affiliat-
ed, said the company had offered
to discontinue the six cent rental
but failed to put the agreement
in writing"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
Central to Stage
Annual Pep Rally

Central Union high school pu-
pills will stage their annual pep
rally at $50 O'Clock Thursday
night TO heighten enthusiasm TO,
the Brawley-Central game in E
Centre Friday.
The serpentine will begin at 6:3C
and will be followed by a bonfire
The program will include talks by
DR.. Warren F. Fox, Gordon Scri-
ven. and Coach w. S. Taylor.
Arrangements for the rally are
in charge of the pep committee OF
the student body.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
Richberg Denies
Federal Charges

FRESNO, Nov. II. U.P)-TreSpaSS-
ing charges hurled by the govern
ment against the Standard Oil COM
pany of California were denied en-
phatically today by Donald r. Rich
berg, oil company counsel. as the
governments s22,OOO.OOO suit to re
cover title to rich oil lands in
Elk Hills near Bakersfield. Cal. re
Sumed in federal court.
Riehberg, former NRA counsel.
said Standard Oil had transferred
the barren land worth nothing in
1918 into an oil property worth
millions today and should not lose
title.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
UTILITY RATE
VIEWPOINT
CHALLENGED

WASHINGTON. Nov. IL up
Judicial interpretations of the
constitutions due process clause
to mean that cost of production
must be considered in establish
ing utility rates were challenged
in the supreme court today in the
important Pacific Gas and Elec-
tric test case.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
i. S. Gone Soft. Novelist Charges

sent as it is in Russia, Germany,
italy or Japan.
The mention of Fascist states
brought him to the observation
chat the newly created Brazilian
corporate state may be the be-
ginning of a declared war"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11

NEW YORK. Nov. II CUP) -
Sinclair Lewis. author of 1T Can't
Happen Here. told an audience
at Town Hall today that lit has
happened here.
The nation has gone soft, he
said. and Slavery-under the name
of salesmanship-is an omnipra-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-11
Roosevelt Lays
Wreath on Tomb

Continued from Pace i
welt bowed his head to the brisk
November wind which swept the
Virginia bank OF the river anc
stood in silence.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-11
new SERVICE STARTS
LOVE POINT-BALTIMORE

A new and additional service is to
be inaugurated between Baltimore and
Love Point, Md, effective Monday,
June Ia, 1887, on the steamers "Pitts-
burgh" and Maryland"
The new schedule has the effect of
doubling the present service and pro-
vides six trips in each direction be-
tween Baltimore and Love Point. One
of the added features of this service
is steamer leaving Love Point daily
at TOO A. M. and steamer leaving
Baltimore as late as 1880 P. M. There
is also a service from Baltimore at
700 A. M. that permits passengers
to remain over on the Shore until $3.50
p. M.
Rates for both passenger and
freight motor vehicles have been made
very reasonable and refreshments are
supplied on the boats.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-11
DR.. S. A. SEXSMITH
REELECTED PRESIDENT

DIR. Edward A. Sexsmith, of Balti-
more, was reelected president Of the
Maryland Annual Conference of the
M. P. Church at it's 109th session
which convened in Westminster We'd
nesday, June 9th.
In his annual report DR.. Sexsmith
spoke of increases in membership and
decreases in Indebtedness during the
year. He also said he had attended
fifty-one quarterly conferences, given
1876 sermons and addresses and travel
ed $4,000 miles. The Rev. James r.
Straughn, who was elected president
of the General Conference in 1886
attended the meeting.
Rev. G. J. Hooker, pastor of Beth
any M. P. Church, has been unani-
mously invited to return to this charge
which he has served SO acceptably dur
ing the past year.
The conference will close Monday
with the reading of appointments. Few
changes in ministerial charges are ex-
pected.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-11
FALL STARTERS
TO SCHOOL TO
Be PROTECTED
State Department Of Health
Tells Dangers Of Diphtheria
And Of Smallpox

If your youngsters are "going on
six" and you are getting them ready
to enter. school this Fall, DR.. r. FL.
Riley, Director of the State Depart
ment of Health points out two things
that should be put high up on your
"must be attended to" list. They
are: Protection against diphtheria and
smallpox.
"Take the children to your Doc
tor" DR.. Riley said, "for a complete
checking-up. Follow the doctors ad-
vice as to any building up, or any
special attention the children may
need. If they have not been immun-
lied against diphtheria or vaccinated
against smallpox, don't wait until the
end of the summer to have them pro-
tected against these diseases. Attend
to it now.
"Clinics for protection against diph-
liberia have been held in all of the
Counties and a great many of the
young children have been safeguarded