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cal tasks of reorganization and read
Justment of many tangled parts Of
our national life on many new FROM
tiers. The injustice and oppression
inteItwined with solid good in our
American system will not always yield
without firm display of our national
constitutional powers. Our national
will must be expressed not merely In
a brief, eXultant moment Of electoral
decision, but in persistent. determined,
competent day-by-day administration
of what the Nation has decided to do.
Honesty and courage alone are not
enough for victory, either in peace
or in war. Intelligence. vision, fair
ness, f1rmnesS and f1exibility are re-
quired in an assembled, competent,
strong organization Of democracy. To
falter at this point Is fatal. A weak
administration can neither advance
nor retreat successfully-it can merely
muddle. Those who waver at the
sight of needed power are false friends
of modern democracy. Strong execu-
tive leadership is essential to demo-
cratic government today. Our choice
is not between power and no power,
but between responsible but capable
popular government and irresponsible
autocracy.
The forward march of American
democracy at this point of our history
depends more upon effective man
agement than upon any other single
factor. The times demand better
governmental organization, stated
with more competent public servants,
more free to do their best, and CO.
ordinated by an executive accountable
to the Congress and fully equipped
with modern tools Of management.
Thus the President will have effective
managerial authority over the execI-
tive branch commensurate with his
responsibility under the Constitution
Of the United States. ..+
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Better Public Service
Is Aim of Committee.

tIhCcu, dilu AOAAio Va AaSSSAVANN'NAo~-'
both raphical and departmental,
outlined.
Your committee fully appreciates
that there Is no magic in management
alone. Management is a servant
not a master-a means, not an END,
a tool in the hands and for the
purposes of the Nation. Public serV-
ice is the service of the common
good in peace or war and will be
Judged by this standard. Not merely
lower unit costs but higher human
happiness and values are the supreme
ends of our national life, and by these
terms this and every other system
must finally be tested. Good man
agement will promote in the fullest
measure the conservation and utulza-
ton of our national resources, and
spell this out plainly in social justice,
security, order, liberty, prosperity, In
material benefits, and in higher values
of life. The adjustments and arrange
ments we suggest have no other pur-
pose or Justification than better public
service for our people through petter
administrative management.
It may be said that there is danger
that management itself will grow too
great and forget where it came from
or what it is form the old and
recurring insolence of office. But in
the judgment of your committee,
hoead ,,noy, broad tion of the
bewildering sweep of recent events
here and elsewhere, the really immi-
nent danger now is that our democracy
and perhaps others may be led by
false or mistaken guides to place their
trust in weak and faltering inaction.
which in the bitter end runs to
futility and defeat. In the late war,
democracies showed vast strength and
tenacity in times of strain that racked
every fiber of the ship of state. And
now We face and will master the criti-
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the fact that that division Of labor
has emerged, not under any legal
compulsion, but because 1t has proved
q normal and convenient method of
getting the commissions work done,
is significant for our present purpose.
The process Of setting the proposed
plan in motion would in sense be
merely the following Of path already
roughly pricked out. The present
commissioners as body would assume
the status Of judicial section. The
present staff Of the commission under
a responsible administrative chief
could, with a minimum Of disruption,
be nodded into an administrative sec
ton. 1t Is difficult to see how the
transition could be very disturbing or
why the plan should not work smoothly
and effciently
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d. THE INDEPENDENT REG
ULATORY COMMISSIONS,
Redistribution of Functions

The following proposal is put for
ward as possible solution of the in
dependent commission problem, pres
ent and future. Under this proposed
plan the regulatory agency would be
set up, not in governmental vacuum
outside the executive departments,
but within a department. There it
would be divided into an administra-
tive section and judicial section
The administrative section would be a
regular bureau or division in the de-
partment headed by q chief with
career tenure and stated under civil
service regulations. 1t would be d.
rectly responsible to the secretary
and through him to tbs President.
The judicial section, on the other
hand, would be 'in" the department
only for purposes of administrative
housekeeping" such as the budget,
general personnel administration and
materiel. 1t would be wholly inde-
pendent of the department and the
President with respect to its work and
its decisions. Its members would be
appointed by the President with the
approval of the Senate for long. stag
gered terms and would be removable
only for causes stated in the statute.
The division of work between the
two sections would be relatively simple.
The first procedural steps in the regu-
latory process as now carried on by
the independent commissions would
60 to the administrative section. It
would formulate rules, initiate action,
investigate complaints, hold pre-
liminary hearings. and by a process
of sitting and selection prepare the
formal record Of cases which k now
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STATE G. O. P. ACTS
TO SHIFT FINANCING
Policy by Which Voters Would
Finance Pennsylvania Cam
paign Set in Motion.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. "a new
policy by which the voters themselves
would finance the Republican party's
campaigns in PENNSYLVANIA was set
out the State.
The plan was adopted yesterday at
a conference of county chairmen and
vice chairmen. G. Edward Green,
State chairman, said it would go into
operation Immediately.
Green introduced the proposition,
stating such plan was needed in
Pennsylvania ito free the party from
the accusation that it is being financed
by a few rich men,"
Then he introduced Carlton G..
Ketchum Of Pittsburgh, directing
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MRS. R: Y. M'NEELY
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Retired Naval Officers Wife
Native of South
Carolina,

Mrs. Marie Calhoun McNeely, wife
OF Capt. Robert w. McNeely, u S. NJ,
retired, died yesterday in Georgetown
Hospital after short illness.
Mrs. McNeely was a daughter of the
late Gen. Matthew Calbraith Butler,
former United States Senator from
South Carolina, who served as a ma
jor general in the Confederate Army
and later as a major general in the
United States Army during the war
with Spain. Mrs. McNeely's mother
was the late Mrs. Maria Pickens But
ler
Besides her husband, Mrs. McNeely
Is survived by brother, DR.. F. w. P.
Butler, Columbia, S. c., and two
nieces, Miss Ellen Iredell Butler of
Columbia, S. c., and Mrs. Charles Ad-
ANS, Linthicum Heights, Md. Another
brother was the late Col. M. c. Butler,
U. S. A, Capt. McNeely is staying at
Chevy Chase Club
Mrs. McNeely was direct descend
ant of Col. William Butler of Revo-
lutionary fame and was a grand-niece
OF Commodore o. H. Perry of Lake
Erie fame and Commodore M. C.
Perry, noted for his diplomatic
achievements in opening up Japan to
world trade.
Capt. and Mrs. McNeely, whose
home was near Columbia, have been
spending the winters in Washington.
Mrs. McNeely formerly lived here for
many years and had many friends in
this city. She was native of Edge
field, S. C.
Funeral services will be held at noon
tomorrow in st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Sixteenth and H streets NV.
the Rev. DR.. Oliver j. Hart, rector,
officiating. Burial will be in Arling-
ton Cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers will be Ad-
mirals Joseph Strauss, Mark L. Bristol.
Homer L. Stanford, Hutch 1. Cone
and Andrew Pickens; Col. Chalmers
Hall, U. S. A, and Waddy B. Wood.
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financial campaigns for the party In
several States. Ketchum said the
plan had been tried with success ir
many places.
e. Arthur Sweeny, GreenSburg pub
Usher, said contributions from the
rank and file were found satisfactory
IN Westmoreland County. He favored
q short, concentrated drive.
w. B. McFall, Pittsburgh lawyer
and vice chairman of the Stats
Finance Committee, asked that the
new plan be set up at once. Wilbert
H. Beachy, Somerset County chair
man, moved the plan be adopted.
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FUNERAL is HELD

Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth
J. Murphy, 81, retired employe of tn.
Pension Bureau, who died Monday
were held at $3.50 am. today in st
Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church
Burial was to be in the new Cathedral
Cemetery, Baltimore.
Mrs. Murphy had been a resident oi
Washington for SO years. She wa.
retired from the Pension Bureau Il
years ago after 36 years service.
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BULLET WOUNDS FATAL
Brother of Man Victim Was Ac-
quilted of Shaving Is Accused

quilted of Staying Is Accused.
SAN JOSE, Calf, Dec. 9 P.-
Bernardo Soliz, 80, died early today a
victim, police said, of bullet wounds
lnnlcted by a brother of the man
Sollz was acquitted of Staying.
AS Soliz walked from the courtroom
yesterday, freed on self-defense- plea
IN Cirilo Delgado's death, he was met
by Frank Delgado, rs. Three shots
were fired
Deputy Sheriff Harold Sturla, whose
right hand was nicked by one Of the
bullets, arrested Frank Delgado. He
said Delgado admitted firing the shots
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Because she had no other
aDay to trauel, Mrs. Rag, 81,
'1Oalked the 28 miles from her
Chino ranch home to court in
San Bernardino, Calit., to
hear herself sentenced to
eight months in Jail on a
burglary conDiction. She is
Sho,on as she appeared in
court, 1Ohere she admitted
acting as lookout for her hus-
band 1Uhile he robbed a gro
cery store.
-Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
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Coronation Trees Planted.
Oaks from Windsor Castle are being
planted in other parts of England
as coronation memorials.
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the same size package we used 10
sell for dime"
"And you are making more
money giving as much for a nick
ell as you used to give for a
dime" / inquired.
Eyes. we are" said the shop
keeper. 1.-THE volume Of business
has increased enough to make 1t
pay"
In many enterprises it is the
volume of business that must be
had to make the business profit
able. Shortsighted persons cannot
grasp that truth. They simply
cannot bear to risk being gener-
Gus with their patrons. They feel
that the less they can give and
the more they can get, the more
they make.
Today with their rates for cleo
trio current cut to third and less
of their former charges, some
power and light companies are
having the most prosperous year
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THE FIRST TO NEED AID

Nearly quarter of a million dollars worth OF
alcoholic liquor was sold in Darlington county dur
ing the year 1886. OF this amount more than SlO-
900 month was spent for liquor in the town OF
Huntsville. These figures are based on state taxes
paid and do not include sales of wine and beer
State taxes amounting to $4,000 were collected
on the LIQUOR sold here and of this amount $3.50
was paid into the treasury of the town OF Harris
vile.
This $4,000 month, if not spent for liquor IN
Huntsville would have gone largely into other chan
nes of retail trade to pay bills or into building
and loan stock or other forms of savings. 1t Is a
larger amount than is paid into the largest build
ing and loan association here If this total amount
now being spent for liquor in HartSVile were put
in building and loan stock it would amount to ST.
100000 in seven years.
1.-THE tragedy of the liquor business is that a
great deal of the money paid for alcohol is spent
by people who are behind with their grocery bills
and their doctor bills and in many cases have no
savings of any nature.
aside from any question of the effect of the
use of liquor on the individual who consumes It,
there is economic loss to the state that II can
Ill afford. One of the greatest needs in South Caro-
lima today is for its citizens to accumulate savings
and investments out of current income. 1t Is only
through the new investment of capital in South
Carolina that there lies hope for new opportunl-
ties for employment and for improved earnings oil
labor. The consumption of large part OF the IN
come of our people through the consumption Oh
LIQUOR is one of the most serious capital Grams OH
the state Few individuals afford to waste their
income on liquor and the tragedy is that many
who can afford it least are using the largest pro-
portion of their income in this waste"
At a time when great deal of effort Is beng
made for increased security for workers, both by
unemployment insurance and old age funds 1t
might be good idea to double the price OF liquor
and put the additional amount INTO security 1und
for tho individual purchaser. In most cases. he
will no the one who will have the greatest need
for these funds because the liquor head is usually
the first one in group to become unemployed and
is also the one who will have the least resources to
support himself in old age.-Hartsville S. c., Mes
senger.
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THE NEW DE Il
IN WASHINGTON
---sY RODNEY BUTCHER
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

merger upon the old political par
ties must be preceded by a far
more extensive union organization
of labor than has yet been
achieved.
II ABOR experts, inside ana out
- side the labor movement, are
saying that F. D. r. doesn't under
stand the labor movement is
mistaken in believing that c. /. o.
will not become an increasingly
effective political force and I'M
derestimates the Importance and
vitality of Lewis.
Be that as it may, the recent
hostilities left most competent OBJ
serverS-and perhaps Lewis him.
self - convinced that Roosevelt
was holding the big cards and that
Lewis had more to lose in genu-
inc break than the President. A
federal administration turned
against IT, c. ]. o. now might
we'll smash it, since c. /. O. has
so many other enemies.
1t is almost generally agreed
that in a political contest under
present circumstances, Roosevelt.
would be likely to influence more
votes of c. I. o. members than
Lewis himself. Reports have been
current that Roosevelt had been
trying to play off other c. /. O.
leaders against Lewis.
Lewis heard these reports long
ago and is reported to have been
increasingly bitter because Roose-
welt showed marked preference
for President Sidney Hillman of
the AmalgamateS Clothing Work.
ers, both as to White House invi-
tations and in the framing of the
wage-hour bill.
But it is still to the advantage
of political opponents Of both men
to bust up the Roosevelt-Lewis
alliance If they can - and to
Roosevelt's advantage to preserve
1t. Lewis is still as strong a po-
litical ally.
ltcopyrlght 1917, NEA Service. Incl
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AMERICA HAS NO NEED FOR RABBLE
ROUSERS
CBy BRUCE CATION

Walter B. Pitkins plea for "a raoole
ropser of the right" would seem to be
about the least helpful of all the many sug-
gestions that have been made for the pres
ervation and regeneration of this great ma
ton of ours.
Prof. Pitkin voiced this plea in an article
in the current issue of Advertising Agency.
He was complaining that those who have
most reason to want to see the TRADITIONAL
American values preserved in this era OF
change are not being vocal enough about
it; and he wound up with the following
exhortation:
1.-THE hour has come for words which
smell, for words which set fire to men and
things, for words which loosen avalanches
back in the mountains The pat phrase,
the polite patter and the unctuous argu-
ment will never save America. Heaven
send us rabble rouser of the right"
One would suppose that man with
Prof Pitkins broad outlook would realize
by this time that of all calamitieS which
can descend on a nation these days, none
can easily surpass that which is embodied
in the person of a really gifted rabble
rouser.
When you get such a person uttering
words which loosen avalanches back IN
the mountains" you never know just what
those avalanches are going to sweep away.
The postwar history of Europe offers some
shining examples.
For the rabble rouser is man who calls
on men to think with their emotions rather
than with their minds. His words which
set fire to men" are, by definition, the kind
of words which men use when they have
grown tired of trying to solve their prob
lens by intellectual effort And when men
get into that state of mind, they are head
ed for trouble just as surely as night fol-
lows day.
Hitler went up and down Germany for
years, his entire stock in trade consisting
of just the sort of words Prof. Pitkin is
talking about In the course of time, con-
ditions being bad and the outlook dark, he
persuaded the German people to listen to
him and to confide their future to his
hands. He "looSened avalanches back In
the mountains; does any sane American
want similar avalanches lossened in this
country?
Hitler is not the only example, of course.
Every dictatorship in Europe got its start
in precisely that same way. And when you
stop to think what democracy really means,
the fact is not hard to understand.
Democracy is based on the assumption
that people will use their gray matter ra-
Their than their feelings to solve their prob
lens. 1t takes for granted that there will
be enough GOODNESS, patience and good
sense to permit issues to be argued out,
and that things will be settled nationally
rather than emotionally.
OF all the things that our America does
not need, rabble rouser-whether of the
right, the left or the dead-center-stands
at the head of the list.
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WASHINGTON. - Although no
w one who knows President
Roosevelt and John l.. Lewis
expects that there will ever
be a bond of personal friendship
between the two men, the atmos-
ph.re surrounding their public
cleavage has become much less
tense since Lewis called at the
White House and discussed their
differences at some length.
Close associates of the President
and the c. /. o. leader, who were
more or less panic-stricken after
their exchange of Labor Day COM
plimentS-and who have worked
strenuously to save all bridges
from being burned behind one or
both-have returned to a state of
relative calm.
They say that Roosevelt was
conciliatory and that Lewis was
considerably less belligerent at
the White House than in previous
public and private expressions.
The view among administration
insiders is that the labor leaders
public lashings at Roosevelt were
largely induced by the fact that
Lewis had made so many private
denunciations of Roosevelt that he
felt he could hardly avoid some
thing of the sort in a major pub
lie address.
They also are aware that the
Lewis references to Roosevelt were
unpopular among certain other
c. /. o. leaders.
Lewis partisans make the most
Of the fact that il was Roose.
yelt who made the first concilia-
tory gesture to LewiS-in the form
of an invitation to the White
House.
Fundamentally the two mer
differ through the fact that Lewis
former Republican, has absorbed
the philosophy that labor can and
should rise to dominance through
q farmer-labor political party. He
thinks a successful attack by thi.
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MORE FOR THE MONEY
.By WICKES WAMBOLDT

in their history. And if they will
go still further in rate reduction
they will make still more money
and stop the constant fight on
themselves.
Electric energy has become a
life current Of this nation. 1t
must be made so cheap as to be
generously available to all the
people. Unless the private power
and light concerns grasp that
truth and govern themselves by
it. they will sooner or later see
all of the larger concentrating
plants publicly owned and oper-
ated.
1t was their failure to realize
the law that more business at
lower prices makes more profit
that nearly bankruptcd certain
railroads. Express companies
nearly went onto the rocks before
they developed the courage to
cut to pieces their former high
rates.
Be bold in being liberal and the
Lord will love you.
The Irishman who said that he
lost money on every article he
sold, but that he could afford to
do it because he sold so many,
stated the proposition quantity,
but he had something there.
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day. When the
shopkeeper h a d
put in the corn
pepper about a
year ago, he had
showed it to me
with pride and
hope.
at is paying
all right now,
replied the shop
keeper thought
fully. "At first it
rat h er disap-
pointed us; but
now we are sell
ing for a nickel
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REMAINING FOR FALL: s. J..

REMAINING FOR FALL: s. J.
Childs says only one Of the 20
cottages in the Brightwaters de-
velopment is vacant, which goes
to prove that it can be done
keep people here for longer than
two months. He says this can cas-
lily be made a fivc-months resort
by giving tourists comfortable
homes with good environment and
amusements to make good mea-
sure. Mr.. Childs says there is
room for another such develop
ment as his in the Hendersonville
community.
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GLOW is that automatic corn
pepper of yours working out? Is
il paying?" | asked the owner of
q confectionery shop the other
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There is nothing sure about the next
election in this land of idealism except
that the most votes will be cast for the
biggest bride.
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ALTHOUGH have fairly accurate estimate o. now .-
cold has been mined in times have way Of 'e
ng how much of that gold has gone back to Mother Eau Dur
treasure ship wrecks lost coins and the simple wearing %
process have combined together keeping an ever S""' ~
gold going out of circulation
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They tell us the next war will be the end
of civilization, but they don't tell us which
end.
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LAUREL PARK HOMES:
By Noah Hollowell

Walter Fuller expresses himself
as well pleased with real estate
activity in Laurel Park during the
past few months. Several houses
were bought from mortgage COM
panies; homes have been erected,
others repaired and homesites
purchased. Mr.. Fuller is especial
ly pleased with the absence of the
speculative feature from these
transactions.
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There are two kinds of people-mental-
ly honest ones who are guided by self-in-
terest, and those who pretend they aren't.
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KEEPING YOUNG: Pink Nc
Call, who is old enough to be on
the winning side of the old age
pension, having shed both teeth
and hair, quotes F. 6. Hart as OF