Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — Page 2

Uncle Samuel Is Unbusinesslike and Needs a National Budget System

By G. B. CORTELYOU,

wasted annually. I cannot attempt with any degree of accuTa'c}' the exact amount of money spent needlessly during any one fiscal year. It is no exaggeration, however, to say that the figures will run into millions of dollars. This same condition Wds today. I desire to point out that the distribution of immense sums raised mainly by taxation should be subjected to the closest scrutiny, glassification and co-ordination. The present method of dealing with money matters is entirely lacking in system. ~ — a — Ther/ is probably no other civilized government —certainly no government which is truly representative—where there has been such a complete lack of supervision of the budget as in the United States. With a war debt of $25.1100,000,000 hanging over us it is no longer practicable to meet an aiinmd deficit by an assessment upon the nation s stockholders—its citizens. Even the United States, with a total estimated wealth of more than two hundred billion dollars, is not so rich or so powerful that it Can afford to disregard the principles of business efficiency or fail to provide itself with a carefully mapped out budgetary plan. -~ ■- ■ ■:- '

“Not the Fault of the President; It Is the Omission of Our Laws”

At the conclusion of hostilities our president appointed himself, selected four associates, and proceeded to the conference in 1 aris. 1 hese five men spoke for the United States of America, and from the first meeting until the treaty was signed theirs was the voice of the United States. Whether the commission truly interpreted of'failed to interpret the wishes of the American people they were placed in the unfortunate position of not knowing poßitiyely. wliat .Qjir people. wanted. . They guessed that it favored a certain policy, which was their policy, and it may be they guessed correctly. To this day they do not know. If they had known there would be no discussion in the senate. George of England, Clemenceau of France and Orlando of Italy knew that if at any time they failed to properly interpret the wishes of their countries the legislative branches of their governments had in their .possession the power of recall. No king, monarch, president or ruler of a single nation in Europe is permitted to exercise the same unrestricted right as our laws give to a president. The president must not be blamed because he exercised these unusual, extraordinarv powers. It is not his fault; it is the omission of our law. Will the Democratic party*the Republican party, or a new party secure for the people of the United States a right that is possessed even by the people living under the monarchies of Europe, or shall our executive retain and exercise a power more unrestricted, unrestrained and autocratic than that of any European ruler? This is a problem for the future and is independent of the question of the ratification or approval of the peace treaty or the League of Nations.

Future of the Women of Britain Lies Wholly in the Hands of Labor

By BEATRICE FORBES-ROBERTSON HALE

There are two alternatives before the women of Britain. There are 2,000,000 women 1 who-can never marry. If labor speeds up and the people woik to throw, off the national debt, as the French did after the FrancoPrussian war, then, these superfluous women will have a chance in industry. But if the extreme labor agitators have their way everyone will be at lnggprheads : the output will diminish, and women will be the victims, ‘ for'.they will be unable to get employment. In this event there will be nothing for those- 2,000,000 women to do but sink into misery or go to the colonies. Their future lies virtually in the hands of labor. I wrote in 1914: “Feminism, if it is a live thing, cannot mean the elimination of children from women’s lives; one can afford to trust not only life but women for that. The time has already come when, women are achieving success in their work and in the upbringing children as well.. But complete freedom, both to work and to bear children, involves almost unimaginable changes in social conditions, in housing, nursing, education, cooking, cleaning and in industry and the professions. the biggest job of the feminist movement, and on its success or failure the whole thing hangs.’* . These “unimaginable changes” are already coming about in England as a result of the war, and home life, community life, education and industry are being put on a new basis. ; - The reconstruction program of the British government is so farreaching that ten years ago most of us would have called it socialistic, but people have moved forward to meet it. Fran Clara Mende, German National Assembly—The emigration question particularly concerns the women at this time. Women must im- <■ press on the government that no consuls or no foreign representatives selected who are unmarried in order that each place where we are'repreaented the families of our representatives may become centers of German colonies. , • _ _ . </• < Secretary of the Interior Lane—We must stop the concentration of •nr work in the big cities if we are to aolve for long the problem of aoarfaur food prices. '

Former Secretary of the Treasury ♦ ■ } -T-

The government of the I nited States for more than one-hundred years has been conducted upon financial principles which would have bankrupted a* private corporation within a few mcmths. No public officer lias been directly responsible for the adjustment of expenditures to receipts. No public officer has direct control/over the estimates of the different departments. ■- ■ ... A distinguished gentleman in 1909 was credited with the statement that 30 per cent of the governments entire revenue—a •—omn totaling $300,000,000---w as

By MAJ. HARRY B. HAWES

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

IN BANGKOK

AT Singapore the traveler bound for Siam quits the liner and embarks upon one of the small steamers which take the malls to Bangkok. The steamer makes for the low mangrove-fringed shore which marks his destination and presently enters the muddy Bangkok river, writes P. A. Thompson in “Siam.” On. either side stretch salt marshes, soon hidden* behind the luxuriant vegetation. Here on the oozy banks are fern-llke attap and rank tropical growths, half submerged, while rising from the firmer ground behind are the slender trunks and gracefuT fronds of areca and coconut palms. Bangkok is twelve miles, from the coast in a direct so tortuous is the river that it is fully threq hours before we arrive. Here a score of small steamers are anchored in midstream. Others lie alongside the wharfs, together with sailing vessels of all descriptions: merchantmen from Europe, rice boats from up country, and fishing boats from the gulf. Everywhere we see Chinese toiling. Boats ply to and fro between the banks, and every now and then the little vessels are set dancing and plunging in the wash of the steam launches which tear by. At length we, too, draw in to a wharf and land amidst piles of goods. Motley Throng in the Street.

Behind the wharfs and mills which line the river on its eastern side, we come upon a long street, white and dusty in the dry months, and in the rainy seascfti a lane of mud. Here at all seasons a motley crowd of Chinese, Siamese, Malays, Hindus and Mahometans jostle each other, while coolies toil along* at a foot pace with ’rickshaws in the last stages of dilapidation. A crazy gharry, bearing a distant resemblance to a London growler and drawn By a diminutive pony, bumps over the uneven surface, and on one side of the road electric trams, packed with natives, are screeching along the ill-laid track. None of these methods of locomotion appeals to us, nor do we feel inclined to mingle with the throng of pedestrians. However, if we are 1 ucky we may find near bya_ stable, at which we may hire a pair-, horse gharry, a sort of miniature vicr toria. We will not look on while the ponies are being put in, for it is not well to know exactly how much string is used in the composition of our harness. It is certain that the proportion is large? but if only the reins hold out we must be thankful. • • ♦ On either side are rows of onestoried wooden houses. The shops on the ground floor are quite open to the street, and we can see Chinese carpenters. tailors and bootmakers at work Inside, while elsewhere cheap cotton goods and hardware are Now and then we pass a Chinese josshouse with fantastic roof-ridge, and Yhroughthe open door we see an altar decked with tinsel and peacocks’ feathers. * * * Official Quarter and Royal Palace.

Our driver expects us to direct him at every step, so if we say nothing he will keep straight on and we shall presently come to the old city walk whitewashed now, and much disfigured with telegraph wires, but with picturesque battlements shaped like the leaves of the sacred Bo tree. Within we are at once sensible of a great improvement as we bowl over the well-kept surface of a broad avenue, planted with plane trees, and bordered by neat rows of brick houses. As we cross a catfnl we catch a glimpse of trees reflected in the water, and trim lawns, and beyond them pagodas blazing with pure gold in the sunlight. This is the official quarter. • • • Here, too, is the Royal Palace, whose brilliant roofs and iridescent spires are seen over the dazzling Whiteness of the outer wall. ,Just outside the city wall is the Golden Mount, a bell-shaped mounQ, faced with brick, but so overgrown by trees that it has the appearance of a natural hillock. On the summit is a little shrine surmounted by a pagoda, and to it leads a flight of steps, winding about a hill. From here we look down upon a forest of palms and plane trees, through which break the red roofs of the houses. Everywhere rising above the trees are graceful spires and the manifold roofs of temples.

A View in Bangkok.

with their tiles of rich .orange or deep purple, great splashes of color against the clear blue sky. To this place we may often return to watch the dawn stealing over the paddy fields, whilst at our feet the palm trees rise through a veil of purple mist; or when at evening the pink rays of the setting sun are shooting halfway to the zenith we may come up here and see the thousand pinnacles of Bangkok, outlined in the rifts between low-lying clouds against a smoky orange sky.

KEEP BUSY AND LIVE LONG

Notable Examples of Longevity Among Men Who Have Elected to Remain in "Harness." „r , ... - Maybe it used to be that “the good die young,” but it doesn’t look as though they’re doing it now. / Take, for instance, Rev. Albert Vogel of Jeannette, Pa. He’s one hundred and two years old. He’s never smoked or chewed tobacco or drank Intoxicating liquor. Never quarreled or fotight with another man. Always trying to do good and to persuade others to behave themselves. Rev. Mr. Vogel is the oldest active minister of the gospel in the United States. Hard work, lots of walking and an occasional fishing trip is his formula for a long and happy life. And this reminds us that Rev. Dr. Aaron E. Ballard is president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting association, New York, and is ninety-eight years old. "I never would have lived to this age,” Doctor Ballard said, “if I had retired at sixty and commenced twirling my thumbs in Idleness.” - So it seems the good don’t die young --if they keep busy.—New York World.

SAYINGS OF CARNEGIE

Educate man and his shackles fall. I hope Americans will some day find more time for play, like the wiser brethren on . the other side. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born „to control affairs'. The day is coming and already we see it dawn, in which the man. who dies possessed of millions of available wealth which was free and in his hands ready to be distributed, will die disgracedr Labor, capital and business ability are three legs of a three-legged stool; neithei is first, neither is second, neither is third; there is no precedence, all being equally necessary. He who would sow discord among the three Is an enemy to all. . The first and most seductive peril, and the destroyer of most men, is the drinking of liquor. (Mr. Carnegie himself was a total abstainer, and gave h‘is employees at Skibo castle a 10 per cent advance op, their wages every year they reported that they had not touched liquor).—Frpqj the Bqoks and Public Addresses of the Ironmaster.

‘ Silk stockings ate very expensive nowadays, says Pearson’s Weekly., The most costly of all this kind of hosiery, however, is made from silk which is not the product of the silkworms, but aspecles of shellfish called a puina. The puina makes its home in the warm waters of the Mediterranean found Sicily. It has an odd little tube at the end of its tongue. Out of this tube, spider fashion, or •ilk-worm fashion, it spins a silk thread with which it fastens Itself to any rock to which it wishes to adhere. When the puina moves on to fresh feeding grounds its silken cable is left behind. This cable, which is called byssus, the Sicilian fishermen gather. Byssus weaves into the softest, finest, sheeniest of fabrics; but it is very rare, and the stockings woven from it consequently are—as has been said—exceedingly expensive. » .

Fish That Spin Silk.

STORIES of AMERICAN CITIES

Judge Sentences Automobile Speeders to Morgue CHICAGO.— Instead of letting off the five fast-drivers who were arraigned before him with customary fine, Judge Stelk ordered them aFI to report to Warden Michael Zimmer of the county morgue, and afterward to visit the county hospital to look upon the vic-

ahead of me.”/ * “I’m going to show you two widows, one with five children and one with 12, whose husbands were killed by men who were going 33 miles on a clear road,” said the Judge grimly. "If some one crossed the street ahead of you. you couldn’t stop your car in 104 feet. You go out and look at those two men in the county morgue, and interview their families, and then come back -a week from today and tell me what you think of it.” Joseph Bitel, 2100 South Halsted street, who was arrested for driving by the side of a street car while passengers were alighting didn’t think he ought to go out, either. _ “I fined you $25 a or so ago for speeding, didn’t I?” said the Judge. "It didn’t do much good. I’m going to send you out to see two little children in the morgue and then you can come back and tell me your thoughts on the speed problem.” Louis Koalvas, 5754 West Chicago avenue; A. H. Jlangold and James John O’Donnell, 1924 Springfield avenue, were the other three sent to the- morgue.

Chaloner’s Mission Now to Fight “Lunacy Trust” NEW YORK. —Branding alienists ns "head hunters who. for a price, will send any man to the madhouse,” John Armstrong Chaloner, sage of Virginia and author of ‘JWho’s Loony Now?” hals announced his intention of ,

devoting, his life to fighting “bogus lunacy laws.” Summoning a group of newspaper men, whom he insisted upon addressing as “Gentlemen of the Fourth Estate," Mr. Chaloner said that fiveyears of warfare would be necessary to defeat the “lunacy trust” in the United States and then only two years in Europe before there, too, he would be victorious. The “lunacy trust” here “is ri£h

and Intrenched,” he said, but asserted • he was willing to devote to his campaign both his time and his incom , amounts to $112,000 a year. --- Off Sunday morning, November 9, at 7 :45 o’clock, Mr. Chaloner will begin a series of lectures to which the public will be invited. He will continue the series for five months, under the title, “The Philosophic Aspects o tianI ‘*The lunacy laws of this state, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and New England are rotten. In the South Jhere are fewer rich men and it hasn’t paid to organize a ‘lunacy trust’ there.” Mr. Chaloner (originally Chanler) is a grandson of John Jacob Astor and the owner of an estate valued at more than $1,500,000. He was adjudged insane in this state in 1897 on the petition of several of his relatives, and was confined in Bloomingdale asylum. Two years later he escaped and took refuge The courts have now declared him sane and restored his fortune.

“The Quick and the Dead” Combined in One Soldier SAN FRANCISCO. —A good many men have seen their death notices in a newspaper and read their own obituaries. It is a standing Joke of the grimmest kind that many men are dead who don’t know it. But here s a man who seems to be unable to convince

her repeated letters Informing the war department that her son is alive, is receiving death compensation every month frO, "o-M,Uta been trying to re-enllst tor weeke. He lenrnetl the tourteenth time that he was dead when he applied to the recruiting officer recentlj fOT mTking-appHcatlon for reinstatement O'Malley requested assignment to San Francisco in the motor transportation corps. In order to secure special assSnmentLionel Page wired the adjutant general at Washington for this snecial dispensation and he received this telegraphic reply. ta regnrd to James Q. O’Malley not understood. Thia aoldter tas discharge given to him at the Presidio here In April of this year. He served overseas with the One Hundred and Eleventh letters to the w*r- rtsk insurance department- ask tag them discontinue his death compensation tp his mother have been of no avail. Patriotic Woman Buys League of Nations Stock BTnxf Tier HAM ALA—If you want the League of Nations to be a success t to support it bv subscribing for stock. That was the argument used by “Miss Sarah Benson ot Chicago” In Birmingham. “Miss

Benson” called at the home of Mrs. Blank the other morning. Mrs. Blank, who refused to give her real name, laid the case before the police in the afternoon; Here is Mrs. Blank’s story: “I am*just an (#dlnary woman. 1 read the papers occasionally, but generally just glance at the headlines; so when this woman came to my house and said that great men like President Wilson and William Howard Taft w’ere

ouTto me that the purpose of the League of Nations was to buy up al the materfa?t«ed by the different nations and make farming implements of it. I am a religious woman and she quoted me a verse ftom the Bible about men belting their swords into plowshares, and it impressed me as an admirable PlaD “When I informed her that I would take two shares she explained thd< •stock wS OT a klmre «»d without themwa, 0T.50/ “ ‘Which wav <*• President Wilson taking his?’ I inquired. -She informed me that the president was taking his without the reservaHnna ho I invested what mongy I had with the woman. “When my husband came home I told him^wliatlhaddone.—Efe too|_ about two hours explaining the League of Nations to me. I feel llkea silly old hen and people will tease me to death about it if my name is used.” Blink thought that this woman should be caught. That is the reuoa •he came to police headquarters and'reported the matter.

tims of reckless autoists who are stretched on beds of pain in that place. The cases were continued’ for a week. “I want you all to have a chance to digest your impressions of the morgue,'’ said the judgd'. ~~~~ r ‘Vou won't need to send me," pleaded, A. W. Cornell of IVestern Springs. “I was only going 33 miles an hour on a clear road, straight

the government he’s alive. Anyway, to try to re-enlist In Uncle Sam’s army and then be repeatedly told that he is dead is the experience of James Q. O’Malley of Plymouth, Cal. Although Col. T. E. Page, In charge of army recruiting here, insists that O’Malley is alive and produces the man to support his contention, official Washington insists that he is dead. - And O’Malley’s mother, despite