Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 286, Hammond, Lake County, 23 May 1921 — Page 1

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Yet Eating Places Charge What They Did In 1920 That the curve of the food cost of living has declined over COO points and is loner now than in 1916, the rf staurantruri arc finding it hard to explain why. in most cases, their 1320 prices still prevail Foodstuffs are the largest single item of a persons annual expenditure and when this necessity is multiplied threo or four times Its value, the rabitates of restaurant? find it hard sled ding to meet regular responsibilities and pay for the other necessities of life. A careful survey of the Calumet re;!on restaurants and their prices was made this last week and the statements of the protesting people here confirmed that exorbitant prices are being charged, for foodstuffs throughout the region. The American Legion Post of Gary are among the organizations to o ' nip'iin of this petty profiteering and are lending a hand as well as other l-gior. posts in the district to correct these excessive prices. Should Herbert Hoover visit the region this week he nc doubt could furnish an immediate remedy, but Mr. Hoover is quite bifsy v '.th national affairs now. and it will "r.e up to the people cf this district to take up the battle of getting restaurant prices back to normal. NO WOIIK NO EAT With thousands of men out of work and the numbers being added to tht .nemp'oyed list daily, part of whom depend upon the restaurant service for their dally rations, it has the average f How guessing how he is goirug to i-train Ills already flat pocket book to make the proper connections for three square meals a day. It is a fact that the people who are working and have had their wages cut rrom 20 to 30 per -ent find that the practice of strict economy i3 the only way that they are able to ster clear of tho rocks. A BREAD LINE IX SIGHT The bread line in the. city of East Chicago has been discontinued a'.nce the first part of the month, account of no funds, but unless there are some marked changes made in short order by these little profiteer?, there will be an army of men and women clamoring at the doors of the city hall for handouts. It will be a case of miraculously feeding the multitudes on a few loaves and fishes as Christ and His disciples did in the wildeness. WHOLESALE rniCES AT BOTTOM Right now wholesale prices are lower tiian in 1916, says The Annalist. The subjoined ia a comparative list of foodstuffs sold at retail & year ago, and today, as advertised by Tittle Bros Packing company of Gary. While this l;.t gives a wide' margin of difference in retail prices of 1920 and 1921. there i itill 10 and 15 per cent or about 19 to be added In food to the list of today that gives the exact figures that local ltstaurant keepers buy their foodstuffs from wholesale dealers: A year ago you bought for $59.75: l(h pound bag sugar, $2S; 5 bushel potatoes, $4.73 per bushel. $23.75; barrel Gold Medal Flour. $3. The same three articles and all the additional articles listed below, are being sold for $59.75 today: 1 0 i pound bag sugar. $S; 5 bushel potatoes, per bushel, 90 cents. $4.30: '2 barrel flour,, $4.50: 1 case 24 cans tomotoes, $2.40: 1 caso 24 cans corn. $2.40; 1 case 24 cans peas, $2.40; 1 case 4 cans peaches. $5; 1 case 24 cans apricots. $4; 1 case 100 bars I soap. $4; 25 pounds rolled oats, $1.25; 25 pounds rorn meal. $1; 23 pounds navy beans 51.50; 25 pound j best head rice, $1.50;, i'i pounds prunes, $1.75; 24 c. Armour's) milk, $3.50; 2-3 pound C. Club House coffee, $2.20; 5 pounds choice green or black tea. $2; 5 pounds bulk cocoa, 90 ents; 10 pounds pure lard, $1.25: 10 pounds O. Mayer's bacon, $2.30; 3 pound creamery butter, $2.20. KULITABLE ADJISTMFAT WANTED In June. 1920. prices had reached the p-ak. And at that time the prices of the restaurants were on an equal basi.with the cost of other commodities in the district. Everyone was satisfied and willing to pay the price in 1920 because they felt that all commodities were on a par and that their earning capacity was offsetting the exhorbltant prices charged for the necessaries of life. (But generally speaking the H. C of L. gradually came down to a level where the public could once more buy. but the petty restaurant profiteers held onto their old price list and have not wavered 10 per cent from the prices of last year. In 1920 people were living and let live. Now, those who have n toehold are endeavoring to "rim" the little fellow of his earnings. PRESIDENT IN NEW YORK By GEORGE R. HOLMES NEW YORK. May 23. The president and Mrs. Harding, accompanied by a small party of guests, arrived in New York early this morning aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower. The vessel steamed up the Hudson through a heavy morning mist and dropped anchor near Ninety-sfixth street. She docked &t 8 o'clock.

WARDS OFF BOY'S DEATHWITH HAND Samuel Jaffe Sustains Painful Injury, But Accomplishes Much Samuel Jaffe, manager of the Parthenon theatre is nursing a sore linger with the light heart of a man who was prepared to sustain a broken leg and escaped w ith a sprained ankle. When Jaffe put his hand out of the "hit-ago Heights bus raturday afternoon he didn't know whether he would ever be able to use it again or not. And so lie considers a badly bruised and partially crushed finger to be the minimum Injury to have been expected. Tho Chicago Heights bus in which Mr. Jaffe was riding had started sout.li on Hohman street and was at the intersection cf that thoroughfare and Clintop street when Alfred Sehoenfelder, 9

year old son of a West Hammond violin teach- r, started to run across the street in tho path of the automobile. Tiu driver swerved to the left and the front wheels barely missed tho little fellow. Mr. Jaffe, looking over the side, could see that the contact would come just beneath hi3 seat. He put his arm over the side and laid his hand against the body of the Wis so that instead of hitting the wood the boy's head hit his hand. The boy fell back and rolled on the pavement, escaping with a few rainful bruises. Mr. Jaffc's finger started to swell like a toy balloon but he didn't mind. Spectators said that Mr. Jaffe saved the boy's skull from being fraz-tured. They crowded around the bus and Insisted on shaking him vy Mb ore hand. HUGE STILL F N Out where the lake winds frisk with the Kolden sands in Indiana's famous dunes, where nature reigns supreme members of the sponge equad of the Gary police department unearthed In diana's largest and most perfectly eauinoed illicit still three miles from Aetna Saturday evening. The still which has a capacity estimated at 100 gallons daily, was dismantled after some tedious labor, and dragged by fcur horses over three miles of sand dunes, placed on a hay rack and brought ti the Gary police station where it has been reassembled and today was viewed by hundreds of curious people who flocked to station to see it. Detective Sergeant Frank Knott and plain clothes officer Connelly, former Milier bea'h policeman, are credited with it's capture. Just how and where they got their tip from which disclosed the still's location the officers are recitent about giving out as they are still working on the case in an effort to locate the owners. When they arrived at the scene where tho still was located they found the place deserted and up to noon today no arrests had been made. According to reliable information, the still (vss, a $10,000 proposition or rather incorporation although not conducted under the laws of the state of Indiana. It is said that a number of men put in so many hundred or thousand dollars apiece and but for the Gary police they would have realized handsome profits from the ealo of the whisky. The still is perfect in every detail. Although minature in site and capacity it was built along the lines of those in bonifide distilleries and its builder evidently knew considerable about making whisky. When in operation, heat for the still was furnished by two monster acetylene tank-s which connected to a series ol burners beneath the massive 400 gallon boiler containing the mash. Included in the equipment the police found the latest type of condensers and filtering systems. As the liquor gurgled out of the coil spout, it dripped through filter sj'stem and then through charcoal, which fakes out any fuslle oil (or poison) which the liquor might contain and also gives the liquor some color. Majh used by the moonshiners was made out of sliced oranges,- sugar, water and yeast to assist In the fermentation. In tho neighborhood of 1.000 gallons of mush during tho process of fermentation was found in the dug out room and destroyed. Some 200 gallons of whiskey was destroyed wTTh it., tn Us destruction kerosene oil was use's. It was poured over the mash and whisky aad a match applied. To reach the still officers Knott and Connely were compelled to tramp over nearly three miles of sand lirush dunes. They found tha still located in a dug out at the top of a sand hill nearly ISO feet high. The still room was dug out lome 20 feet square and ten feet high. Trunks of trees were ifSed for corner pieces and roughly hewn lumber and boughs form ed the ceiling. The ceiling was covered v. Uii. two feet of sand. A ewer from tho dug oul led to a pig sty down the side of the sand dune. GEO. CLEMENS SUFFERS BAD FALL George C. Clemens, 4 Waltham street Hammond, was unconscious for six hours last evening as a result of a fall at his home. He was found at the foot of the stairs and at first his injuries were thought to be serious. He was just starting up the staira when hi3 foot slipped and in the fall his head was struck a severe blow. While he was still suffering some today from the Injury it is thought no ill results will follow.

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TO BE 10.000 YEAR IN FUTURE Steel Co. Official Predicts Population of 250.000 Gary will pass the 100,000 mark in populate,! by 1925. It will be a city of a quarter of a million people by 1943. These are predictions made by a high official of the United States Steel corporation. He said that the construction of the tuVe works would begin not later than next spring and that as soon as the steel business resumed and the big building of the tutbt works was underway the population of Gary would increase at the rato of 10,000 a year for twenty year?. "Gary Is destined to be the largest city in Indiana," the steel official declared. "The manufacture of steel is cheaper in the Gary plant than in any other plant in tho world. Gary will be the new Pittsburgh. "The corporation expects Gary to become a city of 230,000, and the city has been so planned and built that it can gracefully accommodate that population. Broadway will be built solid to its southern limits." BALLOT IS STARTED The special commissioners appointed by Judge Reiter to re-count the ballots cast for City Judge in the East Chicago primary election started n their long grind this forenoon. The re-count wae requested by Attorney Michael Havrn who was Just one vote behind Judge Hyman Cohen who received 3.201 according to the East. Chicago election board. The commissioners had not completed the first precinct at noon today. This is by far the largest precinct In the city. Havran there received 2 42 votes and Cohen 522 in the first count. Protests were registered against more than went.y 'ballcits, the two contestants suffering about equal losses. Most of 1 these were due to the faet thaf nniv ' inspector had placed his initials on the outside f the ballot. Several cases were found in which voters had places their initials on the face of the ballot ! while in one instance the voter had put his mark after each of the three candidates names. The recount will probably require the rest of this week, judging from the progress which was made today. At the completion of the count of each rreclnct the disputed ballots which have ben laid aside will be taken up and argued over by the attorneys for the contestants. E. S Contrary to the usual custom, the Ford, which was given to the holder of the lucky ticket at the Ha mmond Moose carnival, went to persons who deserve it. Mrs. H. Collins, 4310 Olcott avenue. East Chicago, whose husband had both legs amputated as a result of an accident six months ago, was the winner. Mrs. Collins held number 2932. Miss Florence Becker of Hammond won the contest for queen of the carnival with a total of 99,250 votes. She received the diamond solitaire. Miss Cecil Abblett won the second prize, a diamond lavalliere. Miss Rupp won third prize, a bracelet watch. Baby Harold Jean Jarchow received the baby lavalliere for winning first place over the big field In the baby show, Saturday night which was the !at of the carnival's engagement was the largest of the week. After striking an unidentified man early Friday morning. Max Morton, 1322 LaSalle street, Chicago, drove the injured and unconscious victim into Chicago to the South Chicago hospital. The accident occurred on Calumet ave nue, near Sheffield road. The man ts believed to be Frank Reed, who lives at 6402 Dorchester avenue, Chicago, but he died yesterday in the Army hospital at Forty-eighth street and Dretfel boulevard without regaining consciousness, so the identification cannot be definitely substantiated at this time. The Chicago police are attempting: to positively establish the dead man's Identity. The victim of the unfortunate accident la described as being about forty years old. five feet six inches tall, weighing about 140 pounds. The hair is brown and there is a bald spot on top. He wore a brown mustache. He is of medium build, and has a light complexion. He wore a dark suit and orersoat, tan shoes and a blue working hirU

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Hay Ogden, whose gambling establish raent was halded last week, was arraigned this morning in the Hammond city court, charged with exhibiting gambling devices. Kay pleaded guilty to the charge and admitted the ownership of the various things taken from his place of business by the police. H was fined $o. The roulette wheel and crap table, as well as the other articles of a gambling nature which were turned over to tho Sheriff. Pete Glanivitich, 909 Indlonapoli? boulevard, was fined $11 for speeding; Kirl E. Nutting. Muncle, Indiana, was fined $15 and Edwin Hipp, Hessvllle, (which mean Hammond now) was finod $11 for the same offense. C. R. Habenicht. "115 niackstono avenue, Chicago, raid $S for being disorderly and Al. King, Indianapolis, paid ?13 and will serve three das in jail for assault and battery. SPIRITS PUT CHEF NITZ IN WRONG STATE Otherwise Fortune Teller Had the Low Down on the West Hammond Official Chief of Police Joseph Nltz of West Hammond today made a tour of ins-pec-tion of the Vcrmolto Shrwg that an showing this week on the circus lot under the auspices of union labor. The police told Clarence Vermelto, owner of the attraction, that everything looked to le all right. The chief who ha,s highly develop.; powers of deduction himself was pleas"1 wiih the fortune teller. Nobody told Hor that she had the honor of catching the aura and scanning the zodiac of so notable a personage a.s the Chief of Police. After glimpsing the gold star with the inscription "Chief of Poliee of West Hammond." the mystic went into n trance and closing her eyes spoke with slow and empressive emphasis. "I see that you are a tnsn of great power and lmportnnce. A congressman or the governor no, net that. An of ficial. A man of vast intellect and yes, yes, an official. I have it now. l have it now. You are the Chief of Police of West Hammond, Indiana." The Chief gapped. "Am I correct'.'" asked the mystic "Remarkable," said the Chief, "except for one thing. You're in the wrong state. It Is Illinois." "Damn them spirit"," ejaculated the fortune teller. "They never did kn"v no geography." LOTZER WANTED IN GENEVA, ILL. John Eotzer. one of the three burglars who escaped from uie Hammond lockup not long age., is in custody In Geneva. Illinois, according to a communication received from the sheriff ol that place by the Hammond police. Eotzer ia wanted on several counts, in that vicinity, so the Hammond police will not get a chance at him for some time, in all probability. Ixitzer was arrested in Hammond with Alex Santcz, another of the escaped men and wa-s charged with participating in the Chandler, Pearson and Lacy robberies. Confessions were obtained from both of them. The Geneva authorities have information which may lead to the arrest of tho other two escaped criminals. They are at present attempting to connect Santcz and John Reed, the third of the Jail breakers, with a series of robberies which have occurred in that vicinity recently. The. three men escaped from the XiAU mond jail on April 20th by breaking up a bench, prying open a rear door of the cell block with the pieces, and sawing through the bars of a window. They covered the noise of the work by singing. The saw is thought to have been brought in by, woman who visited one of the prisoners the day before. GARY RESTAURANTS CUT THEIR PRICES As the result of the war that is being waged in Gary to reduce the exorbitant prices still charged by some of the Gary restaurants announcement was made on Saturday by several proprietors that reductions ranging from 20 to 25 per cent is being made on the entire menu. One of the first restaurants to announce reduction was the Tribune on West Fifth avenue between Washington and Adams street. HAS VIOLENT TEMPER Charging that her husband cured and swore at her and that he has a violent temper which he is not able to control, Mrs. Olive A. Lowe this morning filed suit for divorce from Larry E Lowe in the, Hammond superior court. They were married July 10. 1913. and separated May 15. Mrs. Lowe aska for $1,000 alLmony. the custody of their child and suitable provision for its support. Sheerer & White ar aJJornavg for the plaintiff.

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m 0F EE"" Great Britain Appears, as Plaintiff in Three Different Cases I.EIPPIG, Germany. May 2D. Great Britain appeared as the plaintiff in three cases when the international war criminal trials opened in the supreme court here today. The trial of the German war culprits was hastened by the allied ultimatum of May 6. under which Germany promised to bring them to trial immediately. Three accused Germans announced themselves ready to stand trial at once. They are: Captain Mueller, now an attorney at Karlsruhe, who is accused of cruelty to war prisoners in a detention , camp near St. Quentin. Sergeant Heynem, who is charged with abusing prisoners in the camp at Lceklenburg. Private Neumann, who i3 accused ot treating prisoners brutally in a camp in the Puihr. Mueller, it is taid, refused to provide his camp w ith pro;xr sanitary safeguard. IAPAN SEEKS CONTROL K EVA L. May 23. Japan has been negotiating with the Moscow soviet for several wel.s in an effort to secure control of Kamchatka, and has even offered to withdraw Japanese troops from Vlajvostok as a price tor the concession, according to a stateinint made here loday by Washington 1 ). Yundcrlip of l.os Angeles. Cal., head of the American syndicate which has secured rich commercial concessions in Russia. Mr. Vanderllp said this information had been given to him by George Tehi tcheri n, commissar for foreign affairs in the bolshevik government at Moscow. The soviet according to thi.-! informant refused th Japnntsc overtures. Mr. Vanderlip said he had notified American consul Albrecht at Kalof ot the situation and had asked the consul to notify Washington. TREASURER WILL WITHOLO TAXES Hessville-Hammond Ruling of Moment to County Officials m CROWN POINT, Ind., May 25. Taxes on the 5.200 acres of land south of Standard avenue and east of Hohman street that are rcannexed to Hammond by a decision of the supreme court ot the state, will be withheld by the county treasurer and county auditor until they are shown legal authority for their distribution. Whether this authority must be in the form of a court order or legal opinion from the county attorney has not been decided. Commenting on the victory for the city of Hammond as against the Hessvllle corporation which sought to "grab off" the territory between Oak Hill cemetery and the Little Calumet river. Attorney Joseph Conroy who made the plea before the stats supreme court declared that tho re-an-ncxatlon was of the greatest benefit to the people living in the affected territory as well as Hammond. "The supreme court decision nui nlremoves a barrier that would impede the growth of the city of Hammond but it gives the people who live in the disputed district the benefits of Hammond's schools and public utilities. The assessed valuation of Hammond is substantially increased," declared Attorney Conroy. "According to Mr. Ericsn of the Chicago water works, who has been employed as consulting engineer toj Mayor Hrmi n, Hammond, will he a city of 72,000 in twenty-five years. It is not only vital that the city have the territory that has just been rjeanncied but it must go even further south to accommodate a doubled population."

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r 5 EE NEWS FLASHES (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAG'J, May 23. A new wage scale for railroad employes will be Issued by the United States Railroad I-abor Board mt Wednesday, according to announcement today. Indications were that the reductions, effective July 1, will be substantial. rtNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, May 2 3. I'i ft y-t wo families were made homeless and a hundred girls forced to flee for their lives when tire destroyed seventeen homes and a broom manufacturing plant on the, west side, the fire, started in the Rich & French company's broom factory and spread to a nearby row of dwellings. Twenty girl employes of the broom plant were rescued in sensation;! 1 manner by firemen when cut off by tho flames. ( BULLETIN ) F INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! SI LOAM SPRINGS. Ark., ilay 23 Slashing liis wife's throat with a razor, R. B. Eaton, 45, a farmer, residing near here late yesterday shot to death his 13 year old itepdaughier and then ended his own life with the same weapon. The bodies were found early today on the floor of the living room at Eaton's homo. , (BTJLLXTTN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ) WASHINGTON, May 23. A communication fnun the Japanese government, bearing on the conlroersy over the Isle or Tap. liar, been received bj the stiite department. (BULLETIN) GIRLS TAKE A LONG TRIP TO GET A COCKTAIL CHICAGO. May 23. Allie T. Burton, a 17-ycar old Choctaw Indian girl, ward of the government and owner ot valuable oil leases, and Jessie Hansford, 18, an heiress of Wilburton, Okla.. wanted to see Chicago cabarets and "find out about those drinks called cocktails.'' So they slipped away from the exclusive Forest Park Vnicrsity at St. Louis and bought tick-ts to Chioagj. "We got here April 10.'' Miss Burton said, "and set out to see the sights. It was the first time in our lives we had seen a cabaret, we took in several." W. S. Hansford of Wilhurton. Okla.. grandfather of Miss Hansford, was notified of the girls' departure from the St. Louis school and traced them here. He found them just as they were preparing to dipart for San Francisco. They will start back to St. Louis today. "I'm glad our fling i?t over," Mis? Burton said. "I just had to know what this cabaret life really was and I had to find out about those drinks called cocktails." ONE HURT IN WHITING ACCIDENT SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! WHITING, Ind., May 23. Joseph Rafalo of Baltimore venue. South Chicago, was ejulte painfully injured In an auto collision on Indiana boulevard on Saturday afternoon. Rafalo, who is the contractor building the Gambini building was rising home in a Ford sedan of a friend. Clare Henthorne and Frank Morrison who drove Judge Fetterhoff's car. which they had taken to wash and fn the meantime took a Joy ride passed the Ford sedan on the road. It seems the boys hit the sedan with the rear fender In passing and in some unaccountable way the Ford turned over. Rafalo was badly cut by the breaking glass receiving two contusions on the head and a bad laceration on the hand. He was attended by Dr. Shiinp and later returned to hla horn

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m.TESNATIONAL NFWS SERVICE! N"EW YORK, May 23. The following address was made by President Har-1-ing today at a luncheon given in hi honor at the Academy cf Political Alliance meeting: "Everywhere turn, w note lojt government has In recent time asu"ned a more complex relationship to ttis public than It ever sustained betire. The mobilization of manpower, industrial forces and financial resources, which was made necessary in the war exigencies, have been accomplished only through the exertion of the utmost powers of government. Thos" powers were exerted to the extreme limit and stupendously important results were attained. As a result of that demonstration of government's capacity to force great results in emergencies, there has grown up a school of thought which assumes Uneven in time of peace the same autocratic authority might well ba exercised in the eeneral interest. "Many men thoughtlessly urge that 'governments took over the contra even the conduct of many industries and facilities during the war; there followed a great increase in wages, a vast expansion of business activity; therefore why not assume that continuance of such control and management in time of peace would enable continuance of the same liberality In compensation and profits, the same intense business activity?' "Those who look btlow the surface know that the things which govetn-mt-nts accomplished during the wf were accomplished at a staggering cost; a cost which society could not bear for long; a cost that has left society burdened with , debts whlcn mortgage generations of the future. They know that the feverish seeming to prosperity was not genuine but was possible only because society wag literally burning up its stocks of capital: and that this destruction of capita! was responsible for the reaction nl depression which are now felt universally. In this process the burdens of government were immensely increased and it is for us now to tin means of lightening those burdens. "Government, to a greater extent now than per before, is under obligation to give the greatest service for the lowest possible cost. But it is for certain obvious reasons difficult to -dthis because government is not under the necessity to earn profits, nor te obey laws which regulate competition These are the prime guarantees of efficiency and fair dealing in prlvt business. They do not apply to governmet; and therefore government should be placed, so far as possible under a strict sway of the method? which are applied in private busin to secure these ends. Government should be broad, conscientious and intelligent enough to subject itself '. these rules; despite that its quality r sovereignty would place it beyonl them if It chose to assume that position, Every principle and device which promotes efficiency in privat" busines sshould be adapted and applied in government affairs. I will trust fe public official who decides his publ'.c problem as though it were his very own. "To bring economy and efficiencv into government Is a task second to none in difficulty. Few people in or out of the government, have any conception of the growth of tovtrmni"" business in the last decades before the world war, still fewer at all reali.e the pace to which that growth has been speeded up since the war started. The multiplication of departments; bureaus, divisions, functions, has resu'ed in a .sort of geometrical increase in the tasks which confront the heads "f executive departments when they fac reconstruction problems. They find that with their time already mortgaged in favor of tasks which demand more hours than the clay provides, they must d vise means for doing yet more work, with less money. "Fortunately, the prospect is not . ' hopeless as might appear, because the present organization is not so had bu that the insistent application of a few established principles of sound business organization will result in immediate economies and provide a margin of available means to meet new demands. The party in power Is pledged to economy and efficiency and you nny be assured that energy is being directed to redeem that pledge to the ,r degree and with all promptness "The problem has been vastly complicated and increased as a result or the war. The pr-.ent congress has ' ready provided for a Joint committer on the reorganization of the administrative branch of the government. A representative of the executive wui serve with this committee, so th it there is now in progress a thorough study of th whole problem. The tk will require time and ultimate results must await it. More, it will demand a resolute courage to effect the abolition of the useless and the cr-ord'nat!' n of the useful. "But meanwhile we shall, I trus, have a budget system in operation u-i:-der the law. before the opening of the new fiscal year. This is a long tcp toward Introducing into government the sound methods that great privato business establishments have adopted. I need not emphasize to you gentlemen to the anamoulous situation of the government heretofore In having a great number of spending committees, apportioning money t barlous purposes without any j-tudy of the relationship bit ween these various p:tposts and regardless of the relationship of these aggregated spending to the revenue in sight. No business, '-.in humblest household, could be thus con. ducted without leadin lntfl, disinter,