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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND,. TUESDAY, JAN. 2, 1923.
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Modernizing the Battle Fleet. "The request the president has made of con
gress for a supplemental appropriation of $6,-
500,000 to medernize our battleships and make the fleet as effective as possible under the terms
of the armament treaty, is modest in comparison with the amount Great Britain is spending t increase the efficiency of her navy", says the
Indianapolis Star. "If America is to maintain a fleet equal to that of Britain and superior to Japan's, in accordance with the 5-5-3 rjatio, it
must provide the first-line ships with the modern equipment evolved, from the experiences of
the war. For a time there was a senseless demand for a fleet superior to any afloat; but now a pacifist tendency has developed which may reduce the navy to third place unless congress heeds the advice of government experts. "When the senate naval committee wTas considering the naval appropriation bill evidence was presented showing the marked superiority which modernization already had given the British fleet. New devices placed on their 15inch guns had given the main fleet a range of .30,000 yards, against a maximum of 20,000 i yards for the all American battleships except
the five most recent superdreadnoughts. The
British ships also have been equipped with
"blister" anti-torpedo construction and their decks armored against airplane bombs and high angle -fire. The British expended as much as $4,000,000 on a single ship. "The ultimate cost of making more effective the ships which will be left under the Washington treaty will be at least $30,000,000, but the $6,500,000 requested will permit the more urgent alterations. When naval estimates were
under consideration in the budget bureau and later before the house appropriations subcom
mittee, funds were asked for a limited program,
beginning at once, on making over the battleships to be retained by the treaty. The items
presented called for the conversion of coal-burn
ing battleships of the 14-inch gun type to oil
burners and the installation of 5-inch anti-air
craft guns to replace the present . 3-inch guns
on all battleships. The items were eliminated
both in the budget and by the committee.
'The change from coal to oil as fuel is vital
! in increasing the fleet's effective radius of ac
tion, while the installation of larger guns in the
anti-aircraft batteries will double the effective
ness of the defense against aerial attack. Most important of all is the necessity of extending the range of the big guns to equal that of other fleets. Naval officers have asserted that under present conditions it would be necessary for the American fleet to close in five miles under fire, before it could bring one of itsown guns into
action. The British also have made alterations
permitting the elevation of turret guns to an an
gle of 30 degrees, compared with the present
limitation of 12 degrees."
UNTOLD YOUR PERSONALITY By George Matthew Adams
The most natural feeling for anyone is to be free to he free to think, act and grow. The inventor lives a very happy life for he is continually unfolding his ideas. And as he does it, he reveals new things that come with all their thrills and inspirations. That method of education is best which allows the child to unfold naturally and happily along lines that stimulate its own personality. A great book enables the mind to unfold and to play in new fields. A well acted play appeals to the imagination and acts upon the mind aid heart alike. A good listener permits himself to unfold in the presence of his informer silently. I never grow tired of watching the leaves of spring unfold. "Way down in my soul, I imagine that I hear their soft song as they burst into the sunshine. And then later when the bud appears and finally the exquisitely colored flower what an unfolding J What a soothing influence comes over us when we unfold oar aims or desires, or even troubles, to some friend who is able to appreciate our feelings and match their sympathy and cheer with ours. But perhaps the most useful unfolding is to unfold yourself to yourself! Do this naturally and with an earnest desire t,o betrue to your best instincts, and you cannot help but reflect this unfolding to those who love you most. Unfold, during this new year and may it be a happy unfolding all the way through! ,
Answers to Questions (Anv reader can pet the answer to anv question bv writing1 The Palladium Information Bureau. Frederick J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau does not give advice on legal, medical and financial matters: It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject- Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and enclose two cents in stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer. Q. Just what i3 a "frontier"? E. C. D. A. Technically, the frontier is the long, narrow, advanced strip of forward-moving civilization which contains more than two people and less than six people to the square mile. ; Q. When were office holders first assessed for campaign purposes? H. II. S. A. In 1S31 the salaries ofr office holders were occasionally assessed for party purposes and within a few years
Ihe practice was wen esiaunsneu. Q. How should one paint a plastered house? O. D. C. A. The Paint Manufacturers' assoViation says that the painting of a plastered house is practically the same as
i painting a wooden house, except that if the plaster is new, the paint will not hold unless it is first treated with a solution of 6 ounces of zinc sulphate to ithe gallon of water. Q. What is the smaller number of acres that constitutes a farm? W. N. A The Bureau of Census says that in their farm statistics, the smallest farms are three acres, except smaller plots which had over $250 worth of products a year. t. When was the Boer war? S. G. A. This was lasted from 1S33 to Q. When the original Confederation "as formed was it contemplated that additional states would be brought into ihe Union? W. A. K. A. Whatever the original idea may Lave been, congress in 1780, in order to persuade the states having claims on territories, west of the Alleghanies or elsewhere, not included within their confines, to relinquish such claims, promised that it would not hold land entrusted to it as subject territory, but would erect it into states of moderate size as rapidly as population should warrant This promise has been kent 32 times by the government.
Aside from Maine, Vermont and Florida, all. the states in addition to the
original 13 have ben created in. accordance with it. q. What was the greatest diplomatic triumph of the United States? S. D. O. . A. The French Alliance of 1778 and the treaty of peace with England in 1S72, are generally regarded as the greatest diplomatic triumphs in the history of our relations with other nations. O. How much does the earth weigh? J. I. W. A. The weight of the earth is estimated to be 6,000 billions of billions of tons.
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After Dinner Tricks
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Civil Service Reform Plans Three Million Civilian Public Employees With Combined Salaries of $3,000,000,000 Supported by Public.
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AGNES MAUDE ROYDEN Agnes Maude Koyden, England's only woman preacher, is coming to this country to lecture. TW3 will be Miss Hoyden's second visit to the
rt"5j7jr"-v United States, for
she made a flying trip last spring to speak at the national convention of the Young Women's Christian asso ciation at Hot Springs, Ark. Miss Iioyden is the daughter of Sir Thomas Royden, first baronet of Frankby Hall, Birkenhead. She w a s educated at
Cheltenham Ladies' I College and Lady j Margaret Hall, Ox-! ford. She worked !
at the Victoria Women's Settlement
in Liverpool for three years and later at the country parish of Luffenham. She first attracted attention when as editor of the Common Caus she ably furthered the non-militant suffrage movement in England. She edited the Common Cause until 1914. Miss Eoyden was lecturer in English literature to the Oxford University Extension Delegacy. She wrote and spoke chiefly on the economic, ethical and religious aspects of the women's movement Many of her works have been published either in pamphlet or book form. Miss Royden is assistant preacher at the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, London. She is 46 years old and her favorite recreation is boating, swimming or amateur theatricals. She is expected to arrive in New York about the middle of January, and she will start her tour, which is to last two months, almost immediately. She will lecture nearly every every day and sometimes twice a day. She will give seventy-two lectures at twenty-five Y. W. C. As.
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a - After a recent feminine athletic event in-which the beautiful contestants were dressed in gj-imclothes, one paper said that the champion of the class didn't make a good showing, but I was there, and I thought she did!
Some young ladies marry a phonograph, a gas range and a globe of goldfish while others wait until they can land somebody with money.
Bonar Law says America found her soul in the war. She also came well heeled.
Arid Bey, the new Turkish officiail, out to make a great prohibition enforcement agent
By FREDERICK J. HASK1X WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 2. If every man and woman receiving salaries out of funds collected from American tax payers were marshalled la a great parade for review by the president, the line might move on down Pennsylvania avenue every working hour of every working day for a month and at the end of that time the last of the marchers would, not yet have come into view.
If the army and .the navy were included, nearly six weeks would be required for the parade, to pass a given
point in regular formation, according to estimates made by army officers. The civilian employes of the federal, state and local governments, taken by themselves, would require over SO days. The number of civilian public employes in the United States, according to figures submitted at a recent convention of the National Civil Service Reform league : in Washingtok,- is 3,000,000. One person out of ('very seven families in the country is sup
ported at least in part from prublic
funds. The combined salaries of civil service employes amount to some $3,000,'
OOp.OOO annually, a sum nearly equal
to the whole cost of the entire federal government for the next fiscal year, and several times greater than the total of government expenditures in any one year prior to the war. After a careful survey, experts of the Civil Service Reform league estimated that fully one-fourth of the $3,000,000,000 paid annually to civilian public servants throughout the United States is wasted. Part of this waste takes place in the federal government, but by far the greatest proportion occurs in state and local governments.
Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today
County commissioners appointed Dr. J. M. Fonts, physician at the Wayne county infirmary. John C. Darnell was appointed court house engineer; Dr. Stephen C. Markley, jail physician; Dr. S. Edgar Bond, physician at Home for friendless women; John S. Markley and Lindley Swain, courthouse janitors; and Albert Brown, janitor of first floor. Election of guard for the insane and county attorney was deferred until January 6, 1913.
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SPEAKING OF PLANS I like to talk about my plans, of things I mean to do; I'll overhaul my twin sedans, which now refuse to choo; I plan to paint my picket fence, which is quite shabby now, and build, regardless of expense, a stable for the
cow. I plan a hundred useful things, before the season goes, and so I walk around in rings and tell what I propose. My neighbors paint their fences pink, and haven't much to say, and when their cars are on the blink, they fix them in a day. At useful tasks they ply their tools, they put up wood to burn, they grease their pigs and wash their mules, manipulate the churn- And when I call to show blue prints of schemes I'll soon make whiz, they are not backward with their hints that I'm uninished biz. I never seem to get in touch with, big results,
After Dinner Stories One of the daughters of an American man of letters possesses literary gifts, and also a genius for critical biography. She had her first poem accepted by a magazine and was exulted. "Now," said she, "there will be two conceited persons in the family." American Legion Weekly.
Ebenezer Washington was up before the city recorder for being drunk. The judge lopked at him for a moment and said, "You have been up here for being dTunk, Ebenezer, twice, and seeing you are an old man, I am going to let you off with a fine of $5. Now see that you don't come here again. It's the road if you do." The old jRjcgro thanked him and walked out of the court room. The next morning Ebenezer was up in court again for bein? drunk. His
'case was called. The judge looked at
him reprovingly and remarked: "Ebenezer, I told you not to come up here again and here you are. Have you anything to say?" The old negro looked up and replied: "No, sah, jodge, only dat dis am de eame drunk."
Of the total of 3,000,000 civilian public employes, the federal government pays the salaries of only 600,000. The Civil Service Reform league set itself the task at its December convention of bringing about the saving of as much as possible of the $700,000,000 of annual wastage. Until this time the league, since its establishment 42 years ago, has devoted its principal attention to the extension and protection of the merit principle throughout the civil service. This principle requires that all candidates for appointive positions undergo competitive examinations and that the appointments be given to the persons standing highest in 6uch examinations. The opposite of the merit system of appointment and promotion is the spoils system, under which offices paid for by the public are given by politicians to po
litical workers as regards for campaign services. . Plan to Extend Merit System The merit system, naturally, has a prominent place in the league's program for preventing the present wastage in the federal, state, and local civil services. In 33 of the 48 states, there is as yet no adequate legislation
embodying the merit principle. The league will undertake during the coming year to secure such legislation in some states, and in others to secure merit system amendments to state constitutions. The states in which the
league's principal efforts will be cen
tered during 1923 are Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kentucky, Indiana, and Virginia. The civil service system has often
been said to retain "dead wood" in the various governmental services. It is notable, therefore, that the first principle set out in the Civil Service Reform league's program calls for "the
elimination of useless places and of in
competent and unfit public employes."
fctress is laid upon the Importance
of paying adequate salaries and of
equal pay for equal work to the competent employes remaining in the ser
vice after a general housecleaning has
been effected. Only the most capable
of these employes should thereafter be
promoted, and promotion as the result
of political pull should be abandoned
Modern employment methods should
be introduced throughout govern
mental departments, the league" declares, and to this end adequate appropriations should be made for the work of the Federal, State and local civil service commissions. The league calls upon congress to enact legislation which will require the appointment of the 10,000 presidential postmasters on a strict merit basis. Under President Harding's executive order of May 10, 1921, applicants for postmasterships are required to undergo examinations, but the postmaster general is permitted to select any We of the three standing highest in the examination, instead of the man at the head of the list. This system almost invariably results according to officers of the league, in political selections.
The postmaster general is quoted, in fact, as having said that "other things being equal, or nearly equal" he would always appoint a Republican, if there was one among the first three. Congress is urged also to pass legislation placing under the civil service law assistant secretaries of the departments, collectors and deputy collectirs of internal revenue, United States marshals and their deputies, the employes of the tariff commission, shipping board, veterans bureau, federal reserve board, federal trade commission, federal farm loan board and also legislative employes. Prohibition Enforcement Question The question that received the greatest attention during the recent convention of the league was that of prohibition enforcement The report submitted by the council of the league declared that many of the scandals in
the prohibition enforcement service are directly traceable to the fact that
enforcement agents are appointed un
der the spoils system. When the Volstad act was passed the requirements
of the civil Ervice law as affecting en
forcement agents were waived. The result has been, according to officials
or the league, that .political workers, men who in many cases lack any sympathy with the purpose of the eighteenth amendment, have been appointed. The first essential to adequate enforcement of prohibition according to the report of the council of the league, is the enactment of legislation providing that all enforcement officials be appointed directly on merit, as shown in competitive examinations. The senate civil service committee
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reported a bin to this end while the league'? convention was in progress, but the league refused to endorse the proposed legislation for the reason that it would cover in the entire present force without examination, and the league contends that the force is made up entirely of spoils appointees. Until these spoils appointees have been eliminated, the league declared, scan.' dais in th prohibition enforcement unit will continue to multiply. Another problem attacked by the league is that created by the various veteran preference laws. These laws . require the appointmnt of veterans of the World war after any examination in which a veteran secures a mark of 65. The lowest pasing mark for nonveterans is 70. Forty-five thous;irrd veterans of the World war have been appointed to places in the federal service since the first preference provision was enacted as a rider t;o an appropriation bill in 1919. Unless the veteran preference laws are repealed, the league contends, it will be only a
matter of time until the entire federal service is filled with veterans, a large proportion of them of inferior capacity to the non-veterans who might otherwise be appointedd. The league was instrumental in securing the defeat oi a preference lay in New York, but its officials are not very hopeful of earlj action by congress.
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