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The International Water
Commission
One of the most interesting announcements In re
cent weeks is that the American section of the in
ternational water commission will meet at Wash
ington early in April to assemble data on the Rio
Grande, Colorado and Tia Juana, and that a joint
meeting of the American and Mexican sections is ex
pected to be held in late April or early May to pre
pare a tentative draft for an American-Mexiean
treaty covering distribution of the waters of the in
ternational streams.
The Rio Grande Valley for many years has been
looking forward to the time when the treaty of Guad
alupe Hidalgo would be succeeded by a new treaty
setting out in detail the respective rights of the
United States and Mexico to the waters of the Rio
Grande It was with this object in view that the
American section of the present International wa»er
commission was created by act of congress in 1924,
the bill bel '.g sponsored by Congressman John N.
Gamer.
The Valley has been very fortunate in the fact
that W. E. Anderson. San Benito engineer, was made
a member of that commission upon the unanimous
request of Valley interests. Fewr men have made a
more intensive study of the Rio Grande and the prob
lems of the Valley in their relation to that stream.
Upon him has fallen the duty of collecting the major
portion of the data which will be considered by the
American section early in April and which will be
the basis upon which the tentative pact will be ne- ,
gotlated between the two republics.
The Mexican section, like the American section, is
composed of engineers who have made a study of
the water resources of the border country and who
will approach the many complex problems Involved
with a view to arriving at a definite conclusion pred
icated upon a basis which will be eminently fair to
the interests of both countries. It is one of the few
commissions ever organized by either government in
which the political factor has been completely elimi
nated. and this fact enhances the confidence which
the border people of both countries repose in that
commission.
Ratification of a treaty with Mexico based upon
fin equitable distribution of the waters of the inter
national streams will assure the basis for additional
development of the Lower Rio Grande Valley's re
sources through conservation of Rio Grande waters.
It will be the foundation for development upon a
scale such as no agricultural area In the United
Elates has witnessed. It is safe to predict that nego
tiation and ratification of the treaty will be followed
by a conservation program that will assure ample
water for practically every irrigable acre on the
1 lower Rio Grande, eliminating a condition and prob
lem which for the past decades has been one of the
greatest handicaps to Valley irrigation development.
A New Central Texas in
the Making
There is a new Texas In the making It is to be
a Texas of dairy farms, creameries and condensers of
milk products. It is to be a Texas of polltrj farms
to be followed by the great dividends which fall into
the pockets of the people engaged in these wealth
making industries in many of the most flourishing
American commonwealths.
Waco won the great Borden plant. Now the
Carnation plant goes to Schulenburg. which has been
1 selected as the site of the Caarnation Milk Products
I company of Wisconsin, a $30,000,000 corporation as
the first of its Texas condensaries. to be built at a
cost of $500,000.
According to the officials of this erreat Wisconsin
corporation the Schulenburg plant will be in opera
f tion by July 15. After that date an estimated 150,000
pounds of fresh milk will be handled daily during
the first year of operation of the plant, thus afford
ing an outlet of dairv products worth more than a
million dollars.
In the Texas of yesteryear it was cotton and com.
All this has passed or rather is passing away.
The Texas of today is a Texas of the cow and the
sow and the hen and the Texas of tomorrow will take
front rank in the magnitude of the output of the
three dividend makers and the wealth that accrues
from the success of these industries which have made
the farmers of Wisconsin and other northern states
; the most prosperous of all the tillers of the soil un
der American skies.
Texas and the Shipping Board
The joint resolution passed by the Texas legisl
ature recommending the appointment of W. E. Lea
cf Orange as a member of the Texas shipping board,
should have the endorsement not only of Texas but
also of every state in the Union.
Development of the Texas Gulf coast harbors
have placed this state second in total tonnage ex
ported. the record for 1928 showing over 40.000.000
tons moved from Texas ports, which was surpassed
only by New York. The Gulf ports of Texas export
a greater tonnage than all the Atlantic ports com
bined after leaving out the port of New York, and
there Ls every indication that the remarkable growth
if Texas ports in recent years will continue for many
7ears to come.
Both Alabama and Louisiana have been honored
by appointments to the federal shipping board, and
there can be no criticism of the southern men who
have served on that body. But Texas, with its string
of ten ports handling an ever Increasing volume of
tonnage, is entitled to and should have representa
tion on that body.
From the Sabine to the Rio Grande development
of port facilities is under way upon a scale far sur
Ipaassing that of New England or the lower sections
passing that of New England or the lower sections
felt throughout the entire southwest, providing out
let* for the surplus production of a region in which
the agricultural and mineral resources are being de
veloped with a rapidity never before witnessed in
the history of the American nation. Texas, New
Mexico, Colorado. Oklahoma. Arkansas—the great
\ empire of the southwest—depend upon Texas port
development to provide the avenues through which
their ever-increasing production will find outlets to
profitable markets.
W. E. Lea of Orange. Texas, has made a life study
of Texas ports, and has been prominently identified
with development of several, along the Texas coast
from Orange to Corpus Christi. He knows their po
tentialities and problems; he is familiar with the va
rious sections they are designed to serve and the
part they are destined to play in the development of
southwestern resources. A man of his qualifications
on the federal shipping board would prove an inval
uable asset not only to the southwest but to the en
tire country.
President Hoover has indicated that in the selec
tion of men for the various boards and commissions
he desires to secure those who through years of serv
ice and study have familiarized themselves with the
problems and details of the respective departments
in which they will serve. In other words, he has in
dicated a policy founded upon efficiency rather than
political expediency, and if this policy is followed out
the shipping board will be composed of men who,
like W. E. Lea of Orange, are fully qualified by years
cf experience to discharge the duties of their offi
cial positions.
Sen, Joe Moore’a Pet Bill
Senator Joe Moore put over a bill which creates
the Twelfth supreme judicial district and placed a
new court of appeals in Greenville. Hunt county.
Senator Moore is publisher of an important newspa
per and is a lawyer as well as a lawmaker.
His bill creates an appellate district composed of
the counties of Hunt. Fannin. Delta. Hopkins Kauf
man. Van Zandt. Rockwall and Dallas. The county
of Dallas is also in the fifth district, being the only
county In Texas in two supreme judicial districts.
Senator Moore’s measure provides for appeals to
the Dallas court during the first six months of each
year. That will be the procedure If the governor ap
proves the bill.
But will he approve it? Former Senator E. G.
Senter of Dallas Is for the dismantling of all the civil
courts of appeals. He is the only Texan In the field
who is a candidate for the democratic nomination for
governor in 1930. Abolition of all the 12 courts is the
platform the Dallas senator has announced to the
public and on which he will run while the running is
good.
If the veto axe falls unon the bill and beheads it
the senator from Hunt will be disappointed. Those
who are close to the governor predict that the axe
may fall.
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Who remembers when a woman's hat looked like
a clover pasture in daisy time, with doves nesting on
the boundary line?—Arkansas Gazette.
An automobile expert believes that cars will soon
be run by radio. Just add an attachment that will
inflate a flat tire and we are sold.—Florence Herald.
Mr. Coolidge, no doubt, will be greatly relieved to
be able to visit the old New England farm without
dressing the part and pitching hay.—Trenton Eve
ning Times.
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By H. I. PHILLIPS
A NERVOUS SCOFFLAW FACES THE COURT
UNDER THE JONES LAW
NEW YORK. March 25.—Scene; A court house
lobby. Characters; Eric Beegle. a timid citizen, ar
rested for having a flask of rye. Mrs. Beegle, his
wife. George Spelvin. a lawyer.
Beegle (very frightened): Well, goo'bye all.
Mrs. Beegle: Don't talk like that, Eric. You might ;
at least wait until you're before the court.
Beegle (with deep emotion): I forgive everybody.
Give my gold watch to Uncle Willis.
Mrs. Beegle: Please, don't go on like that.
Spelvin: Cheer up, Eric, ol* boy. You're taking it i
too seriously.
Beegle (angrily); How do you know I'm taking it |
too seriously? This Jones act is a new law and no
body knows yet what a judge may give a guy un
der it.
Spelvin: I've studied the act thoroughly and so
far as I can see there is no provision under which
they can hang you.
Beegle: How about shooting?
Spelvin: Aw. they can't shoot you. That's only for
second offense!
Beegle (in a cold sweat i: How do I know they
won't charge me with a second offense?
Mrs. Beegle: I'm sure they won't shoot you. dear, j
Now just cheer up. And. anyway. I've got some good
news for you.
Beegle: What is it?
Mrs. Beegle: I clipped it from a paper. It says
that two men tried yesterday under the Jones law got
off with only forty years at hard labor and a fine
of.
Beegle (hysterically): Go away! Scat! Out!
Spelvin: Lemme see the clipping ... I thought
• so . . . It's a typographical error. Phobably what it
' means is four years, 'not forty.
Beegle (frenziedly): PROEABLY? Ain't you any
more certain than that? Suppose it's not no typo
graphical error?
Spelvin: You have nothing to worry about unless
we get a judge who wants to make an example of
somebody. The judge in this court made examples
of several people yesterday and I am in hope he will
feel this is enough and will relent a little. If. on the
contrary, he gives you the maximum sentence, we can
ask for a stay of execution. . . .
Beegle (turning ashen* Agh-h-h-h-h-! ....
Execution? . . . That's it ... So long everybody!
Mrs. Beegle: Don't take on so. Eric . . . What
ever happens I will stick by you to the last.
Beegle: To the last! . . . Hear that. now!
Mrs. Beegle: I didn't mean it that way. d°ar.
What I meant was that if you get any long prison
| term I would see that vou had nice warm clothing
land had your laundry done regularly and got some
home-cooking and ....
Eeegle: Aw. keep still. You're only making it
worse.
Spevlin: As I was saying, it all depends cn the
judge.
(At this point 4 ferocious looking man sweeps
through the lobby and enters the court. He has
heavy black eyebrows, a must-ache of unusual wing
spread and a bulldog chin. His appearance awes
everybody).
Beegle 'after the man had entered the court
room): Who's that?
Spelvin: That's the judge.
(Beegle swoons with a low moan).
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CHAPTER LVIII
The following day Andy made no
reference to their conversation. He
took up the routine of his work and
Betty did the same. She was apa
thetic, doing her work mechanically.
At noon Andy called her into his
office and said: *Tm taking the aft
ernoon off to make some prepara
tions for going away tomorrow
night. If you feel as I do, you can
do the same thing when your work
is done.''
“Thank you. I would like to go,”
answered Betty. In half an hour
she left the office. For half an hour
or more she sat on a bench in the
park. Then she rose grimly,
and started for George Harris’ res
taurant.
“George,” she began. "I want you
to- get in your car and go for a ride
with me.
“I’m sorry, Betty, but I’m very
busy. I haven’t time.”
“George, please! You must take
time. I must talk to you about
something which affects your life
and mine. I must talk to you to
day.”
“Why. certainly, Betty,” he re
plied. ‘ Soon as 1 get my hot.
“Drive to some quiet place and
stop,” she commanded, when they
were in the car. He drove to the
river road and stopped within a few
yards of where she and Andy had
sat the night before.
“What Is it. Betty?” he asked.
“You can depend on me. Past ac
tions indicate that.”
“Yes. George. I know,” answered
Betty, a bit impatiently. “But,
George. I am going to be absolute
ly frank with you.
“That is always best,” he agreed.
"Honesty is the best policy.”
“George, you have been the best
friend I ever had. I’m not forget
ting all you did for me when my
parents died. I shall never forget
it. You advised me against danc
ing in public, but that did not stop
you from stepping in and taking
care of me when dancing got me
into trouble. Then you gave me a
position, and made it possible for
me to go to business school.
“This business education gave me
a chance to be Andy Adair's secre
tary. One or two things I have
never told you. Georce I never told
you that the night I was hurt I was
cuddled in Andy Adair’s arms, and
he had proposed to furnish a flat
for me and carry one of the keys.
I didn't consent, but I think that I
would have had it not been for the
accident. I was out of work, out of
money, and I liked Andy better than
anvone else.
“I said I liked him T know now
that I loved him That was why I
listened to his proposition. The only
reason I am a good girl is because
of that accident. At least. I think
so. I have to be honest. George.
“There is another thine. The rea
son Andv never came to the hospital
was because he had concussion of
the brain and was not out for
months. Then he went to the hos
pital and couldn’t find me. After
wards he went to my old room and
couldn’t locate me He supposed I
had left town.
“In his office h® has been verv
nice. I have eone out to dinner and
to dance with him twice. On one
of these occasions h° introduced mp
to his father and his mother. His
mother invited me to thnir house for
■ dinner.
“Since that time. George. Andv
| has pronosed to me. He wants me
' to marry him Don't speak until
II am through!” George opened his
mouth, but closed it again.
“I have never forgotten what you
did for me, George. I tell you
I fvanklv I’m not in love with you
! I wouldn't be fair to tell you other
! wise. But I admire you more than
snvone I know, except, possibly
Andv.
T have known for years that you
expected to marry me. I remember
when you gave me the little type
writer. I gave you a note, all you
wanted in the way of assurance. I
know you have kept it. Now. George,
I am ready to keep my obligation. I
wish, if you don't mind, that yo.
would marry me right away!*’
‘‘But Betty—”
‘One thing more!” She inter
rupted him. “I will be a good wife
to 3'ou. George. I want to be mar
ried right away, so I can get away
from Andv's office. It isn’t good for
me to remain there after he has pro
posed I don't want to take another
position now.”
“Betty, this is frightfully embar
rassing!” said George. “I don't
know what to say.”
“Oh, I know w-hat you mean!”
Betty laughed hysterically. “You
think I am horrid, for I have just
proposed to you. But. George, things
are different than they usually are.
I know you love me.”
“Er. yes. I love you, Betty, but not
in the way you think. It is an un
selfish love and—”
“Dont’ be silly, George. I know
you are going to offer yourself as
a sacrificial lamb! You shall do
nothing of the kind! You are going
to marry me, and do it right away."
“But, Betty, what am I to do? I
am engaged to marry Mary Roberts,
my head waitress!”
Betty looked at him a moment
aghast. Then she broke into hys
terical screams of laughter. She
grabbed George around the neck
and kissed him half a dozen times
before he could pull away.
“Oh. Betty. I'm so sorry about it
all!” he cried. "Please don't get
hysterical. I didn't know’ you cared
for me that wav. But you know me.
I keep my obligations. Mary and I
have been planning for some time
to get married. We are going to
open a branch and Mary will—"
“Oh. George!” laughed Betty.
“You don’t know how funny you
look! Please don’t be scared. I’m
not going to abduct you!” She
laughed again as George looked at
her. low'er jaw- dropped. “I'm sc
glad I don't know7 what I’m doing!”
“Glad of it, and you in love with
me?”
“I tried awfully hard not to tell
j’ou I was in love with Andy! You
dear old goose, don’t you see that I
can marry Andv now. and that’s
what I wanted all the time? T would
marry you because you had been so
good to me. I thought you ^wanted
me!” She grabbed and kissed him
again.
“I think 3'ou better not do that,
right here on the open road, in day
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light.” George looked around fear- •
fully. “But I'm glad to know that
I was mistaken. I had nover thought
cf you in that way, Betty. I'm glad
Andy Adair is to marry you. He was
once a bit wild, but you will be a
good influence in his life. He will
be a rich man some day, Betty. I
congratulate you.”
“I congratulate you. too. George!”
She clapped her hands. ‘ Oh. drive
back to town quickly, George, or I
will kiss you again. Can I go in
and congratulate Mary? She has
always been jealous of me!”
“I don't think that Mary would I
harbor any such unworthy feelings
as that, Betty." said George.
“George. Mary is a read-headed
woman. You better watch your,
step! No more deceiving trusting)
young girls like me into thinking I
you are in love with them or Mary
will get you!”
“Why, Betty. I hardly see how you
can accuse me of trying to deceive
you. I had not such thought!”
“No. I knew, George. But you are
a fascinating devil and you should
be careful!" She laughed wildly.
George looked at her wonderingly.
In the restaurant she sought out
the head waitress, and taking her to
one side, congratulated her heartily,
kissing her as she did so. There
could be no doubt in the girl's mind
that Betty was in earnest.
“I was always a little jealous of
you. Betty,” said the girl, finally.
“You mistook mv relations with
George, Mary. We are like brother
and sister. He told me about his
engagement to you, after I told him
I was to marry Andy Adair. I
kissed George for the first time in
my life when he told me you and he
were to be married. I embarrased
him to death!”
“When he marries me he is in for
a lot of embarrassment, then!” said
the head waitress, laughing. “I'll
take a lot of kissing!”
The two laughed and kissed each
other again. Betty went away from
the restaurant trying hard not to
dance. She went home imediately.
forgetting her dinner, and called
Andy's house. The maid who re
plied said that Mr. Andy was out for
the evening. She had no idea when
he would come in.
Betty had to content herself with
waiting until the following day to
talk to Andy.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
CRIPPLED MAINE MAN
OPERATES BIG FARM
EAST LIVERMORE, Me., March
25.—i/Ti—Although an accident in
the woods eight years ago cost Stan
ley H Morrison one leg and rend
ered the other useless, he still runs
a 180-acre farm and has devised en
terprising methods of merchandis
ing.
Mr. Morrison uses a wheel chair
which carries him about the house
and on which he can descend to his
piazza or the ground.
The coming of his disaster was at
first a severe setback to this active
man who had alreadv transformed
the farm, his familv homestead,
into a vastly improved place.
He cast about for new ideas. The
canning business appeared to be an
opening. He installed equipment
which he has expanded. Last year
the jelly he put up amounted to 18
tons. In addition, he puts up mipce
m«*st from his own recipe, apples for
apple pies, tomatoes, mustard
pickles, sweet and sour pickles and
other farm products.
Low or medium producing cows
that are in good flesh should be
dry’ from 4 to 6 weeks. Thin cows
may need a somewhat longer per
iod. High producers should be dry
for two months or more to get Into
good condition for calving.
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By RICHARD G. MASSOCK
NEW YORK. March 25 —Regard
less of fame that associates stars
with the incandescent highway, the
home-town tag still clings to some
of Broadway's notables.
Will Rogers has helped spread
the name of Claremore, Okla, al
most as widely as his own. and out
in Genesee Depot, Wis.,'it is said,
the station agent keeps a scrap
book of clippings that record the
career of Alfred Lunt, who used to
play around the depot.
Washington calls Helen Hayes its
own; Milwaukee and New Ulm,
Minn., claim Lenore Ulric; Urbana,
111., turns out when Chic Sale pass
es through on a vaudeville tour,
and Wausau, Wis., is proud of
Charles Winninger, the Cap'n Andy
of “Show Boat.”
The press agent tells of once
visiting Wausau to announce the
coming of Harry Laduer. He was
a very enthusiastic lauder himself,
so he poured out superlatives in
the first place he entered, which
happened to be a drug store. After
a few minutes he noticed one na
tive who was unimpressed by the
torrent of praise.
"Say,” he asked, "have you ever
heard Harry Lauder?”
"No." said his hearer, “and what’s
more I don't want to."
“What? You don't want to hear
the greatest Scotch comedian on
earth?”
“No sir; I’ve already heard one
who's better.”
"And who in the world is that?"
“Why. Charley Winninger. of
course.”
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“MY KINGDOM FOR A TITLE”
George Jean Nathan, the dra
matic critic, who never before has
been at a loss for a title, is puz
zling over one for his first novel, to
be published in the fall. Titling
is Nathan's specialty. He laveled
"The American Mercury” and all
the books of Thvra Samter Win
slow. Heretofore he has always
had the titles for his own books
before he wrote them. He com
pleted the novel, however, before he
began thinking of a name for it.
and now that it’s finished he has
thought of several. Some days the
choice is between two possibilities,
on others four or five come to
him. He hones to make a selec
tion before May. when he Is due
Brownsville Man
Chosen Traveler
Association Head
A. C. Hipp of Brownsville was
elected president of Post A. the
Valley district of the Travelers’ Pro
tective Association of America, at a
meeting Sunday in the Travelers
hotel.
Plans to attend the state conven
tion in Beaumont, May 10-11, and
the national convention In Detroit. (
June 11-16, were formulated. The'
Texas division expects to show a
membership of 10,000 by June, the
present membership numbering
9.875.
The Valley district has made a
substantial gain during the past
year, its membership being in
creased to 285.
Other officers and committees
elected Sunday follow.
First vice president, Joe J. Pute
gnat. Brownsville: second vice pres
ident. Wm. T. Jennings, Browns
ville: third vice president. F. E.
MacManus, Brownsville; fourth
vice president. E. B. Tabor. Browns
ville; fifth vice president. Lester O.
Neal. McAllen; secretary, A. M.
Jessup. Brownsville: state dreictor.
John F. Sanders. Harlingen; alter
nate state director. Joe J. Putegnat,1
Brownsville.
Delegates to state convention: A.
C. Hipn. Brownsville, John F. San
ders. Harlingen.
Alternate delegates to state f,on
vention: Lester O'Neal. McAllen;
J. D Ireland, Brownsville
Delegate to national convention,
J. F. Sandprs. Harlingen
Alternate delegate to national
convention, Harl R. Thomas, San
Benito.
Chairman of committees:
Railroad. A. L. Brooks. Harlingen;
publicity. A. M. Jessup. Brownsville;
hotel. Leroy K. Morris. Brownsville;
legislative. R J. Wright. Browns
ville: employment. Chester De
Bardeleben. Brownsville: good roads
and public utility, Brownsville:
membershin. John F. Sanders. Har
lingen: waterways. Geo. A. Toolan,
San Benito; chaplain. O. W. Tucker.
Santa Rosa.
to sail on his annual vacation
abroad.
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TECHNIQUE
Police Commissioner Whalen and
George E. WTorthington. an investi
gating committee's secretary, agree
that vice is prevalent in night clubs
that exploit hostesses. An unoffi
cial investigator reports to me the
way in which these hostesses are
paid.
Their job ostensibly is to sing
and dance and make themseivee
generally agreeable, but really to
promote the spot's beverage bus
iness. After their turn on the floor
they sit at the tables and drink
with their customers. For earn
drink they take themselves, they
receive a commission of 25 cents.
Obviously too many swallows
w-ould limit their earning capacity.
So when they order Scotch or rye.
the waiter brings them a jigger<o?
plain gingerale. 4
DEDICATION
The theme song influence or
something may have been respon
sible for the fact that the other
day a silk manufacturer formally
opened a marble lobby and stair
way with a ceremony In which
three girls from musical comedy
officiated. It. was. according to
one who wrote me about it. "very
impressive.”
Grab Bag
March 25. 1929
Who am I? In whose cabinet was
I secretary of war? In whose ad
ministration was I secretary of
state?
Who was Ignatius of Loyola?
Where are the Hebrides0
“But why dost thou judge thy
brother? or why dost thou set at
nought thy brother? for we shall all
stand before the judgment seat of
Christ ” Where is this passage
found in the Bible?
Today’s Horoscope ^
Persons born on this day are very
methodical and prefer their own way
of doing things. They are vigorous
and determined and often serve as
inspirations for orhers.
Star Lore
The Celestial Sphere
A vast hollow celestial sphere is
what the sky looks like, of which
one may see a half at any time. The
ancients actually believed such a
sphere existed, composed of crystal
carrying the stars But a modern
use is made of the term “celestial
sphere ’’ For convenience the as
tronomer pictures in the heavens an
imaginary sphere with polar axis,
equator, latitude (declination', lon
gitude (right assension*. like the
earth, and with another line trailing
around the sky called the ecliptic,
marking the apparent annual path
of the sun around the heavens. Such
a sky map fits both ancient and
modern astronomy
(More Tomorrow)
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Elihu Root; William B. Mc
Kinley; Theodore Roosevelt.
2. Founder of the Jesuits.
3. Off the west coast of Scotland,
4. Romans, xiv, 10.
^tykshington
Daybook
Bv HERBERT C. PLUMMER
WASHINGTON, March 25.—On
the second floor of the building
which houses the veteran’s bureau
in Washington sits a man upon
whose shoulders rests the burden
of routine business affairs of the
United States government.
He bears the title of chief coord
inator of federal agencies, and it is
up to him to see that the money
appropriated by congress is expend
ed in the most efficient way.
Kis task is one of the biggest in
existence. As described by one per
son, the chief coordinator of the
United States is second only to the
ruler of the universe.
Simply stated, it is up to the chief
coordinator to see that the great
number of federal agencies func
tion with the efficiency of a pri
vate business in so far as is possi
ble.
For example, the government buys
a lot of lubricating oil. Formerly
each department bought its own.
Now the navy, the largest consumer
of all, purchases under navy speci
fications for itself and all of the
larger government departments.
Similarly, gasoline Is bought on
war department contracts for all of
the departments in Washington
and the federal activities in several
other cities .
* * *
WATCHES MANPOWER
The chief coordinator also has
kept his eye on conservation of
manpower. One man or a group
of men now do the work that for
merly required a much greater num
ber. Inspectors of the bureau of
animal industry, for instance, in
soect provisions and meats for
government hospitals in Boston, for
the shipping board in New York,
and for the army and navy in
many places.
Ten years ago these things were
unheard of.
An example of how far this idea
of coordination has been worked
out was afforded not so long ago.
The bureau of fisheries found its
appropriations insufficient to pro
vide clothing for the natives of the
Pribilof islands, who are wards of
the government in a remote part
of Alaska now devoted to sealing
and foxing operations.
* * *
LITTLE FROM EVERYWHERE
When this fact was communicat
ed to the chief coordinator a rep
resentative of the bureau of fish
eries was placed in touch with the
records of surplus property. He was
enabled to obtain shoes from the
army, winter trousers from the ma
rine corps, coats, overcoats, rain
coats. blankets, comforters and
nurses’ dresses from the veterans’
bureau; sails, oilskins, mosqito
bars and soap from the shipping
board, and medical supplies from
the public health service All these
materials were transferred without
funds in time to be made part of
the annual shipment of supplies on
a ship furnished by the navy de
partment.
This transaction, while relatively
small economically, is significant in
the changes it indicates.
It shows that departmental laws
have given way and that bureau
cratic perogatives have been will
ingly abandoned where the best in
terests of the government were in
volved.