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PAGE FOUR CapitaytJournal 8alem. Oregon Ln IndeHBdtat Nwpr Published ery ertnlng icpt Bundty Telephone GEORGB PUTNAM, Bureaucracy's Breakdown Bureaucracy's breakdown was exposed in the report made to the president by the agricultural commission. Bureaus, departments and commissions, torn by factional strife and jealousy, bound by precedent and red-tape, duplicate and overlap and waste their energies in treadmill regulation instead of public service. This is always the fatal weakness of bureaucracy. Its own rules handicap its effectiveness and thwart coojeration and achievement. And yet every session of congress sees new bureaus created and more regulations promulgated for the embarassment of and at the expense of the people and for the benefit of the bureaucrats. Legislatures follow the same trend and daily the list of boards and commissions increases to regulate every form of industry, of occupation, and even the personal habits of the people, under the delusion that a law on the subject and a special bureau to enforce it will cure any -evil. Bureacucracy has had such a mushroom growth that it has become top-heavy and nears collapse of its own weight. The strain is too great, and it fails to function. It more than anything, is responsible for the tremendous increase in taxa tion and high cost of living. What is needed is a simplification of government and a return to first principles. Yet our legislators go blithly forward making unnecessary laws and superfluous commissions, failing to heed the trend of the times and the birth of a reaction that will sweep the slate clean for a new start. ' A Gay 40 Days Among the items of expenditures of state funds sub mitted by Superintendent Herwig of the Anti-S:iloun league occur $000 salary for Abe Weinberg, "including airs. Wein berg," 40 days or $15 per day and 20 days for his assistant Victor Hugo, $210 or $12 per day. To pay sleeper and carfare for Mr. Weinberg, another $100.83 was spent. For hotel and meals, for Mr. and Mrs. Weinberg, "and guests, consisting of large rum-runners" $350.35. For hotel and meals in Portland $150.00. For "taxi, auto hire, cigars, drinks, telegrams, telephone, tips, entertainment admissions, such as prize fights, boxing, etc.", $121.31. Surely it was a gala time for the Wcinbergs. Here we have a total expenditure of state funds of $1,562.52, supplemented by several times as much from other sources, turned over to a fugitive from justice to spend in high-rolling and breaking the law under pretense of enforcing the law. The state funds were turned over to a private individual to squander in buying booze in bawdy houses, in attempted bribery, in trying to "get something" on federal and state officials, in lavish entertainments for rum-runners, in various law violations under pretense of law enforcement, and not a conviction obtained'. This incident, one of many, shows why the state shcukl get rid of Cleaver and his crew, abolish his office and put enforcement of the prohibition laws up to regularly con stituted peace officers, for as ex-Governor West, himself an ardent prohibitionist says, the "department should be wiped out for you will never get anywhere with it as it is-" CHARGES MADE 'GAINST WHITE BY GJEDSTEl) (.Continued from Page One) ed lor fort-anil, nave no specific Btutemciits aa to the cIuukph that lie -intends to prefer nKamat IU adjutant general wtili the Kuv-. oruor ns commander-in-chief ot the armed forces of the ntale, no does he Rive itpecitic information in his letter of resignation to thf adjutant Reneral himself. This letter follow: Letter in White. "Conditions In the military de partment of the atate of Oregon under your direction, reached a point where 1 find It impoasibU to continue In the service of the di ; partmrnt and at the same time re tain the slightest eelf-respect." anys Ujedsted In hia letter tu White. "For over four yeara I have en deavored to render and believe 1 have rendered good aervtce but. when subservience ta required in preference to service and. wi.ci the spoken word of the head of a department becomes, to put it very mildly, unreliuMe. then It It lime for any se.r-respeelii.K in dividual to metarule himself fiMi mi eh condition. This 1 now it without any ref, ret a whatsoever, 'When on July 2 ti last, after n heated m'Hslon durinis which I ten dered my resignation, you rciiuest ed that 1 withdraw my redpnulim ami asked mo to To'wl' the cir cumt;incm in connect Ion there with, and 1, in rjnnd faith, gave yon toy promise, a pioinlflo 1 h ive kept to this day, to do so. in 1 when ynu proffered your hmul to bind the compact, I did rot l)'!:ee that you would t far demean foil reel f as to break that fattj However, Jutt utt soon as V,! Jeeinetl it expedient to do ho, y;i aot only broke faith and rep'i'li ited other promises you hud m.n.e betdca but went to further " tremef) In an endeavor to Justify four action. 'In view of the ctrcumtanei I must ask you to release me from any promisee I have nuido with re gard to yourself and. in the cvnt f your failure to ad vine me to he fontrry. 1 will, of course, coupler tiyself released and free to act may deem expedient " Letter to Guard. Major tijedated. In connection with hia resignation, aNo sent o-:? i form letter to all officers of In Oregon national guard, explaining hia attitude, and giving the re ions for his resignation, althoun.i aot epecifylng the particular reu tona for hfa withdrawal from th tenrice. Hia letter to the office ra of the guard followa: "The official associations I hav enjoyed wtlu moat of you during the paxt four years, are now end ed; not through any deal re of my own, but due to conditions hard 81; sews 1 Editor aid Publisher arisen which make it imperative that, I either resign and rea;:i such self-respect as 1 now have, o: by contaimung on an an employe of the military department, luao that belt-respect and become a inir.il coward. 1 prefer the fonmr. "An intimate knowledge of the character of the head of the mili tary department and of the meth ods used by that official in justify ing hia actions at the expense of the character of any one that does not subscribe to hia views and de sires, prompts the writing of thie communication, in order that you may have, should you so desire It, the other aide of the story which let substantially as follows. Resigned in Julv. "Kor tour years, aa a.-istaut to the adjutaut general, 1 have been endeavoring to get hint tu do some thing which was vitally necessary to the welfare of the department and whieh could in no way beusfit myself. It haa been the source of a number of extremely heated eli sions until filially on July 26 last, during a mote than ordinarily stormy sesio, 1 became ao thor oughly dfxKusted with it all laa I tendered by resignation. Short ly thereafter, ou the same day, Mr. White requested that I with draw my resignation and 'forget' the affair, pleading that he was 'not feeling jut light' and re ferred to our service on two con t incuts and past friendships. Ik extended his hand which 1 tooK aa a token of rrleiuUlilp and in :ood faith and I promised to t'ui get, fully believing that ho would at least keep faith. Howev-jr, millting apparently waa fur? her from hi? tliumhu, as just as noun as he conveniently could, he noi only broke faith and repudiated .u her promises he hud made, but .-ought to justify his actions by met ti 'da whieh are not general;) considered ethical. Nn Other Alternative. Tllilcr the eiivuil'.'laiH'es I iud no iiltermttiw other than to ep arate myself from any further of ficial connection wtih the depart ment, which I have now done. "Ta me the work in the depart ment has b ee n m e i h i n g nr r e than just a state joh and tender ing my resignation has not h-vu hi easy thin to do as aside from the value 1 place upon old and pleasant associations with many of you gentlemen there were th era who had nec-aarily to be c.m tdered before I definitely decldtd upon any counter offensive. "Please do not construe this let ter aa aa appeal Tor either VI p or sympathy, either of which ta ought or desired. 1 am merely taking thia meana of placing the circumstance before you, in older that you may. should you car to do ao, decide as to whether or not any action 1 may etihieqitea:ry take is rlrht or wrung. 1 am con fident that no matter what your opinion nay be 1 will be accorded that measure of fair play to whit we are all entitled irrespective of rank of position," TODAY'S HORIZONTAL t. TwJfi-liiiig tuuftt-lee 4. .Muukt ) Alufer V. Buiiy . iiie-l .r.) IX. Hind 13. Two II. IUIIn.J (ulj ) It. Japnuetv eoliw in. To nllul 2I. 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Anonymous Advances .- I r I " V" l " 1 A Modern (An Absorbing Novel V By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON ) NEW GODS FOB OLD It seemed to me that this pro pcsal of Rodney Evans crystallxed the prejudice I had always had against the old form of marriage into a direct resolution never to marry (continue J Kathlyn Evans' manuscript). I could not feel that It was right to merge my individuality into that of any man even though I loved him aa much as I did Hod. You see in this sutobiography I, Kathlyn Leonard Evans, am go ing to bare by heart. I am going to do It to show that my huaband did not commit the crime of which he has been accused and I know that unless X tell the truth and keep nothing back I shall not suc ceed in making anyone understand ar.d believe. With that queer proposal casual ly spoken on that sunshiny after noon as Rod and I sauntered down 5th Ave., it came over me with overwhelming significance that I loved Rodney Evans with all my soul. Something in my face must have told that to Rod, for he apoke up quickly: "Kathlyn, dearest, you know that our marriage would not be a farce. I love you and I want you. I want you with all my heart, all my body and all my soul. Oive me a little comfort by, saying that you like me a little." I coulj not help smiling, for, never having Hod to myself, I knew at that moment I loved Rod more than "a little." In tonea that I strove to make as casual as were his, I told him so, and then for the firs, time since he had joined me on the street Rod showed a wild disposition to plek me up in hb arms and run away with me. I felt hi? hand on my wrist. I felt it stealing up my arm. "In a moment," I said to myself, "I ahall feel his arm about my walt." -I drew away in alarm and has POOH DMJHTER Its HER ROOM CRMN' HER. eiE"b OOT ILL CO H' comfort her: 1925 bv Int-l Fern-rune Service. Inc. I ' TP .A V Marriage tened to counterbalance what I had Impulsively spoken by saying: "Even If I love you more than a little it is no reason why I should want to marry. 3fen take mar riage so lightly " "And women, too," interrupted Rod. 'Perhaps," I answered. "Hut I never want to take mnrriige light ly nor otherwise. When I love enough fully In earnest." I stop ped short on the street as I said: "Rod, you know to link my life with tht of any man, I do not want to make love's duration the subject of speculation lo all my friends." I remember now that I was dreadfully fn earnest. I stopped short on the street as I said: ' Rod. you know that eve;.votv In trnii church Mday knew that Vernon Htedman was takin? the conven tional way only to legalize another affair. Ho was not thinking of the responsibilities of love and mar riage he was simply 'crazy over Lucile. If he thought about it at all and was honest he would have confessed that he had no intention of living with h?r after he grow tired of her and he knew he probably would. "Hi seems to have gotten the habit of divorce nnd remarriage." Hod agreed with nic hut he was nxlus to minimize the foe's of the illustration we had Just se?n in Lucille' marriage to Vernon Stedman. "Lucille knows Vernon's reputation," he said. "She scens willing to take a chance. Please don't let i prejudice you against our marriage." "The marriage ceremony always enrage ine," I interrupted. "Every time I g-o to church f ,,Q on f my frienJs marriej I "think I shall never go aain. The idea that a woman must be handed by so-nc one of her male relatives over to i the man who is to be her husband FEEL riNe THt-b iK. 7 FIME. C.....D l.,f.,r-il , '. 'l-y Ff3 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1925 is something no modern woman with respect for herself can stand The ceremony we huve today If only less barbaric than that Wf are In burying our dead. "I never go to funerals any morf i wish I were going to live on thli planet (00 years from now, for I am sura that then we shall hav d.spensed with both rituals as w know them now." Everyone who knows Rodney E ans will know that whimsical quizzical crooked little smile of his As 1 spoke that smile was unmls takably in evidence. "Interesting if true,' he remark ed, "but what would you suggesl in place of these ceremonies. I di not believe that you are iconclasl enough to utter a destructive criticism of our social convention! without having In your mii.d some remedy. I was pleased to think that for a tinid I had staved off Rod's pro testations of love and I answered: "I would have something. Rod. that would express the real rea son and dignity of marriage. Some thing by whifh two people could tell to the world their resolution to found a home and light a fire of love upon its hearthstone. The ritual that we now havo Is noth ing of the kind. It Is only a hold over from some ancient tribal cere m on y in which the woman as a chattel was taken from her fath er's home and handed over to her husband, who then had absolute control over not only her life but the lives of her children." Bv Geonre McMnnus oh: meiuuo jck: suREuf-fo EE OELL-lCiHTEO TO CO FOR AM A.OTO I -:r t-c-r-i ,;'.yi) By Billy de Beck By Herrimaa 100 6AXI0US
