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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,"
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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
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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
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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."
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