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MERCEDES NEWS-TRIBUNE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933
Alrrrrnrz Nruz-Urihntnr
FOR PLANNED GOVERNMENT
Committee Proposes Simplification And
Modernization Of The State Government
Mercedes 13 Years Ago
Published Each Friday Morning at Mercedes, Texas,
In the Lower Rio Grande Valley
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“When truth or virtue an affront endures „,
Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours.
NOSES
TT has been one of this publication’s firm be-
I liefs, ever since it became apparent that the
City was in a financially involved situation,
that the first step that should have been taken
in placing the municipal affairs in better order
was the collection of delinquent taxes and de-
linquent sidewalk and paving assessments. Ac-
cording to the audit of 1930, the total amount
receivable from these delinquent accounts was
extremely large. Since that time, while inves-
tigation has revealed that there are less delin-
quent taxes than the above-mentioned audit
showed, these receivables remain a vital factor
in the amelioration of Mercedes’ financial con-
dition.
The present city administration has under-
taken to collect in these taxes, and, in order to
do so, has filed suits. In view of the News-
Tribune’s oft-repeated stand on this matter of
delinquent taxes and assessments, we need
scarcely declare our approval of this action. It
has been, for many years, a disappointing and
puzzling phase of the civic life of this munici-
pality that a large number of its citizens should
neglect, in some cases year after year, to pay
their taxes. Indeed, everyone knows of cases
where the very idea of paying city taxes has
evoked from some of our citizens an indigna-
tion which, while hardly righteous, was nev-
ertheless very vehement. To an outsider this
attitude is incomprehensible; it indicates a
complete lack of any sense of civic responsi-
bility.
There has been, naturally and inevitably, a
plethora of excuses; of course. Always it has
been that the city administration has not been
trusted, the city administration has not been
liked, taxes have been wasted, the City has not
been run efficiently, the City has not this and
has not that. The truth of the matter is that
a great many citizens are, as someone said
about it the other day, cutting off their nose to
spite their face, a performance which is scarce-
ly notable for its intelligence. There seems to
be a total lack of reflection upon the thought
that the taxes which so many feel they should
not pay go, primarily and principally, for the
maintenance and upkeep of those services
which make life in Mercedes not only pleasant
but actually safe. Do these people who balk at
the payment of taxes which are now, some of
them, years and years past due, understand
that without the payment of taxes there would
be no collection of garbage, there would be no
sewage disposal plant, there would be no fire
department, no street lights, no police protec-
tion, no nothing, if we may be permitted to use
the expression? Or do they prefer to do with-
out these services which are in reality safe-
guards to their health and well-being? Speak-
ing of noses, it is as plain as the nose on any-
body’s face that a lot of citizens who should
know better, are permitting their purse strings
to run away with their "savvy".
These are strong words but the situation
calls for strong words. We believe, however,
that when those people who are refusing to pay
their delinquent taxes realize that they are in-
deed only injuring themselves and not just
showing their opposition to this city adminis-
tration and its acts or to any former city ad-
ministration and its acts, they will come to
their senses and pay their obligations. An im-
portant fact which many do not understand is
that the City is more than willing to collect
these delinquent taxes in installments, daily,
weekly, or monthly. In fact, the City’s atti-
tude indicates that it wishes to help the people
who have delinquent taxes to pay them off in
the most convenient manner. After all, wheth-
er those who are making such a fuss about pay-
ing what they owe believe it or not, the taking
of steps to collect these delinquent taxes is in
their own best interests.
For this is the most arresting thought of all:
When a large number of the people of this city
refuse to pay their taxes, permitting almost a
minority to carry the full tax burden, they
force the raising of the tax rate. Otherwise,
how could the City even get within sight of op-
erating at all?
THE Joint Legislative Committee on Organ-
i ization and Economy, created by the Forty-
Second Legislature to report to the Forty-
Third, has made a most important contribu-
tion to progress in government in Texas. In
the light of that section of its report, prepared
in co-ordination with Griffenhagen and asso-
ciates and dealing with reorganization in State
government, the joint committee has fully jus-
tified its existence. It has taken its task seri-
ously and has presented a comprehensive re-
port that carries the imprint of thorough
study and careful planning. It has given to the
incoming Legislature a splendid opportunity
for real service to the State, if it initiates the
move for administrative reorganization.
Co-ordination, elimination of duplication,
and other means of achieving efficiency are the
real needs in the governmental structure of the
State. The joint committee makes clear in its
report how present government has grown in
hit or miss fashion. In spite of constructive
changes made under the Moody and Sterling
administrations, State administration is still
inefficient, due to lack of interrelation among
departments and the fault of the long ballot,
which creates unnecessary turnover and brings
inexperience into office.
The plan now outlined for State govern-
ment would involve a short ballot, with only
the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and Attor-
ney General as elective officers. It advises the
junking of many present departments and the
reshuffling of others, so that the State would
emerge with nineteen departments of well de-
fined functions and a permanent experienced
appointive secretariat to carry on the work of
government. In brief, the idea of central man-
agement would be applied to the State, in order
to secure simplicity, unity, co-ordination, con-
solidation, and continuity.
The plan, conforming in outline to that
recommended for other States by Griffenhagen
surveys, can not guarantee against ineptitude
or the application of the spoils system to ap-
pointive office. The wise selection of a Gov-
ernor is the crux of the entire plan, since the
Governor is made by it a responsible as well as
an accountable officer.
The committee report goes before a Legis-
lature largely new in personnel, for the most
part inexperienced, but it is to be hoped re-
ceptive to the constructive ideas which the plan
represents. Its acceptance or rejection should
in final analysis be left to the people of Texas
since the report supplies an excellent opportun-
ity and cause for a convention to revise the
Constitution.—The Dallas News.
Germany welcomed the new year, by all ac-
counts, in a much happier frame of mind than
has been detected anywhere else. The year
1932 was a good one for Germany in several
ways, principally because she got rid of rep-
arations and made progress in getting rid of
the disarmament clauses of Versailles. The
hated “enslavements” and “tributes” imposed
by the war are being shed, one after another.
Some correspondents have hinted that, with
reparations wiped out, Germany need not go on
trying to look worse than she feels. This
sounds a bit unkind, but does no real damage.
The other nations, or most of them at any rate,
would be only too glad to hear that Germany
is not so sick as people believed. It would make
them feel better about their own prospects. A
sign of returning health anywhere is one of the
best things that can happen to all of us.—New
York Times.
It is contended that State conventions to
ratify a repeal amendment are not provided for
in the United States Constitution. Still, it
would seem to be closer to the spirit of the Con-
stitution to repeal by conventions than to re-
peal by speakeasies.
The health department should be prohibited
from publishing statements like the one about
1932 being the healthiest year on record. It
only makes a confused economic situation all
the more bewildering.
It must be because the Presidency takes
such heavy toll of its incumbents that the
American people find it hard to find any one
willing to run for President.
Colonel Lawrence’s translation of the Odys-
sey is said to be selling very well. It opens the
way for a headline: World’s Best Sailor Best
Seller.
Garner says he will arrest Congressmen
who were not present Tuesday. Some of them
are not all there, even when present.
People can hardly wait for Christmas to
be over before starting in to think up harsh
things to say about the year 1932.
The grandson of King Gustaf of Sweden,
who is a fine sportsman, has gone to work in
a bank. The Swedish royal family maintains
a fine tradition of serious purpose and indus-
try; otherwise one might say that the banking
business nowadays offers enormous opportuni-
ties for golf.
"Spain Acts to Curb Moroccan Unrest.”
But why pick on Morocco in the present world
situation ?
Why is it that Kings of the Underworld
turn out to be such small potatoes when they
are put on the spot?
Austin.—Definite proposals for
the simplification and modernization
of the structure of the state govern-
ment by the discontinuance of num-
erous agencies and the combining
and rearranging of essential func-
tions and activities under 19 admin-
istrative departments in place of the
131 separate and more or less inde-
pendent and unsupervised branches
and agencies now in existence, is the
most striking feature of the report
released last week by the joint leg-
islative committee on organization
and economy, made up of Harry N.
Graves, chairman, Phil L. Sanders,
secretary and vice chairman, Sen-
ator Carl C. Hardin, Senator H.
Grady Woodruff, and Representa-
tive J. Turney Terrell.
These proposals are contained in
Part I of the economy committee’s
complete report, which is being
printed in fourteen parts. The sec-
tion on teachers colleges was re-
leased last week. They were agreed
upon in a three-day session as the
culmination of a year’s intensive
study of the functions and affairs of
all the units of the state govern-
ment.
The plan of organization recom-
mended in the report provides for
the following 19 departments:
The Executive Branch
Departments having administrat-
ive service functions:
The office of governor (man-
datory elective office under the con-
stitution) with an executive cabinet;
Department of state (under the
secretary of state, mandatory ap-
pointive office under the constitu-
tion, appointment by the governor);
Department of law (under the at-
torney general, mandatory elective
office under the constitution);
The department of taxation and
revenue (including the treasurer,
mandatory elective office under the
constitution) with a state tax board;
The department of finance and
administrative service (including the
comptroller of public accounts, man-
datory elective office under the con-
stitution) with a board of finance;
Department of building and
grounds.
Departments rendering direct ser-
vice to the public:
Department of education, with a
board of education;
Department of public welfare,
with a board of public welfare;
Department of public health, with
a board of public health;
Department of public safety;
Department of militia;
Department of labor (with an in-
dustrial commission);
Department of banking;
Department of insurance;
Department of live stock sanitary
inspection;
Department of forests, fish, and
game (with a board);
Department of water supply and '
reclamation, with a board of water
engineers;
General land office (commission-
er, mandatory elective office under
constitution);
Department of highways (with a
highway commission);
Department of public service, with
a board of public service.
The Judicial Branch
The courts and state prosecuting
attorney.
The Legislative Branch
The legislature of the State of
Texas; Legislative reference li-
brary; state auditor; (temporary
commissions and committees).
It is proposed that each depart-
ment be headed by a commissioner
appointed on the basis of his qualifi-
cations. The exceptions to this are
the department of law and the land
office, which will come under elected
constitutional officers.
In the case of all but a few of
the departments, boards are pro-
vided to be made up of non-salaried
members appointed by the governor
for overlapping terms of six years
each. It is proposed that such
boards are to have no administrative
powers, but exercise certain policy-
making, advisory, or quasi-judicial
functions. Each of these boards is
to nominate at least three qualified
candidates for appointment as com-
missioner of the department con-
cerned, from which the governor is
to make selection. The commission-
er is to be the manager of the af-
fairs of the department.
Department of Education
It is suggested that the depart-
ment of education be headed by a
board of education of nine mem-
bers appointed by the governor for
six year overlapping terms, and that
the department be divided into two
bureaus, a bureau of public schools,
and a bureau of higher education.
The former bureau would be headed
by a commissioner of education, and
the latter by a chancellor of educa-
tion, both to be appointed by a two-
thirds vote of the board of educa-
tion, and to be removed by the same
vote, but to continue during good be-
havior.
The higher institutions of learn-
ing would be consolidated into two
main systems—the University of
Texas and the Agricultural and
Mechanical College—and four inde-
pendent colleges, each under a pres-
ident appointed by the board on
nomination by the chancellor.
The functions of the existing de-
partment of agriculture would be
combined with the agricultural ex-
tension service and the agricultural
experiment station of the agricul-
tural and Mechanical College into
one unit operated as a branch of
that college.
All the separate boards of regents
and directors now in existence in
connection with the various institu-
tions, the present state board of ed-
ucation, and the board of regents of
state teachers colleges would disap-
pear. Their functions would be
taken over by the new board of ed-
ucation.
The report suggests that the ad-
ministrative code setting up the new
organization provide for an execu-
tive cabinet or administrative coun-
cil, made up of the heads of all de-
partments. This cabinet would meet
monthly or oftener to consider the
problems of the state as a whole, in-
ter-department relations, and such
questions as may be submitted by
the governor. The permanent of-
ficer, who, the committee says,
might be entitled the executive dep-
uty of the state, would act as per-
manent secretary of the cabinet,
handle many purely routine business
matters affecting the State’s inter-
est which now go by default, assist
the governor in administrative
routine, and “bridge the gap” be-
tween successive administrations in
order that there may be at least a
degree of continuity in the business
policies and operating program of
the state, for which no provision
whatsoever is now made.
Taxation and Revenue
An important feature of the or-
ganization proposed by the Graves
committee is the establishment of a
department of taxation and revenue
with two bureaus. The report states
that the bureau of taxation in this
department would take over all of
the taxation functions now allocated
to the state tax board, the state tax
commission, the comptroller of pub-
lic accounts, the state treasurer, the
secretary of state, the railroad com-
mission, the insurance commission-
ers, the game, fish and oyster com-
mission, the motor vehicle registra-
tion division of the state highway
department, the board to calculate
the ad valorem tax rate, and board
of equalization for unorganized
counties.
The bureau of the treasury in this
same department would, according
to the report, be under the admin-
istrative direction of a deputy treas-
urer appointed by the state treas-
urer from among not fewer than
three candidates certified as quali-
fied for the position by the commis-
sioner of taxation and the proposed
state tax board. The bureau would
provide for collections, receipts, dis-
bursements, the handling of war-
rants and bonds, and the keeping of
accounts. Money would be brought
into the state treasury through one
unit, and the functions of collection,
receipt, and custody would be con-
centrated in one place.
A state tax board, appointed by
the governor for six-year overlap-
ping terms, is proposed to hear and
determine complaints as to the as-
sessment of taxes or as to other
acts of the commissioner.
The committee recommends a de-
partment of finance and administra-
tive service, in which would be con-
solidated numerous activities now
scattered through more than a hun-
dred units. It is explained in the
report that this department would
greatly reduce the problems, the
staffs, and the work of the oper-
ating departments. The depart-
ment would be made up of bureaus
of the budget, of accounts, of audit
and control, of purchases and pro-
perty control, and of personnel ad-
ministration. The report describes
the functions of the bureau of the
budget as planning the finances of
the state.
The bureau of accounts would
keep the general accounts of the
state, and would consolidate much of
the accounting work now done by
other departments. The bureau of
audit and control would provide for
the pre-audit of all commitments
and all claims against the state, and
the current audit of receipts and re-
ceivables, and would be responsible
for the issuance of all warrants
covering approved claims. The bu-
reau of purchases and property con-
trol would handle the purchasing of
all supplies that can economically
be purchased in a central agency,
leaving to the departments only the
purchase of those specialized ma-
terials and supplies as are peculiar
to their own needs. The bureau of
personnel administration would clas-
sify the positions in the „ service,
recommend to the legislature equit-
able scales of pay, and formulate -the state reclamation department
rules and regulations concerning the
selection, the appointment, and com-
pensation of employes, preparation
of payrolls, and keeping of person-
nel records.
Public Welfare Department
The committee proposes a
de-
partment of public welfare to take
over the complete management of
the state eleemosynary institutions
and prison system, and all social
service functions. It states that it
should provide central advice and
control in matters of plant and
equipment and operating procedure,
consolidate the business manage-
ment of industries and farms, ren-
der central accounting and statis-
tical service, and have authority and
responsibility in the matter of plan-
ning the state’s facilities for meet-
ing the problem of social well being,
dependency, and delinquency as a
whole.
The Graves committee points out
that there is now no such agency
in existence, and that only piece-
meal provisions are made for deal-
ing with the problem.
The report suggests that the Tex-
as Ranger force and the state high-
way patrol be brought together in a
department of public safety.
The economy committee suggests
a department of labor and an indus-
trial commission to bring together
such activities and responsibilities
Only Two Women, Few
Men Pay Poll Taxes
In spite of the fact that this is the
year of a presidential election and
that an unusual amount of interest
is being taken in national, state and
county politics, comparatively few
people in Mercedes or Hidalgo coun-
ty have paid their poll tax, accora-
ing to statements made by officials
at Edinburg and by City Tax Col-
lector Hoyt E. Hager of Mercedes.
Only two women in Mercedes will
be entitled to vote unless the others
follow the example set by these two
up until Friday. On that date Mrs.
0. E. Van Berg and Mrs. J. 0. Ward
had the distinction of being the
only Mercedes women possessing
poll tax receipts.
* * *
Announcement
H. T. Stotler and Company an-
nounce the completion of their new
building on Texas avenue one block
south of the school house and ar-
rival of their new stock of caskets
and coffins.
H. T. Stotler, a graduate of the
Cincinnati College of Embalming, a
member of the Texas State and Na-
tional Associations of Funeral Di-
rectors and Embalmers, will have
personal charge of the business. Mr.
Stotler was formerly embalmer for
the H. J. Menton Mercantile Com-
pany and has done practically all of
the work in that line in this locality
since receiving his
ten years ago.
It will be their
license nearly
aim to give
prompt and efficient service at all
times. Residence phone No. 67.—
Adv.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Hadden
are the parents of a daughter, born
Thursday.
Dr. and Mrs. R. M. Winn, have as
their guest, the former’s father, T.
M. Winn of Palmira, Mo., who will
spend the remainder of the winter
here.
Neff Will Speak
Here Wednesday
Pat M. Neff, of Waco, candidate
for governor, will speak in Mercedes
Wednesday night.
The following have been named to
serve as a committee of reception:
E. E. Evans, James H. Anderson,
W. F. Shaw, E. M. Jones, J. C.
Boyd, Judge S. P. Silver, A. J.
Wright, Robert E. Lee, John Har-
vey, the Rev. Robert Gribble, the
Rev. L. U. Spellman, Fred Bennett,
Dr. T. W. Carter, J. F. Rector, Jr.,
Charles Settles, Dr. Swaney, W. D.
Chadick, Judge J. P. Gause, J. 0.
Ward, D. H. Jones, Dr. C. B. Buck,
E. E. Johnson, Miss Nannie Mer
Buck, Mrs. E. B. Witmer, Mrs. T. R.
Riggs, Mrs. T. W. Carter, Mrs. J.
E. Haynes, Mrs. N. E. Tucker, Mrs.
Claud Armstrong, Mrs. G. C. Fittz,
Mrs. G. K. Reiss, Mrs. Margaret
Ragland, Mrs. Fleet Lentz and Miss
Mary Schwartz.
Mrs. R. R. Barton was hostess
Thursday afternoon to the .members
of the Ladies Bridge club at her
home two miles east of Mercedes.
Delicious refreshments were served
and the afternoon pleasantly spent
in auction at which the prize was
won by Mrs. L. T. Hoyt. The guest
list included Mrs. E. E. Evans, Mrs.
F. E. Bennett, Mrs. Hoyt E. Hager,
Mrs. L. T. Hoyt, Mrs. M. B. Murray,
Mrs. R. M Winn, Mrs F. E. Warren,
Mrs Turner Ferguson, and Miss
Mable Warren.
Lee Hartzell and wife and two
sons arrived here Monday complet-
ing an overland trip from their for-
mer home in Auburn, Neb. Mr.
Hartzell drove his Dort touring car
and in spite of the bad roads and
disagreeable weather had an en-
joyable journey.
Postoffice Does Nearly $100,000
Business In 1919; Postage Sales
For Year Aounted To $11,761.
The return of the former postage
with regard to labor welfare as the
state has assumed.
The committee concludes that the
departments of banking, insurance,
and health be left as independent
branches, but recommends internal
reorganization.
The board of water engineers and
would be brought together into one
unit.
The committee says that the rail-
road commission is a misnomer for
what is really a department of pub-
lic utilities and natural resources. It
suggests that it be absorbed by a
department of public service, under
an administrative commissioner of
public service, and a quasi-judicial
body to be known as the “Public
Service Commission.”
Under the economy committee’s
recommendations the Legislative
Reference Library would be made
part of the legislative branch, and
a state auditor, corresponding to the
present state auditor and efficiency
expert, would also become an officer
of the legislature, confining his
duties to post-auditing.
The Graves committee has had
the technical assistance of Griffen-
hagen and Associates, a national or-
ganization of specialists in the vari-
ous branches of public administra-
tion and finance who, during the
past 21 years have served many
states and cities in programs of re-
organization and economy.
The Spelman Fund contributed
over $20,000 toward the committee’s
work. The reorganization plan has
embodied the experience of all the
states that have attempted to unify
and modernize the organization of
their governments.
rate last July to two cents for let-
ters and one cent for postal cards
did not prevent the Mercedes post-
office from showing a gain in the
total cash receipts for the year. In
1918 when letter postage was three
cents and cards two cents each, the
total stamp sales amounted to $10,-
913.77. In 1919 with the pre-war
rate prevailing half the year the to-
tal amounted to $11,761.38, an in-
crease of $847.61.
Postmaster N. E. Tucker is well
pleased with the showing the office
made during the year and sees in
the increase a certain indication of
the rapid growth of Mercedes. The
office did nearly $100,000 worth of
business last year, the bulk of
which, however, was in money or-
ders. During the year the money
order sales amounted to $77,139.
War savings stamps to the value of
$1,871.78 were sold and revenue
stamps sold totaled $4,306.11.
Further indications of the growth
of Mercedes may be found in the
fact that in spite of the recent addi-
tion of letter boxes at the postoffice
there are more than 50 applications
on file for persons and firms desir-
ing to rent boxes.
* * *
School Notes
Pupils ranking highest for school
month of December were:
High school, freshman class:
Floyd Langford, Irma Deke, Robert
Ohls, Josephine Blackwell, Mary
Bradford; Sophomore Class: Mark
Mills, Vennie Haynes, Ruth Kelly,
Hazel Atter, Ruth Schrank; Junior
Class: Florence Settles, Louis Wom-
ack, Stanley Brown, Melen Byers,
Ruth Byers.
Seventh grade: Wendell Schwartz,
Andrew Byers, Verdie Ramsey,
Ilean Harris, Eugene Schmolka.
Sixth grade: Barbara Hoyt, Wal-
ter Bazar, Harold Thompson, Helen
McLane, Marguerite Kindred.
Fifth grade: Carla McLane, Ed-
mund Herring, Clarke Manful, Eliz-
abeth Bell, Edgar Pounds, Elizabeth
Miller.
Fourth grade: Emma McKercher,
Lucille Hooks, Mildred Manful,
Francisco Hinojosa, Dorothy Kin-
dred, Fela Villareal.
Third grade: J. C. Boyd, Jack
Newton, Marsella Kramer, Julia
Pounds, Goldsby Poag.
Third grade: Eligabeth Longoria,
Lela Bell Sims, Irene Struth,
Claudio Hinojosa.
Second grade: Glenn Commons,
John McGhee, Elvira Caballero,
Margaret Duncan, Carlton Condill.
Second grade: Olga McLane, Ga-
brielle Vann, Robert Traug o 11,
Charles Bendler, Dionito Goreno.
First grade: Robert Kern, Vir-
ginia Winn, Sydney Van Berg, Ger-
aldine McKay, Marie Lilly.
Other Papers
TOO MUCH AT EASE IN ZION
In the statements and attitude of
leading democrats at Washington,
and of a few in New York, one notes
a disposition to take the big ques-
tions of statesmanship and legisla-
tion too lightly. What if the budget
is not balanced? We can get along
by further borrowing. Suppose
that the intergovernmental debts
remain a burning question until aft-
er March 4. Then it will be the
easiest thing in the world to settle
them by a slight turn of the wrist,
as it were. Why worry about taxes
and tariffs and agricultural relief
and the St. Lawrence waterway and
regulation of utilities and reform of
our banking laws? Are we not to
have a new broom in the White
House two months from now which
will quickly sweep all these dusty
and troublesome matters clean out
of the door?
It is well to be optimistic. As
Professor Sumner once said, per-
haps in order to deepen and confirm *
his own pessimism: “After all, the
optimists in the United States have
the best of it.” We are always
turning, quite properly, with new
hope to new men in office. But we
ought not to cherish the delusion
that they can proceed by magic, or
that any kind of gesture or cheerful
promise can take the place of the
hardest kind of work. Tough prob-
lems of this country can be solved
only by tough minds. And they have
got to stick at the job incessantly,
without let-up night or day. There
can be no short-cuts to national
well-being and contentment. We
cannot get out of our troubles by
any haphazard system of happy
thoughts. The hard times demand
hard labor on the part of those in
authority, and if we do not get it,
the times will become harder. It is
not a case for holding back until the
democrats are in a position to apply
their “fine brute majority” in the
next Congress to the enormous dif-
ficulties which are disturbing this
country and delaying a return to
prosperity. No majority, however
large, can by a vote settle it that a +
Treasury deficit is just as safe as a n
surplus. Nor can it relieve the
farmers, or settle foreign contro-
versies simply by paper resolutions »
triumphantly asserting that all is
for the best in the best possible of
worlds.
The most capable brains we have
and the most intense energy are
none too capable or intense for the
immense labors sure to be forced
upon the incoming Administration.
There is no reason to dispirit the
party soon to be in power, but there
is every reason to exhort it to be
serious-minded and to be prepared
to work like a dray-horse. Other-
wise, our last estate may easily be
worse than our first.—New York
Times.
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