The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 24

REAL ESTATE CLASSIFIED COMMERCIAL CITY PLANNERS TO RESUME ACTIVITY ENGINEER ALREADY MAKING SURVEYS FOR NEW BRIDGE DES MOINES' FUTURE BRIGHT Johnson Predicts Big Growth in Commercial Life. HOTEL FORT DES MOINES TO BE COMPLETED BY MAY 1-HERE'S HOW IT WILL LOOK WHEN DONE IOWA IS ILL Tractor to Mean Much for the Farmer, He Says. Work on the Eighteenth Street Extensive Boulevard System and Numerous Civic provements Outlined. New Transportation Factor Promises to Become Im portant in Trade. ALREADY WELL STARTED I MORE WORK ON RIVER That Des Moines, as the business centor of the greatest agricultural state ot the country, Ir destined to assume a more Important place than ever In the commercial life of Iowa was the prediction of Curtis M.

Johnson of Hush City, speaking to the members of the Iowa Implement Dealers' association, which closed its ninth annual convention and the first annual tractor Bhow at the Coliseum Friday. Mr. Johnson based his prediction on another prophecy that the next ten years would be the greatest in the history of the farm Implement business and in the production of food products since the world began. He outlined what the motorizing of the farms of Iowa meant to the farmer, to the country merchant and implement dealer and in the natural course of commerce to the central distributor located in such cities as Des Moines. The speaker laid particular emphasis on the fact that prices based on postwar periods heretofore cannot be expected to be lowered for the next two or three years.

He lO -WikjLilI jT ton Structure Likely to Be Started Next Spring. TO COST ABOUT $300,000 Old Wooden Structure Is No Longer Able to Meet Demands Upon It. The city engineering department, directed by the city council lost Monday to draw plans and specifications for a new bridge and viaduct over the Raccoon river and railroad tracks on West Eighteenth street, is already conducting preliminary surveys to determine the extent of the structure. City Engineer K. O.

Kastherg and his assistant, John M. Tippee, will draw the plans for the bridge. During the past week they have gone over the ground and personally viewed the site for the new bridge. Before the plans can he drawn borings must be made to determine the nature of the foundation. Arrangements are now being made for a drilling gang to begin onera- tions at once.

To Cost $300,000. It Is estimated that the bridge will be at least 1,000 feet long and will eost at a minimum $300,000. The design will undoubtedly be a combination bridge and viaduct such as utilized at Seventh street, crossing the Coon rlvr. In Mr. Kastherg opinion.

The ilans will be submitted for final apisjoval about March 1, Mr. Kastberg edicts. Traffic nn the old wooden bridge, built in 1894, irs been limited as the heavy hauling fnrr the cement plant threatened its life. The bridge has been reinforced recently and a gravel dressing applied to the fkir to avoid corduroying of the planks. location Vmlerlded.

Whether the new bridge shall be built east or west ot the present structure has not been determined. "The bes place for it would be exactly where the old one is located, but the old bridge will remain standing until the new one is finished," Mr. Kastberg said. WHY ORANGES WENT UP Flu Caused Jtlg Demand for Fruit, Dealers Say. The recent high prices for oranges were due to the enormous Increase in demand occasioned by the "flu" epidemic, according to F.

E. Barels, district manager of the California Fruit Growers' exchange. The great demand for oranges for the Bick folks came just at the time when there Is greatest shortage In the orange market, and the supply fell very far short of the demand. Hence the Increased price. An unusual crop shortage was another factor which contributed to the scarcity and high prices of oranges Just when they were needed for sick room use.

Si vH--- nl Ifl sfttw rm tW- H-4- tr i fill. tULLWlBra' L-i l- 1 ule. The contractors probably are less than one week behind their outlined schedule. It Is expected now that heat will be turned on throughout the building by Jan. 1 and that at that time they will begin plastering.

The Interior work Is advanced now up to the third story and the three lower floors are ready for the plasterers. According to Fred Weitz, of the contracting firm erecting the hotel, they are working with the thought of having everything ready to pour the last concrete, for the pent house, wnlch houses the elevator machinery on the roof of the structure bv Thursday of this week. The first concrete for the building was poured June 1 and while there have been some slight delays work has progressed steadily since that date. It is expected to have the hotel ready for pecupancy by the lessee on May 1. BUSINESS GOSSIP SMALL PROFITS AND MANY SALES BEST; DELMONICO IS PROOF lHarbach Suggests Further Beatifications of Civic Center To Push Work." The end of the war has marked the renewal of many oitv activities, and one ot the most important of these is tne work of the town planning committee, which headed by ii.

E. Harbach, has quietly been working for the Daat ten vears for jth beautlflcatlon of Pes Moines. I Opeping of construction of forty-i two mllea of boulevards at a cost ol I ivpproslmately $10,000 000. nur- has of a new municipal art gal-! lery site, paving of Ingersoll avenue I iroro Seventeenth street to Twenty-otehth street, the clearing of city property north of the citv hall, the building, hack filling and sodding 1 of the river wall, the river bed dredge, and the securing of an I asphalt repair plant to care for and pavement" already laid, are I some of the things which the town planning committee will undertake to inaugurate during the coming year of 1919. To I'se Indian Names.

The boulevard system has long been the dream of the beautifying committee. Indian names have been picked for all the boulevards which so far have been opened. Mr. Harbach in dscusslng the pro- posed improvements said: "The cost will not be as great as on would imagine because the selected generally runs i through what Is now unused prop-, This property as soon as a street is opened through It will immediately increase in value and enable the owners to pay a very large portion of the cost without loss to themselves or without cost- ing any outlined portion of the dis-, trict any considerable amount of money. "The beauty of many cities lie in the broad streets that are well kept and, in the residence section, shaded by trpes of one type and sue.

We wished to plant trees of uniform type and size on Kingman and Polk boulevards, but meet with unlooked for opposition from the property owners. I believe if wa had but a single start and could how some street lined with trees, such as Kansas Slity has already developed, there would be no further opposition, Should Improve River, "Another thing we would like to have for the city is a separate asphalt repairing plant. The different contractors have failed, all guarantees are off, and the streetB are rapidly filled with holes where only a small cost would be neces sary to keep them in good repair ana oeauty. "Sixty per cent of the work on the river front improvements has (already been finished and the other 4U per cent is planned. 'Now that we have our new MOO, 000 dam, the river bed should i be promptly dredged and the beautv dam put back where it formerly was located, not only to reduce the smells of the river but to create a Beauty lagoon.

"Much of the surplus labor which will follow the return of the men from the service can be used to make these Improvements. Wages should not come down with one fell I swoop not until the cost of living has very materially been reduced." GOVEBMENT JOBS OPEN idvll Service Examinations An-- aounced by Government. The postoffloe at Des Moines announces several civil service examinations to take place within the next few months. Examinations (for Yeterinarian, open to men onlv, will take place Dec. 11.

Jan. 22 and Keb. 19; salary to be $1,500 a year. (Applicants will fill vacancies in the (bureau or animal Industry of the department of agriculture. Assistant weather observers will oe examined Jan.

8 and Feb. entrance salary to be $1,080 a year. File clerks, both men and women, will be examined Dec. 11. The usual entrance salary for this position will raiiije from 11.000 tn a year, but persons unusually qualified may be appointed at liilgber entrance salaries.

Examinations for chauffeurs, both men and women, are open now Until further notice. Salaries range 'from $720 to $900 a year. Lay inspectors will be examined Dec. 11, Man. 22 and Feb.

19. Other Iowa towns where examinations will bo held are: Ames, (Atlantic, Burlington, Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Creston, Davenport. iDecorah, Denison, Dubuque, Fort Dodge, Iowa City, Marshalltown, iMason City, Ottumwa, Shenandoah, (Sioux City, Spencer and Waterloo. ASKNEW GRMjTbATE fctailroods Want Changes From Mid-west Points. ASHINGTO.V, 1).

Dec. Application for permission to establish new ratos on grain was imade to the interstate commerce commission bv carriers operating in Central Freight association territory. It is proposed to establish proportional or reshipping rates on (grain, grain products and grain byproducts from Chicago, Peoria, and St. Louis to Atlantic seaboard territory on traffic originating in itrans-MlssisslppI river territory to Ires tore the equalization of rates Idislocated by the recent general increases. To Grade White Pole.

Forty-four thousand dollars will l)e expended by the federal high way commission on the White Pole road in Cass county. The money will be expended in the construc tion ot a permanent grade from the oast to the west limits of the county along the White Polo road. Th work Is to be done next year. 1 he cost of the work will be borne Iby the federal and state State Divided Into Five Zones and Routes Now Being Planned. Giant fleets of powerful motor! trucks, plying dully between Des Moines and neighboring towns within a radius of Bixty miles, will shortly bring those towns, and the rural population living within that radius, within easy one-day shopping distance of local store's, says J.

D. Eggleston, secretary of the motor highway committee, council of national defense, who Is now here to assist in the establishment of such rural motor express lines. Already, several motor trucks, owned and operated by Individ- uals, are making regular daily, or triweekly trips between Des Moines and Valley Junction, In-dianola and Madrid; hauling freight between these points, carrying produce from the farms along their routes to market, and merchandise from local stores to the farmers. Hojte to Form Big Company. But what is contemplated by the national highway committee is the formation of a big corporation by local business men, to engage, on a largo scale, in transportation by motor truck, in which they are.

Tt'rtn IduhI o.ilrcrn 11,1 1 nunlonHnn and co-operation in the way ot safeguarding them against hurtful competition, and In obtaining desired improvement of the highways over which they wish to operate. After having heard several lectures on the subject, which Mr. Eggleston has delivered before th local Chamber of Commerce, and having Investigated the gratifying results, to truck operators and to those seTved by them, obtained by those communities In which the plan has been put Into operation, local business men have enthusiastically indorsed the plan and are giving it their hearty support. As part of the plan of the Iowa highway transport committee, the state has been divided into five zones or districts, each having, or to have, a chairman, appointed by the state organization, and who will, in turn, appoint a committee to assist him In supervising and encouraging motor highway transportation lb his territory. E.

F. Consigny, president of the Conslgny Motor Truck company, has been appointed chairman of this district, but unfortunately, owing to "flu" restrictions and other deterrent Influences, he has not yet. been able to complete the personnel of his committee. Dubuque Xow Organized. In the district of which Dubuque is the controlling point, a corporation capitalized at $100,000 is now operating motor trucks over twelve established routes, touching sixty-five towns on regular dally schedule.

A similar organization, with headquarters In Sioux City, is covering nine routes, serving sixty-four cities dally, and from Mason City five routes varying In length from 90 to 150 miles are in operation. Established motor truck lines operating between Council Bluffs and Omaha, and towns within an eighty-mile radius, have hauled since Jan. 1, 158,000 head of hogs, 98,601 of which moved from Iowa: 18,488 head of cattle, 6,754 of which wore Iowa products, and 37. ISO head of sheep, of which 8,712 head were from Iowa farms. It Is further stated by Mr.

Eggleston that there are, at this time, more than 200 motor trucks In dally service In Iowa hauling freight and express and 170 more which operate at longer Intervals. As proof that local freight can be shipped more economically by motor truck than by freight, it is claimed that a three-quarter ton capacity truck, carrying 2,200 pounds, and a one and a halt ton truck, carrying 3,800 pounds, recently made the round trip from Albert Lea, to Mason City, and return, a distance of eighty-four miles, In a driving rainstorm, over a new dirt grade, completing the trip In six hours and forty minutes. RIeiisos Moderate. The expense of the round trip, for both trucks. Including overhead, depreciation, interest, is sattl to have been $24.80, whereas the expense of haulage of the same material by freight would have been $41.40.

In addition lo the saving in cost of freight, some of the many advantages claimed for highway motor transportation are: That it offers a means of relieving costly railroad congestion, by relieving railroads of local traffic, which la not a source of profit to them. That It will put rural communi ties which ure distant from a railroad, and families living at a distance from town, In easy communication with markets. That It will enable Its rural patrons to order merchandise and receive It promptly without the necessity of leaving their farmwoik or other occupation. That it will Insure the rapid establishment and certain maintenance of excellent highways all over the country, Kmployment for Many. That It will afford lucrative and useful employment to thousands ot discharged soldiers and others as truck drivers, bridge builders, engineers, etc.

Mr. Eggleston, who for several days has been making a speaking tour of Important Iowa cities, in the Interest of hlghwav motor transportation service, will return here tomorrow, and hopes by the end of the coming weekt be able to point to Important concrete results in the way of putting Des Moines In close motor truck communication with the surrounding WRIGHTMAN SUGGESTS SPECIAL LOCAL UTILITIES COMMITTEES advised the Implement dealers present to place large orders and to go out and sell tne rarmers ana urge them to Increase the areas under cultivation. He said success meant happiness and advised the dealers that present conditions and the future prospect should make them very optimistic, in which state of mind they would reap a larger degree of benefit than had ever before been possible. The labor problem on farms, Mr. Johnson declared, would be solved by tractors and traction machinery.

ana tne consequent ativamaK the farmer would, with continued good prices for his products, direct him into buying channels that meant prosperity for him and all who served his needs. BANKERS AID TO THRIFT Part in W. S. S. Campaign Very Important, Says Miller.

Tli nnrt thnt hankers have been playing in war financing campaigns carried on in Iowa has In a general nrnv nnt nnlv prorlit hut a great deal of publicity to their worn, dui 111 tne wur oaviniis anu rrhclft Ulainn 11 np.t a na hunkera of city and country have had a part wnicn, wnne important, uoo ut been widely public. It is to the work of the bankers, the merchants and the manufacturers, with also the big employers of labor such as railroads, that the success of the state In putting the last year's stamp drive close to the top is due. It is generally admitted among the workers that the idea of the war savings and thrift stamp has not been entirely understood, and that to this is due the fact that the closing days of the campaign will have to be -made unusually strenuous. In a bulletin sent out yesterday to all city and county chairmen of the campaign by Homer A. Miller, state director, an urgent appeal is made to bring the state's nuota to a successful conclusion bv Dec.

15. The date, originally set for Dec. to close the drive In the slate, was advanced one week, owing to bad weather and the inroads the flu epidemic made uponthe campaign. learn In relation to the administration of public utilities. Service First Kssentlul.

First The private owners of public utilities must be made to understand, If they have not already the native mother wit to understand it, that public utilities must be operated with the highest, and best possible service of the people In mind, and that highest and heat continually on the Improve. This Includes operation with economy, and with the true Interest of the employes fully conserved. Private owners of public utilities should understand that no other basis for their enterprises can endure, and that when they put off establishing their enterprises i upon that basis, they are losing time and courting disaster. The best security for the private inter-'' est in public utilities is in a pub-i lie service so high that It cannot be doubted or assailed, leaving no I ground for suspicion of trickery, snort service, proiiiecnng. Second The people themselves, through their organizations, must come to the definite conclusion thac they will not, endure short service or profiteering on the part of privately owned public service institutions.

Individuals Xot Kffcctlvo. It was the Intention of the founders of our government that if the people were given liberty and security, they would take care of their private interests themselves. The time has gone bv when Individuals are effective in conserving the people's interests in larger matters of public service. Such conservation of Interest must be done through organizations. We have abundance of organizations all over the country, but by some strange oversight it.

Is a rare thing for these organizations to su-nervlse the nneration nf nuhhx service enterprises and pee to it that these enterprises give the maximum of sen-ice with correct economy of operation. This omission on the part of the organizations is amazing because It is the great function they could perform. It should be remembered that the government Itself Is a public service Institution. Every city should have a committee of a few men whose duty tt is to observe the quality of public service from the government down to dog ratch-er. receive and consider complaints of citizens and see that nrotnn( correction Is made of all lapses.

I have never heard of such a committee in the civic organization of any city; possibly this can be explained from the fact that the nubile utility Institutions are usually strong In the civic organizations. Hut the fact remains that the people themselves have abundant meann nf D.i.titln. tu i absolutely correct public service nimuui any recourse to socialism. With the completion of the eleventh story of the big new $1,200,000 Fort Des Moines hotel at Tenth and Walnut streets, the construction program which fell nearly four weeks behind during the summer on account of unexpected delays, is now close to sched COMMERCIAL BRIEFS More than 2,000 persons tried to pay their united war work pledges to the Des Moines National bank this week. The influenza epidemic claimed many victims at the Valley National bank.

Friday six of the employes of the bank were at home suffering with the disease. G. S. Nollen, secretary of the Bankers Life company, who has been at home sick with the influenza this week, is reported improved. Charles H.

Martin, president of the Peoples Savings bank, has been in Chicago since Wednesday and will return tomorrow. The new suction fan ventilation system Installed about a month ago in the Central State bank is declared by the officials of the bank to be the reason that none of the employes of this bank have been attacked by Influenza. The fan changes the air in the entire bank room every five minutes. The Iowa Trust and Savings bank's new quarters In the Teach-out building at East Fifth and Lo-cuet streets are almost completed and the bank expects to get settled some time in January. "What's a good remedy for the flu?" Harry T.

Blackburn, vice president of the Iowa National bank, asked a prominent doctor who happened In at the bank yesterday. "Have you got it?" asked the doctor. "No, but I think I'm going to get it." "Go home and go to bed, and take a drink of hot lemonade with a lot of whisky In It." And now Mr. Blackburn Is wondering Frank Kauffman of the Bankers Tru6t company Inaugurated a complete system of preveutlon of influenza In his bank last week. Three recesses for employes to go out in the open air for ten minutes and a complete airing of the bank at 10:30 o'clock in the morning, at 12:30 o'clock and at 3 o'clock resulted in a 100 per cent attendance of employes every day.

Central State bank observed its sixth anniversary of moving to its present building this week and lte twenty-fourth year In business in Dos Moines. quarantine" loss heavy October Shut Down llesnltl in $1,000,000 Damage, Says iuild. Dr. W. A.

Guild declared that the city health department Is lamentably insufficient in equipment and organization, "During the October quarantine, it was asserted that approximately $1,000,000 loss was suffered by the business interests of the city. This amount of money would put the city health department on the most efficient basis for a period of at least twenty years. Why not go to tho bottom of an emergency such as we are now undergoing and equip the city with such an ef ficient system of cnecklng and pre venting disease that an epidemic would be impossible." That Des Moines, despite the fact that during the past summer the city led in the middle west in building operations, is to see construction on a far larger scale within the year Is indicated by the plans which are coming out of local architects' offices. New business blocks, banks, department stores and factories are outlined on the drawing boards ready for active steps toward building when the time Is considered It Is probable that the coming year, contractors and business men sayH, will witness a greater change in the city's skyline than has any previous period ol live or ten years. Work on the new Savery III hotel at Fourth and Locust streets Is at a point where the next two weeks may see the final story poured in concrete.

A little over a week ago the hotel had progressed but slightly above the sixth floor. Today the e'ghth floor Is up and the contractors have a force of bricklayers facing the lower floors on both street sides. Excavation of debris and dirt for the new building to be erected by the Advance-Rumely Thresher company on the site of their recently destroyed plant on the East side has begun and the company expects to have the work pushed rap-Idly In order that building operations may commence at once. It is said a much larger and more modern plant will be put up to house the thresher and machinery concern. The Standard Oil company is be ginning to move Into Its new home on EaBt Fifth and Market streets, which has been under construction for the past several months.

The new plant covers a block and a half of ground and Is designed to give full facility for operation and storehouse needs for many years to come. The Iowa Trust and Savings bank, now located on the second floor of the Teachout building. East Fifth and Locust streetB, Is expecting now to be In Its new quarters on the first floor of the building by Jan. 1. The entire lower floor la being remodeled to give the institution modern banking rooms the equal of any In the city.

The bankers of Des Moines and the state now are beginning to figure out a way to draw a discriminatory line between the offerings of wildcat stock promoters and that of legitimate business enterprises which will In the next few months probably seek to place their securities with the public. That the government's scheme of thrift and savings as carried out In the past year's War Savings and Thrift Stamp campaign should be not allowed to drop now that the war is over and the stimulus of patriotism gone, Is the opinion of many local financial men. They believe that some way should he devised to knep the wage earner Interested in continued savings and nt the same time show him the difference between Investments of doubtful charactor and those of real merit along other lines. His Position. Tnpt.

why flnn't you trv thw car-rotn? They huhly bnencll." "tim." "And thl iplntch hu TnMMni! "Mbb nn. tiilt kin mndlflno ftnv tlmft. When t'm At the flintier ten! I wiint to eet ht I like." I Courler-Journel. famous old restaurant? The same thing that is the matter with a good many shoe retailers; too heavy an investment and too slow a turnover. Delmonico's gross profit per sale his markup, if you please-i was large enough to make the average dealer's mouth water.

But the sales did not come fast enough, and he went broke in spite of the long profit. Carrying charges on his investment broke bis back. On the other hand there Is a chain of Chllds' restaurants in the same city which are making money on a gross profit per sale which is hardly a fraction of Delmonico's. But they foed thousands where Delmonico served hundreds. Their turnover Is extremely rapid and their stock investment low.

Instead of being tied up on their shelves and in their cellars the stock comes In the back door as It is needed and keeps right on going out through the front door. No money is tied up in idle stock, for there Is no Idle stock. Rapid turnovers and small daily Investment enable the Chllds company to earn handsome net profits on a gross margin which would not pay Delmonico's for the use of one of their sliver spoons. Dec. 17 was made as a case In point.

There, he said, the street car company wanted a higher fare In order to pay increased wages. A commission was named Including labor reprensentatives, members of the Chamber of Commerce and representatives of the citizens or the city. They went thoroughly into the matter of earnings and expenses and reported In favor of a 6-cent fare. The city council acted upon the recommendation ot the committee and an election was called to put the higher fare before the people. Watching Cedar Itapldx.

Senator Haskell believes the increased faro will be granted bv popular vote and says that eastern business Interests are watching I closely the outcome of the election. I They are Interested, he explained. both from the standpoint of higher street car rates and to learn the result of community co-operation in arriving at proper public service charges. "Had a receiver been appointed," tho senator suggested, "he might have been forced to fix even a 9-cent fare, or put in the zone system of graduated fares. Either would have hit the laboring man.

especially the zone system, for many of the worklne neonle have their homes on the edge of the city. They would have to pay the Inchest fa'e or move closer to their work wh'iro the advantages of garden space would have been unobtainable." And what Is true with a stren car companv also is true of other public utilities, was tho senator's declaration. "City councils," he said, "possibly could go ahead and do these things, but, they have their ear close to the ground and are afraid to do anything on account of political affiliations. And so they put it up to the people. "If a commjsslon could be appointed at this time to take up such matters and adjust these things without going Into the courts during the after war reconstructive period It would be (he thing to do.

"We would have to have big men, but there lire plenty available In Iowa. The public utilities must keep up their service." I Failure of New York Restaurant Example of Poor Working of the Opposite Policy. That big profits and slow turn over don't pay as well as smaller profits and rapid turnover is il lustrated by the experience of the Delmonico restaurant, on Fifth avenue, New Vork City, which had been operated for more than 100 years under the same name and by the'aume family. Delmonico's went Into the hands of a receiver the other day. In the bankruptcy petition which was filed against the establishment, the paltry sum of $721 Is given as the principal claim.

Vet the business possesses, In addition to its good will, worth of fixtures, silver, china, and a stock of wines which cost $85,000. and is now greatly increased In value. According to the receiver, "the assets are greatly in excess of the total liabilities." What was the matter with this FOR COMMISSION Believes Iowa Public Utilities Corporations Entitled to Relief Measure. That the public utilities of tho state ned relief and must have It If they are to pull through following two years of strenuous wartimes, Is the belief of State Senator W. U.

Haskell of Cedar Hapids, who while In the city Friday to attend the 7.a-Ga-Zig teuiple ceremonial took time to try Informally the rase of the corporato service interests. "I feci at this time a measure looking to aiding public utilities would be a relief," said Senator Haskell. "There is no question but what thoftublic utilities need help. None of them should be allowed to go Into the haiids of a receiver. It would hurt the state at a time hen the eyes of the business world are upon it.

"When a city wants a Rtreet car line It goes the full length to get tt. After that they let it paddle its own canoe." Work Both Ways. Senator Haskell emphasized the point that a public utility commission In Iowa would work both ways. "It must represent the people, must recognize labor and must recognize capital," he said. "If the time conies when any public utility is making too much money the commission should act as It if we had one should act now to put the utilities on their feet so they can give service." Keferenoe to the public service election to be held in the senator's home town of Cedar Rapids on The following article on public utilities control was prepared by Ueorge Wriglittniui, official factory representative for Iowa at Washlnjitfln and secretary of the Iowa State Manufacturers' association.

While the great war and its problems are fresh in our minds it Is a good time to draw out and set down the lessons we 6hould learn from it for our future guidance. One of the greatest lessons is in connection with the governmental administration of public utilities. It Is plain to all that certain elements of tho people have been trying for years to bring about governmental operation of these utilities. The efforts of these people were greatlv augmented by the war. During the war we had an excellent example of governmental operation of business institutions.

Fortu-uately, the example was on such a great scale and so widespread that no preachment and no further demonstration will be needed for many years to enable the thinking people of the country to form a conclusion as to the advisability of such a status. Government Operation Faulty. It would be interesting if some analytical scientist would explain why it is that a government, which Is a group of human beings, cannot function and administer the same as other groups of human beings. It would be interesting to know why governmental operation must bo mechanical, impersonal, unadaptive and cold, seeming to have no regard for time or results, something like the movement of the heavenly bodies. There Is a suspicion that such functioning Is not a necessary adjunct of government administration, although it Is the almost universal manner.

This suspicion is assisted by the decidedly live, warm, personal, human and adaptive way the government went, after the raising of funds In detail during the war. The contract between the government's action in raising funds and its action in the operation of business Institutions provides a contrast that will make most productive food for thought. Oovernment operation of business enterprises is sometimes lik ened to the economic hydraulic ram, which allows 96 per cent of the water to paBs through In order that it may raise 4 per cent. If It should be the opinion of the people of the United States that the government should resume its original function of providing liberty and security to its citizens, allowing them to work out their own affairs, then there is a still greater lesson for the American people to.