Show tr The Axe and und the tile Sawa Saw a Q E of North Dakota believes in inO It L S O using the saw and the tim n axe e in cutting the tho at apH ap- ap H k bills instead of a manicure set He lie j 1 would abolish the shipping board and would discharge a at least government d clerks ks He Ic de- de dares that could be saved in rn the t treasury 1 5 department OOOO OO in the war department SHO- SHO by eliminating expenditures for publics works and al by bj- cutting out good roads appropriation Makin faking due allowance for senatorial al license In ex- ex 4 n on which seems necessary ary in waking the Sen- Sen atc's conscience to the need of nn any big Senator t McCumbers McCumber's vigorous words wOlds will fall upon responsive I cars ears in every section of the country Tho The pruning s sn suggested by the North Dakota senator aggregate I I which is about the sum suni which other congressional congressional congressional con- con gressional economists have e set out to save C It is impossible to review ie the tho projected curtailments w with any satisfaction unless they are spread out in detail before berolo the people but the main idea of using I the saw and the axe ase is in keeping keeping- with the tho Taxpayers i J 4 views It is not known how many of tho g government clerks have lla been separated from their jobs during the 3 j last six ix mon months hs but it will be remembered the tha accumulated accum J excess was stated to be not so very err C long ago There were so many that paragraphed hu- hu mor us referred to them as ns the army of or the Poto- Poto T mac if If these have been beM reduced to it shows IO progress Yet according to statements on the floor of the Senate there arc are thousands of superfluous clerks still o on the thc department pay rolls and many who were appointed to commissions for tho the war period in the theor anny mn or nav navy who arc are still wearing the blue blua and the khaki and ana are performing no necessary public service In applauding the saw and axe method m thod of course care should be he exercised not to go o at the thc bu business blindfolded It is said a skilled French duelist can cnn I carve a canar canary bird hird with a sabre Theodore Roosevelt Roose I could swing an nn axe always s 's striking in the same place until log Jog was severed se and anti he lie was sighted near too IV manicure set is entirely out of 01 place as ac an implement for cuttin cutting expenses yet et the axe and the saw should be e handled with skill skin S so as to be made to ent true and wisely isel There may be obstacles to be he cleared away away board is done lone with with perhaps perhaps before the shipping awa away an nn American merchant er m marine r c will be put into o eff effect c I I The pay of officers of the army should be raised as 5 provided in hi the Wadsworth bill Lill A A. great wrong will wilh willbe I he be perpetrated upon the officers and an injury to the the f service r ce will vilI be he lone done unless they are looked after arter There are arc n no doubt douht some sonic other othier ex exceptions to the chopping process that will be urged in th the same fashion as the apostrophe of the elderly man gentleman to t-o the woodman u Oh Oh woodman that tree touch nota not single rj r f. f spare bough ou h In In youth it sheltered me and Ill I'll protect l now now Heretofore sporadic attempts to do a p. little prun prun- Jug iLig has 1133 been mooted hut but the thc axe and the saw recommended mended by Lv Senator to scale down cost everywhere everywhere every every- where when and Jn 1 to abolish every sinecure and nn every eQ office offie large or small not necessary to the admin administration of ot orth th the government is about to tu have ha its ils premier demonS demon demon- S I ra t i on |