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Show THE JORDAN JOURNAL, MIDVALE, UTAH +++++++++++++++++••····~· r Didn't Want Pitcher Judge Landis Watching Close Game to See Bat Plainly : i : ,.. + ~ •1~ · •!• ·~ ~ : i+ : A young man from Hartford took his girl to see one of the games at the Polo grounds between the Heds and the Giants. While. at hut one of flte players rubbed his han1ls In t~he dirt and then ran his dirty 11ands down the length of the llat se•eral times. Fans know this Is tl regular halJit of many players and think nothing of it. "Why Is he rubbing dirt on the bat?" she Inquired Innocently. "Is It so the pfteher can't see It so plainly when he tries to hit It?" J ~ : + + ~ + b .;. + ~ ~ t J<o ~ ~ : + +++++ +++++++++++++++++++++ UMPIRING HONORED .. JOB IN OLDEN DAYS Arbiters Received Utmost Courtesy From Player sAlso Were Cheered. Kenesnw Monnt~ln Landis, commissio ner of baseball, 1s Lbe game, and not many plays escape his keen eyesight. I great lover of ll BASEBALL~~~ Illinois ElPcts Kmsey NOTES MJ Rochester has signed Asa Bowdoin college outfielder. ~Ulalf, • • • Jack Dunn has taken on l:'lfcher Bob Vlnes, a·veteran of the minors. • • • Catcher Womack, released by Portsmouth, was Immediate ly taken on by Rocky Mount. • • • By JOHN DICKINSO N SHERMA N RESIDEN T COOLIDG E'S t1'8Jl.8fer b7 executive order ot the bureau of mtnea and minerals statistics dlvl· slon trom the Departme nt of tbe Interior to the Departme nt of Commerce throws another spotlight on an anomalous situation at Washington which has long held pubUc attentlon-bure aucracy and the delayed reorganiza tion of the executive departments of the federal governmen t. This change Is one of those recommended In the program of the joint congressio nal ~ommittee. It wns ronde with the approval and ro-operatl on of Secretarie s Work and Hoover of \be Interior and Commeree departmen ts. And this chanli.e was possible only because of the fact that the President bud power to made it ·under authority lodged In him by the organic act creating ·the Departme nt of Commerce . This Is the only departmen t to which &uch a tran~fer can he made by the President without action by <"Ong-ress. 8ecretary Hoover would like to reciprocat e by turning over some functions to Secretary Work, hut he "'lll huve to wnit until congress Huthorl:r.cs the reorl,'llniza tlon of the executive depm·huen ts. Secretary Hoover purposes to build up in his de.pa:-tmen t a compr{'hem ;ive dh·isinn emhraeing activities of the fedel1ll governmen t's scientific und economic research iu aid of industry. Examination shows that the research work of the Commerce departmen t and the bureau of mines overlaps in gasoline and lubricating oils; In porceleln manufactu re; In fuel; In domestic distribution !.nd foreign trade in mineral products; In t~tatlstlcs of the production of minerals ond exp.!OIIives; In safety appliances , n nd so on. Secretary Hoover, who Is a world-fam ous mining engi· Dt>er, among other thmgs, purposes to overhaul the bureau of mines and Increase Its usefulness to the mining Industry. So the transfer of the bureau of mines may be regarded as on object lesson In what ought to be clone In the reorganiza tion of the executive departments-an d isn't. Secretary Work has just run ap against another Illuminatin g situation, this Ume 1n Alaska. A compilatio n just completed by him shows that a total of $HHG7,064 wus spent last year In the ft'deral administra tion of the territory. Control of tbta expE>ndltu re \vas apportione d among nine of tl J ten exE>eutlve rlepnrtmen ts, the Departme nt of Btate being the lonesome one. Approxim ately 25 dUferent bureaus expended the appropriat ions madil by congress for the 125 governmen t activities In the territory. Three thoul'and people In All\ska-m ore than one-tenth of the white population-are In the governmen t employ. When AIE>xander Hamilton mopped out the executive depurtmen ts he grouped the diiTerent functions devoted to the same general major purpose .under single responsibi lity. Ever since· his day, as t11e nation grew and the governmen t's activities increased we have been busy undoing b1a work by dividing responsibi lity through th~ scattering of servke with substantia lly the same miljor purpose among the different executive depnrtmenta . 'ew bureaus have been thrown wher· eYer It was most convenien t or where they would be most kindly received. In this "uy bureaucra cy has ~me entrenched In the executive brunch of the governmen t. There ar.e more than 200 different bureaus, boards nnd commiss!o ns with a total of 550,000 employees . In addition there are more than 40 Independe nt eatabllsbm ents dlrect17 under either the President or congress. A good deal of this bureaucra cy Is necessary. The unnecessa ry personnel Is being cut down of late years. But nothing will cure the waste In governmen t that Is the result of bad OI1(8Dlzatlon except reorganiza tion. Now the reorganlzu tlon of the executive departments ot the federal governmen t has been 11rged upon ooagress by every President from Roosevelt to Coolidge. Congressio nal committee s and cotu· m~slona have lnv8Btlgat ed und reported Complete of reorganiza tion have been tormuEftlclency ·t.lllilcll-c>De Is before congress 'now. ID the cab1Qet like Hoovar and Work advof80rpnla tton d81 1n and day out. But DeYer slven authority to a07one to lila ;tillureil8-' attoa into eJfert It baa removed nlcllla811Cs th,. polltlca. It ball ereated tile hom ~~ervlee _..,_t• budget. It has establishe d the classlflcatl on. But until congress authorizes some one or some agency to reorganize the -executive departme nts-why, no {"eorganlz atlon, that's all. So we have this anomalous situation: The Executive and the heads of the executive depart· ments urging reorganh:a tlon; the rank and file or bureaucra cy fighting reorganiza tion, and congress hesitating between the two anrl evading the Issue. The explanatio n ot this anomalous situation Is plain. Every Item 1n the reorganiza tion prlJgJ·am steps on somebody' s toes. Everybody Is In favor of every Item except the one which cramps his own activities. Every Item is opposed by some organized minority. Congre~s is lost' In a babel of \·oices shouting approval nne! oppo:s!tlon . Organizati on and co-ordinat ion are essential In business. They are highly essential In governmen t. tor thE' goyernme"l lt Ia the greatest buslnPss undertaking yet submitt-ed to the mind of man. Bad co-ordin?.t lon among lndustrle!! finally comes home to the people aM a whole in the form of increased prices. And bad organizati on in governmen t cornea home In Jnany more dlreclions than e\·en the taxes it wastes. So ~a;·s RecrPtnry Hoover in an nrhlress before the Chamht>r of ('omnwrce of the tJnlterl Stutes in which he advo<'att>;~ "Herluf'tio n of ''-'a>;te in GovPrnment by Heorganlz ution of the Executive Departmen t's." He fir>.<t points out thnt a~ the bureau:'! and agenc-Ies nre now groupE'd and organized there are two prin,lary cnu~es of wa~te. One Is the confu;;lon of h::.. ·fc prlnci)lies. The <•ther Is the grouping that dj\"ides r\'lll'"n'dhi lily. Consequen tly there Is a lack of definite nutionnt policies. Consequen tly direct wa ·te url~es fron, overlap and conftict. As to the C'onfu~fvn of has((' principles he has this to say, In part: With the growln!f complexity of governmen t problems It has been necessary for congres• to d('legate to the executive side many Recondary legislative functions In the making of regulation s, and many second:uy judicial functions In the enforcem<:.nt of them. 'l'hat Is the so-called admln· lstratlve law. And thPre ha~ been the crudest mixIng of these semlleglsl ative and semljudlcl al functions with purely executive functions. These semljudlci al and semilegill ..~lve duties are frequently entrusted to s!ngle officers, while purely administra tive functlonll are often carried on by boards. All of this Is exactly the reverse of the basic principles of sound administra tion. Boards and commissio ns are soundly adapt~d tn the deliberate processes necessary to semljudfel al and semlleglsl atlve and adYisory functions, but they are absolutely hopeless where decisive administra tive actlc,n is nece~sary. And likewise most of such functions should not he entrusted to a single mind. There Is not a single successful business organizati on In the country that conf1tses such 'function" the way o,ye do In governmen t. He cites the shipping board liS ll glaring ease and says there are "other br<'ed;; of this snm~ ~;nt·t of confusion between individual and joint responsibilit y." Tile federal board for VOl'atlonal !o'ducatlon and the fpderal power conn! Iss ion fore two he nomt>il. And he continues: The same chaos of funcblon Is carried Into other directions where administra tive or executive officials are given these semljudicl al and semlleglsl a· tlve authorities . The sec~etary of agricultur e has been loaded with powers of a semflegirl atlve and semljudicl al character In the administra tion of the stockyard s and commodity exchanges . The secretary of commerce has semlleglsl atlve and semljudlcl al powers over navigation and some branches of communic ations. and the secretary of labor has certainly a judicial authority over matters of Immigratio n. Nor do these contusing !unctions solely reside In cabinet officers; many bureau hea.ds have such powers. The responsibi lIties In decisions under these powers are at least as Important as those of Federal courts, with this Important difference, however, that while th~>re Is theoretical appeal to the court In most cases, Y~>t practically most decisions are final. \Vorst at all. there are none of the safeguard s as to the right ot Individual s In the determina tion of questions submitted such as are In our courts. Duties of this semlleglsl atlve and semljudicl al character should not be Imposed upon administra tive officials. In those matters wh-ere they Involve semilegislative action they should not even be conferred upr.n a judge, much Jess upon executive cmctals. No Individual should be at the same time Jeglt!olator, policeman, prosecutor , juttge and jury. Every single departmen t, bureau and board In the entire governmen t should be placed upon the operating table and a cleancut separation established between semljudlcl al and aemlleglsl atlve functions on the other. The former rlghtl:r belona• f,D Individuals . A8 &:o the division of authority ovPr ~en-Ieee directed to the 11ame major purpose by PCiltterfq the.JII through unrelated croups he aaya: Pitcher Abe Applegate has been returned to Portsmout h by Butralo of the Internatio nal league. To Illustrate m:r point, I have made a partial collection of mlsftts and In so doing I have takea no account of either Incidental functions or semilegislative or •emljudlcl al agencies, except so tar a• the:r have administra tive functions. • • • It has been great weather tor hotweather pitchers, In case a team has any of that kind of pitchers. Number of De· partments or Independe nt Agencies Number of In which Bureaus or they are located Agencies » Public Works Constructi on ... U Conservat ion of National Re· 6 sources ........... ..•.....• 8 a 6 •....... Industry Direct Aid to Merchant to Aids Direct • DI~:~In_:ld·; ·t~· Ed~~~ti~;. ·::::: 1 : Direct .Aids to ''eterans ...•.• 4 Governme nt or Territories and Dependenc ies . . . . . . . • . . . . . • 4 Public Health .......... ...... 4 Purchase of $250.000,00 0 of supplies annually .......... In or • • • Lefty Shields, turned back to Richmond by the New York Yankees, is one of the sensations of the league. As to the forty indt>pende nt estab!L,;hn !t'nts retary Hoover has this to say: SP.C· The Carty governme ntal agencies which are now supposed to function directly under the President present another problem. Here we have !our breeds wblch might be classified according to the functions they perform. The semljudlcl al, the semlleglsla tive, the service bureaus to all departmen ts, and the straight administra tive. Often enough they are mixed. They are supposed to act under the direct supervisio n of the President. But It Is prepostero us to expect that lth hiM multitude of higher obligations the President can give them anything like adequate supervisio n. As a matter of fact, these Independe nt establishm ents conduct their activities with very little supervisio n or co-ordinat ion. The administra tive. expend la~t group, the straight nearly half a blllton a year-as much as the total ot five of the departmen ts under cabinet officers. If. for no other reason. this group should he placed directly In the departmen ts In order that the President may exercise through his cs Mn~t the guidance and control of the adminlstra ti\"e arm of the government. And the President, alrell.dy overworke d In major policies, must be relieved or detail. "What we ne!'d," concludes Recretory Hoo>r:r, "is three primary reforms: r;,rst, to group to· gcther ull agencif's having the same predomina nt major purpose under the same administra tive supervisio n; se<'ond. to separate the semljudici al nnd semlleglsl otlve .and advi~ory functions from the administra tive functions, placing the former under the joint minds, the latter under single responsibi lity, and tl1lrd, we should relieve the President of a vllSt amount ot direct admlnlstra · tlve htbor. "I do not exj>ect that the ted~>ral goverronen t will ever be a model ot organlutlo n, btn' I • • • Jimmy Ylox, veteran of many yenrs' diu mond toll has resl~'lled as manager of the RocltY l\Iount team of the Ylrginla league. • • • They ore ~lnglnr; "Down Went 1\IeGinty" in the ease of .T(\f• ~lcGinnity's Dubuque team, whlr-11 !;as been able to grub a winning hoiJ. Joe ·wright Planning to Follow Fa~her's Footsteps • • • Joe Wright, Jr., plnn~ tn follow in Mandy B1·ooks, young- outfielder oh· the foot~tep~ of his fntlH·r, Penn~yl by the C;J!Js from C'olumbus of talnl'd vania's famous rowing roach, many a~~oeiatlon, contlnu,>s tn Americ11n the of whose greatest triump~s nrP re· with the bat. sensation a be cordPII in the unnals of the Argonaut Rowing club of 'l'<•ronto. Tony Brottem, Loni:n·l!le Aml'rlran The vf'teran oarsman wl!l supf'r>ise catcher ns~nciati,,n . secon·l-strl ugthe developme nt of his son. with the to the ~old since ][1~2. has bePn ultimate ob.1ect of liftln::: the DiaRochester Internatin nal league club. mond Scull,: in till' HoyQl English Hen· ley regatta, a fPat which the elder The Jersey C'lty Internutio nnl hn:sr>· Wright vainly tried to IICrompll~h In bnll team nnnoun<'ed the purc·hase of 1893. Wright managed to win a heot. Pitcher Zit Sloan from lhe • ·ew Orbut was defeated in the final~. He did, club of the Southem association . leans howevE'r, lift the Bedford cup, one ot the English sculling cln~;;i<'s. Walter No>ak, former Chlc1igo smHl· Joe Wright, .Tr .• is nineteen years star. who was susJwndNI hy 8eclot old, six fePt three Inches in height, retury Farrell some time ago for Yioand weighs 185 poundR. latlon of the rules of org-anized Laseball, has been reinstated. • • • • • • • • • Big League Clubs Seek to Sign Pitcher Torpe Big league cluhs are ~aid to he of Dominkk services after the Torpe, st11r hurler on the New York unlvE>rsity team. Torpe hns het>n pitc-hing stellnr ball this sl'allon, h11vlng bentE'n some of the Lest college nines ln the Ea~t. Torpe has plenty of speerl, a good He is curve and first-class c-ontrol. fielder. sure and hitter, fair nlso a Many experts 11long the Atlantic C'Oast rank him oo a par with OwPn Carroll, sensationn l pitcher for Holy CrosR. And that's saying quite a bit, for Carroll, without a doubt. is one of the greatest college pitchers o! oil time. r:i • • • Aldridge an1l Grantham, Pll tsburg-h players acquired from Chlcu,:;:o 'nst spring for ~laranYille. arc tigurin.! prominent ly In the onwnr~l rush of the Pittsburgh te11m toward first place. • • • "That fellow Hughey C'rftz is quite a ftpl!)er oroun<l second hnse," remarked J)azzy Yance. "I helle\·e he can rover just as much grnund as Frankie Frisch. lle certainly has helped to keep our hits down." Miller Best Marksman +++++++++++++++++++++++: : .+ : Borchert Tried to Split Boxing Purse t t Otto Borchert, owner of tlJ,e Milwaukee hnseball club, ls also + a boxing promoter. Recently be engaged two box- + ers for the main e>ent, contrnctlng to pay one of them $10,000 ~ for 12 rounds of boxing. As t;lllngs turned out this leather + : pusher took 11 knockout punch : on the jaw In the sixth round. + When It came time to settle up : after the fight the boxer was + 1 surprised to receive but $5,000 : tor his eiTorts. "You promised me $10,000, + and I've got It in writing," said : the tin-ear. "Yes, but you said you'd box ~ ~ 12 rounds and here you have I Harrod G. Miller of Kahoka, 1\Io., half only gets you only six-so who attained the highest marks In + of it." marksman ship ever attained at the argumetlt + Of course, that Unite~ States M111tary academy. In ~ didn't hold, but It was a goodj recent tests he hlt 834 out of 350 lmllaeJeJ, which ls a mark for tutu~ caone tor Otto. deta to shoot at. ++++++++++++++•••••••.,.. : I t ii I i bav•l f aspiration s to 1ee It improve." The Tulsa club of the Westeran league, hos purchased Pitcher I•'red Hutton from Des Moines of the same league., I un.l~r a cabinet offil'cr; but It Is entirely feasible to place <'ach one of them under the supervisio n of a special assistant secretary, and If we were truly Intellig-ent we would class him as an expert and outside 01electlon on political grounds. It Is entirely ~econdary what departmen t these groups are ln. 'l'he htg thing Is to bring- these kindred agPn••ies together under one leader,hlp so that their overlapping edg-es can be clipped and thdr tights stopped. !'<o one familiar with the internal workIngs oC the dPpartmen ts will deny the direct waste which comes from overlap and friction as the result of the present lack of co-ordinat ion of actlvftie". Co-ordina tion i~ feasible when some one person Is responsibl e: with divided authority among the difCerent branches of governmon l It Is a hypothesis that evaporated soon after the perennial conference s of cabinet officers on the subJect. It all costs somebody money. One of the f our newspaper corre!a vorite Indoor sports spondents Is to ventilate these conlllcts. The dlvld(·d responsibi lity with absence of centralized authority prevents the constructi ve and consistent developme nt of broad national policies In these Rpechl branches of governme ntal activity, for there Is hy necessity oC this division constant conlllct of view within the governmen t itself. Under the present system we have different bureau policies. board policies. and pol!cl<'~, d(.>...,..~tment have a bundle ot \\'e commissio n pollciPs. divergent Ideas without focus! lumber plied together does not make a house. The treatment of our national resourees furnishes a good Instance. It anything Is certain. It Is that the go\·ernmcn t should have a continuous , definite, and consistent policy directed to lntelltgent conservati on and use of national resourees. But It can have no sucb policy so long as responsibiL ity is SJ>llt up among halt a dozen different departmen ts. The recent occurrence s In oil leases are a Calr example at what may happen hy the lack of slnglehead ed responsibi lity In such matters. 1-;o policy of real guardiansh ip of our reserve r!'sources will exist until we put all con~ervation busin(.>ss In the hands of an undersecre tary for consen·atl on, with the spotlight of public opini~a continuous ly upon him. Yankee Rookie Stars • • • D. C. Kinsey '26, one of the world's greatest hurdlers, has been elected captain of the Unlvet:!lty ot llllnoi::~ track team tor 1926. Kinsey, who, as a sophomore last year, won the 110meter high hurdle ruce in the Olympic : games. hol<ls the Illinois reeortl !pr 4 the 1~0-yord high IJUrdles at 15 secIll' 1 1 d 2 1110 s rt>ConrlH. He also hoi s t 1e 2 ord In thP 2:.!0-yard low hurdles In every. bureau 24 3-5 sef"onrls. ------the governmen t It Is not necl'ssary that each of these groups should becon1e a ·wh~tle executive departtnen t, ench There have been many radical departures in baseball from the eustormt One Is treatment of of other days. umpires. In the early part of hasehall- trom 1850 and 1SGO-an umpire was highly honoretl. After each game the players would give three cheer>~ for each othPr and then, os a grand fiuale, they would bellow forth with three more-and sometimes nine--for the umpire. In cost cases, at least up to 1 i'.O, the umpire was one of the dlstfng-ul:shed men of the city. The clubs Yied with each other ln trying to secure the most promlneni personage: ;. They were often given easy chairs, ploced near the home plate, prov!dPd with fans on hot days, nnd their absolute comfort was uppermost In the minds ot the players. After each game In the early '60'1 sandwiche s, bePr, cakes and other refreshment s were served by the home team. The umpire always received the choicest bits of food and the largest glass of beer-in cose he cared for such beverage. It he didn't he needed but express his desires In the thirst-quen ching line before the game started-a nd he got tt. t t t t t t Wunninger , who relieved Scott from the shortstoppin~ dutie.~ on the Xew York Yankees. Scott Is taldng a rest after setting the conset'utiv e playing record. \Yunninge r, a rookie, Is starring-. [~o.rtffiJies] . .. Penn will dl'vote only two we ts to • fall football practice. ~ Charles F. Drew of Washingto n, C., \HIS elected captain of the Am• herst college truck team. n. ... ... The da)·s of the war will be ca ed t"o lllr. Dempsey while he Is abroad If he hnppens to get near any :;hlpyords. • • • The current under tanding s that If someone took a healthy swing at it, Mr. Dempsey would have a caul!ftowet • nose. • e • Cornf'l! establishe d the Poughkeep sie four-mile record for rowing in 1901, when Courtney's varsity won In 13.53 1-(i. • • • One thPory Is that Europe bE>gan colling her wilt!Pr polftkian~ the Left after seeing an American southpaw on the mound. • • • Micky Collins of Austrnllo, welterwelgilt boxer who Is hailed ns a second Les Darcy, Is being groomed in hlil native land for the champion hip. • • • for use London has 316 pla)·l~g !lei varioms in players soccer of youthful public parks. Clubs must make application for playing spa<'e early etch year. Lost year 850 applied. • • • England believes that cricket foro women has come to stay. The game Is played keenly and seriously at girls' schools throughou t the country. The~ an al80 'man7 women's c:rfcket dubL ,.. |