| Show HOW EUROPE IS STRANGLED IN LABYRINTHS OF RED TAPE Every Now and Again a Business Man Finds His Way Into Office and Tries to Cut the Bonds Which Make Sensible Administration Impossible But Soon He is Overcome by the Dead Weight of Bureaucracy u l Correspondence EHLI July 20 There recently B appeared II Il l In the i of ot capital an nil which delighted men of or wit wll It 11 announced announce that Ihal on the tho I lh day of ot August Augut 1ST 18 Herr Albrecht Innkeeper of Teltow handed to tho police as II erty found a 1 bras bro ring of 0 estimated of the I ono one cent fhe ring had never lever beon claimed It transpires II concluded the th em nt that Herr Albrecht l dead but bul If It his hla holi apply alpl for the th ring In III legal form and pa tilt co cOIL t of or this ment the ring will be h delivered to them or to their authorized Gerin n smiled at this wa n of DC lulng nut but Germano did not They rhoy th honest hont police for pre er erIns Ins Ing the ring from decay for 30 1111 year ealS and taking tare lare that Heir Herl Al AI K were not of ot heritage hould all they said Id hov havo done the name For or they had been bEOn trained lo 10 induct the th empires empire accordIng to that Im ImI I Ie 1 ill and known In u 1 as nl govern governmental mental ted lell lall l If all the red tapo metaphorically used ullo 1 In gov government were Joined tOl In one ast lI l Hiring It would stretch from rom to the thc star Alpha make a II million turns lurnA round the nebula In Orion and still float on the ether outwards outward In the utter uttermost mot most nh of ot Interstellar HI IO lU D TATK There Is In red tape t In Franco Inextricable tangles of or It in Austria and In Russia labyrinthine thine colls Hut But Gorman has haH th tho proper Infallibility and 1110 A French policeman would have kept the ring only on live 1 years and given It to his hili bet best rl A Russian would have hae It II palmed It off oN oNon on his hl wife as gold Old Hut But n II Ger German man Is I capable ea able of keeping It 30 jears In security writing an annual ann un I on Its Ita health and offering It solemnly to the th finders heirs If the pay JB for an all advertisement costing costin half halfa a 0 dollar Tor though J I III the continent or f Germany happy Germany German l III Its It crown and glory The statue of I and his hi children In IK the Fatherlands symbol but Instead I of 1 ln crushed by h the monstrous serpent of Virgil Ger Oer millions choked stranded tran led In colls coll of ot ruddy tape Not ot without n ft struggle A silent but war here ns tI nil al over Kurop On one side al 1 stands the tho practical cal mon man who runs run hi hla by b tele telephone phone and with Ith a n I In III n a notebook Against him IH II the tit bureaucratic officials hc c cay way ay of or working U h to 10 fill 1111 up reams ramA of foolscap In Ciceronian stylo with 1 11 In the IhA Interns of his hll class the th busl bUill ne n n man sometimes trim to lOOt got Into the th Sometimes he suc IOUI succeeds Four jears ago IIO In despair IN nt at retting a man wh would fre his hI col colonial onial ministry from I fI the kalM r made iliad chief of or that department the o American Jew Bernard son n of f fn n poor Ioor Journalist and the th first I minister of ot G who could rould not lint I write Doctor Juria his name The toll wave wac receded then It I back with Ith a rush now It wont I the tho hated bark back to the th from which h he tame ame He was wass 1 s II nan man Tint wan Ills office fic Nobody bod him he nobody and though he h got ot nn 00 excel 1181 excellently 1 n tI with the III hIli IH oane became braml hol when made way for rol Chancellor a I sui bureaucrat who could no morn live Ih without red tape than n without red Y HINT o oEn I En 1 man In Germany at inika tho administration The Tho of oC business the Hal Hns of or the lino IIno the of the tho al bank and tho loto lato Horr of ot J ell all An hI same thins thing The he administration th la III anti h hut but hope lf sIY ly nil all Initia Initiative tIC tive and brain Id II Ill bj b eternal cop ing and of ot nt papers Ita perl written In a st 81 lo le that dates dato from k tho Groat Of or those critics the Intent U I Herr von on proficient of ot the bank who In the house of lords ruth le sly exposed tho Incapable procedure to owe their ell oll plight The Turkish 4 per pOl nt he showed are re little lower than Pru Hlas tho th even eon loan lonn higher than those of or tho rich German empire The n In which loans were concluded would have any an hu buln lne H man he de declared l killed all governmental tal genius but bul though talent Is IA needed for Is III required for borrowing A few fo months an angry anKI storm raged In the Prussian diet lIet over the mon of clerks and In state producing enterprises produce nothing hut only Keep heel hook Mil 1111 neediest forms write Interminable document and stamp millions of or papers In III dot clo kard It II appears thoro I one administrative that In Ip for every ever three thre mon en n In manual labor oven oen ovenIn In England which Is 11 r enough nough the proportion In I one to 16 And An nil all allmen men except the bureaucrats them admit evil 11 III In June 1909 Kaiser lal I nominated d a 0 commix commit Ion slon to to simplify the Main nil Dili tho o Ul managed I nu ed that J JI out o ii of nui 18 R mom hern were w r bureaucrat And knows know that tho 13 3 will nil 1111 a I million pages with learned arguments while the tho Wo men mn will sav find that In the th end nd th v procedure will wll bo be beIRn lengthier IRn and moro more than thun before A TITLE Is II Immortal and all 1111 red re the name amo All 11 have hao been trained In tilt tho e wn All have ha gone Kone to universities tho f cult of ot law anti and had the sacramental tal Doctor Juris lo to their n am we From rom tho moment tho Ihu Jurist unpaid If hu ho law ho hn od from life betau married ably to n R document forms regulations regulation prescription of ot procedure And whan ho has got Into Inlo tho first five of ot the civil service and can call put before his numa Actual Councilor ho he Is the tome man of ot documents do as of or yore ore As Aa Asa a II oung ho has more knowledge of at lIfo life than 40 sears lutor an aM His HI titles all of or which end in lint Hat or Coun Councilor are as aA long an II his documents He signs or 01 int he ma even On hope hOlle to tu reach tho thoe thoI I e rank of ot which tho dic dictionary briefly defines nil An official In Only a II fAw of ot his titles are Aro brief and pronounceable There Is III for Instance a and it II l rat Hinl len iven a The Thelam lam lar Is 18 nn 1111 IB In the or de A too witty who wlm lahI dined at tho hilariously hall hal mi 1 a walter waiter Sew 1010 Horr Hoch lIun IIII Ilium a mistake In our r He paid a tin dollar offensively o of ot tho pub public lic service I red Is I much older than Orman and though not BO so cf It Infallible U I much more plu Some of lIr Its procedure dates from tho Iho Holy Tho lately dr 11 an I 1 Into the Petition Chancellor if lit tho thu Fran FranJo Jo JOKer ef efA A petition l he hl Is IA read hy hyI 19 I before being b put l tha If It the nineteenth discovers nn informality hn ho return It to tho eighteenth with a n noUv Ibe UM 11 1 nth returns it to tho seventeenth HO 0 on back to number one so eo that perhaps three years afterwards the tho pe po petitioner gets get It II bock back for tor correction IN 1 DARKEST DAnKEST RUSSIA nut Hut even Austria Is I a II chiefs wigwam for simplicity of 0 procedure with Russia A out OUI of or lG cannot write the literate mostly officials must do the th documenting for tho rest rat True Trul tho civil or 01 lint lI t of of official ranks U I consisting only of or 11 from collegiate registrar to 10 Germany has hOIl ranks The complexities of the tho pro procedure In nil all state departments that III state Issues a II diagram for rr tho use UI of officials Knowing by hy bylines lines line und and arrowheads the tho order of ot the Instances whither every OWl r has hasto hasto to RO ItO It looks the tho Cretan laby labyrinth From Irom the tho hands of ot the who tuko In the tho up to tho minIster min minister I ister most papers are handled and nad by from fm 60 to 70 0 officials so III that nn 1111 order to tilt up a 11 rut In a state main road takes a IL year before It Is As A documents authorizing the eXP of say ay 20 make mak their wn 11 through tho ln In tan eK they th have haI to have hae past pasted Ia ed on to them In older to provide for or tho Innumerable signatures Hl mp And this complicated system dot does not diminish robbery but rather fosters It for the tho thief usually diM dies of o old ago before his hi guilt Is III traced tracel Rus Itu Russians fall all this amazing sIem Hant ant K or I the th officials who run Un It are nr known as gentlemen of ot tho th twentieth I h owing to the et that they live only for the tha twentieth of or month tho day da when are ar paid cigar for Mh the Ih haDn n let lire zo with tho most moi complicated c ed CIt administration In nil has hM also Indisputably the tho most Inefficient FOE OE OF AU Thre men have ha war rod 1 valiantly with 1 t ua W S Count Witte Itle refused to tB rend any papers nt nil all ran th ministry of or o by swearing nn I through tho telephone Ha hurt mens feeling but got ot tiling thing done though the th foe fol of bu hu bureaucrats lite Involuntarily did more than Ihan an one 1111 to Increase the power by hlA colossal colonl state ownership achievements He lie bought up lip practically nil 1111 the th private built miles mile of or his hlA own oln and n a state tato drink monopoly all over 01 the thc empire for the private sa 1111 saloons loons loon drink shops which ho ex x ny n such means ho h lo to the total tot a of at men mO ll and correspondingly di diminished 11 hed the number of In Private enterprises 80 So left lell the bureaucracy moro more numerous more powerful and In control of t e BM much wealth we as borore And with this Increment t Its lis power powel tho bureaucracy more morl and more Tho second wa the late Into Prince Michael el minister of ot communications communication nn In Amer American ican like Dem g who loarn d 1 practical vay by driving a II locomotive jut west It was he who In lens It t than thana a year ear sent with Run gunn and over oel the th decrepit lt tr Siberian railway The Intent who vho Is III fighting U III minister of communications Ills name is III For Tor a year past ils IS n nil a foo f of lit Chan I sin m have ha filled th native pres IrlI In Instead stead meRd of or Bitting In his hll signing pa palera Ia lera ho wanders wan all over the th empire 1 n a n w or common com mon und R I lo to loi has i ordered I the arrest or dismissal of or and Idlers Hut ut this reformers nr The In III In revolt will wll soon lIOun have to toco co 0 the Ihl Wl of or and and and all aU other champions cham of or common Te and buln as IU procedure of filling mUng up forms stamping unnecessary pa papers pers Is nn Rn fatur of or J at III the th bottom of Its It heart Is III fond of or It and the man who will overthrow the th mon man ater stor has hll yet ot to lx I l born orn DAVIS |
