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Show WRITE TO THESE MEN. The chief defects, or places where waste Is apparent In the conduct of the business of the government, that I have pointed out In these articles, have been, first, the excessive proportion propor-tion of the government income that went for military expenditures; second, sec-ond, the chaotic condition and lack of adequate supervision and control of expenditures, which have been in part remedied by the Introduction of the budget system ; and third, the haphazard hap-hazard organization of the government govern-ment departments and the unorganized unorgan-ized condition that prevailed In gov-' gov-' eminent employment. The remedy for two of these conditions condi-tions I have treated briefly in the two immediately preceding articles. I come now to the matter of reorganization reorganiza-tion of the departments and the reclassification re-classification of government employees. em-ployees. A beginning has been made on both of these matters. A joint committee of the two houses of congress, with Walter F. Brown as chairman, Is studying the whole question ques-tion of organization of the government and the function of the various departments de-partments and bureaus and Independent Independ-ent establishments. I cannot too strongly advise you to keep yourself In contact with the work that Joint committee Is doing. I have given you the names of the members of the committee In another nrticlc but I will repeat them here. They are Senators Smoot of Utah. Wadsworth of New York and Harrison of Mississippi: Representatives Iteavis of Nebraska, Temple of Pennsylvania Biul Moore of Virginia. Write to any Df them or to Mr. Brown, the chairman chair-man of the committee, who represents the President, with headquarters In the house office building here at Washington. Wash-ington. This is the third or fourth attempt (hat has been made to effect a general reorganization of the conduct of the Dusluess of the executive departments. They have all failed through luck of Interest. There was lack of public Interest, In-terest, and consequently lack of Interest Inter-est In congress. Tills Joint committee Is at work now. It is collecting facts. It Is finding out the actual condition. It Is studying the departments. Presently It will make a report to congress. If you Rill show an active. Insistent interest in til c work that It is doing, congress 1 will take action. If you do not show this Interest, there Is every chance In ! the world that no action will be taken. ind that things will remain much as I fver. J Hundreds of special Interests are I rlnmoring for the attention of con-cress. con-cress. All of them are organized. Host of them keep representatives ere at Washington. They present to Individual members of congress In a hundred skillful, shrewd, subtle ways arguments to support the legislation they are seeking to advance. It would take two or three columns of this newspaper merely to print a list of the organizations and associations that are here to keep congress mindful of their Interests. In this great clamor the common public Interest Is likely to be submerged. sub-merged. In fact, too often It has been submerged. This matter of economies and reorganizing the business of the government and taking up the tedious details of administration is a dull business. busi-ness. It has been neglected and put off time after time because of a lack of public Interest and driving force behind It. If you will supply this driving force now and display a sustained interest, you can at least put the business of government of tha United States on an elllclent basis. Congress has been negligent bo-cause you have been negligent, negli-gent, but now at last the thing has run along so far that something must be done about It. Used Insects to Fight Insct8. Control of destructive Insects by Ihe Introduction of their natural enemies en-emies has become an Important technique tech-nique during the Inst generation, writes Paul Popenoe In Science. But If competent observers are to be trusted, trust-ed, the southern Arabs employed the same method more than 100 yenrs ago In the culture of the date palm. In his "Relation d'un Voyage dans l'Yemen," P. E. Botta says: "I was able to verify the singular fact previously observed by Forskal, that the date palm in Yemen are attacked at-tacked by a species of ant which would cause them to perish If each year the growers did not bring from the mountains moun-tains and fasten In the tops of the pnlms branches of a tree that I did not recognize, which contains the nests of another species of ant which destroys de-stroys that of the date palm." Camera Built on Eye's Plan. The camera Is nothing more or less than a huge model of the eye. Light passing through the lens of the eye Is focussed on the retina, which corresponds cor-responds exactly to the ground glass screen or the plate of the camera. Though the retina's chief use is to send an impression to the brain, it Is capable of retaining an Image fur some time. Light lias the same effect on I; as on a photographic plate. To test the truth of this you have only to look for a moment at some brightly lllumi noted object, and then to cast the eyes up to the white ceiling; yuu will (ind that you see the lmure of the objector objec-tor s long time. |