iffi typ/ or Doz/vc Is the undertaking which is one of the pet projects of President Taft and to carry it out congress has appropriated the sum of SIOO,OOO. Every since he entered the White House President Taft has been im bued with the conviction that the ma chinery of government could be oper ated at much less expense than has been the case for years i>ast. Among practical business men the Federal government's wasteful and costly methuU of carrying on its business has for years been nt once a Joke and a reproach and Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island voiced the general opin ion when he recently declared that he could administer the afTairs of the biggest business institution on the continent and by the Introduction of modern methods and policies save felly $300,000,000 a year over the prer.ent cost. The recent legislation by congress was designed merely to enable the president to start the ball rolling for reform In the conduct of the Federal business. With SIOO,OOO set aside to Inaugurate the work, the president is to employ accountants and Belfast's Great N MANY respects Messrs Harland & Wolff's shipyard, * Queen's Island, Delfast, is f .-. ,• the most remarkable con !f V S cern of the l< ' Dd ' n ,be -—;—: — world. For many years past thoy have taken the lead In the con struction of the largest ships afloat; they have cut two of the finest liners on the sf as in twain, and added con sidcrable to their dimensions; and they have built half a vessel, the stern ha.f, and had It towed safely fiom Bel fast to Southampton, whore It was built into the other half At present on tho stocks of their North yard tvo mammoth White Star boats ol 4.">.- 000 tons each are fast, approaching the launching stage. This line's entire fleet ha;t been built by Messrs liar land & Wolff. Fro n the available record it ap pear-. ihat the first Belfast built ship wa* a wooden schooner of 150 tons, tin builder be ing a local Presbyterian clergvmau. This was In 1836, but It wn not until I*so any serious attempt *a' made In the shipbuilding line so far us itolfast wus concerned. In that ji ar M<>.-i.-. Thomas llarnes it Co., in r (tuition to startiug the Belfast iron w.irks, erected a small slip on tli • now famous Queen's Inland, which •inn long since loi>t 111 Insular posl tion though . till retaining the name *Ulch v. as given It after the late Qu •< ti Victoria's visit In ISI9. pluvious to which It w iui known as Bargain's Island. The Ironworks proved a fail ure, owing to |lie heavy expenses In ctirr d In bringing the coal and Iron dton' to Itulfust, but the hiuull ship yard thrived exceedingly under the »ute rv it-ion of Messrs. Kobert lllek sol h Co., who acquired It frotn It* leurders. Mr. K'dward J Harland, an English man, 'a* manager foi Me,.-r? Hick wn, and In 1869 he purchased the con cern iron Me. «i>. lllek on, as well km n hfnsll : aid adjoining, b< longing to tie ISelfast Shipbuilding company, vhers wooden vetiuvls only wero bultt. experts from official and private life and to inquire into every phase of the methods of transacting the public business of the government in the sev eral executive departments and other governmental establishments. It is expected that many of the recommen dations for reforms which will be made by these business physicians can be carried out promptly with no other authority than tho order of the president, but where congressional ac tion Is necessary there is assurance that it will be forthcoming. The president has placed this entire overhauling of the governmental busi ness systems in the hands of his very capable new secretary. Mr. Charles D. Norton, who had quite an interval of experience as assistant secretary of the treasury before coming to his pres ent post and who while in that depart ment Inaugurated the"house clean ing" of the treasury's business sys tems which became In effect the fore runner of the broad rejuvenation that is now to sweep the entire Federal es tablishment. Mr. Norton has Invited the leading experts in the country, in cluding such authorities on the sub ject as Maj. Charles Hlne, the reor ganization experts of the Harriman lines, to submit written programs for governmental business reorganization and from these propositions he will select plans, to be carried out. It is the supposition that Mr. Norton's vate business experience as the pro prietor of one of the largest general insurance agencies in tho country for years before he entered the govern ment service will stand him in good stead In select lug improved business Two years later Mr. Harland'was Join ed In partnership with Mr. Oustavius Wilhelm Wolff, a wealth;. German, and In 1574 Messrs. Walter 11. Wilson (de ceased) and William James Pierre (now Lord Herro), pupils of the Arm, j were also made partners in the con cern, which was subsequently floated ! us a limited liability company. The business of the firm from the ; very outset continued to Increase by | U-aps and bounds. In the year 1884, | exactly 15 years after Mr. llarlaud acquired the controlling Interest in I the concern, there were launched from the Queen's Island yard 42 ves- M-iti, aggn gating 105,625 tons burden. In (lie three years ending 1890 their lotal was 31 vessels, ol 126,175 tons. On three ocaslons since they have lohlev d the record 12 months world's output, the figures being: in 1907, 82.- '240 tons; in ISIO3, 110,000 tons, and in i I9as 106 528 tons. But perhaps one ol the longest of 1 xt'vcral very tough tasks undertaken iiy the firm of liar land & Wolff was the lengthening of the Castle lino Koyal Mall steamer Scot (now the I Oceana, of the Dutch Ued Star fleet). It was In 1596 that the Scot, a Green | ockhullt steamer of some seven or eight thousand tons, was sent to llel- I last to have 50 feet added to her length amldthlp. Messrs. liarland & Wolff | undertook the jol> The vessel was cut ' 111 halves, and with the aid of power | ful Jacks the two end» were pulled the j required distance apart. Kach end ' was several thousand tons dead weight, ' yet the work was accomplished with ; out bit< h or accident of any kind to the complete satisfaction of the own ers Towards the end of the same i i n that vt > "l was taken piece meal off the rocks at the entrance to ihe KngiL-h i-banuel 3 ume four ur five CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1910. systems for the government. While Mr. Norton will have the gen eral direction of the new project ho will have the assistance of a board of directors, as it were—a commission composed of one executive officer from each department and Independent bu reau at Washington and this commis sion will co-operate with the experts in bringing about the big reform. The present movement, it may be added, is not designed so much to enable the cuttinff off of a clerk here and there — although doubtless many clerks will be retired as a result of Its economies— as to formulate an entirely new struc ture of business methods. Several of the government depart ments have started on overhauling of their business systems without wait ing for the general reconstruction and what has been accomplished thus In piece-meal fashion gives a forecast of what may be expected later. In the U. S. land office, iir instance, book keeping methods have been so sim plified that a single volume now holds the records that formerly required twenty-one different books. In one office 16 standard printed forms now do the work that formerly necessi tated 83 different documents and In the postoffice department $175,000 a year Is being saved In twine bills by means of a new tying device. Ind dently it may be noted that some of the most radical economies that are expected as a result of Uncle Sam's latest move are looked for in the mail ing rooms of the departments where tons of government documents are wrapped, addressed and mailed each day. years ago. The stern portion only was saved and brought round to South ampton, where it remained until Messrs. Harland & WolfT built the bow end, 260 feet long, in the south yard, subsequently, with the aid of three Liverpool tugs, bringing the weird looking half ship right down I the Irish channel, round the Land's I end, and up to Southampton. I The repairs to the China, of the F. I and O. line, and the Pails, of the Am ' erican line, were also remarkable un dertakings, as was also that of the St. i Louis lor the lattt r company. The China. it was in 1870 the first Oceanic was built on the Queen's Island for the White Star company. It was u vessel ! considerably under 1,000 tons. The | second Oceanic, launched in 18!)2. has | IK times the tonnage almost, while : even up till the present day no one outside the management of the firm, with the exception of the heads of the White Star company, knows the exact dimensions of the two giant . boats now being built for this great 1 ocean carrying lirm, so welt has the secret been guarded. That they will ! be between 820 and 840 feet In length, and of about 46,000 registered ton nage. Is the extent of knowledge of I the outside public regarding these i monsters The firm can In no He:is* be regard | ed as builders for speed, elegance and comfort for ocean voyagers being ! their especial motto. None uf the ' boats built by them Is Intended to ex 1 ced 21 knots or 2lty knots, which. It Is understood, will be the rate of trav ; ellng of the coming White Star levia thans. the motive power of which will lm on tin combination principle of reciprocating turbine engine*. At the present moment between 11 mm ami 13.000 employees are In constant em ployment, working at high pressure | nlghi and day shift, and reo« Ivlutt ; wag ito the tune uf tver X 2 000 pt>i : wi i k. while the me* uf concert j Is abo.it 120 acres GOSSIP Cruise of World for Naval Cadets WASHINGTON.— The fighting ships are going on another cruise, partly to rthe sake of the cruise and partly to advertise the nary and at tract young men to it. Sixteen of the battleships will turn their prows away from the home land and steam off into the Atlantic, bound on a tour of the European ports. For months the publicity experts of the navy department have been ex ploiting the voyage for the purpose of getting young men to recruit. Not all of them will be chosen togo, but they all have an equal chance and those who do not go this time will go the next time, for it is the purpose to have these cruises every year to make the service more atractive to young Americans and cause them to enlist in BUCIJ numbers as are required for the proper manning of the fighting ships. When this cruise was first an nounced. several months ago, the navy department issued advertising matter to draw recruits. One of its most ef fective documents was a circular let ter, prepared at Washington, but sent out from tho various recruiting sta tions. It was written In a heart-to- Put Under Bonds to Keep the Peace MEXICO is a striking illustration of the way modern business puts na tions under bonds to keep the peace. A naturally turbulent Latin-American republic, mainly Indian in blood, pays coupons on its government "bonds to oltizens of 21 nations. That is the number of countries represented last year. In 1907, coupons on Mexican government bonds were redeemed for citizens of 16 nations. Every country so interested, through Its citizens, in the stability and hones ty of the Mexican republic, is an in fluence on the side of peace and or der in Mexico. In a very real sense the Mexican nation has given bonds to keep the peace by selling govern ment securities to foreigners living under many flags. Less directly, but still in ways that count heavily the sales of private property to foreign Investors are also equivalent to giving bonds to keep the peace. In the last quarter of a cen tury American capital to the amount of not less than $1,000,000,000. accord ing to excellent authorities, has been Invested in Mexican mines, planta- Bank Failures Due to Lax Examiners CLOSE upon the heels of the radical shake-up In the ranks of the United States bank examiners, by which 20 men were shifted to new fields, Controller of Currency Murray announces that he will make a per sonal In vatlgatlon of conditions in all examinafton districts. In deciding upon this course of action the con troller says: "In almost every case of a national bank failure since I have been con troller the Insolvency could have been averted hud the national bank exam iner determined the true condition and reported his findings in time for me to force a correction In the administra tion of the bank's affairs." After citing that examiners of failed Want to Shorten 'Long Green' Notes THE length ami breadth of the paper money Issued by the government are not fixed by statute, but by habit the notes iii e 3.04 Inches long and 7.2K Inches wide. The treasury department renews the plan mure than once pro- IMised before to reduce these dl menslon The slae talked about Is 2 b Inches by six Inches, which has for some time B 111 used with favor In the Philippines. Our people are fa miliar with the notes as they are and tills have been fitted to them, Put traders and bankers handled the frao tloual currency of war times with ease and that paper was smaller than that the treasury Is now cou.slderlng The e»st of the change would be In providing au. entire u»w *• n»s of heart stylo. The cruise meant, ac cording to the letter-writer, "that thousands of young Americans will have a chance to see the world and get paid for it. Do people who save for months or years togo abroad ever regret It? 1 want to ask you this Im portant question: Are you willing to travel If you are well paid for It, or would you rather stay at home and read about It?" Naturally, when It Is put up to him In that fetching fashion, the young man concludes that he would a good deal rather travel and get paid for it, and he hies to the nearest recruiting station and enlists. Long cruises cost a lot of money, but they bring in young men and the navy must have young men even if they do come high. Another heart-to-heart letter Is ad dressed to the young man who is tireA of his Job. "Perhaps you are un happy in your present lob," writes the recruiting officer. haps it doesn't pay you enough. » there is no future to it. Perhaps your present work will never satisfy your burning ambition to win great success. Well, now if you want to change your Job, I'd like to have a talk with you and tell you all about a bluejacket's life in the navy." If the young man Isn't tired of hia Job that letter Is calculated to maka him tired of it.and the navy gets an other man. Other appeals are mada, but the cruise talks are what bring the best results. tlons, railroads and other Mexican property. European money has poured Into Mexico in a similar stream. Of course, no Mexican government ever guaranteed the security or the profitableness of such Investments. No government of any great power would undertake to collect from the Mexican people, as a nation, money to make good the losses sustained by Americans , making unwise invest ments in Mexico. It is not a question of such compulsion. But every power which has many subjects who have staked money upon the stability of the Mexican republic, the justice and solidity of the Mexican government, and the general sanity and regard for business obligations of the Mexican nation, will exert more or less pressure upon Mexico if that country should ever default as a na tion or encourage its citizens to re fuse to pay their just debts. In the aggregate these forces brought to bear upon Mexico can be trusted to have a deep and wide influence there. Such international business bonds of peace are constantly becoming more important in many parts of the world. Every year the financial and commer cial ties which knit the nations to gether increase in strength. Always the tendency of the times is toward the creation of closer international re lations and a surer sense of common Interest in the preservation of peace. banks had offered excuses that they had been unable to learn In advance of a bank'B true condition, that offi cers and directors of banks would not correct conditions brought to their at tention, or any one of another doaen reasons, Mr. Murray in his statement says: "Many of the examiners state In their reports of examinations, forward ed to the controller's office, that It is a hardship not only on the examiner but upon many of the members of the directory of country banks, to ask the various boards to meet with the ex aminer during the progress or at the closo of the examination. "This Investigation by the controller and his chief of the division of re ports is also an Investigation Into the methods employed by every national bank examiner, and upon seeing them make an examination of several banks and afterward holding a meeting of the directors, he will be able to deter mine who of his examining force, II any. are inefficient." plates nnd that would bo much great er than the renewal of such as wear out. On the other hand tho experts reckon that a saving of 1G12.003 a year rutty be made by the reduction In size. The secretary will ask congress to conform the bank bills to the new dl menslons at government charge for new plates. The work of so modifying the paper currency would require 18 months, so that no sudden appearance of the smaller notes can be expected While engravers and printers might be busy, the scheme would pass Into au old story. 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