To the Editor of The Protectionist: I came across a few sayings the other day which interested me very much:

It is said that the late E. H. Harriman once entered the office of one of his managers and found the man sitting at a desk piled high with papers. He was hard at work going over vouchers and other minor documents. 'If I ever come in here again,' said Harriman, 'and find you at your desk buried in papers and putting in your time on details like these, I'll discharge you. I can get a man at $1200 a year to do that kind of work.'

The problem of being a successful executive is daily growing harder. If he must shoulder the load of detail responsibility, then he can't be much of an executive. The day itself isn't long enough for both, and he couldn't stand the strain if it were. When you find a man who is always busy with details, you may know he isn't much of an executive. The real executive who is big enough for his position never does anything that others can do.

Bearing in mind the above quotations, just remember that the President of the United States runs his own typewriter.

the two things that he strove for. No man who has occupied the White House ever excelled Roosevelt's capacity for accomplishment. One of his favorite mottoes was: "Don't talk about what you are going to do—do it!" Personally, he always lived up to that motto.

One reason that Roosevelt was so successful as a statesman when he handled public questions, such as the anthracite coal strike and the Panama Canal controversy, was that he associated himself with men of ideas and action-men who were modeled from the clay of decision. Gifford Pinchot, who was long and intimately associated with the Colonel, gives this interesting analysis of the man:

"First, and most of all, his natural tendency was to act. He understood that while action may sometimes be wrong, the failure to act is almost always so. He was painstakingly careful in reaching conclusions on matters of great moment, but once the conclusion was reached, action followed instantly. This was so true that it was never safe to go to him with any plan that was not fully worked out and ready for action.

"Roosevelt trusted his men and gave them their head. He knew, as every great executive must, that he could not do it all himself. He wanted us, each within our sphere, to act as vigorously as he did himself. Once he had come to have confidence in the wisdom and honesty of an adviser, he adopted recommendations almost as a matter of course. The result was that the men working under him were not only confident in

his support, but had a feeling of pride and proprietorship in their work which doubled their efficiency. "Roosevelt led his men. He asked nothing of us that he was not ready. to do himself. He was his own severest taskmaster, and he expected of himself and actually accomplished more work than any of us. Finally, he was always more than generous in acknowledging help or good work, not seldom to the point of attributing to others the credit for things done. or said for which he was mainly responsible."

In his capacity for recognizing merit and ability in others, Theodore Roosevelt had much in common with Lincoln-Lincoln, who made his severest critic, Stanton, Secretary of War. If, for instance, Roosevelt had been, President during the recent war, he would have selected, without regard to party or policital affiliations, the men that he felt certain could obtain results and get things done.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Sept. 22-Senator Thomas (Democrat), of Colorado, read into the Record a letter he had written to the Colorado Democratic State committee announcing that he could not vote for ratification of the treaty in its present form.

The Senate passed a bill providing six months' pay to the nearest kin of any regular army man whose death results from wounds or disease not due to his own conduct. Senator Phipps, Colorado, laid before the Senate protests from wool growers against an alleged British plan to unload 50,000,000 pounds of wool on the American market this fall.

The House began general debate

on the bill levying a protective tariff on dyestuffs, as well as providing for their importation under a system of licensing.

Sept. 24-The House passed the Senate bill restoring to the Interstate Commerce Commission during the remainder of Federal control the power to review railroad rates, at present held by the President.

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Sept. 25-The nomination Houston Thompson of Colorado, to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission was confirmed, this being a reappointment.

Sept. 30-Brand Whitlock, present Minister to Belgium, was nominated to be Ambassador, and confirmed at once.

By 264 to 4, the House passed the bill advocated by President Wilson to lower the high cost of living, the measure providing that no foodstuffs shall be held in cold storage longer than twelve months and requiring that food so stored shall be marked with the date when it was placed in storage.

Oct. 2-The first test vote on proposals to amend the covenant of the league of nations came on the Fall amendment to eliminate the United States from membership on the commission to determine the boundary between Germany and Belgium. That was rejected by 58 to 30, with 29 Republicans and i Democrat voting for it and 17 Republicans and 41 Democrats voting against it. Other Fall amendments to eliminate American membership in certain commissions were rejected by votes of 56 to 31, 53 to 28, 46 to 31 and still others without the formality of a roll call.

Without a record vote the Senate passed House bill appropriating $17,000,000 for the completion of the Alaskan railway. Passed House bill increasing the amount national banks can loan on bills of lading and sight drafts from 10 to 25 per cent of their capital and surplus.

Oct. 6-The Senate adopted a bill providing $5000 fine and five years' imprisonment for persons convicted of transporting stolen motor vehicles from one State to another.

Oct. 17-The House passed the bill levying a tariff of $10 a ton on crude magnesite, $15 a ton on the finished product and $15 a ton, plus 10 per cent ad valorem, on magnesite brick.

Oct. 8-Without debate and without a roll call the Senate adopted the conference report on the bill for the enforcement of war-time and constitutional prohibition.

Opposing the proposed $38,000,000 increase in pay for postal employes in a letter read to the Senate, Postmaster General Burleson said $2,000,000 was sufficient to provide for urgent cases.

Oct. 9-Declaring in a speech that he could not vote for the league of nations without protecting reservations, Senator Walsh (Democrat), of Massachusetts, said he loved the Democratic party, but was American first, and "if a choice must be made between a league of nations and the Constitution of the United States, I am first and last with the Constitution."

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The House without a record vote, passed the bill to repeal the Canadian reciprocity act, which has been a dead letter owing to Canada's failure to ratify the agreement.

Oct. 10-Congressional action on prohibition enforcement legislation. was completed when the House, by 321 to 70, adopted the conference report on the measure.

Chairman Johnson laid before the immigration committee comunications from the State Department showing that 10,000,000 Germans and many Austrians are planning to emigrate to the United States and other American countries as soon as the peace treaty is ratified.

Representatives of chambers of

commerce and public officials from both Atlantic and Pacific coast cities before the House Ways and Means committee and the Senate Commerce committee urged legislation authorizing establishment of free zones in American ports.

Oct. 13-California bean growers before the Ways and Means committee asked a protective tariff of 4 cents a pound on beans to meet Japanese competition.

The House passed a bill granting general salary increases to the Washington police force and prohibiting their affiliation with the American Federation of Labor.

Capt. L. E. Rainey (Democrat), from the Seventh Alabama district, elected to succeed the late Representative Burnett, was sworn in as a member of the House.

Oct. 14-The Senate adopted a resolution by Senator Kellogg postponing until July 1, 1920, the operation of that clause of the Clayton anti-trust act prohibiting corporations from making purchases from their subsidiaries.

Oct. 16-The Senate rejected the Shantung amendment to the peace treaty by a vote of 55 to 35, three Democrats voting for the amendment and fourteen Republicans voting against it.

The House passed the bill recommended by the State Department extending for one year after formal conclusion of peace, wartime passport regulations.

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