THEHEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
inf Your Business
HOLIDAY GOODS
Now On Display At
THE CASH VARIETY STORE
Where You Get
BIG VALUES FOR LITTLE MONEY
We Help Make the
World GROW ROUND
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Althor "Washington Clw-Upi.M "Bimki and
FtauefsJ Britain," ta. Contributor Politic!
to4 Bconaaus Article t Leadln Ptrlodieala
and t Writer of EUcogniMd AutrHty n tbm
Mstloul Gonramut'i Biuuim MTuiod.
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Tuesday, December 6, 1921
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When people get so they patronize our store regularly,
they grow plump and good natured and free from care. It
isnt only because we carry a line of groceries that is unbeat
able, but it is also because patrons get the kind of service
they expect to get at an up-to-the-minute store.
Every day is a "special day" with us. We keep our
stock complete and our prices are in keeping with the times.
If you are not now a "steady" customer come in and let us
get "right" with you.
Phelps Grocery
Company
Call on or Address
C. DARBEE, Agent, Heppner, Oregon
WM. McMURRAY. General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.
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f 5"""" of paedroadi through a charmnp; Mmi-tropic V III I Hf I jP.rt I V il''i"VK'VIUIi1
n , ft T-" picturesque parks and ocean boulevards. Tlte IXSlfli ( If, If";. Id.l I l A ''ff I VV
I H Zim., ml-a .onderful aystem of hotels, apartment "VM 1 M,t M'lf TO 1 K 'IfVi
-fc tf ii-"'5'' houses, collages, bimgakw. and suites for the HW''i. $ 'V 'S ' H'lf V'ffi'l A ' ftf
V"' acronrnirxlalion of tourist, of any country in -.fioa f.V K ih4ll I
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! illustrated booklets givmg complrle informa- A- I , gj 7 I I 1 tL-
'. I 5c'"Ji Hon about this glorious plavground of the tai.nmnrt I S'?f f n3- S3 L V,
M V W Let them teU all abtHit hntel rates. pimuaan I I M T 1 C
A if railroad far through car service, the famtauj (j-. Ml- f-1 " v AlTTlFlli
V9. m Circle Tour throuh San Francisco and Sail 1 ft. f .1 I wJlJilllli
'--VwS-'A Lake Cny. .Jt a pan of the way by ocean tnp. ' f f- X , , 1 T ,
im p i f Oouthland
Ramov Create Before Lacquering.
It Is possible to protert p,'lll,he1
tneUl surfaces by applying several
coats of cold lacquer or celluloid var
nish. The lacquer should be applied
with brass camel's hair brush, after
the metal has been highly pushed.
There must be no trace of grease on
the brass or other metal when It 1
lacquered.
Do Something Worth While.
Let all the Intervals or void space
of time he employed In prayers, read
ing, meditating, works of nature, rec
reation, charity, friendliness nelgtihor
llness, and means of spiritual and cor
poral health. Never walk with any
man, or undertake any trifling em
ployment, merely to pas the time
away. Jeremy Taylor.
Quick Aid Prevents Fire.
It Is well to keep a small flre-ex-
tlngulsher convenient to the klt'hen
as a first aid to possible fire. These
extinguishers are of great value when
the fire has first starte1, but are use
less after It has made headway. Just
as with a first-aid kit, their value Ilea
In their being at your service at a mo
ment's nude.
Copyright, Western Nwipspr Union
II.
UNCLE SAM AS EMPLOYER
The United States government is the
largest single employer of men and
women In this country. At the present
time in the executive civil service of
the Federal government, and exclusive
of the army and navy, there nre em
ployed approximately 650,000 workers,
or one in 73 of all residents on Ameri
can soli, ten years of age or over, en
gaged in gainful occupations. A little
while ago, when the number of federal
employees was even larger than it Is
now, one person out of every 68 in the
United States who had any sort of a j
job at all was working for the govern
ment. These calculations are based
on recent estimates of the bureau of
the census in anticipation of the re
suits of the fourteenth general census.
Trior to the outbreak of the war,
In 1014, the number of men and women
In civil positions in the executive
service wns approximately 385,C'!0. In
1910 It had grown to 308,832. In 1917,
after our entry Into the war, it was
459,708. On June 30, 1919, the number
was 707,448. The number on July 31,
1920, was 691,116.
These figures are confessedly ap
proximations. Since the signing of the
armistice the number of federal em
ployees has been decreasing. Un
doubtedly the decrease In force will
continue to be made for months to
come, but the growth of the govern
ment business in the past few years
has been such as to make It a larger
employer In the post-war period than
It had ever been in the pre-war period.
These thousands of men and women
working for the government comprise
every type of ability and intelligence.
Their duties cover a range of activities
that far exceeds that exercised for
other public or private employers; for,
besides Its task of lawmaking and law
enforcing, of national defense and
rational finance, the government Is
charged with promoting the health and
welfare of Its people, of promoting
their home Interests, their agricultural,
mining, manufacturing, shipping, fish
ing and transportation Interests.
To do this It must Investigate, con
trol and eradicate diseases that attack
persons, plants and nnlmals. It must
Inspect livestock, foods and drugs. It
must study conditions and progress In
education, labor and commerce. It
must prevent Individual men or groups
of men from using unfair business
methods, whether in banking, trans
portation, trade or manufacture.
The government must administer
public lands and the affairs of the
Indians, and educate children In
Alaska. It grants patents of Inven
tion, It sets the clocks of the country,
forecasts the weather, and makes
observations of the stars and heavenly
bodies. It constructs buildings, docks,
roads, bridges, irrigation works, builds
cnnals and aeroplanes, makes
ordnance and ammunition, clotflilng
and other supplies for Its soldiers and
sailors. It makes all Its own money
and does all Its own printing. It dis
tributes all mall and many packages.
The government does everything
thnt any employer In the United States
does, In addition to a great many
things that no other employer does.
How does It treat Its people? Is It
a good employer or a bud employer?
Are Its employees contented? These i
are questions that I should advise the j
railroad men, the miners and other
workers who seek niillnnallzatloM of
Industry, to look Into before they com
mit themselves.
Let them find out for themselves
what government ownership would
mean to thitii.
The first thing they will discover, as
I discovered when I began the present
inquiry, Is that nobody knows, and
nobody In the government service is
charged with knowing, the exact
number of employees In the service
from day to day. Kven more astound
ing, nobody knows, or Is charged with
knowing, even approximately, the sum
of the payroll of the United Stales, :
It Is not possible to find out within
hundreds of thousands of dollars how
much the United States pays yearly
or monthly in salaries Hnd wages. I
went to the Treasury department, to
the appropriations committee of con
gress, and elsewhere where I thought
the Information might be lodged, but
nobody knew. I was told vaguely that
the government was not run on an
asset and liability basis, and therefore
It was not necessary to know the exact
number of employees on the payroll.
If the average compensation Is $1,
100, the federal civil service payroll
now amounts to more than seven
hundred million dollars annually. The
largest single branch Is the Post Office
d'-partment. with nearly em
ployees. The War department has
more than 12.'),0rf) civilian employees,
the Navy department about 00,iiO, and
the Treasury department about 00 000.
No other brunch has as many as 2.ri,000
employees. Any Institution that em
ploys one In seventy-three of all this
conntry's workers and rails for the
expenditure of such a large pnrt of
onr annual revenues Is entitled to
your aerlous consideration. Ion and
you alone pal as the inoDej.
Seeding Time
Mi ii it it ttVVU vtv W tf tf fc fc
Seeding time is here again and to get the
best results you will need the best you can get in
the way of
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Drills and Harrows
We will supply you yith these or any other
implements you may need at
Prices that arc Right
WWWITOIUMIUIIl
Every thing in Hardware
and Implements
luiniiuiuiMiiiiiiiffli
Gilliam & Bisbee
"We Have It. Will Get It, or It is Not Made."
Commencing To
Wonder?
Many people have commenced to wonder what they are co
ing to prepare during the holiday Hoason, and tho "Do Your
Christmas Shopping Early," is going to have moro followers
than evor this year.
Wo do not anticipate an earlyrush, but wo arc prepared
for It, and to those who expect to Btirve a number of friends
aud relatives during the holiday season, wo wlah to say that
anything in tho GROCERY line Is avallablo hero at prices that
please you.
Sam Hughes Co.
A SAVINGS
ACCOUNT
Is practically the only sure way to keep
funds available and at the same time make
them work for you.
4 Per Cent Paid on Savings
Farmers & Stockgrowers
National Bank
HEPPNER, OREGON.
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