Tuesday, December 13, 1921
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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You Can Be Both
Tired and Happy
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Tired after a day's hard work in the house and happy
because you have the most improved washing machine, kit
chen range and complete set of kitchen utensils in your house.
If you are not completely equipped with the HARDWARE
NECESSITIES of life, it will only take us about a minute to
prove to you that you are the loser not only in dollars and
cents, but in the fact that you are losing a whole lot of satisfaction.
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Peoples Hdw. Co.
WE AIM TO PLEASE AXD OVU AIM IS TRUE !
Mr. AUTO OWNER
Come in and examine the new
"Nonok Bearing Bolts"
Which will put an end to loose bearings in your
car. Cars so equipped have been run over 70,000
miles without adjustment and still were running
without a "knock." Think what bolts of this
kind would mean in that old Ford.
This is not only one of the latest butt also one
of the greatest discoveries in the perfection of
automobile motors.
When the bearing is once taken up it STAYS
Don't forget that old adage: "A stitch in time
saves nine."
COME IN TODAY AND LET US INSTALL
A SET IN YOUR CAR
FELL Bros.
ONE BLOCK EAST OF HOTEL PATRICK
The Eats That are
TREATS
We make it our business to sell meats for eats that are real
treats. And we don't comply with the1 food laws because it is
compulsory we do it because we want, and expect to get good
service and fair treatment from merchants and professional
men with whom we deal, and because we know it is our busi
ness to sell only the best.
For breakfast, lunch, or dinner we can supply your wants, no
matter how elaborate or how conservative. We have arrang
ed to fill all orders and would like to see your meat order.
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Central Market
Where the Cypres Growt.
The cypress tree grows In swampy
districts In the southeastern section
of the tnlted StHtes. About forty
per cent of the present available sup
ply Is in Louisiana and about twenty
five per cent in Florida. The remain
der is scattered through the states
'hat border the Atlantic, the Gulf of
Sleilco and the lower course of the
Mississippi.
Dam Not Built by Expert.
The failure of the dam which caused
the famous Johnstown flood, May 81,
1S89, wan due to defect of construc
tion, explained by the fact that no en
gineer was employed im deaJgnlcf or
building the dam.
Leader Feeli His Power Gone.
In full lieaUh a stag Is always proud
of his ability an lender and champion,
and waves h's gleaming flute Inces
santly, signaling to his family that
way. Hit lilm with a bullet, and down
does his flag Instantly. He will save
himself If he can. lint he does mi
wave on the others to follow him.
Scatter and save yourselves, he would
My.
True National Glory,
The true glory of a nation does not
consist In the extent of Its dominion,
In the fertility of the soil, or the
beauty of natore, but rather In the
moral and Intellectual nre-emioenra nt
tte people. Sir John Lubbock.
Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Afltbor "Wuhfaftoa CleM-Upi," "Bank m9
Financial Systems," ate. Contributor Political
and Economic ArtieltM to Leading Perfodieala
and a Writer of Rcornixed Authority on tha
National Govtnunnt' Btuioeaa Method.
Copyright, Weatera Newspaper Uoioo
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WARS EAT UP THE TAXES
When I set out to discover for you
where the money you pay as federal
taxes goes I did not have fur to look.
It goes for wars, past, present and
prospective. Last year a little over 90
per cent of the national Income went
that way. In the report of the secre
tary of the treasury submitted to con
gress in December, 1020, he remarks :
An analysis of government expenditures
for the fiscal year 1920, on the basts of
daily treasury statements, develops the
striking fact that of the net ordinary dis
bursements of $6,403,000,000 about SK) per
cent consisted of expenditures under the
following heads:
Purchase of obligations of for
eign governments 421,000,000
War department 1,611,000,000
Navy department 736,000,000
Shipping board 631,000,000
Federal control of transporta
tion systems and payments
to the railroads under the
transportation act, 1920 1,037,000,000
Interest on the public debt 1,020,000,000
Tensions 213,000,000
War-risk insurance 117,000,000
Purchase of federal farm-loan
bonds 30,000,000
Total $5,716,000,000
Substantially all the expenditures
entering Into this total, and a large
share of the expenditures on various
minor accounts, represent burdens di
rectly traceable to the war, to past
wars or to preparedness for future
wars. These figures serve to indicate
the direction which sincere efforts to
reduce the cost of the government
must take.
Then I found Mr. Gilbert, the under
secretary of the treasury, saying:
There has been much Idle talk to the
effect that the excessive cost of govern
ment is due to inefficiency and extrava
gance In the executive department.
Without doubt there has been waste and
inefficiency in the various government de
partments and establishments, and much
can be accomplished, and has already
been accomplished, by the Introduction
of efficient and economic methods of ad
ministration and the elimination of du
plication and unnecessary work. It might
well be possible to save as much as
$SO.OO0,0O0 or $100,000,000 by careful and sci
entific reorganization of the government's
business.
The figures show that over 90 per
cent of the total annual expenditures
of the government are related to war.
Out of total expenditures during 1920 of
about $6,400,000,000, about 6V4 billions rep
resented expenditures directly traceable
to the war, to past wars, or to prepared
ness for future wars. Of this, about
$2,500,000,000 went for the army and navy,
over $500,000,000 for the shipping board,
over $1,000,000,000 for the railroads, another
$1,000,000,000 for Interest on the public debt,
almost $600,000,000 for purchase of obliga
tions of foreign governments on account
of their war expenditures, and the remain
der for pensions, war risk allo'jnents and
miscellaneous Items related to war. An
analysis of the expenditures of the first
six months of the fiscal year 1921 gives
similar results. The figures also show
that the total cost of running what may
be termed the civil establishment proper,
that Is to say, the various government
departments, boards and commissions and
the legislative establishment, have not
much exceeded $260,000,000 even in the ab
normal war years.
I sought detuils. If more than 90
per cent of the entire disbursements
of 1920 went for past and prospective
wars, how much had we been spend
ing to keep the world safe for democ
racy? We are all familiar with the
argument that the best way to prevent
war Is to be prepared for war. I
thought I might find out whether that
was true. I went back Into the rec
ords and found that yeur by year,
from 1S34 to 1019 Inclusive, the treas
ury department had kept an account
of the actual disbursements not ap
propriations, mind you, but actual
money expended of the War depart
ment, the Navy department and for
pensions. When I got all the figures
before me I couldn't add them up.
In the bureau of Internal revenue
they loaned me a machine and un
operator, and so I know and can tell
you that from 1HM to and through
1919 the War Department actually dis
bursed $l!3,OU2,3!),fX)8.0r. In the same
period the Navy Department spent
$C,907.WJ9,032.84 ; and pensioner of
past wars got $5,534,O79,004.23.
That is a thundering total of $29,
909,739,041.49 for the army and navy
alone, leaving out of account the
Jo,G34,079,094.23 for pensions.
I will let you decide whether any
part of the twenty-nine billion dollars
spent for preparedness and for war
prevented our going to war or found
us prepared when we went to war.
The three items I have enumerated
are only ribs of the skeleton of the
cost of war preparation and activity.
I have not been able to excavate any
other detail figures. Hut it Is known
that the war of 1812 cost ubout $133.
703.SW.
The cost of the Mexican war la esti
mated to have been $'53,005,021.
The total cost of the Civil war, tak
ing the period from June 30, 18i;i, to
June 30, 1800, may be figured clowly
at $3,500,000,1)00.
The treasury In the winter of 1920
21 estimated In a report sent to con
gress through the secretary that the
coot of the World war to u to that
date had been $24,100,000,000, exeln
alve of our loans to the allies and
flier foreign natlona.
So- you see the cost of wan go
ing up, no matter how mttrh money
spend" by way f preparation.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. R. J. VAUGHAN
DEMIST
Permanently located In Odd
fellow's Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
DR. A. D. McMURDO
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Telephone 122
Office Patterson's Drug Store
HEPPNER, OREGON
F. A. McMENAMIN
LAWYER
Office Fhone Main 643
Residence Phone Main 665
Roberts Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
S. E. NOTSON
ATTORXEY-AT-LAW
Office in Court House
HEPPNER, OREGON
SAM E. VAN VACTOR
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
First National Bank Bfdg.
HEPPNER, OREGON
WATERS & ANDERSON
FIKE INSURANCE
Successors to
C. C. Patterson
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HEPPNER, OREGON
DeLUXE ROOMS
Summer Rates
75c & $1.00
Over Case Furniture Co.
WOODSON & SWEEK
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Masonic Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
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Protection For YOUR
Savings
Our savings depositors enjoy the pro
tection of the Federal Reserve System, of
which the First National Bank is a member
a Government institution with its billions
of assets and its strict United States Govern
ment supervision.
As a depositor here, you know that your
savings are safe guarded by the resources of
the First National Bank, back of which is the
protection of the Federal Kescrve.
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Satisfy yourself first of all that your
savings are safe.
First National Bank of
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Heppner
A Member of the Federal Reserve
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ristmas Clothes
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Men
Most men want new clothes for Christmas
but they have a hard time deciding just what to
get and for that very reason many men have
come to depend upon this shop to make their
choice for them.
If you have never enjoyed that service,
come here now and find out for yourself how con
venient it is.
We would like to show you the new Togs to
day. Will you spare a short time to sec them?
There will be no insistence that you buy just be
cause you come to look.
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loyd Hutchinson
Where They Clean Clothes Clean
Restlessness a Universal Trait.
Life In the aea In so much easier
than on land, and yet all rreuttjrcs
seem to want to Invade the earth.
Through million and million)) of
years animals have heen trying to Ret
out of the sea In order to lend more
Interesting Uvea ashore. Our geueral
aquatic ancestry la Indicated hy the
fact Unit our blood him almost the
same decree of witness as the it-a.
And th human ear, with Ita delicate
chain of bones, corresponds with the
organs of th fish.
Resemblance.
A slnger'e range la like a kitchen
range If It li food ene It will drew
well.
Enfllith Center of Industry
"The Potteries" la a district of
North S'affordshlre, Kngland. It la
the chief wnt of the china and earth
enware lnd '.try. The principal ren
ters are i.urHlein, Hmiley, London,
Kenton. Tun-tall arid Stoke-on-Trent,
all of these being amalgamated In 1!10
a a single municipal borough under
the name of Htake-onTrent, The
Wedgwoods and the Mlntons are the
most famous fnmlllea connected with
the china Industry.
Tribute to Agriculturist.
The agricultural population pro
ducea the bravest men, rallant sol
diers, and t claim f citizen the least
flreo to evil designs. Cato.
Diplomatic Bob.
Hob and I were out willing wh n ih
boat whs capNUed by a auddwi -hilt,
lug breeze, wrltea a correspond of
the ClilcuKO Journal. While wi
In the water, dinning to the horn, :,,
proponed. I remember I auld "ji's"
for fear he would t me dro 11 :f
I refused. Aa aoon as ho had l.N mi
wer he aald 'The water la nXiiluw
here, so let's not bother righting the
bflt. We cn lust walk to ahoic."
1 Jud Tunklna
Jud Tunklna says that when
commutes he wishes he was
again, so he could rrnH Hfi
railroad train ia way to bar a b-hk!
time.
ti
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