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A SPLENDID LINE OF GOODS AT LOW PRICES
CASH VARIETY STORE
Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Author "Waahfnjton Ctose-Up," "Banki and
Financial Systems," etc. Contributor Political
and Economic Articles to Leading Periodicals
and a Writer of Recognized Authority on th
National Government1! Business Methods.
Stories of
Great Scouts
By Elmo
Scott
Watson
Copyright, Weetern Newspaper Union
XIV.
SYSTEM IS ALL WRONG
The great difficulty that stands In
the way of discussing Uncle Sam as
an employer Is that there is no such
person. The men who stand In the
relation of employer to their subordi
nates are nothing but employees them
selves, and temporary ones nt that,
with a very fleeting tenure of ofliee.
Cabinet otlicers and members of con
gress, to whom the rank and file of
employees look for guidance for a
solution of their problems, are simply
fleeting figures that come and go, with
their own Interests to serve. They
testify freely enough as to conditions
of government employment. Senator
Carter Glass, recently secretary of the
treasury, for example:
"The largely multiplied business of
(he government cannot be conducted
with efficiency and economy unless
there be attracted to and retained In
the public service a group of highly
trained, well-paid and permanent offi
cials of supervisory grades. Uncer
tainty of tenure in some instances and
inadequacy of compensation have
closed the public service to many men
of the best type or forced them out of
government employ at the moment of
their greatest usefulness.
"The war has increased the public
debt more than twenty-five fold and
has augmented the functions and ac
tivities of the government In many
ways. The' duties are greater and the
responsibilities are larger than those
of other days, to the standards of
which it is not to be expected that
the government will ever return. The
conditions are such that failure to take
the necessary action to Invite and
hold in the public service men of ex
ceptional ability and of real distinc
tion In their fields can result only In
grave burdens to the taxpayers of the
country and in possible disaster. I
"Already the transaction of the
business of t lie government is ham- ,
pered by deficiencies of personnel due
to the return to private life of many
men of large capacity who during the
period of active warfare were willing
and glad to serve their country at
great personal sacrifice. I have come
to learn that there are heroes in the
civil establishments as well as In the
military services, self-sacrillclng pa
triots who toll year In and year out for
a bare pittance when they could com
mand salaries double or treble the
amounts they receive from the govern
ment, but who, for the love of (heir
country and for the love of their
work, have rejected alluring offers In
the field of private enterprise. They
were too fine and too patriotic to leave
their posts.
"Under the compelling force of pa
triotism they made willing sacrifices
(luring the war, hut with the return of
peace the government cannot expecc
to retain these employees indefinitely,
because In Justice to themselves and
their families they will sooner or later
accept the larger opportunities that are
open to them In the world of business
and industry unless the government
proposes to pay them salaries that at
least reasonably approach the value of
their services.
"Only prompt action by the congress
to build up a permanent and dignllled
civil service which will Include men
of great ability and high attainments
can prevent mistakes and failures in
the transaction of the public business,
the consequences of which may be
calamitous."
Kx-Itepresentatlve flood, who was
chairman of the appropriations com
mittee of the house, Is equally frank:
"Today duplication In the govern
ment service abounds on every hand.
Kor example, eight different depart
ments of the government, with large
overhead organizations, are engaged
In engineering work, In navigation, Ir
rigation and drainage; eleven different
bureaus are engaged In engineering
research ; twelve different organiza
tions are engaged In road con
struction, while twelve, with large
overhead organizations,' are engaged
In hydraulic construction and sixteen
are engaged In surveying and map
ping. Sixteen different bureaus exer
cise Jurisdiction over water-power de
velopment. Nine rtXTerent organiza
tions are collecting Information on the
consumption of coal. Korty-two differ
ent organizations, with overhead ex
penses, are dealing with the question
of public health.
"The Treasury department, the War
department, the Interior department
and the Labor department each has a
bureau dealing with the question of
general education. These departments
opera' e independently ; Instances of co
operation between them are e.tccp
tlonal. Kach of these departments It
manned at all times with an organiza
tion prepared to carry the peak of the
load and maintains an expensive
ready-to-serve personnel. A lack of
cooperation In the executive depart
ments necessarily lead to gross ex
travagance. The system Is wrong, and
congress alone can change tht system."
), Western Newspaper Union.
"EAT" MASTERSON'S REVENGE
ON THE CHEYENNES
One December day In the early sev
enties a young buffalo hunter down
In the Texas I'anhandle was busy skin
ning a buffalo when five Cheyennes of
Chief Dear Shield's band rode up, sa
luted him with a grave "How!" and
sat ou their ponies Idly watching his
work. Although the hunter's Sharps
rifle was lying some distance away,
he was not worried, for the Cheyennes
were supposed to be peaceful at tliat
time.
Presently one of the red men dis
mounted and picked up the Sharps
as though to examine It and, as he
did so, another reached across and
whipped the pistol from the holster in
the hunter's belt. Instantly the first
Indian struck the white man a mur
derous blow across the forehead with
the rifle and iu broken but emphatic
English told him to "git." The hunter
was outnumbered five to one; he
"got."
The victim of the Cheyennes was
"Bat" Masterson. William Barclay
Masterson wns his name, but his suc
cess as a buffalo hunter had won hlra
the title of "Bat," as a worthy success
or to Iiaptlste Brown, "Old Bat,' a
mighty slayer of game In the old days.
Masterson reached his camp In safety.
That night he rode stealthily Into
Bear Shield's village and "cut out" 40
of the old chief's ponies. As he worked
he came upon another rider engaged
In the same occupation. It proved
to be Billy Tighlman, a fellow buffalo
hunter who later became a famous dep
uty United States marshal.
When in 1874 a war party swept
down upon the Adobe Walls, the buf
falo hunters' headquarters, some of
Bear Shield's warriors rode with It,
and one of the defenders of the little
stockade was "Bat" Masterson. Then
and there he obtained revenge for the
blow which the Cheyenue had struck
him.
After the Adobe Walls fight, Mas
terson enlisted as a scout for General
Miles and. served with him until the
southern plains tribes were subdued.
A few years later' he was elected
sheriff of Ford county, Kansas. Dodge
city, the county seat, was one of the
toughest cowboy towns In the West,
but when Masterson resigned In 1881
It was one of the most peaceful. By
his courage and his skill he had es
tablished a record second only to Wild
Bill Ilickokt as a tamer of "bad men."
Then he left the West never to
return, nnd today "Bat" Masterson Is
a high salaried writer on a New York
newspaper.
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