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Tuesday, April 4, 1922
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
PAGE THREE
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BAGGAGE. EXPRESS. FREIGHT.
COUNTRY TRIPS & GENERAL HAULING
Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
ADthor "Wsshinirton Cloae-Ups," "Banks try!
Financial Systema," stc. Contributor Political
and Economic Articles to Leading Periodicals
and a Writer of Recognised Authority on th
National Government's Business Methods.
WASHINGTON I). C. March 30.
Senator Stanfield loft tonight for
Portland to spend at least two weeks
in Oregon. His plans, he said this
afternoon, call for conferences in
Portland and the eastern part of the
state with representative fanners de
siring loans from the war finance cor
poration on growing crops.
The senator had originally planned
his departure for nn earlier date, but
delayed it in order to cast his vote
for the four-power treaty. Oregon-ian.
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At
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640 acres, every foot in cultivation, all fenced
good drilled well with plenty of water to ir
rigate garden, four-room house, one-half
mile from school, u miles from raihoad.
. Price OInly $20.00 an Acre.
$2,000.00 down, Terms on Balance
Roy V. Wtiteis
KELLOGG'S SHREDDED
(RUMBLES
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No cooking; just a little cream, a bit of sugar
and - -3Let's Go.
Of course you'll like them
Try a package at
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Don't Overlook Our Display of
Spring and Summer
Underwear
A SPLENDID LINE OF GOODS AT LOW PRICES
CASH VARIETY STORE
Copyright, Weetn Nawmpaper Union
xv.
INCOMPETENTS ARE KEPT
The annual turnover in ttie govern
ment service is something almost in
credible. No business corporation,
however strongly established, could
long endure the heavy annual drain on
Its resources. Hundreds of men leave
the government service daily ; and
new, untrained people have to be taken
on and taught to do the work. This
costs money, as every employer
knows.
The resignations from the govern
ment service are chiefly from the su
pervisory and most highly paid posi
tions and from the very lowest grades.
The men at the top, if they have any
initiative or ability or ambition to
make a name for themselves, are of
fered private employment at double
or treble or more what the govern
ment can pay them. The people in
the lowest grades leave for private
employment when opportunity affords
because in too many instances they
actually cannot keep body and soul
together on their government pay.
It Is the people In the middle clast
who stay on the longest. The whole
constant process makes for a steady
deterioration In the quality of the
government service and tends to re
tain the mediocre in public employ
ment. The civil service commission, through
which the great bulk of government
employees are brought into the serv
ice, is ncutely aware of this condition
Its reports give emphasis to the dlftl
culty constantly experienced in secur
ing and retaining competent employ
ees. The rotation In ollice has become
increasingly frequent and vitally Im
pairs the efficiency of the service.
During the war there was a lower
rale of turnover in the mechanical
forces than In outside establishment!).
Tlie proposition of separations, how
ever, is excessive In clerical, profes
sional and technical positions, In
which the rate of turnover Homctlmva
amounts to a third of the force iu a
year.
During the nine months preceding
the armistice more than 00,000 ap
pointments were made In the civil
service and about "8,000 separations :
occurred that is, for every two ap
pointments made one person left the
service. For a period of similar length
following the armistice only 00 per
cent as many appointments were made,
but there were nearly 33 per cent more
separations. In this period almost as
many positions were vacated as were
filled. '
The exigencies of the war required
a great expansion of the clerical
forces at Washington and elsewhere
and this was accomplished by a labor
turnover several times above normal.
The percentage of declinations of ap
pointments among eliglbles on the civ
il service register Increased In many
instances from 30 to more than 50 per
cent that Is, more than half the men
and women who successfully passed
civil service examinations and were
offered Jobs under the government re
fused to take them. It Is estimated
that more than O.'O.OOO of those who
met the test were appointed during
Hint time.
The civil service commission says
flatly:
"Those familiar with the federal
service nt Washington know that the
service is now hampered by the re
tention of incompetents whose re
moval Is rendered difficult by influences
which are incompatible with the effi
ciency of the service. Preferences
and exemptions Increasingly clog the
departments with persons who, no
matter how inefficient, are difficult to
remove, and whose retention tends to
destroy the discipline of the service."
Among these inefficient, of course,
are the superannuated and the phys
ically Incapacitated. The bureau of
efficiency estimated, before the pass
age of the superannuation retirement
law. the number of employees In the
civil service of the United States sev
enty years of age and over as follows:
Numbr
Railway poatal clerka 1S7
Rural letter carrlera 4M
City letter carrlera tV)
Pout office clerka , tort
Mehanlca 23
Oeneral employee, Dim. Columbia.. 1. 4M
'J.neral enipi&yeea elaewhere 1,613
Total 4,693
The commissioner of pensions sup
plies the following compact statement
of the age of the employees in the pen
sion bureau :
Number In the classified civil serv
ice, 874; age of the oldest employee,
eighty-eight; number over eighty years
of age, l't; niimlier between sixty-five
and eighty, if'A; bm-d on age of sixty
five, number eligible for retirement,
IKC; IMTeentage of employees eligible
for retirement, 33.4; average age of all
employees, July 1, lldlt, fifty-eight.
These old men and women bear tha
burden of the administration of the
complex, Intricate and Involved pro
cedure under the pension laws having
to do with the disbursement of $222.
139.292 In 11TJ0 to 000,000 and tome
odd beneficlarM.
01 STOMFIl OWXKKSHIP I S
(illOWIXG
Customer ownership of utilities is
equivalent to public ownership, as
Samuel Insull interprets it. Govern
ment ownership means that recog
nized governmental agencies, those
established for other purposes, take
on ownership and management of in
dustrial enterprises as a side-line.
Customer ownership means that those
who are the users of the industries
are the business partners, their in
terest being represented by the stock
they hold. Customer ownership has
increased tremendously since 1914
and is the recognized best means of
hearty co-operation between manage
ment and customers. Tho Manufacturer.
EASTERN' ST A H MATKO.V WTU.
WILE VISIT EOCAE I'HAPTEK
Mrs. Minnie C. Letson, of Ontario
Grand Worthy Matron of the Order
Eastern Star of Oregon will
visit Ruth Chapter 32 officially next
Thursday evening, April 6th at 7:30
at Masonic Hall.
Initiation and refreshments. All
members are requested to attend.
SIX Hr.NDllEI) MIEEIOXS FOR
ROADS WRING PAST YEAR
The Bureau of Public Roads of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture estimate the total expenditure
for construction and maintenance of
roads in the country in 1921 to be
$600,000,000.
The sources of this fund are ap
proximately as follows: Motor vehicle
revenue 19 per cent; Slate road
bonds, 7 per cent; local road bonds
33 per cent; State taxes and appro
priations, 12 per cent; Federal aid 14
per cent; county, township and dis
trict taxes and assessments, 14 per
cent; and miscellaneous one per cent.
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