Tuesday, April 18, 1922
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER. OREffiON
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COUNTRY TRIPS & GENERAL HAULING
Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Author WasWn(rton Ctosa-Upi," "Banks and
Financial Systems, " ate. Contribator Political
and Economic Article to Leading Periodical!
and a Writer of Recognized Authority on tb
National Government'! Business Method!
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WHAT OF THESE OLD MEN ?
Congress enacted a law iu 1S90 re
quiring all heads of departments and
Independent establishments in the
federal service to report each year to
the secretary of the treasury the num
ber of employees under them who were
below a fair' standard of efficiency.
Every year this is done and the letters
to the secretary of the treasury from
the various departments and bureaus
are printed In the book of estimates of
appropriations compiled for use by
congress in making up the annual
supply bills. Congress never pays the
slightest heed to these reports. They
are made up year after year, but the
inefficient are never tired.
For example, lflst year the chief
clerk of the treasury reported 170 em
ployees of the Treasury department as
below a fair standard of efficiency. But
nothing will be done about it. The
Interior department reported 139 in
eflicients, and will probably go on re
porting thom till they die of old age.
There are employees of the govern
ment in Washington who are totally
blind and who are led from their
homes to their ofiices each day and
back home again In the afternoon.
I knew iu 1920 one gentleman of
ninety-two years who had been in the
government service for seventy-two
years. He was being paid at that time
$900 a year. His maximum pay dur
ing his long service was $1800 a year.
.Tames K. Polk was President when
this old gentleman came into the serv
ice. He was born on January 10,
1828. His father was a captain of
the regular army in the war of 1812.
After that service he led an active life
in other occupations until 1848, when
he died, leaving a dependent family of
nine persons, three of them boys. It
fell to the lot of one of them to be the
chief support of the family.
It came to pass, then, that at the age
of twenty he received through the
Influence of navy friends of his father
a small clerkship at the naval observ
atory, then under the superintendence
of that accomplished officer, Matthew
Fontaine Maury, whom he served as
amanuensis for ten years, accounting
it a great privilege and pleasure to
have heard Maury's voice dictating the
words of sense and wisdom which
make up the sailing directions, the
wind and current charts and other
publications Issued from the observ
atory for the benefit of the world.
From a copyist at first, November 9,
184S, at $3 a day, the young man was
advanced as follows:
July 1, 1853, clerk at $1,200 a
year; July 1, 1SH4, clerk at $1,5)0 a
year; July 1, 1S70, principal clerk at
$J,800 a year; December 0, 1911, clerk
at J,w a year; May 1, 1918, stenog
rapher and typewriter at $900 a year.
It will be seen that he was demoted
In December, 1911, and again in May,
1918, to lower positions, Involving less
work and responsibility. These demo
tions were at his own request. In
October. 1917, he received from tlfe
assislant secretary of the navy, Mr.
Koosevelt, the following letter:
"I have to Inform you that you have
been granted leave without pay for
six months beginning October 13, 1917.
"As you have been in the employ
of the government now nearly sixty
nine years, und during all that time
your record has been excellent, I re
gret that there Is no way In which the
department could continue you on the
rons witn compensation.
"I desire ut this time to express
the appreciation of the department for
your long and satisfactory service and
the hope that you will be go benefited
by tlds leave that you can return and
resume your duties at its expiration."
l talked with one of the cabinet
officers about the old and feeble em
ployees.
He said: "I don't know what con
gress intends to do about them hut t
know what I Intend to do with those
in my department. I Intend to leave
mem aione. They can stnv hero n.
long as they like, until gome provision
Is made for them. When I was new
in the department I dismissed two of
these old people and demoted another,
on the ground that they were super-
oiinunicu nun nieincient and were a
hindrance to the work.
aii tnree of them wrote me sad
tetters and promptly committed sul
". iliac was enough and more
than enough for me. Never again
will l disturb one of them. I do not
"""' to nave it on my conscience
that I pronounced sentence of death
on nn old man or an old woman In
tne service of the government. They
can all stay on here uh long as thev
like. I found them here and some of
mem will oe here when I leave. If
congress chooses to provide for them
that is Its obligation. Hut I will never
sentence another one of them to if.
destruction, no matter what the cost
to the taxpayer and the government.'
Unelt Eben.
"D troublemaker," said Cncle Eben,
Is one kind of manufacturer dat
ought to be taxed extra."
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