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About Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1922)
Tuesday, May 16, 1922 THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER. OREGON PAGE FIVE 5 if Rainbow Sale! at the CASH VARIETY STORE BEGINS MAY 18 CLOSES MAY 27 Big values for little money Helen V. Smith Prop. HEPPNER, OREGON. Where will You be At 65? Out'of 100 average men, at the age of 25 today 54 Will be Dependent on Others 36 will be'dead 5 Will be working for a bare living 4 Will be well to do 1 Will be Wealthy You may be one of!the hundred today, but where will you be at the age of 65 ? It depends upon how you can answer the following question Are You Saving Systematically? One Dollar Opens A Savings Account With This Bank Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank Heppner, Oregon Hot Drinks-Sandwiches Hit the right spot this time of the year You Get the Best At McAtee &l Aihen A Bargain if Taken at Once 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, 1 1 miles from raili oad. Price OInly $20.00 an Acre. $2,000.00 down, Terms on Balance Roy V. Whiteis KELOGG'S SHREDDED KRUMBLES "Whole Wheat Ready to Eat" No cooking; just a little cream, a bit of sugar and Let's Go. Of course you'll like them Try a package at Sam Hughes Co. Where Your Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conduct ing Your Business By EDWARD G. LOWRY Anther "Wuhtairton CloM-UfM. "Banks mod Ptnacclftl System. " etc. Contributor Political d4 Economic Article to Leading Periodical and a Writer of Recognised Authority 00 tb National Government'! Bobumh Methods. Copyright, Wee tern Newspaper Unwa xx. HAPHAZARD EXTENSION The Department of Agriculture Is one Instance of how governmental es tablishments grow and spread and ex tend their activities, once they get started. The bureau of fisheries, In the Department of Commerce, Is an other. It had a modest beginning, and not so very long ago. Prior to 1871 there was no branch of the federal government especially charged with the consideration of fishery affairs. Several of the states had established fish commissions and these state au thorities, supported by private inter ests, began to agitate for a national bureau devoted to fishery interests. So it came about that by 1S71 con gress was ready to yield and begin to make appropriations. The first one was for $3,000 and provided for a commissioner of fish and fisheries to prosecute investigations and inquiries "with the view of ascertaining wheth er any and what diminution in the number of food fishes of the coast and in the Jakes of the United States has taken place ; and also whether any and what protective, prohibitory or precautionary measures should be adopted in the premises; and shall re port upon the same to congress." The commissioner was to draw no pay, for it was provided by congress in the same joint resolution that he should be a civil officer of the govern ment, of proved scientific and prac tical acquaintance with the fishes of the coast, who should serve without additional compensation. The then as sistant secretary of the Smithsonian in stitution, by name Spencer Fullerton Baird, was chosen ns the best man for the job, and so he proved to be. He made the little acorn grow. He was industrious and competent and knew bow to get ulong with congress. He was diligent and he stood before kings. See what happened Remember, he started out. with $o,000 to discover whether there had been any diminution of the supply of, food fishes aloiig the coasts or in the lakes. He was at the head of an In dependent investigation and reported directly to congress. The thing was kept alive by annual appropriations as an independent Institution until 1903, when it was incorporated into the newly formed Department of Com merce and Labor as the bureau of fisheries. By 3909 the annual appropriation had grown to $803,01:0, and the bureau hud a permanent personnel of 325. At that time the land owned and occupied by the bureau ut Its fish cultural and biological stations had an aggregate area of over 12,000 acres, with a value of $210,000. The improvements and equipment at these stations repre sented an investment of more than $1,000,000. Other property of the bu reau at that time Included four sea going steam and sail vessels, 20 steam launches and 150 small sail, power and rowboats, which with equipment had a value of $300,000. Its six fish-transportation cars were valued at $4r,000. Indeed, the total Investment of the government In fishery-service property ran to about $1,580,000. Thut was back In 1909. Well, it hasn't stopped growing; bigger and busier than ever, as the ad vertisements say. The appropriation by congress for the fiscal year 1919 was $1,183,140, and for 1921, $1,207,110. Besides what congress gave, the Pres ident allotted in 1918 and 1919, out of his private fund "for the national se curity and defense," $1W,00). With the years of Its growth and increasing funds the bureau hud taken on many new functions and activities. Until recently the bureau was ad ministering to the best of Its ability the laws relating to the terrestrial and arboreal fur bearers of Alaska, but the duty was Incongruous to its brltl mate functions. Congress finally con ceded that the pursuit of foxes does not constitute a fWhery. The cultiva tion of minks cannot be successfully conducted In a fish hatchery. Apparently, as so many other estab lishments under the executive branch have, the fisheries service had become all cluttered up wilh duties and Jobs It is not fitted or (quipped to handle. All of which Is a long, long way from an investigation of the possible diminution of food fish along the coast. I don't pretend to say of the fisheries bureau that it has performed lnelll clently either Its proper work or the added activities that have been im posed upon it. For all I know it may be and is a great national bless ing, and managed with maximum skill, intelligence and real economy. I hope It Is. I cite It here only g an example of a branch of governmental activity that has grown up haphazard from a small beginning to be a great, costly, far spreading enterprise that by Its own confession Is overlaid with dutlea, functions and activities unrelated to It legitimate and essential business the rare, propagation and atudjr of all manner of food fish. Coming to . The Dalles & Pendleton Dr. Mellenthin SPECIALIST In Iinternol Medicine for the past eleven years DOES XOT OPERATE Will be at THE DALLES, WKDXESDAV, May 31. Hotel Dalles and at PEXDLETOX, THURSDAY, June 1. St. George Hotel Office Hours: 10 A. M. to ,4 P. M. NO CHARGE FOR CONSULTATION Dr. Mellenthln is a regular gradu ate in medicine and surgery and is licensedby the state of Oregon. He visits professionally the more import ant towns and cities and offers to all who call on this trip free consul tation, except the expense of treat ment when desired. According to his method of treat ment he does not operate for chronic appendicitis, gali stones, ulcers of stomach, tonsils or adenoids. He has to his credit wonderful re sults in diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, (heart, kidney, bladder, bed wetting, catarrh, weak lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal ailments. ! If you have been ailing for any length of time and have not been get ting any better, do not fail to call, as improper measures rather (than dis ease are very often the cause of your long standing trouble. Remember above date, that consul tation on this trip will be free and t,hat his treatment is different. Married women must be accompan ied by their husbands. Address: 336 Boston Block,"Min- neapolis, Minn. I 2-4 TO RENT Four Hundred acres bunch grass pasture with 1 mile of running water through it. About 17 miles' south of Heppner. Call at ranch or address, MATT HUGHES, ltf Heppner, Ore. Pay Your Bills by Check One of1 our customers came into the bank not long ago and asked to see a certain check which he had issued, and which he de scribed. It was one that he had paid in the settlement of a'business account. Through unintentional error he had not received proper credit for the amount. He was given the check and with it proved that the bill had been paid. He was given credit for the amount because the check with the proper indorsement was ac cepted as a receipt. A checking account is the surest safeguard against' paying an ob ligation the second time. We invite you to call and let us explain more fully the advan tages of a checking account. First National Bank Heppner Ore. Heppner Horald WUnt Ada bring homo tho bacon. What Are Vitamines? It is a name used by an eminent English scientist to distinguish the vital elements found in food. If you want Cereals containing Vitamines use GEOOIES! Whole Grain Products We have just stocked a full line of Whole Wheat Flour Breakfast Rye Southern Corn Grits Wheat Granules Natural Brown Rice Scottish Oat Meal Phelps Grocery Company