Tuesday, May 16, 1922
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER. OREGON
PAGE FIVE
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at the
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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
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You Get the Best
At
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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It is a name used by an eminent
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If you want Cereals containing
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Southern Corn Grits Wheat Granules
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