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Tuesday, May 23, 1022 THEHEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON PAGE THREE : J A PROFESSIONAL CARDS .j. to 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 ioo 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 Arc 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 &t AiKen 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, 11 miles from raihoad. Price OInly $20.00 an Acre. $2,000.00 down, Terms on Balance Roy V. Whiteis Fruits and Vegetables Fresh, Clean and Palatable. Fresh Shipments Received Daily. We Specialize in Things You like to Eat Fresh Strawberries Sam Hughes Co. Where Your Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conduct ing Your Business By EDWARD G. LOWRY Aathor "Waahiaftatt Claaa-Upa," "Banks and FtnaacW Srataau." ate. Contributor Polities! lad EcmaiJe Artialaa to Laadtmr fartodlaala and ft Writer f iUcofniaad Authority an Ih. Natianal (torammant'l BuauuM Mattwda. Cesrrtcat, Waaurm Mawapafar Uum XXI. OUR COSTLY NEGLIGENCE ' "Co-onlinatlou" is a tired, haggard, nervous wreck of a word that wa8 nearly worked to death at Washington during the early days of the war. It was the first of the dollar-a-year words to come forward to do war work, and It was worn to a frazzle. I hate to drag the poor wan thing out from the quiet retreat In my dictionary where it has been resting and recuperating, but I must say that this lack of co ordination, lack of organization, du plication, inetliciency, waste, and hap hazard hodge-podge structure of the national governmental machine Is no secret to those at Washington, who run and mumige it for us, and who are even more directly responsible than we are for the condition into which it has fallen. I submit pleas of avoidance and confession from both Democrats and Itepublicans. It is not a matter of politics. It is a matter of proved and confessed negligence on the part of the men we have hired to run the ma chine, and have kept year after year In places of trust and power and re sponsibility. They haven't kept up the plant. The form of organization is grotesquely inadequate. The mor ale of the working force is badly im paired, as I have set forth at length In previous articles. We have paid the price for this, grossly and hugely, In money and in poor service. This has been costly negligence on our part. I said I hud confessions. Here they are, Reed Smoot, Republican and a senator from Utah, speaking: The administrative branches of the government have undergone no funda mental change since the organization was devised by Alexander Hamilton. No other government in the world ?ould have gone on us ours has done, and paid the bills Involved in our wasteful methods of administration. We have been able to do It because this country has had resources and wealth unparalleled. But the war has brought us at last to realize that these will not last always. We neea a complete survey of the whole situation de novo by a committee of men willing to recognize that It is a task of day and night for a year, and very likely, two years. . . . There is endless duplication of work among different departments, and even In tiie same department. . . . It is the same through all the government functions, and now, when the buitlen of carrying our enormous debt is weighing on the people, we can no longer neglect to give it cons'tleratlon. i When he said these things, Mr. Smoot was urging a concrete proposal to bring about the reformation so bad ly needed. And now Franklin D. Roosevelt, for seven years assistant secretary of the navy and recently the Democratic can- ; dldate for vice president : i The entire system of relationship which : exists between congress and the execu tive departments is fundamentally wrong. ljet me illustrate: I made an offer one spring to the appropriations committees of both house and senate, telling them i that I would tomorrow discharge 15 per j cent of the employees of the Navy de j partment If they, the committees, would give me complete authority to take one ; half of the' salaries of the employees so discharged and add it to the Halaries of the other 85 per cent of the employees still left In the department. ... Of course, however, under the present sys tem congress would not think of giving , executive discretion of this kind. Congress, for various reasons, has so j tied the hands of tiie executive oliieers of the government that they have no dis ; cretion In the fundamental questions of employment. . . . My own wonder Is ' that, considering the existing clrcum ; stances, the employees of the govern ment are as efficient as they actually are. Congress legislates for every minute Item ' of employment. . . . There Is a lot I of work being done In other departments ; which ought properly to be under the j Navy department, and In the same way there is a lot of work done by the Navy ! department which could perfectly prop i erly be transferred to other departments. After seven years down here In an ex , e'utlve position ... I cannot help the j conclusion that our governmt nlal meth j ods are cumbersome and wasteful. The I first Improvement must come In what Is, after ail. the source of governmental ac tivitiesthat Is. the legislative branch. . , . This must come from congress. We need also a reclaHsilb at ion and redistribution of the work of the executive depart ments. This can only come if congress, working In accord with itself and with the executives, will dis'us the whole question simultaneously and not merely piecemeal. Well, there you arc! A Republican who lias been In the legislative branch of the government for seventeen yours, and a Democrat who hits been In the executive branch fur seven years, both telling the tiniie story of bow badly the national business Is managed. The otld thing about It Is that our agents and repivMiita'lves at Wash ington who let this waste and Inef ficiency run on, year after year, pay no penalty. We pay the piper to the tune of millions and billions literally that much. And the condition will en dure until we make a real roar about It. Congress Increasingly shakes its head over the situation and brings In various proposals of reform, and says how wrong It all Is; but lacking a lively. Inflamed public pressure, noth ing gets done. The lives of several kinds of plants have been doubled by a Vienna botan ist who has discovered ways to delay their blossoming arid germination. 1 VAUGHAN & GROVE DENTISTS Permanently located In Odd fellow's Building HEPPNER, OREGON DR. A. D. McMURDO PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Telephone 122 Office Patterson's Drug Stere HEPPNER, OREGON F. A. McMENAMIN LAWYER Office Phone Main 643 Residence Phone Main 665 Roberts Building HEPPNER, OREGON S. E. NOTSON ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W Office in Court House HEPPNER, OREGON Same E. Yaiv YucW It. R. Rutler Van VACTOR & BUTLER ATTORN EYS-AT-LA W Suite 305 First National Rank Rldg. THE DALLES, OREGON. WATERS & ANDERSON FIRE INSURANCE Successors to C. C. Patterson HEPPNER, OREGON DeLUXE ROOMS Summer Rates 75c & $1.00 Over Case Furniture Co. WOODSON & SWEEK ATTORN E YS-AT-LAW Masonic Building HEPPNER, OREGON Heppner Have You Ever Tried Calumet Baking Powder? If not why not give it a trial? iGSOOIESl! 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