Tuesday, May 23, 1022
THEHEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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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
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Systematically?
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Heppner, . Oregon
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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.
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Permanently located In Odd
fellow's Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
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HEPPNER, OREGON
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