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Tuesday, June 6, 1922 THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON PAGE FIVE "b & v v v 4 f professional cards 4. -h R. Z. GROVE l r i JLHL SPLENDID LIKE JUST RECEIVED AT CASH VARIETY STORE Where You Get 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 Arc You Saving Systematically? One Dollar Opens A Savings Account With This Bank Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank Heppner, Oregon NORMAN'S ICE CREAM "Best in the West" Always ready to Serve TAKE A QUART HOME FOR LUNCH McAtee & Aiken it; - , 1 r.n m mm ; ... 1 1. ... , .1. A Bargain if Taken at Once C40 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 railroad. 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 Author "WMhinjrton Cloia-Upa," "Banks and Financial Syatemi," etc. Contributor Political and Economic Articles to Leading- Periodicals and a Writer of Recogniied Authority en the National Gorernmeot'a Buainesa Method! Copyright, Western Newspaper Union xxrr. WE'RE COLD TO REFORMS We have not had in our time a Presi dent who was a business man or who had close acquaintance with business methods. The Chief Executives have, for the most part, not been executives as that term is now understood. Any thing but. They regarded the govern mental machine as one regards a hired motor car a piece of mechanism in which to get somewhere, and with no thought of its power-transmission system or economy of operation. Mr. Tuft did sense the fact that he was at the head of an organization whose activities are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. Mr. Harding, I believe, shares this feeling. As Mr. Taft pointed out, this great organization bus never been studied iu detail as one piece of administra tive mechanism. No comprehensive effort lias been made, until very re cently, to list Its many activities or to group them in such a wuy as to pre sent a clear picture of what the gov ernment is doing. No satisfactory statement has ever been published of the financial transactions of the gov ernment as a whole. With large in terests at stake congress and the ex ecutive have never had all the infor mation which should be currently available if the most intelligent direc tion is to be given to the daily national business. Congress, the President and the ad ministrative officers have been at tempting to discharge their duties without full information as to the agencies through which the work of the government is being performed. In the past, services, agencies, bureaus, what not, have been created one by one as exigencies have seemed to de mand, with little or no reference to any scheme of organization of the gov ernment as a whole. Mr. Taft pointed out all this and made an earnest effort to change it. With what result? Why, just exactly none. Congress was cold. The pub lic meaning you and me- was colder. We didn't take any interest In the project, and therefore congress po litely yawned it away into the tall grass and out of sight. Mr. Taft was given enough money to employ an effi ciency and economy commission and to make inquiry "Into the methods of transacting the public business of the executive departments and other gov ernment establishments." The Inquiry was made and the changes recommended, but nothing has ever been done about It. This economy and efficiency commission was very conservative and cautious. It took Mr. Taft's view that the prob. lem of good administration is not one that. can be solved at one time. It is a continuously present one. This commission, made up of excellent men, suggested that the revenue-cutter serv ice be abolished and its activities be taken over by other services. It was estimated that by so doing a saving of not less than ?1,000,(KJO could be made. Another report recommended that (he lighthouse and life-saving services be administered by a single bureau In stead of as at that time, by two bu reaus located in different departments. It was estimated that this consolida tion would result in a saving of not less than $100,000 yearly. The abolition of the returns office of the Interior department was recom mended, at an estimated direct saving of about $25,000 a year, in addition to a large Indirect economy in the reduction of work to be performed In the several offices. The consolidation of the six auditing offices of the treasury and the inclu sion In the auditing system of the seven naval officers who audited cus toms accounts at the principal ports was urged. The change was expected to produce an immediate saving of at least $lUi5,IXX yearly. From this modest start other changes and reforms and savings were to be made. Hnt we weren't Interested In the high cost of government or the high cost of living eleven years ago. Mr. Tuft didn't get a rise out of us. He didn't have much of a puil with con gress, either, poor man, and all his In quiry went for nothing as far us any action was concerned. He and his commission did bring out and establish, however, certain facts and conditions. It win a trustworthy and competent Investigation an far as it went. That is something to the good. There is a patent disposition in con gress now to take the whole problem of the routine administrative processes of the government under consideration and see how best to imjirove them. Whether anything really worth while will come out of it will depend en tirely on the degree of Infprest you display. If you will take the trouble to show that you know that the na tional business in mismanaged anil costs too much, and that you are tired of It, there wilj be action. I i i 1 1 1 DENTIST Successor to R. J. Vaughn Permanently located in Odd fellow's Building HEPPNER, OREGON DR. A. D. McMURDO PHYSICIAN and SURGEON ' Telephone 122 Office Patterson's Drug Store HEPPNER, OREGON F. A. McMENAMIN LAWYER Office Phone Main 643 Residence Phone Main 665 Roberts Building HEPPNER, OREGON S. E. NOTSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in Court House HEPPNER, OREGON Same E. Vaiv Vac'or R. R. Butler Van VACTOR & BUTLER ATTORN E YS-AT-L AW Suite 304 First National Bank Bldg 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 ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Masonic Building HEPPNE-R, OREGON Heppner Have You Ever Tried Calumet Baking Powder? If not why not give it a trial? CSOOIES! I Like the "Ford" it is fool proof Phelps Grocery Company Jlllj'jirjjS' IS S m'b S: You Cannot Lose No matter how much or how little money you may have is will cost you no more 'to pay it out by means of check than it will to use the 'hard cash. Checks are accepted just as readily as money. A checking account is absolutely safe. If a check should be lost it becomes worth less because payment on it can be stopped immediately, and nothing of intrinsic value is lost. If the money is lost however, there are no "stop payment" proceedings avail able. You lose. We invite you to open a checking ac count at this bank. Come in and let us ex plain how you can save money by means of a checking account. First National Bank Heppner Ore. Korald Want Ada bring home the bacon. The price is about 40 per cent less than some other brands we sell and it is guaranteed to give you 100 per cent Satisfaction. 35c lb.