Tuesday, June 6, 1922
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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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
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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
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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.
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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!
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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.