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About Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1922)
Tuesday, June 27. IQ22 THT7 HrDDKTT?l IJT7D A T r tirnrnTr, ' "Jl-v, IMLUUl PAGE FIVE t 1 - 4. 4 ! ' li A - T .;-ws.; Jfi, ,ip!i. VARICOLORED FANCY BASKETS All Sizes and Shapes Only 25c Each TAKE ONE HOME WiTH YOU CASH VARIETY STORE 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, butwhere will. you be at the age of 65? It depends upon how you can answer , the following question Are You Saying Systematically? One Dollar Opens A Savings Account With This Bank Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank Heppner, Oregon -ji,- ., NORMAN'S ICE CREAM " Best in the West" Always ready to Serve TAKE A QUART HOME FOR LUNCH McAtee & 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 railioad. 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 "Washington OloBe-Upa." "Bankn and Financial Systems. " etc. Contributor Political and Economic Articles to Loading Periodicals and a Writer of Keeogrniaed Authority on the NationaJ Government's Business Methods. Copyright, WeattJin Newspaper Union xxv. UP TO YOU AND CONGRESS At the present time it would be a misnomer to speak of the national government having a personnel sys tem at nil. The reform accomplished by the establishment of the civil serv ice commission and the merit system has touched but one phttse of the per sonnel problem, and that but partially entrance into the government serv ice. Practically nothing has been (lone in the way of erecting the government services into careers that will attract and retain efficient men. Bad as con ditions were in this respect before the war, they have become many times worse durinjr and s'nee that event. The correction -ot these evils pre sents a problem of great complexity. It cannot he achieved by a half hearted or half-way tinkering with the present system. Nothing but a thor ough overhauling of the whole person nel system and I lie establishment of a new system covering all phases of the question and embodying the most approved principles of personnel ad ministration will meet the needs of the situation. Fortunately a begin ning lias been made in this direction. It at least furnishes a starting point for action looking to the giving to the government of the personnel system that it must have if government work is to be even measurably well done. The situation now is that there is an insistent demand on the part of 1 lie public that the whole administra tion of the national gorernment be put upon a more efficient basis, and that the present waste of public funds, re sulting from present defective organ ization and methods, shall cease; that congress is alive to this demand and has made a start toward meeting it; that the fundamental defects in the existing system are well known; and that the direction efforts looking to reform should take are clearly estab lished. The responsibility is thus squarely up to congress. If the problem that confronts con gress in securing this laudable end is analyzed it will be found that the fundamental reforms are: The re form by congress itself of its own or ganization and methods of procedure; the entire revision of the present sys tem under which the financial needs of the government are determined and provided; the setting up of an agency and procedure through which the ex penditure of public funds may be properly controlled and congress lie given that information regarding such expenditures which it must have if it is to assure itself that its agents, the administrative services, are properly performing their duties, and to act in telligently in respect to the future grant of funds; the provision of an organ through which the President may In fact, us well as in name, dis charge Ids duties us head of the ad ministration ; the reorganization of the administrative branch of the gov ernment so as to eliminate the pres ent widespread overlapping of juris dictions and functions and Indefensi ble duplication of services, organiza tion, plant ami work; and the com. plete recasting of the present system under which the personnel required i to man the governmental plant is se- ! cured, compensated, promoted, as- i signed to particular tasks and con- j trolled, to the end that not only jus- 1 tlce will he done to the several classes ! of governmental employees, hut that I a personnel svsiem will he established ' that will Insure u maximum of effi ciency in the actual conduct of public I a tl'a i is. A study of action actually had or ! now uniler way shows that steps have ; been taken Inward the accomplishment of each of these fundamental reforms. The Introduction of a budget system Is a long step forward. I don't mean In the least to give the impression that all private business is perfectly run and that only govern- n.i'Nt business is badly that all the ellicletlt pen vate employ mid only lie public service. Neither dilions exl.sts. in lilt; common phrase, to blind it to Alexander devising a si home that since revolutionary ..da ys been fundaineM'iliy alte day. There has hi en no of salaries in the ilopm niauaged, or ile are in pri liicieiil in the of those con- you have got Hamilton for has stood up . It bus not red since his leaillsiient tmciiijil n'tv- ice for shty tears. That Implies u certain loyalty and faithfulness on Hie part of the workers. My only desire is to disclose the present condition of government em ployment; that good men are leaving, and that the present tendency, if not checked, will inevitably drive out of the service all of the efficient and leave only the mediocre and Incom petent. I have said little myself, ,ut have chosen to let the men working for the government tell the story. Kv ery assertion of fact in these articles comes from some responsible source or authority within the service. I um not making a criticism or attack from ine ouisioe, uui merely serving ug a mouthpiece for your hired men. PROFESSIONAL CARDS J. R. Z. GROVE DKNTIST Successor to II, J. Vaughn Permanently located in Odd fellow's Building HEFPNER, OREGON DR. A. D. McMURDO PHYSICIAN and SUIGKOS 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 ATTOKX LY-AT-LAW Office in Court House HEPPNER, OREGON Same E. 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