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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?
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Farmers and Stockgrowers
National Bank
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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. Van Yaclr It. It. Hut lei-
Van VACTOR & BUTLER
ATTOKX KYS-A'I'-LAW
Suite 304 First National Bunk Bldg.
THE DALLES, OUKliOX.
WATERS & ANDERSON
HUE INSURANCE
Successors to
C. C. Patterson
HEPPNER, OREGON
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Summer Rates
75c & $1.00
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common fault of money. If you have your
money in the bank, whether it be much or
little, it will not burn any holes and it will
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Money carried on the person is a temp
tation to spending. Money in the bank
does not offer this temptation. You may
hesitate before writing a check where you
would not hesitate to spend if you had the
money with you.
We offer you the advantage of our
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