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FA HE Font THE GAZETTE-TIMES. IIEITXEK. OREGON, THURSDAY. JAN. 5. 1922. Poem Uncle John IRISH PATRIOT PRISONERS LEAVE BRITISH PRISONS art L. MONTERESTELLI Marble and Granite Works PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery Work All parties interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders All Work Guaranteed The Byers Chop Mill (Kararrlr SCHEMPfS MILL) STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT After the 20th of September will handle Gasoline, Coal Oil and Lubricating Oil You Will Find Prompt and Satisfactory Service Here J r y72L- if I 1 an' there MUSINGS !n typist, an the wire, ain't no cosy comer, whar we set In old-t.me winter evenins, herearound the fire; we-ve got the fireless was many things we did, that was cooker an t(,e patent autocow, an' mighty soul-inspirin' to the old-time ,he ggen, ,he mjddiemani we pay country kid. . . When we weren t tQ show us how We buy our drink. a-pullin' taffy we was busy parchin wa,er gn ouf midcMe ngme js corn while the hills arouna me caoin ..charge, wh;,e everybody-s second ecnoea to tne numer s num. . . l can hear old Towser barkin son is runmn a garrarge, an we ve ant ihf hncinACc wnmin an' th air. when my memory sorter strays to the plgne n- ,he pnone an' aIi because we couldn t let well enough alone. innH nf hovhood varmints, an tne sports ot early days, 1 can see my sainted mother in the little cabin- door, an' my soul somehow, still nan kers fer the happy days of yore, But now we've got our juney, Thi. news nhotowaoh shows Irish orisoners teavtna Kilmainhajn iail Dublin, alter the Miwn ot th peace treaty by the Sinn Finer and the British commissioners at Londoa Community Service iiiiiiiimniiiiiinimmiiiEiimniitiiiiiimiiiHiiimiiimuiiimmimummimiH ; l : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ; : : : : : : ill E XECUTIVE unparalleled financial which it has left us. ASKS Hi One Dollar Era FOR STATE RUE Would Put Corporation Exactness and Progressiveness Into the Work of Politics. Commonwealth Entitled to Same Businesslike Leadership as Private Firms. burden with Business Makes Ready. The Auto Repair Shop wishes to announce that J our work on big cars will be ONE DOLLAR per I hour instead of $1.50 per hour, as you formerly J paid for your car repairing. CONTRACT PRICES ON FORD WORK I Estimates Cheerfully Given t All Work Guaranteed Fell Bros. 1 One Block East of Hotel J EE By Governor Davis of Ohio. UU pvtltiwd mm wwun.w ...... iiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiillliliiiiilllliiiiiillillllil d You'dBe Surprised If you would start the New Year by depositing a small portion of your money each week, or month in our savings department, you'd be sur prised at the end of 1922 to find how much you have saved and how little an effort it is to do it. TRY IT We pay 4 per cent on Savings Accounts. FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK Heppner Oregon The business of politics is the busi ness of government in its final analy sis. Is your government and that means your business, for you are a partner tn the American government in fact as well as theory, to be con ducted on lines other than good busi nesss lines? If it be so why? Good business means the successful con ducting of a commercial pursuit in a general sense but it also means the successful pursuit of any activity of a creative sort, a productive sort or constructive sort, surely government municipal, state, or federal, must be creative, constructive, productive and commercially sound if that govern ment is to succeed. In the face of this obvious reason ing there are thousands of citizens in the United States today who declare the fallacy, "business and politics do not mix" the foundation of their own lack of interest, lack of active citi zenship exercising the right of suf frageand lack of belief in the very institutions that make them citizens The attempt to put business and politics, in their relationship toward one another, in somewhat the same relationship as oil and water, is both unfortunate and unwarranted. If the theory behind it was that the business man cannot and should as it did in not actively interest himself in polit ical affairs, it was wrong in premise and principle, for as the citizens' par ticipation increases in political life, there results better politics and bet ter government. For, in the last analysis, politics or course is but the science of govern ment. Then again, Ff the supposed unmix able status of business and politics related to practical application to the affairs of government, of the meth ods that are fundamental to modern business practice, the declaration was even more inapt and untrue. Politics and business do mix and of all times, the need for a generous admixture of business into our affairs of government has probably never been more striking and urgent than now struggling as we are under the rdrastic reaction of the war and the JiM.MllICTmffiriniMli I'lM'iiiMnr'rari'il'Wi 1 Hi, .i.ui ; !-l!'.iiliilllli!-VVYi"'''"'l'l 'if'illl' I"' ' lluiUiijjMJjhiiUaai " Business many months ago sensed the beginning of the reaction from the artificial war time boom, and quietly, unostentatiously prepared it self to meet the depression it saw coming, and to begin adjustment to the changing conditions. Retrench ment became the watchword, bcon- omy measures were put in operation. A higher degree of efficiency was in jected into business operation. The immediate result has been that bust ness has curtailed its expenses prac tically to the pre-war basis, and is gearing up its productive efficiency per dollar of operating cost to a point far beyond the record of the last few years. Business thus made itself ready to cope with the new order of things following in the wake of the world conflict But the problem of today is far more complex than can be met by pri vate initiative alone. It is too close ly connected with governmental op eration not to require governmental action to help in its solution. In great measure it is a financial prob lem. Cost of government during recent years increased apace with the cost of all else. And today, with changed conditions, it is primarily essential for the general welfare that the cost of government be brought back down to a basis in keeping with retrench ments found necessary in private un dertakings. Governmental service must continue undiminished, but -it must be performed at a cost far be low that of late years. The problem was of two-fold as Dect, first from the standpoint of fu ture operating cost of government, and second, with respect to discharge af the financial war obligations On the manner with which this dual problem is handled largely de oends our entire economic future. Government Cost Up. The ordinary operation of the gov ernment of the United States cost about nine times as much last year, 1916. And beyond that for every man, woman and child in the United States to operate the Fed eral government and during the fiscal year of 1921, about $51. Debts Fall Due. And that has not included adequate provision for the retirement of so much of the public debt as is of short maturity. Secretary of the Treasury A. W. Mellon has pointed out that within the next two years about seven and one-half billions of short-dated debt, or about $75 for every person in the country, will fall due. Also that only about one billion dollars will be available for such retirement at that time, and that other arrange ments to carry the balance will have to be made. What reduction has already been made in the short-dated debt which originally was over nine billions, has been made possible in large part by reduction of the general fund and by receipts from war salvage, but only in a very limited measure by tax re ceipts. Altogether, the country's gross debt amounts today to approximately REVENGE IS THE HONEST RIGHT OP A CHEAP BRAM twenty-four billions. The greater part of it matures within seventeen years, and the balance falls due in the nine succeeding years. When it is considered that the tax payer today, as pointed out, is already was the cost which could not be met required to pay in annual interest by taxation and had to be taken care .charges alone practically as much as of hv borrowing the soecia war was the entire pudiic aeot or nve - j - n - , cost bv which the national debt was years ago, and mat governmental op- boosted to about twenty times the'eration has been costing about nine size it was five years ago The country today is required to pay practically as much in annual in terest charges on the public debt as the amount of the debt itself back in 1916, and that without even begin ning to provide for reduction of the debt. Add to all this the vastly increased cost of operating state and municipal governments and a conception is gained of the tremendous burden the taxpayer has to bear today. It is the greatest burden he has ever been compelled to carry. In 1916, the per capita cost of the United States government was about $7.18. In 1920 it cost virtually $64 times as much as before the war, it is not difficult to realize the onerous burden upon the taxpayer to retire the war debt. In other words, he would have to provide an average of a billion dollars a year additional in taxes, over and above the financing of the ordinary'governmental opera tions. And all this besides the payment of the state and municipal taxes. It is not to be doubted that the prospect of all this has been having and still has a decidedly discouraging effect upon the process of readjust ment and the restoration of normal prosperity the outstanding problem of today, Government to Retrench. For its proper solution, it is essen tial that there be emulation by all governmental agencies, whether na tional, state or municipal, of the ex ample set by private business in cut tine down to a minimum, the recent high expenses, and in displacing the cost so cut off with a Doost 111 em ciency. Better results in the adminis tration or public work win go tar in meeting the situation. It will ease somewhat the staggering burden on the Dublic. but it will sill be faced by the twenty-four billion dollar pubiic debt to be wiped out practically witn in the next twenty years. It beine virtually certain that the national government will not be able to retire the seven and one-half bil lion of short time debt when it falls due in the next two years except only in small part it follows that it will have to be refunded, ine same condition is certain to repeat itself as the Liberty bonds of the later ma turities fall due. I believe the plan to have the peo ple pay so gigantic a sum as twenty four billion dollars in so comparative ly a short period besides paying for the ordinary governmental expendi tures is too severe a burden for one generation to carry alone It is an economic prospect that would hardly tend to exercise strongly stimulating influence upon initiative, enterprise and progress in the nation s business activities. Both from the standpoint of busi ness-like, consructive financial policy and in the interest of impressing the lesson of patriotic responsibility upon our children, a share of this war debt should, 1 believe, be earned by the succeeding generation. The war was fought that they might not be de prived of the benefit of our free in stitutions. Should they not bear part of the burden, not only that our economic life may the sooner return to normal and to divide what would otherwise be a task virtually impos sible of performance but also so that there mav be perpetuated in them a closer relation to and under standing of the principles and ideals for which we unsheathed the sword. Extend Liberty Bonds. From every standpoint, the refund ing or our Liberty loans into a new consolidated issue in which the range of maturity is extended from twenty- five, say to fifty years, would be a sound, businesslike, forwardlooking procedure. It would immediately re duce by half the obligations which we must meet in the next score of years or so and allow us to get economical ly solid ground once more under our feet. There would be another immedi ate benefit from such a course one that experience with long term se curities would indicate and that is increase of the market price of Lib erty bonds. Investors pay more for a bond of long maturity than for one that will be redeemed in a shorter period. This is an accepted fact with financiers. Application of this prin ciple to Liberty bonds would be cer tain to result in a greater demand for them and in their increased value in the market. With requirements for ordinary current expenses reduced by govern mental agencies or every kind bution of the payment of our public debt over a longer period, we would be safely on our way once more to a period or enduring, natural prosper- ty. TT T 1 3AY POP- WILL YA I PM ( THAT'S A LOT FOR A SMALL Lr-1 GiMMf A DOLLAR ? I ' I BOV BUT HERE IT 13 U -X SVEET ' f r 9 I HERE'S A PHPMI ... , , rt, I TO W FOR TM' WINDOW lj ' vollm pop- j l0UST 6g!! r SMILE AWHILE When Ananiases Meet. An American traveler entered in to conversation with a Boer farmer during a long and tiresome train journey, as an Englishman tells it. "Believe me, the American said, 'we have a cabbage so large over there that its shadows darkened Broadway. Suddenly it faded and decayed, and in time it was found BOMB SUSPECT Picture !s of Wolfe Lindenteld, Who has been arrested in Warsaw, Poland, by the United Stales, as the man who knows all about the Wall Street bomb explosion that killed 38 innocent people. that the rabbits in Australia had eat en away the roots." "Some cabbage!" said the Boer. "But when 1 was on a farm in South Africa we had an ostrich that ate an ink pad and numbering machine, and for the next three years every egg was dated and numbered." Tid Bits, London. His Best Extinguisher. Mr. Budger and his wife were con tinually at variance regarding their individual capacities of making and keeping a good fire. He contended that she did not know how to make a fire, or how to keep one after it was made. She, on the other hand, main tained that he never meddled with the fire that he didn't put it out in short, that he was a regular fire dam per, and as he was always anxious to stir up things in the various fire places, she made it a practice of hid ing the poker just before it was time for him to come into the house. One night there was an alarm of fire in the village, and Budger flew for his hat and coat. "Where are you going?" asked the wife. "Why, there's a fire, and I'm going to help put it out." "Well, my love," responded Mrs. Budger, "I think the best thing you by can do is to take the poker with you." radical retrenchment, and the distri- F.vervbodVs Magazine. THIS AMERICAN NAPOLEON MAY SOON BE A REAL KING s The little country of Albania, whose complete freedom has been assured by the League of Nations, has asked Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, of H.iHmiore, Md., to come over and be their king. He is considering the inattsr. The above is a photograph of Jerome himself and his wife. His Ktc;it, great grandfather wai a brother of Napoleon I, and married Mis I'atti-'rsun of Baltimore.
