FA HE Font THE GAZETTE-TIMES. IIEITXEK. OREGON, THURSDAY. JAN. 5. 1922.
Poem
Uncle John
IRISH PATRIOT PRISONERS LEAVE BRITISH PRISONS
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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
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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
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One Dollar
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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
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All Work Guaranteed
Fell Bros. 1
One Block East of Hotel J
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By Governor Davis of Ohio.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.