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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO THE GAZETTE-TIMES, IIEPPXER. OREGON, THURSDAY, ATRIL 27, 1922. The Gazette-times Th Hi'ii'r Maxell. Ktblithd Murrh 111, ConwIuiateJ brury isil. i'ubiiithiKl er Thutly morning by nd citito at the 1 unutrtu at tiepp- 4IHtHTIM(. K4TK9 4 IV B N ON API'i.U A1ION Uti ear i Muinhi ihiw Mouth- lift .7 .V MUHHUH IUIVII UKKU'UL PATKH THE AMERICAN PKLSS AS.-OCMTION I lhe country is standing with the rreaiucui in i.is ueicnmumion to put niuie uusniess in government by get ting rtu oi uieiuciem aim aisioyai em ployes. ue protests of Democratic leaders gduist tue aamimsuation s placing luvai employees on guard in tne re sj.iousioie executive omces are navmg iitue or uo enect upon puohc opuv ion. ine arguments advanced by over-entnus:astic supponers of the civu service system to tne enect that tne administration is breaking down tne civil service and yielding to the ciamor of spoilsmen is an argument that will not stand up under honest analysis. lhe only excuse which the civil service system has for existence is based upon the supposition that it means merit and emciency in public administration. If it does not pro duce these two qualities there is no justification for the civil service syS' tern in public affairs. There is no one familiar with con ditions in the federal departments at Washington but knows that during the past eight years the civil service system has been used to break down emciency rather than promote it. It has operated to protect slackers, agi tators and incompetents in public ser vice rather than to oust them and make for merit in public work. It has joined hands with organizations outside the jurisdiction of govern ment officials and with cooperation of these organizations it has installed in the departments at Washington a bu reaucracy which places a premium upon the slowest, most incompetent, most wasteful, most indifferent and most rebellious employes. It has with the cooperation of these external or ganizations bred a spirit of open in subordination and gross extravag ance in nearly every federal depart ment. As a result of this condition thou sands of federal employes look to organizations outside the government service for orders regarding the char acter of their work rather than to the administrative chiefs who are respon sible for and entrusted with carrying out the policies of the administra tion, which policies the administra tion is charged by the people with carrying out. The first concern of any man or group of men who are placed in charge of a corporation or a business and entrusted with putting into ef fect and carrying to successful con clusion a certain policy is to sur round himself or themselves with a body of loyal and efficient subordin atessubordinates who not only go through the motions of work but who so firmly believe in the policy of their superiors that they put all their abil ity and all their sympathy into the work. This loyalty, this esprit de corps, is the very essence of the mer it system. Without it there can be no merit system; the term becomes a mockery. The head of a railroad, or industrial plant, or business cor poration, or banking house who would tolerate people upon his pay roll who were faithless to the insti tution in that they did not believe in its policies and were eternally break ing down the morale of its employes and publicly criticising its manage ment would be foredoomed to fail- It is e.vu-tlv the same w ith the ad- i ministration of the government. Civil service and the merit system must 1 mean something far more than the ; ability of individuals to take a com-; petitive examination on cut and dried lines and obtain a certain percentage. The merit system in public adminis-i trative offices means loyalty to the policies of the administration, will-! ingness to put one's shoulder to the j wheel and one's heart into the work! to make these policies 100 per cent! successful. Where an employe is not doing; this in public affairs, he or she j snouia oe dismissed the same as they would be in like circumstances in a private corporation. There must be no outside organi zations whose standard of work, whose decrees in regard to hours of labor and quantity of output take precedent in the mind of the federal employe over the orders and the wishes of the heads of the govern ment. The civil sen-ice system must re fuse to permit itself to be used by such outside organizations for the purpose of protecting faithless em ployes. The President and his ad ministration in their determination to clean out inefficient and disloyal j help in all departments of the gov-! ernment have the heartiest support of all thinking people, especially of taxpayers who foot the bills incurred by the incompetency, indifference, laziness and extravagance of such' help. -MARRY A MILLION SURE THIS TIME V 1 4 Mary Landon Baker, of Chicago sailed ior England last week where for the third time she will fact her wedding day with Allister Mo Cormick, of Chicago, and stock holder in the International Har vester Co. Twice she has left him wailing at the church. But this time she says she will go through with it. if Slats' Diary By Ross Farquhar Friday Pa has got the Radeo fever now' and I xpect he will be a bying 1 before long in the future. He says he can get more Plasure lissening to sermons on ; Sunday mornings and can set and smoke in his FV" stocking ft. and not half ; LJw-'fito be woke up by some ; 1 sticking a Collection1 box under his nose for, him to get his money. I Saturday spent most' of the day helping Mr.! Hix mend his Ottomo-' bul witch he bot last fall He thot that when the; y wether got warm he woodent need his Radyator on any longer so he takes it off and nearly! recks the whole works. i Sunday Jane speaks to me agen. Past her house this afternoon and seen her a setting on the porch a reading a book or a novel or etc. I stops and ast her witch she druther do set and tawk with me a wile or read the book. She sed to me Well this is a very Intresting Book. And went on reading. Monday I tuk sum seeds and plants over to Mr. Whisk and give them to him to Plant and he threw them away. Ma says he is so lazy he wont even plant a garden. Pa says he is even to lazy to play golf. Tuesday I am practiceing brod jumping so I can get in on are Track team at skool. I cud jump a lots further only I cant seem to keep my ft. in the air Long enuff at 1 time. Wednesday Went to a big wed ding tonite where they was a bride and a grume and lots of Co. and ice cream and Cake and etc. It was a very pritty site. The bride is a bew tiful girl and very popular. She is survived by two parents and a Sister and 3 brothers. Thursday Pa's club witch he be longs to is giveing a party for there wifes tonite and here to four they always have had Trouble with the ladys tawking so much. So this time they bot a bunch of Lollypops for the Women and Cigars for the Men. It looks like a quiet affair. Pay $5,000,000 a Day to Suffer Now is the time for the govern ment to dig out actual facts regard- j ing the coal situation. It is worse ' than childish to go on year after year grinding the public between the nether millstones it is vicious. The present strike is costing $5,000,000 a day, and the reward of this sacri fice is public suffering. The charge is flatly made that the average net incme of 31,979 miners in the Cen tral Pennsylvania district in 1921 was $760. This means that a miner must provide for the support of his family on $14.60 a week. It may be all very well to state that the men work only 122 days a year, which is two and one-third days a week and therefore their rate of pay is excess ive, but if these be the facts then the problem is one of unemployment rather than of wages, and it should be approached from that angle. An industry that employs vast armies of men for a third of each week and cannot keep them employed the rest of the time needs some kind of re organization. The situation breeds discontent and when the peculiar characteristics of foreign labor are considered sometimes worse than that. Plain facts stand out and will not be denied. First in the handling of a great national necessity, it is evident that the private owners of the coal mines make vast sums of money and the men who dig the wealth from the ground are compell ed to face starvation or next to it. It seems futile to suggest a commis sion means of enforcing its findings. The American commission of inquiry has come to be the joke of the world. The former Attorney General, Mr. Palmer, can testify to that. Surely, however, the country is not in such a supine condition that it cannot solve the coal problem. How Your Money Will Be Spent Every resident of the United States will contribute $1.20 this year for the building of good roads by the national government and it must be remembered that for every dollar spent by Washington the states where the money is spent must spend an equal amount. This $2.40 per person will be the largest out lay for good roads in any single year for more than twenty years. The amount has been fixed by the bud get, and it is regarded as none too high. Good roads mean the exten sion and the development of busi ness particularly for the farmer, who, after all, is the most important fac tor in American life. Financially, good roads cost the people a great deal more than their President costs. The expenses of the President, em bracing his salary and expenses, costs each resident two and one-half mills per year, so the head of the nation is not an expensive luxury ever that is, directly. The figures Taste is a matter of tobacco quality We itaie it as our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield are of finer quality (and hence of better taste) than in any other cigarette at the price. Liggill Mjiri Ttiacct C: hesteme CIGARETTES of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos blended 1 1 iO show that for the whole national ex penditures the people must conrti bute each $33.39 for the year. This is the first time the people have really been able to get the fig ures for national expenditures dojvn from the clouds to consider them in terms of the home. For example, we are told the national debt has been reduced $1,500,000,000, and that it now stands about $23,000, 000.000. Bewildering figures of this kind are hard to understand. The only real way for the people to get an intelligent grasp on the nation's business affairs is to get the figures down to the unit. Pensions will cost the people $6.73 each. The Navy will take more than the Army, the cost of the Navy being $4.1 1 and the Army $3.52. The cost of Congress is only 17c, yet there are some people who regard it as expensice even so. Heppner-Ione Game As Viewed By Editor of lone Independent The lone Independent did not de vote much space to a write-up of the ball game recently played on lone grounds between the Egg City and Heppner teams, as this is the way Bro. Ackerman talks about it in his last issue: "Van Mailer's band of ballplayers, recruited largely from Portland and lone talent, came down from Hepp ner last Sunday bent on returning with nine lone scalps. As usual when they run up against the real thing they went home empty handed. lone could only roll up seven tallies in the first inning, after which the Heppner battery was switched from Broughton and Griffin to Moeller and Aiken. Heppner did better after this and rolled up four tallies to Ione's three, our boys being con tent to allow the visitors to make a respectable showing but never to become dangerous. In the seventh inning "Dutch" Reitmann, while run ning from third to home badly spik ed pitcher Moeller who was covering the home plate, cutting a deep gash in his leg and forcing him out of the game. On account of numerous ob jections and bulldozing tactics by some of the visiting team, the game was long drawn out and the specta-, tors became wearied." Jas. Wilson and wife were among those who came over from Pendleton on Sunday to take in the ball game between the locals and the Peoples Warehouse nine. Mr. Wilson works for the Peoples Warehouse and most of the employees of that firm were in Heppner to back up then- tea m . SANITARY FLOOR ENAMEL This solves the old floor riddle. A good brush and can of Kuanilt Suniliry Floor Eotmel (any oi lhe eight shades) . All ready to apply simply spread from the can to the Boor, la almost no time it's done. Next day a bright, cheerful, waterproof floor greets you. suiteM lot racca and Plaaaa Floon Smooth as velvet, tough as rawhide a floor of beauty aod lasting good ness. That's the result. Try a Can FREE i Here' Our Trial Offer to Yea I Full hall-pint CID ol Klanltt PLOOa J Enamel lKbb, il you preteni ttilt : Coupon to the dcsler beiow with 2S i ctou for aood broth to ipplr It. PEOPLES HARDWARE CO, j Heppner, Ore. "r. I": i Mr7! fcwsiiij one-eleven cigarettes VIRGINIA . 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