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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, IIEPPXER. OREGON, THURSDAY, ATRIL 27, 1922.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 .
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