TO LOP OFF 250,oW
FROM GOVERNMENT ROLL
Republicans Busy With Pruning Knife
and Expect to Oust Useless
Employees,
Washington, Dec. 7.—How to reduce
by 250,000 the present padded payroll
of the government is the problem
which the new Republican adminis
— tration will take up as soon as it
enters power.
At the beginning of the war with
Germany there were 30,000 govern
ment employees in Washington. Dur
ing the conflict, as the result of the
extravagant methods of the Wilson
administration, this total jumped to
132.000. After the armistice had been
signed in 1918 the executive depart
ments asked that this be increased.
The Republicans held up these esti
mates and, when they captured Cong
ress, speedily reduced the number to
90.000, in one year getting rid of 42,
000 employees who had become a bur
den to the taxpayers of the country.
Representative Will R. Wood, of In
diana, chairman of the subcommittee
of the Appropriations Committee in
charge of the legislative bill to be
come effective after June 30 next, de
clares that the number of Washington
government employees will be so re
duced that not more than 75,000 will
be provided for, thus in a year and a
half lopping off a total of 57,000 em
ployees in Washington alone.
This is only the beginning of the re
duction that is planned, however.
Chairman Good, of the House Appro
priations Committee; Senator Curtis,
of Kansas, Republican whip in the
Senate, and other Republican leaders
at the Capitol, are insisting that the
reductions must be made in every de
partment of the Federal service and
that many of the bureaus established
during the war shall be legislated out
of existance altogether.
There are now more than 700,000
men and women in the employ of the
United States government throughout
th.e country. On January 31, 1920,
there were 757,854 on the payrolls of
the Federal government, but Congress,
during the last session, reduced this
number to about 700,000.
The reduction of 250,000 in the size
of the army of Federal employees that
is hoped for by Congressional leaders
wotih.l result *u annual saving of
between $300,000*,000 and $400,
000,000 to the taxpayers, it is esti
mated.
Senator Lodge, Republican leader
in the upper House, and Representa
tive Mondell, Republican leader in the
'(jwej Houflj;, 'joclarc their intention
insisting upon wholesale reductions
in thg number of Federal employees.
Tbe present administration, how
ever has submitted estimates to the
House Appropriations Committee that
in nearly every ca»o call for additional
employees for the next fiscal yeai.
About the only exception that has
been noted Is in the case of the Bureau
of War Risk Insurance, where an im
mediate reduction of about 1,500 is re
ported contemplated at nnc#,
Chairman Wood said that he could
not understand why new clerks were
being asked for In the legislative bill,
which his committee hopes to have
ready for reporting to Congress by
December 15.
“We have today in Washington
under the civil service something over
g0,000 employees Sjiid between 5,000
and (1,000 unclassified, making a total
of 95,000 government employees here,”
said Mr. Wood. “Before the war there
were about 37,000. It is idle for any
one to say that there is now three
times as much work done here as be
fore the war.
“There are twenty-five or thirty in
dependent bureaus, meant by the law
that created them fp be merely for the
was emergency, that ate trying to in
duce us to make them permanent and
to get a larger force than before.
“Every man who comes before us
agrees that there ought to be a reduc
tion in the number of civil service em
ployees in Washington, but they in
sist that the cut must come somewhere
else tjian in their own offices.”
LEGACY IN WHICH YOU SHARE.
In the pocket of an old, ragged coat
belonging to one of the insane patients
of the Chicago poor house, there was
found after his death, a will. The
man had been a lawyer, and the will
was written in a firm, clear hand on a
few scraps of paper. So unusual was
it that it was sent to a lawyer; and so
impressed was he with its contents
that he read it before the Chicago bar
association, and a resolution was pass
ed ordering it probated, and now is on
the records of Cook county, 111., and
this is the will of the old insane
patient of the Chicago poor house:
“I, Charles Lounsberry, being of
sound and deposing mind and memory,
do hereby make and publish this my
last will and testament, in order as
justly as may be to distribute my in
terests in the world among succeeding
men:
“That part of my interests which is
known in law and recognized in the
sheep-bound volumes as my property,
being inconsiderable and of none ac
count I make no disposition of in this
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will. My right to live, being but a life
estate, is not at my disposal, but, these
things excepted, all else in the world I
now proceed to devise and bequeath.
“Item: ' I give to good fathers and
mothers, in trust for their children, all
good little words of praise and encour
agements, and all quaint pet names
and endearments; and I charge said
parents to use them justly, but gener
ously, as the needs of their children
shall require.
“Item: I leave the children inclu
sively, but only for the term of their
childhood all and every one the flowers
of the field and the blossoms of the
woods, with the right to play among
them freely, according,to the customs
of children, warning them at the same
time against thistles and thorns. And
I devise to children the banks of the
brooks and the golden sand beneath
the waters thereof, and the odors of
the willows that dip'therein, and the
white clouds that float high over the
giant trees.
“And I leave the children the long,
long days to be merry in, in a thous
and ways, and the night and the train
of the Milky Way, to wonder at, but
subject nevertheless, to the rights
hereinafter given to lovers.
“Item: I devise to boys, jointly, all
the useful idle fields and commons
where ball may be played, all pleasant
waters where one may swim, all snow
clad hills where one may coast, and all
strcamis and ponds where one may
fish, or where, when grim winter
comes, one may skato, to hold the same
for the period of their childhood. And
all meadows with the clover blossoms
and butterflies; the woods with their
appurtenances, the squirreLs and the
birds and the echoes and strange
noises, and all distant places, which
have been visited, together with the
adventures there found. And I give
to the said boys each of his own place
at the fireside at night, with all pic
tures that may be seen in the burning
wood, to enjoy without let or hinder
ance or without any incumbrance or
care.
Item: lo lovers I devsie their im
aginary world, with whatever they
may need, as the stars of the sky, the
red roses by the wall, the bloom of the
hawthorne, the isweet strains of music,
and aught else they may desire to
figure to each other the iastingness
and beauty of their love.
“Item: To young men, jointly, 1
devise and bequeath all boisterous, in
spiring sports of rivalry, and give to
them the disdain of weakness and un
daunted confidence in their own
strength. Though they are rude, I
leave to them the powgr to make last
ing friendships and' OF possessing com
panions, and to them exclusively 1
give all merry songs and grave cho
ruses to Sing with lusty voices.
“Item: And to those who are no
longer children or youths or lovers, I
leave memory; and bequeath to them
the volumes of the poems of Burns
and Shakespeare ar,d of other poets if,
there be others, to the end that they
may live |he old days over again,
freely and fully without tithe or do
mininition,
“Item: To our loved ones with
snowy crowns 1 bequeath the happiness
of old age, the love and gratitude of
their children until they fall asleep.”
Anybody’s Match
Washington Star: E. II. La Guar
dia, former congressman from New
York, said at a banquet;
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■ 'The Italian immigrant hs soon as 11
i he masters the language is a match
for anybody.
“A group of husky young Italians
were digging in a ditch the other day,
when a chap in a iliver went by
slowly. He had a young lady with
him, and—to show off, you know—he
yelled down the ditch:
“‘Hey, where’s your monkey?”
“Quick as a flash the brawny Gene
ovese yelled beak:
“ ‘We give him a day off, mister,
and he’s took his girl out joyridin’ in
a second-hand car.’ ”
High Prices.
George Haven Putnam, publisher,
was talking about high prices:
‘High prices everywhere,” he said.
“Unreasonably high prices every
where,
After a moment’s thought he added:
“Price was once an indication of
value. Today it’s an indcaton of
nerve.”
EMMET ITEMS.
Georgia McCreath and Margery
Schultz of Atkinson, spent Saturday
and Sunday in Emmet at the Abart
home.
The Farmers’ Store had a bunch of
celery in for Thanksgiving.
There was a party held at Bill
Crawford’s {Saturday night and all
present had a jolly time.
Chas. and Pearl Harris have moved
to the Leo McCaffery ranch and Ralph
Harris is assisting in the post office.
We have only one restaurant left
in Emmet. Here’s hoping it stays.
There will be a programme and box
social at the M. E. church Friday
night, December 3, under the auspices
of the Epworth League.
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: As I am leaving the county I will sell the following described property at public {j
sale on the old Charles Pruss farm, 6 miles west and 6 miles north of
H O’Neill, 2 miles east and 4 miles north of Emmet, commencing at
j 1 o’clock p. in., on
; Wednesday, Dec. 15th
7 Head of Horses
One sorrel team, coming 6 and 7, weight 2400; 1 team of mares, sorrel and jjj
bay, 7 and 11 years old, weight 2800; 1 brown horse and 1 brown mare, both :?
£ smooth mouth; 1 roan mare, 12 years old, weight 1,000. tj
15 Head of Cattle j
Three good milch cows, all fresh since September 1st; 2 calves. ::
Farm MacKirvery, Etc. 1
Two wagons; 1 riding lister; 1 disc pulverizer; 1 riding plow; 1 walking plow; :
1 mower; 1 walking cultivator; 1 Deering binder; 1 sweep; 1 hand corn shel- j
ler; 1 feed cutter; 1 automobile Buick Four, Model 1916, in good running order; ;;
4 sets of good work harness and many other articles too numerous to mention.
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TERMS—Eight months’ time on all sums over $10 with ten per cent interest j I
and approved security. Sums of $10 and under cash. No property to be re- l\
moved until settled for. I:
Lou Way man, Owner
Col. James Mtoore, Auctioneer. J. F. O’Donnell, Clerk |;