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Show a., V - 9 t. ,, y --rstr 'V vA, r A i, ., -- T- ""' ' (but FRIDAY, DECEMBER iA. ;;" " . s. . 1921 16, l; HOLIDAY SPECIALS i f Prices Good From Now Until Xmas at the M in A Ul 234' West Center $5.00 MenVAll-Woo- Underwear l . $7.50 Mens Silk and Wool Underwear S3, 45 Boys Flannel -- Shirts Mens Shoes, $5.00 and $6.00 values Mens Leather Slippers PI Silk Pongee 95c Shirts $3.50 and $4.00 Mns Fall and Velour Hate $5.00 and $6.00 values Mens Boys Sizes ..$5,95 QC J All-Wo- Boys ol 6 95c TO $245 PI TO Mens Silk Handkerchief ywiJw Mens DresS Gloves. - In Kid 75c $3.95 Pongee $3.95 Mens Shirt M IE y I rrw Your Money in Conduct ing Your Business ' -- Br EDWARD G. LOWRY 3d the arriol .1 Wend Santa. U aom. know going to have youngster you abl thrill of finding an electric tram a train that really goes? Is some littie of cookmg like ing to have the endless pleasure Mother with a toy range heated by electricity. will r want Were all in the spirit of the great holiday and be? V0" to start giving. What shall it hke terrible cigars and fancy pincushions shaped chorus girls er limbs were of money to pe days when everyone had plenty on useless gifts. 5 This year most of us want to jpvend te rweive of the joy gifts that are really useful and that all last year season the holiday Electrical Gifts Mean Daily Service An electric washer, ironer, range or vacuum cleaner would be an ideal gift from the family to MothCT, every lightening her tasks and bringing helpfulness b that electricM appliances day. There are many their daily pleasure to the homemaker through fulness. in s on displ being gi $1147 the our stores and ask about away in prizes. Come in and see the beautiful Be Practical Say Merry Christmas BUY NOW! Electrically ! . . , Utah Power & Light Company EFFICIENT PUBLIC SERVICE shirt Flannel Mens Flannel Pajamas Corn. W. iimmlMa XL HIRE GOVERNMENT HELP The civil service commission biro la the classified service of the government. The only thing to be said about the classified service, is that it has not yet been classified. But you shall hear what the civil service commission has to say about hiraU employees ing help, without comment from me. There Is an utter lack of definitely planned and employ- ment policy ,n the government service. There Is need for' a centralised employment office with Jurisdiction In all matters relating to employment The employment methods of the government should be such as to serve for a model for private business. There Is at present po .central control over the executive servlie short of the President The President Is a busy man and cannot concern himself with the details of the executive departments. The lack of efficiency In government offices has a marked effect on private business. Definite Information concerning the number of federal civil employees In different branches of the service and the amount of the government pay roll are not readily available. An official register, or blue book, la Issued every two years. It Is out of date long before It is printed, A provision of tbe dvtt servlet fulee theoretically gives the civil service commission authority to collect and maintain complete personnel statistics. Tbe labor and expense Involved, however, practically prohibit the collection and cdmpilatlon of reliable statistical data. In addition to the limits of the commission's authority Is tbe absence of authority to enforce Its findings. The commission can make recommendations to the departments and offices and urge tbelr observance, but It cannot "enforce them. Congress passed what Is known as the dvU service law January 18, 1883. This act created the. United States lvU service commission. The law was -- yl.03 $1.95 Mens Heavy Weight $4.95 QJq Overalls and .Jumpers. Seasonable Merchandise How Uncle Sam Spends BEFORE TO : P 4 QC y idd Grade High $1.95 Where Your Taxes Go and holly will long now the mistletoe and the patter of reindeer hoofs ..$7.95 Mens Felt Hats P Q QC $3.50 and $4.00 values yZiUw I Mens Shirts NeW Stock Gifts of Usefulness $145 $1.75 $245 Mens Silk Hose, in Fancy and Plain colors $1.00 $3.00 and $3.50 Mens PO JC Mens Hanes Union Suits Electric Ware for $10.00 Mens Silk Shirts Mens Flannel Night P4 PC TO $4.00 and $5.00 Shirts t Su"dTi45cT0$1,75 and Mocha-- $1.95 j ' Soft Felt Slippers Leather Soles QC Sizes and AND Mens y I iww Dress Shoes 9 to 6 from $1,95 Provo, Utah Part- - Boys- - Shoes. PQ QC High-To- p and ol Underwear 55c 3T to All-Wo- Street Mens Caps, $2.50 and $3.00 values. pn nc Sg . Mens Brown Brogue Shoes $iw J Underwear $245 4J QC yvidv r PI QC ytiJU $7.50 Mens Silk Shirts .,. htt g5c jiiid j5c Work Shirt- - Many Excellent Bargains Intended to cure In paart the evils traceable to the spoils system which grew out of the act of 1820. During the first 40 years after tbe organisation of our government, administrative practice with regard te tbe civil service seemed to conform to the Intention of the founders. The Constitution fixed the term of no officer in the executive branch of tbs government except those of tbe President and vice president. It was the established usage during these first 40 years to permit executive officers, except members of tbe cabinet, to bold office for an unlimited period during Tbe practice was good behavior.. changed in 1820 by the act Tbe spoils system, as It was officially described as earijr as 1839, was Introduced and extended until It permeated the entire dvll Service of the country. - Tbe fundamental purpose of the dvll service law was to establish. In the parts of the service covered by Its provisions, s merit system whereby selection for appointment should be made upon tbe basis of demonstrated relative, fitness, without regard to political, religious, or other such' con' siderations. The act requires that the rules shall provide, among other things, for opes competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for the classified service,' the making' of appointments from among those passing with highest grades, an apportionment of appointments In the departments at Washington among tbe states and territories, a period of probation before abaolute appointment and tbe prohibition of the use of official authority to coerce the political action of any person or body. In 1883, tbe year In which the dvll service law was enacted, 13,924 positions In the civil service were made Tbe entire subject to competition. number of positions in ibefedc-a- l executive dvll service on June 20, 1910, was 480,327. At tbe height Of tbo war expansion there were approximately 1,000,000 men and women employed in the federal executive dvll service, about 700,000 of whom held On positions subject to competition. July 81, 1920, the entire number of federal executive dvll positions, as nearly as can he estimated, had been reduced to - 691,118. Approximately 430,000 of these were subject to competition, or, ,tn other words, In the classified service. The force la still slowly but steadily decreasing. . . During tbe 19 pooths of our participation In the war the dvll service commission gave competitive examinations under the dvll service law and rules to slightly lest than 1,000,600 persona, end about 400,000 persons with tested qualifications were supplied by the commission to tbe service. A normal year's business Is about 200,000 persons ex i mined and about 0ROOQ appointed. -- - OLD AND NEW CHRISTMAS DAY Nobody Has Been Able te SAVE Deelde Whether January er December 29 Is Correct Date. HRISTMA8 day seems wed25. A ded to December summer or s springtime CbristmtSj with no holly, no mistletoe, no frost, no snow, would not be the real thing at all, observes London' Answers. The majority of our beautiful Christmas carols, too, redolent ns they are of tbe winter "Sung Amid the Winters Snow would be hopelessly Incongruous. Emigrants to Australia from tbe mother country have confessed that It has taken them many years before they cbuld get in any way used to what Is practically a midsummer Christmas. Yet December 25 Is merely an accommodation date for the birthday of Christ Christmas day. The year, joo,. Is wrong. Most people would take It for granted that Christ was born In A D, 1 literally, of course, the year of our Lord, No. L But our chronology Is four years out This should be 1923 and not 1921, because Chrlstibas day could not, on Indisputable historical testimony, have been 'later than February B. C. 41 That settles the year of the first Chrlstmavbut ell attempts to fix the ariual day and month of Christmas have failed. And, as regards the present date, Christmas, like Easter, took some centuries before a settlement was arrived at In the first centuries of Christianity several Important Eastern churches observed January 6 as Christmas day. Tbe Armenian Christiana do so still. Gradually, however, uniformity was attained, but not before the Fifth In that connection It must be remembered that for quite a long period this country was divided on the question of Christmas. Some people persisted In observing old" Christmas cen-tpr- y. day, But all will agree that December 25, even If It la not the actual date of Christ's birth, la a happy choice. Our present-daChristmas, festival and holiday, breaks the long winter, and shat better time could there be for family reunions 1 The cold and unpleasantness outside make rlt all the more agreeable to keep warm and snog inside. It keeps ns together In ftery tense. y Its a wicked world, no doubt, apd ought to be reformed, but where did you get the Idea that ycm.are big MONEY-B- FOR CASH UY Samuel Kopp 450W.Cenle, Phone 446 Lowest Prices. Cash and Carry System. THE MOST COMPLETE LINE . WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 17, 1921 -- 10 lbs. Sugar 2 Dozen Strictly Fresh Eggs 2 lbs. Ranch Butter All You lb. 1 want Nut 'Butter . Quarts Cranberries Fine Large Fancy Head Lettuce ' Green Peppers, per pound, Red Cabbage, per pound 2 Turnips, per bunch 2 Large Bunches Celery New Stock Dates, per lb. Dressed Chickens None Better, per lb. 2 lbs. Fancy Smoked Salmon can Crisco can Crisco b. 6-l- b. 5-l- b. T 65 C 75 57 - I 45 -- 2 3-l- ' J 2 Sections Comb Honey 10 bars White Laundry Soap 10 bars White Naptha Soap.:. .15 25 7C 10 25 ' -- 28 55J Prints Cream Cheese, lb. Swiss Cheese Extra Fine, lb 3 large cans Libbys Pork and Beans 5 lbs. Mexican Chilli Beans 26 - . 63 $1.25 i;.20 50 33 55 35 45 60 hiding their lights under a bushel, have a crack in the busheL , Plenty Fresh Cream and Fresh Milk at AH limes. MORE FOR THE MONEY. NO CHARGE. 450 West Center NO DELIVERY. f St, Provo. SIZE AND QUALITY of the coal we put In your bins vary only as to slie the quality is the tame every time. Egg, stove or nut, the coal we handle Is the beet we dan bay and we are pretty good buyers at that. Such mines as Castle Gate, Standard, Clear Creek, Mohr land and Blackhawk speak volumes as to the , grade of fuel we supply. i . SHOOT & SPAFFORD 502 SOUTH UNIVERSITY AVE. Uptown Office: Provo Commercial & Savings Bank enough for the Job? A lot- - of people who seem to be i Want Ads Get Quick Results s i ; ti ) f I |