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Show f I TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1922 THE PROVO POST 1 I 555SC Where Your Taxes Go J How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conduct ing Your Business V By, EDWARD G. LOWRY Author 'Washington doM-Up- a. Banka and Financial Syatama," etc. Contribator Political and Economic Articles to Leading Periodicals and a Writer of Recognised Authority on the Kational Government's Bueineee Methods. ' Copyright. Western Newspaper Union ' XV. INCOMPETENTS ARE KEPT i J - The annual turnover in the government service Is something almost In credible. No business corporation, hoWever strongly established, could long endure the heavy annual drain on its resources. Hundreds of mqp leave the government service daily; and new, untrained people have to be taken on and taught to do the work. This costs money, as every employer - V I ALL FORMER PRICES SMASHED knows.. The resignations from the govern ment service are chiefly, from the and most highly paid positions and from the very lowest grades. The, men at the top, If thej have any initiative or ability or atnbltion to make a name for themselves, are offered private employment at double or treble or more, what the government can pay them. The people In .the lowest grades leave for private employment when opportunity affords because in too many instances they soul actually cannot keep body and . on government-paytheir together .It Is the people In the middle clast who stay on the longest. The whole constant process makes for a steady .deterioration In the quality of the government service and tends to retain the mediocre In public emplo- . I - t. t 1 ' i S WILL BE THE MOST STUPENDOUS AND GREATEST DISPOSAL SALE EVER HELD AT THIS STORE 'f 4 for the giganticness of this years Clearance Sale. The backwardness of the season is one of the chief causes. Another reason is that the public has : been buying sparingly waiting for still lower prices. Every department has completed its inventory and costs were noted but disregarded. We faced the situation squarely, realized that costs must be ignored recognizing only that the public wanted bedrock prices before they would buy. So we have cut prices with great energy. There Are Many Reasons ? ' - ) j . - yment. ' , The civil service commission, through whldh.the grqat bulk of government employees are brought Into the serv is acutely aware of this condition Its .reports give eaiphasls to the difficulty constantly experienced in securing and retaining competent employ-- , ees.' The rotation in office has become Increasingly frequent and vitally lm-- r pairs the efficiency of the service. the war there was a lowei Jduring' e of turnover In.Jthe mechanic: forces than In outsideestablishnie The proposition ofjBeparatlons, Is excesslvej.a clerical, professional and technical positions, in of turnover sometimes which ;tho-ralunouiyWto a third of the force In a : 1 . J j i how-feve- r, year, ring the nine months preceding thet armistice more than 00,000 appointments were made in the civil service and about 28,000 separations occurred that is, for every appointments made one person left the service. FOr a period of smllar length following the armistice only 60 per cent as many appointments were made, bpt there were nearly 33 per jeent more separations. In this period almost as niany positions were vacated as were filled. . The exigencies of the war required a great expansion" of the clerical forces at Washington and elsewhere and this was accomplished by a labor turnover several times above norpaal. The percentage of declinations of appointments among ellgibles on the civil service register Increased In many instances from 30 to more than 50 per cent that is,, more than half the men and women who successfully passed clittl service examinations and were offered Jobs under the government refused to take them. It is estimated that. more than 950,000 of those who met the test were appointed during that time. ,1 The ' civil service commission says to 'A I J ale Now Om aiict Comtimmies Until JanMainy. L4 k ONE LOT OF LADIES AND CHIL- DRENS UNION SUITS $1.50 Value Dress Goods - Those familiar with the federal service at Washington know that the service is , now hampered by the re--. itention of . Incompetents whose re- -' moval Is rendered difficult by influences which are Incompatible with the effi-- . Preferences ciency of the service.; anda exemptions increasingly! clog the who no departments with persons difficult to are matter how Inefficient, to tends retention remove, and whose destroy the discipline- of the service. Among these inefficient!, of course, are the superannuated and the physically Incapacitated. The bureau of efficiency estimated,, before the passage of the superannuation retirement law, the number of employees in the clvil service of the United States sev-- . enty years of age and! over as follows: : ' . Mechanics General employees, Gist. Columbia. General employees elspwhere 3-- .1.4S4 1.613 Total The commissioner of' pensr&us supplies the following compact statement of the age oftjte employees sin the pension bureau : Number in 'the classified civil serv-87age of the joldest employee, ; number Over eighty years ' eighty-eigh- t 2G ; .number between sixty-fiv- e off' age, based on age of sixty-- , and eighty,-GCfive, number eligible for retirement, A 292 ; percentage of employees eligible! for retirenient, 33.4; average age of all fifty-eighemployees, July 1, 1919,. women bear the and men old Thoseof the administration burden of the and involved procomplex, intricate the cedure under pension laws having 2 wltii-thof disbursement to lo somG-od- d and to 1920 600,000 in " ' beneficiaries. 27 Inches Wide ANKETS RT These Prices : 14c CLOTH 40c Value BUNGALOW LUNCH SETS $3.50 Values, for 29c $2.45 SUITINGS 39c Value, v- - 95c BED SPREADS $5.50 j Values Shatter S2.95 Records LADIES MILITARY AND FRENCH HEEL SHOES Values from $10.00 to $17.50 $4.95 $2.95 Blankets, large size, pair $4.25 Plaid Blankets, 66x80, pair $4.75 Wool Nap Blankets, pair $6.75 Wool Blankets, 66x80, pair $9.95 All Wool Blankets, Beacons, pair $10.95 Beacons, extra large size, pair $12.75 Beacons, extra heavy, pair Baby Blankets, on sale, each COTTON BATTS 75c Value J . J $2.95 $2.95 $4.75 $6.95 $7.95 $8.95 19 59c WOOL DRESS GOODS h All Wool Storm V 69c nA- - ' i . 4 f BABY CRIB BLANKETS $1.25 Value ;; 69c ; ONE LOT OF PILLOWS; $1.50 Valued f 79c i " ONE LOT GOOD UMBRELLAS $1.95 value for, S1.39 value for $3.95 i $2.95 aprons ladies Percale $1.25 Value , 89c PINK KNIT BLOOMERS 1 50c Value 39c Serge for i FLANNEL dQWNS I $1.50 land $1.75 Values $1.00 ..J BARGAINS IN MODEL BRASSIERES $1.25 Values ; - $3.95 i , DRESSES AT A THIRD OFF 36-inc- THE STORE WITH THE REPUTATION FOR GOOD VALUES 39c 72x90, Sheets for 42x36 Pillow Cases i y i 'i- - i- ONE LOT PRETTY SILK WAISTS Values to $10.00, for $222,-ir'tr.29- 1 s. li Shell; 5 oClock Tea Set of 6, Gravy Ladels, Berry Spoons, at - 15c - $1.49 $1.49 $1.49 $1.49 $1.49 Prices That Bargain $1.95 DEVONSHIRE ROMPER Incompar able LApiES KNITTED WHITE OUTING FLANNEL 25c Value Sufts, Goats, Furs: Half Price 69c AM LADIES SILK JERSEY VESTS ' $3.75 Value r Worth $1.25 49c 8c I CHILDS SETS Worth $1.75 Butter Knife and Sugar 25c Bath Towels for 15 39c Bath Towels for 27 49c Bath Towels for 33$ Stock Up. on Towels at 89 c . ers, set of 6 COLD MEAT FORKS AND CREAM LADELS SHEET BLANKETS Gray and white, regular $2.25 value, pair. SKIRTS $1.35 Value BOOKFOLD PERCALE ; e . AND CAPS Values to $1.50 14c 4; t. ( ONE LOT CHILDRENS WOOL KNITTED TAMS SILKALEENS 25c. Value i $1.95 TOWELS m 19c 197 454 Railway postal clerks, Rural letter carriers..,.: j City letter carriers :..r Post office clerksi . 15c Number - for 2c , - If $3.50 Value, CHILDRENS SILK MADRAS SHIRTING 39c Value set of 6 Salad Forks, set of. 6 Oyster Forks, set of 6 Butter Spread: BLACK HOSE Heavy; Sizes 7 to 914; Values 25c and 30c 14c 6 Orange Spoons, T ONE LOT DRESS GINGHAMS ' Regular 25c, for set of COATS ONE LOT OF LADIES, HANDKERCHIEFS 25c Value 1-- Worth $2.00. Ice Tea Spoons, PETTI 89c v - I JERSEY ONE LOT PRETTY SILk CAMISOLES $2.00 Value OF SILVERWARE Made by Oneida Community Company HIGH-CLAS- S 50 SILK 69c ; flatly: CLOSING OUT A LINE i v 12 ' t .1 1 t . i . i: : 89d 19 v |