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Published every day except Sunday at
Weathertord, Texas, by the Herald
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1921
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NEWSY LETTER FROM
BAKER COMMUNITY
Baker, Texas, December 29.—W. C.
Sains and wife visited the Whitt Oil
fields Monday and were favorably im-
pressed.
Mel Hufaker and son, Mack, visited
J. M. Parkinson and family Monday.
Mrs. S. L. Smith of Fairview is re-
ported as being very-low and with but
very little hopes of recovery.
Mrs. and Mrs. Joe Malone and child- present and Mr Abbott wag cerUln.
ren, returned to their home in Chico ;y Qn happy man Am0^ ^ pre.
Tuesday, after spending Christmas
with W. S. Kelly and other relatives, i
Miss Lofaine Snyder of Cleburne,
spent the holidays with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Snyder.
towed back to town. They were going
to meet Mrs. Gaylor who came in the
next mrning on the train.
Mrs. J. M. Parkinson is very ill
this week, and a physician has ben
called to attend her bedside. Mrs.
Parkinson has been in declining health
for several months and with her hus-
band made several trips to West Tfex-
as and New Mexico when her health
seemed improved after each trip.
J. Matt Shelton has bargained, sold
and conveyed to Mr. Hamp Scott, all
rights in one frame dwelling huse
situated on a beautiful town lot in
Center Mill. Mr. Scott is removing the
edifice to his turkey ranch north of
that villiage to house the young gob-
blers in the spring. The considera-
tion has not been made public.
Mrs. Morrison who is a steady read-
er o fthe only real newspaper in
Parker county, favored us with two
Herald subscriptions Sunday to be
mailed to relatives in other parts of
the county.
H. A. Tankersley and family have
now removed to their new location on
the Hunter place over in Hood county.
Mr. Tankersley states that this will
not interfere with the transaction of
his regular business in Weatherford,
which he believes to be the only town
in Texas with any degree of pep what
someever.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Baccua and Mr.
and Mrs. Grissom and other relatives
of the Fairview community spent
Sunday the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Staggs and family in the
Spring creek comunity.
A majority of the children and the
grandchildren gathered at the home of
Will T. Abbott in Fairview Sunday
and a most enjoyable day was spent.
There were approximately 45 people
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct-
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Aathor "Washington Cloee-Up*,’' “Bank* and
Financial Sretefne,” etc. Contributor Political
and Economic Article* to Leading Periodicals
and a Writer of Recognised Authority on the
National Government's Business Methods.
Mrs. and Mrs. W. H. Spears and
sent were: Mrs. and Mrs. W. W..Ab-
ibott and childrens J. L. Snyder and
family; R. J. Rains and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Les Landers, the children of
*J. O. Barton Mrs. A. C. Abbott and
„ , children and many others whose names
sister, Mrs. Harmon, spent Christmas ,,, . ,
• ’ .we did not learn,
with “Uncle” Buck Hughes and tarn-, Mr and Mrg j A E,li8 vigited re,.
Ily near Cresson. atives in and near Weatherford Mon-
Victor Kerr and wife of Cleburne .
;day.
! Preston Martin and Will Massle
jwere pleasant visitors at the Gibson
-Sundayed with the lady’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Oliver.
Will B. Wilson and wife of Gordon
afe here this week visiting their moth-
er, Sirs. Frank M. Wilson and other
relatives. Clay Wilson of Dallas was
also present at the reunion.
reunion Sunday afternoon, having been
playmates with some of the boys in
their younger days. ,
Bud Jones, the sage of the wolf
_ „ „ , course, and one of our most influen-
Hary C. Kely and a party of friends clt(zeng wll, rea(J the Herald nelt
“"Y? ZZ T^/^ year, saying that such a paper Is
visited J. M. Kelly and family and en-|worth doUar and more too and that
Joyed an old fashioned bird hunt. ,he wantg the newg whUe H Ig new8. |
Miss Chlorine Tankersley, who is
attending Throps Springs College, is
! His neighbors are
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of course of
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ng the week with her parents
same opinion and will make on
family f Herald readers in 1922.
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will return to school next Sunday, j
, Mrs. Estehr Porter is critically 411'
at the family home suffering with an
infection of the breast, something sim-
ilar to blood poisoning. A physician
is ift attendance.
Frank Roark, Jr., who is attending
school in Dallas, staying with his un- LABOR FEDERATION MEETS
-cle Frank Roark, Sr., spent the holi- at EL PASO IN APRIL
.days with his parents, Mr.| and Mrs. t ____
Mrs. Huffaker is reprted as making
preparations to grow turkeys on a
large scale in 1922, believeing with dus
dilligence and care a flock of turkeys
will pay biger dividends than the aver-
age oil stock now being floated.
Jno. Roarjc, west of Weatherofrd.
Olen BSH'lgrossly neglected his duty
this Christina^ in not placing on the
Christmas tree a large pumpkin for us
-as ho did one year ago. We feel
slighted.
El Paso. Texas, Dec. 27.—The Texas
State Federation of Labor will convene
in El Paso on April 24. More than 200
credited delegates will be at the meet-
ing, labor leaders declare, and the total
| number of visitors probably will reach
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The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lu- 7,500.
ther Tankersley, caught fire Saturday-j A number of state unions affiliated
Copjnrifht, Walters Nawapspar Union
XV.
INCOMPETENTS ARE KEPT
The annual turnover In the govern-
ment service Is something almost In-
credible. No business corporation,
however strongly established, could
long endure the heavy annual drain oo
Its resources. Hundreds of men leave
the government service dally; and
new, untrained people have to be taken
on and taught to do the work. This
costs money, as every employer
knows.
The resignations from the govern-
ment service are chiefly from the su-
pervisory and mo6t highly paid posi-
tions and from the very lowest grades.
The men at the top, if they have any
Initiative or ability or ambition to
make a name for themselves, are of-
fered private employment at double
or treble or mere what the govern-
ment can pay them. The people In
the lowest grades leave for private
employment when opportunity affords
because In too mahy Instances they
actually cannot keep body and soul
together on their government pay.
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 re-
tain the mediocre In public employ-
ment.
The civil service commission, through
which the great bulk of government
employees nre brought Into the serv
Ice, Is acutely uwure of this condition
Its reports give emphasis to the diffi-
culty constantly experienced In secur-
ing and retaining competent employ-
ees. The rotation In office has become
increasingly frequent and vitally Im-
pairs the efficiency of the service.
During the war there was a lower
rate of turnover In the mechanical
forces than In outside establishments.
The proposition of separations, how-
ever, is excessive in clerical, profes-
sional and technical positions, in
which the rate of turnover sometimes
amounts to a third of the force In a
year.
During the nine months preceding
the armistice more than 80,000 ap-
pointments were made in the civil
service and about 28,000 separations
occurred—that is, for every two ap-
pointments made one person left the
service. For a period of similar length
following the armistice only 60 per
cent as many appointments were made,
but there were nearly 33 per cent more
separations. In this period almost as
many 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 normal.
The percentage of declinations of ap-
pointments among eltgibles on the civ-
il 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
civil service examinations and were
offered Jobs under the government re-
fused to tmke them. It Is estimated
that more than 050,000 of those who
met the test were appointed during
that time.
The civil service commission saj»
flatly:
“Those familiar with the fedeml
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct-
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Aathor "Wrakhwtoo Clote-Upr," "Bute —4
rinudaj Srrteua." ate. Contributor PollHonl
and Eeonouie Articles to Londla* Poriodlonln
•ad ■ Writer of Roeocnlood Authority oa tlte
Ntetoaal Oororumoot'i Borinooo tfothodo
Copyright. Wooten Nonopnpor Colon
XVI.
WHAT OF THESE OLD MEN 7
Congress enacted a law In 1800 re-
quiring all heads of departments and
Independent establishments In the
federal service to report each year to
the secretary of the treasury the num-
ber of employees under them who were
below a fair standard of efficiency.
Every year this Is done and the letters
to the secretary of the treasury from
the various departments and bureaus
are printed In die book of estimates of
appropriations compiled for use by
congress In making up the annual
supply bills. Congress never pays the
slightest heed to these reports. They
are made up year after year, but the
Inefficient are never, fired.
For example, last year the chief
clerk of the treasury reported 170 em-
ployees of the Treasury department as
below a fair standard of efficiency. But
nothing will be done about It. The
Interior department reported 139 In-
efficients, and will probably go on re-
porting them till they die of old age.
There are employees of the govern-
ment in Washington who are totally
blind and who are led from their
homes to their offices each day and
back home again in the afternoon.
I knew in 1020 one gentleman of
ninety-two years who had been in the
government service for seventy-two
years. He was being paid at that time
$900 a year. His maximum pay dur-
ing his long service was $1800 a' year.
James K-. Polk was President when
this old gentleman came into the serv-
ice. He was born on January 10,
1828. His father was a captain of
the regular army in the war of 1812.
After that service he led an active life
in other occupations until 1848, when
he died, leaving a dependent family of
nine persons, three of them boys. It
fell to the lot of one of them to be the
chief support of the family.
It came to pass, then, that at the age
of twenty he received through the
Influence of navy friends of his father
a small clerkship at the naval observ-
atory, then under the superintendence
of that accomplished officer, Matthew
Fontaine Maury, whom he served as
amanuensis for ten years, accounting
it a great, privilege and pleasure to
have heard Maury’s voice dictating the
words of sense and wisdom which
The curtain rolls up, and she sees before her
A vision of beauty1 and youth and grace.
Ah! no wonder all hearts adore her,
Silver throated and fair of face.
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Out of her box she leans and listens;
Oh, is it with pleasure or with despair
That her thin cheek pales and her dim eye glistens -j
While that fresh young voice sings the grand old air?
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She Is back again In her past’s bright splendor, ,•»
When life was worth living and love was a truth, * 1
Ere Time had told her she must surrender
Her double dower of fame and youth.
It Ib she herself who stands there singing j
To that sea of faces that shines and stirs
And the cheers on cheers that go up ringing *
And rousing the echoes are hers, all hers!
Just for one moment the sweet delusion j
Quickens her pulses and blurs her sight, 4
And wakes within her that wild confusion
Of joy that is anguish and fierce delight. I
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Then the curtain goes down, and the lights are gleaming
Brightly o’er the circle and box and stall; |
She starts like a sleeper who wakes from dreaming—
Her youth lies under Time’s funeral pall. *
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Her day is dead and her star descended, |
Never to rise or to shine ag&ln;
Her reign Is over, her queenshlp ended— .*
A new name is sounded and sung by men.
All the glitter and glow and splendor.
All the glory of that lost day,
With the friends that seemed true and the love that seemed tender-—
Why, what Is it all but a dead bouquet?
She rises to go. Has the ntght turned colder? t
The new queen answers to call and shout;
And the old queen looks back over her shoulder
As, all unnoticed, she passes out! a
FALL AND WINTER
000D TIME TO
FIGHT WEEVILS
PASTURING, FALL PLOWING AND
VARIOUS OTHER METHODS
DESCRIBED FOR COM-
BATING PEST
after frost destroys their food and
starves most of those remaining. A
cover crop of the grains mentioned
planted as soon as all cotton growth
is destroyed, will not affect the re-
sults in weevil control, as this insect
does not feed on these plants.
Burning cotton stalks on dhe field:
Burning crop residues is n«>er a good
practice, especially on the light sandy
soils of East Texas, and it is never
recommended by good authorities ex-
cept in special instances. Some far-
mers, however, may wish to do so,
Boll weevils continue to feed and
rear young after the cotton is picked and on some soils the growth of the
make" up thTlailfng dlrec7ons7‘t‘he iunt11 tbe weat^er begln,8 t0 get C0011 P^nt is so heavy as to make its re-
wind and current charts and other when they Beek out w,nter quarters (moval otherwise a serious problem.
in trash along ditches and fence roweiwhere burning is contemplated this
and In brush land bordering cotton
fields. The date of such migration
will of course vary, being earlier injters has begun and as follows:
north Texas while in the Rio Grande | Cut the cotton gtallc8 c,oge t0 the
valley some individuals possible feed ; ground B0 ag leavd on green gprout8
all winter. jon which the weevils may cohtinue to
In sections subject during the win-'feed.
office advises that it be done early
well before migration to winter quar-
service at Washington know that the
morning and was saved only throguh with the federation are to meet her*! ja „ow hampered by the re-
the heroic efforts of Mr. Tankersley at the same time. ! tentlon of incompetents whose re-
by means of a bucket. The fire caught | Besides the election of officers and j movai is rendered difficult by Influences
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from a defective flue. Their house j the discussion of partisan subjects of
burned ’several months ago and a re-! Interest to the laboring man, the fed-
currence of such a calamity would! eration will plan at this meeting, and
have worked a genuine hardship. \ probably perfect, the organization of a
Prof. LayFayette Dent who is teach-1 non-partisan political conference, lead-
ing’ in Hood county, recessed school, ers say. Invitations have been sent
■Wednesday of last week and agin : out to all affiliated unions and to all
called the pupils in regular sessionfarm organizations favorable to organ-
whicb are incompatible with tlte effi-
ciency of the service. Preferences
and exemptions increasingly clog the
departments with persons who, no
matter how Inefficient, are difficult to
remove, and whose retention tends to
destroy the discipline of the service."
Among these Inefflclents, of course,
are the superannuated and the phys-
publlcatlons issued from the observ-
atory for the benefit of the world.
From a copyist at first, November 9,
1848, at $3 a day, the young man was
advanced as follows:
July I, 1853, clerk at $1,200 a
year; July 1, 1854, clerk at $1,500 a
year; July 1, 1870, principal clerk at
$1,800 a year; December 6, 1911, clerk ! in sections suDjeet during me win- feed. Leave about every tenth row.
at $1,400 a year; May 1, 1918, stenog- ter to occassional freezes only a small j Within about two weks any larvae to
,900rfa ye.aa’ Percentage of the weevils seeking | the squares or bolls will have emerged
ih December, 1911, and again In May, ?helter Uve untU sprlng- Practically |and these with adults previously pre-
1918, to lower positions, involving less a11 the weev,ls hatching in early falljgent will have moved to the rows of
work und responsibility. These uemo- and most of those appearing even | standing plants to feed. By this tithe
tlons were at his own request. In just before cold weather perisB during , also, the cut stalks will have become
October. 1917, he received from the the winter. From these considerate Isufllciently dry and should be raked
SereU,^1o7owlngtt,era:Vy' “ Wi“ «‘at the most sensible;against the standing rows and the
"I have to Inform you that you have measurea of contl'1- w111 b® those that, piles set fire to, thus destroying prac-
been granted leave without pay for r,duce tbe numbers *n late fall or. dur-1 tic-ally all weevils present in the field,
■lx months beginning October 13, 1917. inS tbe winter.
“As you have been in the employ
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the middle of this week, bering grant-;izen labor, the heads of the movement i incapacitated. The bureau of
- --.....««.»to ■» ei p.„„ o.
for the purporse of taking part In the
formation of the conference.
efl only one weeks'Vacation.
'tfr.vand Mrs. Martin Bell and child-
ppn of Springtown spent a few days
this week visiting their mother, Mrs.
- - a! Bell and family.
A large crowd enjoyed the execises
at. the Christmas tree festivities Satur-
day night and a real nice program
was rendered, althongh not as lengthy
as usual. Homer Kelly, presided at
the tree, being adorned with whiskers
etc.
Mrs. Cora Gaylor and little grand
daughter Ila Mae Rains, have return-
ed frcX a pleasant visit in Mrietta,
Okla.
John Keljy-who resides in Weather-
ford for the benefit of the school
privileges, has rented a farm of 100
acres 2 miles north of town and will
grow melons, corn and all food stuffs
necessary to maintain life.
Arnold Gibson wh has been attend-
ing a business college in Abielne, is
here for the week. He has graduated
in the bookkeeping course and will re-
turn to complete the stenographic
work. -,i
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rains and R. L.
TOO POOR TO MARRY CAUSES
YOUNG PEOPLE TO TAKE LIVES
Passaic, N. J., Dec. 27—Too poor to
marry. That was the reason which;
impelled Thomas Brands, 18, and his j
sweetheart, Matilda Rlst, 17, to take
their lives with poison here today, ac-
cording to a story told the police.
MA80NIC LODGE
Phoenix Lodge. No. Z7&. A. F. A e
• _ meets every Saturday night on r
■ •'ore the full moon In each month
HOWARD POTTER. Sec
AMERICAN LEGION
PARKER COUNTY POST
Meets First Wednesday night lne*c>
.-jolt. Club rooms over First Nat’
• nk All MT-sepfiro m»ii are cordial!
rtted.
• URTIV f LEACH c«tnm«nda>
HAROLD J GRF.GORY, Adjutan
law, the number of employees In the
Civil service of the United States sev-
enty years of age and over as follows:
Number
Railway postal clerk*................... 1ST
Rural Utter carrier*..................... (M
City letter carrier*....................... 230.
Post office clerk*......................... 387
Mechanic* ................................. 328
General employee*, DUt. Columbia. .1.484
General employee* elsewhere..........1,61*
Total ....................... 4,693
The commissioner of pensions sup-
plies the following compact statement
of the age of the employees in the pen-
sion bureau:
Number in the classified civil serv-
ice, 874; age of the oldest employee,
eighty-eight; number over eighty years
of age, 26; number between sixty-five
and eighty, 266; based on age of slxty-
fve, number eligible for retirement,
292; percentage of employees eligible
for retirement, 33.4; average age of all
employees, July 1, 1919, fifty-eight.
These old men and women bear the
burdeh of the administration of the
complex. Intricate and involved pro-
cedure under the pension laws having
to do with the disbursement/ of $222,-
159,292 In 1920 to 600,000 ^nd some-
odd beneficiaries.
Pasturing: This will reduce, the
of the government now nearly sixty- nuniber of fall weevils to an extent but
fZ record has bZn Client! lZ n0t enough to give effk'ient contro1'
gret that there is no way In which the bjI,<,uBb green food will remain and
department could continue yon on the some • forms will be left to furnish
rolls with compensation. breeding places. Only in cases where
"I desire at this time to express such green feed is very valuable should
the appreciation ofjthe department tor ^is be depended upon alone, and then
the hope that you will be so benefited ft Plowing after the first frosts
by this leave that you can return and shoul<i be UBed to supplement grazing,
resume your duties at Its expiration.” ' Fall Plowing: Where the cotton
I talked with one of $he cabinet can be picked sufficiently early, this
°to^ atWOt tbe °W aD<i f<*We *“■ la a eood practice, even disregarding
P H^sald: “I don’t know wh* cm- the bo11 weev11’ The eoil ,s Put ln
gress intends to do a bon* them, bat I cond^'on B^ore w’inter moisture, the
know what I Intend to do with those vegetable matter turned under will
in my department. I intend to leave have partially decayed by spring, soil
them alone. They can May here as nitrification is encouraged and less
long as they like, until some provision work ,8 necessitated in planting the
Is made for them. When 1 was sow , , , , „ ,
In the department I dismissed two of cr°P ln earIy 6pring' when the bU8y
these old people and demoted another, Beason *a on- general furrowing
on the ground that they were super- out> tb8 centers will not be as efficient
annuated and Inefficient
hindrance to the work
“All three of them wrote me sad
letters and promptly committed sui-
cide. That was enough and more
than enough for me. Never again
will I disturb one of them. I do not
choose to have It on my conscience
that I pronounced sentence of death
on an old man or un old woman ln
the service of the government. They
can all stay on here as long as they
like. I found them here and some of
them will be here when I leave. If
congress chooses to provide for them
that Is its obligation. But I will never
sentence another one of them to self-
destruction, no mutter what the cost
to the taxpayer nnd the government.”
Winter Burning of Hibernating
Places: Whether grazing, plowing, or
fall burning as suggested Is practiced
best results will not be obtained and
considerable infestation may be expect
ed next year if control measures stop
with these. In spite ,of the greatest
care exercised some weevil will escape
destruction and will find winter quar-
ters ln grass and along ditches, hedge
rows and ln brush land bordering cot-
ton fields. These places should be
burned. Allow sufficient time for all
to get settled. In fact so long as dry
weather can be expected to last burn
Ing may be delayed until late ln the
winter, it is believed that it should
be delayed until the middle of Decem-
ber at least and later than this ln
the southern portion of the state. Then
burn the trash In all such places as
good Judgement will allow .
These measures should reduce the
and were a In these respects In controlling weevil nlimber of weevils to a minimum next
as flat plowing. The whole field | spring and next year'svleld should be
y
of our soils except deep sands, a depth
of seven inches is reach, d. On fields
liable to wash, judgement must bo ex
ercised in the matter of plowing, but
even here, it niay be a profitable prac-
tice to sow a late cover crop of rye,
oats or barley which may be pastured
in winter and can be turned under
in the early spring to add vegetable
matter to the soil. ,
For the control of weevil, plowing
_ should not be delayed until the first
Ur.c!c Eben frosts, else many weevil will have
-De troublemaker," said Uncle Ebao, movcd from the tie,d- Plow!ne tovers
■Is one kind ' of manufacturer dat many weevil so they cannot escape
ought to be taxed extra." and subsequent ditching until well
should bo flat pi.wed to a depth ex- increased accordingly! Cooperation
ceeding a little that of last year, and I should be practiced in al control meas-
so each succeeding yjar until, on moat j ures. Entire communitk* should be
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organized and no man should be will-
ing to hold back and give lodging qn
his farm over winter to weevil that
will Infest his farm and that of his
neighbors another season.
tNOTE.—Boll weevil form a large
item in the food of many birds, Impor-
tant among which are the quail, kill-
deer, or kildee. upland, plover and.
niglithawks. Discretion' should J>e
practiced by farmers and hunters that
the number of these birds be not ex-
cessively reduced.)—Extension Ser-
vice. ,
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