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Our Government
— How It Operates
By William Bruckart
CHECKS AND DOUBLE
CHECK
* I 'HERB Is a classical story extant
A here about a man who was retired
after some forty years of government
service only to be notified two years
later that his accounts showed an
named amount still due him. He
made numerous trips to the building
where he had been employed and
tually was told that his claim had
been approved. It was a month or so
later before he was paid, but he
ly was paid, the check being for
total of three cents.
Though that may seem to be
aggerated case, It actually Is not oift
of the ordinary. Your Uncle Sam
watches pennies closer, I dare say,
than most of ns. He has to do It. The
government Is approximately a five bil
lion dollar business, Its records are,
and have t Ö be, exact to the penny.
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Had the circumstance of the three
cent Incident, mentioned above, been
favorable to Uncle Sam, the amount
would have been collected even had It
been necessary to sue In court and
obtain a Judgment
The necessity for maintaining such
a close watch on the pennies Is the
reason why there Is a general account
ing office. The comptroller general of
the United States, who Is head of the
general accounting office, never has the
good will of all offices of the
ment at one time. , The nature of his
job makes popularity Impossible. ' He
Is required by law to tread on too
many toes.
Let me Illustrate how, In doing his
job, the comptroller general gains
much disfavor. He passes upon
payment that Is made out of federal
funds; every penny that Is appropri
ated by congress has to be spent
cording to the letter of the law, and
the comptroller general's job Is to
that the several hundred disbursing
officers of the government do It that
way. It takes no stretch of the Imagi
nation, therefore, to understand that
when a disbursing officer makes a
ment and then Is told by the comp
troller genera] a few weeks later that
the payment was not In accordance
with law—well, It Is the exception
rather than the rule when that de
cision falls
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every
ac
see
pay
to produce an argument.
You probably would argue, too, If you
were held liable for the government
It Is not alone with the disbursing
officers that the comptroller general
has troubles; he meets Individuals to
whom the disbursing officers go to get
back their overpayments, and frequent
ly they demand reconsideration. Over
payments may result in the purchase
•f supplies for the government, In the
payment of salaries, In thé settlement
of general claims, or in such things
as refund of expenditures paid by gov
ernmental representatives.
Laws require, for Instance, that
Individual traveling at government
pense, must take the most direct route.
Picture then what the reaction Is of
an individual who Is Informed weeks
after he had made a trip that If he
had taken the proper train, or boat,
the expense to government would have
been $1.60 less, and that be must pay
back that sum out of his own jeaiîk.
(You select your own language, and
I will match It with expressions I have
heard, because they cover the whole
category of epithets.)
But all of this la necessary, or else
the government would be the loser,
not In thousands of dollars, but In mil
lions, annually. Government supplies
are costly. The appropriations for
them are astounding." If there was no
check on the way the money Is spent,
It Is easy to understand what would
happen. The taxpayer^ would be
called upon to furnish more money.
So congress arranged a long time
ago to have an auditing system for
all government accounts. It was not
because It feared -dishonesty among
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ex
the workers. There Is very little of
this In the government. But the laws
are Intended to provide for expendi
tures, and If those laws are not carried
out, chaos naturally would result.
There had to be a central authority,
therefore, for checking all the
ments. This brings about uniformity
of Interpretation of the Iqws and
sures orderly conduct of payments by
the government. No one doubts the
propriety of such a course.
Thus, every check that Is made out
by any government disbursing officer
anywhere sooner or later finds Its way
through the regulation channel—some
call It red tape—to the i&rutinizlng
eye of the comptroller general whose
assistants, numbering scores, deter
mine whether the payment was proper.
The magnitude of this job of auditing
becomes apparent when It is known
that rulings from the general account
ing office average about thirty
week, or about five each day, and that
these arise from examination of about
two and one-half million checks
month.
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©. 1932. Weotern Newrpa.p<«- Union.
Limited Viiion
Our thoughts are often worse than
we are, just as they are often better
than we are. And God sees us as we
are altogether, not In separate feelings
or actions, as our fellowmen
We are always doing each other Injus
tice, and thinking better or worse of
each other than we deserve, because
we only hear and see separate words
and actions. We don't see each oth
er's whole nature.—George Eliot
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Pouring of concrete Into the foundations of Boulder dam began without
ceremony. Although two years had been spent in completing work on what
will be the world's largest dam and $38,000,000 had been expended so that the
actual building of the huge concrete wall could begin, the cheering of work
men was the only celebration to mark the momentous moment
graph shows workers pouring the first concrete.
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New and Old at the World's Fair
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Displayed at A Century of Progress In Chicago are a modern Burlington
system locomotive 93 feet 2 Inches long; and the engine of the eighties'which
pulled the first passenger train to Denver over the Burlington line.
Fiji'« Nativ« Mutic
The timber of the lofty tavola In the
Fiji Islands Is used largely for making
native drams, which when played
b* heard at great distances
can
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"But why did you fight with this
b°y— « total stranger"?
"Wety mother, all my friends were
away."
INTERNATIONALIST
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If there ever were a real Interna
tionalist Ilya Zorn Is It She speaks
seven languages; she never lived more
than six months consecutively In any
one country; she's a licensed aviatrix
In the United States, a dramatic stage
star In South America, a hunter of
wiid animals in Africa, a cultured
social favorite In London and a suc
cessful fiction writer In Portugal. She
Is shown as she arrived on the liner
Santa Rosa at Los Angeles, Calif.
YOUNGEST JUDGE
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years old, is believed to be the young
est Judge In the world. He Is the mag
istrate of both the county and juvenil#
court* at Fort Myesv Fla.
The Garden of
Delight
By COSMO HAMILTON
hy McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service
npHERE was to be a fete that night
in the open-air restaurant of the
Russian grand duke. A screen of can
vas was drawn across the gate.
But that meant nothing to Ivan
Storogev, the successful gigolo, who,
at three o'clock In the afternoon, had
crawled from his comfortable bed. A
year ago he had been a waiter,
loyal member of the commonwealth of
Russian aristocrats under the leader
ship of the dead czar's cousin In that
place. He made his way through the
house, saw Princess Irina Petrovna
hanging paper lanterns on the shabby
pergola and marched quickly to her
side.
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"You!" she said lightly,
of you to come. None of us hangs
these bedraggled lanterns with such
a touch."
He said thickly, "Why don't yon
swer my letters?" He made no at
How nice
an
tempt to hang the lantern which she
«ave him.
Irina continued to put the candles
In their sockets with a steady hand.
"If you're not going to help me," she
aald, "you're badly in the way."
He said, "I can't and won't stand the
way In which you're treating me. Do
you hear? I regard myself
gaged to be married to you. I earn
enough money on which we can keep
a respectable apartment and I've
saved enough to lift you from this
place. Why do you hold off?''
Irina assumed an anger that she did
"You bore me, count," she
You know the way to the gate."
Ivan stamped his foot, and the two
red spots of rage were even redder
now. He cried out, "Has the degra
dation of this cursed place dulled your
moral sense? Why not say that you're
In love with some one else? Yon think
that I've lost caste by dancing at the
hotel.
as en
not feel.
said.
I have. But so have you. I've
seen you looking at Shnkovskaya, that
peasant with his 'magic' violin. If
you and he have any Idea of going to
on - church on the hill, I tell you this
In cold blood here and now: there'll
be murder In this Garden of Delight
and suicide as well. As God's my
judge, that's true."
He turned on his heels and left
With the disturbing vibrations of hts
presence removed, the restaurant, with
its charming trees, resumed Its cheer
fulness. General Igorivltch, the head
cook, and Prince Vladimir Dlonlsle
vitch, the xylophonist of the orches
tra, were singing to themselves as they
arranged the little tablea
Paul Shnkovskaya, peasant and vio
linist, was tying pieces of colored pa
per to the pergola. Ho was simple
and huge, broad of shoulder, with
magnificent torso.
If Ivan had
a
seen Irina's eyes
Shnkovskaya passed, murder and
clde would Immediately have turned
the Garden of Delight Into a Garden
of Despair. She loved him.
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sul
But to
Shakovskaya she was the grand duke's
daughter—as far removed as though
she was a star.
During the fete that night Sha
kovskaya watched his chief with affec
tion and deference. Turning to Irina,
he said, "A master of men, princess.
One whom It is a Joy and an honor
And because he was happy
at the fullness of the garden he took
her hand and raised it to his lips.
Excited, too, that the hitherto al
most empty place was now filled with
laughter and talk, Irina bent forward
so that her curls touched one of the
high cheek-bones of the peasant's face.
She was startled at the effect it had
on him.
to serve.
"Oh, my God," he said beneath his
breath, withdrew his hand, clicked bis
heels, seized his violin and stuck It be
neath his chin. And, when, hardly
able to pull herself together, Irina
took her place in front of the plat
form to sing, there was a tremor of
great a joy In her voice that It
so
hushed the conversation and brought
forth bursts of applause.
And at the back of the garden. In
the shadow near the gate, stood Ivan
Storogev with madness In his brain and
revolver In his pocket, all according
to fate . . . Irina's heart
be his target, not that of Shakovskaya.
He had made up his mind to hear
Irina sing once more, and as the last
echo of what was to her
a
was to
swan song
died among the trees to send her out
of tho possibility of belonging to
other man and then follow after her.
The orchestra went softly Into the
opening bars of "Le Ron Temps Vien
dra" which Shakovskaya had set to
haunting melody. And as the loyal
peasant drew his bow across his
strings he caught the gleam of Ivan's
weapon and saw with horror and
amazement that It was not aimed at
him but at Irina—Irina who
standing, wholly unaware of Impend
ing death, a few feet to his right.
With a sort of divine inspiration ha
flung himself quickly In front of her.
There was a loud report He fell
with a crash at her feet.
an
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was
And while the startled
crowded together with screams, a sec
ond shot rang out
Ivan had put the barrel to his head.
Chaos, the crush of running people
at the gate, the startled movement of
the grand duke to the platform with
hla faithful friends, the crumpled fig
ure of the wasted gigolo lying on his
face. And to Shakovskaya the knowl
edge of a hot sting In his left shoulder
and Irina's Ups on his month In that
Warden of Delight,
diners
Method in Doing
Best for Others
Danger of Over-Indulgence
Point Always to Be
Considered.
Doing what Is best for others ha*
Its perplexities. The desire Is t*
gratify the wishes of the person for
whom we would do the kindness, but
It will not prove a genuine kindness
unless the result Is beneficial. Self
sacrifice which Is detrimental to
other for whom the sacrifice Is made.
Is Indulgence. It gives the one who
makes the sacrifice a sense of satt»
faction to be aole to make It possi
ble for the other to gain the desired
goal, or succeed In doing what
wished. If, In tho end, this Indul
gence Increases the selfishness of
the one for whom the kindness was
done, or even If it merely pamper*
him, or her, It brings to the forefront
of character unlovely and unllkabl*
traits. It is true that one such In
dulgence Is seldom far-reaching in
Its effect, but a repetition Is a grave
mistake.
an
was
There Is no one who feels th*
need of tempering the desire to grat
ify the wishes of others without
harm, more than a father or a moth
er. What the parents are trying t*
do la help their children to develop
their best natures. Anything which
parents do that hampers their off
spring In the ability to cope with
life puts the children at a disadvan
tage in the outside world. Being to*
severe creates a spirit of rebel»**
which sometimes is as detrimental a*
being too lenient, or too self-sacrl
fldng In their behalf. In neither
case la doing what Is best for other*
made the object of paramount im
portance.
It Is not always parents who fall.
to do the best for their children, as,
occasionally, one knows of
where children do a bit of the spoil
ing of parents. It Is the children,
then, who make mistaken sacrifices.
When this Is so, the mother or fa
ther gets to tyrannize over the child
or children. Persons, young or old,
who have a natural tendency to be
selfish grow more selfish when
tered to continually. An unselfish
person grows more appreciative and
careful of expressing wishes whe*
he, or she, realizes there is sure t*
be an effort made to grant the
wishes, once they are known.
case»
ea
It Is, evident that It is not always
easy to do what Is best for other»,
because of the differences In huma*
natures.
But one may rest assured that it 1*
only when love rules the wishes, the
love which craves only what Is best
for others, that the vision Is clear.
©, 1933, B^l Syndicats.— WNU Service
It takes discriminât!««.
The Unforgivable
A man will forgive and forget al
most any negligence around th*
house except letting the salt shaker
get empty.
Eczema
Burned and itched
T erribl y
Healed by Cuticura
"Eczema broke out in pimples on
my child's head and later spread t*
her neck and back. It burned and
Itched terribly and the little one
scratched and cried continually. Her
clothing hurt her so that I kept a
very thin dress on her. Her hair
came out in handfuls and what was
left was lifeless and dry. The Irrita
tion prevented her from sleeping.
'T sent for a free sample of Ootf
cura Soap and Ointment I could see
a difference after using them. I par
chased more and after using tw*
cakes of Cuticura Soap and tw*
boxes of Cuticura Ointment she was
healed." (Signed) Mrs. J. K. Thomp
son, Energy, Texas, July 28, 1932.
Cuticura Soap 26c. Ointment 25c
and 60c. Talcum 25c. Proprietor»:
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp., Mal»
den. Mass.—Adv.
Albany county, N. T., leads the «tat*
county farm bureaus with 1,238 mem
bers for 1033.
earn
Delinquent taxes have caused
than 2,000,000 acres of land to ho
transferred to the state from land own
ers In Michigan.
raor*
• • •
In northern Ohio abont 10 per east
of the peach buds, enough to bear *
moderate crop, survived the Febnwry
zero wave.
• • •
At an auction sale recently at R«4
Wing, Minn., an elght-year-old bore*
sold for 1150, while an eight-year-old
sedan brought only $26.
• • •
The area of land aown to wheat t»
England and Walea la about 17 p«t
cent greater than at the end of 1901,
says a ministry of agriculture report
on conditions on January L
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