The Sunday globe., 1901-07-21

and 1t would not be difficult to get
more competent ones-who desire TO
give their best efforts to the Govern
ment-take their positions. However,
Funk, like Lyman, will never resign.
He needs the same motive power as
Lyman to get him out of the Treasury
and away from the Government pay
roll: that is, a lift by way of dismissal.
Let us hope that whatever may be the
means, that ere many moons Deacon
Lyman and Squawman Funk Will be ON
the outside.
The Assistant Commissioner OF Pat
ents. Moore, has been in the Patent Of
fee for some years. He has a personal
knowledge, 1t is safe to assume, Of
nearly every employe in the ofhce. II
he has not, his general reputation be-
ing rather a nosey gentleman, is
slander on the amiable Assistant Com
missioner.
The Globe, therefore, does not think
that it is giving him any information
when it publishes the following state
ment relative to the Draftsmen's Di-
vision of the Patent Office.
For the information Of the general
public, it is well to state that in this
division are employed a number of
craftsmen who make drawings some
OF them so by name il not otherwise,
for the inventors Of the country at an
extravagant price per sheet. These ar
lists are not worked hard, allowing
they do what is asked Of them, but
some of them do not do that little.
They work for attorneys, using Gov
ernment time and material This is a
competition which it is difficult for the
outside craftsman to stand. He has to
pay Office rent and buy materials. The
Government craftsmen who compete
with him has neither Of these ex-
penses. 1t is easily seen, too, that a
designing attorney could find other
uses, perhaps, for an ambitious official
craftsman than merely making the
drawings.
Perhaps the most fragrant case in the
division of a Government office being
a private snap is that of an alleged
cartoonist. whose artistic efforts to be
amusing are published by a local pa
per. This man, It is a safe prediction,
does not do half the work for which
he draws Government money. His
time is monopolized in sketching the
funny pictures to appear ahead, as he
has to submit a half-doZen pictures
from which the paper selects Ole. In
his efforts he takes up the time of the
other employees who crowd about him
making suggestions, submitting
sketches, and aiding in the fnal
touches to the pictures.
There Is not a man or woman in the
division who does not know this state
ment to be true, and it is not probable
that Mr.. Moore is ignorant of It,
1t is easily determined whether the
man does his work by looking up the
records of that division for o year back
and noting the number of drawings
made by this cartoonist.
Some employees think that the Gov
ernment is not the one imposed upon,
but the people who buy the paper.
Maybe that is so, but in the language
of the street, it is "up to" Mr., Moore
to take this unfair competition away
from the struggling craftsmen on the
outside If the attorneys desire the
work of an official craftsman, let the
craftsman resign and compete on an
even scale with the men on the out
side.
Maybe some Of the craftsmen have a
pull, who do the outside work II so,
The Globe is not unreasonable enough
to ask Mr.. Moore to investigate them
They may be useful at a future time to
the newly appointed Assistant Commits
sioner.