Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-25
GOVERNMENT CLERKS
HELD TO ONE lob
License to Run Employment
Agency Is Denied
Applicants.

Because they do not believe government
clerks should engage In any outside bust
ness in competition with men and women
in the same business exclusively, William
p. Richards. assessor. and Maj. Sylves-
ter have decided to reject the application
for a license of three government en-
ployes who had formed an employment
agency for furnishing clerks. high-grade
employees. executives. managers. etc.
Although the specific reason for refus-
ing license is technical. based on an
objection to the high fees to be charged
by the agency. the sentiment Of the po-
lice, the inspector OF licenses and the
assessors office is strongly opposed to
government employees entering the bust
ness
Good Words for Applicants.
The three applicants for a license under
the employment agency law are Harris
X. Vickery, Roy s. Ashton and Robert
l.. Corwin. When they made application
the police department made a careful in
vestigation of the proposed enterprise. as
we'll as the business ability of the men
interested and their character.
Nothing but reports of the highest kind
were returned. The first adverse conf
ment came from William j. Donovan.
license Inspector of the District.
1T appears also that the applicants for
said license are employees of the govern
ment," he says. land IL is presumed
that the government will require their
presence during the greater portion OF
the day. / fail to see how they could
give their attention or supervision to the
management of an employment agency
which the nature of the business re-
quires."
When the police made their careful in
ouiry il was found that the Offices of
the agency would be In the rooms now
occupied by the Capital Typewriting Com
and Corwin are said to be owners Of
this company.
Next to that room is the Office of the
Oculo Optics International Company. in
COZ porated under the laws of Oklahoma
All three applicants are stockholders of
The Three Applicants.
Harris X. vickery. who would have
been the manager Of the concern. is
twenty-nin years old and lives at 81
Seaton place. He is employed at the
civil service commission. He has had
experience in the employment agency
business.
GEORGE u. NdlCS, CIlcA cAdIHlncT VI
the commission, gave the police a
splendid account Of Vickery and had
no objection to his entering an outside
business and still keep his government
position.
Robert Coriwn is forty years old.
lives in Hyattsville and Is employed
as section chief in the record division
at the pension Office. His chief, Col.
Gilbert c. Knifiin, recommended to the
notice that the license be granted, and
had nothing but good words for Cor
win.
old and lives at 513 9Th street north
west. He is employed in the special
examiners division at the pension
office. Alvin L. Craig, chief Of the di-
vision, gave Ashton a send-off. but rec
commended that the license be not
granted, "as he is opposed to govern
ment employees who receive a good sal
ary entering into a business that COM
petes with those who depend on their
business alone for a living"
The police were strong in their OBJ
jections to licensing the agency. As
SCISSOR Richards turned the application
down and has asked the Commissioners
to stand by him in the matter.