The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13
Those Who Have Husbands to
Support Them Must Leave
Departments.
INJUSTICE OF RETAINING
THEM Is APPARENT
Census Director Durand Is Lat.
est Convert to Scheme of
Retiring Them.
BY RALPH M. WHITESIDE.

BY RALPH M WH1TESlDE.
BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18th,
married woman must go' That is tht
slogan of the unmarried department
clerks, in these days of economy and re
trenchment. Census Director Duranc
is the latest convert to this theory. Mr.
Durand says;
81 have not been officially consulted
on the subject, but if | should be,
should unhesitatingly and emphatically
speak out against the practice of EN-
ploylng women who have husbands tt
support them, or to retain women in thc
service after marriage, | do not think
IT Just. There are so many single WON
en- who have to struggle for themselves
and IN many instances. help to support
large families, / think IL but right tc
give them the preference in employ
ment. There are married women draw
ing as much as $500 year from Uncle
Sam, who have husbands earning as
much or more The injustice of re
tanning such women is apparent TO any
unbiased person. Let them go home to
their husbands and be content, and
give somebody else chance to earn a
livelihood. There are many married
1000 employed in this bureau, Some
or them, II may be. have husbands un-
aDle to support them owing to some
PhFslcal disability. As TO such women
perhaps the porpoSed rule might be
harsh"
Lively Row in Sight.
Vt the president should carry ont the
purpose attributed to him of appointing
w. II. Lewis, the negro lawyer of Bos,
ION; TO be assistant attorney general, it
VIII certainly cause lively row in tbe
senate and it is doubtful if the nomipa
tlon could be confirmed without a bite,
nght, The question of social prece
denee is involved and opposition TO plac
ing negro IN semi-cabinet rank would
not be confined to the southern senators
Lure of Capital Life.
ne probabilities are that N'UncIe' y
Lon Livingston Of Georgia, who will bc
- lame duck y after March 4th next
VIII open law office in Washington
mnen ms term in congress expires, and
.als furnishes another striking example
OF the lure of capital life for a mar
VINO has long lived here ''UnrIe LON
mas peen a member of congress for near
" twenty wears. He came here as .
Farmers Alliance man. in Che earIy,
nineties. and dozen Youngsters bavt
run against him since without sendjno
inc veteran into retirement. Represen
taatlVc Livingston is now well past th
Ehree-score 'and-ten milestone
Changes in Order of Things.
How time changes the order ~
thipgs, remarked G. +. Peterman o.
AUSTIN, Tex, He had just finished read
ing news item which told abont III
purchase OF home in the capital cit,
pY senator Bailey OF Texas. ".Just !:
rev wears ago. he continued. .Gf
would have been considered fooliard,
Tor senator or representative to buv
nome IN Washington, In one instance
J remember, an Illinois member of thc
mouse took a chance, and became th,
owner Of residence He probably
ttnought II a more economic plan to buy
Than to pay rent. At any rate. he
might as well have committed suicide
poiltlgalIf, Tor that is what il amounted
TO- HIS constituents resented the idea
or his presumption that thew would con.
tinue to send him here indefinitely; so
they turned him down. Now. T under.
stand mapy of the congressman owl,
their own Washington homes, and nojb.
ing IS thought about ii in their dis.
tricts.
Has Fight in Sight.
EVery once IN so often, the news
goes forth that Postmaster Genera
Frank NJ. Hitchcock is to the rear
so far rs being political adviser to the
administration. All such stories NAV
be taken with reservation" as the
Diplomats put it. AS matter of fact
II there ever was n time when tho
peculiar political talents Of Mr., Hitch
cock were. needed, the days which
stretch from now until the next Re.
publican convention meets constitutes
thai period. President Taft wants a
renomInation and unless signs fail he
Will probably have to fight for it. If
fheTe rs one thing Mr.. Hitchcock un-
derstands perfectly it is how to get
and how to hold delegates. T recall
they had taken his delegates from him
half n dozen times at Chicago. but |
noticed they were all there and voting
solidlv for Taft when the time came,
man Of Mr.. Hitchcock gifts is too
valuable m asset to dispense with lust
now. Hence ] have nv doubts as to
any story of his retirement
y II