The Washington times., 1916-03-21
Makes Special Appropriation to
Enlist Support in Movement
For Improvement.
PLACE CALLED DISGRACE
Speakers Discuss Minimum
Wages Necessary to Live In
Washington.

7he washir gton Asylum Hospital
was called "sharnelessly dilapidated'
and a disgrace to civilization" be-
fore the Monday Evening Club last
evening.
To supplement the efforts of The
Washington Times in giving pub
licIty TO conditions at the present hos
ritai. and urging the need Of new
municipal hospital. the club voted TO
upend a sum not To exceed 5000.
This money Is TO be expended under
n committee made up OF Walter =.
tJfrord pre- sideut of the CLUB. and DR..
George F. Bowerman. and Or. A. ].
McKelway. 1t Is planned to enlist
the interest OF every individual. or
gnnization, church, club or civic as
ISOLATION in a campaign to urge
upon Congress this need.
Nothing su much needs doing at
The present moment as the erection
of a building to take the place OF
this antiquated AFFAIR" said Presi-
dent Uftord. g,
Work for Fifteen Years.
"For fifteen years the District
Commissioners and various agencies
for civic bcttermen have been work.
<fpE for q new hospital. Now that the
time Is ripe I feel we cannot DO
better than turn every effort to
bringing Congress to realize this
need"
The club vcted to make the expendi-
lure. the largest 1t has ever authorized
for a campaign of this sort. without
dissenting vote.
Low Wages and Unemployment"
was the subject of the meeting. and
Or. A. j. McKeiway. chairman OF the
committee on that subject. made a re-
port in ~lI:ch he gave figures TO snow
that many Federal and District elm
ployes in this CITY are poorly pad
The Rev. Dr. John A. RYAN. Of Cath
Ollie University. during. discussi5n OF
the minimum wage, set " as the apso-
Lutte minimum upon which workin,'
glri can support herself In deceney In
this city
Should be Model.
CONGRESSMAN Nolan OF California
said: 1T Is surprising when you think
of the Federal Government as the one
employer WHO should be . model to md
thst, ON the whole. II 10 about the poor
est employer you can find In this broad
land.
ct ia surprising to think that thou
sands upcn thousands OF Federal o EN-
3opn;sn comt,nueGi. These are MOI
mart time workers, either. Do YOU know
that many employees OF your Govern
ment have been wo .iS ,r TOT iU any
they never had n raise?
yet these employees are expected 70
raise families and To tain their Gnu
dTen tS be ESodah e e' o@ Wages paid boil
Federal and District employees In WASH
ington, DR.. McKelway said:
I'm the Federal Government serVlc
the charwomen are paid ss'V seh hegin
ming about o'clock In the mornhne
Some of these supplement these wase
by cleaning UP private offices IN IN
afternoon and evening.
Congressman Nolan said the enCrts o
MIR. Borland on BEHALF OF his eight-hou
amendment had proved blessing !
disguise, since $500 employees of tn
Government had organized since tina
amendment was introduced.
Organization Is Help.
The trouble with Washington Gov
eminent clerks" said Mr.. Nolan. Il
that they think they have no friend
because they have no votes. They hav
the tremendous power of organization
but they don't use II. The letter cal
rlers organized and got their pay raise
from $500 to $500 in few years. an
they deserve every cent Of what the
now get.
Il understand 500 women in the Bures
OF Engraving and Printing work Il
1l.I5 a day, and that, with furlougf
and sickness, their average Is about ~
o year"
A committee to nom nate officers II
che club for the coming year. TO \
voted on AT the next m citing. Wa
elected as follows: DIR. A. j. McKelwa.
w. y. Patterson, Miss Elizabeth q. TO:
Louis simon, and George A. Warren.