The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-28

living the District Columbia BY the resou
ton introduced however employees carefully
excluded from the inquiry They might we'll have undertaken
investigate social conditions in hades without putting the devil
the stand.
Anybody grain of common sense knows that the wage
schedule Of everybody else the District Columbia
sary depend on that Of the Government employe.
The original and basic producers Of this community the
Government employees The Of the speaking broadly
works for the Government employees The shops Them the
haul them the real estate and sell property
them and for em they short the economic foundation Of
the community
If the schedule of Government wages fair and reasonable
then in the long other wages will be just proportion
II the scale of Government wages nadequate-and
then the of other people bound proporonate
inadequate This fundamental obvious ought
require the statement
The attitude Of Congressional economists the Gov
employee fearful wonderful
Congressman and Senators of from $500 $500 year.
There being 435 Congressman and 90 Senator'S simple
arithmetic enoces Congress
crease of $iy327,5Oo year to itself in salaries
Really Not Extravagant
That might like a bit Of extravaganza But
BY the simple and easy of adding hour without
additional compensation the stint Of the forodd thousand Gov
clerks calculated that 81 100000 year will aved
Thus of Congressional economy shown have
slipped Si327500 into their pockets and the thine
have deity saved the dear taxpayers by the easy
procedure of taking away from the clerk.
1t shame that limited and vsoness like David
Lloyd George and Reginald McKenpa should permitted worry
the fiscal problems of the British empire trying up
$25oOc0oo day the of when fiscal genius Of
Congressional type going reognzed devong its gigantic
paciy the patry problems of the Government clerk
Why these genuses of Congressional finance would pay Great
Brians bills and then have surplus left worry about All
they would need would be big enough flock of Government goats
to skin
Apropos a Congressman with telephones
overlook the fact that the legislative executive and
da appropriation bill through which planned clerks
also contains repetition of the traditional and longandng graft
The railroads mile for hauling hem the
10 cents mile for submitting to be hauled
Why Not Add More?
Why add another and half three minutes day
the clerks working time pay for this little bit graft?
The clerk always has been rather attractive picking for Con-
Thus allowance of ST 500 per made pay
secretary member of the House But the money instead
ing paid the secretary who is turned the Con-
his cerihcaon If he hire secretary $500
huff sad the little difference of 5000 is velvet for the
Again, member who chairman Of important busy
special belongs to the committee
BY thrifty employment Of the committees clerical organization
do the haiman work. perfectly feasible highly profitable
to avoid paying out to anybody of that ST allowance
for the chairman's personal secretary
My Congressional friend with the of
that there have been plenty of instances Of this style Of thrifty
manage cement
To perfectly business the Government clerks
literally paid under the schedule schedule
made The theory that Government employees
we'll paid and had jobs and fifty sixty years ago.
some justification for that theory.
Fact Has Not Persisted.
The only trouble is that the theory has persisted and the fact
has not Today the salary that liberal the point
munfcence sixty beggay More better
required today in the Government departments before
requires liberal education and certificate of ieproacabe
character break into the Government SERVICE crowbar
| and kit of burglars tools to break out of il.
The only day that the Government employee has good Job
the day when he for the Government Young nexper
fenced and paetca innocent he magnes that
himself good thing small being separated from
| it, and prospect of continuous advancement
He is set about task that rule fits him for other task
under the heavens and units him every other He becomes
in huge machine AS rule he doesn't know
his individual task the task Of the ahead him. the man
behind him. He through Of intellectual processes thar