Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-06
Little Time for Lunch.

They don't have to run on the stroke
of the hour for a quick lunch room,
shove and push for a plate of some
thing-God knows what-swallow it
whole and rush back before the clock
strikes again. This noon hour period
is very important in fixing the time of
opening and closing offices. Unusu-
ally progressive concerns now open
their Offices at o'clock and close at
>. with no period for lunch or rest.
They find this very satisfactory
method. Large commercial Offices pro-
vide rest rooms and rest periods for
their employees and allow them time
10 use same. Such a practice is under
ST God to be in vogue to some extent in
the government printing Office and in
the bureau of engraving and printing,
the two institutions in Washington
which have real organizations of en-
ployes here.
The government should offer some
advantages over the commercial world
for its employees, else how will ii get
them. Surely not by misleading them
as to the conditions here to get them
and then keeping them because they
are unable to leave, as has been
charged Information has been re-
ceived that il is becoming more difficult
BILE employees at the salaries he offers.
HE no longer gets the cream of the
clerical ability of the country, as 1t was
once claimed he did. II the number and
quality or ability of the prospective
government employee decreases, II is
very bad for both the employer and the
employe. This must be prevented.
The opportunities for advancement
and interest in commercial life are in
comparably greater than in the govern
In fnr he INIT
of a mans achievement Is fxed by his
own efforts; while in the latter mans
only hope is promotion to the next
higher grade. which comes only as he
GERS by his own worth or by favoritism.
and toe often by pull
Economy Compared With. Mileage
THE bulwark of defense used by Mr..
posedly popular cry OF economy Mr..
Fitzgerald. the watchdog of the Treas
ury. must have belabored MIR. Borland
very severely for his tnsistence upon
the inclusion of some item dear to Mr..
Borlands heart in an appropriation
measure. Mr.. Borland surely was
caused by some force to SEQ economy"
through magntfying glass 1t is q
very strange glass though in that 1t re-
h. less clerk-while the happy pros
pc Is people back homo who have
votes in Mr. Borland's district slap
each other on the back and remark
what a sharp fellow he is to get all
that federal money to ditch the old
Missouri river. Strange. Mr. Borland
very strange. Also the glass can't see
the mileage gift.
should the rider be amended SO as
to effect real economy. the number of
employees must be reduced Who will
be dropped? Who will suffer most
from .longer hours? The old men and
women who have given their lifetime
of service to the govsrnmsnt for . liv-
ing wage only. nothing more They
will be turned out Without mercy
wandering and drifting around the city;
first with one relative. then with an
other. welcome nowhere, wanted no.
where. useless membranes of the
earth. Now they are rendering at least
some service and have rendered much
service to the government. and are liv-
Tag in comparative comfort.
But Mr.. Borland would 'sconomixe':
they don't vote-at least in his district
so cast them out: but, Mr.. Borland,
there may be some of the friends Of