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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
SEES |NEFF|C|ENCY
! INMETH0DS0 OF us.
Conditions Surrounding Pro-
motions in Administrative De-
I partments Attacked.
Rooney LOSS ALSO CITED

Inability of government administra-
tive officers to give promotions to peo-
ple who deserve them and failure OF
Congress to make provision in statu-
tory rolls so that the persons who de-
serve promotion can have it. is result
ing in much inefficiency, according to
the view of one government employe
The time has come when Congress
should change the conditions and pre-
vent the rivalry which is prevailing
even between the government bureaus TO
yet the trained employees of one another
by Offering larger salaries. There are
cases, where promotions OF employees
cannot be made in one bureau. but they
can get them by transferring TO other
bureaus. Such conditions would not pc
allowed to exist for n moment in a
well regulated business house.
Damming Up Endeavor.
sCongress," says this employe, re
serves to itself the power to change
statutory rolls, but makes no adequate
increases to meet the changing condi-
lions and demands of the government
Il Is the ironclad changeless statutory
roll that has brought about the present
overwhelming demand for horizontal
increase of salaries. 1t is the oVerno"
of a stream choked up for years. the
statutory roll is dammiDg up OF hu,
man endeavor. which is intolerable and
unworthy of any civilized nation. More
over, it defeats its own purpose A pa!
roll that does not adapt itself TO the
changing conditions of an enterprise
cannot be other than a source OF ever
Increasing embarrassment and loss
How does Congress expect increases
TO be made If they reserve this privi-
lere to themselves and refuse to exer-
else it? Under conditions prevailing IN
Congress, even slight changes IN statu-
tory rolls are attended with SO much
difficulty as to be practically promo,
five unless defended by the 'inhuence
of some member. Not only Is no IN
telligent consideration given to recon-
mendations for increases, but every
pretext is used all along the line to
throw them out-sudden spasms OF
economy fapplied to no other expendl-
ture), the idle mummery of points OF
order, technical objections. etc. NO one
supposes for a moment that a pro-
posed increase is to be of any benent
in conducting the operations OF the
government. 1t is considered con-
epiracy to promote some pampered
clerk. who is already living in elegance
on his salary. Slim chance has poor
Increase if he has no friend at court,
for it is everybody's business to throw
him out after belaboring him with sar-
casm and invective.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
Where $1,000 Is Lost.

THE chief of the bureau of sealing
wax is under the immediate necessity
Of filling Browns place. OF the three
civil service candidates certified for
this purpose. the two best qualified ones
decline at proposed entrance salary
Of leo. The third is appointed, but
he is plainly unequal to all the nu-
merous functions of the los. Brown, 50
IL becomes necessary to appoint still
another clerk Four out of six decline
at $1,000. but finally the man with the
tions. are now delegated to two un-
which being added to rs per cent of the
makes a total loss of 1000, which is
cheerfuily paid by an enlightened gov
eminent in order to save $500 on
Brown's salary and prevent him from
doing The particular work in which he
Is most useful
This is mere Pigment of fancy !
know absolutely and specifically where
Of / speak. The infiexibility of the
statutory roll is costing the govern
ment untold thousands per annum. Its
results are about the same as those of
other instruments OF tyranny and OPP
preston.
Imagine a great business house all
lowing another concern to take away
q valuable oookkeeper at an increase
Of 800 per annum because il was neces-
sary to wait for the cashier to die or
resign before the bookkeeper could be
promoted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
Finding Work for Wounded.

Business offices in the town harbor
many of the victims of the shrapnel
and the bayonet. The employers of
labor have rallied strongly to the re-
lief of the damaged soldier. 1t is COM
mon to read an advertisement in the
paper of the following general content:
Wanted, a man blinded at the front
for light work." or Wanted, men in
jured in battle for Office work" And
one finds these war victims everywhere.
readjusting themselves to the require
ments of commerce. The blind are
taught stenography, and. upon special
machines, become quite proficient. The
armless and the legless are equipped
with artificial arms and legs. which
they are soon able to use with surpris-
ing success. You may notice man
tip his hat. smoke a cigar and carry
his cane. handling all of these things
quite naturally. and discover that the
hand he is using is an artificial one
only after long puzzling over its rigid
ty of position.
A powerful stimulus is given to the
imagination OF the intolerable suffer-
ings multiplying on the battlefie!ds
upon occasionally meeting soldier
who victim of one Of the not-infre-
quent trench cave-ins. has dug his way
out to the air with his bare hands.
number of these men We're taken
care of in private hospital IN town
in southwestern Saxony. They had
worn down their fingers, flesh and
bone, to the knuckles, as though ground
off by an emory-wheel. in frantic claw
ing of their way from living burial.
up through gravel. sand and rock. to
the freedom of the bedlam above.
The story of the ready sacrifice. the
heroic endurance, the steadfast asser-
ton Of will superior to hardship. fear
and anguish, which is being shown by
all of the peoples at war. if it could
be told. would form the most sublime
as well as the most terrible. of human
tragedies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
Believes People Will Assist.

But the American people will be
prompt to recognize the fact that the
poverty of Europe cannot contribute to
their welfare any more than the mis-
fortunes of their commercial and in
dustrial rivals can promote the pros
perity of their foreign trade. I see no
reason to doubt that they will prepare
to do their part in laying the founda-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
People Seek the Streets.

Within the confines OF your frst-class
hotel, in the downtown streets. avenues
and squares of the big city. and through
the windows Of the speeding railway
train, you see but few indications that
a world war is in progress. There are
not many guests at your hotel, but its
appointments are just as smart and the
doorboys, the elevator boys, solicitous
maids, walters and room servants are
lust as much in the way as in the nor
NAL times of peace and prosperity.
There is the same continuous flow Of
business and shopping in the downtown
streets. Yes, there is probably evidence
was in peace times, for people go into
the streets, and stay in the streets, in
order to escape being alone with their
anxieties.
crowded Women throng in these places
from early in the afternoon until l
o'clock in the morning, the prescribed
closing hour. There are concerts in
nearly all of the cafes and summer gar
dens.
From the trains, one notices only that
the country is under a most intensive
cultivation. Whatever land Is not serv-
ing as pasture or woodland is pressed
into service. Even the rights-of-way
along the rails over which you are hur-
rying are planted in cabbages, turnips
potatoes, tomatoes or sunfiowers. The
Germans have adopted sunfower culture
in order to get the valuable and nutri-
tive oil of the sunf1ower seed. Sunflower
seeds have long been eaten by the Rus
slams with the same relish that peanuts
are eaten in the United States.
1t is when one wanders in the sections
of the city where the laboring people
live. or makes excursions to suburban
neighborhoods. to outlying parks or to
smaller towns that one sees the Inn
prints of the world war. Here are i'm
provements that were begun before the
war and never finished; here are homes
out of repair, gardens become Uttered
and desolate, parks turned into cabbage
fields and goat pastures. deserted shops
and mills, and here. in these out-of-the-
way places are the worst battered
wrecks of the hattlefelds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
.GR|MNESS OF WAR
BACK OF THEL|NES
PitifuI Wrecks of Battle to Be
Seen in Streets Of
Berlin.
GAYETY MASK TO TRAGEDY
BY FREDERIC J. HAsK1N.

BERLIN. November 25-There was a
warm discussion in progress among
group of americans in the lobby or the
Hotel Bristol here. The subject of de-
bate was that threadbare one as to
where merit lies in the present war
young American doctor, on furlough
in Berlin, who was in daily intimate
association with horror, sat apart from
the group reading paper. Finally, one
Of the disputants appealed to him:
Say. doc, where are your SYM
pathies -
My sympathies are for the women
and children" he answered quietly. with
out looking up from his paper.
Place of Human Misery.
There are few more saddening places
in the world than the great, square,
sepulchral structure on the lower Will
aelmstrasse, where the women and old
men go to learn the fate of loved ones
at the front. There could be no filter
to ply his pitiless Investigations of the
Expressions of human misery, for here
may be seen the whole range or those
dread emotions that are so well con-
cealed from the public stare in times of
peace.
Here one may pry unhindered into the
secrets of agonizing suspense, whose
tense features restless figures and fear
stricken eyes suggest such crushing
story of heartache and covering fearful
ness for the morrow as to numb the
ina gination. 1t is the story of the fear
that goes to bed each night with mil
lions of mothers. fathers and wives. fill
ing their unoccupied hours with num-
,icfo and xxyri n o. N
numberless despairing supplications for
mercy for the absent. Only. in this
great, darkened, quiet hall. whose at
tendants are constantly breaking the
shadow Of fear lowers more oppres-
sively, more thickly than in the homes.
After a visit here one feels that one
has been in an ugly charnel house OF
human hopes and loves.
The hall, in which one seeks informa-
ton concerning the soldiers at the 'front.'
is filed with rows of benches. and. be-
hind a rail partition at one end, are
scores of ancient clerks who make the
searches through the files. Three or
women. A young woman, masses OF
glossy brown hair held in place by
somber shawl in simple print ging-
ham dress and holding sleeping baby
on her arm, pauSes at the door as though
upon the Threshold of a torture cham
Der. An attendant whispers few words
to her and brings her to the desk, where
she fills out a slip of paper with the
name and regiment Of soldier-and
joins the waiting on the benches. An
old man is called forward and gets his
answer. It makes him finch, as salt
upon a ragged nerve. His lips move
a prayer or a repressed cry Of pain
he wipes grimy handkerchief over his
forehead, squares his old shoulders and
marches QUITO tell the mother, prob
ably. The young woman with the baby
gets her answer. Her exclamation Of
chances are taken prisoner" but miss
ing" might as well mean blown into
clumps of unacceptable flesh in some
hell such as that let loose upon the
Somme.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
Mrs. Pittman Also Heard Names.

Pittman testified he went to the au-
tomobile, lifted the woman's hand, felt
no pulse and hurried back home, where
he had left his wife, sick She wit
messed part of the shooting from a
screened sleeping porch. he said. Mrs.
Pittman told him she heard the names
of Crystal and Harry" called out by
the occupants of the car during the
shooting. Mrs. Pittman has died.
Cross-examined, Pittman said while
the man was shooting at the woman
she put her hands to her head and cried
Harry, Harry, my God. don't do that"
A moment before he testified he heard
the woman say: Harry, Harry. what
did you do that for?"
Pittman admitted that John Holland.
father OF Mrs. Spaniel. furnished trans
portatfon for himself and little son from
Meridian, whittier he had removed, to
testify in the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
Cites Futility Of Roll.

Now observe at this point the futility
land the irony OF the infiexible statutory
roll from the standpoint OF the govern
ment- While privately tearing his (own)
hair. Browns chief will not stand in the
way" Of Brown. who has a family. So
Brown is promoted into the place of the
defunct Smith, Green or Jones in another
bureau or department In nine cases out
of ten he is worth. Fay. 25 per cent less
IN the second position than in the first.
where he has received his training and
made his place. Under the rules which
the astute government makes to protect
itself from the rapacity Of the individual
clerk cannot be promoted in the place
where he is most valuable tunless his
brother higher up moves OUT, but he
may be promoted into some other place
Under ruling of the controller he may
even be removed from the statutory roll
for the purpose of promotion, but only in
case the duties in which he has demon
strafed his value are changed to some
other duties Any old duties will answer
except those in which the government
most needs his services
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27

to his home and will go into hos
pital there.
Capt Charles Dagger OF Edgew.ter.
Lower Machodoc creek. Va, Is a visitor
here aboard the schooner J. 7. Brennon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27

There is only way to find out what the
people think, either in America or elsewhere, and
that is to compare the utterances OF all the period-
Gals on any given question; and then to draw your
own conclusions. This is practical impossibity
for any single individual, but it is done thoroughly
and panstakingly for YOU each week in THE LIT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
Says Europe Will Have to Borrow

at is difficult to realize the colossal
scale on which Europe will have to Dor
row to make good the destruction of
war At least thirty-five billions worth
of property will have to be replaced, and
the demands of the work of recon =
struction will be too vast to be met by
private enterprise.
"Co-operation on the broadcast and
most generous scale and in the most
sympathetic spirit must be the rule If
economic recovery is to be quick and
thorough. We shall greatly facilitate
international cooperation for the gen.
eral welfare of the world by establish
ing cooperative system of selling In
foreign trade among ourselves. We
shall greatly lessen the probability OF
perpetuating in the domain Of COM
merce the bitterness and hatred en-
eendered by the war if we refuse to be
drawn into any convention. agreement
or understanding that would make us
parties to a boycott of the commerce
of any of the nations now arrayed
against each other. To meet any at
tempted discriminat ton against the ex-
ports of the United States we should
be free to choose our own weapons
and to invoke the aid of our own gov
eminent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
SPANELL-BUTLER KILLING
ISSH0WN IN NEW LIGHT
States Witness Says Man in Front
Seat Of Car Shot Pair-Differs
From Prisoners Story.

SAN ANGELO. Tex, January 81
Another story of the killing of Lieut..
Col. NJ. C. Butler and Mrs. Crystal
Holland Spaniel at Alpine, Tex, on the
night of July 20 last, was told in dis
trict court here yesterday afternoon
by r. n. Pittman of Meridian, Miss, a
states witness whose testimony was
offered in rebuttaL Harry J. Spaniel,
who is on trial for the killing of his
wife. also is under indictment for the
killing of Col. Butler. Both met death
! by pistol shots while in SpanelFs auto
mobile.
The defendant, testifying in his own
behalf Thursday, said the shot that
killed Mrs. Spaniel was fired by Col
Butler. Pittman testified he lived near
where the shooting occurred On the
night of July 20 he heard Shots he
said. and saw a man on his knees in
! the front seat of an automobile firing
into the back of the car A man and
| a woman were on the rear seat and he
! saw them fall. the man falling first.
The automobile ran into a fence and
stopped. Pittman testified he then saw
the man in the front seat climb on the
!, running-broad and fire several more
| shots into the rear of the car, and
heard a mans voice say: Crystal.
why did you make me do it?" Then
| hurried away, Pittman said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
COOPERATIVE SELLING
IN FOREIGN TRADE URGED
President of United States Steel Cor.
poration Gives Advice to Ameri-
can Business Men.

PITTSBURGH. Pa. January 27.-James
A. Farrell president of the United
States Steel Corporation. in a speech
at the banquet of the National Foreign
TRADE Council. held here last night. in
connection with the fourth annual con-
vention. urged the establishment of a
cooperative system of selling in for
eign trade by the business men of
America. but advised them against en-
tering into any agreement which might
result in the perpetuation of COM
mercial war or the fostering of hatred
ensendered by the present struggle in
Europe. Speaking on the subject of
The Future of Foreign Trade" he said.
in part:
at is a debatable question whether
the United states can become men,
Der Of an international league of peace
for the prevention of future war, but
it is not at all doubtful that We can
render an Invaluable service to the es-
adjustment of lasting accord among
the peoples of the earth by setting our
face against anything that looks to
the perpetuation of commercial war il
peace,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27

ERARY DIGEST, which presents the consensus of
all opinions for your consideration in the form of
brief and pointed quotations from publications of
all shades. 1t does this impartially recording all
views, but advocating 1t is thus veritable
digest of all that being thought, said and done the
world over, preserved in compact form for your
reading
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27

and the work of their homes at night.
Likewise in the poorer sections. Of the
city, when one gees the woman coal show
efers, ditch diggers. bricklayers and truck
drivers coming home. back-bent. handy
legged and bedraggied. sodden with un.
wonted toll, dirty and sweat-drenched.
wars ugliest features-that of the logged,
cherries, unequal struggle back home.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-02
Survey of White River
by State Engineer

Work on the survey of White River
and it's tributaries in Wasco county will
begin Immediately, according to John
H. Lewis, state engineer, who left to-
day for an inspection of conditions in
the field.
An automatic guage will be install
ed near the mouth of the river to de-
termine accurately the amount of water
now used in the development of power,
also one on the Clear Creek ON the head
waters of the stream to determine the
conflict in use with irrigation, as well
as the amount of water available for
storage.
Water measurements will be conduct
ed throughout the year and field work
commenced in the spring to determine
the extent of irrigation and other rights
as basis for adjudication proceedings
which will be undertaken by the State
Water Board as soon as this survey
work is completed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-02
Three WERE KILLED
SAYS WEEKLY REPORT
Industrial Accident COmmis-
sion Also Records Many
Minor Injuries

. During the last week-September 20
to 27, inclusive, there were reported to
the state industrial accident commission
439 accidents, of which number three
were fatal. Following is given the
name, address and occupation of the
fatally injured workmen:
P. j. Cassin, Cake, Oregon, mining.
j. ]. Mcdonnell, Umapine, Oregon, ira
velers on Public Highway. y a.
Robert Clark, Umapine, Oregon, Ira
velers on Public highway.
OF the total number reported, 995
were subject to the provisions of the
compensation act, IL were from public
utility corpol ations, and 80 were from
firms and corporations which have re-
jected the provisions of the act, and 2
were from corporation operating un-
der the provisions OF the law, said two
were travellers, being injured while on
public highway.
Following is shown the number of ac-
cidents by industry:
Saw mill, I20; logging, So; construc-
tion, 80; painter, A; box factory, 81;
meat packing, 13; shipbuilding, So;
Iron and steel works, So; R. r. Oper-
ations, 81; telephone and telegraph, q;
tank and pipe company, 6; shingle COM
pany, 2; machine shop, 6; flour mills,
A; mining, 4; garage, 4; can manufactur-
ing, 4; cooperage,4; cannery, 3; paper
mill, z; travellers ON public highway, q;
dredging, 2; planning mill, 2; junk deal
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-02
Try Making Your OIUn
Cough Remedy
You can savc about SO, and have
better remedy than the ready
made kind. Easily done.

If you combined the curative proper.
ties of every known "ready-made" cough
remedy, You would hardly have in them
all the curative power that lies in this
simple homemade" cough syrup which
takes only few minutes to prepare.
Get from any druggist 2h ounces of
Pinex (60 cents wOrth), pour il into n
pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain
granulated sugar syrup. The total cost
IS about o., cents and gives you a full
pint of really better. cough syrup than
YOU could buy ready-made for $3.50.
Tastes pleasant and never spoils.
:. This Pinex and sugar syrup prepara-
tion gets right at the cause Of a cough
and gives almost Immediate relief. 1b
loosens the phlegm, stops the nasty
throat tickle and heals the sore, irri-
tated membranes that line the throat.
chest and bronchial tubes, so gently
and easily that IL is really astonishing.
a days use will usually overcome the
ordinary cough and for bronchitis,
Group, whooping cough and bronchial
asthma, there is nothing better.
Pinex is most valuable concentrated
compound Of genuine Norway pine exc
tract, and has been used for generations
30 break up severe coughs.
To avoid disappointment, be sure to
ask your druggist for "2lb ounces of
Pinex" with full directions, and don't
accept anything else. A guarantee of
absolute satisfaction OF money prompt
~ refunded, goes with this preparation,
The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-02
congressman Campaign
for Liberty Bond Issue

Washington, Oct. with adjourn
ment near many congressman are ro-
turning to their districts to aid the lib
erty loan campaign today.
By the end of this week or the mid
die of next, the session is expected to
finish its work, leaving 435 representa-
tives and 96 senators free to tour up
and down the country telling the caus-
es and purposes of the war.
Since few bills of major Importance
are still pending, leaders are encour-
aging the opening, of this campaign
now by permitting leaves of absence
in almost every case where they are
asked.
With not much else to occupy its at
tention, the house intends to spend
this afternoon listening TO personal
privilege speeches by members whose
loyalty has been questioned. Represen-
tative Mason, Illinois, says he will ex-
plain the reports that he favors a re-
peal of the conseription law are un-
fair.
What he advocates, he said, is an
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-02
Stop Itching Eczema

Never mind how often you have tried
and failed, you can stop burning, itching
eczema quickly by applying little zenio
furnished by any druggist for 35c. Extra
large bottle, $1.00. Healing begins the
moment zemo is applied. In a short time
usually every trace of eczema, letter,
pimples, rash, blackheads and similar
skin diseases will be removed.
For clearing the skin and making It
vigorously healthy, always use zemo, the
penetrating, antiseptic liquid. 1t is not
greasy salve and it does not stain. When
others fail it is the one dependable treat
ment for skin troubles of all kinds.
The E. W. Rose Co., Cleveland, 0.