Evening star., 1919-08-18
SPECIAL attention
| FOR OLDER CLERKS
RecIassification Committee
Learns of Worker Who Has
Served 70 Years.
HIS SALARY SIS MONTHLY

Old clerks in the government serv-
ice will be well taken care of by
the joint congressional commission
on reclassification of salaries in the
District. Some striking cases found by
the commission workers have called
the attention Of the commissioners
more than ever to this problem
Perhaps the most striking case to
come before the commission in han
ding the 104 900 questionnaires turn
ed in by federal workers OF the Ma
tional Capital Is that of a clerk in
! one OF the departments who Is ninety
| two years old, and who has seen sew
enty years of service in the govern
| ment here.
| This man Is rendering good serv-
ice, too. declared commission Of
ncial. Think of it-seventy years and
six months in the government serv-
ice, period which constitutes a good
IiIetime, in itself-and now. at the
age of ninety-two years, he is a faith
| ful servant of the public"
Receives $75 Monthly.
This clerk now receives the sum of
$I5 q month for his services, He is
active as stenographer and typist, it is
declared Commission members mar
veled at the situation, as revealed by
n
ceptional the case is similar to scores
OF others in the government service
here.
One bureau, composed of perhaps
twenty clerks, shows that there is not
clerk under the age of seventy years
in the bureau These are both men and
women. The entire question of the
elder clerks in the government service
Is one which is receiving the fullest
attention OF the commission, and one
f<x~
satisfaction of all concerned. OF this
commission members are certain. 1t is
their aim, in presenting a report to
Congress next January, to bring out
the facts as to the old clerks, along
with the facts as to salaries and work
OF the entire body of government
workers in the District.
Facts such as enumerated above
VIII be included In graphic form in
the report of the commission to Con-
gress. SO that facts as regards the
elder government workers will be
brought out vividly in the presenta-
ton. making 1t possible for members
of Congress to realize without fur
ther research the exact situation.
Interest in Older Clerks.
Members of the reclassification
commission. ever since that body be-.
gan functioning have shown peculiar
AutcISSl III TIE PToOIeiH OF the OIO
clerk in federal service. They have
realized that there are two sides Of
the questionable governments side
and the clerks side. They have real
ICED that the governments side need
not be a cold-blooded sort of thing,
in which so-cal1ed efficiency may
be made the excuse for depriving
faithful servants of their jobs. Nor,
on the other hand, are they willing
to let sentiment dictate the final de-
cisions of the commission in this
matter or in any other.
Members Of the reclassification COM
mission are fully determined to treat
the priblem of the old clerk with
| the justice and humanity which it
demands and needs. That is the rea-
SON the case of the clerk ninety-two
years old, with seventy years of
service to his credit in the govern
ment, attracted so much attention
among commission members today.
1t was "the talk of the commission"