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The Washington times., 1919-12-22
Some of the Injustices of the
Government Service
BY BILL PRICE.

This from intelligent and ambitious young Govern
ment clerk regarding injustcc Of the service that
widely recognized, but still go uncorreced:
Salaries only things adjusting
aganst blind alley handicapped by civil laws that appear
have TS been tr made to to hinder sr, progress -
three department before
reapponted salary departmer
another within In other
counant yet cannot be reapponed higher salary the
ton he has qualified for even if he rcevng only $500
ment and inefhcency Why shouldn't the b
made attractive to ambitious and willing AM
study for promoion7
Here's how this thing works out: bright young
enters the Government service. He goes local crege
school at night He adds valuaby his qualifications
he becomes lawyer expert accountant he cannot be
transferred to any other department inside of three years
if the Government is calling for of his qual6ca
ton and holding examinations for eligible lists At the
end of three years he may be transferred to the statutory
rolls of other department at increased salary.
there opportunity for advancement the statutory
rolls elsewhere and he should succeed getting into some
department with lumpsum roll he cannot again bepro
noted that roll inside of year.
These two laws lock the doors to the advancement Of
merit and kill ambition. There should be bar to bright
Government clerk being transferred wherever the opporu
nifty is best and the Government appears to be benefited
thereby. Naturally there should be restrictions that would
prevent department robbng another OF Its most
petent clerks because salaries the departments vary
widely This could be arranged without sitting the amb
tons of young clerks who go right along studying and
working fit themselves for better positions In life.
The funny thing about the three year transfer Law
that it is intended to prevent clerks being drawn to lump
sum rolls where the pay is generally better yet Congress
continues the old methods of providing statutory and lump
appropriations with the nvarable result that the most
deserving gcks deprived of the opportunit better
meut Of salaries
The Washington times., 1919-12-22
Feed America Esk
70 the Editor Of THE TINES:

TO the Editor Of THE TINES:
There have been . great many artd-
eles published with respect to the
great need for increased production
- means Of cutting down prices
II Is quite evident that some of the
necessities have increased In the
amount produced I noted In one In
stance that Mr.. Hoover suggest,
sending wheat a. hour to Europe-
Why advocate l. the peopIs as
whole In this country. endeavor to
put forth their best efforts toward
increased production. only to find that
IL 10 doing no good to themselves
what they have turned out 'ue To
their extra efforts, in cuttir own
prices being sent out of the atry,
When there is a surplus, WHY not dis
tribute IL in this country, II Increased
production win cut down prices? !.
READER.
The Washington times., 1919-12-22
Beatrice Fairfax Writes of the Problems and Pitfalls Workers
Especially For Washington Women

balanced I have written him to
come back, and he returned my let
Ter unopened. Some of my girl
tfiends say was lucky. but we de-
cided to ask you. LUCILLE.
I'm afraid the man couldn't have
been very deeply interested in you
or he would never have used your
little moment of excitement as an
excuse to quit. That's the first
point, and the second is that no real
man would ever send a woman's
letter back to her unopened. At
the best this action shows an ar
bitrary disposition that any woman
would do we'll to steer away from.
l agree with your friends, that
you have not sustained any great
loss.
The Washington times., 1919-12-22
Troubles of q
War Worker.
DEAR MISS rAYprAY.

bEAh MISS FAlRFAA.
Please help q very unhappy war
risk worker. For two months now
/ have been engaged to a gentle
man, and we had intended to be
married in the spring and then go
to his home in the West where he
has been assured a responsible po-
sition. The place where I live is
not very attractive, and in some
cases we have to entertain our gen.
temen friends in the dining room.
The other night when my fance
called there was quite a crowd, and
as the weather was too bad to VEN
ture out to the movies we lighted
the range and sat in the kitchen,
thinking 1t quite comfy.
And here's where the trouble
started. All at once I saw a mouse
crawling out of a bag of potatoes
in the corner of the kitchen. I
turned white with speechless fright,
and, then, recovering, let out q
scream that frightened all the
others in the house. including the
mouse. Now. my dance has broken
on the engagement on the ground
that any woman who acted like
that Is not temperamentally well
The Washington times., 1919-12-22
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
From The Public To The Editor
Delay In Solder Boons

70 the Editor Of THE TIMES:
For months the veterans Of foreign
vars Of the United States have been
interested In the enactment of some
tegislation to alleviate the condition
81 thousands of ex-servtce men. In
eumerable visits have eeen made to
the Capitol in effort to accelerate the
Ways and MeAns Committee of the
House OF Representatives. No amount
81 pleading has been effective.
Various bills introduced in the House
are now dormant, awaiting the action
Of the committee Judas Iscariot re-
eetved thirty pieces Of silver for his
Infamous betrayal; then men who
rfsked their lives In defense Of ths
nag and the salvation of civilization
have been awarded sixty pieces of
silver By an apprsctative Congress-
Would that ! had the tongues Of a
paraelets! ] would give voice to the
ruth coneerping the diiatory tactics
Of the WAyD And Means COMMITTEES.
4 II HAA
The Washington times., 1919-12-22
Hetman Kanekov () with Cossacks of his
steel car leaving for the Bolshevik front.
MY DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
'sss's's~s'sSs sSs'ssassSassSsss

IL a young girl twenty years
old, and am considered attractive,
but what worries me is that live
dn a very bad neighborhood and
haven't q beautiful home, As other
girls have. but my fathers business
compels US to live there.
go to dances and different af-
fairs. I meet some OF the incest
fellows, but when they ask to take
me home, or call on me, I turn them
down on account Of the neighbor-
hood.
Miss Fairfax. do you think the
neighborhood counts?
WORRIED.
TT would be foolish to say that
it doesn't, because that sort OF
thing counts a great deal with
some people. / doubt if it does
with the really worth while people,
however, or with anyone who is
truly your friend. 1t seems to me
you have a good opportunity to
separate the sheep from the goats
among the young men and women
you meet and find out which ones
really like you for yourself and
which like you for the kind of
house you live in. I'm sure that
q boy who really cared for you
would not let the neighborhood
make the slightest difference,
especially when you had explained
things as you have to me, al
though you must never make your
explanations with an air of apol-
ogy You know one can cultivate
the faculty of being absolutely su-
perior to both ones surroundings
and ones clothes. / have known
many q woman who wore old
clothes with a more regal pride
than others who had the latest
fashions. In Boston there is a
little street which is nothing more
than an alley, yet well-known writ
ers and even persons who could
afford buffers have occupied the
charming little houses there.
There is . quaint saying about
this little street always voiced by
the residents thereon. 1t is: III
you LIKE US, you say we live on
Little Beacon street; If you
DON'T, you say we live In an al
ley" II you don't know Boston,
] might explain that Beacon street
is the quality street" Of the oldest
families. So you see, much can be
accomplished even in undesirable
neighborhoods, il one has q sense
Of humor.
The Washington times., 1919-12-22
Answers to Correspondents

girl friends, he questions me and I
have never given him any cause to
do SO. II ask him where he has
oeen when he is out, he says I have
no right to question his actions.
He has a good salary, but I have
to ask for every cent I get for
numerous things a woman must
have. Is there any reason why a
husband should question his wife
when the wife dares not question,
especially when a woman won't 90
to questionable places like men. Do
women always have to submit to
unjust things and let men have
their own way and a wife to obey
OF an age to have sense and see
things right MABLE.
Unfortunately there Is a great
deal Of injustice toward women in
domestic relations. II husbands
choose to be mean enough, they can
demand far different standard
from their wives than they them
selves are willing to live up to. It
seems absurd, however, for any
man who expects to live in even a
semblance of harmony with a
woman to expect to go his own
gait without any explanatiors and
demand strict accounting from
his wife. On the financial Ques-
ton, you ought to do your level
best to get weekly allowance from
him. Reckon up what the month
ly household bills are and then ask
for a weekly stipend to cover them,
making an allowance for your own
personal pin money and needs. 1t
Is painful for any woman to ask
. man for money, but if they won't
do the right thing of their own
accord, a wife must of a necessity
The Washington times., 1919-12-22
We Have No Business I'm Any
Private Wars
December 20, 1919.
Editor Washington Times:

December co. 1919.
Editor Washington Times:
Hare pictures Of the Cossack associates Of the
United States in Russia and Of the conditions our American
soldiers have to meet there Only little while ago Asri
knew Cossac agents of the most oppres
ve tyranny the face of the EARTH the paid military
servants Of the cr who hesitated nothing to inct the
barbarous uees Of the old regime upon the helpless
people Of Russia
How the Russian people have thrown of the yoke of
hs Cars and Of the corrupt and cruel nobility and have
sstsblishsd dsmoracy-not perfect democracy but
form Of democratic government which win develop daily
into better democracy and which under any circumstances
Is infinitely better than the ruthless desposm deposed
And behold we liberty loving Americans, We whose
wstchwords were humanity and democracy are now fight
ing in Asia hand in hand with these cruel Cossac hand
IN hand with the imperasc Japanese to crush the deve
spng democracy Of Russia and restore tho vicious des
posm Of the Cars and the military government of the
Cossack hordes
That the Cossacb sun what they were is plainly
shown by the account Of Lieutenant J. Walter Resing
the Infantry if we did not know sufficiently
wall what the Cossacks and what they always will be-
Why should President Wilson, without authority Of
Congress without the approval of the American people, send
our American boys to the of Siberia to endure the
hardshps Of military service in that country to sacrifice
their fves and to waste the money Of the nation raised
through heavy taxation IN order to try to fight down an
infant rspuhe and to reesabish an auocracy Of despotc
o corrupt and oonscienceess MOBILES and cruel Cossacs9
What has become Of professions Of humanity our
pFetsuses Of democracy7
Whsrs b our democracy At homo even, when an auto
ss IN the White House usup tho power Of the repre-
sntaves Of the people and impose his individual will upon
The whole American public irrespective Of the restrictions
d the Constitution and the republican sentiments and
humane desires Of . hundred million people?
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
The Washington times., 1919-12-22

get enough to get along on some
how. In both your problems, it
seems to me that a wife's best tao
tics are to show her husband how
much happier and more harmoni-
GUS their life together would be
II these two points were straight
ened out. Threats and reproaches
are a waste Of breath, but an at
tempt toward "a workable under
standing sometimes accomplishes
wonders.
The Washington times., 1919-12-22
What's Doing; Where; When

northwest, o. m
caro- Party-Cathoiic womsn's Service
Ciuo, sol z street northwest, .. m
Tomorrow.
Danee-ohio Girls Club. Recreation
Hail, Government hotels. $3.50 .. m
Lecture-N. b. Fagtn, National School
OF social Research l7Is H street north
west, p. NJ
DancinE-Friendship House Dancing
CLUB. Tyler School. Eleventh and G streets
southeast, 1880 D. m
Meetins-Eastern High School Alumni
Association, at the school, 2 p. m.
Meeting-Robert Y. Lee Chapter No. s<&,
Confederate Memorial Hall. ls2a Vermont
Avenue northvest 2 m-
The Washington times., 1919-12-22

This from an intelligent and ambitious young Govern
ment clerk regarding inusccs Of the service that
widely recognized, but still go uncorrected
The Washington times., 1919-12-22

Today.
Heetine-cosrnos Club. IN the Assembly
Hall, $3.50 p. m.
Party-Chrtstmas tree party for colcred
school children, Liberty Hut, } p. m
Meetins-Federation Of Women's Clubs,
Hotel Lafayette, IL O. m.
Entertainment-For children from the
Emergency Home by the Blue Triangle
Players, Twentieth and b streets north west.
I p. m
Concert-community Center Band, Met
ropolitan N e, Church, D. m.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Caroy' and
st George and the Dragons" Eagle Hut.
p. m.
Meetins-washlngtonC Chapter OF the Lay
Alumni of Catholic University. Sel street
The Washington times., 1919-12-22
Jealous of Her Girl
Friend.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

I Am a young girl Of eighteen
and considered very attractive, and
for the past four months ] have
about twenty-three, whom I think
an awful lot OF. I think he likes
me because he has always shown
a preference for me over all other
girls. About a month ago 1 intro
duced him to a girl friend of whom
1 thought good bit, and since
then 1 know she has been trying
In an underhand way to take this
young man from me.
/ do not like to ask him IL he
cares more for her than for me,
but feel as though ! cannot let
things drift on the way they are
going.
Shall I give up his friendship
and hers? Tell me what must /
do / have no relatives in this city
to consult ANXIOUS.
Al the best, life is very apt to be
rather stiff game and sometimes
We have 10 play it with sdn up
per lip. Just at present, life is
calling on you to play the game
with level eyes and accomplishing
lips. Just stick 1t out without
questioning either this young man
or your girl friend. You will gain
nothing by talking to him on this
subject and will avoid appearing
in Q supplicating attitude to him
Act your brightest; dress your
prettiest and give her q good bat
tie. II she wins, be good loser.
In either event, don't take the situa-
ton too seriously because the next
few years of your life may bring
much more interesting young men
The Washington times., 1919-12-22

The Thirhst Zoouteh pretty Russian
maiden Marie teaching neglected children Of the became
idol Of the regiment jealous cossaek captain Nemko6 coll
,eeed band thirty Bolshevk co:sac entered the girls home
killed her and hed mountain Lieutenant Resng with
of thirty set pursuit After weeks marching and climbing
they Discovered the bandits and demanded surrender Receiving
bullets in reply the Americans charged All Cosaeks
killed who escaped.
The Washington times., 1919-12-22

Here's Another
Domestic Tyrant.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Ny husband says he isn't Jealous.
Int II 20 to Q AhoW alonA or with
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-07-30
ENEMY OF WHEAT
FIGHTS FROM AMBUSH

The common Burberry is making
war on the grains of Minnesota's
farms this summer from hidden plac-
es. The black stem rust of wheat has
appeared and the government and
state agents working from University
Farm, who have been carrying on q
campaign for the eradication of the
common barberry plant which distri-
butes the spores which cause the rust,
have traced many of the infections of
this summer to barberry plants grow
ing wild in the woods over the state.
Burberry scouts have found this
year more than $4,000 plants. OF
these 300 have been found in the
country and 61O0 growing wild. Wild
specimens of the common barberry
have been found in Is counties. 1t
is believed that much of the rust
Infection this year is spread from the
common barberry plants ambushed in
the woods.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-07-30
STRAIGHTFORWARD
TESTIMONY
Many Willmar Citizens Have Profit.
ed By Il.

II you have backache, urinary
troubles, days of dizziness, headaches
or nervousness, strike at the seat Of
the trouble. These are often the
symptoms of weak kidneys and there
is grave danger in delay. Doan's Kid
ney Pills are especially prepared for
kidney ailments - are endorsed by
over $4,000 people. Your neighbors
recommend this remedy-have proved
its merit in many tests. Willmar
readers should take fresh courage in
the straightforward testimony Of this
Willmar citizen.
j. H. Taylor, 100 Bertha st. says:
Il was troubled by my kidneys for
about two years. worked in an Office
and no doubt, sitting in one position
for such long periods caused the
trouble. My head ached and often l
felt very dizzy. Ny kidneys gave me
a great deal Of trouble and didn't
have any ambition. After trying Diff
ferent medicines to no avail, i used
Doan's. Kidney Pills and they went at
cnce to the seat of the complaint.
took them as directed and they cured
me-"
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Taylor had. Foster-Mi1burn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
paid advertisement.)
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-07-30
SWIFT & co. SELL STOCK
TO THEIR employees
Twenty Thousand Packing Plant
Workers Given Chance to Buy

6bSuS WIG ~ I've Si1a Sos
More than 10000 employees Of Swift
and Company are today vested with
part ownership in the packing concern.
Announcement has just been made of
the results that came of the gigantic
profit sharing plan recently offered by
the company to it's people: The avidi-
ty with which workers, from label
stickers to managers, seized the oppor-
tunity to become partners in the bust
ness, is nothing of sensation at the
company's headquarters in Chicago.
So great was the demand for shares
from employees that the company set a.
side sufficient stock to take care of such
employees as are in the army and navy
and who will be back within the next
few months.
Each employee earning up to $40 a
share of stock at it's par value, $4,000.
this. Employees earning $40 and up to
$50 and $40 a week, three shares; $40
and over five shares. No employee was
allowed to purchase more than five
shares. The stock is to be paid for at
the rate of 81 a share per week.
The unexpected demand for shares
has caused the company to create a
special department to handle the ap-
pllcattons. More than $500 of the new
shareholders are women. Subscriptions
have been received from employees at
all of the plants of the company and
also from each of the 400 towns and
cities where the company has a branch
house,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-07-30
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
HAMPERED THE ALLIES

San Francisco, July 30-Congress-
man Fiorello LaGuardia of New York,
former major in the Air Service in
charge of fliers on the Italian front,
has thrown interesting light upon the
difficulties faced by the United States
In cooperating with it's allies in the
world war. Major LaGuardia has
telegraphed the World Trade Club of
San Francisco, an organization repre-
senting 500 leading manufacturing
merchants, pledging his support to
the campaign that the organization Is
now waging for the world wide adop-
ton Of the metric system of weights
and measures, now used by all the
world except the United States and
Britannia.
In his wire Major LaGuardia points
out, that the world war showed the
imperative need of standardization of
weights and measures. He advocates
the metric system.
Il, still have unpleasant memories
of the difficulty we experienced dur
ing the war;" he writes, "of the loss
of time, the confusion, owing to diff
ferent systems of weights and meas
ures used by various allies. We lost
more time in translating specifica.
tions and more errors were caused
on this account than by anything
else.''
The World Trade Club is receiv-
ing similar testimony from a great
many persons who had experience
with the difficulty caused by our pres
ent weights during the war.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-07-30
1,itchfie1d Review

Miss Ellen Sullivan returned from
Willmar last week and is spending her
vacation with relatives north Of town.
- Miss Harriet Cults of Wt11mara has
been visiting Litchfe1d relatives since
the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs" Malcolm Cole were
down from Willmar Sunday, visiting his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. A. A Cole.
: William Smith autoed to New Lon
don Sunday where he spent the day
with friends.
Miss Lillian Anderson went to At
water Saturday where she visited ov-
er Sunday with friends.
= The Misses Esther and Aivara Qyam
returned to Wfllmar last week Friday.
They had spent two weeks In ELitch-
Miss Florence Perry went to: Will
mar Thursday noon in the interests
of the Peterson Implement Co. which
has asGbTanch house at Willmar. She
was q guest Of Mr. and Mrs. Flanders
IL Peterson while there. 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G.GMeyer left
Tuesday morning for Lake ldinneton-
IA where they visited with relatives
for few days, returning later in the
Week.asMr. Meyer continued to- Benson
whore he VIII take charge Of the Swift
County Review - owner, EDITOR and
publisher.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-07-30
OREAMLAND,

Clean, wholesome, humane, symbol
ic, and elevating, Select Pictures spe.
cial attraction, Ruling Passions
written and directed by Abraham S.
Schooner, which comes to Dreamland
fords one of the most interesting
this city. The story is exceptionally
we'll written, and every scene is sc
finely developed that the spectator
feels that he is eavesdropping at an
intimate struggle in human lives.
Edwin Arden, who is featured in
this production with Julia Dean, has
the part of John Walton, a wealthy
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the wholesome nurse, brings to the
part of freshness and glowing wom-
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All those who see Ruling Passions
will agree that it is one Of the strong
est phOtO-dramas ever shown on any
local screen.
On Friday dainty, winsome Olive
Thomas will be featured in Loves
Prisoner, charming reel Pathe
play where virtue det1es vice and love
captures detective.
Mae Murray's latest Universal Spec
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"The Delicious Little Devil" is a
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