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is dismissed from the bureau to-

is dismissed from the bureau to-
day:
Three weeks before the date of
dismissal. notice of dismissal is
sent This is intended to give suf
ficient time for the employe to
plan future work.
Two weeks before the final date
in the latest instance. another no
tice was forwarded to each en-
ploye to be released. 1t stated
that from December Is to 80 each
could go on vacation with pay.
This was intended as an aid in
securing outside employment, if
desired. The former employe had
two weeks during which to seek
opportunity.
On the day of departure, the
workers presented themselves to
Mr.. Watts for a letter of dismiss
sal. And this is the point where
Mrs. Mckee assumed charge.
Way Out Made Easy.
With the letter of dismissal in
hand, instead of walking out of the
front door into a questionable fu-
ture, the girl wanting work now
glides over to the desk Of Mrs.
Mckee. She tells of her expert
ence. her qualifications. her cir
cumstances and desires. Mrs. Nc
Kee does the rest.
On her desk is a tabulated list
of government departments and
outside institutions needing en-
ployes from time to time. She
takes the girls name. And the
desk becomes an employment
agency. which, according to the
boast of officials of the war risk
bureau, is the first in the history
of any government department.
The case il followed UP and filed
until a position is secured for the
applicant.
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Observation-Disclosures
ARE WORKING QUIETLY
Studying Problems During Recess and
Expected to Settle Down to Hard
Grind After Holidays.

employers it will seem so radical as to
De almost on all fours with soviet Rus
sia. On the other hand, men like John
ID. Rockefeller. jr. and George W. An
derson. former chairman of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. have ad-
vanced it as a necessary means of put
ting an end to the dissatisfaction of the
workers. and incidentally of putting an
end to any possibility of labor's doing
as II has in Russia--taking entire Dos
session of industry to the exclusion of
the capitalistic class.
1t has taken centuries for men to
OBTAIN political liberty. the right of a
voice in their own political govern
ment. Yet the desire for such mower
has been as keen as the desire for life
itself. If a man desires a voice in
his political government. how NAV he
escape a desire to have a voice in
control of the industry which gives
him livelihood? He spends his life in
factory or mine or on a fast flying
train. Why should he not have some
say in the policies governing these
industries as well as the man who
puts his dollars into them
The sooner capital and la Dor realize
their interests are the same the soon
er permanent industrial peace NAV
be realized. Senator Thomas of Colo
rado, speaking in the Senate recently.
ventured the remark that as many
men had been on strike in the United
States during the war as had shoul-
dered arms to fight the enemy And
conditions have not improved since
the armistice was signed.
Would Like to Have Voice.
Higher wages. shorter hours. better
standards of living are all sought by
working men and women. But in this
day of machinery millions of laborers
are merely cogs in the industrial
wheel which turns out the completed
article. whether it be an automobile or
a pair of trousers. The worker loses
the satisfaction Of building the arti-
Gle himself. If he had an interested
voice in operation of the entire bust
ness through members of the board
Of directors elected by themselves the
laborer might regain this lost feel
ing.
BE your own master-work for
yourself, not some one else" is ad-
vice commonly heard. How many
men and women are able to follow
it? Yet every man and woman would
like to do SO. 1t has always been so.
The apprentice and the clerk, il they
had ambition. desired to set up in
business for themselves. But in these
days of enterprises 30 vast as to stag
ger the Imagination millions of men
and women must be employed with
out any chance Of their ever settinS
up for themselves in business. Ii
these workers could have q voice in
the control of these enterprises, a
voice in deciding their working con-
ditions. it would make a tremendous
difference to them.
Whether the Presidents Industrial
commission will go SO far as this IN
it's recommendations, or whether 1t
does not, this is a matter that must
be reckoned with, unless Industrial
peace is to be merely truce-to be
treated as a scrap of paper when the
time seems ripe, either to the EN-
ployer or the employe.
Evening star., 1919-12-28
NATION MODELLING
IN THRIFT MOVEMENT

lessons Of thrift that are being taught
in your school may help you to de.
velop in your life permanent habits
Of saving and thereby lay founda-
ton for your personal happiness and
usefulness and ultimately for bigger
and better America"
Commissioner Claxton of the bureau
of education called the attention of
the teachers to the fact that thrift
in early life is like damming a stream
so that the impounded force and VOL
ume may be used to tremendous ad-
vantage in later days."
The new course of study for Kens
lucky, which recently came from the
press and which is the official text for
the next FIVE years. has full course
in thrift. and the teachers are di-
rected to give regular instruction in
the subject to their pupils. The state
legislature of Arkansas has recently
passed a law making the teaching Of
thrift compulsory in that state.
The National Educational Associ-
alton urges that the national program
of thrift instruction and the sale of
thrift and war savings stamps be-
come a permanent part of the public
school procedure.
In thousands of Industrial plants in
the United States the first dollars
out of the pay envelopes are now
being handed each week to the secre-
tary of the War Savings Society. At
the New York Shipbuilding Company.
in Camden. N. j., the employees are
thus becoming capitalists at the rate
of about 5000 a week.
Inducements Numerous.
Scores of fraternal societies have
passed resolutions indorsing the
Treasury savings movement. The
Elks resolved at their Atlantic City
convention to back the movement,
and the New York lodges promptly
set about to buy 100000 worth of
stamps. The Rotary Club promised
it's cooperation at the Salt Lake con-
vention and the Cincinnati Club has
ury savings certificates. the new
hundred dollar war savings stamp"
before the close of the year. The Mod
ern Woodmen of America also spoke
kindly word and then invested
81. 500, 900 of their funds in liberty
bonds.
The savings division is interested
in the absorption of liberty bonds by
the public. 1t is working ceaselessly
to keep these securities in the hands
of the original purchasers and out of
the clutches Of the sharks
The Federal Clubs. the Daughters
of the American Revolution. the Par
ent-Teachers Association and other
/ influential women's organizations have
movement. Ten million or more of
| these organized women. working
| through the channel of their organiza-
tions. are by their practice and their
| influence making sane economy popu-
| lar habit in the American home. They
are applying it's principles to every
, day household practices. to the buying
OF food. clothing and other necessities
and to the conservation of needed
| goods. They are. going about it sys-
tematically, trying to discover the
! leaks in household management and
! to make the buying of household
necessities a real business By these
methods of saving they are enabled to
| invest in government securities.
! Cardinal Gibbons has spoken his
! word. as have the Protestant leaders
and from the pulpits of America the
Continued on Third PaRe.l
Evening star., 1919-12-28

7 HEN the war risk in
\N/ surance bureau discov-
v cred that the program
of dropping approxi-
mately 1900 employees in eighteen
months meant more than the SIM
pie removal of $500 names from
its pay roll-since Uncle Sam does
not promiscuously turn out those
who had helped him when he
needed help-off1cials gathered for
a conference.
AS result of this conference
during the latter part of Novem-
Der. Mrs. Adelaide Mckee became
the mother of the bureau" and
took charge of a section which is
now securing positions in other
fields for those who are no longer
needed at the bureau.
The proposition was this" said
Assistant Director Nj. r. Wainer,
chief Of the division of personnel.
I'VE have $500 workers who must
leave sooner or later. There is
not enough work. and our program
is a general decrease in personnel
as the work decreases in volume.
What could we do? Many of our
workers are girls without family
protection. in a strange city. Could
we turn them out the front door
with a letter Of dismissal in one
hand and their last pay check IN
the other? We solved the prob
lem by the appointment of Mrs.
Mckee, as an assistant to George
Watts, chief of assignment ana
transfer"
Began Operations December 4.
On December 4 the plan start
ed operation. The first sizable cut
in employees was on November l5,
less than three weeks previous.
And here is the way an employe
Evening star., 1919-12-28
WILL STRIVE TO SOLVE
HIGH-COST PROBLEMS
Plans Under Way for Conference in Wash
: ington to Represent Producers, Man.
ufacturers and Consumers.

food dealer and the food consumer.
In view of these considerati tions it
is proposed in the resolution that the
President shall be requested TO call
a conference to be attended by dele
gates representing agricultural labor
and capital-which shall include all
cereal producers. stock raisers, pro-
ducers of wool. cotton raisers. etc
representatives interested in the
manufacture of food products. repre-
sentatives of all dealers in food
products and representatives OF the
consuming public.
The big idea is to give publicity to
definite working agreement between
the producer and manufacturer and
the consumer. With such an agree
ment the agricultural people will
have reasonable assurance that when
they raise a crop of wheat or of hogs
they will have a definite market at
a fair price, doing away with ex-
treme fuctuation in the markets for
unknown causes which have worked
a hardship alike on the farmer and on
the consuming householder.
1t is believed the conference will
be held here early in the spring and
bring into an earnest study of the
situation several hundred of those
best informed regarding the prob
lens of production and marketing, SO
that the best solution for all inter-
ests can be reached.
Farmers Interested.
The farming interests are showing
considerable zeal for this considera-
ton of their problems. J. w. Cover
dale. secretary of the Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation, introduced reso-
luton in support of the conference
at the national convention in Chicago
and the strongest possible support
was pledged. ]. r. Howard. presi-
dent of the National Farm Bureau
Federation, is going to be one of the
witnesses at the hearing before the
House agricultural committee.
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas.
former state governor, and former
president of the board of regents of
the Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege, is also cooperating in the pur-
poses Of these hearings and confer
ences
Evening star., 1919-12-28
HI WILL p. KENNEDY.

>LANS for big production con-
r. ference in Washington, to be
called by the President. and to
include the producers, manu-
facturers and consumers in an earnest
effort to help solve the high cost of
living and industrial unrest incident
thereto. are being pushed and definite
action by Congress authorizing such
conference is expected Immediately
upon the reassembling of Congress.
This conference is intended to be-
gin where the conference involving
the dispute between capital and labor
left of. resolution has been draft
ed by Representative Dickinson of
Iowa, on which a hearing has been
promised by the House committee on
agriculture Immediately after the
holidays. Chairman Haugen and 9TH
er members of the committee are
strongly in favor of the conference
and prompt action by the House is
assured.
Provisions of the Resolution.
This resolution sets forth that in
the Industrial conferences farm labor
and farm capital were not represented
that the high cost of living and the
decrease in the supply of food prod
uce makes an increase in food pro-
duction urgently necessary: that at
tractive wages being paid in all lines
of trade and the short hours of em-
ployment are attracting labor from
agricultural pursuits and causing a
material decrease in the labor supply
in agricultural districts and an in
flux of labor in Industrial districts,
thus materially increasing urban pop
ulation.
Representative Dickinson and the
members of the agricultural commit
tee who are cooperating with him
argue that in order to decrease the
high cost of living it is necessary to
overcome the shortage which now ex-
lists in both the production and sup
ply of food produce. In order to in
crease food production, they insist.
it is necessary that a working under
standing, openly arrived at" must
be reached between the food producer.
the labor employed in the production
of food, the food manufacturer, the
Evening star., 1919-12-28
Good Stories About
People and Events

| Alvey Augustus Adee, second assist
ant secretary of state, is one who can
size I'm a situation quickly. While
he was riding a bicycle he was struch
by an automobile. Sympathizins
| friends loudly censured the driver OF
the car, but Mr.. Adee protested
against their charges and declared
that he was entirely to blame. as he
had unwarrantably deviated from has
usual custom of assuming that the
other fellow was a dashed fool
Senator Charles S. Thomas OF Colo
T. RADIO is one of the clearest thinkers IN
the Senate, and while he is a strong
party man-democratic-ne is very in
ldependent when it comes to voting his
convictions. He doesn't truckie TO any
class of voters. whether they be organ
! lied labor. the prohibitionists or capi-
| talists. Aside from his more serious
characteristics, the Colorado senator has
a keen sense of humor and frequently
his witty remarks in the Senate cause
much amusement among his colleagues.
During the discussion of the prohibition
enforcement act Senator Thomas was
expatiating upon the saloon
"There is no longer such thing as
the open saloon" he said. lat least an
open saloon openly arrived at.
!: 4
Representative Williams OF Ilhnois has
a keen but subtle and dry sense OF hu-
NOR When the House District commit
tee was considering a bill to throw the
District of Columbia employees under the
civil service Representative Tinkham OF
Massachusetts,, father of the measure, In
explaining the interest of the United
States Civil Service League in the mat
ter, mentioned that the president OF the
league lives in Cambridge. Then l
suppose the secretary must live IN New
Haven" injected Representative Will
liams.
Senator James A. Watson of Indiana
has a story about his first law case.
1t was out in Rushville, Ind, and the
youthful attorney was called TO defend
a ow-citizen against a bootlegging
charge. 1t was a clear case against
Watson's client The outcome was the
maximum sentence of $500 and year in
prison.
Next day Watson called upon his
client at the county jail
II supposed you did all you could for
me-" glumly admitted the convicted
man. ''What is your charge"
"A hundred dollars stated Watson.
That's q lot of money, ART it,?
growled the client.
We'll, you can't get an able lawyer
for nothing" he was told
II suppose il / had hired han -ooseh
able la awyers like you," retofted rne con-
victed client. II would have pulled life
ss.. ......;e."
Evening star., 1919-12-28
BY WILLIAM MArHEh LEWIS,
Director Savings Division. Treasury
Department.

Ri "lALlAM VI Al LIE "lOs
Director Savings Division. Treasury
Department.
A PESSIMISTIC citizen was re-
~ lieving himself of few gloomy
~ thoughts relative to this fast
dying year 1919. THE trouble
with America" said he. ''is that the
people won't get together on anything
Talk about the rapidity with which we
orranized our national resources to lick
the Hun. why, say-our speed in de-
mobilization makes that look like
funeral procession. Every man Ior him-
self and the devil take the ultimate con-
sumner. is the national slogan At 1or-
setting the lessons of the war our bat
ting average in the league OF nations
is 1.OO0''
On the face of the returns it seems
as if the depressed one was right But
fortunately here and there are indica-
tions that after all the disintegration
Of national solidarity is more apparent
than real.
In this period of reaction the
( Treasury Department of the United
states arose, and there was created
the Treasury Department thrift and
= savings movement. built upon the
splendid foundation of the savings
campaign conducted during the war.
Among the instruments of war finance
thrift stamps and war savings stamps
offered a means of saving by which
lessons of the accumulation OF capital
through small. steady investment
could be taught. These stamps had
been the means of raising almost a
billion dollars of revenue for the gov
ernment during the war and had be-
come popular. 1t was. therefore, de-
. c.ded that they should be continued
and their name w. s. s.. which was
assuming the Importance of trade
mark. should be permanently adopted
Purpose Of Movement.
I The thrift and savings movement
was launched by means OF a savings
division of the Treasury in Wash
inrton. twelve district savings organ
izations and innumerable subdivisions
Of these district groups reaching
down to every hamlet in the land
The purpose of the movement was
simpIy to teach the people to make
the most Of their possessions. to spend
carefully, to save regularly and to
invest their savings in the surest OF
all acknowledgements bonds.
LAT first the results. as reflected in
the sale of securities. was discour
aging. The reaction of the first peace
davs was strong. The sale of stamps
good at the beginning of the year
dronped to six and half millions o
ao,lars in May and to five million two
hundred thousand dollars in July
And then the change came. August
nu,led back above six million, October
nassed seven million, November ex-
coded eight million, and December
bids fair to come close to the ten-mil'
,ion. n.dollar mark. with total for the
year of more than one hundred ant
sixty million dollars
MOT much of showing for &
whole nation. ten million dollars
,,ontn." you say. But pause to con
cider that most of the ten million i!
coming in 25-cent units from the saw
;nps of school children and in IS unit!
,rou, the pay envelopes of merchant:
and clerks and teachers.
Mr.. Glass to school Children.
On the 23d of September Secretar,
c,ass said to the public school pupil
1T is my personal ope that thu
Evening star., 1919-12-28

1t may very we'll be that, having received
general assurances that the governments ef-
forts toward formulating a working agreement
with the miners were satisfactory to the opera
tors. Mr. Palmer and the President neglected to
obtain formal appreciation to their final and
specific solution from the employers in ques-
tion But conceding such fact to be
Evening star., 1919-12-28

7 HEN the war risk in
\N/ surance bureau discov-
" " cred that the program
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1919-03-28
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til 8eNattioncn o8 SIr0t o9 %enner fra
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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1919-03-28
TorofioroIaset.

VeliurcIien al NorofioroldOet bar be-
ltcmt. ar NJ HorNiioroinNcr bsr bolSc
SrUlc ldur. NrINeu er M ilut, Oh iu-
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SdaetS SCtretrr bcheper life iortrae
Noro'loroingerne hpor Vricclun liaaer;
ior nrlteu nle NorofioroiuOcr bar en-,
ten boct Der, cller bar SIc9tnin0cr Scr.
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ntae Niteformluo. u. z. Mort lom Dor
pad @tcocJ. Odn CT ogiua SlGlen or
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lei lonl nIlercNe or lat igoug Vrieclun
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let ian mdn oginn Nrrt iitfcr a Oct
oil bIi po HoroiioroItepuei / SUM- Ncttc
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ritnnitc BLADES dIoril i%pigicuoc &cluil
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mere. %culiglt
Carl ;. Noliet.
Observation-Disclosures Sctreurr.
Gcn'on. NiHn, 2Ooe Ninris 1919.
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