Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-06
WAR WORKERS. VIEWS
!. CRITICISED BY OTHERS
Case of Girl Who Termed Wash
ington 'Heartless and Cruel"
Held to Be Not Typical.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
l read the article in Thursdays Star
setting forth: THE expenses of one
war worker in Washington each
month average ss2 of her $780," I
am very much in sympathy with her
effort to help the government en-
ployes obtain an increase in salary, as
they deserve it. The young lady is
also to be commended for contribute
ing SIS per month to the support of
her mother in st. Louis, but by what
process of reasoning does she include
the contribution in her cost of living
IN Washington?
II is also noted that she spends so
cents a month for incidentals. such as
church, etc. May suggest that here
is an item where some saving could
be made Why be SO generous in help
ing Washington churches2 Let the
heartless people support their own
places of worship.
War worker shows deep considera-
ton for the boys who may need the
good jobs back home, which were
sacrificed for duty's sweet sake. Does
she not know that thousands of young
men in the government departments
here volunteered or were drafted into
the service and viii want their posi-
tiens again when they are demobil-
ized2
4 bill has been introduced in Con-
sress which provides that returning
soldiers bc given preference i'm civil
service employment ard fc- -einState-
Gent of former employees who enlisted
or were drafted
If the majority of the girl war
workers came here mainly from pa
triotic motives and are disguised with
existing conditions and the unpatri-
otto, prohteeripg people in Washing
Ton. why is II necessary to pass leg
1slation to force them to give up their
Jobs 10. returning soldiers?
I. W. BEITZELL-
10 the Editor of The Star
Some comment and wonder have been
caused among war workers by re-
cent article which appeared in The
Evening Star giving an itemized list
of the expenses of Si2eo-a-year
clerk who spends nothing on clothes
while the author is doubtless to be
commended for sending fair portion
Of her earnings home rather than in
dulging In the comforts and endowment
TO which most girls who come here
nave been accustomed. / do not be-
beFe her case Is by any means typical
The normal girl-eyen war worker
lis fond of good clothes and a fair
@NiStF u ely anu d. A 20 mel De-
tieFe tnat my expenses are at yari-
ance with the average, give the fol-
lowing list. which is quite accurate
though very conservative: Room, $40:
board ttwo meals Il day., $25: lunches
at 80 cents. SO; car fare. $3.50; laun-
dry 81; bond, IS; newspapers and
magazines, Sf-jo; stamps and station
cry. $i.i0, clothes average from
itemized list OF expenditures for FIVE
monIhsj, $50: personals ttooth paste,
face powder, hair nets, etc.}, $40:
doctor and dentist bills, S100; extra
food supplies, $40; total, $116.40
Ciothes-itemized expenditures for
Eve months: Dress. $50; suit. $50;
hat. $40: shoes 1.-TWO pairs). s2O;
gloves 81; waists. one dressy. 81:
four Office $40; underwear. SCI: total,
$50.
With reference to the assertion that
Washington is "heartless and cruel -
have not found IL so. but a fair and
smiling city, which will always re-
main warm ia my memory.
ERA u. OHLMACHER