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VIEWS OF SENATOR JONES
ON RECLASSlFIERS' WORK

Senator Jones Of New Mexico. chair
man Of the joint commission on re-
classification of government em-
ployes. discussing the report of the
commission, said today: "Our report
will show there was q tremendous
necessity for the work. The person
mel 10 the government service is be-
ing employed and the work being
conducted without reference to any
system.
.To my mind one Of the greatest
features of the report is that part
which contemplates increased pay
increased efficiency and decreased
pay when there IL q decrease in efi-
cheney. If this system is introduced !
believe 1t will enable the work OF
the government to be carried on more
efficiently with fewer employees. 1t
will remove injustice and increase
the morale In the government serv-
ice."
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WILL opEH AGHHCIfs.
Permission Given Housckecpery ia
Start Servants' Burenus in Schools

Permission 70 establish model kiacf.
ems and employment agencies IN the
community canter doQaStmonts Cs The
public schools was annouacssl a the
meeting Of the HouDekooDse1 ALL,
ance yesterday, at tbs hoD0 q Ma
Henry B. =. AacfaflAue, 12eo 1stA
street.
This announossnAnt vsp nsno ~
Mrs. Eose Gouveneur HoaA vhs
staAed that the first one Of these aGun-
cies would be opened 1t the Franklin
School Monday. This agency viii be
in charge OF . permanent secretary.
she said. whore domestics sNolEfna
employment may apply. and alsd
housekeeperB desiring help can secure
1t at reasonable wages.
Relief for Destitute Children.
Plans for the relief Of destitute
children in Europe were discussed to-
day at q meeting Of the District OF
Columbia Congress Of Mother1 and
Parent-TeaHlaer Association in the
KnicaserboolkeF Thoa&AR. TAo ralief
work was started q month ago -
Mme Marie vUn unschuld and Ara
Albert HAlstead. VITO Of the Amefi.
can commissioner in Vienna
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MRS. ROBERT JONES DEAD.
Passes Away Following Long Ill
ness-Dody Taken to RaleiRh.

Mrs. Robert H. Jones died yester-
day at the Garfield Hospital following
. long illnesA She took an active
part In charity work in this city.
Mrs. Jones was . native Of North
Carolina and wes 2 daughter Of the
late Brig. Gen. L OBJ. Branch Of the
Confederate states army and q
granddaughter Of Secretary Of the
Navy Branch. Her father also served
as . member Of Congress from North
Carolina. Her brother, the late w. A.
B. Branch. also was q member Of
Carolina district.
Mrs. Jones has lived here since
1913. At the Wardman apartments.
She 10 survived by her husband. The
body was taken today. to Raleigh,
N. c., where interment will be held.
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AIIIGE FAKE PRESCRIPTION.
Police. Charge G. H. Sutton With
Presenting Forged PAPER.

An alleged forged physician's pre-
scription for a pint of whisky pre-
sented at drug store to be filed re-
suited in the arrest Of Guy Hamilton
Sutton. III 11th street. last night by
Detective Hartman. The prescription
purported to bear the signature Of
DR.. John Foote. 1851 MintWood place.
Sutton is said to have told the de-
tective that . man named johnson
gave him the prescription. the latter
having heard him say he was not
feeling we'll and declaring he had no
use for the prescription A charge
Of forgery was preferred against
Sutton and he was released on bond
He denies knowing the prescription
was forged.
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ditional compensation shalt bs paid
for such extension"

ditional compensation shalt be paid
for such extension"
One and one-haH over time pay II
provided for Sundays. according to
the provisions Of the bill. and double
pay for holidays. Night shifts work
ers are to receive 20 per cent Of the
day rate in addition to the day rate.
From and after January l. 1921.
two and one-half days for each
month. exclusive Of Sundays and holi-
days, is set forth as annual leave re-
quirements for all federal employees
bill. No leave Is to be granted an
employe until after six months in the
federal service, and except at such
times as public business will permit:
Employees are to have the right OF
appeal in this matter. The bill pro-
ploye his estate is to be paid the
COMPENSATION to which the employe
would be entitled by virtue OF ac-
cumulated leave. not to exceed thirty
days.
The bill sets up a system OF sick
leave privileges. under which every
employe is entitled to sick leave 10.
ten days, exclusive of Sundays ana
holidays. with full compensation Tor
each calendar year during his EN-
ployment. The provisions make sick
leave retroactive, in a sense. making
1t possible for an employe to nave
to his credit sick leave at the above
rate for the past six years after the
bill becomes law, after deductlnE
davs i'll. No employe. however. shall
have more than sixty days in any
one calendar year.
Women ON Council OF Twelve.
The bill provides for the establish
ment of a new board. to be known
as the civil service advisory councii.
The council Is to consist OF twelve
members, six Of whom are to De ap-
pointed by the President-one 10 oe
a woman-from among employees OF Or
above the rank of division chief.
Two members of the council are to
be appointed by and from manua!
employees. two by and from cler1cai
employees and two by and from SCI
entific. technical and professional en-
ployes. One Of each of these latter
three groups is to bca woman. Thus
four Of the twelve members are 10
be women. All federal employees are
to be permitted to vote TOT thelr
proper council members. Members
are to serve one year and receive
no compensation. =,
The duty of the advisory council II
to advise the Civil Service Commission
by formal report on all matters re,
ferred to it by the commission. Az
changes in rules and regulations al.
fecting employees are 10 go 'nioue'
the advisory council.
One of the major duties OF the coun
Gil shall be to provide in each depart
mont or unit thereof personnel com
mittee, one-half Of which committee II
to be composed Of supervisory omcial,
and one-half of employees VINO 10 no
hold supervisory positions.
Gives Right OF Appeal.
The bill provides, in the matter o.
appeals. that any employe may com
plain to the Civil Service Commis
sion upon any matter.
The bill. in it's second part devoted
to the teachers Of the District, pro
vides for the school system provisfoni
largely similar to the above. will
the board of education taking th'
place and having the powers in rela
ton to school teachers that the civi
service body has toward other fedora
employees.
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sistsnt, $3.50 to $500. three in
creases Of $50: library assistant. $l,beo
to 1920, three increases Of $1:0 each;
senior library ,n assistant: 1880 H.. s.s to
aries for librarians are not set.
8Alary recommendations for the
members Of the police and fire de-
partments of the District are well IN
keeping with the increased salaries
CongresA Tho reclassificauon COM
mission recommends. for instance. an
annual salary Of $3.50 for 4 sub
private in the police department. as
ssiaes ee $500 including the So"as
All present average salaries given
herein include the bonus For junior
police private. $1.74o to $1,000 Is
recommended; present average. ST.
old average. sl.55S. Captain, $3.50. fiat
rate; old average. s2,2ao. Inspector.
$3.760. nat rate: old average. $2,240.
1890 for Police Head.
A salary Of $4,000 is recommended
FOR the superintendent OF police.
which 10 the present salary. These
recommendations ,sS1, for police are
granted by Congress.
subprivates Of the fire. department
are rscommended to receive q nat rate
P,i,v,ntes. il.74o to $500: old average.
old average. s1.ss5; sergeant. 1880
to 1890. old average. $1.441: lieuten-
ant, $500 to $2,16O. old average,
N.sSs; captain. $2.22O to $2,2S0, old
average. $1.731
1t Is roughly estimated that the
average Increase recommended for the
distinctly clerical services, which in
clude $4,000 employees, is about 8 per
cent more than the present salaries,
including the bonus.
As sample. in the fling service an
unoer Ming clerk Is recommended to
receive an annual salary ranging from
$1,000 to $1,000. as compared with the
present average for this position Of
$!.04a. which includes the bonus. Ju-
nior nle and record clerks are to re-
ceive from $1.3s0 to $3.50. present
average: u.360: senior file and record
age, s1.4sa: chief fiie and record
age. $2,17s.
ray Ter TyDlst Services.
The typing service includes the fol-
lowing recomm endations: Under
typist $1,000 to 1890, az COMPARED
WIN q present average Of $1,S3l;
junior typtst. $3.50 10 $500: present
a,ersEs to ;isso :',ss senior typ.. 1850
principal typist. $3.50 to 1850.
Salary recommendation for iunior
tenographers range from $3.50 to
$l.soo. by means Of two Increases Of
$50 each. against tho present average
OF $.3ss. Salary recommendations
for senior stenographers range from
s!'eSo to $1,6S0; present average,
Junior correspondence clerks are
recommended to receive salaries rang
Ing from $500 to $3.50: present
average salary. S1.469: senior corre-
spondence clerks, $1.7l0 to 1880:
present average. $1,832
The messenger service presents an
interesting group Of Recommendations
These include junior messenrerr. S7so
to t7So: motor cycle messengers, $3.50
20 $l.oso: senior messenger, $3.50 to
!.l40: principal messenger, $1,000 to
si.sS0; chief messenger. $i,l40 to
*LoIo. These ranges arc secured by
periodic efficiency increases. ranginx
from one to three.
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SIGN RECLASSIFIERs' REPORT.
Seven Of Directing STAFF Join With
Commissiouers.

Seven members Of the directfne star
Of the reclAssificAtion Commission
who signed the report with the com
mfssioners were E. O. Grinenhagen,
Chicago. chief counselor; Herbert 3.
Fleming. Chicago, director: Robert E.
GoodeH. Chicago. and r. o. Beckman
Chicago. assistant directors; Lewis
Merriam, District Of Columbia, statis-
tician: William E. Mosher. New York,
associate director, and Ad. Hoehne,
New York. chief of reclassification
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CONSIDERS SUFFRAGE BILL.
|1Cisdssippi Senate Expected to Take
Vote Early Next Week.

JACKSON. Miss, March 12.-The
upper house OF the state assembly to-
day took up consideration Of the wom-
an suffrage amendment. with the pros.
pect Of a vote early next week. +
The Whitworth bills. which pro-
vide election machinery to enable
women to vote after the nineteenth
amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States shall have been adopt
ed" were approved In the lower house
yesterday by q vote Of 81 to AZ.
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Rescued From Disabled Schooner.

NEW YORK. March 12.-Capt. Hays
and five men, the crew of the British
three-masted schooner Maid Of La
Have. arrived here today on board
the White Star line steamship Adri-
attic, from Southampton. Wednesday,
about 760 miles east Of Sandy Hook,
the Adriatic sighted distress signals
Of the schooner, took of the six men
and set fire to the wreck.
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Daniel 0'Connor Sent to Jail,

Daniel O'Connor. . dreman At No. s
engine company, who interfered with
Deputy Marshal Cusick September s,
1918. when the ofncer was serving
writ Of habeas corpus to get pos
session Of O'Connor's grandchild, was
sentenced today by Justice Stafford
to serve thirty days in jail. O'Connor
is said to have attacked the deputy
marshal and to have pushed him from
the doorstep.
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Fer CoSAo, Crib 0r lnAuensa
and - q Preventative, take LAXATIVE
BROMO QUIEIND Tablets. Loot for d. W.
GROVES signature On the box.-3Oc.-Adver-
dsement
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GENERAL SUMMARY
MADE OF FINDINGS

Continued from Ffr.t Paxe.)
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Lfbrary Service Pay.

Some recommendations for the
library service. including employees of
the Library Of Congress. the Public
Library and the various departmental
libraries. follow: Library aid--mini-
mum. 1850. two increases at $50 each,
maximum. $1,000: junior library as
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Ti4eo SeVen.nOur Doy.
The bill provides that the working
day Of all government employees shall
be seven hours, Sundays day and holidays
department may, by special order
stating the reason thereof, further
extend the hours Of any such en-
ploye under his direction, but no ad-
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CONTINUED from First Page.)

refuses to place the school system
under the Jurisdiction of the Civil
Service Commission, thus meeting the
wishes In this respect of the school
teachers themselves.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-03-16
PieIson Warns the Spenders
CJersey Journal.)

Assemblyman Arthur N. Pierson,
Republican, of Union. spoke with au-
thority and with cold facts as a basis
when he warned the Legislature at
Trenton that If 1t does not watch out,
and if it persists in its reckless policy,
the tax rates in New Jersey win soon
be too hard to bear. 1t was when
Assemblyman David Young's will in
.creasing the county debt limit in this
State from two to -four per cent. came
up for action in the House OF AS
sembly that Mr.. Pierson uttered the
solemn warning.
Heretofore, Mr.. Pierson has spoken
words of warning in newspaper inter
views. This week the Union Assembly
man, whose intimate knowledge OF
State affairs make his pleas worth
noting, addressed his remarks directly
to the lawmakers assembled In front
of him. The fact that the House
Of Assembly disregarded the strong
admonitions of the Union man and
passed the Young bill. forty-threo to
five, in no way detracts from the credit
due Mr.. Pierson for his clear-cut and
courageous presentation of ugly facts.
The burdens are being piled up on
the backs of the people in a shocking
way by the passage OF State bond
issue bills. iob-creating bills, pension
| bills, bonus bills and salary increases
| The day of reckoning cannot be much
longer delayed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-03-16
Fuel Minutes a. Day With Curl Presidents
Washington-The Man In II Making
By JAMES MORGAN.

AS only a younger son and the
child Of a second wife, George re-
ceived but a small share of a modest
estate. Being dependent on the
bounty of his half-brothers, he pass
ed to and fro between them as q poor
relation and grew up mostly in their
homes.
While at Mt. Vernon, which his
oldest brother, Lawrence, had inher-
tied, he learned the simple rudiments
of surveying, and Lord Fairfax, who
a vast estate in the Valley of Vir-
ginia. With that commission in hand
the sixteen-year-old boy rode away
over the Blue Ridge and out into the
wild west of that time, where he
passed the next three years on the
savage frontier OF America.
Blazing paths in an almost track
less wilderness. the tall, lean. blue
eyed. young frontiersman built his
fire at the end of the toilsome day,
cooked his supper on forked sticks
and ate 1t off chips in place of plates.
Without seeing a bed for weeks at a
time. he wrapped himself in his bear
skin against the cold night and slept
in his clothes on the hard ground,
like a parcel of dogs or cats" as
he said In his diary. which he care
fully kept. and happy's he that gets
the Birth nearest the fire." Reckon
ing that "a Dubloon Is my constant
gain every Day and sometime Six
Pistoles," he could smile at priva-
tons, as he jingled in his pocket
those Spanish gold coins.
1t was good pay, but he earned it.
After n hundred and fifty years
had passed, since he ran his lines
with the aid of a simple compass, the
government lately went over them
with high-power transits and found
them remarkably correct. So, too.
the world has retraced the lines of
his life and found them as true as
those h a he drew through the wild
forest in his boyhood days.
The frontier ever has been a great
training school in our new world.
From Jackson to Lincoln. yes to
Roosevelt, 1t has produced many
rugged Americans, but its first grad
uate was Washington.
Tomorrow: Washington in Love
and War.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-03-16

worked Immediately With the mayor
win ever know what he had to contend
with: the temptations hat were put
in his way and the influences that
were brought TO bear to show favorit-
ism in one way OF another. But Mayor
Ten Brock was patriotic, sincere and
firm. Many were the enemies that he
made by merely doing his duty as he
saw it. Today, in looking back to
those trying days. there is not one but
who will agree that the a was
right.
With the end of his most strenuous
term as mayor he retired to private
life but never ceased to serve his city
in every way possible. When the City
National Bank was organized, Mr.. Ten
Brock became its cashier and under
his skiilful management the institu-
ton has prospered greatly.
Well do the flags Of the city float
at half mast today. Perth Amboy has
lost q firm friend and a capable SER
want. The memory of what John L.
did as mayor will live as
one Of the greatest achievements in
Perth Amboy's long and glorious
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-03-16

A little school girl shouted with
delight as she came running home:
Mother, the teacher told us about a
mai today, and he had a little hat
chet. and his name was George!"
Later In the rear she burst in again,
full Of a further discovery: Moth
er, teacher told us about another man
today, and he had an axe, and he
was called Abel"
Character, patriotism, the great
unheard-of past had been introduced
to hat child, as to generations of
American children, in simple pictures
that flashed upon her mind like mo-
ton films thrown upon a screen. The
useful, instructive myth Of Washing
toms little Ratchet is scorned by
many writers who spare the more
misleading myth that he was BORN
with a gold spoon in his mouth.
Washington was made Of the same
clay as most Americans who have
won high leadership and. like them,
he cut his teeth on the crust of pow
erty. Only four or 1ve Of u Pres
1dents came from poorer homes than
our first President and he had less
cessors. He was, in fact, the only
President in the first forty years who
was without q college education
Not starting to school until eight,
he had to leave at fourteen to go to
work. T~henceforth until the Revo-
luton the woods and fields were his
only schoolroom and life his only
schoolmaster. A bad speller and a
worse grammarian, his English rap
Idly improved in contact with the
educated men whom he commanded
by the superiority of his character.
His generals and his statesmen be-
came his teachers.
We never car truly understand this
man II we start with the mistaken
idea that he was the product of
wealth n arlstocracy. His people
really were only a plain, though al
ways highly respectable family, living
on the outskirts of the cavalier caste
which set III It's manors in the James
River region.
The greatest of Virginians made nc
ancestral boast, his great-grandfather
having come out from England In
the modest capacity of mate on a
trading vessel. Mt. Vernon came In
to the family as part Of the land
granted to q Washington In reward
for his services in transporting from
English jails and almshOuses one
hundred ~indentured servants.
Georges own father, who at one
| time had been a sailing captain In
the trade with the mother country,
left his wife and children at his
death five thousand acres Of land,
more or less reproductive; twenty
two slaves. a slender purse and a lean
1 larder.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-03-16
Our Daily Special.
Good Fellows Makes Bad Husbands
Luke McLnke Says.

A good nights sleep and good drink
of whisky are about the only W
kinds of medicine that a man does not
hate to take.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned mar who used to keep a goat In
the back yard to keep doctors out
of the house?
or course they won't believe 1t. But
there is about as much chance for a
fat woman to be graceful as there Is
for a hippopotamus to walk a high
wire.
The reason why you find AZ divorce
lawyers in one office building Is be-
cause as soon as a couple get married
they imagine that they have to quit
making owe to each other.
The Mems Missouri Club can't I'M
derstand why other men want to go to
Europe to see the sights next summe
when there are SO many girls n 20
many sunny days right here in Amer
lea.
There are exceptions to every rule
Not all of the Chorus Girls are Grand
mothers and not all of the Soubrettes
have the Middle Aged spread.
Every now and then some boot
| will tell you that the Holy Joes Near
will. But the Man who rocks the o
and the Man who didn't know 1t was
loaded also Mean Well.
We do not know much. But we dc
know that if we were not all so busy
trying to cheat other people we woult
not get cheated so often ourselves.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-03-16
WHY He Tolls at Eight

~ 49, @&SA
Gustavus Jackson is a letter carrier
IN Jersey City. He is seventy eight
ear old and has been carrying mall
for FIFTY-TWO YEARS. Before
carrying mail he served his country
as a cavalryman in the Civil War; was
one of the Dare Devil Battalion"
which won glory and battles for the
Union.
Postman Jackson, still erect and
we'll preserved, admits with some
pride that the only thing that kept
him out of service in this last war
was "a fear that he might be rejected
because of prejudice against his age,
nj this admission is made with a
merry twinkle that is half humor and
half meaning for ne still straightens UP
his six feet one of stature with pride as
he refers to his great war record back
in the sixties.
But in spite of this pride, Postwar
Jackson also admits that, at the age
of seventy-elght, carrying mail is
some, that 1t Is done more on nerve
than on actual strength. Uncle Sam
has W. paid salaries to postmen
that enables them to lay aside much
for the shady side of life. and it is
actual necessity that keeps this veter-
an, and many others, In the active
service right up to the time of break
ing.
Postman Jackson ds not yet ready
for the grave, not by a long sight, for
he is straight and healthy and vigor-
Gus, though his step has been slowed
UP considerably and he Is not as agile
as in other DAYS. Carrying mail is hard
work, and hard work has become irfl-
some to this man, not through lost In
terest in life, but through lack of the
actual strength which such hard work
requires.
If Postman Jackson had served al
most n corporation, or almost any
business firm. faithfully as he has
served Uncle Sam he would nave been
retired on q pension long ago. The
United States Congress should be big
enough to provide funds for the PEN
sioning of such veterans, that their
last days may not be their hardest,
that they may look forward, as other
men In various lines of public and
private service. look forward to a time
when they will not have to face toll
beyond their strengthen actual pow
erty.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-03-16
JOHN II. TEN BROCK.

In the sudden death OF former
Mayor John f. Ten Brock, Perth Am
boy loses an honored and respected
citizen. Mr.. Ten Brock actually
grew up" with Perth Amboy. AS a
boy he played about the streets OF
the old town; as a young man he had
q prominent part in the organizations
and the various activities of the day.
lie saw the town develop into a pros
porous city he kept fully abreast
with It's progress.
Eventually he rose TO the highest
honor that his fellow citizens could
bestow on him. being elected mayor.
1t fell TO his lot to hold this executive
position during the World War. He
was in command when the great
Morgan explosion occurred followed
by the fearful influenza epidemic.
They were trying times. but there is
not one to say that Mayor Ten Brock
ever faltered in the path of duty or
failed to fulfill his obligations to the
people with credit and honor.
IN the days of the draft when hun
dreds of Perth Anboy's young men
were being called 10 the service of
their ounIry no E~ except those who