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Evening journal., 1920-12-21
WOULD REVISE
SALARY Bill
Law TO Benefit Government
Employees to be Sent to
Congress
FIX THREE RATES
FOR EACH GRADE

WASHINGTON, Dec. PA new
salary scale for the government
service, with minimum en-
trance rate OF siOSSO a year and a
promotion system leading TO a rate
OF 5000 a year FOR the senior grade
OF the clerical, professional and other
specialized groups, Is provided IN o
bin shortly 10 be introduced In Con
gress by Representative Frederick H..
Leh bach, OF New Jersey. Chairman OF
the House Committee on Reform IN
the Civil CerVice Executive heads OF
bureaus and major services and some
highly trained specialists are rated
from $500 up, according to their re-
sponsibilitles.
This bill Is an outcome OF the
long-continued agitation for higher
efficiency in the government service,
and Is endorsed by the National Fed
Grafton Of Federal Employees and other
organizations as the first step in ina.
direction. For years II has been
urged that the government was los
ing thousands Of its best workers
and impairing the efficiency and
morale OF the remainder, While al
the same time failing 20 attract now
ones OF high grade because OF It's
scale. Moreover, the National Fed
Grafton OF Federal Employees contends
that Redistribution of salaries Is es-
sential for the administration OF the
budget system and for the proposed
reorganization OF the government, de-
partments.
The Lehlbach salary rates are In
tended to adjust the salary scale ac-
ccrding TO the skill and training re-
CURED for the JOB, with a minimum
rate which shall be a living wage fol
the many thousands OF gOvernmci
workers through out the country WI,
are receiving wages OF $50 a da!
down to 81 a day; 10 provide OppOr'
tunity for promotion TO the bette
paid positions on the basis OF qualin
cation only; TO equalize OppOrtunitie
for advancement and rates OF pay ir
respective OF sex; and to Strengthen
the hands OF the United States Civil
Service Commission IN the enforce
ment OF such a merit system
The bill provides as a rule tire
salary rates for each grade. In IN
clerical service, however, the rate
are as follows: Junior clerk, Si0ol
siii0, Si26O; assistant clerk. Si2G(
1920, 1880, $40, $500. $3.50; clerl
siG2O, $3.50, si7iO. $1,000. $500. senio
clerk, 1880, S2iO0, 5000 S23i0. SAG
For stenOgraphers range IS from si32
10 $500. For typists from si260 Q
$3.50 Private secretary group. SIP
to 5000. Receiving and disbursin
clerk, $3.50 to 1920. Chief clerk
$3.50 to S306O Head clerical admin
istrators. 1920 and up.
The professional services are classl
Evening journal., 1920-12-21

fed by Representative Lehlbach as
follows Lawyer. Librarians, patent
examiners, pharmacologists. physical
scientists. accountants, agricultural
scientists, architects. biologists, bust
ness examiners. economists. political
scientists, engineers. forcsters, per-
sonnet officers. public information
agents, social economists, statistlclans,
veterinarians and others, salary
range from $500 10 sJOiO. Several
lother miscellaneous groups, among
them translators, nurses and others,
with different salary ranges, are in
cluded In the professional services.
In the sub-professional group sal
aries range from Si4i0 at entrance TO
/ $500 for seniors, this group includ-
ing CIVIL service examining assistants,
law assistants, marketing aids, relief
map mOdelers and translator assist
ants. For craftsmen and engineering
aids, forest aids, library assistants,
museum assistants and scientific aids
IN the professional group. the
salaries range from Si0SSO TO $500.
In the inspectiOnal service the rates
vary With the kind Of inspectional
work, but range from 1920 TO s5OiC
in the most responsible positions.
For the custodian service the rates
vary considerably because In thi.
service are many employees who re-
lcelNe maintenance in addition TO theii
salaries. The rates for buildinl
guards and watchmen are. SiiiO 4
1920; for cleaners, Si0SO 10 1920
for culinary workers, $3.50 10 1920
with maintenance, stOrekecpers, S1Sl
10 s2OiO; laundry workers. $3.50 {,
1920, with maintenance: st0rekeep
ers. $3.50 10 S20iO: laundry workers
$3.50 TO 1920 with maintenance: su
perinteadent. $500 to 5000. Cusiod
lans OF important buildings rang
from $500 10 5000. Assistant lanlt0r
range from $40 20 $500.
Tn the labor service the farm Ia
borers' rates are from S720 TO SAC
with maintenance: other labOrers. a
cent 30 as cents an hour!
Evening journal., 1920-12-21
SICK GIRL SAVED FROu FIRE

NHtoI tH Pa, Dec. 2i.-Eihei
Washburn, q years old, confined 10
her bed by illness and locked i'm hor
room in the Ryan Hall apartments. at
Fourth and Edwards streets. was
rescued from death when an oil lamp
exploded and set fire 10 the building.
She was carried from the blazine
apartments by Andrew Thomas and
Joshua Lasler, who battered down the
door communicating with her room.
Loss on the building is estimated at
5000, partly covered by insurance.
Evening journal., 1920-12-21
Finds Something to Do the
Business

L tried everything that ] heard Of
for the stomach and bowel trouble
and bloaiing, but got no permanent
help untn / struck Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy, and that did the business.
My son in Canada has also taken 10
and writes It has done him a lot OF
good" 70 Is simple, harmless
preparation that removes the ca
tarrhal mucus from the intestinal
tract and allays the Inflammation
which causes practically all stomach,
liver and intestinal ailments, includ-
ing appendicitis. One dose will con-
vince or money refunded. j. NJ.
Eckerd and druggists everywhere.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Men and Business
BY RICHARD SPILLANE.

The Baldwin Locomotive Works
is opening branch office in
johannesburg. South Africa. Fred
Green is to have charge. He has
taken two assistants with him
This is the first branch of this
kind established in the union of
South Africa, so far as known, by
a Philadelphia concern.
Exclusive of agencies, the Bald
win company now has offices in
thirteen foreign stations. These IN
clude Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro,
Sac Paulo. Havana, San Juan (Porto
Rico), Lima, Rio Grande do Sui,
Warsaw, London, Paris, Madrid,
Harbin and-Java.
Besides, Ii has agencies in Pekin,
Shanghai and elsewhere.
Soon there will not be a land on
earth that will not know the "toot!
toot" of the Baldwin.
Abraham l.. Erlanger has decid-
ed to build a double-decker theater
in New York in the Times Square
district. Two theaters, one above
the other, would be a better way
to describe it perhaps. The lower
playhouse is to have seating ca
pacity for 1,400 persons and the up
per one capacity for 1000.
Patrons of wide beam will be
pleased with the announcement
that seats are to be of a size suffi-
cient for their accommodation. An
added attraction, this for long
legged individuals, is that there is
to be a generous space between
each row of seats.
The "2 in l" or double decker
playhouse was bound to come. 1t
Is not so much Of a novelty as may
appear to you at first thought.
There are various instances where
theaters have so-called roof gar
dens which are practically separate
theaters.
There is gross waste of space in
the average theater. 1t covers
much ground and, where there are
two balconies and a gallery, there
Is nothing more of revenue-produc-
ing area unless 1t be OF stores on
the street level.
The double-decker probably will
not go so much to the present style
of various balconies, but have one
Of more depth and width than now
| is customary. That is a surmise
only. as the architect has not I'm
| ished his plans.
One thing Mr.. Erlanger declares
is that there will be nothing cir
cumscribed about the double-decker
theater. The stages will be big
enough for any show OF today. The
lower "house" Is to be called The
Model and the upper The Novelty.
This may mark radical depart
| ure in theater building. Economi-
cally Il is sound, and surely there
are no engineering or architectural
difficulties presented in Il that can
not be met by present day builders.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
A Corrupt Practices Act.

Gov. Lowden of Illinois, who has many motives for
speaking the subject this of his personal and ocia
that Congress- earliest opportunity, should
clearly define the limit the and force the &C
disclosure penalties of the source OF cam
contributions and whom paid and for what purposes
spent"
Congress has fit to adjourn without acting on TINS
vital national the public will proceed
the light of disclosures already made
and still and will correlate its thinking on the matter
other problem adaptation Of the Presidential primary law
likelihood OF return to the
method of selecting delegates but there Is
disappointment the workings OF the primary law 1t
defects that fer the deporaole con-
facing historic parties they enter their nomi
mating conventions
ederal practices such the British were
initiated with due recognition of
differing conditions has much be said for it. But 1t
with and executed with CELEBRITY and
useless laws that not
But in this particular instance suspect that public
opinion between November be educated by
will both demand and compel enforcement
of would have been immured in COM
mi cold storage vault if introduced.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
FOLK AND THINGS
AROUND CHICAGO
By LABERT ST. CLAIR.

Y Chicago. June s-The nrst great
tragedy OF the Republican conven-
tion occurred today. When the Mas
sschusetts delegation attempted to-
cross the river at Detroit, Federal
agents seised every bottle OF liquid
refreshment in the party. Upon ar
rival Of the delegation here vacuum
cleaners were applied to their
tonguesN and restoratives were
poured on their voices. BY a unanI-
nous vote tonight the delegation
decided to return home by a non-
stop aeroplane route.
Senator Pat Harrison. Democrat,
and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Re-
publican. rolled into Chicago today
sitting at the same breakfast table.
Diplomatic relations between the
two were severed when Harrison,
upon arrival. declared that he ,came
here to, rest. Although the sun was
beating down all day, Lodge stuck
by his ulster In order that his voice
might be spared for his great speak
ing effort.
Gov. Lowden's HEADQUARTERS lent
much color to the convention today.
Most of the colored delegates from
the South, attracted by the decora-
tions OF the Congress gold room,' -
where the Lowden folk hold forth,
reared their chairs back against the
walls and took things easy.
With the arrival of the Buckeye
Republican Gles Club. of Columbus
in the interest of Senator Harding's
candidacy tonight, the convention
began to tune up. The club carries
sixty singers, including most of the
bass voices in the world not en-
gagged in auctioneering. "Tee-Hee'
Markham. saddle -colored party
who weighs 23o pounds and wears q
high hat with more gallon contents
than a churn, carries the clut
banner.
Bellhops wore out their voices to.
day paging Will Hays, Harry New
and other leaders who are supposed
to be I'm on the know" of what &,
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07

being planned. All Of the leaders
were ~out..
srhis convention is 30 badly mud
died." q California delegate remark
cd At the Annex. "that II Babe Ruth
knocks home run this week, he's
liable to stampede the whole works.
Senator Poindexter has won the
first lap OF the trial heats. His pub
licity men siathered the hotels to-
day with poster declaring that ne
Is like Lincoln"
Ham Fish. former New York pro-
gressive leader, who IL about six
feet and a-half tall. and Louis
wiley. business manages Of the New
York Times, who ID hve feet tall.
are "buddying" around the iobbies
together.
Wood headquarters today passed
out red and blue feathers bearing
their candidates name. When fic-
tor NJ. Locke. of Antlers, Okla. for-
mer chief of the Choctaw Tribe, saw
them. he emitted loud whoop and
grabbed six.
Senator'S capper and Curtis, oI
Kansas. leave no doubt as TO what
State they are from. They are wear
ing cloth sunfiowers In their coat
lapels as large as dinner plates.
Miss Alice Paul. who is leading
the pickets for the suffragists, Is
praying for the vote so that she
can get thin. Once she was just 9
shadow but with the ratification oi
the amendment by each of thirty
fve States she has gained a pound
Now she is thirty-five pounds over.
weight.
Senator Johnson's two boys. Ar
| and Jack. are here working like
beavers to help put Hiram over the
| top.
Hearing that the New Yorl
bosses" might pick logical candi
date for governor while here. Ekoi
II. Hooker. who wants the nomina
tion, came here today and opene,
gubernatorial headquarters.
Liquor market closed strong
Pints s42.50 each.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
LET'S NOT BRACELETS AD-
VERRTlSE.
EDMUND VANCE COOKE.

When you have smashed the line.
or saved the nation,
When you have climbed the Icy
Matterhorn,
When you have hit the bulrs-eye
of Creation,
When you have grown the record
yield of corn,
When you have skinned the crowd
which tried to skin you,
You naturally want the crowd
to know,
When you have scooped the world.
there's 1bmething In you
AS hard to smother as q rooster's
crow.
But take my tip:-however much
you prize it.
Don't brag about your stunt, but
advertise 1t!
How many a man you've known
both wise and witty
Bat wasted wit too much in brag-
ging of il.
How many a favored woman would
be pretty.
But loves her face so much you
cannot love it,
None of us like this being told for
ever
Tnat VIII Is VIII anu DtouNs
beauty. No:
We like to think we, too, arc some
what clever
At finding two-times-two Is
really so.
This, then. the remedy-let ME ad-
! wise it,
Boast not your chiefest Charm but
advertise it!
Now. know poets who would give
an eye-tooth
To write, well, say as / do, IL you
please.
It's not their fault they cannot
paint a high truth
In words which stick and stay
with you, like these.
Nor is il my fault that i have the
! fashion
| OF putting in this punch the way
do:
It's merely that 1 know your own
/ pet passion,
Because I'm just common dub
like you.
You see I do not brag: no. 1
despise It;
1 merely write the stufr-and ad-
vertise it!
Copyright. 1890. n. E. A.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Events Of Today

Associate Justice Frederick L.
Siddons. of the District Supreme
Court. addresses Federal Bar Asso-
citation at Interior Department, 8
p. m.
Meeting of general committee on
ex-service mems welfare. American
Legion headquarters. s23 Fifteenth
street northwest. $3.50 p. m.
Meeting OF washington Chapter
Lay Alumni Association Of the Cath
Ollie University of America, 1914
New York avenue northwest. $3.50
p. m.
DR.. Florence Bamberger, Of Johns
Hopkins University. speaks on Pro
gressive Education in Relation to
Character Formation" at an open
meeting in the Public Library, un-
der auspices of Washington Section
of Progressive Education Associa-
tion. p. m.
Meeting of North Washington
Citizens Association. Parish Hall,
Church of the Advent. Second and U
streets, p. m.
One hundred and twenty-second
annual commencement exercises.
Visitation Convent, Georgetown, 10
a. m.
Annual competitive drill of Wash
ington High School Cadet Corps,
American League Park.
Meeting of william B. Cushing
Camp, No. 80. Sons of Veterans. U.
s. A.. PythIan Temple. Ninth and L
streets northwest. s p. m.
Meeting of officers OF Naval Re-
serve Force of d. of c. at Naval
| Reserve enrolment ONCE, Tenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
| southeast, s p. m.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
SIDELIGHTS
ON CONVENTION CROWDS

to enforce the prohibition laws
in the islands. They too have
perhaps noticed the absence of
color.
Miss Sarah Schuyler Butler
Is one OF the busy workers In
her fathers behalf. II Just
adore conventions" she SAYS.
There is something about the
stir and excitement that sur
passes any other exhilaration."
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
Is keeping bachelor quarters
with Colonel Milton ]. Fore
man. They have agreed not to
talk politics.
Mrs. Susan b. Radley, cousin
OF Mrs. Susan Il. Anthony, has
a new league of nations plat
form and Is lobbying among
the delegates here in the hopes
OF having it adopted.
The national farm board will
meet here tomorrow to ask for
plank in the G. o. p. plat
form declaring for good roads,
better schools and closer rela-
tion between the producer and
the consumer.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
~ RAYMOND G. CARROLL.

Bonneville. ore.--Amid the will
lows and cottonwoods on the shore
of the untamed Columbia river look
ing UP tremendous slopes and crags
completely surfaced with ever
greens. one has the emotions of be-
ing of the earth. Along the wide
river gorge, which extends for fifty
miles through the Cascade noun
tains near Portland, are to be found
the finest specimens Of natures
sculptoring-lonely pinnacles of
projecting boulders, high waterfalls,
lcreepy iedgesS and dark narrow
glens, all done In. gigantic proper
tions and bearing euphonious and
picturesque names.
Into this soothing quietude of
falling and rushing water a human
voice intFudes: 'The Democratic
party won't carry State in the
Northwest"
Instantly the affairs of a world
of sorrow and politics take form,
and burst across the mind. They
have the character of the vox hu-
mano attachment OF the orchestral
organ, rushing upon one like the
singing choir in the distance. One
rub's ones eyes and 10. the mag.
nificent Columbia river highway.
curling like a thread down the
valley is seen to be filled with au-
tomobiles. those in the direction of
Grown Point having size of beetles.
Environment influences though.
The Columbia river highway is to
kthe Pacific slote what the Liberty
Statue Is to the Atlantic seaboard.
lItssomehow draws the intellect into
contemplation OF big issues: a stim-
ulating man made jewel In a Cod
like setting. No better place for q
careful golne-ovsr Of what ANY
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
WILL
PUSH SPROUL
Popularity
Grows Rapidly After
Senator Denies Rumors.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

men in the country. There Is a
marked sincere drift of sentiment
from all parts OF the country to-
ward Gov. Sproul," said Senator
Crow. Under the leadership Of Gen.
Atterbury. Pennsylvania is solid and
other States are expected to swing
into line for Sproul."
Gov. Sproul spent the day in con-
ferences with friends and Republi-
can leaders. among his callers be-
ing four governors. Mr.. Sprouts
friends preferred tonight that the
names OF those executives be with
held for the time being. It was
learned from men close to Mr..
Sproul that the chief end OF his ac-
tivities today was to discover, IL
possible, just where the Lowdeu,
Wood, johnson and other delegates
will jump when the break comes.
The statement issued by senator
Knox in Washington, In which the
senator said he would Loyalty sup
port Gov. Sproul and that his alter
nate would vote for the governor.
killed another rumor to the effect
that Mr.. Knox was unalterably op-
posed to the governor. 1t was
noted-and this was considered Sig
nificant-that Senator Knox did not
in any sense take himself out Of
the race.
Chorus of sprouI Talk.
The Penrose rumor and the Knox
rumor were the only negative notes
heard in what actually became to-
day a general chorus of Sproul talk
and the denials of those stories went
a long way toward Strengthening
the Sproul movement. Whether the
governors strength will last
whether II was engendered by the
fact that he more or less Will be
the Senator's mouthpiece here Is an
open question. Senator Watson re-
piled to that question: "Sproul Is
strong man."
When the governor heard tonight
of the Knox statement. he said: i
am extremely gratified. 1t helps
nightly and indicates the feeling
which prevails in the Penn sylvania
delegation"
The Pennsylvania delegation es-
tablished headquarters in the Green
Room of the Congress Hotel this
morning. 1t is safe to say no quar-
ters in Chicago had more visitors
today.
Disorganixation An Aid.
1t is apparent the somewhat dis
organized situation here, especially
the lack of dominant leadership such
as Senator Penrose would sway, has
aided the Sproul movement. When
men talk of Penrose they mentor
Sproul next. 1t was decided today
that Senator Crow will take the
place of Senator Knox in the com
mittee on resolutions. w. Harry
Baker, Secretary of the State com
mittee will have the proxy of Sena'
tor Penrose as a delegate-at-large
and former Judge James II. Reet
will have the proxy of Senator Knox
Edward Randolph Wood, who Sc
cured 250.000 votes in the primar,
election for the Presidential pref
erence. visited Sprouts headquar'
ters today.
i Leaders of the Hoover movemen
in Philadelphia, headed by c. Her
bert Bell arrived in Chicago today
Copyright 1920. by Public Ledger co.,
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Carroll Says japanese Cunning Land
onWest Coast WiNProue Big Factor
In Determining Results of Election

traveller can learn for himself or
herseif In the Far West Let us
run through the Oriental cards.
10 begin with. 1 must confess to
q prejudice against prejudice. so
many people pick up and adopt
some fancy phrase like The Pa
clnc Is Japanese lake" or "One
never can trust a Jap" or. Give me
the Chink every time" that one
9reaos TO present a point of view
pased upon current happenings.
neasonable people must know that
the Japanese dominate the Pa
enc IT Is because we held ourselves
aioof from maritime adventure on
those waters. As to the relative
moral worth of the japanese and
Sninese Il suppose IL is natural for
any upper-crust white society to
put It's seal of approval upon that
yellow race Ii can most easily get
around and take advantage Of I
admit the japanese are not exactly
oocile. especially since their home
country became the fifth power ma
tion or the world at the so-called
peace conferences.
Oregon Is the balance State be-
tween Northern California and
washington. 1t figures in the sap-
anese question much as Kansas did
In the pre-Civii war days. Right
now the influence of Northern Cali
iornia IL being thrown into Oregon
10 have the next legislature. enact
new drastic laws similar to those
OF California against the. little
yellow brother" Oregon has both
Japanese and Chinese. whereas In
Northern California there Is pre-
ponderance of Chinese and in the
state OF Washington the Japanese
are more numerous. there being 4o.-
900 In Seattle alone.
When the forty-niners got to
California they looked around fol
cheap labor. None was forthcom'
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07

There is no color to this
convention" wall the old
timers. There Is nothing
spontaneous; everything ap-
pears to be forced and studied"
they said. True, there is not
much color quoted at SIG
quart. At that price even the
wit of the humorists will have
to be of the dry variety.
But Senator France of Mary
land says that in spite of
lack of color the whole con-
vention looks humorous to
him.
Since those who attend the
convention have no union
there will be no walking dele
gates here. Mayor Thompson
has provided two thousand
automobiles for delegates. All
they have to do is to show
their cards and take a ride.
The cars were turned over by
Chicago people to the mayors
reception committee.
The Philippine delegation
has called on prohibition ON
GERS here to get tips on how