The Washington herald., 1920-03-03
OUSTING URGED
FOR 'INHUMAN'
ORDERS
Eleven Commandments
Of Soldier Training
Board Revealed.

DOdfO NeVedleO.
A sweeping investigation of the
administrative officers of the Fed
eral Board for Vocational Education
in Washington was ordered yester-
day by the House Committee on
Education.
This action was taken after Rep
resentative James w. Hustled, OF
New ork, had presented to the COM
mittee the so-caIled hard boiled
order. a set of instructions issued
from the Office of Uel w. Lamkin,
chief of the rehabilitation service
of the board. and dubbed the eleven
commandments"
Eleven Commandments.
These were the orders:
1. As representatives of the Gen.
trail Office Case Board you are to
give individual rulings on Individual
cases. General rulings originate at
the central Office. Don't make any
errors.
-2s Teas are~te pass ON cases., and
wheney$r sen think out loud bee
that the thought is placed on paper
and is then placed in the mans
! folder.
! ). Don't argue with the District
Office stats. Tell them to write
central office if they don't like your
, judgment.
4. Don't speculate. If a fact ex-
lists t:rs existence of the fact can
be proved on a piece of paper
Accept legal proof and don't trust to
hearsay evidence. If any member
of the District staff knows a 10;
more about case than you do tell
him to dictate it and get the d. V. O.
! division vocational officer) to sign
it. Don't listen to him. 1t wastes
time.
! 5. The organs used in approving
! cases (of disabled men) are the
eyes and brain. The heart and ears
do not function.
.'Gossip'' Prohibited.
| 8. Don't gossip. If a man tells
you a tale of woe in one district
don't tell it in the next district
You are not sent out to arrange
salary adjustment or to install fill
ing systems. but to approve cases
|
If you believe one section is more
efficient than another section or one
district more efficient than another
keep it to yourself.
| 8. Members of the district office
stats will bat you over the head
with verbal pressure. District pres
sure causes many of our mistakes
Put cotton in your ears and lock
Ith, door.
! 3. District office stats believe that
anyone from the central office Is
full of wisdom. You will preserve
this good impression IL you dom,
! talk.
| 10. Whenever you draw a conclu-
sion draw il in duplicate and for
ward one copy to the central office
IL. Accept advice from the GEN.
trail office. Take all the cigarettes
you can get from members of the
district Office STATS. but no advice
The district office will never crawl
Ito you for approving cases in error
but central Office will. Don't get
| mad when you get crawled, bu
come back with the evidence. II
the evidence wasn't there don't dc
il again.
[. (Signed) UEL w. LAMKIN.
| Hustled scathes Officers.
The Offices of the board are in fol
a general house cleaning. according
to Representative Hustled. He de-
clared that the work of the many
Chiefs" of this bureau to be the
worst case of maladministration OF
a public trust he has ever heard of
| He declared Lamkin had informed
! him that the order. which caused
much indignation among members
of the committee, was formulated
I by an assistant of his and ther
"deleted" before IL was sent out
! 1T must have been a frightfui
order before il was deleted," said
Hustled.
The committee will summon be,
/ fore IL next Tuesday morning prac,
itically all of the administrative of.
/ ficials of the central office here In
1 Washington. in addition to Harold
A. Littlepage. of the New York Eve
ming Post whose recent disclosure,
led to the Hustled resolution Mon
day.
.Iphymau Piece of Work.
! Hustled declared that the man whc
wrote the order, the chief who ap
proved It and every officer OF tn,
board who. countenanced such al
'.inhuman piece Of work" will los,