Evening star., 1920-06-27
FARMERS STUDY FOR EIGN TRADEIHEARD AND SEEN

Doctors sometimes prescribe walk
ing up and down stairs for such of
their patients as are in need Of some
real exercise, but they do not often
tell one where to find easily walked
Staircases
The finest cases of stairs in the
District of Columbia for such walk
ing may be found at the pension Of
fee. Such broad, red, easily walked
stairs are not to be had any place
else. These stairs are so easy to go
up and down, as a matter OF fact,
that young persons who have occa-
sion to enter the bureau of pensions
find it difficult to keep from running
UP and down.
The red steps at the old bureaus at
5th and f streets are so very broad
and each step is SO low that walking
up and down them comes as near TO
walking ION the level" as can be
found in staircases.
A trip up and down these stairs
can be made on the run with u mini
mum of effort, SO that much exercise
can be obtained with little expendi-
ture of wind" Now il an ambitious
the Washington Monument staircase
he would find it an altogether DIFF
ferent proposition.
So bear in mind those broad, red,
easy-going stairs at the pension Of
flee when you want to take some ex-
ercise out Of the ordinary.
An interesting postal operation is
done in plain sight of passersby at the
corner of North Capitol street and
Massachusetts avenue, the main en-
trance of the city post office.
Almost any morning these days a
man may be seen standing at case in
front of a window on the second floor.
He is not always the same man, but,
whoever he is, he always is seen cast
ing something into the small boxes in
the case.
This is the season when distributors
of the city post office take their annual
case examinations" and the exams
are taken in the room above the post
masters Office. This room has been
fitted UP as the Offices schoolroom.
where new clerks and carriers are given
preliminary training.
This summer the schoolroom is be-
ing utilized for the distributors exam
nations. The distributor has to know
a great list of cities, towns and villages,
their states, all sorts of informa tion as
to trains, and know just which COM
partment in his case to throw any let
ter
He is the man who sends your letter
on the right road across the country to
its destination, maybe in California,
maybe in nearby Maryland. maybe
across the sea Wherever it is to 90.
the distributor starts it on its journey
X y
Although many people do not know
it, the reclassiication commission is
still active. and. as proof of it, is keep
ing about twenty members of its staff
at the old headquarters in building u,
Az street and Missouri avenue.
These twenty people, headed by Lieut.
Col +. W. Albert keep themselves very
busy with the records of the 100, 00o
federal employees here. They are keep
ing strictly up-to-the- minute the per-
sonnel records of the reclassification
work.
Keeping the records and questionable
data strictly up-to-date is an impor-
tant task, and will be universally re-
garded as a big job well done when the
data is called for by Congress in con-
sidering the reclassification report and
bill at the next session.
You see, government workers are
quite sure that Congress is going to
pass that legislation soon.
CHARLES E. TRACEWELL-