Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
PREFER TO STAY
IN WASHINGTON
HUNDREDS OF FORMER GOVERN
MENT EMPLOYEES OUT OF
WORK, BUT WON'T LEAVE.
LURE OF CAPITAL IS GREAT
Woodrow Wilson lis First Ex-Presi-
dent to Remain There, and Many
Other Former Office Holders Have
Become Permanent Residents.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.


BY EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington.- are some hum
dreds, many hundreds in fact, OF
young men and women in Washington
TODAY looking for jobs. They are for
the main part the emergency war
workers who were let out of their
places because there was no work for
them to do. In most Of the cases the
cessation of war activities is respon-
sible but in some few cases the cause
is the additional cutting down OF the
forces for reasons of economy.
The condition Of unemployment in
Washington, therefore, is like that IN
the rest of the country, but with one
marked difference. Old men and OLD
women, young men and young women
who come to the capital city to work,
never want to leave the place. IN
other cities a majority of the workers
seem to be willing to go elsewhere TO
seek employment, but the lure OF
Washington is such that "Once here,
always here" if it is humanity pos
sible to stay.
This lure Of Washington life not
only has exerted it's influence On the
employees who recently have been
separated from the service, but on
scores of lawyers, business men and
others who came here to serve the
government as commissioned OfncerS
during the war. These men in large
part found places in the quartermas-
ter and engineer corps, or in some oth-
er branch Of the service from genera
staff work down through.
Wilson and Tumulty Stay.
For the first time in the history of
the government the magnet of Wash
ington has held here one former pres
ident Of the United States, Woodrow
Wilson. He, with former Secretary
of State cambridge Colby, has opened
a law office in the city of Washington
within the past week.
Joseph P Tumulty, the former Pres
ident's secretary, like his chief, has
chosen to stay in the city which
claimed his services for eight years of
his life. Mr. Tumulty also has opened
a law Office, but he is not in associ-
alton with his late chief in practice.
A. Mitchell Palmer, one time attorney
general of the United States and one
time alien property custodian, has
found the attraction Of Washington
life too strong to resist. He has
opened a law Office in the city, and
here he will practice. Henry 7. Hunt,
former mayor of Cincinnati who en-
tered the army and served for long
time in Washington before he was
sent overseas, has chosen this city for
his future residence. Here he has
opened an Office.
Men who have been in congress and
who either have been defeated for re-
election or voluntarily have retired,
become fascinated with the life here
and many of them stay. The town is
full of them.
Not Work Enough There for All.
There is rather a dark side to this
matter just at present. There are too
many lawyers in the town for the law
work that is to be done, there are too
many engineers in town for the engf-
neering work that is to be done;
there are too many promoters in town
for the promotion work which is to be
done, and there are too many workers
of all kinds in town fer the work Of
all kinds which is to be done.
Some men must go to the wall, but
in order that no one may think any
thing invidious is intended, 1t should
be said that men who have established
high regulations elsewhere are, of
course, almost certain ia be success
full in Washington. The competitive
struggle does not affect them as it
affects those who are not so well
known and who must start here at the
beginning of things just as they once
started in the home town at the be-
ginning Of things.
To get back to the matter of the
honorably discharged employees of
government, tho clerks, stenographers
and the rest, it might be said that
wears ago a senator Of the United
States, in speaking of bill to raise
the salaries of the departmental
clerks, said their salaries ought not
to be raised. He explained it like
this:
Undoubtedly they are doing their
work as they should do it, but also
undoubtedly if these young people de-
sire to remain in the government serv-
ice for all time, it shows lack Of
ambition. 1t is great deal better
that there should be rotation in this
kind of employment. The young with
the experience that they have had
here can make money elsewhere, and
good money, but here they must go on
year after year losing more and more
of their ambition and content only to
earn a small clerical stipend"
To Reclaim Lee Mansion.
There is a plan to reclaim the his
toric Robert E. Lee residence in the
National cemetery at Arlington, Va,
to fit it as it was during the Lee occu-
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