The Washington times., 1921-06-28
BOSS GETS WINE
! OR YOU GET GATE,
SAYS WAR R|SKER
Joy Rides for Chief Another
Good Way to Hold Job,
Clerk Tells Sisters.

1 Ssoth oHo SsSS0sSs
take your assistant chief and his
war-working wife to dinner fire.
quentiy--and be sure the wine flows
freely"
That is the formula for holding .
Job In the War Risk Bureau given BY
one who. in these days of dismissal.
is now on the outside looking in. to
those who may still be on the inside
| looking out.
There are plenty of ways to stay
| In the War Risk--just as there are
several ways to get out" writes this
unmarried girl THE more the wine
flows, the longer you stay. II you
have q car use IL with discretion o.
diplomacy had neither wine nor
car and now I haven't even a job.
| "Ive been fred from the War Risk
Bureau. After three long years of
/ faithful service and hard conscien-
tious work, I was separated from
| my position with few days notice.
DIsMIssALs CROOKED SHE SAYS.
III know the personnel has to be
reduced. and II there were not SO
many crooked and unfair things
going on in that bureau when II
| comes to the dismissal OF clerks Tor
promoting them either for that mat
teri / might feel resigned TO my fate;
as IL IL. am bitter and rebeilious.
| "First, there is that memo the d.
rector sent around to the chief and
subchiefs of the various divisions and
| sections. which instructed them 10
| circumstances OF every indtvidual
| clerk before dismissal
| ain addition to protecting the ex-
| service people. that memo was for the
purpose of giving the poor woman
/ preference over the woman that did
not need her job--their efficiency be-
ing equal.
| There is always the woman with
| the poor old mother or the girl at
school to support, or the widow who
has TO live somehow, or the girl help
| ing mother raise the rest of her kids.
These women should keep their Jobs
rather than the woman whose husband
ie making q good salary.
RAISED HER FAY BEFORE WE'D
| DING.
| Were the directors instructions
carried out7 Not so you could notice
IL. I'm fred. and right In my section
| the assistant chief and his wife are
both working. He raised her salary
| and then married her and kept her
thsreI There 10 nothing like being
| thrifty.
The women would fairly cut each
| others throats to save themselves
from being put on the fatal list. Each
one that goes lessons the danger Just
| so much for the others. There may
be q brotherhood of men. but there 10
no sisterhood of women in the War
/ Risk Bureau. j know from expert
ence.
"when IL comes to being poor, am
frst cousin to Jobs turkey. but two
women circulated q report that ! had
all kinds of money in the old cracked
tea pot at home, and the assistant
chief passed the good word along to
the grand exalted ruler of the section.
so that my name was sent down to
Room l07. Any War Risker will tell
you what that means. It's the can
ming factory of the bureau. Later,
when I asked the head chief IL he had
inquired into my financial state at all.
he fairly withered me with his look!
"sAfost assuredly.' he said. 4 acted
jupon information given me from the
unit. ] was told that you had con 9.
siderable income and several daugh-
ters In the Government service and
in view OF that fact, decided you
could CO.
"weil, was dazed for a moment.
then I tried to tell him none of tf
was true, but he barely listened, and
refused to DO anything about II. Can
you beat IT. feel just like granting
the director a private interview!
SLAMS Ex-sERvICE WOMEN.
you see am not an ex-servics
woman. That is. I didn't so down
when the war broke out and enlist in
order to get a good job and a hundred
dollars worth of clothes, like q good
many of the ex-service women told
me they did. Oil no. they are not
being fired.
.Those magic words. 'ex-servics,
covers them like q protective gar
ment They are being kept whether
they are efficient or not, and II does
not matter how they got their ap-
lpointment
"a little thing like civil service
examination is brushed aside. Ons
OF the big chiefs tod me himself, tina,
some of the ex-service women he had
been compelled to keep were so inef-
ficient they could not do the work.
but. must be kept on the rolls just the
same.
"It isn't fair. Many OF the women
who didn't enlist worked harder to
win the war than the navy women. i
have walked fifty miles a day, many
a day. down In the museum or over At
audit and records to get the infor-
nation together SO that could send
out the needed cheek TO the old moth
err or the wife and babies at homs.
while the son or husband was at the
front.
"And IL I ever sent out one check
more than should am glad OF II.
All honor and glory and help to the
boys that went across and faced the
fire; we can't do too much for them.
But some credit should be given and
some preference shown to the women
who though they didn't Join the navy.
worked all during the war to help to
win Il. Now her faithful services are
rewarded by a notice of dismissal"
II The Noiseiess
LII ct ETTDIC FAN