Evening star., 1921-08-28
Heard and Seen

Why is 1t the biggest physical
specimens in the government service
are set to work sweeping up the halls
in our big department buildings?
This 10 q mystery to tax the investi-
gational facilities of the brainiest
commission that ever spen. several
months or years digging up perfectly
good facts to print In a perfectly good
book to place on q perfectly capable
shelf.
Yet 1t 10 q fact that in many of the
department buildings the brawniest,
bulkiest. tallest and otherwise largest
physical men are put to work at the
daily task Of sweeping up the halls.
done by the regular force of char
women during the small hours of the
morning. Incoming Of a thousand or
more employees at . o'clock neces-
sarily tracks up corridors. Then dust
itors and others who have business
with the department come and go.
So along comes q man weighing 200
pounds. pushing brush before which
some sort of sawdust is sprinkled.
Why the big fellows cannot be put
At some more strenuous work. as their
bulk would apparently warrant, and
sltghter men put at the clean-up work,
10 the question.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Glover told some interesting stories
last week about some OF the fourth
class postmasters throughout the
country. These are the postmasters
At the smallest towns or villages.
where the presiding genius Of the
mails usually runs a store.
But Mr. Glover is not responsible
for the following story, which was re-
called to local postal workers by his
own account Of the difficulties of deal
ing with the fourth-class officers.
A democratic postmaster in a mid
die western village lost his job when
the republicans came into power un-
der President Harrison. For four
years the ex-postmaster chafed un-
der the restraint, while his rival,
from his store down the street. dis
pensed Uncle Sans mails.
glared from his own store. formerly
the home Of the post Office, at the
store UP the street.
Then Cleveland was elected Presi-
dent.
The very next morning the former
postmaster appeared at the post Of
Well" he shouted. triumphantly.
And without more ado he seized the
post Office furnishings and mail and
transported them bodily back to the
old post office site.
y 4
Fear Of the dentist still survives.
Those early funny-picture men.
who years ago depicted men extract
ing teeth with gigantic tweezers.
while their victims writhed in agony.
did their work too well.
Even tho children Of the present
generation. whose teeth may be ex-
tracted without any real pain what
| ever, believe In that ancient agony.
~ tbe e9day SsS.s most people dis
A little girl In this town was in
| tears on the morning her mother was
to 60 to the dentist to have tooth
pulled.
She clung to her mother.
Mamma" she sobbed. Don't let
him kill you!"
Hivaling that man from the south
who wrote officials here to hnd out
| 'in what state Alexander the Crate
10 buried" = local government en-
ploye had an idea Of what he wanted
to say. but his spelling was . bit on.
He had been asked, along with
others, to submit his ideas for a GER
tain form ased in the Office work. He
put q lot Of time on the thing: and
dnally turned 1t In, with . note to
his superior oflcer.
"Do you think this will pass mus
tardf" he wrote. .