Evening star., 1921-06-06
LITTLE YET TO HEAR
ON RECLASS|FY|NG.
Joint Committee Soon to Pre-
pare Report for Submis-
sion to Congress.

Hearings on the reclassiflcation Of
;,vernment employees before the Joint
t,mmittee on civil service OF the Sem
ne and House were practically con-
.uded today. and the meeting ad-
urned, subject to call Of the chair
D. an. Senator Sterling. Two or three
} ore Witnesses may be heard. 1t was
q i'd, but the hearings will be brief.
u they are given. The senate ana
EDuse committees as soon as all the
jtimony is available. will get down
work on the draft of reclassifca-
:, IN bill. to be introduced in the Sem
;. - and House
Witnesses Heard Todny.
ir5. Harriet Taylor Upton, from
lio. vice chairman of the republican
nitional committee. appeared today to
government service be accorded equal
J. with that Of the men when they
- similar work. Mrs Upton said:
II am here to speak for the women
of my party. We stand for equal pay
for equal work. II a woman does as
good job as man she should re-
ce1ve the same pay. Somehow we got
off the road long ago. and made that
discrimination against women"
Mrs. Upton said that 1t is populariy
supposed men support women. She
said that she. herself. had always been
, taken care Of by the male members
of her family. But that is not true,
| she said. Of all women. many Of whom
have dependents relying upon them
for support. Mrs. Upton said that
she has asked seven women, taken at
! random before appearing, to testify
regarding this matter of support, and
that six out of the seven told her that
they contribute to the support of de-
| pendents.
Not Always the Rule.
! 1t has always been the idea that
! when woman is married her hus-
| band took care of her forever after"
said Mrs. Upton. And that is the way
1t should be. But men get paralyzed,
! get old. go to war and do other
! things which result finally in the
woman having to look after them"
Mrs. Upton said that women are
quite as effective and efficient in the
government service as are men. She
| said. in the case of a woman who
| drew a salary of $500 a year and who
| worked alongside of man who drew
| $1,000 for similar work when the man
left his desk the woman was given
his job and an increase of 500 a
year, making her salary $1,000, and
| the authorities thought themselves
| magnanimous.
| At the conclusion Of Mrs. Upton's
testimony Representative London of
New York announced that the COM
| mittee was thoroughly agreed that
| women should receive equal pay with
4 men wicn they do the same kird of
, work.
/! PIea for Hospital Stan.
! DR.. S. r. Franz Of St Elizabeth's
| Hospital told the Joint committe ee
that something should be done in the
way of better pay for the medical
stan at the hospital. He told of the
needs of specialization of work in
| that institution. where all classes of
| insane patients are treated.
st. Eliza beths Hospital. DR.. Franz
! said. is. used largely as a training schoo
| for nurses. attendants and physicians
who later go to work in state institutions
and into private practice. He said that
members of the Army and naval medi.
| cal schools also receive training in the
hospital. The salaries paid by the hos
pital are not high enough to get trained
men. so it is necessary to take young
men coming from the medical schools
| and train them up.
| DIR. Franz said that there are twenty
! four members of the medical staff of the
| hospital. and that there should be forty
/ four. They average eleven hours day
at work during several days Of the week.
DR.. Franz said.
Commitment Methods Criticised.
| The method of committing insane
| persons came in for criticism during
! the testimony of DR.. Franz. who said
that the old method of commitment
| of the insane still exists in the Dis
! jtrict, notwithstanding recommendations
] to Congress that il be changed. All
!. that is necessary, he said. is to 60 be-
| fore police officer and have the party
against whom the charge of insanity is
brought. arrested. The alleged insane
person is then taken to the Washing
ton Asylum Hospital. and then to ST
| over a period of thirty days.
The patient probably will be insane
by the end of that time, If he WASH,
before" suggested Representative
Smith of Idaho.
| DR.. Franz said that out OF 1.042 ad.
missions in year eighty-two had beer
discharged as not insane.
After the thirty days of observa-
tion the persons charged with in
, sanity go back to the courts for trial
before finally being committed.
DR.. Franz told the committee tha,
| there are about $500 patients in. the
hospital. or $50 to 100 patients to
| each medical officer. There should
be one medical officer to every 10t
patients. at least. he said.
| The salaries paid to the members
of the medical staff at the hospita
paid members of the Medical Corps
in the Army and Navy. DR.. Franz
said. He testified that there is a
scarcity of medical officers since the
war, not so much because of the
! large number killed in the war as