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Evening star., 1922-05-06

Johnson-Powell; Tonight, Crescent
Club; Boy Scout council, Saturday
Night Club. community players,
Mount Pleasant Athletic Club. Mon
day afternoon: Expression club for
children; millinery for women and
children.
Dunbar; Tomorrow afternoon, COM
munity Centers band; story hour;
Boy Scouts; Biblican show and lee
ture; Achievement Boys; Community
orchestra.
Southeast: Tonight, Pollyanna and
Junior Dramatic clubs; Boy Scouts.
Lovejoy: Tonight, Bell Athletic
Club; community singing; First
American Boys; Girls Good Words
Club; athletics reading room and
games: Junior Choral Society; Do
right Girls Club; Junior Needlework
Club; Boy Scouts.
Evening star., 1922-05-06
TONIGHT.

Business High School Alumni Asso-
citation will give dance, at 2400 10th
street, 8 o'clock
Evening star., 1922-05-06

Ire EiDDcnS CLUB VIII give a dance
at 1141 Connecticut avenue.
Texas Club will meet at O'Clock,
Thomson School. Program and dane
ing. All Texans and friends invited.
meet at o'clock. 203 Bond building.
Program and dancing. Strangers in
vited.
Eeleet Klub will give dance at
Hadleigh Hotel. 9 o'clock.
National Genealogical Society will
meet at s o'clock, 1906 Goth street.
The Red Deer will give dinner at
City Club. The Deer of Baltimore and
of Alexandria will attend.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of ST. Johns
College will meet in the school hall
to plan for card party, May 13.
"Three Periods of Negro Music
will be presented at s o'clock, at
Lincoln Theater under auspices of
Washington Conservatory of Music
and School of Expression, in the in
terest of the establishing national
negro music center.
College Women's Club: Election of
officers and final action on the matter
of buying the clubhouse.
The Retired Enlisted Mems Asso-
citation will meet at s o'clock, at
Pythian Temple for business and for
entertainment of members and their
families.
The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity will
meet at the chapter house. AL L. Tay-
lor will report on building fund plans.
Annual get-together dinner of the
University Club will be held at the
club. Surprise entertainment numbers.
Students Association, K. c. School.
will give commencement dance at 3
o'clock, Arcade private ballroom.
St. Patrick Players will present a
play at Carroll Hall at Sis o'clock.
The Lions Club will give a play at
m Nso @o1y
Evening star., 1922-05-06

Girls Club will give dance. s
O'clock in Mount Pleasant Club
rooms, 14th and Kenyon streets.
Evening star., 1922-05-06

The Gibbons Club will give a dane
at 1141 Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1922-05-06
AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER:

The Lions Club will give a play at
the Post Office Theater at o'clock.
Evening star., 1922-05-06

Texas Club will meet at O'Clock,
Thomson School. Program and dane
ing. All Texans and friends invited,
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02
VIII.
INCOMPETENTS ARE KEPT

The annual turnover In the govern
ment service Is something almost In
credible. No business corporation,
however strongly established, could
long endure the heavy annual drain on
Its resources. Hundreds of men leave
the government service daily; and
new, unframed people have to be taken
on and taught to do the work. This
costs money, as every employer
knows.
The designations from the govern
ment service are chiefly from the gu
pervisory and most highly paid posi-
tons and from the very lowest grades.
The men at the top, ii they have any
initiative or ability or ambition to
make name for themselves, are Of
fered private employment at double
or treble or more what the govern
ment can pay them. The people In
the lowest grades leave for private
employment when opportunity affords
because in too many instances they
actually cannot keep body and soul
together on their government pay.
1t is the people in the middle class
who stay on the longest. The whole
constant process makes for steady
deterioration in the quality of the
government service and tends to re-
tain the mediocre In public employ.
ment.
The civil service commission, through
which the great bulk of government
employees are brought into the serv.
Ice, is acutely aware of this condition
Its reports give emphasis to the diff
Guilty constantly experienced in secur-
Ing and retaining competent employ
ees. The rotation in Office has become
increasingly frequent and vitality i'm
pairs the efficiency of the service.
During the war there was a lower
rate Of turnover in the mechanical
forces than in outside establishments.
The proposition of separations, how
ever, is excessive in clerical, profess
sional and technical positions, in
which the rate of turnover sometimes
amounts to a third Of the force in q
year.
During the nine months preceding
the armistice more than 10000 ap-
pointments were. made in the civil
service and about $4,000 separations
occurred-that is, for every two ap-
pointments made one person left the
service. For period of similar length
following the armistice only 60 per
cent as many appointments were made,
but there were nearly 80 per cent more
separations. In this period almost as
many positions were vacated as were
filed.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02
GIRLS BEAUTY
BETRAYED HER
Fugitive From Justice, Once Con.
victed, Is Acquitted on
Second Trial.
COP KNEW HER FACE
Jury Accepts Defense That She Killed
Man In Defense Of Honor-Fied
After First Trial-Fuol-
tive Year.

Knoxville, Tenn.-Maude Moore,
whose beauty betrayed her after
she had been fugitive from justice for
more than year, Is innocent Of the
crime Of killing Leroy B. Hart, Of
which she was accused. A jury has
just so decreed. 1t was her second
trial.
The verdict Of not guilty gives the
dark-haired, gray-eyed young woman
the freedom for which she risked every
danger and sacrificed all-except her
beauty.
She handed away her liberty with a
rose in Washington. It was after she
had been sought for many months.
Using the name of Helen Hope, she
had married William Stubs and set
tied in Tacoma like good little house.
wife with a kitchen and garden and
a husband who never suspected for
one instant that he had married girl
who was being hunted the length and
breadth Of America as an escaped
murderess.
A'AAo' "AAuM SLuUUS was pIuulL6
rose bushes when Tacoma police
man strutted along the street. He
was just an ordinary policeman with
an Irish laugh and an Irish eye for
every roguish little peach on the beat.
He noticed the quaint white bunga-
low. He observed the bonny beauty
in the sunbonnet. He stopped and
glanced up.
'Have rose?" she asked, cheerfully.
"Sure, and thank you'll"
Remembered Her Face.
The Irish policeman took away the
rose and the memory Of a pair Of
clear gray eyes, bee-stung mouth and
a dazzling smile. The memory stayed
with him for hours-until he walked
into headquarters and a head-on COLI
sion with the likeness Of the lady of
his thoughts tackled on the wall under
the caption, $4,000 Reward"
When the police came, Mrs. Stubs
confessed she was Maude Moore. They
took her back to Knoxville and to
trial for Leroy Harth's murder.
Maude Moore always had been a
pretty girl. After graduation from
business. college she got Job in the
first Office she entered, a lawyers.
He beauty-then-wa her trump card.
Leroy Harth, just out Of college, owner
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02

81 9 flashy racing car. money to burn"
saw her and fell In love with her
when she was twenty. When he sug-
gested a spin one night and she &C.
cepted, Harth set his racer streaming
toward the lonely highway known to
Knoxville's sporty set as Lovers
.Lane.r
There, they said, she killed him.
She was tried, convicted and sentenced
10 n years in the penitentiary.
q Then She Fled.
Though a higher court granted
new trial she flung few clothes into
her bag at her mothers home and
stumbled into the darkness. q
Rarely in a long list Of famous man.
hunts has there been such hue and
cry as followed. Her two bondsmen.
b. 3. Boring and Edward McNew,
facing a forfeiture Of $4,000, spurred
the chase, which soon became clamor-
ing wolf pack on Maude Moore's trail.
n the first moment OF her flight she
determined to blot out Maude Moore
90 completely as nature would let her.
The glossy black hair was shipped
away. The surviving curls were given
peroxide bath that bleached them
yellow. Hours were spent in perfect
inga mincing walk in place Of the old
free stride. The musical contralto
died !; Ii it's stead was born nasal
treble. iss ST
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02
WHAT OF THESE oLDMEN?

Congress enacted law in 1890 re-
curling all heads of departments and
Independent establishments in the
federal service to report each year to
the secretary of the treasury the num-
Der Of employees under them who were
below fair standard of efficiency.
Every year this Is done and the letters
to the secretary Of the treasury from
the various departments and bureaus
are printed in the book of estimates Of
appropriations, compiled for use by
congress in making up the annual
supply bills. Congress never pays the
slightest heed to these reports. They
are made up year after year, but the
inefficient are never fired.
For example, last year the chief
clerk of the treasury reported ITO en-
ployees Of the Treasury department as
below fair standard Of efficiency. But
nothing will be done about 1t. The
Interior department reported 1879 in.
efncients, and will probably go on re-
porting them till they die Of old age.
There are employees Of the govern
ment in Washington who are totally
blind and who are led from their
homes to their Offices each day and
back home again in the afternoon.
I knew In 1920 one gentleman Of.
uinety-two years who had been In the
government service for seventy-two
years. He was being paid at that time
$500 year. His maximum pay dur
ing his long service was $500 year.
James X. Polk was President when
this old gentleman came into the serv-
Ice. He was born on January 10.
1928. His father was a captain Of
the regular army In the war Of 1912.
After that service he led an active life
IN other occupations until 1s48. when
he died, leaving q dependent family Of
nine persons, three Of them boys. It
fell to the lot Of one Of them to be the
chief support Of the family.
It came to pass, then, that at the age
Of twenty he received through the
influence Of navy friends Of his father
q small clerkship at the naval observ-
atory, then under the superintendent
Of that accomplished officer, Matthew
Fontaine Maury, whom he served as
amanuensis for ten years, accounting
It q great privilege and pleasure to
have heard Maury's voice debating the
words Of sense and wisdom which
make up the sailing directions, the
wind and current charts, and other
publications issued from the observ-
atory for the benefit Of the world.
From copyist at first, November 9.
1S48, at s. q day, the young man was
advanced 40 follows: S3s3
u July !, 1858. CLERK at 1920 q
ysar; July \ 1854 clerk at $1,600 q
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02

year; July 1, 1870, principal clerk at
,$1,sO0 year; December 6, 1911, clerk
at 81, 400 year; May l, 1913, stenog-
rapher and typewriter at $500 year.
1t will be seen that he was denoted
In December, 1911, and again in May,
1913, to lower positions, involving less
work and responsibility. These demo-
tions were at his own request. In
October, 1917, he received from the
assistant secretary of the navy, Mr..
Roosevelt, the following letter:
Il have to inform you that you have
been granted leave without pay for
six months beginning October 10, 1917,
"As you have been in the employ
Of the government now nearly sixty
nine years, and during all that time
your record has been excellent, I re-.
greet that there is no way in which the
department could continue you on tho
rolls with compensation.
II desire at this time to express
the appreciation Of the department for
your long and satisfactory service. and
the hope that you will be 80 benefited
by this leave that you can return and
resume your duties at its expiration"
talked with one Of the cabinet
officers about the old and feeble en-.
ployees.
He said: II don't know what con-
gress intends to do about them, but I
know what intend to do with those
in my department. intend to leave
them alone. They can stay here a.
long as they like, until some provision
is made for them. When I was new
in the department dismissed two Of
these old people and denoted another.
on the ground that they were SUPER
animated and inefficient and were n
hindrance to the work.
"All three Of them wrote me sad
letters. and promptly committed sui.
eide. That was enough and moro
than enough for me. Never again
will I disturb one Of them. do not
choose to have 1t on my conscieuce
that I pronounced sentence Of death
on an old man or an old woman In
the service Of the government. They
can all stay on here a. long as they
like. found them here and some Of
them will be here when I leave. II
congress chooses to provide for them
that II Its obligation. But will never
sentence another one Of them to self
destruction. no matter what the cost
to the taxpayer and the government.s
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02
PRETTY PATTY.

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synopsis-Proud posssssor Of
printing press and equipment. the
gift Of Uncle Joseph to his nephew.
Herbert Illingsworth ,Atwater, Jr.,
aged thirteen. tho fortunate youth,
with his chum. Henry Rooter,
about the same age. begins the pub
LEGATION Of q full-fedged newspaper,
the North End Daily Oriole. Her
bert's small cousin, Florence At
water, being barred from any kind
OF participation in the enterprise.
on account Of her intense and nat
ural feminine desire to BOSS" ID
frankly annoyed. and not 1t all
backward in saying so. However,
q poem she has written,is accepted
for insertion in the Oriole. on q
strictly commercial basis-cash In
advance. The poem suffers some
what from the inexperience OF the
youthful publishers in the ''art
preservative.'' n
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02
6be
ORIOIE

Her conclusion was drowned out.
"oh, Florence, ray not SOL Say not
50. Florencel Say not sou
The hateful entreaty still murmured
In her resentful ears that night, as
she fell asleep; and she passed into
the beginnings Of a dream with her
lips slightly dimpling the surface Of
her pillow In belated repartee. And
upon waking, though it was Sunday,
her first words. half slumbrous In the
silence Of the morning, were. "vile
things!" Her faculties became more
alert, during the preparation Of a
toilet which was to serve not only for
breakfast, but with the addition Of
gloves, a hat, and blue velvet coat,
for church and Sunday school as well {;
and she planned hundred ven
geances. That is to say, her mind
did not occupy itself with plots pos
sibly to make real; rather it dabbled
among those fragmentary visions that
love to overlap and displace one an
other in the shifty retina Of the minds
eye.
But in all of these pictures, where
in prevailingly she seemed some, sort
Of deathly powerful Queen Of Poetry,
the postures assumed by the figures Of
Messrs. Atwater and Rooter Cloth
in an extremity Of rags) were miser-
ably suppliant. So she soothed her.
self little--but not long. Herbert in
the next pew in church, and Henry in
the next beyond that, were perfect
compositions in smugness. They were
cold, contented, aristocratic; and had
an imperturbable understanding be-
tween themselves quite perceptible
to the sensitive Florence-that she
was nuisance now capably disposed
Of by their beautiful discovery Of "Say
not so!',. Florences feelings were I'M
becoming to the place and occasion.
But at four o'clock that afternoon
she was assuaged into milder con-
ditton by the arrival, according to. an
agreement made in Sunday school, Of
the popular Miss Patty Fairchild.
Patty was thirteen and a half; an
exquisite person with gold-dusted
hair, eyes Of perfect blue, and an al
Turing air Of sweet self-consciousness.
Henry Rooter and Herbert nlings-
worth Atwater, Jr.. out gathering
news, saw her entering Florence's
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02
starv.,s, ssIf e Death 70 save Money.

starvss Self to Dsath 70 save Money.
Emporia, Kan.-Mrs. Katherine
Swedenson, starved herself to death
to save money, according to her neigh
bors. Mrs. Swedenson was found dy.
Ing In bed ct her home. There was
no nrs 10 the house. and Mrs. Sweden
son was too weak to reach some food
q the table. She owns home valu.
sbla farm propsra-
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02
The eeaten Read

Sincerity - like travelling In 1 plain,
beaten road, which commonly brings
Q man sooner to his journeys end thsn
by-ways, In which msn sftsn -
Observation-Disclosures, y. 81; Ss s.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02
Copyright. Western Newspaper Uuioo

The exigencies Of the war required
a great expansion Of the clerical
forces at Washington and elsewhere
and this was accomplished by labor
turnover several times above normal.
The percentage Of destinations Of ap-
pointments among eligibles on the CIV
II service register increased In many
instances from 30 to more than so per
cent-that Is, more than half the men
and women who successfully passed
civil service examinations and were
offered Jobs under the government re-
fused to, take them. 1t Is estimated
that more than $4,000 of those who
met the test were appointed during
that time.
The civil service commission says
fatty:
'"rhose familiar with the federal
service at Washington know that the
service Is now hampered by the re-
tention Of incompetents whose re-
moval Is rendered difficult by influences
which are incompatible with the eff
cheney Of the service. Preferences
and exemptions increasingly clog the
departments with persons who, no
matter how inefficient, are difficult to
remove, and whose retention tends to
destroy the discipline of the service"
Among these inefficients, Of course,
are the superannuated and the phys
ically incapacitated. The bureau Of
efficiency estimated, before the pass
age Of the approximation retirement
law, the number of employees in the
civil service Of the United States sew
enty years Of age and over as follows:
Number
Railway postal clerks. 1877
Rural letter carriers. Observation-Disclosures. 454
City letter carriers. Observation-Disclosures. go
Post office clerks. Observation-Disclosures. 3S7
MeclidHicS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 328
General employees. Dist. Columbia. .1.4s4
General employees elsewhere. .l,613
Iotal .............s............ ,693
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02

The commissioner of pensions sup
plies the following compact statement
of the age Of the employees in the pen
sion bureau:
Number in the classified civil sery-
ice, 874; age Of the Oldest employee.
Lightweight; number over eighty years
Of age, 90; number between sixty-five
and eighty, 266; based on age of sixty
five, number eligible for retirement,
202; percentage of employees eligible
for retirement, 1874; average age Of all
employees, July l, 1919, fifty-eight.
These old men and women bear the
burden Of the administration of the
complex, intricate and Involved pro-
cedure under the pension laws having
to do with the disbursement Of 1920.
1922 in 1920 to 100000 and some
odd beneflciaries.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-02-02
Where Your Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money
in Conducting Your Business
By EDWARD G.LOWRY


Authority the Natcnal
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-15
BISHOP HAMILTON HERE.
WIN Preach Mt Harrison Street Church
Tomorrow Morning and Evening.

Blahop John W. Hamilton OF wash
ington, u. G. will preach in Harrison
Street NJ. Il. Church Sunday morning
and evening. The visit OF Bishop Ham
ilton "a part Of tho forward looking
movement OF tho church. which f.
planning mnny improvements. the
work on which wifi probably start in
the near future.
4 parsonage ~ hvondale etone ir
10 be erected on tho corner OF sevfnth
and HArriaon and church house win
be built next 90 the church. Tho plans
"a $50 include tho modelling OF the
church auditorium with new ecntinr
arrangement. Tho church house VIII
he equipped with large community
hall 10 bo used for Sunday School pur.
poses. for soclals and dramatlce: with
gyrnnaamm, ana with sman cIas'
ro0me. Tho contemplated Improve
ments will coat stb 900.
~ dinner given for the Sunday
GchoOl board on Thursday evening. /
Elmer Perry superintendent of The
gunday School. spoRe of ths nccesugity y
/ for these editions. emIihasizlng the
need Of a Sunday School hail large
| enough 10 seat ali the departments a
| special exerc,ses. 80 far about $4,000
haa been pledged
! In addition 20 the bishops sermon
a epccial feature Of the Sunday ser
| Vicce, the choir will sing Easter rnuei'
! In the morning, and IN the evening vii
/ sing a cantata. "'rhe story Of Easter,
} gtulte
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-15

243. Gloria in Excelsis. old ohant; /;
Nunc Dimittis. Gregorinn: recessional
1871.
Tho program viii be- rendered by
the choir of II voices. under tho direct
orship ~ John e. Whitney, with Miss
Ruth u. storms soprano. Miss Neotia
Cnrvin. contraIio: Charles wilkins.
tenor; Marvin Crosaan. baritone. and
E. J. Muhlhauscnn AZ tho organ ~
the II O'Clock service Mrs. Leroy r
work. violinis;. viii nssist
Calvary.
In Calvary = r Church. Third and
Washington streets tomorrow. tho
following program will be- rendered by
the ful vested choir. organ prelude
HesBrrectiou Morn. r. r. Johnston
prooeasionni. Welcome. Happy Morn
lug. EiNin: 'ntroit anthem Christ Our
Passover. Capple: Shorter Kyrie
Gloria Tlbi C;ratiaa Tibi. sursurn Cor
da. ganctua. and Benedictus. r. G,es-
iie Carpenter. Angus Dei. atuliz. o.
fcriory anthem. Rejoice for Christ r
Risen. solo. Miss Sarah Gibbons.
Gloria IN Exceisis. old chant; %unc
/
Christ IN Rlsen To-day. Morgan.
The program w.u come 20 n con.
clusion with fho organ postlude Jubi
late Amen. Kinder
Old Swedes.
! Old ewedes Church, Seventh ant
Church streets Rev Robert Bell. vicar
/ 3 30. Holy Communion; 1890. rnornini
prayer and Holy Communion; 2. Ess
ter carol service Of Sunday school
40. evening prayer and sermon.
Trinity.
Services IN Trinity p r. Church
Delaware avenue and Adams stree
tomorrow. win be ss follows:
Holy Communion. a. m; nornir.
prayer. sermon and Holy Communion
~ a. m; holy baptism. 3.15 p. m
children's festival service. p. m
evening prayer and sermon, 745 .. r
Rev. r. " Kirkus will preach bot
morning and evening.
The music 70 be sung on Easter Da
win be as follows: 7 n. m.--Kyrt