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The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
WHAT OF THESE OLD MEN?

year; July l, 1870, principal clerk at $1 800 year; December G. 1911, clerk at s1 400 a year; May l, 1918, stenog- rapher and typewriter at s900 year.
 It will be seen that he was denoted in December, 1911, and again in May, 1918, 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. Mir Roosevelt, the following letter:
 T have to inform you that you have been granted leave without pay for six months beginning October 13, 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- gret that there is no way in which the department could continue you on the rolls with compensation.
 T desire at this time to express the appreciation of the department for your long and satisfactory service. and the hope that you will be so benefited by this leave that you can return and resume your duties at Its expiration" i"
 I talked with one of the cabinet officers about the old and feeble em- ployeess
 He said: "I don't know what con gross intends to do about them, but l know what I intend to do with those in my department. I intend to leave them alone. They can stay here as long as they like, until some provision is made for them. When I was new in the department I dismissed two of these old people and denoted another, on the ground that they were super annuated and inefficient and were hindranee to the work.
 "All three of them wrote me sad letters and promptly committed sui eide. That was enough and more than enough for me. Never again will I disturb one of them. I do not choose to have it on my conscience that 1 pronounced sentence of death on an old man or an old woman in the service of the government. They can all stay on here as long as they Ike. I found them here and some of them will be here when 1 leave. If congress chooses to provide for them that is its obligation. But win never sentence another one of them 10 self destruction. no matter what the cost to the taxpayer and the government"
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23

lowed to go into the water until sev- eral days old. In mild weather tAsX will be able to look after themselves when seven to ten days old. Coops with board floors are desirable for goslings and they should be protected from their enemies and looked after in case they get lost In their wander ings about the farm.
 Feeding the Young Birds.
 Goslings do not feed until they are 24 to 36 hours old, when they may be fed any of the mashes recAmended for chickens or for dueklings, or q mash or dough of two-thirds shorts or middlings and one-third corn meal, which. after six weeks may be made equal parts shorts and corn meal and per cent beef scrap. Bread and milk is also an excellent feed for goslings. Fine grit is needed and may be pro- vided by using per cent of sharp sand in the mash, or by keeping it before them in a hopper.
 If goslings are to be fattened give them a ration of one-third shorts and two-thirds corn meal by weight, with . per cent of beef scrap added, and a feed of corn at night.
 In February, when the feeding for eggs is begun, ration made up of one pound of corn meal. one of bran one of middlings or low-grade four, and 10 per cent of beef scrap, which is fed In the morning and equal parts of corn and wheat, or corn alone. fed at night. will produce good results Grit and oyster shell may be pro- vided at all times, but they are es- sential during the laying period. In winter and at other times when there is no good pasture available, geese may be given roughages such as cut clover, hay. alfalfa, silage, cabbage, mangels, or any waste vegetables.
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
MAKE GARDEN PERMANENT
Will Produce Crops That May Be Depended Upon.

A bed of asparagus is known to have given continuous service for more than go years, and asparagus is one of the first of the spring vegetables. A row of blackberries along garden fence has produced abundant crops for F successive years. A few hills of rhu- barb have provided delicious sauce season after season, with very little cost or attention Strawberries re- quire more care, but they furnish the first ripe fruit in the spring, and a very small plot of ground in one cor ner of the garden will supply Ine fam fly. says the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23

Congress enacted a law in 1890 re- quiring 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 a 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 a fair standard of efficiency But nothing will be done about It. The Interior department reported 139 in- efiicients, 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 ninety-two years who had been in the government service for seyenty-two years. He was being paid at that time S900 a year. His maximum pay dur ing his long service was S1S00 year. James K Polk was President when this old gentleman came into the sery- 1928. His father was a captain of the regular army in the war of 1872. After that service he led an active life in other occupations until 1S4S, when he died, leaving 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 a small clerkship at the naval observ- atory, then under the superintendenee of that accomplished officer, Matthew Fontaine Maury, whom he served as amanuensis for ten years, accounting 1t great privilege and pleasure to have heard Maury's voice dictating 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 Q. 1S4S at $3 day, the young man was advNnced as follows:
 July l. 1858. clerk at $l,20O . year; July 1, 1854, clerk at $l..oo .
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
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 It's resources. Hundreds of men leave the government service daily; and new, untrained people have to be taken on and taught to do the work. This costs money, as every employer knows. A
 The rel nations from the govern ment sersh are chiefly from the su- pervisory nd most highly paid posi- tions and Mbm the very lowest grades The men at the top, if they have any initiative or ability or ambition to make name for themselves. are of feEed 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 iii too many instances they actually cannot keep body and soul together on their government pay.
 It is the people in the middle class who stay on the longest. The whole | constant process makes for a 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. culty constantly experienced in secur. ing and retaining competent employ ees. The rotation in office has become increasingly frequent and vitally i'm pairs the efficiency of the service.
 During the war there was a lower rate of turnover in the mechanical The proposition of separations, how ever, is excessive in clerical, prefes sional and technical positions, il which the rate of turnover sometimes amounts to third of the force In year.
 During the nine months preeedin, the armistice more than 60,000 up pointments were made in the civi service and about 2S,0o0 separation occurred-that is, for every two ap pointments made one person left tn service. For a period of similar lengtl following the armistice only 50 pc cent as many appointments were made but there were nearly B per cent nor separations. In this period almost a many positions were vacated as wer filled.
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
ROSES SUITABLE
 FOR HOME LAWNS
Native Species Are Most Suitable for the Yard and for Bor-
 der Planting.
THE PRUNING IS IMPORTANT
Different Treatments Required Where Blossoms Are to Be Produced for Different Purposes-Heavy
 Maturing Essential.

Advice as to the varieties of roses best suited to particular region is best obtained from the nearest grower or nurseryman. A different type of rose is needed for each of the various purposes for which roses are used. Those which are suitable for lawns or borders will not give satisfactory cut flowers; special kinds are best for arbors or treIlises and other orna- mental purposes. In the opinion of the United States Department of Agri- culture, roses are not very satisfac- tory for hedges. as most types are
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
KEEP FOWLS FROM FREEZING
Prevent Trouble With Combs and Wattles By Anointne With
 Vaseline and Kerosene.

Frozen combs and wattles of chick ems may be prevented by amounting with salve made of equal parts of vaseline and kerosene. well mixed. Apply this at night during very cold weather. Put it on thick in cases where the combs and wattles are al ready frozen. This salve Is also ex- eellent for colds in the head or rat ting in the throat. Rub the salve over the ncstr.ls and under the tlroe.
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
WATCH FOR PLANT LICE

If you would be sure of getting crop of gg-plants, cucumbers, canta- loupes, as well as other garden veee- tables. watch for plant lice. A nicotine spray will get them, but @"nf walt until the under sides of the leaves are covered before you begin the tfea'- mept
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
SHRUBS YOU WILL LIKE

Home builders who are plan ming to plant shrubbery on their lawns will find it worth while to make a study of shrubs. Set out shrubs that you will not tire or in a few years. It pays to take your time in selecting. To select plants intelligently a carefui study should be made of the lawn, soil, position of buildings, walks. drives. bodies of water. the surrounding area, and adja- cent buildings. Evergreens Will not thrive in smoke zones or cities or near factories.
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
The Beaten Road.

Sincerity Is like travelling in plain. beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journeys end than by-ways. in which men often lose themSsly yeA-ThlotSon.
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23

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, STA; age of the oldest employee, eighty-elght; number over eighty years of age, 26; number between sixty-flve and eighty, 266; based on age of sixty five, number eligible for retirement, 292; percentage of employees eligible for retirement, S3.4; 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 S222,- 159 292 in 1920 to 6o0.000 and some odd beneficiaries.
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
Copyright. Western Newspaper Union

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 declinations of ap- pointments among eligibles on the civ il service register increased in many instances from 30 to more than 90 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. It is estimated that more than 950,00o of those who met the test were appointed during that time.
 The civil service commission says fiatly:
 Those 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 cieney 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 inefficlents, of course. are the superannuated and the phys ically ineapacitated. The bureau of efficiency estimated, before the pass age of the superannuation retirement law, the number of employees in the l civil service of the United States sey- enty years of age and over as follows: l Number Railway postal clerks. 197 | Rural letter carriers. 464 l City letter carriers................... 23e 1 Post office clerks. s......................... &7 MecnaniSs ................s+.......- aZs 1 General employees. Dist. Columbia. I, 4S4 | General employees elsewhere. ......... I .6la l Iotal ......................-.. 4, ,oSb
The Newark journal., 1922-02-23
Where Your Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money
 in Conducting Your Business
By EDWARD G.LOWRY

 anda Authority n National Governments Methods
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
GRAND JURY
INDICTS Is

Eighteen inducements were 10.
turned by the federal grand Jury
Thursday. eight ~ them for viola
ton Of the Harrison anu.nnrcotic
act Two no true bills were re.
turned
Aifho nine Of the indictments were
secret. n 10 believed that one OF them
was for Guy Manners. nov under
oomrt.nioner's bonds In New or.
leans. who IL charged with defrnud.
Ing me family OF NIss Netfis Ham.
moud. 1909 Summit ave. NJ out OF
1850.
One Of the most important Of the
op-n indictments was against v. c.
LeLars-. who now faces an indict.
men, for violating the Mann act and
another ono for transporting a s,oi.
en- automobile.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
told YOU 50,
Says CIRARD
/ OF TREATY
Former Envoy to
Germany Scents
Peril in Russo
German Pact
nv LANES W. GrRARD
.,...,rr Ambassador 90 Germany

A'x~rer ANtN - =
<'r,y YORK. April st.-what I
e. scr year or more predicted In
.,..se. ana articles has happened.
,s,vranv. forced into corner by
=. s~mand 81 sums greater than
- ss wrung from the German poo
- las ehceen TO make an alliance
- Russia and 70 seek from the
.. -, benefits % hc derived from
- an alliance the wherewithh TO
- hrr pressing creditors
rxx PEOPLE realise that for years
a. ne,nnercsal language % Russia
~~s German; that the educated por'
- N the population Of the Baltic
!. c,rmanlc: that from the men Of
e.~n.n.e descent In these states
- ehosen many % the best gen
-. ana administrators of cid Rus
-
A sur~l, a night fellows day
I>rxr will follow . military all
ssrs between Germany and Rus
-
runo- nay wen fear for the dny
- ire hortes Of Russia drilled
q Germans. with all the vast ~
.-s-rss q Russia administered by
c.~u.sns. win pour across Europe In
49, constant drive 20 the west that
~~u- a brute instinct 20 an Euro.
pars
me new Poland Will disappear.
- more rartitsened between Ger.
nry and Russia
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
FLOODS CROW
IN MIDWEST
35 Blocks Under Water In
One Indiana Town

CHICAGO. April si.--f1oodet riv.
crs erumbied <dikcs and inundated
farms and portions OF towns In III
neia. Indiana and Iowa. according to
Red Cross headquarters here today.
The swollen Wabash river spread
over thousands OF acres OF crops
after forcing cut three levces IN III.
nois and Indiana Flood conditions
in southern Indiana were tho worst
they have been IN years. Thirty.five
blocks are under water In Nlncenncs.
Ind.
water rushed over 10000 acres 81
farm land near Mcclure. Ill Tho
Red Cross has provided for the 400
homeless residents OF Naples. III. and
rescued half a dozen families ma
rooned In an attic at Dog Tooth
bend.
breaking Of the Hartweil ievee
along a es.miie front Of the Illinois
river near Carrollton. flooded 30. 900
arrvs of reclaimed farm land
Rising 81 the Mississippi river has
flooded Easements In Clinton. Ia.
and railway service between Clinton
and Davenport has been abandoned.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
IRISH CAPTURE
BRITISH POST
Wireless Station at Bunbeg
Taken

DUBLIN. April si.---frish republic.
an rebels have captured the British
wireless station al Bunbeg, In Done.
gal. IN the north OF ireland. accord.
ing 10 a report from Londonderry 20.
day.
Tho British naval men operating
tho wireless station were reported 20
have been elected
wellington barracks WINS attacked
by rebels during the night
The attack was beaten off with
on both nidea
Machine gun voileys were poured
into the barracks. which was garri.
noncd by Free State TROOPS.
Rifle fire from neighboring houses
over a wide area WA directed at the
cncampmena
The delay in the peace negotiations
between Collins and DE Valera was
believed 10 have encouraged the
rebels.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
BONUS BILL TO
Get CLEAR WAY
Republican Tariff Measure
Will Be Showed Aside

WARRINGTON. Aprii fi.>The re.
publican tariff bin win b. showed
aside 10 clear the way for the soldier
bonus. Senator McCumber. chairman
OF the senate finance committed. an
nouncod today.
McCnmbor exr-cted % ret the
committee at work on the bonus bill
today.
A. the committee began work on
the measure a strong feeling ives
nianifesting itself among republican
senators that the senate ought 20
meet Hquarriy tho Issue OF paying
tho cash bonus.
Senator Lenroot and others have
begun advocating rimrllncation OF
the whole problem by the issue Of
treasury certificates OF indebtedness
on which the money 10 pay bonus
would be borrowed That would leave
for later determination the question
OF raising money 20 pay OF the Ger.
uficates when they come due.
According 20 Mccumber. there win
be no more delay or discussion. The
bonus bin win certainly pass n the
senate ID given an opportunity ON Il.
McCumber says.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
BECGAR HELD
AS KIDNAPER

VANCOUVER u. C. April ILL.,
Clarence Lloyd. musician supposed.
~ blind. was held BY police here 90
day. charged with kidnapping a giri
found in his company last night she
n thought 10 DO under hypnotic
spell
The couple cam, here from East
ern Canada working tho streets 10
ray their way from town 20 town
His companion h said 10 answer tho
description o. Toronto gsri who left
home several month. ago % answer
an ad for n concert musician and dis.
appeared
she was IN = highly nervous con.
diticn last night and could not be
questioned. Police said they would
aulxx her further today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
FIEND STAYS
IND WOMAN

NEW YORK. April .i.--Poiice To-
day were without tangible clue in
tn. second fienaish murder Of a
woman to occur In New York within
two wcekA
Mrs. Elizabeth prodowtsxky was
found slain and her body mangied
almost beyond recognition last nigh,
In the coal bin Of an apartment
Nelly CARR was siain a few days
ago by . Jack the Ripper
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
FLOODS WIPE
OUT VILLAGE

vfNCENSES, Ind. April H.
Rus-eiiviiie. Illinois. was root~d to-
day when a ievoe holding hack the
Wabash river gave way.
Homes In the little town OF 200
erumpicd In tho heavy sweep OF
water.
When the warning was spread that
tho levee WINS giving away the entire
200 entered boais and swept down
stream. At vlnc-nn~s. five miles
south. they Joined the eoieny OF 1000.
driven from their homes here when
Is city blocks we~ flooded
WASHINGTON April sf.--Tmme-
diAtc appropriation Of $1,000 900 TO
fixh; the floods along the Mlsairsirri
river win BE- asked In joint rrnoit.
ton IN tho house today.
President Harding gave his APPROX
al 10 the relief nssasure when sena.
sor Ransden. Louisiana. and Repre-
nentafives Humphrey. Mississippi.
and Wilson. Louisiana. called at tho
White House and Laid tho plans be.
for. him. Director ~ the Budget
Dawes has also indorrrd them
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
Gunner Battle in
Belfast Streets

BELFAST. April ai.--Hundreda OF
gunner participated In street battles
during the worst night Of terror Bel.
fast has known for months.
Fighting last night and early today
In the Rally Macararrot district was
severe
Gangsrers came boldly into the
streets and were shot by rival bands
from roofs
Seventeen persons were wounded.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
MANY KILLED
IN EXPLOSION

los ANGELES. April zis--An ex-
pio~ion at powney. IN which several
persons w~r. said 20 have been in.
furcd. was reported 20 the shertfrs
office today. An appeal for am
balances. nurses. physicians ard civ.
ilsan help Was sent from Downcy 20
the receiving hospital.
One Newspaper here rcc~svrd . ~.
port that leo persons had neen In.
jurcd. many Of them fatally.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
COLUMBIA BASIN
STOCK" ON SALE:
BUT DON'T BUY TT

Attempts arr being made In the
city, and probably In the sur.
rounding country. to sell stock In
the Columbia Basin project, nc.
cording 10 reports 20 police. A
woman told officials that slick
salesman had attempted 60 get
her To invest $4,000 In tho plan,
promising heavy dividends when
the plan goes thru
There l. no possible way 70 IN.
wet" In the project and officials
asked newspapers 90 spread a
warning against fake statesmen
who offer stock.
The now scheme apparently !.
an imitation Of one popular after
the war, IN which stock In the
League 81 Nations was soid 20
ercduious buyers.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
Woman Dies Rather
Than Imperil Tots

KANSAS CITY. Mo- Arm 81
Mira kathertns Enoa - farmers
wife. near Nelson. Mo. allowed her.
self 10 burn 70 death today ratirr
than sndanger the lives Of Der two
children with her flaming gnrrn~n,z
Her clothing iTnited from q stove
Just before she dsed from fatal burns
she told her husband she ran 20 q
room 20 set . bianke, 20 smother the
flames hut was afraid To take u
from tho bed ~here the t~o children
we're sleeping.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
MAN KILLED IN
MINE CAVE-N

Archibald Grove. IT, was instantly
killed Thursday when he was caught
In a slide on the eighth level Of the
Pacific Coast Coal oompany's mine
at Black Diamond. Carol Head was
slightly injured by falling coal Two
men who were working farther down
the shaft were cut Off by the bump
but they were rescued without diff
Guilty. Coroner w. II. Corron con.
Quoted an Investigation OF the trag-
edy az soon ~ he was notified. He
decided that the accident was due to
natural causes and will hold no in.
quest
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
Sleuths Plan War
on Northwest Vice

Plans for making the Northwest
too hot for dope pscdiers yegxs
and other criminals were 70 be dis
cusssd NJ noon Friday a, . meeting
Of tho Northwest Association of
shcrffs and Police. In the Masonic
club rooms in the Arcade building.
Tue meeting was called by Prcai-
dent I. 8. May. Law enforcement
officials Of the state county. city
ana rational government were asked
70 attend