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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-02-18
THE RIGHT THING
at the
RIGHT TIME
BINARY MARSHALL DUFFEE
in THE STREET CAR

Travellers must be content. Shakespeare.
OES the well bred man always
give his seat to a woman In the
street car? This is a question
that often comes up for discussion.
Now although In New York and some
other large northern cities good
many men who are considered to be
we'll bred do not make constant prac-
tice of getting up for woman who is
standing it is generally regarded as
an essential Of the well bred man,
that 10, unless because of age or in
trinity he is not well able to do so.
When a man does not perform this
act of courtesy 1t is sometimes be-
cause he does not notice that women
are standing or because In a crowded
car he feels that he would incoD-
venience more persons by attracting
the attention Of the ones who are
standing.
When you do give your seat to a
woman you should invariably do so
with an air Of courtesy. You should
raise the hat slightly and say: won't
you take my seat, madam" This Is
the conventional, formal thing to say
and really the simple act Of Offering
woman your seat does, not entitle
you to any further comment than that.
In entering car it Is usual for
men to permit women to precede them
but In crowded cities where traffic
COMPOSITIONS are intense 1t Is usually
conducive of less disturbance If you
simply enter the car In the order OF
your position. In getting out OF
crowded car, while man precedes the
woman he ls accompanying so that he
can help her to alight, he makes no
effort to do this for the other women
present. However If feeble or aged
woman is alighting from the car he
does not hesitate to assist her in
alighting. Having performed this
little courtesy he raises his hat as she
thanks him.
The courteous person does not go
his way through the street cars and
other public conveyances without
keeping his eyes open, for II one at
tempts to go about entirely taken up
with ones own thoughts one Is sure
to be q very annoying travelling COM
paniOn.
II yeu have q wet umbrella you
must take care that 1t does not drip
against someone else. If you have
suitcase or other sort Of luggage be
sure that 1t is as little annoyance to
others as is possible. If you see two
persons enter the car when there Is
q vacant seat beside you and another
somewhere else In the car 1t Is cOur
teous to change your seat so that the
two friends may be seated next to
each other. One woman would do
that for two other women Or possibly
for a man and woman together If
they were obviously engaged In CON
versation. A man would always do 1t
for two women or man and woman
for two men. Usually, however, q
woman would not thus change seats
with tive men.
(Copyrightl
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WHAT OF THESE OLD MEN?

year; July l, 1870, principal clerk at
$1,SOO a year; December 6, 1911, clerk
at 81, 400 a year; May /, 1913, stenog-
rapher and typewriter at $500 year.
1t 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, Mr..
Roosevelt the following letter:
81 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. 1 re-
gret that there is no way In which the
department could continue you on the
rolls with compensation.
'I 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"
1 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 I intend to do with those
in my department. 1 intend to leave
them alone. They can stay here as
long as they like, until some provision
is made for them. When 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
hindrance 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 1 disturb one Of them. I do not
choose to have 1t on my conscience
that 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
like. I found them here and some Of
them will be here when 1 leave. II
congress chooses to provide for them
that Is Its obligation. But l will never
sentence another one of them to self
destruction, no matter what the cost
to the taxpayer and the government
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HAD FILLED HIGH POSITIONS
Pope Benedict Prominent in Church
counseIs Before His Elevation
to the PapaI Throne.

Pope Benedict XIV rose to the SUI
preme head of the Catholic church
Sept. 6, 1914, less than six months
after he was elevated to the cardinal
ship. He was born of noble parents
at Pogli, near Genoa, Italy, Nov. Il.
1854. His father was Marquis Della
Chiesa.
Educated at Capronican college and
the Academy of Ecclesiastics, he was
ordained to the priesthood in 1878.
He was taken to Madrid, Spain. by
Cardinal Rampolla, and for four years
was secretary of the nunciature in
Spain. In 1901 he was appointed con-
sultor of the holy office and in 1907
Pope Rius gave him the appointment
of archbishop Of the see of Bologna.
He was made cardinal in May, 1914.
Saddened BY Horrors Of War.
Pope Benedict was much. affected by
the horrors and sorrow of the World
war and many times tried to bring
about peace negotiations. Germany's
violation of Belgium's neutrality filled
him with great sorrow and after the
sinking of the Lusitania, he telegraph
ed the German emperor telling his
adherence of the deed.
Pope Benedict's first appeal for
peace was issued one week after his
coronation. The appeal failed to bring
results. as did also his later plan for
a Christmas truce. In January and In
July, 1915, he again tried to bring
about peace negotiations. In March,
1916, he repeated his attempts and In
May of the same year suggested that
America should act as conciliator be-
tween the warning nations. His note
to President Wilson to this effect
reached Washington when Germany
and the United States were involved
in diplomatic crisis. The Vatican ap-
proved of President Wilson's peace
note in 1917, but three months later
the United States entered the war.
Made Appeal for Peace.
The Pope's most memorable appeal
for peace was issued in his own hand
writing on August 8. 1917. and asked
belligerent rulers to end the struggle.
During the peace conference his pleas
were issued In behalf of weaker ma
tions.
Just before the conference President
Wilson had a private conference with
Pope Benedict at the Vatican in which
many questions of social and inter-
national nature were discussed.
The settlement of the 7OO-year-old
Irish problem was received with great
pleasure by the pope, who issued
message congratulating the principals
in the negotiations.
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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 SUI
pervisory and most highly paid posi-
tions and from the very lowest grades.
The men at the top, if they have any
initiative or ability or ambition to
make a 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 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
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 third of the force in a
year.
During the nine months preceding
the armistice more than 10000 ap-
pointments were made in the civil
service and about 2S,OOO separations
occurred-that is, for every two ap-
pointments made one person left the
service. For period of similar length
following the armistice only 80 per
cent as many appointments were made,
but there were nearly 33 per cent more
separations. In this period almost as
many positions were vacated as were
filled.
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after for peace and relief, and his
great work for Christianity and man
kind. His greatest encyclical was that
on the missions and his recent letter
on that subject showed his intense In
terest in the work. He championed
the having of native clergy in Africa.
China, Japan and, in fact, everywhere.
"The starving children Of Poland and
the people who suffered there he aided
by his powerful pleas for them, by
financial contributions, by his prayers
and In every possible way as true
father"
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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-
ber 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 a fair standard of efficiency. But
nothing will be done about 1t. The
Interior department reported 139 in
eff1cients, 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 seventy-two
years. He was being paid at that time
$500 a year. His maximum pay dur
ing his long service was $500 a year.
Ill vx.oc prncfHQnt yyhnn
this old gentleman came Into the serv-
ice. He was born on January 10.
1928, His father was captain of
the regular army in the war of 1872.
After that service he led an active life
in other occupations until 184S. when
he died. leaving a dependent family of
nine persons, three Of them boys. 1t
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
4 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 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 8.
1e4S, at IS day, the young man was
advanced as follows:
July ], 1858, clerk at $1,000
wear: July 1. 1854. clerk at S1,500 a
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most closely. Last evening lie received
some Strengthening injections and the
doctors then stated they were salts
fed with his condition, expressing hope
that danger of an extension of the In
flammation to the lungs had passed
and saying the crisis appeared to be
overcome.
Cardinals Wait Word.
Mgr. Zampini, sacristan of the apos-
tolic palace, Mgr. Carlo Respighi, the
pontifical prefect of ceremonies, and
Mgr. Migone, the private chamberlain,
were at the pOpe's bedside.
There was an air of deep anxiety
and apprehension about the Vatican,
where many of the cardinals were
waiting In an antechamber, all the
cardinals In Italy having assembled In
Rome upon receiving word of the
pope's serious illness. The doctors,
after consultation, did not conceal
the gravity of the pontiff's condition,
although Professor Marchiafara took
a more hopeful view than his col
leagues.
Pope Hears Mass Celebrated.
Mgr. Migone celebrated mass In an
apartment adjoining the pope's- bed
room. The door to the sick-room re-
mained open so that the pontif might
hear.
MANY diplomats visited the Vatican
seeking news; all of them were re-
ceived in the antechamber, none be-
ing permitted to disturb the patient.
1t Is said that the pope contracted
his present illness three days before
his death, after he had celebrated mass
In Matilde chapel. He received visi-
tors and attended to his usual pontih-
cal duties until Il comparatively few
hours before he passed away.
Cardinal Giorgi, the apostle penlteh-
tiary, was summoned to Pope behe-
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a sick child loves the "fruity"
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ands Have Kidney
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Suspect 1t
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HIS SERVICE TO HUMANITY
pr..,dent Of tho Catholic Church Ex-
tension Society Says Benedict VIII
Be Long Remembered.

New York.-The Rt.-Rev. Mgr. Fran
c,s Clement Kelley, president of the
Catholic Church Extension society
who has been In audiences with the
none on a number of occasions during
the last three years. said:
"History when written VIII disclose
h,s orent services during the war ana
The Ordway new era., 1922-01-27
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The Ordway new era., 1922-01-27
POPE'S ILLNESS
PROVES FATAL
lllustrious Head of Roman Cath
oIic Church Called From
His labors.
SHORT TERM IN HIGH OFFICE
Benedict XIV Elevated to PapaI Throne
In 1914-His Career Since Ordina.
tion Marked With High Distins-
tion-Was 60 Years Old.

Rome.-The death of Pope Benedict
XIV is announced. The end came with
appalling suddenness, since his holi-
ness was believed to be suffering
merely from a severe cold which was
expected to yield to treatment.
Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary
Of state, made public the fact of the
death of the pope
His holiness had been suffering for
some days, having contracted double
pneumonia, and treatment began too
late.
During the early hours of the morn
ing, toward o'clock, there was n sud-
den change for the worse and the
bronchial affection from which his holt
ness had been suffering for several
days, spread to his lungs.
The pontiff asked for and received
the last sacrament, insisting upon this,
eff only to give a good example," he
said, despite attempts by his attend
ants to dissuade him.
The popes physicians were in con-
sultation at the Vatican ut an early
hour. and the morning bulletin issued
afterward indicated an extremely seri-
Gus condition. DIR. Battlstini, however,
stated then that while the condition
of his holiness was grave, 1t was not
hopeless
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Ihe aeaten 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
hemselves.-Tillotson.
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Pope Given Oxygen.

Soon thereafter, however, the pope's
condition became aggravated and the
administration of oxygen was begun.
The sudden change for the worse
In the pontiff's condition seemed to
have come as great surprise, even
to those who had been observing him
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6nIy Reliable Guarantee.

6nIy Reliable Guarantee.
Fe must have n guarantee
6ture wars.
ns to me-" replied J. Fuller
hat killing Off all the rest of
bitants of the earth would
fairly safe from attack
Hty Star.
The Ordway new era., 1922-01-27

Pope Benedict XIV, two hum
dred and sixtieth In the list of
Roman pontiffs, served as pope
for about seven years and five
months, having been crowned at
the Vatican Sept. 6, 1914. His
reign was shorter than that Of
any of the three popes immedi-
ateIy preceding him. Pope Plus
X, his immediate predecessor,
served II years before he died
in 1914.
The Ordway new era., 1922-01-27

Fabian proverb puts 1t this
HE who has health has hope,
Who has hope has everything"
The Ordway new era., 1922-01-27

|py the man who knows he can't
funny story; others, too.
The Ordway new era., 1922-01-27

Be, There IS No Question.
an eligible man proposes to
of thirty summers there isn't
be any Hamlet's soliloquy
s.-Boston Transcript.
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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 a 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 80 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 We're appointed during
that time.
The civil service commission says
fatty:
"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 effi-
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 inefiicients, of course.
are the superannuated and the phys
ically incapacitated. The bureau of
efficiency estimated, before the pass
age of the superannuation 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. 454
City letter carriers. s....................... 23O
Post office clerks. s......................... 3s7
IecnanlcS .....-----...-..-...-.....- oZS
General employees, Dist. Columbia. i, ,4s4
General employees elsewhere. .613
Total ......-..................4,69 ,693
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At the Track.
where do 1 cash this winning
ticket?"
"Follow those men,"
(Which men?"
"The ones who are smiling g'-Louis-
Vile Courier-J Journal.
The woman who weds bad egg
need not expect to enjoy the matri-
monial yolk.
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"BATTISTINI,
"CHERUBINI,
"BIGNANII,
~MARCHIAFAVA."

1t was about O'Clock in the morning
that the change for the worse In the
pOpe's condition occurred. 1t was espe-
clally due to catarrh, which has spread
to both lungs, to inability to expec-
torate and to pulmonary inflammation,
1t was stated Professor Cherubini,
who had been waiting ut the Vatican,
was Immediately summoned. He found
the pope mentally depressed and pant
Ing for breath.
Realizing the patients serious con-
dition, DR.. Cherubini administered
sedatives and expectorants, but the
beneficial effects expected did not man
ifest themselves. In view of the grav-
ity of the situation DIR. Cherubini sent
an urgent call to Professor Bignami,
a Vatican automobile being dispatched
to bring him to the Vatican. his ar
rival there following shortly.
Consultation is Held.
Professor Bignami the evening be-
fore had remarked upon the absence
of n cough, checking expectoration, and
consequently was not surprised by the
development, 1t appeared. After n
brief inspection of the patient he left
to bring Professor Machiafava, with
whom he shortly afterward consulted
in the Vatican.
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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 serv-
ice. S74; age of the oldest employee,
eighty-eight; number over eighty years
of age, %; number between sixty-five
and eighty. 266; based on age of sixty
five, number eligible for retirement,
292; percentage of employees eligible
for retirement, 1874; average age of all
employees, July 1, 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 $222,-
159, ,292 in 1920 to 100000 and some
odd beneticiaries.
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A Move for Peace.

fker-"How would you reduce
lea tonnageT Bocker-"Tell how
me fish really weigh"