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The Washington times., 1924-11-08
MADDEN SEEKS
j. s. SALARY
DATA
Congressman Asks Heads of
Departments About Pay
Raises

Congressman Martin B. Madden,
chairman of the House Appropria.
lions Committee, has addressed an
inquiry to the heads .of all de.
partments asking for information as
to promotions and increases of sal.
airy already made under the classi.
fication act.
The motive of the investigation
ts not disclosed, but it is believed
to have some reference to repeated
charges made that various employees
in the professional and scientific
grades have received larger in.
creases of salaries than the cir.
cumstances warrant.
These increases have been grant
ed in departmental offices often in
Hnnarent conflict VII" the average
clause of the classification act.
Various methods have been EN-.
ployed, such as consolidating posi-.
tons, and so forth, for making
these increases effective.
The information being collected
by Congressman Madden will be
used by the Appropriations Com.
mittee of Congress in connection
with the general, reconsideration
OF classification questions at the
next session.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
FORGET-NE-NOT
GIRLS ARE
BUSY
Selling Flowers Throughout
City to Aid Disabled
War Veterans
HINES sTAEE sHoTE

Throughout the city girls are on
duty today selling flowers in the
annual Forget-Me-Not observance
of the Disabled American Veterans.
When the police reported for duty
they found girls in the station ready
to pin the flowers over their shields,
under authority granted by Major
sullivan as in the banks, clubs,
theaters and public buildings and
at the entrances to the Government
departments the young ladies. un.
der the direction of the District
Federation of Women's Clubs saw
to 1t that few proceeded until thew
wore the adopted flower of the
wars disabled.
All through the morning the dis.
tributton of Forget-Me. Nots con.
tinued at the headquarters in the
Munsey building. All downtown is
to be covered during the day and
this evening theaters and dance
halls will find the girls on hand to
see that a new record for Forget.
Me-Not Day in Washington is estab.
ished.
Mrs. John Lorentz Steele chair.
man of the women's organizations
committee, was particularly i'm.
pressed by the number of workers
who volunteered and expressed tho
belief that much of the enthusiasm
for the campaign resulted from the
knowledge that no professional
sellers were engaged in the work
for the organization Of men for
whom the war still endures.
While Washington has thus far
responded literally in the drive for
the disabled, the President and
MRS. Coolidge led the national
Iorget-me'not parade by wearing the
Flower about the White House
today.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
EDUCATION WEEK PLAN
PROTESTED BY WOMEN

The American branch of the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom has protested
to the United States Bureau of Edu.
cation against the program for
American Educational week, Novem.
Der II to % inclusive, becasue 1.-THE
tone of the program seems to us
to SAVIOR of that propaganda of sus-
picion. prejudice, AM hate which
Is one of the most disastrous legac.
les of the war in this as in other
countries"
Declaring that the organization
believes that a tolerant, unpreju.
diced, judicial temper of mind such
as even young children can be help.
ed to acquire" is one of the main
safeguards against recourse to VIC.
lence, the protest sent to Commits.
sioner Tigert in a letter from Mrs.
Hannah Clothier Hull, of Swarth.
more, Pa. scores the inclusion OF
symbols. slogans and phrases" have
warlike tinge in the education
week program
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
CREATION OF ART CENTER
HERE TO BE DISCUSSED

Creation of great national art
center in the National Capital will
be discussed at the annual artists
breakfast, at Rauscher's next Sat
urday.
Among the speakers and guests
of honor will be the French am.
bassadoF, Jules Jusserand; the Right
Reverend James e. Freeman, Bish-
op of Washington; William MatheT
Lewis, president of George Wash
ington University; Doctor Charles
Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts
Commission: William H. Holmes,
Society of Washington Artists and
Washington Water Color Club;
Gideon A. Lyon. the Arts Club;
William Bruce Kind. Washington
Society of the Fine Arts: Miss
Leila Mechlin, American Fedora.
ton of Arts; Lieutenant Command
err L. p. Clephane, the Art anil
Archaeology League, and Robert
w. Pulliam and Miss Betty Brad.
ford. the Art Promoters Club Of
George Washington University.
Doctor Mitchell Carroll, chairman
of the breakfast committee, will
be toastmaSter
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
WOMANS THOUGHTS.

As q woman thlnketh, 30 Ia she,
Her queenlsh buzz drives the king
bee.
The foundry which her Thought pro.
MOIds aces just as well as deuces.
The sex IL known for courage rare,
And some show far more than their
share.
OF courage I mean-what did you
think?
On Thought she rises or does sink.
In histOry's pages wOman's grit
Has kept the lamp of success lit;
But Thought was ever servant to her
will,
II either cures or makes her i'll.
She makes Of man a king or fool,
According to her thoughts that rule.
NOw-ReasOn-that another thing,
A bird can't fly that has no wing.
Now woman's thoughts aren't Of the
pigeon kind,
So she relays them by change Of
mind.
These changes show cen in the VOt-
ing booth,
To say she there ''repeats" is not the
truth.
The Thoughts she patents are her
And we best leave them all alone.
SILICUS.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
INAUGURATION
LIKELY To Be
SIMPLE
Coolidge Understood to Desire
transformations Ceremony
on March 4

In all probability there will be
neither an inaugural parade nor an
inaugural bali on March 4, next,
in Washington.
While President Coolidge has not
yet taken up the matter formally,
his strong inclination toward
simple, modest and unostentatious
procedure, as well as his systematic
demand for economy and retrench-
ment, will both make it probable
that he will follow the example set
by President Harding in 1921.
Four years ago the inaugural pro
cession was of the simplest char
acter, and there was no inaugural
ball. Former President Wilson did
not hold an inaugural ball either ir
1918 or 1917.
While no definite announcement
is expected from the White House
for some time as yet, the belief /:
prevalent that President Coolidge
will decide against making any for
NAL or elaborate celebration in con
'nection with the ceremonies or
March 4.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
GEoRCEToWN'S ALUMNI
WILL ORGANIZE CLUB

At a meeting of members Of the
local Georgetown alumni held at the
City Club, Thursday night, It was
voted to form a Georgetown club
similar to those now in existence in
New York city and Philadelphia. The
purpose of these organizations is to
promote matters of interest to
Georgetown University, particular.
ly with reference to athletics.
A temporary organization was eff
fected by the local club of which
Frank Mccarthy was elected presi.
dent and e. L. Sheehan secretary
Provision was also made for the
appointment of an executive com
mittee.
The meeting was extremely in.
teresting and entertainment was
furnished by the Georgetown Glee
Club and others. 1t was voted to
hold the next meeting at the City
Club on the evening Of November
20. At that time the proposed char
ter and bylaws of the club will be
submitted for consideration.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
WHAT HAPPENED TO
THAT DUCK?

Friends of Doctor E. r. TIL
LEY, prominent Washington
dentist, write that the doctor
spent election day on the Pa
tuxent river to shoot ducks. He
decoyed flock of mallards and
picked out one for a victim.
He shot at it number of times
and it finally fell in the river.
He brought it to Washington,
where it has been examined by a
number of his friends, who say
that not single shot was found
in it. Thew are of the opinion
that the doctor scared the duck
to death by firing so many bar
RACES at it. The doctor ex-
planned to his friends that the
presence of two curls on the
ducks tail indicated its exact
age-two years, one curl for
each year.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
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LIST IS
READY
Personnel Board Unanimously
Adopts Ratings for All
Departments

The Personnel Classification
Board today formally approved
the new efficiency ratings, to be
applied to all Federal employees
in determining promotions and
salaries in the future.
The new efficiency rating sys-
tenn was adopted unanimously,
Guy Moffett, Civil Service Com
mission representative on the
board, supporting Chairman Bailey
and Harold M. Graves on the
proposition.
Fifteen Factors Listed.
In the new graphic rating scale
adopted today fifteen different de-
termining factors in the questions
Of efficiency are set forth.
They are accuracy, reliability,
neatness of work. speed, industry.
knowledge Of work. judgment,
courtesy and tact, power to CO.
operate, initiative, executively
ability, organizing ability, leader
ship. power of developing, ambition
and winning the confidence of
subordinates, and finally quantity
OF work, to be judged through out
put records.
Not all of these fifteen service
elements are to be applied to all
employees, and the Personnel Class
ification Board in its instructions to
departmental officers adopted to.
day indicated how and where the
different elements are to be applied.
Degrees of Efficiency.
Five different degrees of efficiency
under each element are set forth
by the board.
Under accuracy there degrees
are thus defined; highest possible
accuracy, very careful, careful; nc
more than reasonable time required
for revision, careless; time required
for revision, excessive, and practi
cally worthless work.
The definitions Of degrees of eff.
ficiency in the other elements are
similar in their nature.
After the board meeting today
Chairman Bailey expressed salts
faction over the face that the board
had acted unanimously in adopting
the ratings, which he described as
one of the important points in the
boards progress.
Efficiency ratings are to be far
more important to Federal employees
in the future than all of the contro
versial points involved in alloca
tions," declared Chairman Bailey
THE board has gotten together or
these ratings, and l believe they
will be satisfactory to all employees >
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
Drastic Cut in Dry Forces Being Planned
New Congressman
Once Arrested
On Visit Here

Wayne C. Bayless, Of Clare
more, Okla, newly elected as
Congressman from his State, is
going to like coming to Wash
ington more than most Of his
new colleagues. He is going to
enjoy, especially, the right of i'm
munity from arrest.
Thirteen years ago Congress-
man-elect Bayless, then a callow
youth, came here with his chum,
w. H. Gates, Claremore news
paper man, to see the sights.
The first thing they did upon
their arrival here was to climb
a statue in front Of Union Sta
ton, SO as to obtain a better
view of the Capitol. The second
thing was to get themselves ar
rested by an irate policeman for
doing it.
Bayless' powers of oratory,
marked even at that early pc
Rod, released them from the
clutches of the law, according to
Gates version. Bayless is plan
ming to make a more dignified
entry next time and promises to
use his oratorical talents to bet
ter purpose.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
ALL'S QUIET ON THE
POTOMAC.

Cool Cal or Chaos" caused a calcu-
IatlnK chill
To frost bite the ambition and the
budding hope to kill
OF the Progressive party, with La
Toilette at Its head,
And the epitaph now should read,
"It's sleeping, but not dead"
The solid SOuth's still solid, as all
the country knows,
Bnt that's not at all surprising, for
that's the way Il goes.
But the solid NOrtl's unusual, and
when II went for Cal,
Unlike the south, II tinIwed a bit,
and New York let IN NJ.
Thank Heaven the cOuntry'H eafe,
and so II will always be-,
No matter who's elected, for states
men all agree
The people rule, anil elections but
express their will
So let's get down to business, for of
politics we've had our fill.
OLD SOCKS
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
WILL UNVEIL TABLET

A commemorative tablet dedicated
to the memory of local Knights of
Columbus who were killed in the
world war will be unveiled ARMS.
tice Day at 8:15 p. m. in the club
house, 918 Tenth street northwest.
Invocation at the exercises will
be by the Reverend T. A. Calnan.
Addresses will be by Chief Justice
Walter 1. Mccoy and Frank L.
Peckham, commander of the Dis
trict department of the American
Legion. Miss Caroline Manning
will sing. Benediction will be by
Monsignor c. F. Thomas, of st.
Patrick's Church.
The unwilling ceremonies are
under the auspices of the Wash.
ington General Assembly, Fourth
Degree, knights of Columbus.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
HIGHEST COURT
To HEAR RENT
CASE
Attorney KrupsaW, Defending
Tenant, Moves for Stay
of Mandate

The decision handed down last
Monday by Justice Robb, of the
Court of Appeals, declaring the nous.
ing emergency in the District to be
a thing of the past, will be carried
to the United States Supreme Court
for review by Attorney John l..
Krupsaw,. offending the tenant in
the dispute.
A motion for a stay of mandate
was filed today by Attorney Krup-
saw in the Appellate Court, pending
his application to the United States
Supreme Court for the removal of
the case to that tribunal.
Attorneys for the owner have two
days in which to file objections to
the granting OF the stay.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
SELECTS CHAIRMEN

-Four Washingtonians have been
chosen as chairmen of Committees
of the American Library Association
according to announcement toda v
ton.
George F. Bowerman, public librar.
ian of the District. is Chairman of
the committee on civil service rela.
tions. II. H. B. Meyer, president of
the A. l.. A., connected with the
Library of Congress, heads the pro.
gram, war service and council pro.
gram committees. Librarian Her.
bert Putnam, of the Library of Con.
gress, is chairman Of the interna.
tional relations group. Claribel f.
Barnett. Department of Agriculture
Library. heads the Oberly memorial
fund committee. Mabel Colcord, of
the Department of Agriculture. Is
the local member Of the membership
committee.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
CHILDREN TO ESCAPE
FINES AT PUBLIC LIBRARY

Next week is to be "children's
week" at the Public Library.
Children whose cards are held at
the library because of unpaid fines
for books kept overtime may secure
the cards during this week without
payment of the fine and use them
Immediately. This privilege Is also
extended to the Takoma Park and
Southeastern branch libraries.
The library will assist, parents
and friends Of children in selecting
books for Christmas gifts for chill
dren.
An exhibit of fine editions of chill
dren's Looks. many of them illus
trated by world-famed artists, ha.
feen prepared for next week.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
RATE
SLASH|S
SEEN
New Schedule for Electricity
About 7 Cents-7.67 at
Present

Public Utilities Commission &C.
countants today are drafting
modified schedule of rates for the
Potomac Electric Power Company
to be effective if compromise
on valuation and rates of the
Potomac Electric Power Company
is not reached soon.
The new rate will be about z
cents per kilowatt hour, a ma
terial reduction from the present
7.67 cent rate.
Still Pay 10 Cents.
The modified charge is a theo-
retical one, consumers continuing
to pay 10 cents per kilowatt hour,
the difference being added to the
impounding fund which now totals
81, O0O, 900.
Members of the commission are
hopeful that within the next few
days Justice Stafford, of the Dis
trict Supreme Court, viii decide on
the electric company's valuation
case. They believe this decision
will mean early settlement of the
seven.year-old controversy on rates
and valuation between the COM
pany and the Utilities Commission.
The commission is anxious to
dispose of the impounding fund,
which increases approximately
100000 each month, and stop
further impounding.
The likelihood of a compromise
still appeared remote today, despite
the fact that Major William E. r.
Covell, Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner, reports progress after
comforting with William F. Ham,
president of the Potomac Electric
Power Company, and William NICK.
Clayton, representing the Fedora.
ton of Citizens Association. The
views of the commission and
electric company are so widely
| divergent that an agreement is
! considered, by those in touch with
the situation, as "out of the Ques-
| ton"
Conferences Planned.
Further conferences are planned
for next week by Major Covell.
1t is expected the commission
will wait about one week for a
compromise to sbe reached. After
that they will announce the new
reduced rate and call a public hear.
ing to consider it. The order max.
ing the new rate effective will be
held up if there is likelihood of get
ting an early decision from Justice
Stafford.
The commission will experience
difficulty in having the new thee.
retical rate being put into effect.
The last reduction of the commits
sion from 1857 to $50 per cent per
killowatt hour was never approved
by the courts.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
LoVEJoY CENTER FIGURES
CHECKED OUT CORRECT

An audit of the figures showing
attendance during the last school
year at the Lovejoy Community Cen.
ter has been completed by Mrs. Cecil
Norton Sisson, head of the commu-
nifty center department of the pub
lie schools. The total attendance
was 1866, the number given by
Mrs. w. l.. Hardy, acting general
director of the department in the
absence of Mrs. Sisson.
1t was to the figures of Mrs.
Hardy that objection was made by
the Reverend F. I. A. Bennett, board
member, whose church is in the
neighborhod of the Lovejoy center.
He accused the department of
padding" the figures. The records
have been turned over to Superin-
tendent Ballou.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
CHARGES TO BE MADE
AGAINST D. C. POLICE

Charges will be preferred against
police of the Seventh precinct by
Arthur S. Davis, 3007 Cambridge
place northwest, whose case of as
sault charged by Policeman Elmer
l.. Musselman was dismissed yes
terday in Police Court following q
verdict of acquittal by jury.
Davis asserts that he was cruelty
and numerically beaten by the
police of the Seventh precinct re.
sulting in injuries which confined
him to the hospital for several
days. Attorneys Patrick j. Ryan
and George Page will bring crimi.
nal action against the police. they
say.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
SHIPPING BOARD TO HOLD
WELFARE SOCIETY DANCE

A dance will be given by the
Welfare Society of the United
States Shipping Board in the
Washington Hotel on Tuesday night,
November IS.
A. L. Lansdale is chairman OF
the committee on arrangements.
Other members are NJ. J. Pierce. I.
We'll, r. NJ. Hicks, A. J. williams.
II. A. Kluckeh, ]. L. Ekman, J.
Blankenship. c. ID. Gibbons, and
y J. SkidmOre.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
DR.. FOWLER TO ADDRESS
PARENTS AND TEACHERS

Doctor William G.. Fowler, Dis
trict Health Officer, will be the
speaker at a meeting of the Force.
Adams Parent-Teacher Association
at 8 o'clock Monday night in the
lecture room of the Church of the
Covenant.
The Reverend Charles Z. Wood,
rector of the church, will make an
address of welcome.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
POLICE TAKE AUTO, MAN,
AND $50 QUARTS OF RUM

An automobile and 336 quarts of
whiskey were seized by police of
the Second precinct last night,
when they arrested John r. Rollin,
colored, 1908 M street northwest,
in an alley between Twentieth and
Twenty first and M and N streets
northwest. on charges of transporta.
ton and illegal possession of liquor.
Privates Baillman, Strange and
Tierney, of the Third precinct, made
the arrest and seizures. !.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
TWO NEW D. c. SCHOOLS
SOON TO BE DEDICATED

Dedication of the Bancroft School,
newly erected at Eighteenth and
Newton streets, and the Jefferson
Junior High School at Sixth street
and Virginia avenue s. W., will be
part of the observance Of education
week by the local schools, 1t was
announced today.
The Bancroft will be dedicated
November 90, and the jefferson
November 21
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
Han mes IS
ON LIST
TOGO
Administration Win Demand
CurtaiIment of Funds
and, Personnel

Drastic cuts in the personnel of
the Federal prohibition unit are
provided in the new appropriation
bill, to be presented to Congress
at the coming session, it was
learned today.
The bill is being drafted, and
has not yet emerged from the
pen of Congressman Martin L.
Madden in its final form, but
the general features of the meas
ure point Enthusiastically toward
the severe curtailment of funds
and men in the unit.
Haynes Likely to Go.
Aside from the purely legislative
outlook of the prohibition bureau,
political changes are imminent. It
is practical certainty that Com.
missioner Roy Haynes, of Hfllsboro.
Ohio, appointed by the late Presi.
dent Harding from the Chief Execu-
tive's home State, will be absent
from the scene after the inaugura-
ton next March.
This is likewise true of other di.
vision heads in the dry unit. al.
though 1t is highly probable that
the force of agents under Chief e.
Z. Yeilowley will not be disturbed.
see Chance for Economies.
Inc Administration long has had
It's eye upon the prohibition unit as
FERTILE field for the practice of
economy. Indications have con.
stantly popped up to show the way
toward reduction of Government
expenses in this direction. Last
year the unit had slightly more than
100000 for its work.
Tn cost-cutting experts felt this
sum to be out of proportion to the
needs of other branches of the in.
ternal revenue bureau, and to the
Government establishment as a
whole. So Congressman Madden
and his assistants in the drafting
of the bill began to figure how
here and a million there in the
process of keeping America dry.
Must Cut Personnel.
1T is obvious that the appropria.
ton could not be reduced" said a
close observer Of the situation to.
day, unless the personnel was cor
respondingly cut down."
1t was pointed out that the force
of agents and active field workers
of the dry unit will not feel par.
ticularly the heavy hand of
Coolidge economy. The office
forces, it was predicted, will bear
the brunt' of the new bills provis.
ions.
1t is true that the agents come
under the head of political
appointees, and for that reason
some may fall with the incoming
administration. This upset, how.
ever, will be matter of minor
import.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
Burned by Turpentine

A bottle Of turpentine which he
was holding when it ignited burned
Winfield w. Sands, 461 NJ street
Southwest last night. He was
treated at Emergency Hospital for
serious burns on the hands and
arms.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
. lHllEARl1eSlEk!N
. BY BILL PRICE,
chilli CON CARNE.

An error recently sGVed the
life of q Maine man. He sOent to
the medicine chest in the dark to
get a drink of bootleg and got
cGrb0Lic acid instead.
Miss MooUG Mad 1Orites: ~
see Where so per cent Of Amer
icdn men are married to the
gUrong UomGn. VIII yOu please
tell me the name Of the mOVie
Gctress9"
A FELLOW on the street re-
marked that noW that the Repub-
LicGns haze Won, the Indians
might as UeH take the country
back. But m0W that the RepMbLi-
cans hGve aVon, the Indians don't
10Gnt it back.
"Pastor sees return of clothes
less aconten," says a headline.
Yes, Ue sG1O the return engage
ment of that musical comedy,
too.
San Francisco wGnts to mag
gle the sale of hOt-doGs. Prob
ably the humane society objects
to the poor things getting bit.
MIKE HENRY.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
Those chaps Who spend SO
much time IN their cellars are
seldom feeding their fuy-
nGces.. GUS LANGLEY.
DO YOU BET TIPS?

Get your dope here on the ponies,
shoot your roll and take q chance.
Bet your wardrobe almost wholly,
All except your trusty pants.
Get our information on the goats,
We're headquarters for such bunk,
IL you win you're mighty lucky,
II you lose, your roll Is sunk.
A. ID. HAYWORTH.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08
Lloyd to Talk to Citizens

James T. Lloyd, president of the
Board of Education, Will address the
Lincoln Park Citizens Association
at its meeting in Bryan School, b
street near Fourteenth street south.
east, Tuesday night.
The Washington times., 1924-11-08

BUYING a home is made easier
by the wide selection of desirable
houses-fuIly described-in the Real
Estate Columns Of the Classified
Section today.