Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Capital Sidelights

These statistics have just been pre-
scented to Congress In connection with
appropriations for carrying forward
the work OF the American Battle Monu-
ments Commission to erect chapels in
the eight cemeteries where the Ameri-
can dead sleep. In addition to the
$3.50 now buried In our cemeteries
overseas, 46.214 were brought back to
this country.
The first of these chapeis Is to he
the Thia ucourt, on the St MihieI bat
tlefeld-America' first big operation
in the war The consulting architect
for these chapels Is DIR. Paul =. Cret
OF Philadelphia, who designed the Pan
American Building here.
The eight cemeteries are: At Wac
reghem, In Belgium, there are $50
graves. and the cost of the chapel is
$4,000. At Bony there are 1925
graves, and the cost of the chapel is
$50 900. At Suresnes there are sos
graves. and 800, 900 is allotted. At
Fere-en-Tardenois there are 5.946
graves. and $14O. 600 ia allotted. At
Belleau there are 2.212 graves. and
$4,000 has been allotted. At Thiau-
court there are 4.14l graves. and $140,-
900 has been allotted. and at Romagne
there are 14.107 graves almost half
rope-and $780, 900 has been allotted.
In Washington we have only about
one-ninth of all the Government en-
ployes under civil service. The mum
Der here. according TO a report just
made to Congress- is 60,s11. while the
total army If civilian workers all over
the United States is 560.705. In Wash
ington we have a larger number of
women employed in Uncle Sans work
shop than men. 35,s05 as against %.
006 male workers. Throughout the
States the record Is far different. for
there the women are only about one
ninth of the whole number. or 81, 752
out of 400 1914.
In Washington by far the largest
number Of employees IL in the Treas
ury Department. which has 1872
while the agencies ranking next In
number Of employees are the Navy De
partment with 5,O44, the Department
of Agriculture with 1872. the War De
pa rtment with 4.575 and the Veterans
Bureau with 1867. The Commission
of Fine Arts has the smallest number
Of employees, with only 2 on the pay
roll.
In the field service--that Is. through
out the States-first place as whole
sale employer is taken by the Post
Office Department with 302 ,067 on tbs
pay roll. while next In line comes the
War Department with 44.193, the
Navy with 1895. the Treasury with
36.ss7 and the Veterans Bureau with
1880. The smallest number EN-
ployed by any agency In the field is
8 with the Railroad Administration
and IA with the Tariff Commission.
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The design of the bird house in tht
Zoo has caused the Commission Of
Fine Arts considerable trouble. This
$50 900 brick structure was the sub
ject of three meetings and the de
sign was changed considerably II
conformity with the commission
suggestions-and all this was ex
planned to the House appropriation
committee the other day when Repre-
sentative VIII r. Wood of Indians
could not see why Fine Arts Com
house.
One OF the important humanitarian
works that are being carried out II
connection with the economy efficiency
program Of the Government is to give
prisoners in our penal institutions
work to do which will prevent theil
developing vices in idleness and which
will help the Government to save ex
penses. For example, Congress ap
propriates half million dollars fol-
Irvine for the Post Office Department
and it is now planned to have this
Irvine made in various prisons, as is
done in Minnesota for the farmers
with very substantial saving. Also
sill tags for automobiles in tie Ma
tional Capital are hereafter to be
made at OccoOuan, as the State OF
MARYLAND has theirs made at the peni
Tertiary in Baltimore. The present
cost is II cents per pair and the es
timated cost Of Occoquan manufac
ture Is s cents. which would mean
saving Of $1,000 or $4,000 a year. Tbs
Bureau Of Efficiency at the request o.
the Department Of Justice Is planning
to enlarge the plant at Leavenwortf
TO make more and better discharge
suits for prisoners.
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Salvaged out of the old models o.
patents which were recently sold b,
the Patent Office to save storage
Charges. the Bureau of Efficiency ha:
installed an exhibit of 1abor-savinl
devices. This is an interesting col
lection of old original tcpewriters anf
adding machines. paper cutters, let
ter openers and whatnot.
The Bureau of Efficiency. on sug
gestion of The House appropriations
COMMITTEES, lie going to make a study
OF what patent papers ar activ
or in daily demand and which others
are called for very infrequently, with
view to saving probably two-thirds
of the space in the Patent Once racks
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The Government Hotels. soon TO dis
appear from the park area between
the Capitol and Union Station, nave
without general knowledge on the par
of the public, or even OF congress
been furnishing ice to the Capitol anC
doing a big laundry job for practically
all the Government establishments
with a considerable reduction In cost
During Ave months the Ice plant a.
the Government Hotels sent out AIS,
350 pounds of ice. at a cost of $S36.70
to the Capitol and Il small patronage
of Government agencies.
The laundry at the Government Ho
tells has done towels for 40 Govern
ment departments and bureaus, to
total Of $500, 900 towels last year. Ii
addition to this they have launderet
about "a 1000 miscellaneous pieces, in
/ GLIDING uniforms and other articles fol
the Hygienic laboratory. This laun
dry has Just taken on the Nationa
Guard as a new patron.
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Uncle Sam expects soon to resume
laundering his filthy lucre.' Before
the World War United States cur
rency was successfully Numbered, hu
at that time the chemistry OF the prob
lem was not carefully studied. witt
the result that. put back in cfrcula
ton. the washed currency soon became
soft and fabby. Then when the dyes
used at the Bureau of Engraving anC
Printing were not as good as they hat
| haan the rnnney laundry was closed