New Britain herald., 1929-08-06
WASHINGTON FINDS BUSINESS IS GOOD
Requests for Jobs; UniaiIine
 Barometer; Are Few
NEA Service

IS always aware of the fact when employment conditions are bad over | the country. When work is scarce | elsewhere the situation is reflected | by the thousands who came here | looking for federal jobs, more often | than not depending on a congress- | man to help them out.
 A good percentage of them wind 1 up at the federal employment serV- | ice station on Pennsylvania avenue. | There one learns that although | more applicants have been provided with jobs here this year Nhan last year, there havn't been nearly as many persons calling around for | jobs.
 There were more than 61,000 | persons who registered at the office | during the year ended July 1, but | last year there were nearly S0,O00. | And the greater percentage of | placements is shown in the fact | that this year jobs have been found | for 32,650 persons, as compared | with only 27,105 in the year before. | : This government agency it appears, has lately been placing half the applicants instead of only a third as before.
 Lately the attraction at the capt- | tai has been the governments big | building program. Many workers | appear to have come with too much | confidence in an assumed demand | for building help which doesn t | exist. Some jobs have been open, l of course, but the building is going l on slowly and there is always a | surplus of building labor here. The work is let out to private contrac- | tors who generally bring in their own crews.
 Conferring on President Hoover . and Secretary of State Stimson of i the Peruvian Order of the Sun re- minds your correspondent of story | heard in Peru last year which dates i back to the early days of that illus trious and aristocratic order. The Order of the Sun gave . large banquet to celebrate its gts to one of Lima's many cathedrals of | massive pair of solid silver can dlesticks, wkich were displayed | proudly on a table.
 A strong gust of wind came along suddenly and blew out all the lights When the windows had been clos7d | and the lights restored it was found that one of the valuable candlesticks had disappeared
 A priest quieted the brethren and suggested that before anything dras- tic was done, the lights be eXtin- suished again for two minutes, dur" ing which the thief would be per mittei to return the loot. So the lights were put out.
 When they were lighted again the other candlestick had disappeared
 This story was vouched for, hut no one seemed to know whether tie sticks had been recovered.
 The new democratic publicity bureau. operated by Charles Michel son under the general direction of Jouett Shouse, is producing results with it's daily attacks on the TO- publicans and their tariff efforts Ore would hesitate to suggest just how much effort this propaganda bar rage is having on the tariff makers, but it certainly is getting into the papers.
 The Nicholson method has been to send the correspondents at least San tNrN state ment from some member ot con- gress anent some phase of the pro- posed tariff legislation. The demo- cratic newspapers are eating II mp and playing this material on page one. And so are quite few ot the republican newspapers.
 Goodness knows how many "f the ideas and words are provided for democratic senators by MT. Michel son-proba bly a lot-but no propa- ganda effort in Washington for long time back has been so sue cessful from the standpoint of news paper space. Large piles of marNed newspapers at democratic head quarters attest the fact.
 
 Mr.. Deets Pickett, the enerGctc research secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals has been kind enough to send your correspondent a clipping showing Swiss posta! can cellation marks attacking the olco- hol evil The postmark shows bottle la abeled 'Schnaps" and marked with skull and crossbones, alongside the warning Der Schnaps vernichtct Famllc und Volk." which is trans lated into Drink ruins the family and the race" Of course, we have prohibition on our own statutes, but our government has never stamped such propaganda on our mail.
 Mr. Picketts clipping says the SWISS government stamps such design and inscription "on every letter passing through the post Inquiry at the Swiss legation, how ever. elicits the word that attaches do not remember receiving mail so marked and thp olInes tho+ tba enc