The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-10-08

u z-2-zs.sxzl 1882, will be the
date of the dedication, according to
announcement just made.
Much discussion has been going on
in your capital city of late regarding
the possibility Of Mr.. Hoover's asking
the Congress to permit beer to be
manufactured and sold. The consen-
sus of opinion, however, even among
those who would like to have their
beer once more, is that the Congress
will do nothing about it, even if ask
ed to do so by the President of the
United States, and, as l said before,
that possibility is not likely.
The government in Washington
endeavors to please in the matter of
supplying recreational facilities. In
stance this particular sign which l
noted today in a park between Sew
enth and Ninth streets on Constitu-
ton Avenue: Exercise your dogs
here"
Independent cab companies which a
few months ago were fighting to see
how low they could make their rates,
without paying people to ride, last
week decided to boost the ante a lit
tie, and they did this by decreasing
the size of the first zone" in which a
rate of but ~ cents is charged. The
cab owners, $50 of them, say that
drivers cannot make a living wage at
20 cents. That sounds reasonable,
100.
The Bureau of Standards in Wash
ington is continually carrying on ex-
periments for the improvement of in
dustry. It's latest discovery is the
perfection of material Fabricated
from cotton, which can be turned into
paper, and which, it is said, will
easily last hundreds of years. Per-
haps this will put the cotton indus
try back on its Ieet once more. Now
if some one could md something
which would bring back prosperity to
the farmers OF the Mississippi Valley,
all would be well again.
Speaking of prohibition and beer,
again, one of the sensational news
papers IN Washington has brought to
ngnt, the statement that President
hoover made back in 1918 when, of
course, he was not chief executive,
was hot against the brewing OF reai
Deer. 1t claims that he said that
two and one-half per cent beer was
not really intoxicating. Efforts will
be made by the vets to make capital
OF that alleged statement. Unearth-
ing of this information Dy the Wash
ingtOn paper, followed ciose on the
heels of the rumor that Walter New
ton, former Minnesota member OF
Congress, now a secretary to the
president, had made inquiries regard
ing the number Of men who might
possibly be employed in the beer IN
dustry should the lager fluid be
legalized once more.
Twelve hundred more persons will
be added to the list of the unemploy-
ed within short time. They are at
present members of the staff Of the
Census Bureau of the Department of
Commerce. Their part of the work of
compiling figures of the census of
1880 has been completed and they will
be given papers which will sever
them from uncle Sans payroll. In
May, 1880, when l entered the serv-
ice at the Census Bureau, there were
about seven thousand men and women
working there. Now the staff has
been cut to $500.
Here are some jobs in the govern
ment service which will soon be open
and for which examinations will be
given: assistant veterinarian, $1,000
to 5000 a year; agronomist, $500
to $4,000; assistant statistician,
$4,000; principal examiner, $1,000;
dSSOCl6tS CuCAiASSS @o,SVV W Yo,Ooo,
senior poultry foreman $4,000; senior
medical technician, $4,000; and school
social worker, $4,000.
Government employees in Washing
ton, who now work but five and one
half days a week, are hopeful that
next year they will be employed but
five days in each week. Representa-
tive William /. Sirovich of the four
teenth congressional district in New
York, says he will introduce bill in
Congress at the next session, provid-
ing for a five-day week in the govern
ment service.
Nine thousand men and women
throughout the country recently took
civil service tests for the position of
statistical clerk. Ten per cent Of
them failed to make the required
grades. OF the more than eight
thousand who passed, but a small
number will ever receive q call to en-