Evening star., 1933-07-19

With IS and 40 hour week working
schedules daily being coded into prac-
tlce throughout the industrial world,
Washingtonians are wondering whether
it will occur to anybody to codify and
shorten the heavy working week which
any Gods quantity of persons in the
capital, from the President down, is
now putting in. Organized labor wants
30-hour week for workers. 1t is a
safe guess that in the White House
and in most Of the Government depart
ments at this time, so or 10 hour
week is the rule, rather than the ex-
ception. No Federal official Importantly
Identified with the recovery program
can possibly absolve even his routine
tasks during the ordinary business day.
Many who arrive at their desks at 8
am, and do not leave until pm, find
1t impossible even with such q grueling
schedule to call 1t a day, and in conse-
quence take home with them generally,
enough work to keep them busy until
1ar into the night. Sundays find any
number Of these strenuous souls on their
jobs as zealously as week days. Going
out evenings for social purposes Is ia
Dooed among them almost universally.
People who drive through Annapolis
these days notice that the front yard
OF the executive mansion, which Albert
G. Richie has inhabited so many years,
Is filled with so-called "honey-pots" for
the catching OF n-destroying beetles.
The prediction is made that the Governor
VIII probably be as successful in catch
ing beetles with honey as he is in CATCH
ing votes every time the Adonis- like
Democrat asks the Maryland Free Stat
ers to return him to Annapolis.
Up in President Roosevelt's old home
town of Albany, N Y, they haven't
waited for him to recognize the Soviet
Russian government judicially, but have
Appeals. In decision handed down by
Justice Cuthbert Pound, the transfer of
$50 100000 Of oil land grants to the
Standard and Vacuum Oil Companies
OF the United States was formally up
held in striking decree Seventeen
other oil companies contended that the
Soviet had confiscated their property
and illegally sold it to the American
corporations. Justice Pound said: LAS
a juristic conception, what Is Soviet
Russia? A band of robbers or a gov
ernment? We all know it is a gov
eminent. The State Department knows
it, the courts. the nations and the
man on the street all know it. If 1t
is government in fact. its DEGREES have
force within its borders and over its
nationals =
President Roosevelt's terse little radio
address to the 10000 men in Civilian
Conservation camps Monday night did
not aIlude to the privileged pension
or fty ftnyy low hi
misSioned officers in the armed forces
of the Republic. In Senate debate
on the Conservation Corps just before
adjournment. Senator Reed, Repub.
lican, of Pennsylvania. brought out that
the widow of brigadier general in the
Army is paid a pension of SIS a month
under executive order recently promul-
gated. while the widow of a Conserva-
tion Corps recruit is paid $45 month
If he is killed in one of the camps
Also, Reed explained. the widow of the
lowest-paid man would get $50 a month
under the compensation law Even
dependent widowers of women employed
in the reforestation camps are on q
correspondingly favored pension basis
4 ~
A gentleman from the Eastern "Sho''
of Maryland called at the Department
of Justice the other day with no pre-
conception Of the physical proportions
of Attorney General Cummings Be-
ing 80 unprepared, he talked at length
with the A. G.'s chief secretarial as
sistant, Ugo j. A. Carusi. The visitor
asked many questions about the work.
ings of the department, and felicitated
| himself upon the zestful pleasure de-
rived from his supposed social contact
with the chief. He assured the young