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The Washington times., 1933-04-01
FEDERAL UNITS
SEE NEW Law
IN EFFECT
Government Employees Hit By
j Reduction But Get An
nual Leave Back

Today marks the beginning Of
the new regime in Uncle Sans
employ, whereby all Federal sal
aries are subjected to a is per
cent cut.
ReadjustmentS in the Govern
inent service have been numerous
and drastic, to conform to the
new set-up. The five-day week,
which was put into effect by the
Department of Labor. the Govern
ment Printing Office, the Navy
Yard and certain other Federal
units, is discontinued in the de-
partment but remains at the Navy
Yard and Printing Office, pending
ruling by the Comptroller General.
so far as District per diem em.
ployeS are concerned, the net ef-
feet of the changes is that they
work more hours for less pay.
The abolition Of the five-day
week In the Department Of Labor
will probably be generally vel
coined, because other departments
found it difficult to deal with an
organization that did not operate
on the same hours on which they
are operating. The employees them
sleeves were none too well pleased
with the five-day week, because
they would have preferred, in
many instances, longer furloughS,
and they had to be satisfied with
ek-ends.
g.. Leave Is Restored
On gratifying result of the new
economy act, and about the only
one discernible thus far, is the
restoration of annual leave.
It is cut from the formr 30
days to IS, to be sure-a legacy
of the first economy act-but at
least the employees understand
what is going to happen, and can
prepare for it. The furlough ar
rangement never was very well
understood. particularly when it
was complicated with admins
trative furloughs," which are po-
lite words meaning "lay-off."
Cuts May Mount Up
The administrative furIoug h,
incidentally, continues under the
new regime, and will be quite as
much in evidence, according to
present indications, as it has
been during the current fiscal
year. When Fedyal units are
short of funds, employees are laid
off on administrative furlongh,
and a number of workers thus
received cuts of Is % per cent
and upward, instead of tn 8 1-3
they had to take-as Legislative
furlongh" under the economy act.
Now that the prescribed pay
cut is is per cent flat, the out
look is that some employs, at
least, will be sliced nearly 20 per
cent, through that medium and
the administrative furloughs that
may become necessary.
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
HOLUdrd Presented
With SOciety's Book
MRS. COSTIGAN

Members Of the senior class of
Howard University Medical Col
lege yesterday were presented by
the tuberculosis Association with
copies of the associations publ
cation, Childhood Types of Tu-
berculoSiS."
Presentation was made by DR..
Algernon B. Jackson, of the col
lege.
Following the presentation Mrs.
Ernest R. Grant, representing the
District association, told the class
that there was little hope of
eradicating the disease here un-
less proper disqualification was
provided for patients.
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
PLAYERS,
TAKE HEED!

Prospective entrants to the
championship chess tournament
slated to open Monday under the
auspices of the National Fedora
ton of Federal Employees are
urged to get in their applications
before midnight tonight, which
is the deadLine.
Tournament blanks may be OBJ.
tained by District or Federal EN-.
ployes at 10 B St. S. w., home
of the Federal News, organ of
the National Federation.
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
Committee Report
On Garden Contest

A nominating committee will re-
port on a slate of new officers
and committees and initial plans
for the annual lawn and garden
contest at the meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee, Blair Citizens
Association. Tuesday evening.
The entire membership meets
every other month and will hear
completed arrangements for its
extensive garden contest when it
meets in May,
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
u. S. Chamber Asks
Tariff Adjustment

Protection for American indus
tries and wage earners against
the competition of imports from
countries having deprecated cur
rencies was demanded yesterday
by the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce.
A measure designed to meet
this situation by levying a com.
pensatory tariff on such impor-
tations was defeated last session
in the House.
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
Business Must Aid
Self, Says Hartman

The Government IS doing and
can do much to point the way to
economic recovery, but immeasur
ably more must be done by bust
ness itself, Henry I. Hartman.
president Of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, declared
last night.
Laws may be passed and the
stage set for recovery. but success
or failure rests with the manufac-
turer, merchant, farmer and wage
Garner, more than with the Gov
ernment, he said, in a radio ad-
dress,
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
NeW Bridge Tourney
In Federal PLQuerS

Bridge fans in the Federal SER
vice will contest for the selection
Of the most skillful pair Of part
ners. in the second annual bridge
tournament. Of which announce
ment will be made at once.
Contract only will be played,
and appropriate trophies will be
provided. It is expected, how.
ever, that there will be separate
tournament for those interested
in auction.
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
HOSPITAL
IN N|GHTROBE

Mrs. Mary Eliza Wadtka, 38,
escaped from Gallinger Hospital
today while wearing a bathrobe,
nightgown, and slippers given to
her after she was placed under
guard.
Mrs. Wadtke was sent to the
hospital for treatment after she
had been arrested on the street
by First precinct policemen.
She was said to have left the
hospital ward, to have gone
through the grounds, and to
have hailed a taxicab in front
of the building.
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
% SCHOOLS in DEBATE

The Catholic University Con-
ference of Clerics and Religious
of the Catholic Students Mis-
sion Crusade announced that %
Catholic high schools in the Dis
trict and Maryland have entered
the oratorical contest to be held
April 10 and 20.
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
r. r. C.. Votes to Aid
Ni1nQru RridQe Plan

The R. F. c. agreed yesterday
to purchase $2,800,O00 revenue
bonds of the Niagara Frontier
Bridge Commission to construct
two toll bridges on the East
Branch of the Niaga.a River on
a new proposed highway from
Niagara Falls to Buffalo.
The Washington times., 1933-04-01
CITIZENS TO MEET

The North Cleveland Park Citi-
zens Association will meet in
Hearst School on Tues
day, April 4. An address by a
prominent speaker will be the fea-
ture Of the meeting.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
TEACHERS AGAINST LIQUOR

The Texas State Teachers association at its re-
cent meeting in Fort Worth included in its list OF
resolutions one against the repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment The National Educational association
has repeatedly declared itself in favor of prohlol-
ton.
Whv is it that teachers have not been swept
.u,av also in the wet wave that has submerged
the entire country? Why does the teaching profess
sion stand out as the one profession Except the
ministry against the return of legitmized trail
fc in alcoholic beverages? We believe it is because
the profession feels an especial responsibility IN
this matter.
The community looks to the teachers to take
care of the children's interest and teachers have
generally shown a quick response whenever the
welfare of children is at stake. Teachers know that
the life of the liquor trade lies in persuadng the
young to cultivate the drinking habit.
Teachers dread the opening of the sluice gates
of liquor advertising which will follow the aban-
donment of present prohibitory measures.
They visualize the technique of cigarette adver-
Using applied to beverage alcohol
They see the well-known testimonial of 1854
physicians who will say that little alcohol in bev-
erage form is not only bad but beneficial.
They see the girls of school age appealed to by
their movie IDOLS VINO lnuOFSe IniS uTlhh VI liSI'
They see billboards flaming with ruddy-cheeked
aviators who must take drink to make them air.
worthy, devised especially for the boys
They hear the preachments of smooth-voiced ra-
do pleaders assuring everyone that it is well to be
q little tpsy.
In short, they know that the same devices which
fastened the cigarette habit on the young will be
used now to fasten the drink habit on them. In
former times the school and the church had the
advantage in dealing with the young; but with the
cornmercialized motion picture and the CONNER
ciazed radio now in the field, and well established,
any vice which yields large profit take over
the leadership of the young.
Teachers feel their hold slipping in the very field
in which they have always had an especial respon-
sbility. That is why 90 per cent of the teachers
of this country are prohibitionsts.
They realize, perhaps, as keenly as any other
group the shortcomings and difficulties of prohbi-
tory measures, but they unwilling to forego
the immense gain of silencing liquor ADVERTISING
Interseholastic Lacquer (Austin, Texas).
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
ECONOMIC PEACE

Talk about universal peace is stupid if not in
sane, Mussolini once remarked, and there are some
gentlemen who insist today that ideals of economic
peace and business Cancellation in such times as
these are out of order-that ruthless laws must be
held inviolate and that if the weak and innocent
go down, there is nothing to be done about It.
Both .MCssolini and his adherents are all wrong,
there is virtue in talking of international peace
and of economic peace.
As to this latter. the pressing urgency of it is
obvious. It is attainable by display of unsefsh-
ness to degree that the American people are not
accustomed to practice.
The basis of all war whether armed conflict o.
business competition, is selfishness The basis of
all peace is community of interests,-the peadings
of the Golden Rule.
Just now, America is at grips with the most dis
turbing economic crisis it has ever faced. The
debtor and creditor classes are arrayed against
each other under the natural and normal inspira-
ton of self-interest. Conditions have brought
about many points of friction The call of self
preservation is being everywhere heard and an
swered Men disposed to look out for them
selves, matter what happens to their neighbors
or their world ".,
Let us submit that this spirit is the germ of war
fare not that of sabre and sword, but that of So
cial restiyeness and discomfort, that of powerful
minorities Ainging themselves at each others
throats that of special interests hurting their SCI
fish ends against the common good.
These days call for quite another spirit, the op-
poSite of that. Return to better times will more
speedily be brought about by common consent that
problems that have arisen belong to everybody and
must be faced and dealt with in that atmosphere
of understanding
Trying to take advantage, seeking the easiest
way to personal independence. neglecting the pub
lie interests, unconcerned with the welfare of
others,-to adopt that attitude is to project the
issues into the environment of warfare from which
the strong come cut stronger and the weaker are
piled up by the roadway as cast-aways and killed
! Everybody is having more or less the same kind
of trouble today. There is no problem peculiar to
any single Individual or group of individuals Ma
terial losses have been suffered from the richest ia
the poorest. Distress has marked out for itself all
conditions and classes of our people. Financial
burdens have fallen alike upon all.
1t is, therefore, to the interest of all to recog
nize the common obligation resting upon, society
to strive toward the daylight in spirit of coop
Grafton and Cancellation, of being helpful an;
neighbory, of those having the greatest power anC
influence sharing their more advantageous position
meeting together with single purpose to come
through unitedy and for the social destiny of all
The Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By Ike Walton, Rediyivre

- = . 10y
Sam told me about some say
ings in Spanish America. Here
are two which the people say the
politicians say: ,
Antes eleleccion, amigo del
pueblo.
(Before election, friend Of the
people,.
(After election, to the d. with
the people,.
Down there when politicians
wish to make some money, they
get up bill to require banana
growers to burn the stalks in
stead of letting them rot in the
fields, for example. Now banana
stalks are mighty watery and
hard to burn. So the banana
companies don't want to have to
burn them. But the legislators
don't care a rap about the smell
Of the fields; all they want is
for the companies to pay them
t6 drop the bill. So enough of
the legislators join in to support
the bill to scare the companies
into being free with their cash,
and then some OF them suddenly
get sick and go home and the
bill does not pass, and the banana
stalks rot on the ground and the
pueblo stands the smell.
Two brothers in Nicaragua
were farmers. There were two
political parties, conservador and
liberal. One joined the first, the
other the second. When the
conservadores were in, the first
got job as policeman and the
other raised cane and made rum
which policeman recommended to
his friends. Then when the lib
erals came in, they just swappet
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

occupations. So the family kept
going all the same. The girls
worked the same trick with
teaching school and milking
cows. So arose the saying
LA familia es mas fuerte que
el gobierno."
(The family is stronger than
the gOvernment).
When two very big politicians
wish to make a lot of money,
here is how they do it. Two OF
them who are thought to be
enemies make an agreement. One
of them runs against the other
for president or governor. The
other purposaly says some fool
ish thing to get the other elected.
Then the new president hides
most of the governments money
where the other one will find it
after the latter starts revolu-
ton. Then the president re-
signs 'to give the country
peace" and when the money
turns up missing, it is explained
that the revolutionists got it.
Then both Of them go to Paris
and divide the money, unless the
one who got ii has already drunk
it all up. But the people have
had a fine time because when a
revolution is on, everybody takes
what he can get. SO they say
La Revolution es muy buena
por ell pueblo.
revolution is good for the
reople). Let's start one!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

THE Lady Bug was shocked to-
L learn that her. fine home
would likely burn unless she act
ed quickly. ooh, what can I do?"
she. cried.
81 never should have left the
place. Back to it, now, III nave
10 race. II I am not mistaken, all
my children are inside.
Then Scouty shouted, Come,
let S go. You lead the way. 4ou1l
have to show us where your Mt
tie house is. We will help you'
ii we cant
The bug replied, That's fine OF
you" And through the air she
quickly flew. The Tinymites all
followed her on foot, and how
they ran,
TINE trip was DER "a aearO;- hill.
i "Hey, lock! The house is
burning, STILL" cried Copy, as he
spied the home. It was a sawed
OFF tree.
Then Srouty promptly dashed
inside. I'm bring the children
out" he cried. ''If / don't come
right out, somebody come in after
me. -
The little home was full oil
Sn7haAs, Al Hfst Door Scout>
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
LONG LIFE, AND-HAPPINESS?
(By BRUCE CATION


You aren't necessarily wishing man
happiness when you wish him a long life,
these days. a 3a.,
According to DR.. Francis NJ. Pottengef
of Monrovia, Calf, who retired not long
ago as president of the American College
of Physicians, long life is actually proving
a curse instead of blessing, in many eases.
Medical science, he pointed out, pro-
longs a mans ife-and then the man dis
covers that he can no longer get job, be-
cause of his age. He has an extra allot-
ment of time and nothing to do with It.
Even i'm times of prosperity, the tendency
is more and more to dispense with the
aging worker The old man, all too often,
must find someone to support him, or
starve. .-.
Here we have another of those develop
ments which show the disastrous way IN
which our society has used the advantages
which science has given it. $3.50 p
Science has shown us how to produce
enough of everything for everybody, and
the chief result seems to be that l2,000,-
600 men are living on charity. 1t has en-
abled us to live longer lives, and the aged
are unable to support themselves. 1t. has
given us the automobile, and we use it to
kilt &c, 600 people year and to drive our
railroads, to the verge of bankruptcy. 1t
has given us the airplane, and We use it to
bring the Aorrors of war into every mans
front yard,
Before We get Strengthened out again on
the long road to better civilization, We
shall have to find some way of using these
boons as they ought to be used-of using
them, in short, to make human life happier
and richer and fuller. As things are now
we seem to be using them backward.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
BEHIND THE SCENES IN
MASHLklGTON
- go WITH RODNEY BUTCHER
With RODNEY DuICHEE

toes, peas, spaghetti or PIE, %
cents. . A tenderiOin steak is a
I'dollar-that would almost pay for a
calf-then add two vegetables, 90
cents; dessert, Is cents, and cup
OF coffee, 10 cents-it totals Sl.55.
"a cheese sandwich costs you /;
cents, q chicken sandwich 20 cents,
chicken salad IS cents" and SO o.
Has airy member ever had nor
sci OF food at the taxpayers en
pense. Or ii hair cut or shave?
Not one.
There are restaurants and bar.
Der shops from three to ten blocks
from the Capitol. To save little
money and to secure better M
Outstanding l propose that We va
tronize these outside places or last
during the day. At going prices
our restaurants thai feed members
and the public that comes to the
Capitol by thousands sightseeing
or on business lose money. Let Us
close dlem up. Because OF the neceS'
sary food loss from vastly unequal
patronage from day to day tleEs
IS an annual loss of one penny iGr
every 12s Of our population"
CONGRESSMAN CHARLES l.
~ uNDERHILL of Massachusetts
answers Summer: body i: debate.
He implied that it was the Senate
that abused its privileges, not the
House.
True, there were evils in the
barber shop that sho'ild be cleaned
up. Some OF the expenses, suCa az
towels and laundering. were being
paid for by the House. That,
said Mr.. Underhill, fought not 7"
be-"
Bat the restaurant, he insisted
was absolutely essential to paDli'
health and transaction Of pubic
business. Most members ATTENDED
committee meetings until noon
when the House came in session,
Must they leave the House anu
travel afar Tor q sandwich anas
cup or coffee?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
Needlework in Education

Mary, wife of William of Orange.
being really fond of needlework,
did much to give the stamp of royal
approval to the occupation. 1t was
of course taken up by the ladies Of
the court and the daughters of
noblemen as Il matter Of policy. But
1t really amounted to more than
pastime. 1t became a part Of
young lady's education.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

The, hoaC Of Dld TeX famous BIZ
sen hui o. The Ycll0"SJ2ne herd. is
Tie biggest oa record. 1t measures
35is inches on it's outside spread.
The ri.'ht Horn is PIE inches lung,
the left horn is :.!3 inches long. The
circumference o. The right horn II
the base is 16 inches, while the left
is lax inches. and the inside
spread is S0Ia inches. Old Tex was
killed in 1926 because of old age
and his head is on display in the
new museum at Fishing Bridge, on
the shores of Yellowstone lake.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
PY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

yy7ASHINGTON,-Some Of those
r:cayunish personal convenience
cXpenditures of Congress which
have bought many e newspaper
man a new overcoat or second
hard car by becoming the subjects
for Sunday feature articles, maya
zine arti:ies or even books, have
been aired IN Congress.
!NoC il the Senate, which runs a
fee barber shop and so has more
fo- which to answer, but in the
House, body less sybaritic.
Last year the House began a sue.
cessful movement 10 cut down on
mileage allowance, clerk hire and
stationery allowance for both
branches. Now 1t has actually
taken up such raging issues as the
House restaurant and the House
barber Shop, although most men,
hers are still stubborn about leav-
ing the Capitol grounds for {. meal
u a shave during working hours.
Congressman John w. Summers
If Washington has resolution in
which would close the House res
laurant, the adjacent public res
taurant and thu House barrier
shop immediately and permanent
". 1t is Mt entirely clear
whether Summers is serious. but
he argues as follows:
CIT will save little money and
l. end the gen raj impression
over the country that these insti-
tutions operate free to members of
Congress-, when as a matter OF fact
avery neal or hair cut or shave is
paid for by the member.
az hold in my hand a menu
showing TIE reduced or depression
prices now effective. Hearts Of eel:
cry for one perSon, 20 cents. Stuffed
mangoes for one person, 20 cents.
Bean soup, IS cents. a plate lc2ei-
con OF chopped sifloin Chat
r'cans NO ;raements). with pota-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

The French resent the American policy
of sending unofficial observers to Europe,
says an American economist on his return
from abroad, OF course they'reino grow
ing about the intrusion of some 100000
who went over in '17-'18, as that was more
or less official.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

That Legislative proposal to require pc
destrians on the highways to carry red
driver comes along who never waits for
the signal to turn green.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

The woman whose private opinion is
that her husband isn't worth 30 cents
doesn't let that keep her from asking q
million dollars when some other woman
steals him.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

II business would go straight politics
WOULD go straight, too, says a writer. Yes,
and if politics would go straight to where
most business men say business has gone
it would be OK, with practically every
body; 3ksusl1l. .-s..,s
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
"Vaccine's" .Meaninss,

incubation is the communicating
of disease &c Il person in good
aealth by injecting Its virus into his
blood with view to inducing
mild form of the disease and thus
securing immunity from future at
taeks. Vaccination is form of in
oculation: that is, it is tine inocu-
lahng of a well person with a vac
cine, especially that of cowpox, to
prevent or mitigate attacks of small
poX, Literally vaccine" means
pertaining to cows. = Pathfinder
Magazine.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

With pork chops selling at a dime q
pound, you can't blame the butcher for
making two-hsted effort to break even.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

Next to robins song, there's no surer
harbinger of spring than an urchin with
cracked knuckles, bullying pockets and a
nicked classic. ..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

Henry Ford says he still believes in high
wages-and so do lot of folks, even more
than before they took their cut.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

1t seems a little ungrateful for the fell
low who accepts poor relief baskets to Try
to apply the butter-fat test to the milk of
human kindness.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
1SENO THO STORY. THEN COLOR THE PICTURED

thought he'd choke. He held his
breath, however, and soon found
the little bugs.
Hey, come with me-" he loud
w cried. The bugs then followed
him outside. Twas we'll they had
been hiding underneath some
small grass rugs"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

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