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The Washington times., 1934-06-23
Extension of Merit System
Blocked By Spoilsmen
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Upon his return to the Fed
eral City next week, Presi-
dent Roosevelt will find an
opportunity awaiting him to
suit the action of the appoint
ing power to the word of his
eloquent assurance to Yale
University.
In his address at Yale fol-
lowing his acceptance of Yale's
highest honor-the degree Of
doctor Of laws which George
Washington was the first Presi.
dent to receive and Mr.. Roose-
welt the fourth President while
in office-he said:
~ am quite sure, in the
minds of most of the leaders
of the Federal Government,
qualification from the stand
point of ability rather than
from politics enters into most
of the choices that are made.
...I couldn't tell you today the
party affiliations of probably
the, majority of people holding
respOnsibIe positions in Wash
ingtOn and it is a mighty good
thing that I cannot"
Heavy Pressure
Mr.. Roosevelt was, of course,
referring primarily to those
positions which we're filled be-
fore he entered the White
House a year ago last March.
All except very small minor
ity of these nearly 100000 new.
corners to the Federal payroll
are Democrats who have been
able to bring certificates of that
fact from their local chairmen,
their national committee, and
their Senators and Representa-.
tives in Congress, provided their
congressional indorSers were
Democrats.
Certainly no President since
Grover Cleveland has been un-
der greater pressure from the
spoilsmen Of politics for Federal
patronage than that exerted
upon the Roosevelt administra-
ton. Instead of extending the
merit system, this pressure has
resulted in a vast extension Of
the SpoilS system.
In fact, on the very day that
President Roosevelt was giving
to Yale University a sincere ex-
preston in eloquent language of
the high ideals for the Federal
service which he cherisheS, the
chairman Of the Democratic ma
tional committee, who is chair
man Of the Democratic commit
tee of the State of New York
and also Postmaster General,
was having a great laugh in the
Federal City about what he
calls the natural death" which
overlook Mr.. RooSevelt'S an
nouncement early in his Admin.
istration that he would press for
legislation putting all postmas-
tiers under Civil Service.
When this announcement was
made, 1t was endorsed by news
papers of both parties and by
Civil Service supporters the
country over. In fact, it was
endorsed by Mr.. Farley himself,
but it seems! to have ended with
The Washington times., 1934-06-23
Words From Wise Men

Every man desires to live long,
but no man desires. to be old
Swift.
To pity distress is but human;
to relieve it IS Godlike.-Horace
Mann.
A man deep-wounded may feel
too. much pain to feel much
anger.-Elliot.
Heaven ne'er helps the men
who will not act.-Sophocles.
Awake, arise, or be forever
fall'n!-Milton.
The Washington times., 1934-06-23
A JENNY HAMMER
By Robert Benchley

jokers, to resemble a "What-ls-
it?" of almost any proportions.
The result is Jenny HanlVer.
This little hoax, according to
DR.. Gudger, has been appearing
on and off in every quarter OF
the globe since the 18th century.
Apparently the first thing that
has occurred to a certain type
of prankish fisherman on find
ing himself with one of these
human-looking rays, or skates,
has been to fix it up funny and
fool his friends. Well, I just
don't happen to think it's funny,
that's all.
o The one whose photograph I
have been torturing myself with
is the most recent example of
Jenny Haniver". A Swedish
fisherman in Florida made it
from a guitar fish, and had its
picture taken. I hope that he is
satisfied. He has made the
spring of 1884 a hell on earth
for me.
And yet, for some reason. I
resent DR.. Gudger's taking the
horror out of it. had begun to
take an almost personal pride
in the beast, and, given a few
more months of brooding over
it. I might even have got around
to intimating that I myself had
caught it. DR.. Gudger, with his
blind insiStence Of facts. has
spoiled all that for me.
I think I'll take one more peek
at the picture, anyway-juSt for
I THINK Ill TAKE ONE
HNoRE. PEEK
e. '; =,
- q ! ::
old times sake. DR.. Gudger
might possibly be wrong this
once.
T. Copyright, 1894. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, THURSDAY
and Saturday.
The Washington times., 1934-06-23

A few months ago I was badly
frightened by newspaper photo
graph of an, animal. half fish,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
U. S. WORKERS FIGHT
CAFETERIA REMOVAL
Eating Difficulties in Area West
Of Seventeenth Street
Are Cited.

Eating difficulties encountered by
the thousands of Government en-
ployes in the area of Constitution
avenue west of Seventeenth street
have resulted in o protest by Panama
Canal Lodge, No. 6, of the American
Federation of Government Employees.
The lodge, meeting last night,
adopted a resolution urging that the
cafeteria commonly known as the
Food Administration" located in
the temporary building at Eighteenth
and G streets, be retained for the
convenience of its 1900 daily patrons.
The building is destined soon to be
torn down, being on the site selected
for the new Interior Building, and
the cafeteria is to be housed else
where.
The Munitions Building is remote
from restaurants and, with the recent
addition of the United States Public
Health Service, the number of en-
ployes In this area who need con-
venient eating places has increased
considerably. The construction of
the Public Health Service Building
eliminated three cafeterias formerly
used by Federal employees.
Copies of the protest resolution
were forwarded to the National Park
Service, the national Office of the
American Federation of Government
Employees and the heads of depart
ments whose employees are quartered
In the area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
HARTMAN PRAISES
MERCHANT MARINE
Head of U. S. Trade Body
Replies to Wallace
Criticism.

This country Cannot afford to be
without an adequate merchant ma
rine," Henry 7. Hartman, president
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, said last night in a
statement replying to the recent criti-
cism by Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace of governmental aid for ship
ping. Wallace had said this SUBJ
sidization was reducing the purchas-
ing power of foreign nations. He had
already drawn a .reioinder from Sena-
tor Fletcher, Democrat, of Florida,
who termed his opinion absurd"
".Our merchant marine" said Har-
riman, setting forth the chambers
policy. lis at the lowest limit permit
ted by prudence. Other nations are
enjoying perhaps unduly large con-
tributions to their trade balances
from the earnings of their shipping
services in the carriage of American
exports and imports"
His summation was that "the in
terests Of the American people re-
quire at least certain amount Of
shipping, both for the purpose of
maintaining essential trade route
services to foreign markets and to
meet the needs of national defense"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
LIONS CLUB OUTING
HELD AT CAMP LET'S
Athletic Contest Presented by
Boys at Annual Dinner
Meeting.

Charles H. Hillegeist, vice president
of the Lions Club, officiated at the
dinner meeting at the clubs annual
outing yesterday at Camp Let's.
Welcoming remarks were made by
L. w. De Cast, general secretary
of the Y. M. c. A., which sponsors
the camp, and James G. Ingram,
camp director. John C. Let's, for
whom the camp was named, was a
guest. Sam Holland, DR.. George
Tribe and Charles Hoover were in
charge of arrangements.
An athletic contest for the camp
ers was held following the dinner
Events resulted as follows:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dash, unlimited
class, Eddie Naughten, Fred Waite
and Douglas Gillard, first, second and
third, respectively; 75-yard dash, 85-
pound class, Robert Gray, Ralph Paz
and Jack Verkouteren, winners; So
yard dash, Jack McGovern, Sam
johnson. Fred Riley; unlimited broad
Jump class, Luis Pages, Douglas Gill
lard and Wright Deaner; rs to 100
pound class broad jump, Paz and
Gray; 50-pound broad-jump class
Billy Smith, Johnson and Riley; I'M
limited high-jump class, Deaner
Pages and Gillard; IS to 100 pound
high-jump class, Gray, Paz and YER
kouteren, and the 50-pound high
Jump class. johnson, Bobby EARL
first and second, with Dick Inman
and Billy Smith tying for third place
Arthur C. Smith, president of the
Lions Club, presented the awards
The athletic field was made possible
through contribution of the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
13 PRISONERS ESCAPE
DISTRICT JAIL IN JULY

Thirteen short-term prisoners, as
signed to work details at Gallinger
Hospital, escaped from the District
Jail during July, Thomas M. Rives,
superintendent, reported yesterday to
the Board of Public Welfare. Rives
explained that there are not enough
guards to keep close watch on the
men when on such details.
During the past month 1929 pris-
oners were admitted to the jail.
twenty-five of these were transferred
to the reformatory at Lorton, 500 to
the workhouse at Occoquan, Va, and
2 to st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
The average cost per meal was 6Ia
cents, nearly 2 cents lower than in
July Of q year ago. The average
daily population last month was 533.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
AUTH REORGANIZlNG
PLAN CONFIRMED
First Approval Conferred Here
by Court Under Bankruptcy
Act Amendment.

An order confirming the reorgani-
zation plan of the N. Auth Provision
Co., the first such approval conferred
by court here under the recent
amendment to the bankruptcy act and
believed to be the first in the United
States, was signed today by Justice
Joseph w. Cox in District Supreme
Court.
The Auth Co., one of the Oldest
packing houses In Washington, filed
its petition for reorganization August
through its attorneys, Tobriner,
Graham. Brez & Tobriner. An order
was signed the same day referring the
matter to Fred j. Eden as special
master for hearing and report.
This report was filed yesterday, Ger
tifying that the required majority of
preferred and common stockholders
had accepted the plan and that hold
ers of 80 per cent of outstanding
claims also had agreed.
Liabilities of the company were
listed at $401, 022.73 and its assets at
$8l4,535.58. Creditors are to be given
notes for the full amount of their
claims, secured by the company's un-
encountered real estate and other
fixed assets and payable in install
ments over 10-year period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
See america First
Planned by Use
OfHold-Up Funds
T,co Men Tell Victim, of
Schemes While Rob.
bling Him.

After forcing their way into his
home at gunpoint, two young men
chatted amiably with David A.
Thompson, 2705 Thirtieth street
northeast, while they robbed him,
telling Of their decision several days
ago to "see America first" through
funds obtained by hold-ups.
Awakened last night about 1890,
Thompson answered his doorbell,
whereupon the young men inquired
about obtaining jobs at the Thomp-
son Dairy, where Thompson is ga
rage foreman.
Upon being informed they must
make application at the dairy, both
men drew pistols and demanded they
come in.
One stood guard over Thompson
while the other took 50 from a wallet
in his trousers in an adjoining room,
overlooking o large sum In another
pocket. Saying good-by, the men
left and are thought to have escaped
the neighborhood in q nearby parked
automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
LAWYERS TO SEEK
AID FOR KING BILL
American Bar Association
Will Be Asked to Sup
port Measure.

An appeal to members of the Amer
lean Bar Association to support the
King bill, aimed at raising the stand
ards of the legal profession in the Dis
trict of Columbia, will be made at
the annual convention in Milwaukee
beginning Monday.
F. Regis Noel, president of the Dis
trict of Columbia Bar Association
plans to circulate a letter pointing
out the need for the reform measure
and stressing the inability of District
citizens to bring pressure to bear be-
cause District residents are deprived
of the right to vote.
without the unselfish aid and in
fluence of members of this association
in the States, who have the right OF
suffrage, the bill cannot be passed, u
Noel's letter declared.
The District delegation will leave
here tomorrow for Milwaukee, and
during the convention will maintain
headquarters at the Schroeder Hotel.
In addition to President Noel, men,
beers of the delegation will be George
E. Hamilton and John T. Vance. Fred
s. Tyler is alternate delegate. Hamil-
ton is the third senior member OF
the American Bar Association. Tyler
has attended the last 25 conventions
and Vance the last %.
A Junior Bar Association delegation
also will attend. composed of William
A. Roberts, John Guider and Charles
B. McInnis.
President Noel will present the asso-
citation with a gavel made from wood
from the stairway in the home of John
Marshall. A silver band, suitably en-
graved, bears the history of the gavel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
C. H. OSBORNE WINNER
IN MODEL COMPETITION
Violin Maker Gets District Prize
in Airport Contest-Will Go
to Air Races.

Carroll H. Osborne, 1925 Nichols
avenue southeast, a violin maker, was
designated as the local winner in a
model airport terminal building con-
test conducted by Pennsylvania Air
lines in connection with the national
air races, to be held at Cleveland,
August 81 to September 4.
Osborne's model of the Washington
Airport was selected as the best sub
mitted locally. He will be given a
round trip by air to the national air
races. In addition, his model will
go into national competition. the re-
suits of which will be announced
August 20.
Judges were John 8. wynne, as
sistant to the director Of air COM
merce, Department of Commerce, in
charge Of airport construction; Sam
uel Solomon, manager of Washington
Airport, and M. A. Crowder, local rep
resentative of Pennsylvania Airlines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
FOUNTAIN is DRY:
PRE.REPEAL DRINKERS BLAMED

An inquiry pursued through most
District and some Federal depart
ments today revealed that the flow
of water in the temperance" drink
ing fountain at Pennsylvania avenue
and Seventh street has been stopped
because of the depredations of pre-
repeal intoxicated persons who re-
moved dippers and later broke bubble
outlets.
Henry Daniel Cogswen donated the
drinking fountain to Washington
many years ago when he fostered the
prohibition movement by setting up
temperance fountains in places over
the country. The fountain here bears
the inscription, Faith. Hope, Charity,
Temperance"
Water flowed from the mouths Of
fish on the monument. To make this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
D. c. RELIEF ROLLS
INCREASE IN JULY
WH|LECOST DROPS
10 Per Cent More Received
Aid, but Expenditures Are
SIashed 10 Per Cent.
Difference Is LAID
TO NEW ACCOUNTING
No Change in Plan Of Setting
Budgets to Meet Needs of
Persons.

More persons received relief from
the District Government in July than
in June. but funds disbursed were
heavily slashed at the same time, ii
was revealed today in a monthly
report released by Elwood Street, di-
rector of public welfare.
His statement shows that last month
e1,874 clients received relief as COM
pared with 1898 in June, a 10 per
cent increase in cases, but that total
expenditures in July amounted to
$528,135 as compared with $685., 06s
for June, 10 per cent decrease in
relief expenditures.
New Accounting System.
Relief officials explained the rather
bewildering shift in the figures by
stating that relief expenditures were
reduced while the number of cases
increased as a result of changes made
in the system of financial accounting,
effected after reorganization Of the
relief set-up. They said there had
been no change in the system of set
ting budgets to meet the needs Of
persons on relief.
Taking direct and work relief ex-
penditures together, the report showed
that while the average disbursements
to relief clients in June was 1926,
1t droppd to $24.14 in July, decrease
Of 81 per cent.
Persons dependent upon the Dis
trict for subsistence received aid
either by direct cash disbursements,
or in the form of wages for services
performed on emergency works prof.
ects and in some cases by both
processes, where necessary to meet
budget requirements. In July, l6,947
clients received $263,717.42 in direct
relief or an average of $17.53, while
in June direct relief went to 16,808
clients, totaling 1924, 467.39, for an
average of $15.56.
Work Relief Payments.
In July, work relief payments total
ing 1884, 4l8.01 went to 11,123 clients,
for an average of $23.77, while in
June, $3.50 clients received $751;
467.39, for an average of 1886.
The number OF persons receiving
direct relief and those receiving work
relief In either month does not add
up to the actual total for both kinds
since some received relief in both
forms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24

/, should not get back into that I'm.
wholesome state and that is why the!
wrote right into the law direct pro.
hibition of the practices which might
lead to the old domination by the
brewers"
But right here, I want to say
this: Our two breweries, both Chris
tian Heurich and Abner Drury, are
being very cooperative with us in ou
demand they stop coil-cleaning. Both
have stopped it now. We understand
however, that some of the wholesaler.
still are violating the law by cleaning
coils free of charge. We mean tc
stop them"
The other side of the picture wa.
presented today by Alexander Bell
attorney for the Heurich concern
and by Abner Drury.
1--WE been identified with the beef
business for so years." Bell said, land
when beer came back I began OBJ
serving practices which are not con-
ducive to proper beer handling.
saw, for instance, a lot of these new
beer dealers who know absolutely
nothing about the business and Their
product, displaying bottled beer in
their show windows where the sun
could shine directly on the bottles
They'd display it like that for 10 days
or two weeks and then take it inside
and ice it and sell it to their GUS
toners. That was wrong.
Coils Not Properly Cleaned.
"Then I observed that coils were
not being cleaned and those who die
make an attempt at this operation
were doing it improperly. Conse-
ouently, the beer that came from the
tap was not good. Not only is the
quality of the product itself impaired
by improperly cleaned coils, but, If the
coils are too completely neglected
they can become a real menace to
health.
1T was my own proposal that we at
Heurich's hire man to do nothing
but go about cleaning coils. That, we
hold, is not service, but is the exer-
else of our right and, in fact, our duty
to police the conditions under which
our products are being sold"
Drury held the same view.
IT believe we should be allowed to
clean the coils" he said. THE brew
ers spend thousands of dollars to keep
the beer in good condition at our
breweries and then we see it spoiled or
at least impaired by improper han
ding by inexperienced dealers.
$50 far as cleaning coils to force the
sale of our product only, we instructed
our coil cleaner-when he was work.
ing-to clean not only the coil dispens-
ing our beer but, If another beer was
handled by the same dealer, to clean
that coil too. AS matter of fact, the
manager of one of the big out-of-town
breweries called me today and asked
me how he could get his coils cleaned
now that we had stopped"
Bell said that he and his associates
would seek to have the code under
which brewers operate altered to per-
NIT coil cleaning. The Districts liquor
law, he pointed out, would not have to
be changed, if the A. B. C. Board
would rule that coil cleaning is not a
service" but is proper policing" in
the interest Of public health and the
quality of the manufacturers prod
ucts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24

disable the mouths of the fish we're
enlarged. Dippers were hung on the
fountain to be used in dipping water
from the fish mouths. Dippers dis
appeared so fast, however, that a
change was ordered after the Health
Department protested against the in
sanitary feature Of the system.
About 10 years ago the Water De-
partment installed bubble fountains,
but Lanham recalled today that
inebriates of prohibition days estab-
lished custom of leaning on the
bubble apparatus and breaking them.
For years the District methodically
replaced the bubble fountains, but
finally turned of the water, to await
better days when money would be
available for installation of q type of
drinking system that would stand the
wear and teaI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
81 NEW LIQUOR
LICENSES GRANTED
Permits by A. B. c. Board
in Capital Now Total
1,755.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board has issued 81 licenses to addi-
tional Washington retailers during the
past 10 days, bringing the total Of re-
tail permits to 1,755.
The new licensees are:
Scotch Club, 1900 Bladensburg road
northeast; Lillian L. Kaplan, 5000
Fourteenth street; Angel Stefan, 2604
Connecticut avenue; Randol P. Zones,
14o5 Fourteenth street southwest;
ACIDS Delicatessen, $500 New Hamp-
shire avenue; Colonial Liquor Shoppe,
1908 M street; Benny's Restaurant,
1904 Fourteenth street; Clifford H.
Smith, 1912 Eleventh street.
Francis A. Sullivan, 214 e street
southwest; Miller's Market, e01 Elev-
enth street southeast; Mary Shama,
507 Maryland avenue southwest; Bur-
dette's Wine and Liquor Store, 500
Georgia avenue; Fairmont Market,
1928 Eleventh street; Sixteenth Street
Delicatessen, 1912 Sixteenth street;
Plaza Drug Co., Inc, 200 z street
northeast; Minnie Heard, 704 Fourth
street southwest; James J. Lake, 513
Ninth street.
Kaplan's Beer, Wine and LIQUOR
Store, 1900 First street; Rudolph F.
Buckley, 1909 Rhode Island avenue
northeast; James Feifer, 1877 First
street; Supreme Lunch, 1856 Fifth
street northeast: Marion Engling,
Riggs Bank Building, Fourteenth street
and Park road; May H. O'Brien, 2721
Seventh street northeast; CAROLS
Cafe, 1920 Seventh street southwest:
Emerson Grill, 1907 Pennsylvania ave-
nue.; Harry and Charles Sosnick, 101
Fifteenth street northeast: George s.
Cullen, 1918 Georgia avenue; Earle
Tavern, zoos E street; william Glass
man, 1920 A street southeast; Jesse A.
Rosenbloom, 727 Eleventh street, and
Wheeler H. Barnes, 200 G street
northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
GAZELLE'S HEAD (NOT ON MENU
FALLS, PUNK! IN DINERS LAP

much too polite to smile, although
they could not quite take their eyes
away while the young scientist sat
Speechless, his outstretched hands
frozen above the gazelle's horns, q
flush on his cheek.
As he arose finally, the head almost
slipped to the floor, but he retrieved
it by horn. For moment he stood
there and glanced about for ideas,
while his napkin caught in his belt
and colored walters hurried to his
assistance.
THE nall" he finally managed,
looking to the wall above his head,
the nail which held this-it seems
to have slipped"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24

Imagine your embarrassment If you
were seated at luncheon with two lady
guests in the midst of an animated
story which required gestures and the
stuffed head of a gazelle fell Of the
wall into your lap. blinking sazelle-
like eyes across the table at your
guests.
Perhaps you would have carried of
the affair with merry laugh. But
the young scientist who found himself
in this situation yesterday noon at
the National Press Club had never had
stuffed gazelle's head fall into his
lap before. II
The other diners il the room vsRe