The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-06

desk and shows the senatorial protestant that his q00ta-hIs coiumn--ie full.
 THE SECRET
 The secret of landing on the AAA payroll IS this chart, plus the word of your representative. You can sit tn the dreary line which watts ct the feet of Julien Friant for days and weeks, and no matter how much you may plead, threaten, caJoje, you will get nowhere.
 it m the word from the con- grcggIiIaD on the hlti that does it. And he In turn usually is in touch with the democratic com. njittee in the state or county.
 For those who don't know this the walt is long. For those who know, the path Is greased and easy. Such was the experience of 4 young man from Nebraska. He had just been appointed sB auditor at 12,OOO q year. He knew. fn fact, he knew 50 much that ne had come back to protest against the great injustice of WWHiUB VII sDS UtBDb DbsbI
 He was returning to Nebraska shortly anyway, he said, to help iD the primary. Said he; "1 make about 4i,6OO during each campaign. Mostly social en- tertaintHg. take the nick pO1lti. Cai bosses out when they come fO town and give them q taste of night .ife--Wihe, women and song-tbe best Omaha csD give 'em."
 "BOw do things look for tbc dcmOcrats?"
 "FJne. Those poor devils Of farmers don't know what money looks like. They have plenty of potatoes fn their cellars, plenty Of hay in their barns, and plenty Of corn and wheat in their bins. So when they get these acreage allowance checks from the gov. erBment, they're fixed, It don't make no difference where 1t came from or who has pay it back, checks would get mObbed.
 Besides George Norris Is tbe best democrat wc bave tD Ne' braska."
 JOB MECCA
 Finally, after weary trips 10 the capitol and proper endorse DeHtS from the proper senator, the girl iB the outer office beck ODed,
 "I can't give this 10 you here" she said iD a stage whisper. "COme into Mr Jones' 0hicc, where aII the jOb.Bcekers can't see you" Then gbe produced 4 j6tter to T. JyAicxaBdcr, one of Friant's asBtstantS, which meant that the job was won,
 The next step WAS 10 sign eight separate application blanks chiefly for the civil service com. mission and for the purpose Of "bjank eting" the emDioye into clvl. service after he has been on the government payroll for three months
 This s | scheme evolved by democratic patronage grabbeps for setting around the civil scrv. ice rules Of half 4 century. AD. pOintees to the AAA are exempt. cd by law from civil service; but later they receive automatic civil service status iD order to make tbeir jobs more permanent.
 Work began tiiat night at JfiSO Q. Ss,--tjle night shift. WHEIsE IS EFFICIENCY?
 Secretary Wallace has been hailed as one Of the two cabinet members (wjth Secretary 1ckes) who have put their departments on night work. Large gobs of publicity have flowed from the departments press bureaus 0H the efficiency with which the crop checks were sent 10 the farmer.
 NOT NOTICEABLE
 But for one actually at work compiling and sending these cheeks the efficiency was no. where apparent.
 The ncw AAA sppOIntce was pwt tO work beside ( young chap tH tine sub.FcvieW section Of fbc Machine CnDt WDp0 was supposed Co give necessary instruction.
 He announced gIumiy that he was from Maryland, had once worked iD the census bureau. and like most workers from Maryland, Virginia or, the Dis- trict Of Columbia, expected to be dismissed any day. Western and southern senators nave launched campaign to oust the workers living adjacent to Washington, who under republican admins. trat0rs packed the government
 Our job was to check the con. tracts for the curtaiIment of cotton, wheat, etc., and make sure that the punch card ma. chimes wrich licked Out the fig. ures made no mistakes. On the basis of this, the farmer received his check.
 ASLEEP
 The work was relatively sim. pie. It took thirty minutes to run through the first batch Of about 100 farmers acceptance slips. After that we went to sleep. before another batch of slips dis. --agajn requiring only 90 min- uteg--we had more time on our hands. This time we went to the mems room for a smoke and chat.
 Meanwiige dotted around the room were . host of others asleep. There were not merely one or twO, Q. three OF fOuf, bui ' literally half fife room asleep, reading Or chatting.
 Apparently there was nothing else to do, Operators worked when the work came in. but most of the time 1t didn't come. And this turned out to be an average night.
 About 5000 people were em. pIoyed in the various stages of approving crop contracts and sending out crop cheeks. Prob ably that work could have been done by half that many.
 (Next article in this series will follow soon.) c
 (CopysigIst. 1e34, by United
 Feature Syndicate, nIc.)
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