The Washington times., 1935-10-31
P.0. .BALLHEADS
'GHOSTLY'CARD
FORCLERKS
BY ]. EARLE MOsER

Clerkdom in general will forget
its daily cares and troubles to-
night, for a few, short hours, to
enjoy observance of Halloween,
officially ushering in fall-winter
season of social and recreational
activity among Government EN-
ployes that is expected to be un-
usually brisk.
While the majority of workers
plan to attend private parties
given by colleagues or friends, or
else will visit some of the Capitals
pumpkin-festooned night spots,
two events have been organized
by employees themselves to OBJ
serve the eerie eve.
At the National Press Club, Local
140 of the National Federation OF
Post office Clerks will hold a
ball that from every indication is
expected to prove a complete
success. The ball, lasting from
10 q. m. until l a. m, will be
attended by high postal officials
and officers of the association, and
after expenses are deducted the
receipts are to go to widows and
orphans of postal workers who
have passed on.
Government Printing Office.
which can usually be counted upon
to have something going on any
festive occasion, will hold an old
fashioned "jamboree" under
auspices of the AFGE lodge in
Public Printer Giegengack's in
Stitution. In addition to the usual
dancing, the G.P.O. crowd" will
have a country square dance, a
floor show, a bingo game and
other varied battles of skill, with
plenty of amusing prizes for the
winners.
AS the midnight bell tolls the
witching hour. it will also ring out
the Government career of four
g. P. o. workers, changing them
into the ranks of the leisured class
henceforth. James E. Robinson,
Charles w. Ashford, Michael ].
McInerney and Worley E. Collier,
with a combined total of 108 years
of service, will retire and leave
the worlds largest printing plant
forever.
An amusing incident, that at
first wasn't so amusing, scared
General Accounting Office re-
Gently. A sharp, piercing scream
came from an upper gallery. A
rumor, spreading like fire, was to
the effect that a. girl had fallen
over one of the balconies into the
"pool' below, floored with con-
crete and many feet below. Clerks
jammed the railings, looked down,
and saw nothing.
Investigation disclosed that one
Of G. A. O.'S many rats had some
how crept into desk over night
and been imprisoned therein, the
scream emanating when young
feminine clerk opened the drawer
and he hopped past her face and
Scuttled for home.
The rats, who infiltrate the old
Pension office Building, despite
lack of civil service status or any
political pull whatever, are too
numerous for Skinny" the G. A.
o. cat. Despite the feline'S heft,
they cornered skinny" sometime
ago in the G. A. o. basement, in
flicting severe injuries before a
guard could rescue the pet of the
Comptroller Generals force.
An excursion to New York No
vember % has been announced BY
the District Department of the
AFGE, all expenses to cost in the
vicinity of $l3 per person. Non
members as well as Ages are in
vited to take part in the party"
Handling all arrangements are Ira
Y. Balm, of Internal Revenue;
James G. Yaden, of Civil Service
Commission, and Charles H. Whit
Sey, District Relief Lodge.
Persons intending to take the
Civil Service tests for varied
grades of highway engineer-econ-
omiSt, under Agriculture'S Bureau