The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-28

Works Progress Administration
is to reclassify its entire admins
trative personnel, officials re-
vealed today.
The admission came following
reclassification along Civil Service
lines of the project control divi-
sion stationed in the washington
auditorium, which has long served
as a laboratory" for personnel
experiments of WPA, and which
suffered a dismissal slice of $50
prior to it's shakeup.
: The General WPA reclassifica-
ton, however, may be more suit
able to workers than that of prof..
ect control because of strident
protests which were lodged with
Dallas bort, chief Of the division,
by the WPA employees union.
Meeting with bort recently, the
unions special committee charged
the Redistribution had been "ar.
bitrary," had resulted in scaling
down of salaries in lower brackets
Of less than $4,000, and that while
civil service classified jobs have
a pliable range, the WPA shift
had seen all salaries revised to re-
main at the lowest range.
bort, After union requests for
g thorough and fair reclasSi-
fication with a resembling of all
pay cuts pending an investiga-
tion,' said he would turn over sta
tistics of the Redistribution to
the committee and discuss the
question again after the union
I folk had studied the dope"
DR.. Harold G. Bryant, assistant
director of the National Park
Service, will discuss the superla.
tive features Of the national
parks, their outstanding rivers,
canyons, waterfalls and mountain
ranges tonight at the Government
Auditorium, between the Labor
and I. c. C. Buildings. Beginning
at 8 O'Clock, the lecture. which is
illustrated, is open to the public.
The United Civil Service EN-
ployes, who held their regular BIZ
monthly meeting last night at the
Harrington Hotel with John Ched-
ester of General Accounting Of
flee in the chair, have selected
two new vice presidents. They
are Charles c. Morrison Of San
Francisco and Otto A. Fuchs, West
Plainfield, N. ]. The U. C.. S. E.
has protested use of project work
ers by WPA on West Coast work
that it believes should be handled
by those on civil service rolls.
Writing about the Halloween
Dance to be sponsored by the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars of Straun.
Turner Post No. 5 1927, Friday eve
ming, $50 p. m, Watkins Ball
Room, Sixty-third Street at the
District Line, Seat Pleasant, Md,
Senior Vice Commander Thomas
Dixon says:
"We are a nice lot of gentle.
men, and need some real assist
ance in putting this dance over.
1--WE have fine band and this
will be a real good time, so we
would love to have the Govern
ment employees with us. This
will be a real Old-time Halloween
Dance and all that goes with it.
Knowing Mr.. Dixon, we would
advise attendance.
NumerOIOgy is science Of inter-
est to many having faith in its
ability to help them toward the fu
ture and use to the greatest ad-
vantage the best points in ones
character. For the fun of it, Fed
eralites may have reading"
from an expert now in the service
by submitting to this column their
full, original name and the date
Of their birth. Birth dates will
not be published, however.
Here is a reading on attractive
Dome O'Dell Moore, Commerce
clerk:
There 10 not a great deal of harmony
between what you want to do and what
you do While your artistic ability IS
on q very high plane, you still have diff
ficultY in expressing it. You are often
misunderstood because you do not
clearly express what You feel IN a man
ner to make yourself clearly understood.
aNyir ant Nd nnnnFtnnjtias W
lead you along paths of service rather
than along artistic lines. When you
passed your birthday in 1885 you came
into q period of clearer vision and
clearer thinking than heretofore. You
will soon assume responsibilities in a
much greater and more serious sense
than at any period of your life thus far.
but do not assume too much for your
health'S sake.
One-fOurth of the 100000 visi.
tors to the recent Great Lakes Elk.
position at Cleveland passed
through the exhibition Of Indian
arts and crafts set up by the In.
dian Service, Interior reports. The
principal question was Where
can these Indian articles be
bought?"
Civil Service will receive appli.
cations for motor aircraft me.
chanics at the Norfolk Navy Yard
until November 3, the job paying
from STAB to 1914 daily with a
4O-hour week and retirement bene-
fits.
"Dtorama" sculptors, modelers