The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-31
MITCHELL REFUTES CHARGES OF
u. 5. YOUTH FAV0RITISM


tually" and that non-competitives
are impractical, as they would
cause 24,000,000 applications for
positions when announced.
Another meeting of the associa-
ton is scheduled Thursday at the
Willard Hotel Bamboo Room.
This weeks N. F. F. E. meetings:
Tomorrow " War Department
Local No. 261. 8 p. m.
Friday-Executive Council, Lo-
cal No. 2 p. m. Colored Employees
Local No. II, 8 p. m.
Ali meetings at ITO Fourteenth
st. N. w.
NOTTCE-Each day The Times
publishes photos of Government
employees well known to their col
leagues, with accompanying bio
graphical sketches. Those inter.
eSted in such pictures, especially
members of organizations, should
contact this desk before Sis p. m,
or telephone District 1000, branch
210, between 2 and 6 p. m. News
tips, incidentally, may win cash
prize.
HIKE-Wanderbird Hiking Club
Club yesterday enjoyed an eight
mile walk through meadows and
woods, from the Hammond branch
of the Middle Patuxent River to
Savage, Md. Near the end Of the
hike the group halted near an old
dam for members to swim who
desired a dip. Next Sunday they
will attack the skyline drive sec.
ton of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Following their rebuff by the
District Department of the A. F.
G. E. at its meeting Friday. on
pleas for a vigorous drive against
pending economy measures, the
executive committee Of the Com
mittee Against False Economy,
composed of seven rebel" A. F.
G. E. lodges, planned a meeting
over the weekend to consider fur.
ther steps in their campaign.
A full membership meeting of all
delegates to the committee will be
held tomorrow evening in the
Chantilly Room Of the Hamilton
Hotel.
That there is no intention Of
calling halt at this time because
of the District Departments rebuff
was indicated by announcement
of the committee that the rebels"
long.planned mass meeting will
definitely take place June 10 in
the ballroom of the Willard Hotel.
Full Endorsement Of the action
taken thus far by its representa-.
tives on the Committee Against
False Economy was voted by the
membership Of Interstate Lodge
No. SO at a recent meeting. This
was the first opportunity that
members Of the I. C. c. group had
received to formally express them
selves on the mSSer.
J. J. McEntee, assistant director
of Emergency Conservation Work,
today announced that the Civilian
Conservation Corps will cooperate
with the American Red Cross this
summer in the training of $50
commissioner reserve officers now
on duty with the CCC as Red Cross
life saving examiners and 1000
CCC enrollees as life guards. The
officers will be trained at the Ma.
tional Aquatic Schools to be con-
Quoted by the American Red Cross
during June and July. The en-.
rolleeS will receive their training
at special schools which are to be
established in each district at the
conclusion of the National Aquatic
Schools.
The reserve officers, trained at
the National Aquatic Schools, will
serve as instructors at the district
schools held for enrollees. En-
rollees who graduate from the dis
trict schools will be assigned to life
guard duty in the CCC camps as
soon as they receive their certifi-
Gates. At least two CCC senior life
guards will be assigned to each
camp. All outdoor swimming at
CCC camps is supervised.
The American Red Cross COOP
Grated with the CCC in the con-
duct of life saving programs dur
ing the summers of 1885 and 1886.
During those years total of $685.
enrollees were graduated as Red
Cross senior life guards.
So-called militant unionism"
may or may not be superb for pri-
Vate industry, but it occasionally
gets tireSome in a Federal office.
This statement, made by an Ssh
group, reaches a new high in some
thing or other:
His henchmen, who circu.
lated the petition, did not re-
frain from intimidation tactics
worthy of the worst explOiters of
labor that industry knows"
Even organization officials in
Washington admit that Federal
employees drawing steady checks
each first and 18th can hardly be
termed exploited. At any rate, the
battle to get a position and become
exploited" constitutes one Of the
prime issues of the day.
Protest has been sent to Senator
Royal S. Copeland against provi-
sionS of his bill for reorganization
of the Bureau of Marine Inspection
and Navigation by the National
Civil Service Reform League.
H. Eliot Kaplan, executive Sec
rotary, wrote the Senator:
"SectiOnS 12O6-7 un,1Id sot nm