The Washington times., 1937-02-23

- one requiring
L. Zaff Rogers complete knoWl-
edge Of the rigid public relations
policies laid down for subsidiary
units by the N. F. F. E. national
office.
The N. F. F. E. will allow no
"scarehead" stories to be diStrib-
uted without official sanction, and
the tactics employed by some high
pressure press representatives
veering from conservative basis
of fact in order to get a better
play in the paperS-have never
been tolerated.
Rogers is expected to fill all re-
ouirements by his many friends,
however, having been an N. F. F..
E. member during the two years
since he came from home in
Evansville, Ind, to join the Treas
ury's Division of Public Debt Ac-
counts and Audit. His ambition
is to become a public accountant
and his hobby is amateur dra-
maticS, having appeared in sew
eral D. C. productions. He has
three children, Margaret, Billy
and Jerry.
He succeeds Ben Morgan, young
Federal Housing worker who left
the Government to enter publicity
work.
House Civil Service Committee
hearings on the Ramspeck bill to
bring emergency workers into
Civil Service status were to be
resumed today at 10:30 a. m. and
probably will wind up tomorrow.
Questioning of more Federal per-
sonnel officials was on the pro-
gram.
A report, showing PWA's bene'
ficial effect on private industry,
has just been released after two
years of work by so statisticianS
within the Labor Department S
Bureau of Labor Statistics, work
ing under Herman B. Byer. 1t
shows that during 1884 PWA
projects used 25 per cent OF all
brick, IS per cent of all cement,
As per cent of all structural steel
and so per cent Of all steel rails
which were produced.
Meantime, Secretary 1ckes told
a contractors convention in Texas
recently:
Gas an emergency Organiza-
ton created to give employ
ment to those out of work and
to help bring about prosperity,
PWA is coming to the end Of
the chapter. The saddeSt duty
that / have had to perform as
a Government official has been
to reduce our staff because our
work is falling off. 1t is heart
breaking to have to let men and
women go who have performed
faithful service and l hope that
you contractors during the build
ing revival that many experts
see ahead of us will find it pos
sible to employ these skilled
men and women, for, as you
know, the staff of PWA was not
built up on a political basis. 1t
has not been patronage
dump"
Despite this statement, how.
ever, PWA ranked with FILA dur.
ing 1884 and 1885 in the number
of Young Democratic Club mem
bers on its rolls, outnumbering
any other agency. AS to the new
"friendship-patronage" attacked
so viciously by Representative
Ramspeck, it still employs the
messenger who used family to pro.
cure an accounting job in the
field, despite admitted inability to
tell a debit from a credit or a
balance sheet from an invoice.
Harry SchOoler, South Dakota
man, has been named assistant
director of the AAA's North Cen.
trail Division by Director Claude
r. Wickard. Born at Victor,
Iowa, Schooler was educated at
Des Moines, served in the Army
in France during the war, and
graduated from South Dakota
State College after a year of
previous study at Iowa State Col.
lege. He owns a 2,200-acre ranch
and 320-acre general farm in South
Dakota, one of the States included
within the AAA North Central
boundaries.
WashingtOn's Virginians will for.
get their woes under the Federal
apportionment system for awhile
tomorrow as the Virginia State
Society presents its annual Co.
lonial costume ball in celebration
of George Washington's Birthday
at the Willard. A pageant, begin,
ming at 9 p. m, will depict the
arrival in Philadelphia Of Wash.
ington and the Virginia delega.
ton to aid in drafting the Consti,
tuition.
General Accounting Off1c e
Lodge No. 8. A. F. G. E., is seething
with plans for progress, upward,
outward and downward" and a
membership campaign is under
full steam. This. despite the with
drawal of a few iron-ribbed con-
servatives who declare the lodges