The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-21
COLLEGES FORM ORGANIZATION
T0STUDY GOVERNMENT NEEDS

%between and Z p. m, on the
premises. Shares are SIS apiece,
enthusiasts are being allowed to
subscribe up to 5000 worth, and
the date for beginning actual bust.
ness depends largely on how much
immediate financial support is
received.
The name of the restaurant is
derived from the first cooperative
movement among weavers in Roch-
dale, England. 1t has applied for
a charter, the cook has already
been engaged, and a member who
is artistically talented is now at
work on slight alterations of the
site.
Autumn may tell a different
story, but just now plans at Home
owners Loan Corporation have
been mapped to work all over
every other Federal agency and
clean up the Government baseball
championship of washington.
A crack team is now drilling,
with John E. Moran handling the
managers megaphone, and it's
thirsting for scalpS.
Cash, however, is needed for the
purchase Of shin guards, bats,
spikes, scorebooks and other sun
dries of the baseball field, and to
this end Hole folk (and all other
FederaliteS) have been invited to
attend the dance tonight at Ward
man Park Hotel. Tariff, SO cents
per person, will surely represent
value received.
Officers for the ensuing year
and a delegate to the N. F. F. E.
biennial convention in Spring
field, ILL.,, in September, will be
principal items of business for the
District of Columbia Federation of
Federal Employees Unions in its
monthly meeting tonight.
The confab is tabled for 8 p.
m, ITO Fourteenth st. N. w.
In another meeting today the
Veterans Administration branch
of Local No. was to settle some
business at the same site, at 4:30
p. m.
Two Washington products, lately
detailed for study at the State De.
partment's Foreign Service School,
have received assignments as
American Vice Consuls. Douglas
Macarthur I'd, son Of the famous
General, goes to Naples. Italy,
while John Ordway has been given
a post at Calcutta. India.
Ellen s. woodward, WPA assist
ant administrator, recently de-
clared in a radio address:
ut is clear to US that there
are three routes our nation may
elect to travel. Two Of them in
vOlve loss Of personal liberty
and such a high degree Of regi'
mentatiOn or dictatorship that
no true patriot could but de-
plOre them. There is, however,
a middle road that can be
worked out by an intelligent and
informed democracy. That mid
die ground is one which pre-
serves in the greatest degree the
tradition and heritage for which
the ID. A. r. stands. 1t is the
one on which our country was
founded and developed. And it
is the one on which we can hope
to build a safe and secure ma
ton of the future"
Ironically, however, organized
WPA employees are frequently &C
cused by other Government per
sonnet of failing to keep to the
middle road" and it is noticeable
that of the two routes involving
loss of personal liberty they de-
nounce only fascism in parliament
tary uproars among their organi-
cations.
Federalisms: Jack Lightsey, Of
General Accounting Office, left
his post by resignation Monday to
enter a career selling life insur-
ance. already making a good cal
airy, Jack expects to do far better
in his career as an independent
business man. friends at the Old
Pension Office Building presented
him with a leath,' brief case and
plenty of good wishes. .applica-
tons for power sewing machine
operator must have been filed with
the Civil Service Commission by
4:30 p. m. today. the A. F. G. ELS
hottest baseball fan, Bernice Heff-
ner, saw the opening game New
York State Democratic Club is re-
ported to be ready to make real
battle against the existing turn
over" in positions at emergency
agencies the Farm Credit Ad.
ministration's chorus concert next
Tuesday in the Departmental audi
torium, $3.50 p. M. and the Gov
eminent Printing office Lodge,
A. F. G. E., is to bingo, April 30,
Green Room. Helen Winfree,
Room l041, South Building, Agri-
culture. is the lady to contact for
Aggie workers who wish to build
their own homes. the A. r. A.
Rent and Housing Committee has
arranged with an agent to find
sites, arrange for financing, OBJ
tain bids and supervise construc-
ton for any employees who wish
| to quit apartment living Ethel