The Washington times., 1937-01-26

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Appointment of John c. Page to
the position Of Commissioner of
the Bureau of Reclamation, an
nounced yesterday by the White
House, has cemented a bona fide
career man" to a key position
within the Federal service in which
he had already served efficiently
for 10 months.
A Civil Service appointee. Page
has worked within the Bureau for
more than Is years. carving out a
career with successfully higher
steps in the very fashion advocated
by those who desire complete
merit system carrying ample op-
portunities for intelligent and am
bilious workers.
A native Of Syracuse, Nebraska,
the new Commissioner studied en-.
gineering at the University of Ne
braska and Cornell University, en-
tering the Government in 1909 in
a minor engineering post. He left
the service for a short while to
accept an "outside" job, but in
1911 returned to the Reclamation
Bureau and has remained since.
During his rise he served as SUI
perviSor of the Grand Valley irri
cation project in Colorado and
held the title of chief admins
trative assistant during the con.
struction of Boulder Dam. He
came to Washington in october of
1885 to head the Reclamation en-
gineering division under the late
Commissioner Elwood Mead, Dr.
Mead having asked for him as an
"understudy." Since DR.. Mead'S
death he has been serving as Act
ing Commissioner, his permanent
appointment giving testimony to
the satisfaction he has rendered
within Secretary 1ckes' admins
tration.
Announcement of an examina
ton awaited by hundreds of am
bilious college graduates was made
today by the Civil Service Com
mission. The agency is to accept
applications until February Is for
those in Eastern States, for junior
patent examiner in the Patent Of
flee. the entrance salary of which
is $4,000 yearly.
The test, open to anyone under
As, requires full bachelors de.
gree from college or university,
with major study in engineering,
chemistry or physics, the duties of
the position being described as fol.
lows:
TO perform elementary Scien.
tfic or technical work in the ex-
animation of applications for
patents; to see what is claimed
to be new in the alleged inven-
ton; to see that the disclosure is
complete; and to investigate the
prior art as represented by pat
entS already granted in the
United States and various for
eign countries and by the de.
ScriptiOns in technical litera-
ture."
Other tests, closing applications
at the same time, are for elevator
mechanician with the National
Park Service, S1,68O, and junior
observer in meteorology with the
Weather Bureau, $1,440.
Officers of the A. F. G. E., con-
fronted with reports that there
is an alliance" among emergency
agency lodges to overthrow" the
organization in favor of a mill
tant union" which would picket
Government buildings, foment
strikes and otherwise raise Cain,
remain noncommittal in general.
AS to lodges at General Account
ing Office, Agriculture, Resettle-
ment, Works Progress Administra-
tlon and Labor-which are said to
be part of the alliance
stand at national headquarters is
until they prove their disloyalty
we have nothing to say" Response
bllity for the two consecutive Koch
fiaScos is laid entirely upon the
D. C. Department, as being that
units peccadillo.
Meantime, Lodge 81 of Agricul.
ture continues to give the C. I. o.
congratulatory space in its news
letter, saying editorially:
THE c. 1. o. organizing cam
palgn, having thus far met with
remarkable success, is being, if
anything, intensified. The last
few weeks have seen victories in
a number of strikes carried on
by unions which have commit
ted themselves to the support of
the committee, all involving far.
reaching concessions to labor,
and the commencement of ne
gotiatiOnS at G. /. o. headquar-
terS for the consolidation Of
three unions in the boot and
shoe industry"
Jerome s. Rogers, expert tan
ming chemist specializing in the
leather and shoe industries, has
been appointed to the industrial
farm products division of the Bu-
reau Of Chemistry and Soils. Agri-
culture. The new appointee, a
past president of the American
Leather Chemists Association, will
perform research work in his Spe-
cialty under H. T. Herrick, chief,
and in company With R. w. Frey,
I. D. Clarke, L. S. Stuart, and C.
W. Boebe.