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may win a cash prize.
state Departments newest
tome on official correspondence,
dealing with office procedure and
general preparation Of official
correspondence, was prepared by
Margaret M. Hanna, chief of the
office of coordination and re-
view; and Alice M. Ball, chief of
the special documents section.
division Of research and publica-
ton.
While the tome isn't intended
for the use of the public, it may
be obtained at the Government
Printing office for SITS per copy.
General Accounting office the
other day issued a notice to all
employees warning of activities in
connection with lotteries, etc.
Keen clerks received a laugh, how
ever, when they noticed the order
was issued over the signature OF
John r. McCarl, whose thunder
has been missing from G. A. O.
since last June.
Maybe you've heard this before,
but National Park Service scien-
fists reaffirm their contradiction
of a long-accepted tradition in de-
nying that the number Of rattles
carried by a rattleSnake indicates
the reptiles age. Rattlers grow
two and three buttons year, Sec
rotary Ickes' experts declare, and
after about IL are produced the
older ones begin to break off.
Some rattlerS have been found
with as many as % buttons, but
the average maximum is about IL
or IA.
Edgar Brown. expert within the
division of seed Investigations,
Agriculture Bureau Of Plant In
dustry, has been named to partici-
pate in the International Seed
Testing Congress at Zurich, Swift
zerland, beginning June 90.
DR.. Philip S. Smith, chief Alas
kan geologist for the Bureau of
Geological Survey, has been named
chairman of the delegation which
will represent the United States
at the International Geological
Congress to be held at Moscow, U.
S. S. R., beginning July 20.
Included in the delegation will
be DR.. Julia Gardner and Dr.
Marcus Goldman. Interior; Miss
Jewell j. Glass, Geological Survey;
Edward P. Henderson, Smithso-
Man Institution, and DR.. James S.
Williams, Interior geologist. DR..
John P. Marble, local geologist,
also will be among delegates from
Washington.
PLEASANTRIES The cool
breeze, whatever the thermom-
eter score, that greets the visitor
entering the Civil Service Com
missions Old Patent Office
Building General Accounting
Offices icy ice water the
calm and quiet of Agriculture's
administration building, with its
patio pool and the delicious
Roquefort cheese obtainable in the
basement the fine Mall and
Potomac River view from some
parts Of the new Interior structure
officials who honestly tell the
facts on personnel situations, even
when it's bad news, without beat
ing around the subject.
For the first time in its history,
the growing United Civil Service
Employees is to allow formation
of lodges" known. however, by
the more general name Of
groups" for the pursuance of &C.
tivities within the organization.
The groups are to be chartered.
selecting whatever name they
wish, will have a president and
secretary-treasurer, but will be re-
quired to pay no charter fee. They
may set up group dues" but this
does not prevent any past or pres
ent Civil Service appointee from
becoming a general member as
before. In other words. if a group
is formed within particular Of
flee, an employee may still become
a U. C. S. E. member without join
ing the particular chartered group
in his office.
Five or more workers may form
a group.
FEDERALISMS-Fr m inside
sources it is said even John L.
Lewis Is viewing with alarm the
frankenstein he has created
the "speed-up" started the Gov.
eminent organization troubles in
Baltimore incidentally, how.
ever, the Baltimore unionists at
Ssh seem short of a good stand
when they complain that a mem
Der was fired because he refused
to donate voluntary overtime be.
cause there was a union meeting
scheduled few Federal admin.
istrators are going to admit that
a union meeting is sufficient ex.
cuse to dodge work, even If it is
overtime meanwhile, five
more Baltimore Ssh workers have
been notified they are "unsatis'
factory" all Of them union Off
Gals events today: Executive
committee of the D. c. Federation.
N. F. F. E., meets at ITO Four
tenth st. N. W, 5 p. m.