The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-19
OPENING BASEBALL GAME
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successful evening.
Vera Latona was chairman, as
sisted by Mrs. Jessie Smith, Betty
Pichette, Genevieve Callahan, dar-
riet Nesbitt, Josephine Bartilinl,
Dorothy Chandler, Mrs. Clifford
Raw, Mary Parks, Jennie PeluSo
and william Falon.
Subscriber ana Fan" wrote as
follows:
81 have been reading your
column daily IN The Times and
so far have failed to see any
pictures of the personnel Of the
U. S. Naval Observatory (espe.
pecialIy the instrument repair
shop for free tickets to the
opening game. Thanking you
in advance.
Naval Observatory was reached
by the Lucky Rings" man Just
before the program closed down.
A. F. G. E. JOttingS: At last
a Social Security Board lodge, a
temporary charter having been
given some Ssh folk in New York
the Treasury's Procurement
Division in N. Y. also has been
given a temporary charter. the
new Railroad Retirement Board
lodge gained 1913 new members re-
Gently and met Saturday evening
to get some more. Cecil E. Gus
ter, his iritiS in full retreat along
all fronts, is back at work wearing
green glasses and refraining from
using his optics any more than
necessary. the D. C. members OF
the Imperial Council" recently
gathered for informal discussion
of current perplexities. and may
soon explain why the Ssh Union
in Baltimore has been definitely
cit is saidO turned down. though
no official announcement has
come through. the liberal ele-
ments continue to bubble and the
conservative elements continue to
prick the bubbles. in a recent
D. C. Department meeting resolu-
tons by WPA Lodge No. 139, de-
ploring the custer of C. I. o.
unions by the A. F. Of L. and the
custer of the five Red" lodges at
Detroit, were brushed into oblivion
Editor Lee Somers is out Of
town.
At the recent I. C. c. birthday
celebration, Chairman Carroll Mil
Ter said in the opening address:
within the past three years
additional duties have been
given to the Commission by the
passage of the Air Mail and Mo-
tor Carrier Acts. In cOnse-
quence Of this, many employees
have been added to our staff
and more office space is still
needed. The lack Of sufficient
funds and inadequate office
space have kept the Bureaus of
Air Mail and Motor Carriers
from making the desired prog
reSS. Nevertheless, Roadway is
being made and we hope thai
sufficient money and space will
be soon placed at our command
to enable us to 90 full speed
ahead"
At 4:3O p. m. today the Civil
Service Commission was to close
receipt of applications for assist
ant. junior associate, senior and
principal social science analysts,
a test for which is to be given in
the near future. Salaries range
from $4,000 upward to SIS, 900.
Some idea of how the "hinter-
lands" view the Federal Govern
ment structure can be cleaned
from the following editorial in a
Philadelphia labor weekly:
TN a plea for reorganization
and consolidation of Federal
bureaus, Senator Byrd of Wiz.
ginia recently pointed out some
astonishing instances of dupli.
cation.
For example, at least "A agen-
cieS have been created to deal
with lending Government funds,
and five similar agencies are
now in liquidation. At least three
agencies have been concerned
with inSuring deposits and loans.
At least ten agencies have been
concerned with Government con-
StructiOn. At least nine agencies
have been concerned with credit
and finance. At least IL agencies
have been concerned with home
and community planning. At
least 16 agencies have been con-
cerned with wild life cOnServa-
ton.
$50 It goes down a long list.
Every one Of the purposes for
which these agencies have been
created may be beneficial and
legitimate-but certainly there
can be no excuse for setting up
20 bureaus to do one bureaus
job. Nor can there be any excuse
for permitting bureaus to grow
unchecked and to eat up tax
funds in inimaginable quanti-
ties. Senator Byrd also points
out that one bureau has Is ad-
dresses in Washington alone"
Untold millions Of public
dollars are thrown away an
nually through duplication. Con-
greSs can have no excuse for
failure to adopt at once a re-
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