The Washington times., 1937-06-01
CIVIL SERVICE GROUP SPURNS
SEEKING {. |. 0. AFFILIATI0N

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Delegates and alternates to the
Twentieth Jubilee Convention of
the N. F. F. E. next September in
Springfield, ILL.,, will be selected to-
night by the War Department 10
cal No. 261 at ITO Fourteenth st.
N. W., headquarters of Washing
ton members.
Nominations include Ben r.
Kleinwachter, william S. Kinney,
Gertrude E. Coyle, Charles Bonne-
vile, w, E. Hoffheins, Walter E.
NARROW. Pearle Cooper, Jesse A.
Lay and j. S. M. Zimmerman.
Following the meeting, there is
to be a talk on the subject,
Around the World on a Lead
Pencil" by Ann Singleton, Air
Corps, in which she will touch
upon personal experiences in al
most every country. R. K. Gheen
informs that activities will con-
clude with doughnuts and coffee
provided by the Air Corps.
Any immediate appointment to
the Civil Service Commission to
fill the spot recently vacated by
DR.. Leonard D. White is believed
unlikely within high Government
circles.
In view of the pending reorgan-
ization of the service, now being
discussed in hearings within both
Senate and House, it is believed
the vacancy will be allowed to
stand until the most controversial
points of such a reorganization
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The recent Brownlow reports
highlight was a suggestion that
the Civil Service Commission be
reorganized under a single admin.
istrator, with seven unpaid lad
visors," instead Of the present bi-
partisan setup of three commits
sioners. And while this ponds,
substituting appointment seems
futile, it is said.
White, incidentally, agreed with
the single administrator idea, say
ing in April he was in sympathy
with having my own job abol-
iShed."
National Park Service Is restor-
ing the famous Shiloh battlefield
in Tennessee. It is even replanting
the peach orchard, where some OF
the heaviest fighting took place
on the Sunday in April of 1862
that saw Albert Sydney Johnston,
Confederate general, receive NOR
tai wound. In Shiloh Park are the
same giant oaks under which he
breathed his last.
The apportionment idea, one OF
the big topics of the day, received
short shrift recently when Indiana
announced tests for jobs handling
its social security administration.
Ignoring home town jobs for
home town boys" Indiana held eX-
aminations at New York city and
Chicago as we'll as Indianapolis,
the American Public Welfare Asso-
citation reports.
It was thus felt that real merit
would be served, instead of placing
efficiency and ability in second
place behind residential luck.
FEDERALISMS - EN- rgency
workers in the Government are
easy to organize, according to
those experienced in union work,
Civil Service people being "Stulti-
fled with years of knowing the
desk awaits them each morning"
and not giving a hang but it's
hard to keep ahead Of the emergen.
cieS after they're organized, one
employe leader declares, saying,
they'll run over you if you don't
watch OUT. only Is per cent
of Federal workers at present are
organized. Stephen Latchford
of State Department and Ralph
Hubbard Hallett of Maritime Com
mission are in Paris attending the
meeting of the International Com
mittee of Aerial Legal Experts
William Palmer, New York
artist, has completed two murals
in oil in the north elevator lobby
on the seventh floor of the Post
Office Department Building. {.
Frank Loeffler, with so years serv.
ice, and Anna Wilson, who served
80, have retired from the Patent
Office. Agriculture plans a
study of flood control in 200 water
sheds of the country this year
Jacob Jones Post, American
Legion, held Memorial services
Sunday at the Peace Cross in Ar.
lingt on emetery. Edgar
Brown, Bureau of Plant Industry.
will represent this country at the
Seed-testing congress in Zurich,
Switzerland, June 90. Justice
is investigating a Georgia COM
pany under suspicion that it has
violated the labor relations act
through a coincidence that
seems peculiar. Government audi.
forums have been refused to
rebel" A. F. G. E. organizations
for their mass meeting demonstra-
ton against proposals of economy