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The Washington times., 1937-01-14

the corridors Of the Capitol when
he acted as secretary for his
father. He told newSmen the
other day when he was in remi-
niscent mood, that being q Sec
retary was a soft snap then. He
was able to hold down his job
and study law at the same time.
The reason, he says, was because,
the people weren't as closed to the
Federal Government as they are
now and two or three letters a
week was a good volume of bust
ness. If a member of Congress
only got two or three letters a
week in this day or age, he would
know that he was slipping and
that something would have to be
done to get him back in the good
graceS Of his constituents.
The Washington times., 1937-01-14
By T. E. Powers

publicized constitution, and her
dramatic diSavOWaI Of inter-
national communism in the
recent 'ShOw-windOW' trials and
executions. There is no love
of communism in England, and
vet England has loaned money
to the SOviets - when the
security seemed adequate.
"AmOng the rulers of Eng
land, there is a great apprecia-
ton Of MussOlini and of his
theories of government, yet
they loan no money to Italy.
Similarly, Hitler has powerful
friends in England, but no
credit. The allotment Of credit
and raw materials, the very life
blood Of national survival, de-
termines international group
ings, and not cOntending pOlitt-
cal PHILOSOPHERS.
"If MussOlini really Joined Hit
Ter, their alliance would have to
be Staked on carrying through
the Mittel Europa plan, the con-
quest of Russia and the seizure
of the Ukraine, with Italy get
ting her share. MuSSOlini is too
much of a realiSt not to see the
desperate hazard of this venture.
Urgently, at this moment, he
needs the credit and raw ma
terials which France, England
and America can supply. He
needs them to carry through his
African adventure and build his
new empire. That is the expla-
nation of his recent Overtures to
these three countries and the
moves toward reOpening debt
payment negotiations.
"There is every possibility
that, under the iron cOmpulsiOn
of events, Germany will make
adjustments which will get her
credit and trade and make it
possible for her to survive with
out war. Spain seems to me to
be the crux of all this. / do not
believe for a moment that
France and England will allow
an Italian naval base in the
Balearic Islands or a German
base in the Canary Islands or
Morocco. These two sites sever
England's main lines of empire
through the SueZ Canal or
around the Cape of Good Hope.
INTERNAL ADAPTATIONS
"BOth French and British i'm
perial deStinies are at stake here,
and even if Franco wins these
nations cannot and will not
allow them to be wrecked by the
German Outreach through Spain.
Here, as see it, will be the show
down. / do not believe that Ger
many will be granted colonies, or
that they will amount to any
thing if she gets them. There is
no money in colonies in this CEN
tury. But Germany will be given
a chance for a restored economic
status of trade and SOlvency, and
I believe she will accept it.
"In short, Germany can make
internal adaptations, and the
other powers can and, / believe,
will, make concessions induced
by their desperate fear Of world
war. These internal changes
and these concessions, with the
lOOSening of credit and Ger
many's abandonment Of her
Mittel Europa plan, will, doubt
leSsly, save Europe from war
for many years to come, at any
rate"
There's a pleasant sentiment!
DR.. Das attended the Univers1t
of Calcutta, studied in Japan an
at the University of Berlin, too
Bachelors and Masters Degree 9
the University of Washington an
his Doctors Degree at Georgetow
University. His books have mad
him q well-known authority on Fs
Eastern affairs.
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HE'S SINGLE

Well, girls, here's your chance.
A persistent and persevering can
didate for a seat in Congress has
won out and in turning in the facts
for his autobiograph, he states
that this is the third time he's
tried to make the grade, and he's
made it, and he's a bachelor.
From the Fourteenth District of
Pennsylvania has arrived
"Guy L. MOSer (DemOcrat) Of
DOuglaSSville, Pa, r. F. D. 2,
born in a log house on a farm
in Amity township, BerkS
County, Pa, January %, 1886,
son of the late Henry G. and
Margaret Sassaman MOser, sur
viving grandson of the late Judge
Augustus S. and Sophia De Turk
SaSSaman, grand nephew of the
late Judge Henry GreSh and
Esther IOrah MOSer; a direct
Gineal descendant, eighth gen.
Grafton Of Isaac De Turk, emf
grant pioneer coming to America
with Rev. Joshua Won KOcher-
thai, first German Lutheran
clergyman emigrating from the
Palatinate in 1908, and taking
title to LandOn, a patent issued
by william Penn, within seven
miles of his ancestral homestead;
also had IL ancestors to serve in
the Revolutionary War; attended
rural public school and Keystone
State Teachers College; farm
labOrer, painter, paperhanger
and public school teacher, served
70 years in the classified Civil
Service of the U. $50 years
as a railway postal clerk and IL
years as a post office inspector;
resigned and entered investment
banking for five years; resigned
and returned to farming;
single"
He tried for Congress in 1882
and 1884 but was defeated and
won when he tried again Ia 1886.
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OH! ECONOMY!

Although the majority Of the
members Of Congress being Demo
Gratis were a bit restrained in COM
menting on the Presidents plan
for Government reorganization,
they got a distinct shock. 1t was
understood on the Hill that when
Senator Byrd started the survey,
it was to be an economy measure.
In the Presidents message there
was included a five-point program
under which the reorganization
was to be accomplished. Much to
the surprise Of the legislators the
five paragraphs began with these
words:
II. Expand; 2. Strengthen;
3. Extend; 4. Overhaul, and 5.
Establish"
Which certainly doesn't seem to
have anything to do with save or
retrench.
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Indignantly re-
fused, saying he
would accept no
d e gree h e
h a d MT earned.
But he ro-
posed to e a r n
on He wrote
a learned thesis
on Machiavelli,
one of his life
a b sor t ions,
and got the de-
gree. Italy's pol
icy for the last
10 years and to-
d ay m ay b e
$1,000 ILL., IL
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Congress slowly
recovering from
t h e vengeance
of the Missouri
underworld.
Recently he
graduated from
crutches to a
cane which he
finds necessary
to favor his in.
jured leg. Be
for he Will be
a BILE to walk
normally again
he must submit
to another oper-
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every mail since
we first told
t h e youngsters
they could share
this space. And
out of those let
ters fresh laugh
ter, clean fire,
to blow away
the cob W e b S
from Americas
tired brain. Or
sometimes a pic
ture to wiring
your heart. This
one, for exam.
pie:
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The greatest study Of woman
kind is Man. Yet, the more women
seem to LEARN about men, the
less they seem to understand
them, or to know how to charm
and sway them.
This is because they fondly be-
lieve that Man has progressed and
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WHAT A CHANGE

Congress certainly isn't what it
used to be. You can take Speaker
William B. Bankhead's word for
it.
Speaker Bankhead first walked
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Bu Frank Miller Smith

Limping around in an office onS
the first floor of the Old House
Office Building is a member Of
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The Human Side of the News
Bv EdWin C.. Hill

Soon after Mussolini had gained
power, the University of Florence
wanted to give him a degree. He
The Washington times., 1937-01-14

Scores, hundreds, thousands Of
.ager letters-pouring in with
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THURSDAY, JANUARY IA, 1887


I'm q
~ j. Editor
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mittee will have to be given lengthy and serious
sideration.
The Washington Times is glad to find that in many
of the phases of its discussion of personnel management
the committee pursues the line of thought which
has so often been expressed in these columns.
The committee in its report declares:
"The effective conduct of the work of the GOU-
ernnlent depends upon the men and IOOnIen LUhO
serUe it, Improved plans for governmental or
ganizGtiOn and management are OF IIttLe UdLHe
unless simultaneous recognition is giUen to the
need for attracting, retaining and developing
human capacity in the public SerUice.
With that no one except the hack politician can
will quarrel.
In order to attract retain and develop this 'human
capacity in the public service' the committee
mends extension of the merit system to cover all but
very few olicydeternining positions, increase in
the salaries of the higher paid positions and through
strict application of merit to promotion, the holding
out to all Government employees of the hope of obtain
ing these higher positions.
These recommendations will appeal to all students of
the Civil Service system sound will the
mendaton that classification be extended to the field
and to all departmental positions not now covered
It is regretable however, that the committee did not
pursue this line of reasoning further.
TT NIGHT WE'LL HAVE SEEN THAT HIGHER
SALARIES ARE NEEDED NOT ONLY IN THE
HIGHER BRACKETS BUT THROUGHOUT THE
GOVERNMENT SERVICE IF WE ARE TO HAVE
THAT CABLE CIVIL SERVICE" WHICH THE
COMMITTEE FINDS TO BE ''THE GREAT NEED
OF AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS"
If positions in the higher brackets are to be made
attractive and if hope is to be held out to all Gov
eminent workers of reaching them, then it becomes
essential that those entering the Government service
the bottom rungs of the ladder should be of type
qualified to advance to those positions.
We cannot obtain that type of employe in the lower
grades and keep him in service throughout his life
unless make the salaries and conditions of employ
ment attractive from the very beginning of his service
and through his work in the medium grades.
With the objective of the committee and the Pres-
dent outlined in the report particularly as to per-
sonnel conditions, all will agree.
THE IMPROVEMENT OF PERSONNEL CONDI-
TIONS BEING AN UNDISPUTEDLY DESIRABLE
OBJECTIVE IT IS TO BE HOPED THAT THIS
PHASE OF THE REPORT WILL RECEIVE PROMPT
AND FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION
AS THE COMMITTEE SAYS, IT IS THE CORE
OF THE PROBLEM.
Amendment of the highest grades Of the Cassfica-
ton Act is recommended by the committee in order to
provide the higher salaries which it sees needed at the
top Of the service.
Such amendment should be made coincident with the
amendment Of the act by looping off possibly the lower
two grades provided in the act.
This, with a sincerely applied policy Of promotions
within grades and promotions from grade to grade,
would have the effect Of increasing salaries proper
tionatey throughout the service and making the service
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Listen, World!
Bv Elsie Robinson
"GoD is BEHIND

IND ME. L CAN'T LET HIM DOWN."
The Washington times., 1937-01-14

Even in the section dealing with personnel manage
ment however, the committees recommendation to
abolish the Civil Service Commission and create Civil
Service Administrator with an unpaid advisory COM
mttee will have to be given lengthy and serious con-
sideraton.
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Personnel Conditions
Core of the Problem

NY program for reorganization Of so complicated
"A piece of machinery the Executive branch of the
United States Government is certain to be complex and
controversial
So it is with the report of the Presidents Committee
on Administrative Management which Mr.. Roosevelt
has transmitted to Congress with his approval and with
the request that Congress give it early and favorable
consideration.
The report will undoubtedly have stormy career in
Congress.
Many of its provisions will certainly be killed by that
body even though they given the backing of one
so powerful as President Roosevelt.
Opposition to some of the recommendations has
already developed and more may be expected as the
report is given the detailed study which imposing
an effort deserves.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-09

Michigan to Georgia and from New
Jersey to Missouri.
From Detroit, members of the
Chevrolet Forge Plant Work Coun-
Gil have telegraphed President Roos-
evelt, asking him to use his influ-
ence toward settlement of the
strike. Governor Murphy said that
further conferences had been ar
ranged for today and over the week.
end.
Lumberjacks Walk Out
Northern Minnesota lumberjacks,
seeking wage and hour adjustments,
claim their walkout has grown from
three thousand men to four thou
sand.
At Toledo, Ohio, an attempt has
been made to arrange a joint con-
ference for Monday between strik-
ing flat glass workers and the Lib
bey- Owens Ford Glass Company. 1t
is proposed that representatives will
be invited from the company's idle
foundries at Shreveport, Louisiana
and Charleston, West Virginia.
Strikes against LOB and also the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company are
reported to have thrown fourteen
thousand employees out of work.
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Mrs. Powers Feet
/. Are Frozen in Mail
Route Accident
Wife Of Senator Powers Is
Confined in Hospital
at Fairbanks

Mrs. John Powers, wife of Senator
John B. Powers, of Eagle, is now in
the Fairbanks Hospital, as the re-
suit of badly frozen feet. Word of
Mrs. Powers injury was brought to
Juneau by Representative and Mrs.
Dan Green, of Hot Springs.
Mrs. Powers has been in the hos
pital for about ten days, they said,
but it was fifteen days before she
was taken to the hospital, after her
fleet were frozen.
Mrs. Powers contracted her injury
when she set out from Eagle with
sack of mail to meet her husband
on the trail, while he was making
the mail run. A short distance out
on the trail the mail broke loose
from her pack, and, unable to re-
place it with her gloves on, and
too cold to remove them, she carried
the sack in her arms until she be-
came too exhausted to go further
Goes Down In Snow
Becoming sleepy she laid down in
the snow, and with the temperature
at 40 degrees below zero, slept there
all night until her husband found
her the next morning I'm just
as warm as bug in rug" she said
when he revived her. but on return
ing home, she found that her feet
were black.
| Not letting anyone see them, she
rubbed them with snow, but it was
too late. However. she went on
about her work, helping to shovel
snow, and working outside, for sew
eral days more, cheerful all the
while
Finally, when Mr.. Powers learned
of her condition, she was taken to
the hospital, but by that time she
had lost her toes and her condition
was serious. Four days ago, phys
icians attending her we're awaiting
( Senator Powers arrival before OPP
Grating.
Through it all, the slight little
lady, nearly 10 years old. has kept
her spirits, and remained cheerful
and accomplishing.
Because of his wifes injury, Sen
ator Powers will probably be de-
ilayed in attending the session OF
the Legislature here.
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Republicans
Plan Rally On
LinC0|n'S Day
Large Committee Named to
Handle C. O. P. Affair
Here February IL

Elton Engstrom, Chairman of the
Republican Central Committee, an
nounced today that a Republican
rally and dinner will be held in Ju-
neau on Friday, February IL, Lin
coins birthday. Similar dinner
will be held in Ketchikan and An
chorage.
Arrangements for the dinner are
now being made by a committee
of Juneau and Douglas Republi-
cans. Ronald Lister has been ap-
pointed chairman of this commit
tee and serving with him are Grover
C. VIM, Howard ID. Stabler, Mrs.
Margaret E. White. Mrs. Charles
Sey. Ed Garnick, Ely Lindstrom,
Steve Vukovich, Frank Foster, VIII
liam Feero, L. w. Kilburn, Mrs. Eu-
gene E. Robertson, Cyril Zuboff, Err
mold Mogseth, Howard Simmons,
Judge H. B. LeFevre.
Tickets for this occasion may be
secured from the members of the
committee.
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representative
KENNEDYFORMER
RESIDENT HERE
Anchorage Democrat Fav,
ors Program for Roads,
Trails and Airfields

Development of roads, trails and
airfields with the aim of further
ing mining and other industries OF
the Territory is the broad, general
program of Representative Dan
Kennedy of Anchorage, Democrat
from the Third Division, who is
here for the opening of the 18th
Legislative session on Monday.
Specifically, the pioneer and
widely known Alaskan, will support
a memorial to Congress urging a
road connection from Anchorage
and Palmer, with the Richardson
Highway, a distance of about 100
miles, opening up and making more
accessible a vast mineral district.
The route is suggested via Chicka-
loon to Copper Center, and the Rep
resentative believes it would be a
great step toward adding to Alas
ka's mining development.
The Willow Creek district, Rep
resentative Kennedy says is destin-
ed to become the greatest quartz
mining district in the north. Some
$50 men are now in the district,
he reports, but the crying need, he
points out, is more airplane fields,
as it is impossible to keep a ROAD
open due to the heavy SHOWS which
would not hamper aviation activities
if landing fields we're established.
The Representative believes in the
purpose of the Social Security Act
and will push action for more lib
eral pension laws. He says there
are some pioneers who have applied
for admittance to the Pioneers
Home but there is no room for them.
He is pledged to support program
to take care of these indigents in
a more liberal way.
Born in Sitka himself in 1881
Mr. Kennedy speaks the language
of the pioneer because he is one
himself. He was brought to Jul
neau as lad by his parents and
his father, Dan Kennedy, ST., was
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night marshal here for many years
and also served as head of the
Indian police, having been appoint
ed to that position by Alaskas first
Governor, John II. Kinkead.
Incidentally, Representative Ken
nedy will spot any typographical
errors that may appear in this story
because he was a printer himself for
many years and worked at his trade
right here in Juneau. He set the
type for many an edition of the
old Dispatch, the Searchlight and
other papers of those days. Kennedy
Street is named for his father, so
coming to Juneau Is like coming
home to Representative Kennedy al
though he has been in the Westward
for many years now and with Mrs.
Kennedy operates a haberdashery'
store in Anchorage. Mrs. Kennedy
is handling the business while her
husband is here for the Legislature
but hopes to get away to make a
visit here toward the end of the
session, he reports.
Mr.. Kennedy has words of praise
for the Matanuska Colony and sees
success for the project. He pointed
out that the Colonists and farmers
of the Matanuska Valley supplied
the Alaska Railroad belt with poul-
try, eggs and vegetables when there
was food shortage during the
strike and is still doing it.
Anchorage, he reports, had pros
porous year in all lines, particularly,
an extensive building program was
on there during the season.
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10000 IDLE
IN NATIONWIDE
LABOR TIE-UPS
Automobile Workers, Sea-
men, Lumberjacks, Knit
tiers, Glass Men Payless

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 9.-Strike
induced idleness has brought anoth-
er "payless" weekend to American
automobile craftsmen, seamen, lum-
berjacks, glass workers, knitters, and
other employees who are deadlocked
with company arrangements issues
of wages, hours, and union recog-
nition
Scenes of the strikes eXends from
the Canadian border to the Gulf OF
Mexico, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. The number of workers in
volved totals more than one hun
bred and fifty thousand.
Negotiating
In Michigan, Gov. Murphy and
Federal conciliators are pressing eff
forts to remove obstacles blocking
negotiations between the United Au-
tOmobile Workers of America and
the General Motors Company. Gen.
eral Motors said that strikes have
removed 3,849 employees from pay
rolls of twenty-seven of the COM
pany's factories scattered from
Try an En1nire al
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LEGISLATURE
WILL CONVENE
HERE MONDAY
Secretary Griffin Will Call
Lawmakers Together
Caucuses Tomorrow

Secretary of Alaska E. w. Griffin
prepared today to call the 18th Ter
ritorial Legislature into session next
Monday as additional Legislators
arrived in town, assuring a quorum
in both houses. Exact time of call
ing the session had not been determ-
ined this Afternoon, but it is Gus
tomary for the House to convene
at noon on the opening day and the
Senate at p m, although the SEN
ate did not meet two years ago until
p. m. on the opening day.
Secretary Griffin will administer
and then temporary organization
will be set up. The Legislators will
later effect their permanent or
CARNATIONS and settle down to sc
days of public work dealing with the
problems of the Territory.
House members are arranging for
a caucus Sunday afternoon in the
House chamber to discuss their or
ganization work and it is expected
that a decision will be reached on
the Speaker, Chief Clerk and House
employees. Similar preliminary work
also probably will be taken by the
Senators.
Senator Norman Walker and
Representative Harry Race are ex-
pected to arrive here tonight on the
Crane Representative Ed Coffey of
the Third Division, Leonard Smith
of the Second and Dan Green and
Leo Rogge of the Fourth arrived
last night on the Estebeth from
Skagway.
Senator John F. Deyine and Rep
resentatives Tolbert P Scott and
John Litchenberg are still held at
Nome according TO a dispatch to
The Empire, pending favorable fly
ing weather. They will take plane
to Fairbanks and thence to Juneau.
Senator John B. Powers of Eagle
is expected to be delayed for some
time Mrs Powers recently was ia
ken to the hospital suffering from
frozen feet and the Senator is not
expected to leave for Juneau until
her condition is improved.
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Texas Would Get Oil
from Her Highways

AUSTIN, Texas. Jan. 9.-Texas
will drill oil millions from its
highways if State Legislator has
his way.
Senator Joe l.. Hill estimated
the State could gain from $1,000
600 to $5,O00,000 yearly by empow-
ering the board of mineral develop
ment to lease State highways rights
of way for oil and gas develop
ment.
Hill said the wells would not de-
stroy highway beauty or add traffic
hazards.
THE entire equipment can be
placed in cellars" he said. This
has been done in many instances
and beautiful grass lawns cover a
number of producing wells in this
State"
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United States Is to
Raise Tomato Paste

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 9.
The United States consumes
about $5,G0000O worth of tomato
paste annually and all of it tl2,-
00o0GJ punds), has been coming
from Italy where the special pear
shaped tomato used for the paste
is grown. Now in California, pro-
duction of these tomatoes is rapidly
approaching a point where the en-
tire United States demand can be
supplied.
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Crowns Soar High on
New Mexican" Hats

PARIS. Jan. 9.--New Mexican
hats in Paris are being made in
black felt, with wide slightly rolled
up brims, and towering crowns
smaller at the top than at the
base. Guiltless of other trimming,
they look perfectly swell" with a
lace bordered veil draped nonchal-
antly down front or back Tall per-
sons look best in these "tamale
land" types.
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Four Years Of Bridge
Games End Near Tie

OTTAWA, Kans., Jan 9.-Bridge
games played over four-year pc
Rod proved the truth of the law
of averages to two couples here
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Cook and Mr.
and Mrs. w. w. Broyhill.
In that time Cook and Mrs
Broyhill won $50 games with 1885,
SOS points, while Mrs. Cook and
Broyhill took SAB games with 1885,
526.