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Evening star., 1949-01-13
Raises for P.8 Employees

To the Editor of The Star:
May I commend you for your recent edi-
torial dealing with the subject of Government
salaries?
However, wish to call your attention to .
serious omission in the pending legislative pro-
gram The so-called emergency" salary
increase bill provides liberal increases ranging
from so to 100 per cent for about 200 favored
top-offcials. No provision is made to raise the
ceiling of $4,000 or $4,000 for top profess
sional, scientific and technical P-8 grade en-
ployes, as was proposed when this salary
increase agitation was started.
Who are the P-8 grade level group who
now are limited to 10000? They are the real
career men and women in the top professional,
scientific and technical positions upon whom
the 200 "bg-sh officials have to rely for
guidance and direction in the discharge of
their official duties!
1t is these underpaid and overWorked eX-
perts who possess the "knoW-how" and are,
in fact, the skilled and trained workers in the
Government service. They are being compelled
to leave the Government on account Of the
sl0300 ceiling and accept more lucrative en-
poyment in private industry
Very few, If any, cabinet members and
bureau heads have resigned. Was it not this
situation which the salary-increase legislation
was designed to remedy, and isn't this fact
being lost sight Of?
You can render a great public service by
calling the attention of the Congress and the
public to this debacle.
Needless to say, these trained experts also
have to support their families, move in high
social circles, dress well, send their children
to college. They are affected by the increased
cost of living to the same extent as the highest
officials in the Government who are to be
treated very handsomely in the Lucas-O'Con-
nor-Flanders- Baldwin bill. Isn't this class
legislation and extremely discriminatory?
Unless the pending bill carries a simple
amendment of one sentence to raise the ceiling
of $4,000 to $4,000 for all P-S grade employees,
it should be opposed by every enlightened
and conscientious member of the House and.
the Senate.
If this is not done, in the face of a slight
defiaJion which may become more apparent
a month hence, public opinion will look askance
as any further. salary increase.
Would it not be more statesmanlike to pass
a bill increasing the salary and expense allow
ance for the President and Vice President
before January 20, which Is essential in order
that President Truman and Vice President
Barkley may benefit and then give thorough
and studious consideration to all other officials
and top level employees in separate bill?
J. CLIFTON WATKINS, JR
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Opposes Evening Shopping Ides

To the Editor of The Star.
campaign designed to force downtown de-
partment stores to remain open one night a
week, as they did during the war period, seems
to be under way and in full force
The leaders of this campaign, along with
their supporters and other agitators should
be made to clerk in department store for
just one week. I am sure that at the end
thereof they would cease advocating the return
to the outmoded 1880 business practice of
evening shopping hours.
Any one who cannot find time to shop be-
tween the hours of $50 am. and 6 pm. at
least one day, Monday through Saturday, has
my deepest sympathy. However, it is appar-
ent from the crowds in the local department
stores, day IN and day out, Weel- in and week
out, that an overwhelming majority do
think the advocates of this idea would find,
II they took the trouble to look into the stua-
tlon that the average sa.eslady who greets GUS
toners In store has home to look after,
meals to cook both prior to going to work and
on her return home; many of them have grow
ing children: and most of them work either
because they are the sole support of their
families or because it is necessary to augment
the incomes of their husbands.
They will also find that depar ment store
clerks are human and desire to enjoy some
degree of living; that their life il, the store
is no picnic even if looked at through rose
colored glasses. They are, for the most part,
the most underpaid of the emplo res in this
city; they must be cheerful, considerate and
courteous even in the face of insults from the
customer; no other working person las to take
so much off their boss, the public. as does
store clerk. SNfKSAH
Evening star., 1949-01-13

the right book to the right person at the
right time" already has had constructive
revolutionary effect.
So it is with the future, not with the past,
that the Library and its friends are con-
cerned this jubilee week. Fifty years hence
there probably will be twice as many
branches, more than twice as many books
and many times the present demand from
readers. The Library expands as the COM
munity widens its views, deepenS it's pur-
poses as neighborhood and heightens its
aspirations as a society dedicated to mutual
benefaction. That is how it should be-.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Winter Niohts

Never are nights so bright as Winter nights
With all the earth tresh-lined ptth
sparkling Sno1D
Echoing moons ,Dhite candle, stars night
lights
Through the night world as far as eye
can go.
Never Is dark so light as ,pinter dark;
Sno,D-tDinter dark, that makes OF night
thing
Foreuer different, marked Nth some bright
mark
That dinas the ltghtened dark of summer,
spring.
1t is for this that silence seems only hush,
That cold is less than cold, that skies
are near;
That loneliness seems but little rush
OF rest bet1Deen one and another sphere
And that none grudge such nights their
long slo1D 1Dending
Un,1illingly to reluctant ending.
ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Library Anniversary

AT It's start half century ago. the Wash
lngton Public Library was little more than
an idea in the minds of a small group of
local citizens. These men visioned the
utility of such an institution as cultural
aid to the city's growth Under the leader
ship OF Theodore w. Noyes they persuaded
Congress to authorize its establishment on
the same basis as the schools, police and
fire departments and other municipal facil-
tiles. Their conviction was that the Library
was necessary enterprise, by no means a
luxury, in the communitys corporate
development.
How right the founders were in their
judgment of the Library's pragmatic value
has been demonstrated far beyond their
anticipation. The little reading room at
1925 New York avenue, opened on January
10, 1899, has become fifteen different CEN
ters for the circulation of books. Andrew
Carnegie gave the Central Building on
Mount Vernon Square, long the headquar-
ters of the whole citywide project. The
new administrative center at 400 PennSyl-
vania avenue, Northwest, was designed
originally to carry the major load of
activity. But the expansion thus promised
has been delayed by the war and postwar
financial burdens.
Additional buildings, however, represent
only part of the Library's progress. 1t
has grown in the character of its
service, also. Two World Wars, an inter-
national depression, revolutionary changes
in Europe and the Orient have created
new, vastly accelerated demand upon the
Library. Whereas it once was important
particularly in recreational sense, 1t has
evolved into power house" of informa
ton on every subject under the sun which
the people of Washington have indicated
that they require in the business of their
lives. The vocational aspect of the Library
is what matters currently. 1t is in recog-
milton of this fact that the trustees, the
librarian and the staff are bringing the
books out into open shelves, making them
easier to reach. The new conception of
service, epitomized in the axiom: Getting
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Salary Raises for Officials

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Everything is being done to rush through
so per cent or more increase in pay for
President Harry S. Truman, together with
many others holding United States positions.
If this program had been completed in time
to encourage and benefit all candidates before
nomination and election, there would be a
little less taint of unfairness or partisanship.
In nearly every instance the increases suggest
ed are far beyond the increased cost of living
The worst feature of this whole thing is that
those who are given the authority to impose
taxes on others get out from under the load
by granting each other increases for as much
or more than the amount of their individual
taxes. President Truman will not be a better
executive after he gets the raise than he was
before. HARRY P. WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Time Off and Taxes
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
We have noted in the papers that there is
a proposal pending to grant Government en-
ployes in the District a four-day holiday over
the Inauguration Day week end.
No one questions the fact that January 20
should be an official holiday-but why that
extra day off? Private industry and local
business Offices cannot afford to close on
Friday-how can the Government?
It's these little extra privileges that make
the Job of running our Government such an
expensive one and our taxes so high As it
is, Federal employees enjoy considerably more
leave than those 'on the outside" plus the
Evening star., 1949-01-13
ROBERT EMMETT BURKE.
Presidents Mandate Questioned


To the Editor of The Star
Before we swallow the idea that President
Truman has a mandate from the people to
infct socialized medicine and Government
steel mills on the United States, as an enter
ing wedge for eventual state socialism, let us
see how much of mandate he has. In round
numbers:
Twenty -four million citizens voted for Mr.
Truman.
Twenty-Five million citizens voted for Mr.
Dewey.
One million citizens voted for Mr. Thurmond.
One million citizens voted for Mr.. Wallace.
Nineteen million registered but did not vote.
Twenty three million eligible voters did not
even register.
Only Is million citizens, out of 80 million
eligible to vote, voted for both Mr. Wallace
and Mr.. Truman. That constitutes a % per
cent mandate, at most, for embarking on social
ism and, of course, many who voted for Mr..
Truman do not favor socialism at all.
Here is another interesting point: President
Truman carried Ohio by only 7,107 votes. But
30l, ,Q45 Ohioans who voted for Congressman or
local officials were too Indifferent to vote for
either President Truman or Gov. Dewey. If
21s per cent of these Indifferent voters had
voted for Mr.. Dewey, he would have taken Ohio.
But 1563,939 registered voters in Ohio, in addi-
ton, were too indifferent to vote at all, doubt
less because the candidates were too similar in
their proposals. And another 100000 Ohioans
eligible to vote were too indifferent even to
register If one-third of l per cent of the
grand total of indifferent voters in Ohio had
voted for Mr.. Dewey. he would have taken the
25 electoral votes of that State
The other two crucial States on which the
election hinged were Illinois with % electoral
votes and California with Is. Mr. Truman
took Illinois by only SO 612 votes and California
by only 1866 But 100000 eligible voters IN
Illinois and 5500,000 in California failed to
vote because of indifference. If per cent of
the indifferent but eligible voters in Illinois
and one-third of per cent in California had
voted for Mr.. Dewey-along with the third
OF l per cent previously mentioned in Ohio
Mr.. Dewey would become President January 90
The big Republican problem obviously is to
overcome indifference-not to take votes away
from the New Deal. I submit that the way to
do it is to abandon "me -too-ism" The people
of this country are sick of political appease-
ment Moral courage to face the issues will
get out the vote. OF course, there must be
program to achieve the common welfare
without regimentation and high taxaton-an
alternative in other words, to New Deal state
ism.
We prospered without state-ism for over
100 years. Why can't one party offer us such
a constructive program today?
MAUDE S. DeLAND
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Symbolic Circles Considered

To he Editor of The Star:
While watching the construction work at
the Dupont Circle underpass, thought came
to me as to its origin
Could it be that the installation of these
underpasses has been motivated by Washing
ton having gained the reputation of having
too many people going around in circles?
Seemingly, a circular line has no end to 1t
differing from a straight lne), and this GER
tainly is true of the many phases of govern
mental activities.
Evening star., 1949-01-13

Pro and Con on Discrimination
To the Editor Of The Star:
was much impressed by Gladys Gray's letter
in The Star too am l6, although am white
I wish William M. Werber could meet some
of the colored people of my acquaintance. Ted,
for instance, who now is studying at the
Juilliard Conservatory in New York. And
Christine who works for the Government. I
have been introduced to lady of incompa-
rable reflnemnet who graduated many years
ago from Oberlin College. I mustn't forget
Lynn who writes the most poignant bits of
prose imaginable
There are dozens Of colored girls who come
into the dress department of a local store
where I am employed Saturdays. Contrary to
Mr.. Werber's belief, these girls are neatly
dressed and well groomed, thing which, un-
fortunately cannot always be said of the white
customers.
I would like to ask Mr.. Werber how we
can get along with the whole world if we are
so immature that we cannot even keep good
will with our immediate neghbors.
Perhaps some day education will eliminate
this stupid dogmatism which has existed and
been passed on to innocent children for gen.
eratlons. l, as teacher still try to do my
bit. But until that day, much to the annoy
ance of some of my friends, shall continue
to associate with my intellectual equals with
out regard to their race or color.
RACHEL BLAcHLY.
To the Editor OF The STAR
I would like to express my reactions to the
letter from the Negro girl which appeared
in The Star for January IL. She recited
long list of complaints about the treatment
OF colored people. First, like most Negroes,
she assumes that the objection to Negroes is
the color of the skin. This is not true There
are many other reasons why white people do
not want social equality with Negroes. God
Himself marked them separately and apart.
Then Gladys Gray speaks of the Negroes
being forced to live in novels" AS resident
OF Washington for At years I can show her
residence after residence in some of the finest
sections of the city where white people have
been crowded from their homes by colored
people who now live in them.
There is no reason for the colored to COM
plain about the Fairgrounds, as they have
many Fairgrounds for their own use.
Negroes are treated with more consider
alton and tolerance here than in any other
city in the world. A STAR READER.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Letters to- The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
Uriter, although it is permissible for
,Driter knoWn to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be briet
Evening star., 1949-01-13

A wholesalers 10 per cent slash in price
will be hailed by all lovers of canned-fruit
cocktail, that triumph of science in the
field of making any six fruits taste alike.
Evening star., 1949-01-13

In keeping with its new tone, Repre-
sentative ]. Parnell Thomas's old COM
mlttee would appreciate information on
any un-American activities of digni-
fed character
Evening star., 1949-01-13

One of the Navy's little newspapers de-
fines an optinist as a man who thinks the
wife has quit cigarettes when he finds
cigar stubs in the house
Evening star., 1949-01-13

morning and afternoon coffee time etc. and
etc. all at the expense of the poor tax
payers. HELGA MEYER,
GRACE MEIER,
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Questions and Answers

rea Ter get the answer to any question Of
fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau, 316 street NE, Washington g D. c.
Please inclose three t3) cents for return POSTAGE
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. How many United States citizens are living
abroad?-J. A. H.
A. The Department of State says that as Of
January l, 1919 it was estimated that 336,23l
United States citizens were living abroad.
@. In what year was the Encyclopaedia Bril-
tannica first pubished?-H. A. r.
A. Britannica began publication in Scotland
in 1853.
@. Was Rooespierre. a principal character
Of the French Revolution, of Irish descent?-
NJ j. D.
A. 1t Is not possible to say definitely that
the family of Robespierre was of Irish origin.
There is, however, a tradition to this effect
@. In how many disasters in the United
States has the Red Gross given assistance?-
w. S. E.
A. Since its founding in 1881, the American
Red Cross has served in 1884 domestic
disasters.
Evening star., 1949-01-13

O. Was Robespierre. principal character
Of the French Revolution, of Irish descent?-
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-10-13

william $ Hopes, Administrators of
the Estate of Julia Pack, deceased,
Plaintiff,
vs.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-10-13
LEGAL NOTICE

william S. Hopes, Administrator OF
the Estate of Julia Pack, deceased,
Plaintiff,
VS.
Nola Jordan, et all
Defendants.
In pursuance of the order of the
probate court of Union County,
will offer for sale at Public Auction
on the 29th day of october. l949,
at II :00 o'clock A. NJ. at the north
door of the Court House the fol-
lowing described real; Situate in
the State of Ohio, County of Union
and Village of Irwin and bounded
and described as follows:
Part of military Survey No. 4735
as situated i'm the west side of First
Avenue at the extreme South End
thereof and being fifty C5O) feet
fronting on said avenue and extend
ing back therefrom one Hundred
and sixty one G6D feet. more or
less. Said lot is bounded on the
north by a lot owned 10y. Henry
and Frances Wake, on the east
by First Avenue and on the south
and west by lands formerly own
ed by George Caldwell, deceased.
Containing lS-l0O acres, more or
less.
Said premises are appraised at
Three Hundred Dollars tS3OOOO)
and must be sold for not less than
two-thirds of said appraised value
and the terms of sale are cash In
hand.
WILLIAM s. HOPES,
Administrator Of the Estate OF
Julie Pack. deceased.
g-29-4T
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-10-13

Ohio, passed on the End day OF
August, l949, there Will be sub
mitted to a vote of the people OF
said Taylor Local School District
at p special ELECTION TO be held
in the County of Union Ohio, at
the regular places of voting therein
on Tuesday, the Sth day of Nov
ember, 1949, the question of levy
ing, in excess of the ten mill
Limitation, that the existing tax
levy of three mills be renewed and
also levy an additional tax of two
mills for the benefit of Taylor
Local School District for the pur-
pose of current operating expenses
at a TOTAL rate not exceeding
five (O.O05) mills for each one
dollar of valuation, which amounts
to Fifty (50c) cents for each one
hundred dollars of valuation, Tor
Three (3) years.
The Polls for said Election Will
be open at $40 O'Clock A. M. and
remain open until $3.50 o'clock +;
NJ. Ohio Time, eastern standard
Time), of said day.
BY order of the Board of Elections
Of Union County, Ohio.
Arthur w. Galloway, Clerk
Dated September 20, l949
Sept. 2S-4T
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-10-13
Notice of Election on Tax Levy
in Excess of the Ten Mill
Limitation

NOTICE is hereby given that in
pursuance of "A Resolution of the
Board of Education of Jerome
Local School District of Union
County, Ohio, passed on the Sth
day of August. l949, there will be
submitted TO a vote of the people
of said Jerome Local School
District at a Special ELECTION
to be held in the County of
Union, Jerome Township, Ohio, at
the regular places of voting there
in, on Tuesday, the Sth day of
November, 1919, the question of
leVying, i'm excess of the ten mill
limitation, that the existing tax
levy of three mills he renewed for
the benefit of Jerome Local School
District for the purpose of current
operating expenses" at a rate not
exceeding three (0.003) mills for
each one dollar of valuation, which
amounts to thirty cents (30c) for
each one hundred dollars of valu-
alton for Three go years.
The Polls for said Election will
be open at 6:30 O'Clock A. NJ. and
remain open until 6:30 o'clock r..
NJ. Ohio Time, eastern Standard
Time), Of said day.
BY order of the Board of Elections.
of Union County, Ohio.
Arthur w. Galloway, Clerk
Dated September %. 19A9
Sept. %, At
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-10-13
LEGAL NOTICES
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING
POLICE RELIEF AND PENSION
FIND
Ordinance No. 4a2

Ordinance No. 4B2
J Whereas, the 9Sth. General AS
| sembly has enacted into law H.B
| 325 amending the police relife and
! pension laws of Ohio, and;
| Whereas, the municipality of Marys-
vile, Ohio, employs more than one
| full time member of it's police de-
| partment. and;
Whereas, section 1916 of the
General Code requires each munic-
| ipal corporation of this state em-
ploying two or more full time
regular members of its police de-
partment to establish a police
relief and pension fund, and;
Whereas, an emergency exists in
the usual daily operation of the
police department in that members
of said police department VIII be
denied their rights TO participate
in the retirement, disability and
other benefits provided by state
statute until a police relief and
pension fund is established, and
section 1915 Of the general code
requires the establishment of q
police relief and pension fund when
ever a municipal corporation en-
plSys two or more members of the
police department, and;
Whereas, IL Is necessary that
this ordinance take effect immed-
lately to meet said emergency and
"
quirements of said section 1915 of
the General Code, and;
Whereas, the municipality of
Marysville, Ohio. is subject TO pro-
visions of said section.
NOW, THEREFORE,, BE 1T
ORDAINED: BY the council of the
Village of Marysville, Ohio;
Section l.. There is hereby created
a police relief and pension fund in
this municipality which shall be
administered i'm the manner pro-
vided by law and shall be made
up of amounts deducted from the
salaries paid the members of the
police department and the amounts
required 40 ne paid thereto by
this municipality and such other
funds as may be properly placed
therein.
Section .. C. =. Wagner and Dale
overly are hereby designated as
trustees of said police relief and
pension fund To serve as provided
In section 1915 in the General Code
and the members of the police
department are hereby directed to
trustees of said fund. The persons
so designated as trustees are here
by directed TO select two residents
of this municipality who are not
elect two of their number TO be
employees thereof to serve as
trustees of said fund.
Section 3. The treasurer is here
by directed and authorized to
deduct from the salaries paid the
members of the police department
4%o thereof as required by section
1925 Of the General Code and to
receive such other money as may
be properly placed in the said
police relief and pension fund and
10 establish and separately main
tain said fund for the purpose of
section 1916 to 1914 inclusive.
Section 4. For the reasons stated
In the preamble hereto this ordi-
nance is hereby declared to be an
emergency and shall take effect
and be In force from and after
its passage and approval by the
mayor.
Passed Sept. %. 1949
Approved G.. l.. KingSmore, Mayor
Attest Geo. i. Scheiderer, Clerk
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