Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1922, Page 17

" SLUMP IN PRINTING 50 T0 LOSE J0BS Director Wilmeth Forced to Cut Down Present Force in Engraving Bureau. Tuexpected falling off in the de- mand for vrinting of federal reserve 1otes has causcd the furlough of 500 : 0 The - “sting mebody” employes of thie burcau of engraving | plruse of the “Shifters” has been and printing, Uirector Jumes L. Wil- | rewritten by the “Lifters” to “Do meth said tod e ! something for others fustead of i 5 2 | ourselve; The bureau, in addit 1 con- e tinue its rotary furloughing policy, by which a group takes one day off in seven or eight days, depending upon he section in which it is employed. Six hundred employes each day are involved in this process. Plans for Reduction. Mr. Wilmeth ‘butlined the steps by which the reduction would be made. The first to go will be those of re- tirement age, numbering sixty-five, to which the privilege has been extended of remaining at work for two years over their retirement age. There are two groups of these employes In the bureau—one. members of the mechan- | ical force, who become of retirement age at sixty-five years, and inciudes the clerit employes, who become of retirement age at seventy | years. Those to whom the two-y limitation after retirement age ha been cxtended will be amoung the firs to be placed on retirement, Mr. Wil- meth said. r 38 The second group to be included in the furloughs. according to plans, are married women employed at the bu- reau whose husbands are profitably employed, either at the bureau or in some other establishment. The third group to come under the furlough order will be the war-time executive order appointees, who are not under civil service status. Mr. Wilmeth said he felt that this course was the only just one to pursue under the circumstances, inasmuch as the employes of the bureau who have been under civil service status vir- tually had more of a demand for con- sideration from the government. ng employes who come Ve con- Mr. Wilmeth aid toda; with the greatest relueta we are forced to take th we believe, will for an immed additional employes if the present conditions continue. The step was said to represent an- other movement towards a return to furloughing system. make it unne ary ate drop of any pre-war conditions. Employes who had accrued leave for the proper- tional part of the present year, it was explained, would be allowed to take advantage of it. Big Reduction in Output. The output of federal reserve notes has decreased from approximately 900,000 per day in 1921 to about 500,- 000, and after April 1, it was an- nounced, will be reduced to 150,000 per day. Federal resavve banks, which had in the past few mouths been building tacky &f notes, L Tiad caitst than sy - the amount of federal outstanding outstanding s been reduced to approximately 00,000,000, e — For centuries after its first dis- eovery China carefully preserved the secret of silk culture, and amassed great wealth by exporting it to India, Persia and Arabia. 9 Women’s and evening. the newest opening at... OR MORE 417 OPPOSITE BUILDING other | s step. | wear along with fashion’s latest fancy for afternoon priced for the opening at Men’s Shoes— and they’re full of pep— styles for dress and sport wear. Specially priced for the 11th St. N.W. - EVENING STAR T 144 LIFTERS” IN SCHOOL | GRADUALLY BREAKING | UP “SHIFTER” SOCIETY \ the Gage School\ls gradually be- ing broken by a new organization kifown us the “Lifters,” which was born there today under the direc- tlon of the teachers.. Belleving that such a mysterl- ous order as the “Shifters” s not proper for school children to be- come aillated with, Principal Mary E. Bond created the “Lift- ers.” which nas objects diametri- cally opposed to those of the now ‘ i j The “Shifters’” stronghold in famous “Shifter: Instead of the “Shifters' " motto iet something for nothing,” Lifters” have adopted us their )0 something for noth- Red and blue bows, the school huave been adopted as the new order. Miss the children are i for the I Bond said that coming to the teachers voluntari- 1y and turning in their “Shifters” badges for the Insignia of the | “Lifters.” MARINE CORPS PRAISED BY POSTMASTER GENERAL Work Commends Labors in| Guarding Mails to Maj. i | Gen. Lejeune. Postmaster a letter to ) { mandant - of Lejeur he Marine Corps, ex “highest commendation following the with- 000 marines on guard | terminals and mail wish thanks and appreciation for the mas- terful and efficient methods by which these operations have been conducted and brought to such a successful con- to extend my personal clusion,” Dr. Work sald. “This com- mendation not only voices the opin- ion of the Postmaster General and his staff, but is also that of all the inspectors and superintendents in the field throughout the country who have come in contact with the marine lomgers and detachments on mail gudrd duty.” |, The marines now have been off mail guard duty for about a month, and, | jaccording to officials toda; ibeen no increase in at {robberies to date. It is most prob: !Lle that if atiempts at robbing ti malis should increase. the depart-| ment would immediately ask that} {marines be put back on duty The belief is strong with mail of- {ficials that protection of the mailz (& vital thing, and that perh emergency, as comes when' there is reason to suspect con- certed action to rob mails, that mili- tary protection may be best utilized. For the present thoroughly armed mail clerks and other employes ure protecting the mails, with the fullest co-6peration of police departments of the country. Special armored and protected mail cars are doing duty. “The unblemished record of the ocorps has been preserved,” Secretary Denby declared. in a note for pub- lication to the Marine Corps, at the same time expressing his apprecia- tion for the manner in which “this Inc\\' and unexpected duty” was per- formed. The efficiency of the work M of the 1 denced b: during the tour of d | .~ov..rz';r-r,\ 1 ] { LEATHER WORKERS WANTED. | Mail bag repairers are wanted at the equipment shops here of the Post Office Department. The Civil Service Commission will receive applications until'May 9. The positions pay $5 2 day. Applicants must be experienced in cutting and fitting and in sewing leather by hand and machine. Appli- cation blanks may be secured at the commission, 1724 F street. 5 Shoes— presenting all the new dictation for Sports Specially $5.50 $6.00 Mr. F. P. Di Blasi personally has supervised the making and placing of every pair of shoes in the stock, and we guarantee you a 3 A SAVING OF TWO DOLLARS ON YOUR SHOES SIGHT-STORY STRUCTURE, TO COST $1,500,000, PLANNED FOR N S THE [VENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D HOTEL TO BE ERECTED ON CAPITOL H OUTHEAN' RIDAY, MARCH 31, ILL. y JERSEY AVENUE AND C STREET GOTHAM MINISTERS ON Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 31.—While earnest souls are wonderifig What to do about the small salaries clergymen are getting, the clergy- men round about New York have decided the matter for themselves. They heve become floorwalkers in New York department stores. News that Rev. Dr. Daniel Ram- sey had taken a job as floorwalker in a store, on Broadway, right in the shopping d a furorc e n the siore. new = has three mir its employes now, As a matter of fact, the number ing The store of clergymen employed as floor- walkers, or in some other capacity by New York department stores is estimated .by one of the Gth avenye shop managers as between fifteen and twenty. “Sometimes the minister's con- gregation is not aware of his com- mercial occupafion,” he sald, “though, in many instances, the congregations, being small gnd un- able to pay & lving salary, know and approve thelr pastor's work in department stores. And., after all, why not? y clery nen fo- emall towns outside this totally unable to make® meet on the meager sa hurches allow. They - needs to He must “pp He must keep his temper in of hourly vexations and nag- gings. He ousht to a good cducation. and familiarity with crowds and a lack of self-con- sciousness in meeting strangers. On all these counts a clergyman usually is well suited to the job. “Moreover, having & polished manner and a better education than the average man who takes & be a present ance. spi FOOTWEAR . Washington’s Newest Shoe Shop This wiil be the first kind dn the City, and we are sure \Wash- ingtonians will welcome such a Shop. Without increasing my overhead, 1 am opening a shoe department in the Rotunda of my Shop. Unlike other shoe shops in Washington, the customers will have the attention of Practical Shoemakers, men ‘who have come from the Shoe Bench and under- stand the making and fitting of shoes as they should be. Souve —FOR FLOWERS CIGARS —FOR THE MEN To all who call and inspect our new shop } department store job, a clergy- ‘man has every opportunity to rise from the post of floorwalker to a more responsible job. Though'— hastily added the official, as three women with packages bore down on him with fire in their eyes— “if you don’t think a floorwalkers position entails responsiblility, just try the job for five minutes.” Of the three clergymen at the Broadway shop. Dr. Ramsey is the only one acting as a floorwalker. They say he is good at it. too, and a study of his tall, slim figure. and intent. dark face, he dircets ul tired woman to- 3 shicfs. cour- eously waves i bewiide; hus- | band in the general direction of di nightgowns, bears out ninion. As for the miuister f, he woin't suy a word about his job or whether he lkes it or what new insight into human na- ture it permits. “Let it drop!” heicries, wearily. “I_don't want to talk. I'm worn out with answering questions.” And off he strides, with pencil and + notebook, to settle a dispute about a sales charge, concerning which the fat lady is doing & lot of un- necessary talking. One of the other two ministers in_the shop has waited on custom- ers in the men’s underwear depart- ment for more than a decade. The otier is employed in the shop's service bureau. All three perform their commercial routine efficient- Iy and conscientiously during the week and preach to their flocks Sunday. ! (Consright. 1 ENGRAVERS HOLD BANQUET. banguet in the ¢ evening. Included amc attended the banquet were: Charles Many 2 shop would announce 1 ¥. Lanham, pyesident; J. Harry Cun- presentation of thesc ningham, vice president; J. M. Cun- models as “extra-ordinary ningham, manager; Appleby, James ~ Godsey, Keady, Harry Bjorkland, Robert Reynolds. combination of its N ~ nirs THE LADIES James Sullivan, E. 8. Norris, F. G. Stevens, Maurice Harold Seth Peck, Ray Saunders, Jack Beson and IEAGER PAY{ PLEA FOR CHARITIES. WORK AS FLOORWALKERS IN SHOPS [s 10000 New embers ut| Easter Appeal. The special Easter appeal commit- tee of the Assoclated Charities met yesterday afternoon to complete plans for the campaign for 10,000 new mem- bers. Posters are unavailable for busi- ness houses, churches and organizations ‘which are willing to display them dur- ing the next two weeks. At a meeting of the central district conference of the Assoclated Chari- ties yesterday afternoon at the Soclal i Service House, 923 H street, the mem- | | bers of the conference voted to cone ]sllluxe themselves a copmittge as a whole to aid in obtaininz members in teonnection with the Kaster | for 10.000 contributors {means were devised to who are not at present supy | the Associated Charities family wel- farc work. Considerable rivalry is being shown between the different district conferences of the society as to which shall enroll the largest num- ber of members .during the Easter campaign. merely say “another —a designer has combin rose. blue. &ray 4 ting leather RY /(4| ‘ for Meyers’ Shops"—this time its WOMEN’S Sport Oxfords POSTIONS ASSURE | T0 GRADE TEAGHERS, Upper-Grade Instructors to Have First Chance in Junior High $chools. Proposed extension of the Jjunior high school system in Washington 1Will not result in the elimination of | the seventh and eighth grade teach-| ers, Supt. Frank W. Ballou lul\l'lhr; administrative principals at a meet- ing yesterday afternoon in the Thom- | son School. The opportunity to qual- Tty for the positions in the junior high schools, he said, will be given to teachers now in the eystem in corresponding posts before the places are thrown open to the field in gen- eral. “Undoubtedly those teachers who are now at work in the seventh and eighth grades will be able to pass examinations for service in the junior’ ihlgh school,” declared Supt. Ballou. “It is going to be a question merely of where and how they prefer to [worlt whether or not they will come | into the jun! sehiool portion of | the teaching 1 i aree new junior hizh schools will be opene which will re-| | quir ‘hers. Dr. Ballou | ipointed ou They ill be the Mae- { Farland and Langley, Both of which will be new, and the old Eastern High School. ' The old Eastern build- ing will be opened as a junior high school as soon as the new Eastern 1s ready for use. Advocating promotion by subjects, Supt. Ballou said it “is nothing short of an educational crime to make a pupil repeat a study in which he has bécome proficfent just because he has failed in some other study, possibly unrelated, but in the same year's course.” ‘The junior high school will provide this plan, according to the superintendent. Miss Alice Deal. principal of the Colambia Junior Migh (ool and Iwho was largely instrumental in the estabiishin chool in ent Leip iu for tie sions of the course. minor stud in other Filling in the junior high ! school program, she emphasized, is |tice Bailey continued the hearing un- | Mont. the most difficult question. ":’IIII/EII:\\\\ N 7L W x»‘:\ a [TRY x Style S ed tweed in old with e ke oxford, hide, with “Wonderful--- cluding a rubber-sole sport in | oxfords SRR S\ KLANLL T N LY SUITS - $32.50 Up RATS ON FROLIC DRIVE | HIGH SCHOOL MARMS TO | FLY TO LOFTY PERCHES By the Associated Press. HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., March 31. —Pled Piper, resurrect thyself. Haverstraw is calling thee. The mayor, the high school “marms” and the board of educe- tion want you, need you, yearn for you. Every day, 5o the board has been advised, several army corps of rats frollc in the high school rooms, driving the teachers to lofty perches and convulsing the 350 students with laughter. Every night the rodents browse brary, the desks and the lockers, filing them- tory and the three . the last iwo weeks they have gnawed the civil war out of 100 American history books, and destroved a lgrge store of infor- | mation regarding the parsing of a sentence and simple algebra. While the juniors were in*gym- nasium yesterday a squad of pests carried away all the money in their pockets — something 1like $35 in currency. And O, Pied Plper, the rats would not be so bad if they ‘were not infested with fleas. MRS. BERGDOLL FINED $50 FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT Draft Evader Subsequently Re- | mitted and Hearing Postponed. ! Mrs. Emma C. plia, mother of draft evader, was f for con- tempt of court, yesterday afterncon v Justice Bailey of the District Su- preme Court, for persisting in an at- tempt to argue her own case. Mrs. Bergdoll is represented by Attorney John 8. Maxwell of Philadelphia, and, after the lawyer had explained to the court that Mrs. Bergdoll had been permitted to present her views in Philadelphia courts and thought she had the same right here, Justice Bailey remitted the fine. | The hearing was in progress on the | Bergdoil of Philade Bergdoll. petition of Mrs. Bergdoll for the re- | o' turn of property worth more than | $500.000. seized by the alien property custodion. under the trading-with- redoll int th . Bergdoll beca ysterical and unable 1o tuke the witness stand called a short time later. Jus- whe: til April 12. ) ARV YA Je 3 | to the Grand Couneil, | lect Masters of the United States, by | Henry Lansburgh a ;o( Masons at thE Ce last night. { lzuded |Pennlty Incurred by Mother of | . i SILKEN“OLDGLORY” 10 MASONIC BODY Henry Lansburgh’s Gift to Grand Council, Royal and Select Masters. A riliken "Old Glo: wes presented Royal and Se- a mass meeting tral High Scheo The presentation wam in commemoration of the visit to thls city of the most puissant geners! grand master that body, Fay Hempstead. Mr. Hempstead in accepting” the flag declared that in honor of the donor it would always fly to the east when the Royal and Select Mas- ters of the U'nited States were in as sembly. Explaias Council's Misston. The general grand master spoke on of | the position occupied in Masonry b: the council of w its work the preservation books in the Ola Holy is corier s Bible Youu: of our life who Stanton’s “Goodbs ance bureau qua several vocal numbers, M olborn contributed « piano Solo. Miss Edith Athey played the Arkan- sas state song on the organ and Mr Charles B. Hanford recited “The Star Spangled Banner.” Visits White Honse. Earlier in the day Mr. Hempstead, accompanied by John A. Colborn, visited the bureau of printing and en- graving, and both were shown through the establishment by Mr Wilmeth there they visited ington, returnitg they wers or From and meén wf Ih city —_— world's tallest chimne conetructed at Ar 55 three feet higher than thc The cently ! Washington Monument ] ! & clothes themselves. ~ new topcoats and —in other words. $8 and TOPCOATS - $25.00 : ; Totwenr. Al fhe Jatee E P its>—Really? models and leathers, in- WASHINGTON HEADQUARTIERS FOR --men’s . weeds Never were new~com- ers more graciously or ( generously than the new models | STOK U of the O SN2 new shades and seoid of new mudel The values . are as gratifying as the Haven't you seen the J received 1 OUR TWEED light lorse- tan trimming. .95 Spring . 1922: The old “Stand- by” with the repu- tation for unsur- passed quality and style! New, Shades! New Shapes v Sports’ Clothes | for women On the tips of every tongue that talks fashion are SPORTS’ CLOTHES—and the kind SPORTS’ CLOTHES that a talked about are here in lar and interesting selections. SPECIAL! Women’s that are straight but- tons ete. . N -~y S-U-I-T-S The finest of materials many new and origin- al models featuring vents, leather $37.50 Up T AN |'//l{\\\\'«\\\"’ = of re e ! Tweed designed in backs, side b