Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1923, Page 52

rig- Only Half of Uncle Sam’s 66,435 District Workers Are Women Drop to 50-50 Ratio From 64 Per Cent * During War~Civil Service Com- mission Taking Census. nobody knows cxactly how ¥ women are emploved in the federal serwice in Washington. But a pretty shrewd guess by an official vesterday placed the number of woman workers in the government departments here at about 33,000, a big drop from the number of women at work during the war, but a large in- crease over the number employed before theworld conflict. | portion of men to women will run | about 50-30, admittedly a very nice pro- vortion. That s, | girt for o | service her | today there is just or ry bey in the government 33,267 women and Those interested in the looking forward to the completion ot the Civil Service Co mission’s check-utp to see how closely the “half-znd- proportion holds good. 5: 33,268 men. matter are First Count Made, | This will be the first count by sexes THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY .’],‘ 1923—PART 2. to the grandmother, keep Uncle Sant's countless records. The patience of womankind, which will work minutes at a knotted shoe- string, whereus mere man would cut it with the scissors in his impatience, finds its full play In government em- ploye. where there is detail, detail, detail. Tt is tiresome detall, but there is no escape. Here woman finds some of her best opportunities for service. In fling, in typewriting, as private secretaries, |* in other positions calling for atten- ‘tion to detail, the girls of the govern- ment service help man the ship of state. Upon some girl clad in a rose-col- ored sweater or one attired in green- Dlue may depend a great deal. And it is true that they brighten up the corridors and workrooms where other- wise unlovely men, in their severe suits, would make of government de- vartmeMts a scene eolorless and drear. PLEA FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE Robert Kressin, manager of the Dime Messernger Service, is named as defendant in a sult for an abso- lute divorce filed by his wife, Ida Kressin. The wife charges that her husband took rooms near his place of business with another woman. She | asks the court to declare that he has Scientists Here Work to Foil Crafty Wiles of Santa Claus Seek to Eliminate W hite Reindeer - From Herds. Also Will Interbreed Caribou for Stur- dier Race. Santa Claus, it is learned on excel- lent authority, has been invisible for the_past several years. Children on Christmas eve have peeked in vain don't belleve there is any Santa Claus and that stuffed stockings were placed by the fireplace by daddy or mamma. This, of course, is not the case. The biological survey of the United States north pole dressed in white ermine fur and driving a span of white relndeer, which can’t be seen against the background of snow. They have set themselves to eliminate white reindeer from the world. The prob- ability 1s that St. Nicholas bought his _animals from somo of the Lapp or Eskimo herders of Alaska—among: whose herds the snow-colored animals have cropped out to an alarming ex- /tent. By killing off the race, blologlsts say, not omly will Santa be made visible, but some of the irritating de- lay in'delivering Christmas presents will be done away with—for the white prancers are ‘mmong the lazlest ani- mals under the sun. To compensate Santa, the biological survey plans to produce a faster, stronger, fatter, sturdier animal of normal colgr by’ crossing Alaskan reindeer with caribou. O. J. Murle, an experienced Alaskan feid naturaiist, has been sent into the interlor of Alaska to study the caribou herds in that region. Interbred with reindeer, it 18 beileved that miracles |can be accomplished in_producing a |new stock animal. The average "r‘]leclmen of the latter weighs about 150 pounds when dressed for marke The caribou, a close relative, weig] | about 300. The average size of the | reindeer can be doubled in & few Years, it is estimated. spaces blinds them and they prefer to keep their eyes closed. With the slightest excuge they wiil lic down in the snow and fall asleep. Wh touched they will ralse their heacs ani then yo to sleep again, The Eskimos have allowed the breed to increase because they value fts skin— pure white clothing being one of the Dprides of native belles. When the mother is white the fawns almost invariably are white, the sclentists have discovered. Per- petuation of the race has been due entirely to carelessness—helped along, perhaps, by a bribe from Santa Claus. At present there are about 100 herds of reindeer In Alaska, mostly in the hands of Eskimos and Lapps. These i herds are fostered carefully by the blological survery, since it seems likely that the anlmal will become the principal stock of the country. Wacrhington keeps in touch with the development of the herds through the blological experiment station estab- lished at Unalaklect, on the shore of |the Bering sea. The range extends { practically over the entire territory. PLAN SEPARATE PACT. By the Associated Press. LAUSANNE, June 30.—Czechoslo- vakia and Turkey have decided to ne- gotiate a separate treaty of commerce PLANS FOR EXCURSION. Tickets on Sale by Veteran As- sociation. The headquarters of the tickel committes for the excursion to Marshall Hall on August 4 for the benefit of the Home for Widows and Orphans of the United "States War Veterans' Assoclation has been cs- tablished at 824 13th street north- west. A program of athletic events with prizes, as well as a number of oth- er interesting events, will a art of the excursion trip. Pasi epartment Patriotic Instructor Charles E. Currier of tho Spanish- Amgrican Veterans' Association chalrman of the committee; Ca; Richard L. Lamb of the Spanish- American Veterans' Association, 1s vice chairman; Mrs. Myrtle M. Loeb- sack, past department president of | the Woman's Relief Corps, s chair- man of the program committee; Maj. H. L. Deam, president of the United States War Veterans' Association and past department commander of De- partment of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic, is honorary chairman of the day, and Past Di- seem In a em to miles of reports, As strange as it may oity where statisticlans grow on trees and where figures crop up in annual there no one who knows how many of the fair earn their living in Uncle Sam's big govern- ment plants here Figures to Be Given. Wonicn's organizations have been elamoring for the information, s0 \ the obliging Civil Service Commis- sion is at work on the data,” and some time in August will furnish the world with complete figures as of June the end of the fiscal year. So il you want to know the pro- portion of ladies to gentlemen. or women to men, just as vou prefer to phrase it, go find some wise gentleman | who has been working u long time In he government and is in @ position to Eood guess. ch declared that there were 38.000 government employes the trict, exclusive of wo.kers of municipal gov- before 2 war, of which e’ of the sex ever rhade by the commission. Nol out of chamber windows over moon- statistics along this line have ever been compiled, as the commission held to the theoretical basls that all were employes of Uncle Sam and their sex did not matter. i Right here is where the women's crganizations will arise to protest ] “Yes,” they will say, “but women have been discriminated against Hundreds of them do exactly the same work as men, but they do not get the same salaries.” The protest is sustained. It is the sad truth that many women in gov- ernment service, as revealed at the and amity. This will be done because of Turkey's refusal of the allied sug- gestion that Czechoslovakia be al- lowed to sign the Lausanne peace ! pact now in negotiation. forfeited his interest in their home, 4029 Connecticut avenue northwest, which stands in the joint names of the wife and husband. Attorney Jeorge C. Gertman appears for the wife. Department of Agriculture has found | As to Santa's white prancers. They 1it reaches of snow for a glimpse of e Ihe oivio i _|are handsome animals, but not nor- B! out just how the sly old saint man- | 258 MECOVORE SR, ot how they his reindeer. = Some of. these little|ages to make himself unseen, and has ' happened to crop out in the herds. ones, disappointed after long VIBIIS. ; gct itself to defeat his strateg: On a snewy day they can't see very have announced cynitally that they | Santa, it seems, simply leaves the well. The sun against the white vision Commander Ciinton J. Hiatt is chairman of the general committee on arrangements. All department commanders of all war veterans as- soclations are members of the ticket committee. E strive to make our merchandise and our markings both so attra.c_tive as tovmerit your preference when something is wanted for the home. Quality is the first consideration—priced not only fairly, but to reflect the advantages our favorable association with the market give us. hearings of the old reclassification B o We shall be glad to have you open a charge account for your convenience. money on the same sort of work that v the men get. Perhaps the new re- classificatton will change it. an N e e onte o ouse an errmann knowledge, as revealed herewith, - that, whereas before the war women comprised only about 40 per cent of the government workers here, they now form zbout 50 per cent and, dur- ing the war, averaged approximately Hold High Positions. hats and h|gh1 Women today hold high positions lin the government in the National { Capital such as they never held be- fore, There ig a woman member of and female, to the Civil Service Commission, Mrs, number about | Helen Gardener, and there is Mrs. P iy | Bl Candenen aad nitte: Some rral of the United There is Miss Mar; ig the head of the children’s bureau of rtment of Labor. In District rnment circles there is Mrs. Clara or, member of the District Rent in ars expensiv to their 3 Number Jumped in War. the male which . who Women « ernment 1 o eir own in gov- & the big con- then war risk rflowing and ruty to count- that the government dropped back to sfficial figure M imated important service, The of Dining Suite (Exactly as Illustrated) A very -'exc;eptional Bedroom Suite Hemstitching, Picot Edging, 10c Yard (Basctly as Ilustrated) Pictorial Summer Fashion Books, 25¢ Skirts Pleated—All New Styles 60c Yard FIRST 1219-1221 G Street N.W. Store Hours: 9 to 6 Sale of Thousands of Yards of New " Summer Cotton Dress Goods 29¢ Yd. loor. Consisting of ten handsome pieces in combination waluut —the four large picces having the Duo-toned-finished panels. Done in the graceful Queen Annc period—Combination Walnut, with pieces Buffet, China Closet, Serving Table, Dinirg of generous size. 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