Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1924, Page 9

RECLASSIFICATION HITS PURSES OF MANY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES Half Million Workers for Uncle Sam Throughout law itself laid down a schedule of major divisions into which the board was au- thoriged to place the classes. In report. Ing the allocations this year the board allocated persons to their grade, leaving it to the department head to place the persons in their proper class. ‘The’ scheme of classifying employel as laid down in the law divides all work- ers into services and grades, leaving the board to_establish classes within the grades. The services are as follows: THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTOFR, Hughes Shuns Berlin and Reparations Talk Buring European Trip Secretary of State Hughes, who sailed for England yes- terday with the American Bar D. O, JULY 13, 1924—PART T. Radio Not Subject to Personal Tax As Musical Instrument, Official Rules A r~dio receiving set is not 2 musical Instrument and need not be reported as such in filing your per- fornia to New York when she and friends wish to dance. But Mr. Richards points out the dissemination' of musical airs is only Where Your Dollarr unt IMost World Will Realize Result of Board’s Work on Pay Day This Week. Association on the Berengaria to attend the London meeting ot/ international lawyers, will not visit Berlin while abroad. From July 21 to 28 Mr. Hughes will remain in London. He then plans to spend two days in Parls as a guest of the French bar. The few days remaining before the Secretary of State salls for home will be devoted entirely to recreation. He expects to return about the middle of August. It was formally announced at the State Department that Secretary Hughes will take no official part in the reparations discussion in London. He will, however, be kept closely in- formed by Ambassador Kellogg concerning developments, DAVIS SEEKS TO CURB ACTIVITIES OF GUNMEN By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 12.—Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, here today to attend a business meeting of a fraternal order, conferred with Wil liam H. Flynn,'local immigration in- spector, and other federal officers re- garding the arrest hefe on Thursday night of thirty-one alleged®gunmen, believed to be here to rob delegates and break up the convention of the On Leong Chinese Merchants' Asso- clation. Secretary Davis declared the local situation was a result of the whole- sale smuggling of Chinese into the country. Mr. Davis sald he would present a bill at the next session of Congress that would provide for the enroll: ment of all aliens. Undesirable allens could be identified and exclud- ed from this country, he said. Professional and ecientific service, sub- professional service, clerical, adminis- trative and fiscal service, the custodial service and the clerical-mechanical serv- ce. Field Service to Come Later. These all apply to the District of Columbia only. = The law provides further that' the board “shall make a survey of the fleld services and shall report to Congress at its first regular session following the passage of this act schedule of _positions, grades, and salaries for such services, which shall follow the principles and rules of the compensation schedules herein contained in so far as these are applicable to the field services. This report shall include a list pre- pared by the head of each deplrt- ment, after consultation with the board, and in accordance with a uni- form brocedure preacribed-by it, allo- cating all field positions in his de- partment to their approximate grades in said schedules, and fixing the pro- posed rate of cémpensation of each employe thereunder in accordance with the rules prescribed in section 6 herein.” report was submitted to Congress by the board, a bill was drafted passed by both branchas of the Con: gress, and it was this same bill which failed of enactment by a lack of sig- m\]{_ureslh t th 3 ow that the major part of the first_big burden is off the hands of the board, regardiess of whether it be criticlzed or praised, it is turning its attention to the business of la: ing down “systems of efficiency rat ing,” which, under the law, “shall set’ forth the degree of efficlency, which shall constitute ground for (a) increase in the rate of compensa- tion for employes who have not at- talned the maximum rate of the class to which their positions are al- located; (b) continuance at the exist- ing rate of compensation for em- ployes who at the time are above the minimum rate for the class to which their positions are allocated, and (c) dismissal.” Whether the personnel classifica- tion board shall continue in existence is a problem with which Congress will deal when it returns in Decem- ber. A Dbill providing for abolition |the board to the Clvil Service Com- of ‘the board, originating in the!mission. one incident in the function of radio. Among the principal items subject to personal tax are automobiles, live stock, jewelry (exoept watches), house- hold furnishings in excess of $1,000, bank accounts above $500, and stocks and bonds. File your return on or before Au- gust 1'at Room 103, District building, or a penalty of 20 per cent will be added to your total assessment after that date. Although the return must be filed this month, the tax is payable half in November and the balance next May. NG i Y 1§y @) v 720~22~24 7th St. NW. AGENTS FOR LADIES' HOME JOURNAL PATT! sonal tax return to the District build- ing this month, Assessor Willlam P. Richards ruled yesterday. The assessor has reached the con- clusion that the radio outfit is a part of general household furnishings un- der the personal tax law, and under this heading there is an exemption of $1,000. It is true that Sister Sue may tune in on any jazz orchestra that hap- pens to be broadcasting from Cali- 120 MASSES DAILY TO BE SAID IN SHRINE Crypt at Immaculate Conception Being Prepared for Crowds at Holy Name Convention. SRNS from stenographers, for in- stance, doing a_particular kind of work, not only in the same depart- ment o establishment, but every- where in the government, were piled up in a single pile, 80 to speak. And, according to Chairman Bailey, some discrepancies between the pay in various departments were found. All sheets for all workers were thus re- arranged across departmental lines and comparisons made. Variance in Salaries, < This resulted in the raising of many persons in salary. It also meant the considerable reduction of some others. It res ed in vigorous, and, at times, pathetic remonstrance on the part of the employe whose salary was cut. Some men, old in the govern- ment service, had to take sharp cuts, in_order to bring them down to the level with all other persons of like responsibilities throughout the gov- ernment service. Strong men were seen to shed silent tears, some emo- tional women grew hysterlcal and flighty, under the policy of reduction. But the process went on, with as fair administration possible, under the law, and the s d down. Many an underpaid worker at last received his reward. When the work was all reviewed across departmental lines, notices were sent out to department heads of all changes. The review was com- pleted June 30 and the notices began going out July 10. It is expected each person who was changed, either up or down in the scale, is expected {9 have received due notice by pay When the review was complete the plles had all been rearranges. ther were the class specifications in the papers as rearranged. These specifica- tions have been written out from the data available, describing every job un- der the classified service, and the book il g0 to the printer about the end of Thest class specification: : s, as d up by the board, indicate the. smallest visions of the work of Uncle Sam. The This week the full meaning of “re- classification™ will be brought straight home to the pocketbooks of Uncle Sam's army of more than half a mil- lion employes scattered around the earth, when they receive their first pay in the new fiscal year, July 15. Many hearts will leap with joy at a substantial increase in pay; a few will twinge with heartache at reduc- tions ‘after vears in the government service, Exact flgures are not obtainable. Baut it is known phat a majority of those persons reclassified obtained in- creases—some small, to be sure, oth- s of considerable size. ‘ ot all of the government service was reclassified. There was the big group of postal employes, for in- stance, whose proposed increase was up in a Dbill passing both and Senate and vetoed by the They continue at the same salaries, There are larme numbers Under the authority of wage boards, Such as control wages in the Nav. They were not reclassified. Police; firemen and teachers here received pay increases under a speclal act © Congress. i o0 told, Uncle Sam employs about 510,000 persons at home and abroad, according to some of the latest esti- mates Of those in bia about 54,000 Of those in the were reclassified, mates by the personnel board BEIREAERITRAN Suzana Worth $3.00 and $4.00 Several hundred brand- $ 77 SUMMER DRESSES These monoliths are arriving and attract much attention all lovers of the marble art have been gathered from all parts of the world—from Italy, Greece, Germany, the United States South America, Mexico, northern Af- rica, Poland and elsewhere. They ofter an array of marble columns un- surpassed in any country. The rich Guastavino ceilings of light buffs and grays rest upon the columns. Their delicate faience orna- ment relieves the monotony of the widespreading_vaults in a pleasing way. The walls of the crypt to the height of ten feet are lined with St. Genevieve marble that harmonizes with the columns and the ceilings. EX-GOVERNOR ACQUITTED. Harvey of South Carolina Accused in Bank Failure. By the Associated Press. ALLENDALE, S. C., July 12—Wil- son G, Harvey, former Governor of South Carolina and president of the Enterprise Bank of Charleston, was acquitted late today in the circuit court hers on charges of violating the state banking law in connection with the failure of the bank. — wife of the Presi- dof{," hfiofl’c‘efiha an exquisitely de- d handmade quilt as a gift from fl?&ounmn dwellers of Kentucky. free. daily from ‘They One hundred anll twenty masses each day will be said in the crypt of the National Shrine of the Immacu- late Conception at Catholic Univer- sity during the convention of the Holy Name Soclety, which is to meet in Washington on September 18 and continue four days. All work has been discontinued in the central vault of the crypt, so that arrangements may be completed for the ceremonies in the shrine at the time of the convention. Fifteen altars will be erected in the three apses, and eight masses will be sald at each each day of the meeting. Three hundred and fifty reserva- tions have been made at the univer- sity for the spiritual directors of the Holy Name Society. They will be given accommodations in the houses of the various orders on the Catholic University grounds. Sixty-two marble columns form the chief ornament of the crypt, so dis- posed as to leave the central space draw Hous President District of Colum- were reclassitied. field about 100,000 sccording to esti- classification in the Finally Put In Effect. Reclassification, over which t:“;zr;; has been such a row, nd ”‘f'," \‘\ ‘dif— there still exist widel \nl’)ll\}.b o ferences of opinion, has at least been placed in effect. The personnel :nh[ fification board, which was epit within itself and harassed \.73’ fil;] within and without, has nevertl bles been pounding away at what g{‘ o8 dure could be agreed on, ;\,\d ‘d Lo sults will be seen in drollfl:‘l‘« nd c ay roll next Tues = I Pivas this reclassification ef {P‘\}Sld ally the problem as well as ¢ e e s of reclassification 1 - = % > general par ’Téhl‘ District | ‘ olumbia and the field. i ; afIHC l):‘ah District of Columbia it & 227 Pennsylvania Ave. Southeast CLOSING OUT OUR Entire Surplus Stock of Used PIANOS-—-PLAYERS-—GRANDS PHONOGRAPHS—STOOLS—BENCHES! SACRIFICE -PRICES Tkl et ot Conerens TERIEEaY ing passed both Al but failed of signature at the t‘:t»\)»llul |~rwr“l'( ie signed by either th -] { the House aent ‘;:f:;fn‘\fld enis ot Fith payment of all salaries.in the This is your one angd only chance of securing thé piano you have always wanted at a less than auctions price. FOr years we have been building, buying, stor- ing and selling pianos. We have decided to close out our gnure surplus stock immediately. We realize that we must sacrifice these instruments at prices never be- fore heard of, quality considéred, in order to induce immediate action. Many of these instruments are priced at an absolute loss, and you must act quickly if you want to secure your favorite make. Don’t pass up this opportunity to secure a good piano. This chance will nof come again. Come prepared to buy, even if you have not intended to purchase an instrument for many years. We can arrange éasy terms if you do not have the cash. No matter where yeu live it will pay you to come over southeast early tomorrow morning. what you can for a first payment, and pay field as if reclassified, apportioning Cash or Easy Terms the balance at $1.25 per week. . Nothing Reserved! Everything Thrown Into the Sale SUCH MAKES AS CHICKERING, KNABE, SOHMER, BEHNING, STIEFF, FRANCIS BACON, SHONINGER, EVERETT—MANY OTHERS House, passed that body and has gone to the Senate. The bill would turn over the duties now exercised by ARIERANAREIBIAT - [, nmm He BAEHIIHN R ERER AR ARN RN AT B ference his governme: Where prevented by law. In Decem- er s Veltction, Congress will be back, when it is expected the officials whose signatures are. lacking will promptly afiix the same and the thing will all be corrected. Some To Take Losses. Some, however, will suffer loss. They are the employes in the field who have been placed under statu- fory pay and are not getting thelr salaries out of lump-sum appropria- tjons. It will be impossible either t6 pay these persons the increased salary of reclassification or the $20 a month bonus which Uncle Sam has Paid since the war. In popular parlance, these folks are “out of Tuck,” at least until Congress meets. No doubt their plisht will be reme died. While all looks, clear ahead for the field force under‘the present system as regards new pay under reclassifica- tion, with the exceptions mentioned, one ominous little cloud looms on the horizon. Should any exigency of the coming November election serve to change the minds of some members of Congres it has sometimes been konwn to do—it would be with- in the bounds of possibility that some member of Congress. might move to reconsider the field reclassification bill, and throw the matter back to its former status. Should this be effected there would be danger that for the remainder of the yvear those field employes who had for the first of the vear been regeiving the in- creas: ,uld have to get along for the last part of the year on much less, or in other words, what was left of their former annual salary, after deducting the amount already re- ceived Troubles Expected to Fade. This contingency, however, is not regarded seriously in official circles. It looks more like a horrible nights mare to government employes, which upon the morning of Congress con- vening will disappear like the bad dreams of wild vouth. Enough for the two principal parts of reclassification. How was the job accomplished? Over the process arose a big Tow. The law provided among other things that the personnel classification (S hoard should write class specifica- tions, or descriptions of the class of work to be done by government em- ployes, of such nature that all per- Sons to be classified could be shelved into the classification specifications provided. It provided also that the board. should allocate all workers to their places in the classification scheme. Chairman Baile RN IR R ADE AR RART HEBENNEAN: ARERERERERRK Built-up Shoulder and Bodice-top Vests, pink or white; crochet neck and drawstring. Medium sizes. Women’s Qutsize Crepe Gowns 95¢ Fullcut, Large and Roomy Gowns, in fancy figured pat- tern; round necks. Colors, blue, maize, orchid, pink, white und honey. ENEENAYRINTIRRRE RSN A small down payment brings this player to your home at the ridiculous price of $165.00, including bench to match. This is but a sample of the many bargains which go on sale. Pay as low as $2.00 per week on the balance. ‘This piano will go to the first customer for $35.00. We will deliver it free within a radius of 5 miles of Washington. Bring eon 5 ruttied ored wit Black, whit = v of the classifica- tion board in reality hag been be- tween two fires, of the two schools of thought in the board, represented by the bureau of efficiency and the Civil Ser Commission. He feelg that the crux of the difference has been simply that they had different ideas, as to the order in which the various kinds of work should be done. The one wanted the board to do first what the other wanted done second, he ‘says. Now, according to Chair- man Balley, all has been done that both demanded be done, only in a different order than suggested by one side to the argument. ‘Procedure Followed. rocedure ‘which' has actually been® thllowed by the elassification board, reduced to its simplest lan- guage 1s something like this First it obtained from the- depart- raents sheets of paper on which were described the positions and work being done by the persons to be clas- | sified in the District of Columbia. o sheets were handled by cam- ees of the board and department al representatives. MERAEKERNERIAETANANIBNERRAAE Another player-piano at a ridiculous price. Any one ean play ft. Any standard SS-note roll with fit it. This is your chance. Act quickly. Only one at this price. Pay only $2.25 per week. Mahogany case. Well worth twice the price. Free stool to match. Bring a small down pay- . ment and pay the balance at $1.26 a week. Another piano to go at'a mext to mothing price. Free delivery on 'this instrument within a radius of 5 miles of the elty. Some lucky person will snap up this bargain quickly. Hasl this plane away Aud we' will sell it for $25.00. ‘It is am, Ebony case and ‘worth more thax' touble the price we ask for it. This is your chance. ) 2 A committee would take all the st 0l FIRST COME—FIRST SERVED—DON'T DELAY—ACT QUICKLY Department, and arrange them into (S \ *Gran&l Piano Come Over Southeast and Save Money Grand Piano d to be doing the s kind 50 ork i the War Department, no matter in. what part of the depart- ment, were placed in the same pile. And when. this pile. was complete 3 » . ; L 227 P lvania Ave. South ' as SIS, ; v ennsylvania Ave. doutheast - But, it was e;pl:ll;;fltl{:o;l;ex;nfl; 3 portant compariso 9 = 4 i ¢ “work could be considered i~y Fo1R" ke sheets were taken ftom 2l . 2 _ All Pianos Not Exactly Like Cuts Shown. the departments and again ghuffied. : X they = were rearranged :E'g- mdeup-rt::mtu lines, Al the Secures any piano in this sale. Bring what you can for a down payment. new dresses of good quality corded and plain Cholce of plain colors, pretty floral patterns € L3 200 ‘Sumeripl’ Dresses (Glos Silk) Coolest of Summer Glos Silk Dresses, in maize and black. Bight great styles in straight- rufiing or hand-trim- mings. Sport sl\'!r‘i or tc 5% sizes. 5 Affording Selection for the Stout Woman e Tt e e \ Voile biein” dor destene. 2 Plala, Slored scarlet, etc. . e 39¢ 36-inch Sport Suiting, 29¢ fon Voile, to much quality, with a wide c Slnts N tape e d g e All Chinese blue. Fash- c Plenty white. Caepicce ressce 36:in. Woven Tissue Gingham All-silk, heavy quality, with a sof Jjade, orange, cop orchid, nickel White Sports Satin (Glos) | S5, a7 “iher White Sports 36-inch, lustrous silk finis in n BEEReE wanted colors. W 139c , $1.69. wash and we 39c Assorted White Goods | X:'l 279 5iand desirable remnant lengths, The lot in- fandie “Batiste and Printed Gier Law n, Nainsook, Checked Nainsook, ete. $1.00 Women’s Ribbed Union Suits Lisle Suits, highly mer- cerized bodice and <ubu- and tight shell knee. Regular and extra sizes. 20c WOMEN'S RIBBED VESTS Muslin Costume Slips isied With zan toms or plain 1a aud ail colors. WOMEN’S COSTUME SLIPS silk. Finished with attractive ruffled bot- toms, hemstitched top and shoulder S WOMEN’S SILK SURFACE HOSIERY high spliced heel; black, white and cdlors. $1.50 BOYS’ WASH SUITS tea cloth; fancy braided collar and cuffs; some »m- 2 to 8 years. $1 BOYS’ KHAKI PANTS double stitched, strongly made pants lawn and silky-finish “Scoteh” Ginghams and stylish checks in all colors. We Invite Comparison With Most $9.98 Dresses beautifu? shades of bluc, 85 gray, tan. fose, green, . line effects, with I nes&lallored effe 16 as Well as the Young Girl 55¢ Monte Carlo Flock Voile | 29¢ Printed and Plain Colored and Plain Colored As this is a close- rose, tomato, day. 8o come 40-inch Plain Colored Voile §6-inch Plain Col- wanted colors: 40-inch Silk Crepe de Chine Shown.in a wide range of woven ey withia dof checks, Gverchecks c and small plaids. peach, ta'n, navy Satin, with lustrous 55¢ Silk & Cotton Pongee, 39¢ brocade designs that _fashion_into ovely sport skirts. Betier. qualities aral Demloo g well and stand s Full pleces and 5 A 3 36-inch Printed Challies cludes Soisette, Or- c tonn a Longcloth, Dimity, Fine, Closely-woven lar tailored top. Wide Irregulars. Women’s Sateen and Muslin and inch double hem. Soft _cotton charmeen that looks like straps. All shades, black and white. All 1 : ;4 sizes. , [ Heavy glos silk hose with real Japan silk surface, narrowed ankle that will keep shape, c . g ' 3 2NN Five Items of Interest to Mothers of |||l Made of crash suiting,. linene, chambray or ga blem trimmed; all wanted 2ud two-tone effects. Sizes Heavy quality, sul- phur dyed khaki cloth, for boys, size 7 to 17 years. Irregulars. RN T 3 Flock dot volle, nice quality ging- LSt hams and linene; made straightline \ or Balkan blouse effects: pleated cr- gandie collar and cuffs: lace and em- Z=broidery trimmed; imitation drawn- {he committee and the board declde: £= work; small_checls and solid colors; the standard salary, under the e for those people all deing the same Kind of work. S "Thus were treated all departméfits and establishments. All ‘persoris ere allocated according to their proper level in the pay scale of their pafticular department or establish- t. M hen when all were completed to this: point, estimates were made on .the cost, and the first classification P TR L P LR T T DT T Y P E P EEEREEEES all wanted shades. Sizes 7 to 14. Little Tots’ Panty Dresses either fancy silk stripe stitched and ] 75¢ Boys’ Sport and un 5 Made of 2 Rellllll uses chambray and Percale, Ma- gingham 1 n 9 fnatancy 59c appiiguca 8. K . Bizes 7 to 15. S h i n roband kaea S Blouses, fects, with SNIESSTIEREND: