Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1924, Page 18

PERSONNEL BOARD SCORED BY MERIAM Declares Law Has Been Vio- lated and Agency Should Be Abolished. The Personnel .Classification Board was subjected to a scathing denun- ciation by Lewlis Meriam of the Insti- tute for Government Research, former adviser on the classification act to Senator Sterling and Representative Lehlbach, at a meeting of Washing- ton Chapter of the American Asso- clation of Engineers, to which Fed- eral employes were invited, at the Natlonal Museum last night. “The Personnel Classification Board has violated the law passed by Con- gress in letter and spirit, and its fallure to carry out the terms of the act justifies the movement to abolish the board and transfer their work to the Civil Service Commission, whose revresentatives on the board have en- deavored to carry out the intention of the act in letter and spirit,” de- clared Mr. Meriam. Three Shortcomings Cited. The speaker, amplifying, said the board had failed to carry out the three main objects of the act, namely: The standardization of salaries, de- fining of positions and the proper application of the merit system. “The Jast two budgets in their defining of P ions have shown no improve- and some of the titles are more vague than before,” declared Mr. Meriam, who also asserted that the Government employes were told they had a flexible classification act. We do not have a flexible classification act, but we have flexible standards where they should be definite,” he sald. wr. Meriam urged that every per- <on interested in the act should sup- port the Lehlbach bill providing for the abolition of the Personnel Classi- fication Board. Sixty-two separate divisions of the Government, each with different methods and ideas as to construction, was deplored by Brig. Gen. R. C. Marshall, jr., retired, chief of con- struction during the war, and now general manager of the Associated Contractors. Favors Co-Ordinating Work. In urging the establishment of a ¥ederal department of works, Gen. Marshall declared that all Govern- ment construction except of a mili- tary nature should come under one department. He sald that there were 27 bullding agencies, 1§ bureaus that bullt roads and 19 bureaus that handled projects involving hydraulics and river and harbor works. “In_Government construction thers is little less confusion than construct- 30,000,000 Feet Lumbe: r Shaped Up for Toyland Ten thousand first assistants to Santa Claus have knocked off work for the year after cutting more than 30,000,000 board feet of lumber into the curious shapes de- manded by the rulérs of Toyland. There are nearly 400 establish- ments in the United States taking orders from Santa Claus. One manufacturer of toys in New York State uses 2,000,000 feet of lum- ber every year and the total value of the products of the {ndustry in all parts of the United States reaches $35,000,000. That takes a tremendous num- ber of trees, the American Tree Association points out in a bulle- tin calling attention to argument for reforestation. These commercial Santa Clauses, the toymakers, ply thelr trade largely in the East. New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan are the States in which the bulk of the industry is located. As forest resources have been gradually used up in the East, however, the manufacturers have had to depend upon timber brought from the West and the South. it was Iimpossible for Congress to know how much it is spending and to keep a proper view of Government construction as it is practiced now. He urged that a department of works would eliminate Federal com- petitive bidding, standardize rules and requirements and expedite construc- tlon and make for efficiency. A. C. Oliphant of the American En- gineering Council and Harold Almert, national president of the American Association of Engineers, also spoke. Tempting Lunches After-Theater Refreshments Drop* into Nunnally's for luncheon. Many of your business friends and neighbors are coming here day after day. oY OF THI 1223 F St. N.W. ing the Tower of Babel” declared Gen. Marshall, in pointing out that SHOES echoes from their footsteps. W T e AR T L THE EVENING §66,722 DONATED TOVISITING NURSES Falls Short of Two-Year Bud- get—Increase in Activi- ties Is Reported. The total amount received to date in the two-year budget campalgn of the Instructive Visiting Nurse So- clety of Washington, ending last month, now 1s $86,722, according to the report submitted by Mrs. William M. Grinnell, chairman of the finance committee, at the regular meeting of the board of managers of the society, yesterday, at the home of the secre- tary, Mrs. Franklin H. Ellis, Nineteenth street. The sum needed to maintain and expand the work of the nursing or- ganization for the ensuing two years was placed at $97,000. While the amount received Is far short of that, the board of managers are gratified by the fact that more than $5,000 of the money which has been con- tributed has come in since November 24, the date of the official close of 1227 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. the campalgn. ‘The sum so far in hand or pledged assures the con- tinuation of the -work of the nurses for more than a year. Work Is Enlarged, Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, director, In glving her report on the nursing work, told the meeting that a larger nunber of new patients had been visited and given nursing care dur- ing November than in any month of the current year, with the exception of March. The 32 staff nurses made & total of 6,117 visits to 1,742 pa- tients. Of these visits, 3,898 were nursing visits, 1,159 instructive, 220 prenatal, ‘72 venereal disease follow- up, 61 tuberculosls and 707 miscel- laneous and social service visits. In connection with the soclety's special maternity service, nurses were pres- ent at 39 deliverios. The question of requiring an annual physical examination for all mem- bers of the nursing and office staff was brought up by Mrs. G. Brown Miller, chairman of the nurses com- mittee. Authority was voted jointly to the nurses and finance committecs to work out the details for such ex- -aminations, the ruling to go Into effect January 1. Members of the board present were: Mrs. Whitman Cross, president, pre- siding; Mrs. Adolph C. Miller, Mrs. G. Brown Miller, Mrs. Frank Weeden, Mrs. Emory Scott Land, Mrs., Willlam M, Grinnell, Mrs. David Potter, Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann, Mrs. Louls Froth- ingham, Miss Julla Mattis, Mrs. Northup Dean, Mrs. Cressen Newbold, Miss Farrar Smith and Miss Cora Barry. Sprays and Other Floral Emblemq " for WOMEN 07 Extracts from some recent letters: “‘Hahn Special’ Shoes! The pavements of Washington resound with Tan Calf The smart business woman, the society debutante, the seeker after foot comfort and shoe durability, all those looking for the highest value for their money wear them.” “They have become a Washington institution—as well known as the Monument or the winners of the World Series—and this reputation is well deserved.” “They represent the best shoe value to be had in Washington today. = Patent Leather <&, They appeal to every one, even those who can afford to pay much more.” “I used to shop around, follow the ads and wear myself out at bar- gain sales. Now I buy ‘Hahn Specials’—save time, money and energy— and know I am getting the best styles and values to be had in Wash- ington.” “A shoe so reasonably priced as to be within the reach of every pocketbook—and yet so stylish as to satisfy the most exacting and well- dressed woman.” “It perhaps takes much time and thought to solve a cross-word puz- zle—but if you have ‘Hahn Special’ $5.95 “Call them ‘Superlatives'—they're more than = ‘Specials’!” guzz]ed over the shoe question, the answer is here— hoes.” Blonde Kid Back Black Velvet Moire Back Oriental Boudoir Slippers ONE of our many delightful ways of “Saying it with Slippers,” for the fastidious woman. Slippers of Chinese type, but made in America of soft colored kid with padded kid soles, bright colored satin linings and pretty silk pompons. Silver and Gold Brocade Slippers Continuin of importe: this sensational sale silver and gold bro- cade evening slippers that won't tarnish—at fully value. $ 4.90 a third below their “City Club Shop” 1318 G St. Blue Red Gray Brown Black and others $ 1.65 Cor. 7th & K Sts. 414 9th St. 1914-16 Pa. Ave. 233 Pa. Ave. S.E. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1924 JUSSERAND TO PAY HONOR TO LAFAYETTE Ambassador Will Deliver Principal Address at Dedication of Alcove in G. W. U. Library. Ambassador Jules Jusserand will at- tend the memorial exercises at George Washington University next Monday evening at 8:15 o'clock, when the Lafayette alcove in the university library is dedicated. The French Ambassador, in one of the last of his Washington appear- , will deliver the principal a of the occasion, which marks the one hundredth anniversary of the visit of Gen. Lafayette at the first mmencement _exer: of George shington, & eampaign for funds to endow a part of the university library and to con- tinue the building of a greater George Washington University along this line. The dedicatory exercises will take place in Corcoran Hall. A historic “Lafayette the First Com- wiil also be delivered by r of the university faculty. Miss Estelle Wentworth, director of in the university, will sing “The Marselllaise.” The men's glee club will give s The public is cordially invited to the exer- cises, at which will be shown many Lafayette relics. —_— Maj. Drake Transferred. tions. Maj. Albert F. Drake, judge advo- cate, has been relleved from duty at headquarters, District of Washington, this city, and ordered to Chicago for duty. Maj. Theodore Hall, judge ad- vocate in Hawall, has been assigned to duty at headquarters, District of The Lafayette alcove is the result of | Washington. e T T e e e Bt e 1217 Conn. 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