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THE SUND. AY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 9, T T e e e e e et S e e A AT A e e e e e B B et e e T PR O DRY TRANSFERBILL APPROVED INHOUSE First Step in Hoover’s En- forcement Program Calls for Shift. (Continued From First Page.) subpeona witnesses, but would be glad to hear the Massachusetts “wets” if they came to Washington. The hearings before the House judi- ciary committee are the first under- taken by that committee since prohibi- tion went into effect 10 years ago. The Senate judiciary committee, however, through a subcommittee headed by former Rice W. Means of Colorado, held extensive hearings on proposals to re- peal or modify the dry laws about three years ago. Prohibition continues to hold _the limelight in congressional debates. Dur- ing the last two weeks prominent mem- bers of the House have discussed the subject, with Representative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania, former solicitor general, making the most recent argu- ment in opposition to prohibition. He has recommended the repeal of the Voistead act, leaving the eighteenth amendment without an enforcing statute. Alchohol Proposal Is Defeated. ‘The Williamson bill, for the transfer of prohibition enforcement to the De- partment of Justice, was put through the House late yesterday without a record vote. Efforts were made by a minority of the committee on expendi- tures in the executive departments to amend the bill so that the Attorney Gen- eral should prescribe all regulations re- lating to permits for industrial alcho- hol, without the Secretary of the Treas- ury having a hand in such regulations. This proposal, however, was voted down by the House in_ committee of whole, by 145 to 47. Its proponents urged that the Attorney General should have full authority in this matter, par- ticularly as much of the aleohol which finds its way into the bootleg traffic comes from the diversion of in- dustrial alcohol. Representative Dallinger of Massa- chusetts. a_member of the committee, supported the provision of the bill under which the permit regulations are to be written jointly by the Attorney Gen- eral and the Secretary of the Treasury. He pointed out that the Attorney Gen- eral himself has favored this plan. The actual issuance of the permits for industrial alchohol remains in the Treasury Department, under the bill, and the Bureau of Prohibition in the ‘Treasury is hereafter to be known as the Bureau of Industrial Alchohol, with a commissioner of industrial alchohol at its head. i Cochran’s Move Loses. Representative Cochran of Missouri, & member of the committee on expendi- tures in the executive departments, P that the Treasury Depart- ment should continue to have full con- trol over the issuance of permits for industrial alcohol and for medi ! and sacramental alcoholic beverages, instead of having the Attorney Gen- eral acting jointly in these matters with the Secretary of the Treasury. He expressed the view that business houses using industrial alcohol would suffer under any other arrangment. But his proposal was overwhelmingly defeated, too, as were other amend- | ments of a similar character. Representative La Guardia of New York, one of the wet group in the House, during the debate on the Wil- liamson bill charged that a Senator from Washington had “pulled off the Department of Justice” and kept it from interfering with prohibition ad- ministrators who were violating the law at Puget Sound. Mr. La Guardia did not name the Senator during the dehate, but when he left the floor he said that he referred to Senator Jones of Washington, author of the so-called “5 and 10” law, imposing heavy pen- alties for violations of the dry laws. In the debate La Guardia referred to him as “a great statesman in the other body and a foremost champion of prohibition.” The charge was made during the | consideration of an amendment to pre- vent the employment of prohibition law violators in the Bureau of Prohibition. Jones Denies Charge. | “1 want to present a situation which exists in the State of Washington, Wwhere you have administrators of pro- hibition who are violating the law, and when the Department of Justice tried to_interfere, a great statesman in the other body and a foremost champion | of prohibition pulled the Department of Justice off. That is the kind of &ituation we are trying to prevent.” Senator Jones later denied flatly he had ever asked the Department of Jus- tice to stop any investigation. He said | he knew of no administrator of prohibi- H tion who had committed a crime. “As & matter of courtesy to me,” said | Senator Jones, “I should think that Mr. La Guardia would see if there.was any truth in a statement of that kind before | he made it.” The House judiciary committee, ! through a subcommittee headed by | Representative Christopherson, is con- sidering that part of the presidential program for strengthening prohibition enforcement through the use of United Etates commissioners to hear cases of minor violation of the prohibition laws. It has already had a number of hear- ! ings on the proposal. i Border Patrol Plan in Program. Another feature of the President's | program calls for a unified border | patrol, to prevent the smuggling of liquor into this country. The commit- tee on immigration of the House has this matter before it, but is waiting to | see if the committee on expenditures in | the executive departments plans to bring | in a bill dealing with this matter, as it #lso has jurisdiction of the subject. | Predictions have been made that the only bill which may be expected to be- come law at the present session of Con- | gress. of those to carry out the Presi- | dent’s program for strengthening en- | forcement of the liquor laws, is that | providing for the transfer to the De- partment of Justice of the enforcement ynit. However, the House committees are going ahead with the consideration of the other features. | CHURCH PATRONAGE HIT | AT ENGLISH CONFERENCE | Abolition of System Is Urged on Meeting by Former Attorney General. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 8.—The present meeting of the Church Assembly, which already has disposed of two important questions in the Anglican Church, yes- terday attacked another great issue. It considered a measure recommending abolition, or at any rate, modification of the system under which church pat- ronage is bought and sold. Sir Thomas Inskip, former conserva- tive attorney general, attacked the right of sale of patronage during discussion of a measure dealing with the present system under which “advowsoni” may be bought and sold. An advowson is the right of presentation to a church or vacant ecclesiastical benefice, or of presenting a clergyman to the bishop for induction into a benefice. He asked the assembly to appoint a committee to draw up a new measure ebolishing patronage, without qualifica- tion, which ibly might pass through pFarliament by Autumn, {TO {Miss Frances Densmore of Smithsonian Institution Gets Record of Rites. |Second of White Race to Be Witness of Morning Star Symbol of Genesis. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | The second of the white race ever to | be admitted to the weird and mysterious Morning Star ceremony of the Pawnee Indians, Miss Frances Densmore of the Smithsonian Institution, has secured a record of one of the most imaginative and colorful nature rites and genesis stories of the American aboriginals. Escorted into the sacred lodge and to the presence of 20 celebrants, whose half-naked bodies were painted red, the | Washington woman was enabled to se- cure the music of one of the mystical songs, but she was not allowed to make a phonograph record, because it was considered too sacred by the singers. Miss Densmore witnessed part of the rite which, only a few generations ago, was attended by the sacrifice of a bea tiful maiden, but which now, although regularly celebrated, has been greatly abbreviated. In a few generations it may disappear entirely, and with it one of the highest flights of the Indian imagination in the eternal effort to explain the mysteries of nature and the origin and destiny of man. Like all primitive people, the Pawnees personified nature, endowing the stars, the moon, the sun. the earth, the winds, the clouds, the waters, the light and the darkness with anthropomorphic per- sonalities. The secret ceremony to which Miss Densmore was admitted is based on the genesis legend. Courted Star Maidens. In the beginning, according to this legend as reported by Miss Densmore, Morning Star ruled in the East and Evening Star in the West. All the stars west of the Milky Way were feminine and all to the east were masculine, One by one the stars came out of the East to_court the lovely star maidens in the West. When they came, the siren, Moon, met them. welcomed them, and offered to guide them to the village of heavenly maidens. She was jealous of the beauty of these, and led all their prospective suitors to a hole she had made in the sky. through which they fell to earth and were killed. Thus the love affairs of the heavens were in a bad way, when the great Morning Star himself decided to pay suit to the Evening Star, the lovely queen of the East. He took with him his little brother to carry his pack. Thus, the Indians say, a small star always seems to accom- pany the rising of Morning Star in the springtime. Moon evidently had no hopes of luring the two adventurers to the hole in the sky. but she put in their path_across the heavens 10 obstacles which they had overcome one by one. The first five were difficulties of travel, such as sharp flints and sword grass be- neath their feet. Then wild animals. the mountain lion. the wildcat. the DORAN MININIZES ALCOHOL DIVERSION Commissioner Say_s Critics, Lacking Facts, “Magnify” Extent of Illicit Supply. Striking back at his critics, Prohibi- tion Commissioner James M. Doran, in a comprehensive monograph issued last night, charges these “critics, lackirg | facts as a basis for their fears, have greatly magnified the extent and danger of industrial alcohol diversions.” One of the principal sources of illicit alcohol in the hands of bootleggers to- day, Dr. Doran said, is corn sugar, the production of which increased from 150,000,000 in 1921 to 960,000,000 pounds last year. Alcohol Check Is Tnadequate, The chief handicap that faces Gov- ernment administrative officials in stop- ping diversions, Dr. Doran explained, is that under the law ‘“the Government cannot trace industrial alcohol down the line of its varied uses beyond the first purchaser of alcoholic products manu- factured by firms or individuals hold- ing Government permits. “True enough, the Government has control over the use of alcohol by man- ufacturers licensed to make certain products with alcohol as a raw mate- rial, and does require such manufactur- ers to furnish the Government with the name and address of the wholesale dealer or other dealer who buys his products ostensibly for lawful sale.” Many original purchasers have cor- porate names and under the law can- not be compelled to show their books, he explained. Many have been and are suspected of not legally disposing of their products. Many permittees selling their products to first purchasers are operating under permits restored by the courts, which previously were revoksd by prohibition administrators. “Many diverters will be caught and prosecuted,” he declared. “But the | Government lacking the power to re- quire them to open their books and produce other records showing dispost- tion of their products down the line to the ultimate consumer, makes it almost a superhuman task to detect them in violations, with abundant proof that will stand the test in court, in prosecu- tions for conspiracy or other violations of the prohibition laws. “It is clear, therefore” Dr. Doran pointed out, “that as long as the Government s thus restricted by the explicit provisions of existing law, against delving into dealers’ records be- yond the original purchaser, a certat minor quantity of industrial alcohol will continue be classed as questionable.” Diversions Held Small. “There probably always will be some diversions,” he admitted, “and illicit manipulation of products, made from denatured alcohol. But the total volume of such diversions is a small precentage of the total production of alcohol man- ufactured lawfully for legitimate com- mercial use.” The monograph deals with all im- portant phascs of Government super- vision over manufacture, storage, dis- tribution and sale of alcohol, for legiti- mate and lawful use in the arts, sciences and industry and describes the system of control “to assure an ampie supply of alcohol for legitimate indus- try and to prevent unlawful uses.” Since the World War, Dr. Doran said, “there has been a remarkable d velopment along chemical manufactu ing lines in the United States. Today our industries consume more industrial alcohol than those of any other coun- try. There are now more than 25,000 users of industrial alcohol engaged in manufacturing.” Referring to the growth in use of in- dustrial alcohol, the prohibition com- missioner declarcd the Government has listed it as one of the Nation's key in- dustries. There are more than 150,000 permittees using or handling alcohol in some manner, including physicians and druggists, it was explained, with 52 plants producing alcohol for commer- clal purposes. These plants produ~ed more than 100,000,000 wine gallons of alcohol during the last fiscal yeer. There are 77 denaturing plants and 75 bonded warehouses, s DISTRICT WOMAN ADMITTED WEIRD PAWNEE CEREMONY | S _FRANCES DENSMORE. buffalo and the bear attacked them at Moon'’s bidding. Morning Star overcame each of them in turn he sang a song which is the most sacred part of the Pawnee ritual. Finally he closed the hole in the sky made by Moon. So he came to the celestial lodge of Evening Star, his in- tended bride. There he was attacked by & snake, but he overcame it, as he | had the others, by a ball of fire and his | magic song. Lovely But Haughty. | Evening Star was a lovely but haughty |Queen of the heavens. Secretly admir- ing the prince of the western heaven: who had come to woo her, she never- theless kept aloof as long as possible. Finally she accepted him, insisting first that he provide for the children that might be born, even to the extent of perfumed water in which to bathe them. She also insisted that he plant a tree in front of their lodge, where the mocking birds might nest and sing to the children. The first child was a daughter. Meanwhile Moon and Sun had married, and their first child was a son. Both came to earth and became the ancestors of the human race, Up in the heavens, Evening Star and though she still gave way to wifely tantrums. Among her demands of her husband was a human sacrifice of a pure and beautiful maiden, repeated an- ‘nullly. He consented to arrange the matter. Formally, as the time when Evening Star was expecting her sacrifice approached, Morning Star would appear to'a man in a dream and instruct him to secure an appropriate maiden. The man would summon other warriors and together they would go on the warpath, singing the magic song with which Morning Star had overcome the obsta- cles on his first journey out of the west. When they had captured a maiden, they placed her in the charge of the chief of the village until the time for her sacrifice. At the appointed time her body was painted, half red and half black, and she was tied to a scaf- fold and shot through the heart with an arrow. Long since, Evening Star has been obliged to get along without her sac- rifice. Early in the last century, on the eve before the execution, a young chief ‘came crawling through the tall sunflowers and stole the maiden, taking her back to her own people. She had already been covered with paint and died shortly afterward. The rescuer hap- pened to become a warrfor of distine- tion, and through his influence the sac- rifice was discontinued. Describes Experience. Describing her experience, Miss Dens- more reports: “The ceremony began about 9 a.m. and continued until 4 pm., the writer. sitting outside the tepee except for the brief time she was permitted to enter. The entire songs of the ceremony were heard, as well as the prayers and ritual, although only the principal song was obtained. “At the proper time Coming Sun, who was in charge of the ceremony, sent a messenger to summon the writer, and she entered the lodge. was seated back of tne bundle (the sacred bundle containing religious ob- Jects about which the ceremony re- volves), and held one of the sacred gourd rattles. Two men on either side of him held similar rattles. In front of was a belt, and a bundle of song sticks. At th right of the bundle were four owls. “The outer wra| of buffalo hide and this was spread on the ground. “On this was a wolf hide, and on the wolf hide lay a pipe and wildcat paws filled with native tobacco. Between the wolf skins and the fire was a decorated ear of corn. It is said that the paws of a wildcat are selected to hold the tobacco because the animal is spotted like the star-strewn heavens, and that for the same reasons the skin is often used for wrapping infants. “In accepting the gifts offered by the writer Coming Sun stroked her arm, accepting them in the prescribed cere- monial manner. She then left the lodge as she had entered, avoiding the space between the bundle and the fire. “About 20 men were in the cere- monial lodge. They wore no clothing above the waist and the bodies were smeared with sacred paint made of red powder mixed with buffalo fat. A large fire was kept burning in the middle of the lodge, although the day was in- tensely. hot.” MUSIC RAISA AND RIMINI IN RECITAL. Rosa Raisa, one of the dominant stars of the Chicago Grand Opera Co., and gl!como Rimini, a leading bari- tone with the same company, appeared in joint recital at Constitution Hall last night. The audience was very large and extremely appreciative, de- manding encores after every selection and bringing Mme. Raisa out after her final solo for two popular encores, Tosti’s “Good-bye” and the Neapolitan song, “O Sole Mio.” It has been several seasons since Rosa Raisa has been heard in Wash- ington. She last appeared here with the Chicago company in opera, which is, obviously, her forte, rather than concert work. She showed plainly in her singing of the operatic arias last night that she has a definite flair for the dramatic in action as well as in the quality of her voice. She was not particularly effective in Verdi's “Bolero,” but she showed both art and feeling in her singing of an air from “Pique Dame,” by Tschalkowsky, and the fa- miliar “Vissi d’Arte,” from “La Tosca.” The same was true of the arias from “Norma” and “La Gioconda.” Mme. Raisa’s tones were often col- orful and rounded, but toward the end of an extremely taxing program, in- cluding the numerous encores, her voice showed the strain somewhat. Al- ways her personality was charming and gracious. She appeared to advantage, too, in the duets with her husband, and the Mozart “La ci darem la Mano,” which _was the encore. Mr. Rimini has a rich Italian warmth in his voice, but is inclined to spoil a lovely quality with throaty production. He won a great deal of applause for his singing of the “Toreador Song," from Bizet’s “Carman.” Carol Perrenct was quite evidently an experienced, if sometimes mechani- cal, accompanist. She, as well as the singers, seemed to have to take the first couple of groups of songs to be- come adjusted to the hall, the planist later not playing so loudly as at first and the enunciation of the singers seeming to become much cleur;’r. v Morning Star got along very well, al-| works. There are several FEDERATION 0. K RETIREMENT BILL Lehibach Measure Offers Ad- ditional Benefits, Em- ployes Head Avers. —(Continued From First Page) __ to the annuity for the average salary of $1.500, i “The bill includes employes of e United States Soldiers’ Home and the | National Home for Disabied Volunteer Soldiers, employes of the Indian Serv- ice at large, and employes of the State | Department outside continental limits of the United States, which groups were not heretofore included within the pro- visions of the act. 5 |, “An employe's ‘individual account’ is the amount - deducted from the em- ploye's salary minus $1 a month, which Is withheld to form a ‘tontine, which makes possible the increased annuities. “Retirement at the option of the em- ploye is provided at a period two years earlier than the present retirement age. This is not as early an optional retir ment age as we desire, but we belie that upon experience developed from this two-year period we will be able to secure optional retirement after 30 years of service without regard to age within a comparatively short time. Retirement at Age of 70 Years. The Lehlback bill provides generally for retirement at the age of 70 years, after at least 15 years of active service. City, rural and 'village letter carriers, post office clerks, sea post clerks, labor- ers and mechanics would be eligible for retirement at the age of 65 years. Railway postal clerks, mechanics and laborers in navy yards, and those em- ployes engaged in’ pursuits whose occu- pation is hazardous or requires great physical effort, or which necessitates exposure to extreme heat or cold, and those employes whose terms of service shall include 15 years or more of such service rendered in the tropics, shall be cligible for retirement at 62 years of age. Classification of employes for as- signment to these various age groups would be determined jointly by the Civil Service Commission and the head of the service in which the employe provisions protecting mechanics involuntarily transferred to other work or to minor positions. “Mechanics” specifically in- cludes all employes in the Government Printing Office whose duties are to su- pervise, perform, or assist in apprentice, helper or journeyman work of a recog: nized trade or craft as determined by the Public Printer. Automatic Separations. ‘The Lehlbach bill provides that all employes coming under the act shall be automatically separated from the service on arriving at retirement age and having rendered 15 yeays of service. Salary, pay or compensation shall cease from that date, and it shall be the duty of the head of each branch of service to notify such employes at least 60 days in advance of the date of such separ: tion from the service. If the head of a department, bureau or independent office certifies to the Civil Service Commission that by rea- son of efficiency and willingness to re- main in the United States civil service the continuance of such employe would be advantageous to the public service, then an employe may be retained for a term not exceeding two years upon the approval and certification by the Civil Service Commission, and at the ned of the first two years extension may be similarly continued for an additional two years. It is specifically provided, however, that after August 20, 1930, no employe shail be continued in the civil service of the United States beyond the age of retirement for more than four years. 15 also specifically stated in the Lehlbach bill that no person separated from the service who is receiving an annuity under the retirement act shall be employed again in any position the men and next the sacred bundle | gary, especially the Donizetti “Pronta io son” | covered by the retirement law. To Whom the Act Applies. ‘The retirement act applies to the fol- Coming 8un | jowing employes and groups of em- ployes: (a) All employes in the classified civil service of the United States, in- cluding all persons who have been heretofore or may hereafter be given a competitive status in the classified civil with or without competitive decorated ~with human lat] scalps, & cofled thong of braided hide | cxamipation, by legislative enactment, der civil service rules promulgated €| by the President, or by executive orders covering into the competitive classified Pping of the bundle 15 | service groups of employes with their positions, or authorizing the appoint- ment of individuals to positions within such service. (b) Superintendents of United States national cemeteries and such employes of the offices of solicitors of the sev- eral executive departments, of the architect of the Capitol, of the Library of Congress, of the United States Bo- tanic Garden, of the recorder of deeds and the register of wills of the District of Columbia, of the United States Sol- diers’ Home, of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, of the State Department without the conti- nental limits of the United States who are Unied States citizens, and of the Indian Service at large, whose tenure of employment is not. intermittent nor of uncertain duration. (c) All employes of the Panama Canal on the Isthmus of Panama who are citizens of the United States and whose tenure of employment is not in- termittent nor of uncertain duration. (d) Unclassified employes of the United States in all cities and in all establishments or offices in which ap- ro(mmems are made under labor regu- lations approved by the President, or from sub-clerical or other registers for the classified service, and unclassified employes transferred from _classified positions. These groups shall include only those employes whose tenure of employment is not intermittent or of uncertain duration. (e) All regular annual employes of the municipal government of the Dis- trict of Columbia, appointed directly by the Commissioners or by other compe- tent authority, including those employes recelving per diem compensation paid out of general appropriations and in- cluding public school employes, except- ing _school officers and teachers, (1) All employes and groups of em- ployes to whom the benefits of the re- tirement act of May 22. 1920, as amend- ed, shall have been extended by Execu- tive order. (g) Postmasters of the first, second and third class who have been pro- moted, appointed or transferred from the classified civil service. that the retirement benefits would not apply to such employes of the Light- house Service as they come under a spe- clal pension law for that service; nor to members of the Police and Fire Depart- to postmasters except as specifically de- scribed above. Authority is given to the President to extend by executive orders the pro- visions of the proposed retirement law, upon recommendation of the Civil Serv- FOR RENT Four Rooms, Kitchen, Bath and Reception Hall. Electric Refrigeration. Reasonable Rental 2001 16th St. The Lehlbach bill specifically provides | | ! in the civil service. Power is re- served to the President to excufi.eo any ::In?xlroeyenl"o &':uz' of employes whose uncertain duration, SEmIE oy o8 Tho'uoul Retirement Provision. ere is included in t lbach bill a provision for npl.(on:'lerelgrr:l:‘!fl" two years in advance of the automatic 28e—170, 65 or 62 years—if the employe has 30 years of service. The annuity of ‘a retired employe would be computed Tehibach bfllp as follows under the (1) A sum of service not exceeding 30 years. T'.2 amount of annuity able with the sum to the credit of the employe’s individual account, The;‘e is included that the total annuit; i no case be less than Al i the average annual basic not to exceed $1,600 a year recole:dy by the emplove during any five consecutive years of cllowable service at the option g: th; emplov;, multiplied by the num- T of years of service ing 30 and divided by 40. ey |, Chairman Lehlbach also includes in his new bill a provision that any em- ploye at the time of his retirement may elect to receive in lieu of the life for the return of the unpai upon the annuitant’s death. Computation of Service. The basis for calculating the amount of an annuity would be computed from the date of original employment, whether as a classified or unclassified employe, and would include periods of service at different times and in one jof service performed overseas and periods of honorable service in the military branches of the Government. Any " employe who becomes totally disabled by reason of disease or injury shall upon application or upon the re- quest of a department head be retired jon an annuity. Proof must be shown of freedom from vicious habits, intem- perance or willful misconduct for a period of more than five years preced- ing the disability. Every annuitant retired for disability would be required at the expiration of one year from the date of retirement and annually thereafter until reaching retirement age to be examined under the direction of the Commissioner of qualified physicians. If an annuitant recovers before reaching retirement age and be restored to an earning capacity which would permit him to be appoint- ed to some appropriate position fairly comparable in compensation to the position occupied at time of retirement payment of the annuity would be con- tinued temporarily to afford the annui- tant the opportunity to seek such avail- able position. No person would be entitled to an annuity under the Lehlbach measure and under the employes compensation commission at the same period of time, but this provision is not intended to bar the right of any claimant to tne greater benefit conferred under the compensation fund at any part of the period of disability. Fees for examination by physicians or surgeons who are not medical cfficers of the United States would be fix2d by the commissioner of pensions and would be paid as would also the employes, reason- able traveling expenses for such ex- aminations out of appropriations for administering the civil service require- ment act. Involuntary Separation. Should any employe 55 years of age after having served not less than 15 years and before becoming eligible for Tetirement become involuntarily sepa- rated from the service, not on account of misconduct or delinquency, he ma have his choice of payment as follows. (a) The amount of the credit to his individual account. (b) An immediate life annuity be- ginning at the date of separation from the service, ha: a value equal to the resent worth of a deferred snnuity inning at the age at which he would otherwise have become eligible for retirement. (¢) A deferred annuity beginning at the age at which he would otherwisz have eligible for retirement with the right to such deferred annuity of the Department of the Interior. Any employe after a service of 15 years, who is 45 years or over and less than 55 years and who becomes sepa- rated the service other than on ac- count of misconduct or delinquency would be entitled to a deferred an- nuity, and upon reaching the ;E of 55 might elect to receive an immediate an- nuity at the present worth of the de- ferred annuity. , Should an annuitant be re-employed in the Government service the annuity would cease. Benefits are extended to those already retired. The Lehlbach bill provides their annuity should be computed under the provisions of the liberalized law, but it shall not be construed so as to re- duce the annuity. Credit is allowed for past service. Any person who may be brought under the provisions of the retirement act would be required to deposit in the Federal Treasury a sum equal to 21 per cent of the employes’ basic salary for services after July 31, 1920, and prior to the effective date of the pending legisiation, and 3!; per cent of the basic salary from the effective date of the Lehlbach measure with in- terest at the rate of 4 per cent. The amount so deposited, less $1 for each month of service after June 30. 1930, would be credited to the employes in- dividual account, When this deposit is made the employe shall be entitled to credit for the period of service involved, but failure to make such deposit shall not deprive the employe of credit for any passed service prior to August 1, 1920, to which otherwise entitled. Beginning as of July 1, 1926, the Lehlbach bill proposes to deduct from the basic salary of each employe a sum equal to 3%, per cent. The amount so deducted would be deposited in the Federal Treasury to the credit of the ecivil service retirement and disability fund, which fund is automatically ap- propriated for payment of annuities, refunds and allowances. Investment Authorized. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized under the Lehlbach bill to supplement the individual contributions of employes with moneys received as donations, legacies, bequests, etc., and to invest them for the benefit of the civil service employes. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury is di- rected by the new retirement bill to invest in interest-bearing securities of the United States, or Federal farm loan bonds such portion of the eivil service retirement and disability fund as m not be immediately required equal to $30 for each year | urchas- | A specific provision | an amount equal to | annuity a reduced annuity of equiva- | lent value which shall carry a proviso | id prmclvll; | pointed guardian. or more departments and also periods | Penslons by service surgeons or duly | shown by a certificate under the seal | Interior, is authorized to select three \“REAL ESTATE NIGHT” 1930—PART ONE, for payment of annuities, refunds and allowances. Under such regulations as may be cribed by the Secretary of the Phterior after consultation with heads of the executive departments and with the approval of the President the amounts deducted and withheld from the basic pay of each employe shall be | . credited with interest at 4 per cent, compounded annually, to an individual account for each employe, He provides, however, that if and when his bill goes into effect, $1 a month shall be deducted from the em« ploye's salary and placed in the fund for paying the basic annuity of $30 a year for each service. In case of the death of an annuitant, no part of the amount to the credit of his individual account shall be returned to his estate unless at the time of his retirement he shall have elected under rules and regulations prescribed by the commis- sioner of pensions to take a reduced annuity of equivalent value carrying with it & proviso for the return of the unpaid principal to his helrs upon his death. 1f an employe should die with-| out having attained eligibility for re- tirement, or without establishing a valid claim for annuity, the amount credited to his individual account shall be pald to the employe's legal repre- sentative, and if a former employe be- comes legally incompetent the amount due him may be paid to a duly ap- Annuities under the Lehlbach retire- ment _bill would be payable in monthly installments on the first business day of each month, payment to be made by checks under safeguards prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Applications for annuity would be made in such form as the commissioner of pensions may prescribe. Keep Records of Service. ‘The Civil Service Commission is di- rected by the Lelhbach bill to keep a record of appointments, transfers, changes in grades, separations from the service, reinstatements, loss of pay and such other information concerning in- dividual service as may be deemed es- sential to a proper determination of rights under this act. The commissioner of pensions, with the approval of the Secretary of the actuaries, one from the Government service. to be known as the board of | actuarfes, whose duty would be to re- port annually upon the actual operations of the retirement act and with authority to recommend to the commissioner of pensions changes that they may deem necessary to protect the public interest and to maintain the system upon a sound financial basis. This board of actuaries would be re- quired to make a valuation of the civil service retirement and disability fund at_intervals of five years or oftener. ‘The salaries of the board of actu- aries would be fixed by the commis- sioner of pensions, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. The commissioner of pensions is charged with administration of the revised re- tirement law and would be required to make a detailed, comparative report an- nually showing all receipts and disburse- ments, the total number of persons re- ceiving annuities, and the recommen- dations of the board of actuaries. ‘The Secretary of the Interior would be directed to submit to the Bureau of the Budget annually estimates of ap- propriations to finance the retirement and disability fund. Representative Lehlbach makes the effective date of the act the first day of the second month after its approv: PROGRAM ISSUED Prominent Dealers and Builders to Be Honored at C. C. Meeting Tuesday Night. | School buflding’s ground plan is the FOUR ROOMS FOUND “MISSING” FROM NEW PAUL JUNIOR HIGH | (Continued From First Page.) in accordance with the plans which he had signed. In the developments which followed, it became known that: An alternate plan for the building's third floor had been prepared by the municipal architect and signed, along with the others, by Dr. Bennett; ‘The school was built according to this “alternate” third-floor plan when bids on the completed original design were higher than the appropriation; Construction of the “alternate” third floor _was unknown by school officials and Board of Education members until about a month ago, when Jere J. Crane, the new first assistant superintendent in charge of buildings, grounds and equipment, “discovered” the alteration when he visited the virtually com- pleted_structure to check the installd- tion of furniture, and Because no alternate plan was sub- mitted to the school officers, furniture was ordered—and has been delivered— for the full complement of rooms shown in the plans which were received by the officers for their equipment calculations. In general, the Paul Junior High shape of the letter “E.” There is a [ml?:td floor, containing metal, wood and print shops, a domestic art and a domestic science room, three class rooms, pupils’ tollet rooms and an au- ditorlum_which extends to the first floor. The second floor also has a science and a typewriting room, a library, six class rooms and toilet rooms. The _third floor, according to the plans in the hands of Franklin Administra- tion Building officials, was to have con- tained an arts and crafts room, a free- hand drawing room, a mechanical draw- ing room, & music room, two class rooms and toilet rooms. And those were the rooms for which furniture and equipment were ordered. Doors Replace Halls. Now the school officials’ plans showed the freehand and mechanical draw! rooms, together with a connecting cor- ridor in the north wing, which corre- nds to the lower horizontal bar of letter “E,” and the two third floor | class rooms, similarly situated in the south wing or top bar of the capital ‘E.” So, when Dr. Bennett. making his official visit to the school Thursday, at- tem| to enter the north and south wing corridors, he found doors where the hall was marked on the plan and two large rooms. Furthermore, each of these rooms had sets of unpainted and | unhoused sheet metal ventilation ducts running out of the floor and into the | celling. ¥ “What are they there for?” Dr. Ben- | nett asked Mr. Crane, who was accom- panying him on the visit. Mr. Crane inned “You ought to know; you signed the lans.” “Well, T didn't sign for anything like that,” the school board member returned. Further comparison of the building and the blueprints in his hands showed Dr. Bennett that not only were the | ventilation ducts shooting up out of | the middle of the classroom floor, but | that two rooms were missing from each of the end wings. He looked out of the windows which were cut in what | the plan chowed to be a partition be- class rooms and saw a slag roof that covered the corresponding rooms ted a reporter of The to the school yese terday and together they saw the evie “alteration.” ther they mulled through a booklet of blue= prints and discovered one sheet pree senting an ternate” third-floor plan, Dr. Bennett's signature, written by him on the original tracing, was there, Sometime, months ago, the school board’s buildings, grounds and equip- ment committee had seen the alternate design for the second floor, but Dr, Bennett pointed out, neither he nor any of the school system officers the Franklin Building had been ad- vised that the alternate plan was being There was the purchase of the furniture to prove that. At Franklin administration building it was learned that furniture had been bought for the original design. This included 36 pupils’ desks and 38 pupils’ chairs for each class room, and 2§ sets of the same pupils' furniture and a storage cabinet for each of the two drawing rooms. Besides this equipment each of the four rooms had purchased for it a teacher's flat-top desk, a rotary chair, a plain table. two bent-wood chairs, a common chair, a waste paper basket and an ink stand. Altogether the cost of this material was $1,430.12, According to Maj. R. O. Wilmarth, business manager of ths schools, this material was included in a list of needed equipment computed from the blueprints sent to the Pranklin Builde ing by the municipal architect's office, No alternate third floor was included in these plans, he said. Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent in charge of senior and Jjurior high schools, admitted that he and his associates had expected to re- ceive the full number of rooms—22 for actual class use—until a month ago, when Mr. Crane made his discovery. Await New Appropriation. Asked if they were not always noti- fled when a school building is erected from “alternate” plans, school officers at Franklin said the municipal arch tect is not required to make reports to them, but that his responsibility is die- charged when he “confers” with them while the plans are being prepared. In case of the Paul School this was dore 8 | and the original plans signed by school board members. Then when it was time to let the contract for the cone struction, the bids were higher than the appropriation and the alternate plan— omitting the four rooms--was used by the architect. Ibert L. Harris, municipal architect, explained yesterday that ne frequently is obliged to use the alternate plans when bids are received. Asked & he advised the school officials about the use of the alternate plans, he said they recelved a full set of plans and the alternate should have been amon, them. He also said that the school officers had visited the school during its construction “often enough *» know what was being built and what was not.” And so the four rooms are missing from the Paul Junior High School. The library room probably will be used temporarily as a class room and a set of the waiting furniture moved there, Other pieces of the furniture, Dr. Bal- lou said, probably will be used at points of need throughout the school ,system. Meanwhile, the Paul School must wait for a new appropriation for the erection of the rooms. Then tne slaj roofs will be removed, new walls erecte: partitions which will encase the ugly ventilation ducts installed, and any makeshift which might be resorted to eliminated. This work probably will be done when the two lums which on_the floor below. 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