Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1937, Page 19

STUDY INVOLVES - 00D DEFINITIONS Efforts to Fit Men to Jobs Brings Out Many Un- usual Occupations. By the Associated Press. A “bracer” is not a drink. It is three different kinds of jobs in the fron and steel and construction in- dustries. Nor do “cat head men” and “cat skinners” have anything to do with cats. They are types of work done in the construction and agricultural in- dustries. Similarly, “chasers” are seven kinds of jobs in the firearm, garage, preci- sion tool, lumber, foundry, paint and varnish and furniture business. “Drag- out men” work in the iron and steel industry. “Jig makers” work in ma- chine shops, but “jigmen” are arti- ficial leatner workers and “jig tend- | ers” have to do with mining. “Jig-| gers” work in watch factories but | *“joggers” are shipbuilding workers. And there are 1,170 different kinds | of “operators.” | These are a few of the job defigi- tions that have been turned up by | the United States Employment Serv- | ice in its endeavors to figure out & measuring tape by which men may be fitted to jobs. | This wil be needed particularly | when it becomes necessary under the | social security act for the employment service to say whether a suitable job | 1s open before a man shall receive his unemployment insurance. Standard Names Needed. Also, the employment service offi- | eials found a great need for develop- | ing standard names and deflnmons; for different jobs. A “lugger” may do one thing in the furniture industry, | Supreme Court should reverse the | insistently but he does something entirely differ- | ‘ ent in packing meat. i nounced here yesterday that she will Mrs. Sanger Be THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. lieves Court Ruling Lifts Legislative Needs Will Keep Organization Intact Without Lobbying. Declaring the major battle has been | won in her long fight to secure a more liberal attitude toward birth control, Mrs. Margaret Sanger an- do no more lobbying for more enlight- | ened legislation on this subject. Mrs. Sanger, president of the Na- tional Committee on Federal Legisla- tion for Birth Control, Inc., based her victory announcement on a recent decision of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which, in effect, exempted physiclans from restrictions against importation of contraceptives and use of the mails in connection with them. Discussing a section of the teriff act of 1930, under which the contra- ceptive ban had ben enforced, the appellate court said: “Its design, in our opinion, was not to prevent the importation, sale, or carriage by mail of things which | might intelligently be employed by MRS. MARGARET SANGER. being used for contraceptive pur- poses without respect to their having conscientious and competent phy- | sicians for the purpose of saving life | or promoting the well-being of their | patients.” Principle Held Sufficient. “The princnple laid down in that decision,” Mrs. Sanger said, “ all that we had wanted. We have won our fight to make contraceptives and | information concerning them available to physicians, clinics and medical schools. “Now we think the Government | should wipe the slate clear of all| pending hold-ups and recognize this force of public opinion and sound | plete suppression of articles, the uuel | judgment. Contraceptives should be‘ | standardized by the Government, | | made available to qualified author- | |ities and their distribution regulated by the pure food and drugs act.” Mrs. Sanger said she would keep her organization intact in event the’ Circuit Court’s decision, but that m‘ the meantime she would devote her ! a legitimate use and without regard to the intention of the person im- porting the articles that they were | to be so used, but the court refused !to accept this view. Commenting on the tariff act sec- tion and the Comstock act of 1873, the original legislation on the con- traceptive question, the appellate court said: Supervision Held Unreasonable. “It seems unreasonable to suppose that the national scheme of legisla- tion * * * should require the com- of which in many cases is advocated | by such a weight of authority in the medical world.” Mrs. Sanger, who since 1916 has | led the fight for revision of the con- traceptive statutes, added: “Our committee has Vigorously and sought to educate con- stituencies and to organize public | opinion as to the necessity of liberat- And again, to keep the service from | | efforts to educational work and es-» ing physicians and scientists from the being imposed upon by men who pre- | | tablishment of clinics. By the end shackles of the confusing and mud- tended to a skill they do not have, a | of the year, she predicted, birth con- | dled Comstock statutes. Thousands of set of questions is being worked out | trol clinics in this country will treble enlightened physicians have stood with by which the managers of the em- | ployment offices can determine wheth- | er the applicant actually does know his job. in number. States, The appellate court's decision was \made in libel proceedings instituted There are now 320 in 43 | \ us in this crusade. “The future well-being of the country owes a debt of gratitude not only to these men, but no less to the In still another phase of the work |by the Government against a quan- | lawyers who generously volunteered tests are being developed whose aim | tity of contraceptives brought into their sevices in battle after battle in is to try the aptitude of applicants for | | this country by Dr. Hannah M. Stone, | our struggle to establish basic rights. specific jobs in an effort to determine | a New York physician. The Govern- | the likelihood of their achieving suc- | Ment contended the language of the | Court of Appeals demonstrates that | “The decision of the United States Cess. These tests are now being tested. | 8ct brought within the condemnation | these manifold efforts have not been The job analysis work is being done | | of the statute any articles capable of | in vain.” Glass Asks Extension of Life under direction of William H. Stead in | 11 cities. Already upward of 30,000 Jobs have been described in some 40 industries. Ten volumes have been | put in the hands of Employment Serv- ice field workers. They cover the cot- ton textile, automobile and construc- tion idustries. That for the laundry industry is being printed. Others are in varying stages. It will take about two more years to finish. Processes Outlined. The books outline the processes of | the industry they cover, first in gen- | eral terms, then job by job. They give | the various names for the job, a sum- mary of the duties, a description of the work done, the tools and material | needed, the working conditions— ‘whether indoors or out and what haz- ards it may involve—its relation to | other jobs and the general qualifica- | tions for employment. ‘While the field workers were gath- | ering the material for the job outline, they also picked up the information | from which was compiled a series of | Questions about the work. | This set of questions was first put to | men who knew nothing about those | Jobs. The questions these could an- | swer were stricken from the list. The | remaining questions were then put to | men fully experienced in those jobs. | ‘The questions these could not answer were discarded. By this method, the | service arrived at a test which men | skilled in the work could meet lnd\ those who were unskilled could not. | So that if a man applies for a job as a crane operator but can’t say how he would lower the hoist if the brake failed or doesn't know the name of the cable that holds the bucket open, he isn't likely to be sent out to a contractor to learn that he can't do the job. Tests for Youngsters. ‘The other tests are being worked out to help in the cases of youngsters who have had no work experience, and oldsters whose jobs have vanished in a world of changing mechanisms. Almost half of the applicants of the Employment Service fit into these two classes. Between a third and a fourth of those looking for jobs have never worked. About the same percentage were in lines of endeavor that have been swallowed up by new machines. This phase is a business of finding what elements of the job are funda- mental to success. If the applicant can do these fundamental things, he can learn the others. Many machines | are similar. The operator of one can Teadily learn to operate another. But even after the tests are worked | out, it remains to try the tests. The | gervice started with a score of tests | for salesworkers, Most of them were | useless when tried. Several :eemed? worth while. They are still being | tried. One department store which re- ceives its workers from this source has half of them tested, half it takes without tests. Charts are being kept | to see how the tests turn out. But no test has been worked out for measuring the personality of the applicant, which may be the fulcrum upon which his success turns. Senator Lewis - Cast Only Vote in Precinct for Rival Confirms Rumor He Gave Primary Ballot to Opponent. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Tllinois yesterday confirmed rumors that at the primary election last year, when he was seeking renomina- tion fo the Senate, he voted for his ‘opponent. The rival candidate was a woman. At a meeting one night in Senator Lewis' own precinct, somebody shout- ed: “I haven't heard of anybody who is going to vote for your opponent!” “What’s that!” exclaimed Lewis. “You say you have heard of no one ‘who will vote for my opponent? Then, &ir, I shall vote for her myself.” And he did. It turned out that the vote cast by Senator Lewis for his rival was the only vote she received in that par- ticular precinct, For R.F.C., Headed by Friend | By the Assoctated Press. An unusual story of personal friend- ship between two of Washington's best-known officials lies back of the | introduction this week by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, of a bill to extend the life of the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corp. Glass and Jesse H. Jones chairman of the R. F. C., are “cronies” of the | closest kind. The 79-year-old Vir- ginia Senator recently moved from the hotel where he has lived a quarter of a century to an apartment on the| same floor with Jones in another hotel. Jones, according to Glass, is the best | administrator in the Government to- | day. The R. F. C. head has the same kind of respect for Glass as a Senator. | The Virginia Senator tells friends he knows of only one better bargainer than Jones. “He is my 8-year-old grandson,” | Glass says. “I gave him one of the | coins with my profile on it. He came to me later and said: ‘Partner (that | is what all my grandchlldren call me), I'm going to sell my coin.’ “I protested that he shouldn't sell | the coin, that he should keep it. But he told me he had been offered $5 | for.the coin (a 50-cent pleoe) and | was going to sell it because he knew | where he could buy two more for that.” Jones' admiration for Glass began before he even knew the Senator. Many years ago he was visiting the | Harvard Business School founded by | George F. Baker. He found several | halls there named after prominent men, including one named the Carter | | Glass Hall. . Jones saw there was no portrait of | Glass in the hall named for him. | Though he had never met Glass, Jones sent an artist down to the Senator's Lynchburg, Va.. home to paint a por- | trait and sent it to the Harvard hall. Soon after that the two men met, and have been firm friends since. Social Unit to Meet. Morris Klass, director of the Jewish | Social Service, will meet with other | officers tomorrow night for their an- nual meeting at the Community Chest Buudmg. 1101 M street. Ten vacan be filled. . Sweden’s largest liner, " tons, will be built in Ital of 28,000 " o= AT THONPSON'S ZRREIVINE m THOMPSON BROS. 1220 GOOD HOPE RD. 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Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon= tana, who is sponsoring the effort to take the red rider off the statute books, said yesterday he is hopeful of ob- taining action this year. His bill has been referred to the Education and Labor Committee, of which Senator Black of Alabama is chairman. Meanwhile, Chairman King of the Senate District Committee is await- ing receipt of bills on other subjects from the Commissioners before call- ing his committee together to map out a local legislative program for the session. He said yesterday he would call the first meeting of the committee before the end of this week if the various measures the Commissioners are working on are ready. One of the first bills Senator King will Introduce is the measure to tighten the laws against gambling, particularly the numbers game . He got the measure through the Senate early in the last Congress, but it was not acted on by the House. PUPILS TO TAKE PART IN FOSTER SONG WEEK Washington 8chool Children Will Participate in Nation-Wide Observance. ‘Washington school children this week will participate in a national Stephen Foster song week observance | in honor of the noted American com- poser of folk melodies. The program is sponsored by the | Stephen Foster Memorial Foundation. | Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes, director | of music of the Washington public | schools, is chairman of the Advisory Board of the foundation. Mrs. Roose- | velt is patroness. | Al of the white schools will hold | Stephen Foster assemblies, Dr. Barnes announced. Organists throughout | the District have been asked to play melodies of the poet-composer at to- | day’s services. Foster was born in Pittsburgh 100 years ago last July 4. The anniver- slryk of his death falls within this week. Insurance Trial Adjourned. CHICAGO, January 9 (#).—Trial of the Hiram Walker & Sons Distil- leries’ $3,000,000 fire insurance suit was adjourned until Monday after an endneer testified yesterday regarding construction of the firm's No. 3 whisky warehouse, destroyed at defendants, 13 insurance companies, contended the fire loss was not re- coverable on the ground that collapse | Peoria, IIl, by fire July 22, 1935. The | Jean Touuaml Bermzrd, French-Born, Opposes Arms Ban to Spain. By the Associated Press. Jean Toussaint Bernard, French- Minnesota, the ‘new Congress. When an effort was made to rush to passage the bill to stop the shipment of planes and munitions to Spanish Loyalists, Bernard shouted an indig- nant protest against passing the bill without debate. The bill passed, but the delay he occasioned helped to permit a ship- load of planes to get away before the embargo clamped down. Hours afterward, a calmer Bernard insisted he thought it was a mistake to deny arms to Loyalist Spain. “They are not Communists. I am not a Communist, even if they called me a Communist in the campaign. They called President Roosevelt a Communist, and he is not one.” Called “Little Corporal.” Bernard was a fireman at Eveleth, Minn, and a volunteer labor or-| ganizer before his election to Con-| gress. He is 43, dark, short, Prench in manner. Because he was born in | Corsica and because of his spectacular outburst, fellow House members, quick- ly dubbed him “the little corporal.” | He said since only about 2,000 lived on Corsica, most of them could trace | & relationship to Napoleon. | He sald it was principle rather than any affinity which led him to oppose the Spanish blockade. “German and Italian Fascists are helping the Spanish rebels,” he said. “The Spanish government was elected by an overwhelming majority, and the country is a republic. 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