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Washington.—"It is often said that
we have jftst aB many people, just
as much money, just as many plants
and machines, and just as many acres
of farm land as we had in 1929, and
it is difficult for people to under
stand why, in a country which has a
surplus of food, shelter, and all of
the other things that we need mil
lions should be without employment,"
said Secretary of Commerce Lamont
in a radio address explaining the
causes of the business depression and
the business men's remedies.
"The truth is that the difference
between good times and bad times is
simply one of balance," continued the
secretary. "In good times 95 to 98
per cent of the people who usually
work are working. There is a market
for the things they are producing.
There is a balance between produc
tion and consumption."
Secretary Lamont explained that
just as the business depression with
over 5,000,000 unemployed, had been
brought about by the "normal opera
tion of economic forces," so the re
covery must also be the result of
economic forces, guided aa far as pos
sible by business leaders.
He thought that business leader
ship would bring about a "better
balance in industrial affairs" by "in
suring through proper distribution of
income that consuming power will ex
pand in step with advancing produc
tion," and by "accumulating ample
reserves in prosperous years to carry
us through depressions that may
come in future years in spite of every
effort to avoid them."
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Business Will Cure Depression
Secretary Lamont said he had little
ttse for depression cures that called
for material changes in our economic
system or which demanded govern
ment intervention. He expressed
complete confidence in business men
to bring back prosperity if legislative
bodies refrain from meddling in busi
ness matters.
The return of the prosperity which
he visioned "will come about not by
revolutionary change—by the imposi
tion of any super plan of government
or industrial control—by the scrap
ping of our present economic system
which in spite of its shortcomings has
made ours the greatest industrial na
tion of all time.
"Rather must our chief reliance for
working out a better balance be upon
private initiative. This is the prin
ciple on which most of our economic
problems in the past have been solv
ed, as well as that on which we have
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"The government can help industry
to help itself, but business must be
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EQUAL RIGHTS
For Women in Civil Serv
ice
The lower status which the federal
law and the policy of the United
States civil service commission im
pose on women as compared with
men is severely condemned by Miss
Jessie M. Dell, the woman member
of the commission. The other two
members are men.
When holding examinations for
making up lists of persons eligible
for appointment to government jobs,
the civil service commission makes
no distinction between men and
women If a woman desires to take
an examination for blacksmith, she
may do so. If she passes the exami
nation, the commission will place her
name upon the register of eligibles,
from which appointments are made.
There is a general impression that
the appointments are made on the
merit system, and that of a number
of eligibles for a certain job the per
son who was rated highest in the ex
amination gets the appointment. This
impression is erroneous so far as
women are concerned. The federal
law governing the civil service per
mits the appointing officers of the
government departments to select
either men or women eligibles.
Miss Dell contends that this dis
crimination often victimizes compe
tent women in favor of less compe
tent men. She says:
"Thus it may happen—in fact, it
frequently does happen—that in mak
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ing certifications for filling vacancies
the commission must pass over the
names of women who are highest of
all, in order to meet the request for
men only. It is possible for a woman
to make a magnificent showing in an
examination and then see a man who
made ap oor showing get the job. To
meet the situaion, the commission is
compelled to divide the eligible regis
ters as to sex.
"In my opinion, there is but one
just ground for the determination of
distribution of jobs, and that is the
ground of ability to do the work. 1
believe that no government, federal,
state or local, has a right to say that
an appointing officer may specify a
man for a particular job which can be
done equally well by a man or a
woman. ... In the majority of gov
ernmental occupations, a man or a
woman can serve equally well, and
for all such employments I contend
that women should have an equal
chance with men in the competition."
To bring about this equality Miss
Dell urges the abolition of the civil
service rule which sets up separate
registers for men and women eligibles
for appointment to government situ
ations. But the two men members of
the commission stick to the old tra
dition of permitting the appointing
officers to select men for jobs under
their jurisdiction even though the
women eligibles secured much higher
ratings in the competitive examina
tions.
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