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REVENUE STIFF
HOLOS LOIN
RECORD
4,000 Benefit; $6,000 Put in
Circulation by Welfare Unit
Within Past Year and Half
Lending thousands of dollars
over a period of a year and a
half without a single loss is the
record of the Wdfare Asso ria
tion of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue which is keeping the
4,000 employes of the bureau out
of the hands of the loan sharks.
Amounts ranging from SIOO to
S2OO are lent bureau workers
without interest, to meet emer
gencies arising from sickness or
other needs.
There is no set time at which
the money must be repaid,
though payments are made
monthly and semi-monthly and
the entire amount usually is re
paid within a year.
$6,000 Aids Many
Since its organization a year
and a half ago, the association
has lent more than $6,000 and,
according to H. B. Robinson,
president, has established a rec
ord that would be the envy of
any loan organization.
Federal employes, he declares,
have shown that they keep their
promises to the letter and in only
a few instances have monthly
payments been omitted and then
only because of the inability of
the employes to meet them.
Money Used for Illness
The Welfare Association has no
dues, but raises its funds by re
ceiving a percentage from the
operation of the bureau cafeteria,
holding an annual get-together
function and a boat ride.
The majority of the loansi are
made to assist employes who must
undergo emergency operations or
to meet unforeseen obligations
created by sudden illness.
Several loans have been made
to workers who need funds to as
sist relatives.
Loans will not be made merely
to discharge an existing indebted
ness.
Maintains Advisors
The association also maintains
a corps of counselors, who assist
newcomers and younger employes
to become located or otherwise
solve their personal problems.
Commissioner Burnett was one of
the incorporators.
F. F. Toomey is vice president
of the association; Cora A. Geiger,
secretary, and I. Y. Bain, treas
urer.
The board of trustees comprises
H. F. Mires, Lesley Gillis, Charles
A. Drake, Floyd Toomey. H. B
Robinson, J. L. McGrew. D. S
Bliss, H. K. Melcher, G. G. Davis
and V. H. South.
Officers are elected by a group
of active members, formerly five,
but now seven from each of the
five major units of the bureau.
WALKER MAKES
HISTORY QUIZ
Winslow M. Walker has been
appointed associate anthropologist
of the Bureau of American Eth
nology, Smithsonian Institution,
where he will be in charge of
investigations into early Ameri
can history.
Among the recent studies in
which Mr. Walker has engaged
were investigations of the mound
region of central Illinois and the
Jordan Valley in Palestine. Sev
eral years ago. he went to Hono
lulu as assistant ethnologist for
the Bernice P. Bishop Museum
to make an archaeological suiwey
of the island of Maui.
Mr. Walker is a native of
Illinois and studied at Williams
College, the University of Arizona.
University of California, and
made post graduate studies at
the University of Chicago.
Alfalfa Laboratory
Established by V, S.
A new laboratory for the study
of alfalfa meal and fodder has
been equipped by the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics. Depart
ment of Agriculture. Microscopic
work will be done on the first
floor of the building at 211 Lin
wood Pl. S. W., while a mechan
ical laboratory for preparing the
specimens for study has been set
up at 300 Linwood Pl. S. W.
The microsconic nortion of the
work will be directed by W. L.
Hall associate marketing special
ist. W. H Hostermal. associate
marketing specialist, will super
vise the mechanical laboratory
work.
Boker Aids Hoover's,
Social Trend Study
Dr. O. E. Baker, division of
land economics of the Agriculture
Department, is assisting the Pres<
dent’s Committee on Recent Social
Changes. He is. associated with
Dr. S. G. Tryon. Bureau of Mines.
Commerce Department, in pre
paring a report on natural re
sources.
Dr. Baker’s portion of the work
relates to land or agricultural
resources. He will be assisted by
Miss Edith M. Fitton as research
assistant.
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JOHN E. GRAF
ENTERING the Government service as an agent 19
years ago, John E. Graf, formerly assistant chief of the
Bureau of Entomology, Agriculture Department has
taken up his new duties as assistant director of the
National Museum. He Ims been active in developing
measures for control of insect pests that prey on crops.
‘Standardized Leave’ Bill
Vital to U. S. Workers
One of the most vital pieces of
legislation affecting Government
workers to be considered at the
next session of Congress will be
the so-called “standardized leave”
bill, introduced in the recent ses
sion by Representative Smith
(R.) of Idaho, with the backing
of the Federation of Federal Em
ployes.
This measure is aimed to end
the present irregular and. rather
confused conditions in the
Federal establishment relating to
the “leave” situation, which are
certain to increase, unless re
medied, by reason of the passage
of the recent Saturday half-holi
day bill.
Equity Is Feature
Its sponsors say it will elim
inate favoritism in the granting
of leave to workers. It will place
all employes on an equal footing
so far as the taking of “time
off” is concerned.
Its main sections, in summa
rized form, are:
“The heads of departments
shall grant, in any one leace
year, 30 days of annual leave
of absence of each employe,
exclusive of Sundays and legal
holidays.
“These heads also are au
thorized to grant to employes
whose official station is beyond
the continental limits of the
United States, an additional
leave of absence of 30 days,
once in any two consecutive
leave years.”
Sick Leave Provided
An important change in the
present law with reference to
sick leave is carried in the mea
sure. It follows:
“Heads of departments are
authorized to grant to any em
ploye, on account of personal
illness, or on account of ex
posure to a contagious disease,
sick leave of absence, with pay,
at the rate of 15 days a year,
the unused portion of such
sick leave to be cumulative not
to exceed 120 days: provided,
that during the first year of
the operation of this act not
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MISS GEIGER ROBINSON BAIN TOOMEY
KEEPING EMPLOYES out of the hands of the loan sharks is one of the functions
of the Welfare Association of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which can boast of
not a single loss since its organization nearly two years ago. Employes of the bureau
may make loans ranging from SIOO to S2OO without interest, and have borrowed more
than $6,000. In the picture are: Miss Cora A. Geiger, secretary; H. B. Robinson,
president; I. Y. 9*in, treasurer and Floyd Toomey, vice president and counsel.
The National Daily
to exceed 30 days of additional
sick leave may be granted.’*
. Temporary Worker Benefited
Provision is also made for tem
porary employes, who are to be
granted annual leave at the rate
of two and one-half days per
month of service and sick leave
at the rate of one and one-quarter
days per month of service.
Miss Gertrude M. McNally,
secretary of the Federation of
Federal Employes, said today:
“Next to the field classifica
tion bill, I regard this stan
dardized leave measure as the
most important affecting Gov
ernment workers that will come
up in the coming Congress.
We have assurance of its early
consideratoin and are hopeful
.that it will be passed without
serious difficulty.”
Behron Named Head
Os Recreation Club
New officers have been elected
by the Recreation Club of the
Bureau of Mines, a social
organization of employes of that
bureau. Elmer W. Behron was
elected president to succeed John
D. Secrest.
Other officers are: Alden H.
Emery, vice president; Florence
Hall, secretary, and Robert H.
Ridgway, treasurer. Leone E.
Geyer, Mildred J. Schautrumpf,
H. Herbert Hughes, Jack L.
Carter, and Mr. Secrest were
chosen members of the board
of directors.
Federal Employes
Are Chess Experts
The Department of Agriculture
includes in its personnel a chess
team that is believed to be of
championship caliber. In a tour
nament held this week, the de
partment’s chess experts were
winners ov< teams from the
Bureau of Standards, George
Washington ’University. Chevy
Chase, Friendship Heights, Mt.
Pleasant and Falls Church, Va.
SATURD AY—M ARCH2I—I
U.S. UNION N 0.2
OBSERVES 1 STH
BIRTHDAY
Interdepartmental Group Will
Have Big Dinner Monday;
Leading Speakers There
Local Vnion No. 2, of the Na
tional Federation of Federal Em
ployees, the interdepartmental
union comprising 5,500 employes
of seven departments and 16 in
dependent Government establish
ments, will celebrate its, fifteenth
anniversary with a dinner at
Pierce Hall of All Souls Unitarian
Church Monday.
The anion was organized March
3, 1916, at a mass meeting held
at the Old Rifles Armory, G
Street, near Ninth, Northwest. It
was then directly affiliated to the
American Federation of Labor
and the meeting was addressed
by the late Samuel Gompers,
president of the A. F. of I.; Frank
Morrison, who still holds the
office of A. F. of L. secretary, and
other noted labor leaders of that
day.
Speakers Are Many
Speakers at the dinner will in
clude Luther C. Steward, presi
dent, and Miss Gertrude M. Mc-
Nally, secretary, of the National
Federation of Federal Employes,
and Dr. W. Carson Ryan, direc
tor of education for the Bureau
of Indian Affairs.
John L. Bateman of the general
accounting office, chairman of the
arrangements committee, will be
toastmaster.
Among the guests will be John
W. Ginder, president, and William
S. Kinney, vice president, of the
District Federation of Federal Em
ployes, and the following presi
dents of the Washington unions:
Belle A. Trouland, Local No.
105, women’s union at the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing; John
R. Newman. Local No. 249, men’s
union at the bureau; Mrs. I. A.
Letcher, Local No. 71, composed
of colored federal workers; Har-
I vey Lynch, Local No. 250, Navy
Yard; Dr. J. Franklin Meyer, Lo
cal No. 260. Bureau of Standards;
Elmer H. Bailey, Local No. 261.
War Department; J. O. Burnham.
Local No. 262, Treasury Depart
ment, and Harvey Graham, Local
No. 372, adjutant general’s office
Has Special Guests
The union will have also as its
guests National Organizer A. J.
Oliver, Jeremiah Connolly and
Frank M. Barnes, retired, and
Robert J. Quinn, who resigned
from the Government service.
Officers of the union are Jo
seph Stansfield, Interstate Com
merce Commission, president;
Harlow Bacon. Commerce Depart
ment, first vice president; Mrs.
Sophie J. Bergner, Tariff Com
mission, second vice president; J.
Ernest Brault, General Account
ing Office, third vice president;
Miss Helen C. McCarthy, Navy
Department, fourth vice president;
Henry G. Nolda, Veterans Bu
reau, secretary-treasurer; Albert
M. Reising, Interior Department,
recorder; Elmer Thompson, Agri
culture Department, guardian.
W. W.BROWNAPPOINTED
William W. Brown, technical
adviser in the Immigration Ser
vice, has been appointed assistant
chairman of the Immigration
Board of Review of the Depart
ment of Labor.
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