The Cordova daily times. [volume], March 09, 1921, Page 4, Image 4

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THE CORDOVA DAILY TIME
Entered at the Postofflce at Cordova
Alaska, as Second-Class Matter.
H. G. STEEL
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THE AMERICAN PRESS 'SCCIATION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1921
GET RID OF THE FOUR-HOUR DAY
AT WASHINGTON
In getting the government back to
a business basis, one of the first
steps that should be etaken is to re
fill ire a day's work for a day's pay of
every government employe, from the
lowest to the highest.
There are government employes
who are overworked and underpaid,
but this does not apply to thousands
of department employes at Washing
ton, who are now engineering a
movement for the perpetuation of
certain abuses entirely inconsistent
with businesslike conduct of the gov
ernment.
The government ought to pay its
employes enough to justify them in
working to earn their pay in the
same way that people work who pay
the taxes out of which official sal
aries are disbursed. Then it ought to
expect the same sort of service from
employes that is exacted in private
business, at fiiis time when the tax
payers of the country are bending
under burdens whicli threaten to
break the back of productive enter
prise. In the establishment of work
ing conditions the government ought
• 1o be a model employer hut uot a
mere easy mark.
Under the present system the hours
for employes in the Washington de
partments are seven and a half. Prom
this a half hour goes for lunch at
noon, and most of the departments
have a system of rest periods (luring
the remaining working hours, aggre
gating a half hour additional. This
reduces the work hours to six and a
half. In many offices it takes fif
teen minutes to get down to work
after the hour of assembling, and fif
teen minutes to get ready to quit and
get out of the building. Every na
tional holiday is celebrated by ces
sation of work; if the holiday comes
on Sunday, Monday is taken. The cus
torn gnew up under the last ad
ministration of dismissing the de
partments a half day in advance of
the holiday, but a protest was made
when this was underaken last Christ
% inas, and President Wilson issued in
structions forbidding this innovation.
'^'During the three summer months
"Saturday half holidays are given,
During the past few years there have
been many special holidays.
^Thirty days leave with pay is given
each permanent employe, and thirty
days additional sick leave, with pay.
Methods of administering sick leave
differ in different department, but
in some of them the system is sim
ply made the means ol' getting an
other month’s vacation with pay.
In addition to all this there are
many offices in Washington in which
many employes spend “working’
hours in reading magazines anti
newspapers, gossiping and otherwise
loafing on the job. This condition
continues, despite the protests ol
members of congress and others.
If half of the employes in the
Washington- departments were dis
charged, and the other half required tc
work as hard and as long as the
average American taxpayer, the gov
ermnent’s work at the capital woulc
he better done, and. what is ever
more important, the “graft” spirii
which such methods as this inculcate
would he eliminated from many quar
t.ers where it has been running
strong.
A generalization of this kind o
course should he modified by th<
statement that many governmenl
employes at Washington render con
soientious service. More than any
one else such employes are inter
ested in reform of the present sys
tem, which puts a premium on lazi
ness and inefficiency. They do no
resent atacks on abuseB they ar<
not. helping to perpetrate.
> The new administration could d<
i no more wholesome or more popular
' thing than to sweep out of the de
partments at Washington not grad
ually, but with all the promptness
possible, every loafer and slacker,
and require the employes remaining
to give value received for their aal
, aries. The search for loafers and
' slackers should of course not be con
, fined to AVashington, but extended
to every bureau office throughout the
country where there is room for sus
picion that similar conditions prevail.
It will require little less than an
earthquake to shake the barnacles
! loose, but such a shake-up is abso
! lately necessary. The people of this
j country have grown weary of that
j sort of officialism which expends
| its energies not in trying to render
j better service to the public, but in es
tablishing laws and practices making
it certain that the people are going
to be imposed upon by payroll para
sites who regard labor of any kind
j as a curse to he as little endured as
j possible.
THE RETURN T-RACK
From many competent sources in
j widely separated sections comes the
I opinion that the United States has
j now definitely entered upon its re
| turn to normal conditions. The avef
I age business man has come to see
j that continuance of war-time pros
j parity, with its attendant circum
: stances of credit inflation, high
wages, high prices, reckless spend
ing and public and private waste, is
impossible. He has come to see
also that the black-pessimism of a
few months ago is unjustified by any j
intelligent estimate of the economic |
situation. I
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THINGS WE THINK j
Things Others Think and What We
Think of the Things Others Think.
It takes lots of hard cash to play I
soft on a soft girl. i
-•
When marriage is a failure, the
children suffer most in the crash.
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1( takes a pretty public-spirited
1 man to run for office these “days.
j W e never heard of a weather man
| winning a prize in a guessing contest.
——
j When a man sasy he is in need of
I rest, why does all the rest of the
gang laugh?
| We are more likely to favor new
fangled ideas and reforms if they
work our w-ay.
When a man gets so deep in love
that he can’t get out. he drags some
poor girl in with him.
The undertaker is about the only
business man who gives complete sat
I isfaction to users of his goods.
j Of course the worn occasionally
j turns, but nobody ever pays any at
tention to him when he does.
Love is a wonderful thing but it
does few things so wonderful as to
unite a hundred-pound man with a
two-hundred-fifty-pound wife.
About the only safeguard against
saying things that one shouldn’t is
to stay where there is no one to say
them to. Solitude, blessed are thy
recompenses,
W'hee you get so you can let your
j wife rub her feet along your spinal
| column in the middle of winter with
J out making any complaint, you can
rest assured that you have reached
that state of proficiency known as a
model husband.
A CHILD’S LAUGHTER
All the bells of heaven may ring,
! All the birds of heaven may sing,
| All the wells on earth may spring,
All the winds on earth may bring
All sweet sounds together;
Sweeter far than all things heard,
Hand of harper, tons of bird,
Sounds of woods at sundown stirred,
Welling waters’s winsome word,
Wind in war wan weather.
One thing yet there is, that none
1 Hearing ere its chime bo done
Knows not well the sweetest one
Heard of man beneath the sun,
Hoped in heaven hereafter;
Safe and strong and loud and light,
Very sound of very light
Heard from moring’s rosiest height,
When the soul of all delight
Fills a child’s clear laughter.
Golden bells of welcome rolled
Never forth such notes, nor told
Hours so blithe in tones so bold,
As the radiant mouth of gold
Here that rings forth heaven.
■ If the golden-crested wren
Were a nightingale—why, then,
Something seen and heard of men
1 Might be half as sweet as when
Laughs a child of seven.
1 —Algernon C. Swinburne.
THE NURSE’S CAREFUL
ACCURACY
In administering- the medicine is matched by our careful
ness and faithfulness in preparing the medicine as
ordered by the doctor.
Care is the watchword in our prescription woi’k. We
check and re-check each ingredient and quantity.
Safety first and profit afterward is the principle upon
which we conduct this business.
NORTHERN DRUG CO
“THE DRUG STORE OF ALASKA”
“SERVICE” 1b our motto.
NOW IS THE TIME
Now is the time to have your watch re
repaired as we are not so busy and can
give your work prompt attention.
PAUL BLOEDHORN
Jeweler
|
Phone 123 Lathrop Building
I
Cordova Fish and Cold Storage Co.
The Shop of Quality”
Wholesale and Retail
FRESH AND SMOKED MEATS
FOWL AND FISH
Out of town orders given strict attention
Phone 141
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE—ONE SMALL STAND,
one library table, four small Ax
minster rugs, one straight arm
chair, one tapestry seated rocking
chair. Phone 88. M8-tf.
FOR SALE—BRUNSWICK CABINET
Victrola and records, $75. See Apt.
D. Lathrop Bldg., after 5. M8-tf.
FOR RENT—STORE ROOM FORM
erly occupied by Hegg’s. Apply
Frank Cunningham. M4-1W
FOR RENT—APARTMENTS IN THE
Burkhart Flats. Phone 61. 3-tl.
FOR RENT—FURNISHED CABINS.
See Dooley.
FOR RENT—CORNER STORE. AP
ply Mlchelson & Curriero 7-tf.
Write Violet Ray S. Dennison,
Ohio., if you wish a pretty and
wealthy wife. Enclose stamp.
RESTAURANT
. OPEN DAY AND
NIGHT
TOM GOTO, Prop.
Phone 197
WALLPAPER
In Latest Patterns
GLASS
In All Sizes
i
I. D. BOGART
WHITE
OWL
10c
On Sale
at
Rosswogs
Cordova - Alaska
SMITH & M’CONAGHY
Plumbers and
Steamfitters
Corner Front and B Sts.
wnen in Gatouche visit
MORGAN’S CAFE
Good food Properly Cooked
Quick Service
MORGAN PELKY, Prop, and Mar
Everything
Haberdashery
FOR EVERY OCCASION AND THE BEST
OF THE KIND IN EVERY LINE. NOVEL
TIES AND NECESSARIES, FADS AND
FANCIES. A LITTLE MONEY GOES FAR
HERE NOW DOLLARS STRETCH WIDE.
WELCOME TO THE SAVINGS!
WILL
Cl.AYSON
Result of Modern
Methods
Our modem laundry is a revelation in its sani
tary care of your washing. Shirts, Collars,
Delicate Waists and Table Linens alike show
the result of painstaking care.
Jones’ Laundry, Inc.
WE TREAT ’EM WHITE
PHONE 66
CITY BAKERY LUNCH ROOM
Specially Carefully Prepared Lunch served from 11:30
Our Fine French Rolls with every meal
A big variety of Pastries and Cakes, always fresh. Sanitary machin
ery of the latest model, latent brick oven. Best materials used by
expert workmen in producing 6i:r famous Cream Loaf. :: :: ::
BEST COFFEE IN TOWN
FRENCH! BREAD RYE BREAD
THE NORTHERN CLUB
vrxx-x-xx<vxvxxvxvx: fred ,HAf.F, Proprietor
Pool, Cards, Tobacco
Soft Drinks of All Kinds
THE POPULAR CORNER
PHONE 47 CORDOVA, ALASKA
Northern Meat Market
Strictly Sanitary_Wholesale and Retail
Choice Fresh Meats and Poultry
Hams, Bacon and Lard
Order From Us. You Get the Best
PHONE 27 CORDOVA, ALASKA
JUST RECEIVED
A LARGE SHIPMENT OF
LIVE CHICKENS
FINE ROASTERS
JOE FREY
Phone 22
the UNIVERSAL car.
Touring Car, regular . $647.00
Touring Car, starter type . 717.00
Runabout, regular . 602.00
Runabout, starter type . 672.00
Chassis, regular . 567.00
Chassis, starter type . 637.00
.
Any of above types equipped
Demountable Rims, extra. 25.00
Truck Chassis, solid tires . 712.00
Truck Chassis, Pneumatic tires 752.00
THESE PRICES FOR DELIVERY
AT VALDEZ OR CORDOVA
OWEN E. MEALS
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Authorized Agent