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THfi OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1915.
DEPARTMENT
DIFFER ABOUT SHORT
HOURS FOR EMPLOYES
Some Sav Federal Business
Should Be Run Carefully as-
Private Business,
opinions of heads of go eminent of
fi'"s and departments in Portland
;iry a to whether federal employes
should work eifrht hours a day. which
Im thn customary work day for em
ployes In most prlvnte enterpriser!.
Most of the Kovernment employes
work on n seven-hour flay schedule.
The coiwlltion of employment. In var
ious departments came to lislit whrn a
statement was publlnhed that most of
those In the. government offices here
worked on a schedule of seven hours
a day. while the employes l pr:;te
huwlness nearly all work at least ei!i;
hours a day. Ah a rnalt'-r of economy
In government expenditures, tt wa-
pointed out thHt a large saving could
he made It' dfovernineii t employes
worked fljjht hours a da .
Soma Work Longer.
While seven to seven am! a half
hours constitute ;t clay's work in prac
tically all the government offices, Mil
ton A. Miller, collector of internal
revenue, . W. Kl 1 lot t . internal revenue
aKcnl; Captain Kdward Kdwards.
sle'imhoat inspeetor; Clarence Heames,
I'nited Stales attorney, and John Mon
Ihk, I'nited States inarshal declare
that the work of their department re
quires their employes to put in much
more than seven hourh h day.
On the other hand K. t. Worth, I'nl
ted h'tates surveyor cmicral tor Ore
gon, I.HVH tliat the government gets
only about U to 70 per cent of the
efficiency that a private employer
would et out of an eipial number of
ririnlov s He savs that conditions
are different in government offices
than In private business, but he sees
a choline for the better comiriK In
government service.
Rush Days Avry 13 Hours.
Milton A. Miller, collector of inter
im I revenue, says there are rush per
iods during the year when his men are
jeiulr'l to work 1 a to l." hours a
day. He insists that because of these
rush periods he. has no employes who
do not average more than eight hours
a day.
The rush period comes from the
sending out of notices and collection
iJ the income tax. the emergency tax
and the tax on narcotics. Thin period
last year began in October and did not
end until in July according to the col
lector. If the emergency tax law should not
be re-enacted congress and no sim
ilar law is enacted In its place, the
work of the office will lie materially
lessened, says Mr. Miller, and he can
make a readjustment of his force of
e nv.pl oy ck accordingly.
He said the employes of the Inter
nal revenue agent department should
not be charged to his office, but should
be listed separately. He said he has
L'O employe in his department, and
three of these are 'pipeline" men
whose jobs will cease when the prohi
bition law becomes effective the first
of the year, and another Is storekeeper
and guager, whose job also will end
wILli the year, reducing the force to
His force has been about doubled
ho went into ottice.
BUr Increase In Work.
Ho estimates the work of his office
has Increased lorn) per cent since he
went into office, this Increase being
due to the new revenue laws enacted
by con g iess.
j. W. ICliott is internal reve;.ue
agent and he has 17 men in his depart
ment Hi" district .overs Oregon.
AVasliington and Alaska. He declares
v. i,u no emnh'ves who work on a
seven-hour basis,
office hours are no
nml it half hours a
of-whom are outside men. actually put
in an average of more than IS hours
a lav he says. There Is no branc h of
the government service, he declares,
where the men are worked harder than
1n his department.
"Kvery man In my department will
average eight hours a day for day
in the vear," he said.
Captain Kdwards. of the steamboat
Inspection service said he thought the
new article about the hours of em
ployment In government service was
foolish.
"I think royernment employes should
work eight hours a day, hut what
business is it of yours?" he asked. He
Fald his men worked until they got
their work done, whether it was seven
cr 11! hours.
"We have only one clerk, whose of
fice hours are from 9 to 4:3a, but he
work until he gets his work done,"
'.e ald. The rest of the employes are
classified as outside men whose hours
may he irregular.
Arthur Merrill, the aforesaid clerk,
figured up that 'the five men in that
department had put in 2S70 hours and
20 minutes overtime during the year
ending June 80. On a seven hour day
basis this "would be equivalent to al
most a year and a half overtime In
one year for one man.
Trie official hours for the Vnlted
mee
While bis public
longer than seven
day, the men. most
States attorney's office are from 8:30
to 5, with an hour off for lunch. ,
"But the assistant attorneys are
here nearly always for at least two
hours every night." said Attorney
rteajns. "This is not compulsory, but
it Is unusual when a part of the -force
docs not work at night. We work on
Saturday afternoons, except during
June, July and August, when by exec
utive proclamation civil service em
ployes are given Saturday afternoon
off.
Should Wot Be Private Snap.
"I believe a man In public office
should work a specified number of
hours and enough more to get the
"wor'c done. I believe a person ought
to run a public office just like he
would run his private office. A pub
lic office should not be a private
snap."
John Montag, I'nited Sta(es mar
shal, points out that his outside men
are subjec t to duty any time they are i
ailed, while his offiee employes work j
enough overtime to average fully einht !
hours a day. lie says when his em-!
ploycs are supposed to have Saturday
afternoons off it is usually between ,
.' and 4 o lo- k before the work is fin
ished so they c an leave.
r do not believe that government
ivil service employes are entitled to
any greater pnvHegcs In the way of
ours of employment taan those of
similar lualiflcations and duties In
irivate business." said I.ouis Sharp,
hlef of the field division of the United
states land office.
"Tlie work performed by the clerks
of my office is similar to that of a
'arge law office and it is my under
standing that the hours of 'employ-
"nt in such offices are seven and
half hours, and under, per day.
"When comparison of this kind is
made the character of the work and
Hie cjualif icatloiis of the employe
chould be considered."
TTp to Washing-ton.
lleorge H. Cecil, district forester
and whose department lias the great
i st number of employes on a seven
I. our day hasp;, said the question of
lengthening the hours of work was a
matter entirely up to the tiead of his
department at Washington.
"Personally." he said, "I do not be
lieve you will get any mote work in
vi e c lerb al grades l:i eight hours than
you will In seven hours."
T. C Burke, collector of customs,
savs the wtrU of his department is
so diversified that each employe has
a particular v. oik to do. which 'al
lies itself tnroughout the day. so that
the work of any one employe could
hardly be distributed to the other em
ployes, and t the work oT the officH
can lie clone nicely in seven hours a
day.
In the appraiser's department the
work is handled in seven hours, but
Appraiser C,e0r,",e It. Welter says it
would be no advantage to work eilit
'tours as the work can be handled in
seven and even if longer hours were
observed the force could not be dimin
ished. "When th work is necessary to be
done we need all the men we have,"
lie said.
More Honrs More Work.
Lighthouse Inspector Robert War
rack says the hours for his office ate
fixed in Washington and he has noth
ing to say.
"It makes no difference to me. If the
hours are increased to eight," he said.
"I have no doubt if the hours were in
creased we could get more work done."
Colonel Potter of the corps of I'nited
States engineers says he has given the
inr.tter no thought and has no opin
ion as to whether government em
ployes should go on an eight hour
work day basis.
"The cUestion of salaries Is an im
portant consideration," he said, "and
my impression Is that those in pri
vate life receive more than those em
1'loyed In public life."
He pointed out that his assistant
engineers were really heads of depart
ments and a comparison between pub
lic and private business was dilt'i'jult
to make.
Befnses to Talk.
Receiver Smith of the I'nited States
land office said the question of hours
rested with the head of the depart
ment at Washington.
(leorge H. Marsh, clerk of the
I'nited States district court, refused
to discuss the matter for publica
tion. There are other federal departments
!n Portland which run on a seven
hour work day basis. wm Ii as the lab
oratory of grain standardization, the
bureau of geological survey, immigra
tion bureau and others.
The heads of some of the depart
ments interviewed said that they un
derstood the hours were fixed by law.
The law, whi"h was enacted in 18iS;l.
says: "That hereafter it shall be the
duty of the heads of the several exec
utive departments, in the Interest of
the public: service, to require of all
clerks and other employes, of what
ever grade or class, in their respec
tive departments not less than seven
hours of labor each day, except Sun
clays and days declared public holi
days by law or executive order."
There was a time when the govern
ment employes Included their lunch
period of half an hour within the
seven hours, thus working only six
and a half hours a day, but that condi
tion has been changed.
Ill RESIGNS
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BUT WILL MAINTAIN
HEADQUARTERS HER
El
Pacific Jurisdiction of Mis
sionary Society Will, Be in
His Charge Henceforth.
Dr. V. B. Hlnson, paMor of the First I
Laptlst church, will take charge of the !
I Pac ific jurisdiction of the American i
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j Paptlst Home Missionarv society Jan-i
'nary 1. I r. Hinson left Thursday night
. for .St. Louis for a conference with the
I executive committee of the .society re- i
) garding his new work, but will return ;
j home next Friday to occ upy the pulpit i
oi ine i tine ictnpce until cue iu.ii ji j
the year.
iJr. Hinson's resignation as pastor
was accepted formally hy the congre
gation of the First Uaptist church last
.Sunday ! l'ter he had made a statement
giving his reasons for resigning.
In the conduct of his new office, I'r.
Hinson will use Portland as his head
quarters and will continue to resltie
here. He vet a 1 months ago he moved
into ills own home at View Point and
there He will continue to live.
Sunday IT. John Shape, pastor of
(lie First Ut'ptist church of Spokane,
will picat h at both morning and eve
ning services. Dr. Snape was, before
coming to Spokane, highly successful
in both a ministerial and pastoral ca
pacity In I tii a, N. V. He 1s declared
to be a brilliant pulpit orator.
Whether his presence in Portland al
present is a coincidence or significant
of something more important is not
stated.
Loot Identified by
North Plains Man
Shoes and clothing found In the
house at East Forty-first street and
Sixty-fourth avenue, raided by the de
tectives yesterday, were Identified to
day as stuff stolen from the Maya
Bros.' mercantile stoYe at North Plaina
recently.
As a result of this, three men. Earl
Braun, alias Charles Brown, Jamea
Sullivan and Jack Caster, who were ar
rested in the raid, will be charged with
Brand larceny and taken to Hillsboro
for trial.
All three of the men have peniten
tiary records. Giant powder and nitro
glycerin. In adtion to safeblowing
tools, were found In the house by De
tectives Coleman. Snow, Hellyer, Tack
abery and Goltz.
The police today are searchlnp for a
launch said to have been used .by the
men in crimes that are charged against
them.
FAVORS INCREASE IN
INCOME TAX LAW TO
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McAdoo Offers "Suggsetion"
Which May Be Taken as
"Tip" by Friendly Members
"Washington, Nov. 26. (U. P.) The
administration will dodge a bond Issue
If possible in getting funds for its In
creased military program and for its
other millions of needed dollars.
In Issuing to the public a "sugges
tion" that Increased Internal revenue
taxation should provide additional
moneys. Secretary of the Tivasu-y
McAdoo said this is merely aj 'pro
gram," but rolllk ians said ttiay tin
plainly meant that corgrem should
"take the tip" and act accordingly. I
He suggested that lowering the c- j
emption on income taxes forj single
persons from IS000 to J-'Ooo. and for
married persons $43nt to i;ioOt. would
he one excellent means of getting
more money. At the same time, he
would have Income taxes above a cer
tain point Increased. Retention of
the emergency "war ta" and the su
gar duty, along with taxation f gas A- I
line and other aemi-luxury cQtnmodi- ,
ties. Is favored. McAdoo estimated
that the country will need til J.Hiir,.- i
394 additional revenue in 1?1T. in-
eluding the $93,800,000 required by '
the preparedness program.
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To ctt the geiiutn. cull fur full name I. XX A- ;
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FOR MEN
Petitions In Circulation.
Kugrue, Or., Nov. 26. A large num
ber of the petitions to initiate a Mil
for the repeal of t lie Sunday closing
law are In circulation in Kugene. Sev
eral hundred signatures were obtained
the first day of their circulation.
Wind Uprooted Big
Trees Near Chehalis
Chehalis. Wash.. Nov. -6 One of
the most violent wind storms that has
been known in this section for years
cut down a swath of timber to the
unit li west of Chehalis across the river
Thursday, but so far as known no
serious damage was done to any per
son or to any property. Farmers liv
ing in the valley at a safe distance
from the storm state that it rivaled
an eastern cyclone. Great fir tree.1;
w ere toppled over and sortie Of them
carried high into the air, with the root.s
uppermost. Near the soutli western
Washington fair grounds large limbs
were snapped off fir trees in the Som
ervillo grove.
About noon for a few minutes a hail
storm beat down furiously. All day
long at intervals heavy rainfall, ac
companied at times by wind, served to
make the 1915 Thanksgiving one long
to be remembered because of unpleas
ant outdoor wea-ther.
Mrs. Gordon Was a
Native of Canada
Kugene. Or.. Nov. 26. Thn funeral
of Mrs. Martha Gordon, mother of
William T. Gordon, assistant cashier
of the First National bank of Kugene,
and of Herbert Gordon of Portland,
was held today. Mrs. Gordon died
Wednesday at the age of 7 years.
She was born in Ontario, Canada, and
lived in Eugene since 1888. Her hus
band, T. Gordon, died nine years ago.
Besides her sons she leaves a third
Nin, .lames A. Gordon, at Mansfield,
Wash., and a daughter, Mrs. L. A.
Milne, Kugene.
Dayton Odd Fellows
Elect New Officers
Dayton, Or., Nov. 16. I. O. O. F.
lodge. No. -0. of this city held its
semi-annual election of officers last
evening, electing J. G. Park noble
grand; C Tt. Watson, vice grand; O
'. Goodrich, secretary, and O. B. Rip
pey. treasurer.
Grand "hief Patriarch Robert An
drus paid the lodge a visit and fa
vorl the members with an interesting
address, after which all enjoyed a
banquet given by the Dayton En
campment lodge.
Former Oregon
Publisher Is Sued
Centralis. Wash., Nov. 26. A. E.
Heaton, as assignee for Catherine
Hrainard. has filed suit against J. D
Quillen. publisher of the Winlock L,iv
Wire, to recover the value of a trip to
the Panama-Pacific exposition, which
Miss Brainard claims she won In a
newspaper contest staged by Quillen
when he was publishing the Leader at
Cottage Grove, Or. The girl claims
the prize was never awarded her.
$95
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Buys a $6 Norfolk Suit
at this store
on Saturday!
Extra pair of Knickers Free
Xow's the time of the year to see that the boys are pro
tected from Winter rains and winds. These suits will
keep your boys warm and dry at a reasonable cost. I
'show the various styles in full-weight Norfolk Suits,
nicely tailored from fancy mixtures, tweeds and cheviots.
Boys' Store-
Second Floor.
Every Suit is guaranteed to give satis
faction. On sale all day tomorrow
regular $6.00 Suits only
$4.95
$5.00 Norfolk Suits $3.95
Stout, serviceable cassimcrcs and mixtures, with extra
knickers. A good Suit for school or play at a
modest price. Buy them on Saturday for only vO73
Boys' and Children's Overcoats
Handsome tweeds, cheviots and novelty woolens, thor
oughly showerproofed. Many new patterns, woven es
pecially for youthful wearers. Raglan or set-in sleeves ;
velvet or self collars; double or single-breasted models.
See them tomorrow at this store.
$4.50 $5 $6 $7.50 $8.50 $10 $12.50 $15
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forerunner of colds, pneumonia and rheumatism.
Farnous over halt a century for its superior qualities.
Every garment shaped to the figure and guaranteed not to
shrink.
Glastenburjr Two-Piece, Flat Knit Spring-Needle Underwear
is made in lifteeit grades, several weights of line wools, worsted
and merino.
See special feature of adjustable drawer band On
Natural (".niy Wool, wlnt.r wifht .er garment II. H
Natural Gray Wmil. intr waight (duuhle thread) r ariur-ul .1.71
.Natural iray Worsted, lictat w.ujht er .laruirnt 1.M
Natural iitay Australian Lamb ura l. light weifbt I"T uariuent 1.7
Natural (Hay Woratrd. medium weight per yarinriit H UD
Natural Uraj Australian Lamb's Wuul. winttr ci(bt per gariuaul U 60
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directors of this strong
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service and experience in
banking; they give their
daily attention to the man
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their financial acumen and
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foremost importance and
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banks.
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You Can Go on Saturday or Sunday
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tTSXTOBS
In the Wlllnmette Vnlley are mnny Interest
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12.0R.1. Homo of I'nlvoraltv "f OreKon: 113
miles south of Portland on Wlll.-i met ti: Klver.
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.MiOii. Albany College. tvl,lo)i hn lately -cured
an endowment of t J."iO,(Hiij. Mount Jef
ferson fl& mile to thu cunt. Hound trip,
noek-end, 93. lO.
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