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FRIDAY, APR. 24, 1986.
CIVIL SERVANTS'. SALARIES
There is fat plenty on all sides..
That town is capital of these United States of
a
its citizens don't
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where
profitable
by C. V. R. THOMPSON
America-Washington." D. C. retired naval, military, civil
in officials, hotels, convention or America's most profitable
re- ganisers, restaurants, grocery dustry-politics-is alone sponsible for its revival from stores, clothiers, salesmen of
a dull, inproverished town into top hats.
n busy, thriving city.
WASHINGTON
Washington's citizens live by has always tried to hide this poltties and its by products fact, has prided itself on being alone. The business of govern- a real lazy Southern city, whose can wait, Micawber- ment feeds and clothes diplo- citizens mats, lawyers, newshawks, like, for something to turn up lobbyists, telegraph operators, while its legislators spend 'all their time waiting for somothing to turn down.
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Add Apriculturat Adjustment Administration.
PW.A. Public Works Administra
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FERA. Federal Emergency Re- te Administralinir.
There will be general agree NOTES OF THE DAY
ment with the point made by!
the Hon. Mr. M. K. o, in his JAPANESE MENACE speech on Government salaries
on. Wednesday, that the method
news
sources
Its hotels were slowly nodding eff into bankruptes. Its great homes were boarded up. The beautiful tree- rimmed circles that make the place look like a series of parks began to look dowdy. The enpital was in a decline.
Came the New Deal and the dawn of a new Washington, a Washington that could not help itself making muney. The New Deal, with its NRA its A.A.A.. its P.W.A.. it FERA.. thirty other alphabetical agencies, brought hundreds of extra eivil servants to town,
Its
to
Then Big Business got to fighting with Mr. Roosevelt, and sent lobbyists. experts, "eltisellers Washington to see what could be done about it. Even Big Businessmen and their lobbyists, experts, "chisellers." have, as they explained to Mr. Roa sevelt when he prepared to tax them. to eat and to sleep.
..
So Washington is a rejuvenated city. Its hotels are full. Its год taurants are prosperous. New rock- tail bars open on the hour, close after hours.
The trees have been manicured. The streets have been repaired. New commerce have been opened. There are great parties. There are beauti- ful women, beautiful clothes, beautiful
jewellery. Nowhere is there poverty.
politics industry
FIRST LADY
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and Mrs. Alvin T. Hort, finan- cial "angel" of the Republichn
(Big Business) Party.
That current topies of conversation are the new senator for Louisiana, in widow of Huey Long, “Louisiana's pocket deningogue; Mrs. Roosevelt; the chances of the Demo crats winning next presidential elec- tions.
That the women wahawks are ok mad as anything because Mr. Roo- sevelt, now a columnist, keeps all the choice titbits for her colunin, given them the scraps.,
That I
I know a senator who sleeps In his office provided free of charge
a grateful country-to save rent of an apartment.
by a
the
That the Upper Set can always be found at the " Street Club," former home of Mrs. Jimmy Curtis, mother- in-law of Pete Bostwick; that politi- cians can dance and drink freely there without fear of seandalising their con- stituents; that if you are a lobbyist your first move is to persuade an at- tractive young woman miember to come on your pay-roll no that she will arrange à nicé party for you with as mang segators as your expense count will stand.
-Ju
That attractive young womeri
are
abundant in Washington; that New Dealers have the best-looking secretaries I have ever seen.
the
That there in o'great surplus women in Washington.
of
THAT NO SECRET
is ever safe in Washington (I have just said there is a great That Mrs. Roosevelt's favourite Surplus of women); that to tell expletive when annoyed "Ok, the contents of a new Bill in spinach!"
confidence is the best way of That Mr. Roosevelt's favourite getting it round town.
swimming, aro
postage That the Washington Monu-
ment stamps, reading English history.
is n favourite suickle That Washington's most popular spol.
That Titian-haired Mrx. Cissie woman is Irene Boyle, secretary la
of the British Ambassador Sir Ronald End- Patterson.
Harald, ik sny's wife.
Amerien's only big-time woman news.
habbies
That there is only one successful Paper editor-in-chief.
That Secretary of the Interior Ickes night club in Washington.
tЯ a bar-tender, an hotel-keeper, a THAT THE BEST tourist agent, a flour miller, because he is experimenting a now cocktail eating in town is at Harvey's, to popularise Puerto Rican rum, is established in 1878-hoary an- running an helel in the Virgin Islands, tiquity to America. Specialities both places, a flour mill in the Govern campaign to encourage tourists to are stewed oysters, terrapin, menta park at Rock Creek. In pri snapping turtle stew.
vate life he raises prize dahlias,
That D.C. stands for District of That the next best eating is at Columbia, and that the inhabitants of
Mayflower the
Hotel, favourite America's capital are the only people lunchout place of lean Colonel Marvin who do not have votes. Mcintyre and pudgy Steve Early, That it is time to say, "Farewell,
Columbia.". White House secretaries.
the Senate Dining Room. Speciality The District of Columbia is iden-. is old-fashioned strawberry short- tieal with the city of Washington and cake. No alcoholle refreshment is consists of land ceded, during Wash permitted.
ington's presidency, by Virginia and That Washington is as cold
as Maryland on that no State should, by woman's scorn in winter, as hot as containing the capital of the USA. the late Senator Huey Long's temper, be un object of jealousy among the in summer.
others.
What The Locarno Treaty
Asks Of Britain.
How far and under what con- fact helps explain Whitehall's ditions is Britain committed jair of relative detachment,
In case nay
Canton is ringing again with of a temporary "levy is no realrumours of an impending autonomy movement in Fukien, scene of an solution of the problem with abortive revolt two years ago in famous Nineteenth which the Colony is faced. which the
That the next best rating is at Route Army played a conspicuous, What is obviously needed is a if unfortunate, part. It is the horough overhaul of the ser-suggestion of certain reliable quar- vice conditions of the Govern- ters that Japanese influence is ment personnel. Happily, there hind the recurring unrest in this sertion of China, and for several is promise of such an outcome, nonths past we have been con- and, for the purpose of making cerned or bored, according to our
The boards have come down from the necessary investigations it views, with the persistent reports
of rebel activities. For weeks, the great old mansions, which now is immaterial whether the mat-according to
in house the Rural Resettlement Ad- ter be taken in hand by a Com- Kwangtung. the Canton military ministration, the Fine Arts Division of
alert
to the the P.W.A.. the Utopian dream of mission or by the Executive leaders have been
Agriculturist Rexford Tugwell, dangers of the Fukien situation, Council. The probability is and traps have been sent to vari that quicker results will be ous points at which it was suspected achieved by the latter body. trouble might arise. But the refonie and Dorle temples of justice and peater alarms seem never to have His Excellency the Governor, grown beyond the stature of who is thoroughly convinced of rumour; and yesterday's will proba
ally prove ne the necal of reforms, has
more significant.
I HAVE BEEN by the Locarno Treaty to help tompared with France's demand This is not to suggest that the ready taken steps to review the stories of Fukien plotting are moving about this new Wash-France or Belgium against Ger-for action. rent and other allowances which [false; or ぞぶじれ thal Chinese inglon, and here are some of the many in the Rhineland?
The following procedures are Civil Servants enjoy, and this buspicions that Japanese interests, facts I have gleaned
Within the carefully guarded stipulated:
1. diplomatic phrases of the treaty
party "alleges” aspect of the question will be possibly unofficial influences, sup
That Washington's most port them, are baseless. Of these taken into account when con- matters we cannot judge. But we popular diplomat is Michael itself, Britain is amply protected violation of the Locarno Treasy or ef sideration is given to the salary rather feel that the gravity of the MacWhite. ex-Foreign Legion-against having to send troops Articles 42 or 43 of the Versailles scale already in force in the Fukien position is exaggerated. naire Minister far the Irish Free unless in her judgment condi-Treaty, which govern the demilitaris Státe, Best story-teller in town. tions require her to do so. This ing of the Rhineland, the party is to bring the question before.the League African Colonies, the suitability However, if it is as precarious as Home Chinese observers appear to
Council. France has done this. China leaders of which, for Hongkong is to be believe, the South investigated. The Colonial who have been clamouring for Secretary, in his speech at action against the Japanese aggres- have their op may yet Wednesday's Council meeting,portunity. made roference to the efforts be- ing made by the Colonial Office to secure unification of condi- tlons in the Colonial services body wants to see the fair thing done by our Civil Servants. The generally. It must be apparent, demand for a lessening of Gov- however, that there cannot be exact 'duplication in cach and erriment expenditure rests on the belief that the Administra- every Colony Living, costs,
tion is overburdened with too climatic conditions and other matters should be taken into many highly-paid officials, whose, salaries; together with other account, in which connection Hongkong may materially differ privileges, constitute too heavy from, other Colonies: Such uni-a charge on a Colony of the size formity as is possible, however, of Hongkong. Over a period of would greatly help in facilitat-many years, there has grown up ing interchange of officers be in this Colony an altogether too That costly administration. tween the various Colonies,
cost must be reduced. In the which would be all to the good. There is undoubtedly a feeling process, there may have to be, in some departments, consider- apparent amongst certain secable substitution of dollar-paid tions of the Hongkong Civil)
On sterling servants, for men Service that Government ser- vants are being singled out for pay, whilst certain of the higher ranks may have to suffer a re- unfair treatment, but the public duction in their total remunera- viow coincides with that of His Excellency the Governor: when
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Government service.
Every-
tion. But this should not mean that civil servants doing an
ho states that the temporary essential job of work will be levy is a reasonable measure and
either under-paid or unfairly one which is not incommensur- ate with the deprivations and treated in their general service conditions. The whole question losses in which economic condi-bolls down to the Colony cutting tions have, involved "people in its garment according to the every walk of life outside thecloth available.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Oh, boy! She's going to make a grand slam, if she only plays this hund the way I'd play it."
It is significant that reference to Article 44 of the Versailles Treaty
This Was omitted from Locarno. article makes any violation of the Rhinelan
i provisions "a hostile act" against the
ance of this provision Powers. In
automatically determining the aggressor, Locarno erables Britain to determine for her. solf whether an "unprovoked" act of aggression has been committed, as the following clause shows:
Paragraph (3) of Article IV of Locarno provides in case of "flågrant violation" by one party that:
such
...each of the other contract- ing parties hereby undertakes immediately to come to the help of the party against whom a violation, or breach has been directed as soon as the said power has been able to satisfy itself that this violation constitutes an u provoked act of aggremion and that by reason either of the cross- ing of the frontier or of the out- break of hostilities or the assem- bly of armed forces in the do militarised zone immediate action is necessary....
It is further provided that in caso of flagrant violation the Council in duo course shall make recommends- tion. The parties are bound to follow those recomnendations, pro- vided they are reached unanimously by the Council, excluding the parties engaged in hostilities..
Since Britain has a permanent vote In the Coupell, she is able to docida her own bourse of action either of an "alleged" or "flagrant" violation.
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Article & further exempts the Bri- Lish dominions from any obligation úndor Locarno which they do not voluntarily accept.