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Hoover Group Wrestles With
Problem of Firing Empl
g tmployes
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.—(NEA)—How to fire . ineffi
cient government employes easier is one of tha
personnel problems bothering ex-President Hor
hert Hoover's CAmnWssion on Organzation of ihe
Executive Branch of hte Federal Governiment. The
Issue has kicked up quite an argument within the
Hoover Commission and the Civil Service Com
mission.
What bothers the outsiders —the non-govern
ment members of the Hoover Commission—is said
to be “the state of mind” that has developed
among government administrators. Critics of the
“Servile Civice” .as they disdainfully call it, say
that bureau chiefs and section heads with author
ity to fire are afraid 4o use their power.
It is claimed these officials take the lazy way
out. Instead of firing tife inefficient workers, fhey
mercly transfer them. Or instead of giving such
workers hones_t. ;. “Unsatisfactory” efficiency rat
ings, the adminidttators pass out “Good” or “Fx
cellent” ratings to all, in order to become known
as good bosses. The result is that when it does
become necessary to fire a no-gocd employe, no
basis for dismissal can be found in his record.
The common conception of government bureau
racy is-being filled with incompetent hacks who
drift into federal service because they can’t hold
jobs in the stiffer competition of private industry
is of cyutse an old story. It is legend that once o
worker gets on Uncle Sam’s payroll, it is impos
sible to get him off.
Businless execulives who come to Washington
for temporary jobs like to say%xat no private in
dustry could be run successfully under civil serv
ice rules becausc of the short hours, long vaca
tions and extra time off for sick leave, whether
the employes are actually sick or not.
Members of Congress, always at war with the
executive branch of the government—until they
want some special favor from it for their district
—are as responsible as any other source for
spreading tales about the overswolien ranks of
bungling bureaucracy.
But the way it works out, whenever a govern
ment employe does get fired, his first act is to g 0
to see the senator or representative from his home
state and town, o start them raising cain. A com
mon practice for a discharged employe is to tell
the congressman that his boss is a Communist or
fellow traveler., Or that his intentions towards the
lower-grade help are not always honarable.
On receipt of such complaints, any congress
man is apt to start a letter-writing campaign ‘o
the head of the agency, make a speech on the
{loor of Congress, start an investigation of the
agency, or all three at the same time. Faced with
such an attack, many a humble straw boss in the
government service has been known to quail and
pull in’ his horns, say it was all a mistake and end
up by giving a promotion to the inept hand he in
tended to fire.
UNIONIZATION ADDS TO DIFFICULTIES
Increasing of unionization of federal employes
has also complicated the firing problem consid
crably. “Shop stewards” in every government bu
reau are constantly battling administrators to
prevent discharge of union members,
There is a common belief that when a govern
ment employe is marked for the sack, he has t.he
right of appeal to half a dozen higher authorities
and boards. This process is supposed to take
months and even years, and to discourage lirings.'
Actually, the only laws on this point are that if
& veteran is fired he has the right of appeal to the
Civil Service Commission, and if any employe
charges he is fired for political or religious pre
judice, he has the right to contest his dxsxr.ussal-
The Civil Service Commissicn side of this story
is that all the machinery necessary for fast firings
is now in operation. All it takes to make in Yvork
is a little guts on the part of the section chiet and
the director of personnel in every agepcy.
Every new employe on the government payroll
is on trial during his first year. He can be gL =
marily fired if his work is found unsatisfactory
during that time, After this first year an employe
must be given notice in writing as to why he 1s
being discharged, and he must be given a reason
able fime to reply to the charge in writing.
A discharged employe may appeal to the Civil
Service Commission only if he charges he was
fired arbitrarily’ and without cause. The commis
sion may recommend that such a dischggggqi R
loye may be given another chance under difiei
ent circumstances in another agency. But it can-
MW&W a discharged employe reinstated.
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Better Publicity For The South
The recent meeting of the Southern
Governors in Savannah was a quiet and
business-like affair. The Southern chief
executives discussed a number of import
ant questions touching the future of this
section of the United States and took
positive action on some of them. The net
result of the conference should be good.
The suggestion for the organization of
the Southern Foundation should hear good
fruit. The aim of such an organization is
to furnish information to the people of
every section of the country on the real
needs of the South and the real problems
that confront our people.
There is no doubt but that in the past
too little attention has been paid to proper
publicizing of the things that all the peo
ple should understand about our section
of the country. It is doubtfdl whether any
sizeable percentage of the American peo
ple know anything about the real situa
tion in the South touching many of tie
most important questions confronting the
American people. This section has been
the victim of much misrepresentation in
the Northern press, the statement of un
truths and halt-truths, to the exclusion of
the real facts.
The proposal of the Southern Gover
nors is to furnish the facts in a calm and
unbiased manner and to make the publi
cation of those facts official, so that those
in other sections can get a true picture of
this part of the country. The time is op
portune for the dissemination of the real
truth about the South. N« only will this
strengthen the hands of our Southern con
gressmen and senators, but it will remove
from the minds of many of the Northern
people prejudices that are engendered by
false information and unfriendly atti
tudes.
Polifical Role Of The
Japanese Woman
With the tall of China into the hands of
t}.le Communists now imminent the future
gixspgsition of Japan becomes. of increas
ing importance. ln spite of the fact that
Japan was our enemy in war, it must be
recognized that the Japanese are perhaps
the most intelligent of the Asiatic nations
and that they may at some distant date
become a very effective part of the de
velopment of that continent.
General MacArthur, who has handled
the Japanese situption from the military
standpoint, is decidedly of the opinion
that that country should be rehabilitated
and made a bastion against the spread of
Communism in the Far East. Just how
Jquuch reliance is to be placed in a rehabil
itated Japan when it comes to the protec
tion of American interests Is-a debatable
question, but there are strong arguments
to back up MacArthur's views. To create
a buffer nation that would to a large ex
tent furnish the defense of the Pacific
against the Communists is an undertaking
worthy of the most careful study, for it is
manifest that American interests in the
Pacific must be protected if world peace
is to be made certain.
Just here it may be observed that the
Japanese women are going to play an im
portant political part in the Japan of the
future. Up to this time the Japanese wo
man has had no rights or privileges so far
as government is concerned. The Japanese
women have had probably less privileges
than the women of any other nation in the
world. The better educated among them
have both ability and graciousness. They
are already manifesting much interest 1n
their changed status and their opportuni
ties. They have made up their minds to
play an important part in the develop
ment of their country. As a rule they are
more conservative than the men and lew
likely to be swept aside by communistic
influences.
It may be that much will depend on the
attitude of the Japanese women in the
final settlement of the Far Eastern prob
lems. :
The very survival of American civiliza
tion (is left) pretty much in the hands of
diplomats. Science has far outreached our
ability to control its destructive potential.
John K. Northrop, president, Northrop
Aircraft, Inc. ,
Sensitive as women are to the limita- |
tions of passing vears, men in their way]
are more so..—Dr. Donald B. Thorbuii,
health and recreation expert, fireclommend-.l
ing moderate exercise for mgn over 40,
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THE BANNER-AERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
Boy Scouls
Honor Mell
And Almand
E. B. Mell, former principal of
Athens High School and long time
friend of Boy Scouts, and J. M.
Molder, Boy Scout executive of
the Northeast Georgia Council,
were honored at the recent Ex
plorer Post No, 2 Christmas Party
with honorary membership into
the organization.
Since the organization of the
post, which is sponsored by the
Athens Rotary Club, in 1945 only
two persons have received hon
orary memberships into the unit.
The two men previously honored
are Preston Almand and Profes
sor F. W. Bennett.
When these two were honored
they were chairman and vice
chairman, respectively, of the
Athens District Court of Honor.
At present Mr. Almand is serving
on the District committee. and
Professor Bennett is living in lowa.
\ Hitchcock Fires:des
Nelson Hitchcock, post guide,
presided over the presentation
ceremony. He spoke of the ac
complishments of the two honor
ees and how happy the post was
to present them with honorary
memberships. He gave the certi
ficates of membership to Mr. Al
mand who in turn presented them
to the two new honorary members.
Mr. Almand spoke of the ser-.
vice these two have been to the
Boy Scout organization in Athens.
Over fifty persons were present‘
at the post’s Christmas Party giv
en at the Lambda Chi Alpha fra
ternity house. Santa Claus visited
the group and gave out the pres
ents that were under the tree.
B. C. Hill, a magician, from
Winder, put on a show, Christmas
carols were sung, and a dance was
held. Joe Anderson, assistant post
guide, served as general chair
man of the party, and Lauren
Coile was head of the refreshment
committee.
WALL ST.
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l IN 1948
' By WILLIAM D. HORGAN
AP Newsfeatures
NEW YORK—The 1948 stock
market, in the language of Broad
way, laid an egg.
' One of the most highly touted
‘bull markets in a decade fell flat
on its face in mid-summer. 1
The spectacular outcome of the
Presidential elections also con
founded the prophets by touching
off the sharpest decline in years.’
At the end of 1948 the general
level of stock prices was just
about where it was at the start of
the year. In the meantime, of
course, millions of dollars were
made in the market—and millions
lost.
It was a year in which the mar
ket all but abandoned its tradi
tional role as one of the nation’s
most .sensitive .economic. prophets,
American industry made more
money than in any year in history.
Dividends—extras, specials, year=
end, stock—streamed out of corpo
ration tills in a swollen golden
flood. Industry put its plant in
order, expanded, developed new
processes, worked at top speed to
satisfy an almost undreamed of
demand.
But the stock market ignored
the country’s well-being. For a
| few brief months, true enough, the
price level edged ahead until a
climax was reached in a few fren
zied days of trading in mid-May.
That advance, curiously, was less
the result of an appraisal of the
fulture than the psychological re
iaction to the fact that the Dow=-
Jones Average of industrial stock
prices had passed a so-calied re
sistance point.
The May jump in prices was
the market’s swan-song so far as
another sharp rise was concerned.
Wall Street developed a painful
sensitivity to what Russia had to
say. Dispatches from Berlin and
Moscow were studied with more
care than the balance sheets of
domestic corporations.
In mid-July, a week after the
’markct had wormed its way to a
high since August, 1946, prices
dropped sharply. Russia was
blamed, along with a call for a
special session of Congress and U.
S. Steel Corp.’s announcement of a
wage-price increase.
For the rest of July, and in Au
gust and September, prices see
sawed without getting very far
one way or another.
October was Wall Street’s pre
election market. The financial
district figured that Gov. Dewey
had the election in the bag. Over
enthusiastic traders started to talk
|of tax reduction, a more favorable
lpolitical atmosphere for business.
I The price level advanced until it
was within hailing distance of the
l 1948 high.
| Wall Street’s reaction to the
Truman victory was swift and de
lcis‘ive. In a series of four smash
ling selling attacks, prices were
driven down to the lowest level
ls'mce mid-March.
! In November alone about SB,-
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