Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1940 — Page 18
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CIVIL SERVICE VOTES BATED
Women's League Plans 10Day Drive to Get Merit System Support. H Times Special INGTON, |Oct. 25.—League of Women Voters Headquarters here today put the label on all Senators and Congressmen ih regard to. their
votes on the Ramspeck Civil Service bill and its various amendments.
conference,
iss: Marguerite } Wells, League dent, aghounce d that a 10-day selection drive will ‘be made in the fight to obtain| support for the merit system and |civil service as against the pajronage plan for Fed
, The League listed Senator Sherman, Minton (D. Ind.), who is seek ing re-election, as having cast two merit votes and one patronage vote on the Ramspeck bill, while Senator Frederick VanNuys, (D. 1nd), is listed.as having cast one merit and two patronage votes.
Rating Explained .
Both Senators were. given a merit fating by voting to consider the bill and both a patronage rating by voting against reconsideration of the sections which exempt Deputy Col-
lectors of Internal Revenue, Deputy U. 8. Marshals and Assistant U Attorneys from civil service. © Senator Minfon | drew a merit rating by voting against competitive, rather than qualifying, examinations and Senator VanNuys a patronage rating for his support of the competitive amendment. Three roll calls in the House as “peing merit or patronage votes. « 1. Motion to recommit to the Civil Service Committee, with instruce tions to amend to require competi eb. 9, 1940, Yes ote and no a
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rated a patronage merit vote,
Representatives Listed
Voting yes were Reps. Charles A. Halleck, Robert A. Grant, George W. Gillie, Forest A. Harness, Noble J. Johnson and ‘Raymond 8. Springer, Voting no were Reps. William T. Schulte, Jr, Eugene B. Crowe, Willlam H. Larrabee and Louis Ludlow, Democrats. .Rep. Gerald |W. Landis, Republican, was not recorded. 2. Passage of Ramspeck Bill. Yes 8 merit vote and no a patronage
Schulte, Halleck, Grant, Gillie, Har ness, Johnson and pringer. Landis absent, 3. Roll call on conference report. Yes merit and no patronage. Yes: Reps. Schulte, Larrabee and Ludlow. No: Reps, Halleck, Grant,
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nated to buy more bandages. Since the opening of the dressing division in June, more than 25,000 bandages have been made and shipped
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (U. P.) ~~ War Department officials are lookIng for a way to convince suspecting mothers and wives that the hostess plan for military training camps really was innocently designed to make army life more like home for the boys. The department is being flooded with applications for the hostess jobs. But it is reciving “too many” protests from other women who charge that a plan for women in the Army in “inviting the moral decline of husbands and sons.” Rupture of home ties—disregard for the holiness of marriage—a year of revel for men just waiting to get away from home-those are some of the charges being hurled at the Army, The whole trouble seems to be that word “hostess.” The official
,| who decided to call the women host-
esses apparently didn't know much about what other women think of that word, But they know now. One letter stated emphatically that hostess is just a nice word for a woman with designing inclinations, The War Department is trying to assure the protestors that it has
Gillie, Harness, Johnson, Landis, Boehne, Crowe and Springer.
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only the greatest concern for the morals of men in the Army, main-
Suspicious Mothers, Wives Score Army Hostess Plan
tenance of home ties and the canctity of marriage. One official said that the women who ‘will be hired .as hostesses for the camp programs, will be “dis tinctly on the mothetly side. : “Our idea was simply to provide the camps with those womanly touches that would remind a boy of home,” he said.
ENVOY PUTS STRESS ON STATESMANSHIP
MERIDEN, Conn,, Oct. 24 (|. P.). Without naming either Presidential candidate, John .Cudahy, Ambassador to Belgium, said last night that “statesmanship rather than business experience” was a chief requirement for the leadership of the United States at this time. He emphasized that he was not criticising the “American business man but glded that the businessman “is not “omniscent nor omnipotent” and “he is not ordained, as many people see mto think, by vir tue of his, training, to lead this
country in government. , ., .”
115 EXPECTED Dorothy Ame’ s Glod Campaign Nearly C Over
AT CONFERENCE
State Health Officers to Meet Monday and Tuesday at Spa.
About '175 Indiana city and county health officers are expected to attend the annual Health Offi-. cers Conference Mopday and Tuesday at French Lick, Ind" The conference is spohsored by the Indiana State Board of Health to acquaint local officers with the services which the. state can. offer them and with the latest advances in public health methods.
The highlight $f the meeting, according to Dr. J. W. Ferree; State health chief, is expected to be an address on poliomyelitis by Dr. Milton Rose, professor of public health at the University. of Pennsylvania, Dr. Rose is. to speak at 2 p. Monday at the French Lick in Hotel. Dr. Karl R. Ruddell, ‘president of the Indiana State Medical Association, will open the conference at 9:30 a. m, Monday and Drs. Thurman B. Rice and Clyde G. Culbert= son will discuss “Practical Consideration in the Operation of the Marriage Law.” Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Indianapolis health officer, and Drs. George W. Bowman and Francis Sheehan will talk on venereal disease controls. Among others who will speak are Drs. Oliver W. Greer, State Welfare Department; louis W. Spolyar, State Board of Health; and Howard B. Mettel, of the’ State bureau of maternal and child health.
IOWA HUSKING CHAMP HOPES FOR NEW MARK
MITCHELLVILLE, Iowa, Oct. 25 (U.P.) —~Alvin Roberts of Atalissa, Iowa, defending cornhusking champion of the “tall corn state,” hoped today to husk a record-breaking i bushels in the 1940 state conest. He sald he had succeeded in husking 39 bushels yesterday in a practice fun on the Mrs. David Dykstra farm here, where the event will be held. A crowd of over 30,000 was expected to attend. Eight district winners will compete.
‘AIDA’ RECORD OUT HERE TOMORROW
Tomorrow will be the release date for “Aida” the second of 12 recorded: operas being distributed by the Indiana Music Appfeciation Committee. “Carmen,” made available last week, is still’ on sale, The recordings are made under the auspices of the National Committee and are transcriptions of the highligh of Yhe/operatic composions. .
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H 1 y in its next Fh 4t “will be pleased to announce Wendell Willkie as our next President of the United States.” Dorothy Anne is glad tthe “campaign is coming to an end. “Our budget never balances any more,” she writes, “on account of mether not being a homemaker. She is campaigning for Willkie.” .
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Dorothy Anne ‘makes her usual) comment on world affairs, “Mussolini and Hitler are terribly worried. They met in Brenner Pass and whispered and whispered. Peo~ ple who whisper are very rude and don’t always turn out well” The Vi “Star prints letters to the edi and Dorothy Anne discusses them. “A subscriber in Denver,” she
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But, she says, “we got én awful stab in the back. A man, from Philadelphia says the Valsetz Star is ‘crude and crusty,’ that it shows. neither grown-up intelligence nor a child’s perspicacity, and that our chojce of a Presidential candidate is on the level with orle who-neither
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