Show I f Stirs s-Stirs fI r Drive on L Loafers Stirs Applause I V-By V By CHARLES P. P STEWART N NEA EA Service writer Outside of 01 letter etter carriers an and mail mal clerks the governments government's civilian include the largest laig- laig I est number of loafers time killers arid and buck passers I have ever seen brought together under one banner Congressman Martin L. L Davey of Ohio WASHINGTON March 16 After Arter reading the will need a diagram to understand why Congressman Davey is persona non grata grat among civil service workers work work- ers here in Washington The government personnel didn't like it when vien Davey introduced his his' bill to suspend civil service regulations regulations regulations regu regu- lations for two years ears to give a president a chance to weed out the deadwood from their ranks to the tune the Ohio representative estimates estimates estimates esti esti- mates of a half haIl dollar billion-dollar ec nomy This last remark rubs rube It In with an energy that nearly drives drives drives' em crazy S What's worse the the- Davey bill seems to have made a good impression sion not slon-not not necessarily with the administration administration ad ad- ministration or with congress but with a large part of the public The congressman's office Is snowed under with favorable leti let let- i tens Unfavorable ones have come comeIn comein comein in too but where there have been scores of this latter r kind of the former there e e been hundreds That half halt dollar billion saving Davey mentions appears to have a pleasing sound to federal tax- tax I pa payers ayers ers Rather curiously a a. scattering few lew among the civil servi service servie e em em- speak well of the bill And yet it Isn't so c curious rious The proposed measure provides that 10 per cent of the half hall billion should go to 10 the workers workers' who after altel the weeding needing out process Is hl completed still hold their Jobs The The wh whO considers himself himself himself him him- self good enough not to be fired fan fancies ies the idea of 01 a n 10 per cent S pay Increase e. e S S Signs Sign are that th the majority party in congress regards the bill suspiciously S SIt It would give the president a chance to reorganize a good deal more of his own politics into the civil service but it wound be provocative of a lot of kicking also Besides Davey is of ot the minority party part and nd the majority is bound to have a poor opinion of anything a n minority member thinks of ot Furthermore the Ohioan harps monotonously on the fact that there are aie more names on the nt's governments pay payroll oll now than there were when President Coolidge Coolidge Coolidge Cool- Cool idge took tool of office lice a disagreeable thing for a president who talks so much about hIs economy record to tobe tobe tobe be reminded of There isn't enough work to go around Everybody wants enough to make some slight pretense at being busy and the individual who tries to hog more than his fair hare gets himself disliked Imme imme- So it isn't altogether the em em- fault if they loaf They have to A. a |