Show furloughed furloughed AT STARVING rates BATES A washington WASHING tos TOx dispatch to the cleveland merald herald says that owing to the reduced appropriation a large number of navy officers are arc to be furloughed and placed on smaller pay running from a vice admi ral at n and rear admirals at 2000 down to ensigns and midshipmen at and the dispatch says under this compulsory reduction maan many of the most distinguished naval heroes eroe will swill be reduced almost to beggary and the pay of furloughed lieutenants and below that grade wiil will be less than that many classes of enlisted men such as machinists firemen boatswains mates and cooks the result cannot fail to cause great dis tress among the lower grades and be a serious impairment of the morale of we the service of course this is all very deplorable to these berv servants ants auts of country but when the country does not need their services would it be 21 altogether together right for them to be furloughed indefinitely OH OR full pay what sort of fair play would there be in that to the people who pay the taxes I 1 take the great army of mechanics and all other ether of the people who work for salaries or wages and we will warrant that they would jump at the otier to furlough them indefinitely on half pay or anything like that amounts amount when business or trade grew slack and their s services were not required half a loaf Is much better than n no 0 bread especially when no work is required for it but merely to hid inid oneself in readiness to work for full pay when work becomes sufficiently plentiful many men would rejoice at that option and would could do well at it IL their pay would furnish them the necessaries the of life ilfe and they would operate around at other business to procure additional I 1 income n or would spend a little time in fixing up things comfortably at home bless the men half pay and no work is not half haifa a bad thing when w we e come to consider th the 6 many thousands of workers who have no work and no pay |