Show St See va tU smoN J DAVEY'S DRIVE E ON- ON LOAFERS STiltS APPLAUSE USE BY nY CHARLES P STEWART NEA Ser Service Jeo Writer Outside of or letter carriers and mall clerks the tho governments civilian employee include the largest number of or loafers time time- time killers killers and passers buck l I have ever seen brought together under one banner banner Congressman Martin MartinIi L Ii Davey Dany of ot Ohio WASHINGTON Feb After 27 27 readIng the tIle above nobody will need a diagram to understand why Congre Javey Davey Is per persona ona non greta grato among among- civil service workers here In lu Washington The government personnel like It when Davey Intro Intro- Introduced introduced Intro Introduced his bill to suspend civil service regulations for tor two years to give a president a chanco to weed out the deadwood from their ranks to the tune the Ohio rep rep- representAtive rep representative estimates ofa ota of- of a a half dollar dollar billion-dollar economy This last remark rubs It ft In with an energy that nearly drives em crazy What's worse worle the Davey bill seems seem to have have- made a good Im- Im Im Impression not not necessarily with the adminIstration or with but with It a large part of ot the pub pub- public pub public lic tic The congressman's office Is snowed under with favorable let let- letters letters let letters Unfavorable ones have havo come comeIn comein comeIn In too but where there have been scores of this latter kind of the former Cormer there have been hundreds That half halt dollar billion-dollar saving Duey Davey mentions appears to have hae havea havea a pleasing sound to fed federal ral tax tax- tax taxpayers payers payer Rather Rather- curiously a scattering few Cew among the civil s service em- em em speak well of the bill And yet et It Isn't so curious The proposed measure provides that per cent of the he halt hall billion should go to the workers who after the tho weeding out process procesa Is completed still hold their jobs The employs who considers him him- himself him himself self good enough not to be fIred I fancies the Idea of a It 10 per cent centI I pay Increase I Signs are that the majority party In congress regards the bUl bUI suspiciously It would give the president a chance chanco to reorganize a Q good deal more of ot his own politics Into the tho civil service but It would be pro pro- provocative pro provocative vocative of a lot of ot kicking also Besides Davey Is of ot the minority part party and the majority Is bound to have a poor opinion of any any- any anything thing thinS a minority member thInks of Furthermore the Ohioan harps harps monotonously on tho the that there are ore more names on the governments government's payroll now than Iban there were when President Cool Cool- CoolIdge Cool Idge Idge took office a thing for tor a president who talks about his economy record to be reminded of ot There Isn't enough work to go around Everybody wants enough to ma make e some some- slight pret Ds ot at being busy and the tho Individual who trIes to hog more than his faIr share get gets himself disliked Im- Im ImmedIately medIately So It isn't altogether the en- en em fault 11 it they loaf They have to |