Employes, Appointees

To all employes in the U. S. Civil Service went, last week, a repetition of the standing order against participating, except in private conversations, in politics. The order specified against badges, buttons, stickers, automobile signs or plates.

Postmaster General New again warned his postmasters that it is illegal to trade in Government jobs.

Charles M. Galloway, U. S. Civil Service Commissioner under President Wilson, reminded people that the executive order upon which Departmental political regulations are based was issued by President Cleveland a generation ago and that it specifies that "no Presidential appointee or other unclassified employee . . . will be permitted ... to display such obtrusive partisanship as to cause public scandal ... to use his position to interfere with an election or to affect the result thereof. . . ."

Minor Federal jobholders took note. Major jobholders were unconcerned, feeling sure their discretion was beyond question.

At Cleveland, Secretary Davis of Labor addressed the International Association of Public Employment Services. Said he: "On the basis used in computing more recent unemployment totals, it would have been possible to say that in 1921 not six but twelve million Americans were out of a job. We know that those millions of jobless were put back to work, and in a remarkably brief period of time our country had reached a prosperity higher than any before in our history. I have no hesitancy in saying that for this remarkable feat the American people are largely indebted to Herbert Hoover."

Secretary Jardine of Agriculture took note of the Smith speech on farm relief at Omaha and said: "Either Governor Smith is grossly ignorant in the field of practical economics or is deliberately misrepresenting the truth. . . . Let no one be deceived."

In Lorain, Ohio, Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt addressed a second assemblage of Methodists, larger than the audience that heard and cheered her last month at Springfield, Ohio. Cried she:

"Governor Smith has personally charged that I opposed him because he is a Catholic when I spoke at Springfield, Ohio, to another conference of Methodist ministers. When Governor Smith says that he is hiding behind his own Church because he is afraid to come out and face the record that he has made as a champion of the liquor traffic.

"Prohibition is a moral issue which the churches have long espoused. It was he who injected this moral issue into the campaign. . . .

"Religion has nothing to do with my attack upon him or the attack of the dry forces. We condemn him for his own record, acts and utterances.

"These make him wince, so he seeks to shield himself and his record behind a religious issue--an issue which he himself raised unfairly in this campaign.

"Mr. Smith forgets that he has stirred up a great moral issue in which many eminent Catholics are arrayed with Protestants."