The Washington
News-Letter
Patricia S. Jernberg, Secretary
To the Delegate
Alaska Railroad Retirement
In the closing hours of the ses
sion held before Congress re
cessed the Senate passed the bill
H. R. 8046, to bring all Alaska
Railroad employees within the
special provisions of the Alaska
Railroad Retirement Act. Those
affected had formerly been en
titled to retirement compensation
under the Civil Service Retire
ment Act. In the final passage of
this bill there was accomplished
the end sought when the Alaska
Railroad Retirement bill was first
introduced in Congress. At that
time it was found impossible to
pass the bill at all unless an ex
ception was made from its re
tirement provisions for those
holding clerical positions, some
70 in number. With experience it
has been found that having two
sets of retirement laws affecting
employees on the Railroad was
cumbersome and inefficient. The
employees, themselves, with one
or turn exceptions, were wholly
in favor of being brought within
the provisions of the Alaska Rail
road Retirement Act. ,
Alaska Road Com. Employees
The Senate has passed a bill.
S. 3795, to authorize the trans
portation of employees of the A1
aska Road Commission and to
validate payments made for that
and other purposes. The follow
ing is quoted from the bill to
show its intent:
“That funds heretofore or here
after made available to the Al
aska Road Commission may be
expended for the transportation
within the Territory of Alaska
of any employees to and from
points of hire and posts of duty
and between the last post of
duty and point of discharge, and
any payments heretofore made
for such purposes and for the
furnishing of substinance and
quarters to supervisory field cm
poyees shall be allowed in the
accounts of the paying officers if
otherwise found correct, and no
amounts so paid and not hereto
fore recovered shall be charged
against the payees on account of
such payments.”
Loans for Deveopment of Depos
its of Strategic and Critical
Minerals
.Some progress was made in an
attempt to secure Reconstruction
Finance Corporation loans for
the development of strategic and
critical minerals when on June
22 the Senate passed the bill, S.
4008, introduced by Senator
James E. Murray of Montana.
The bill seeks to authorize the
RFC to make loans to corpor
ations. individuals and partner
ships engjaged in the develop
ment of any strategic or critical
minerals which, in the opinion
of the Corporation, would be of
value to the United States in
time of war, and there is reason
to believe that through the use
of such loans a sufficiently large
quantity of ore or placer deposits
would be developed to pay a pro
fit upon mining operations. A top
limit of $40,000 in the aggregate
is placed upon any loans which
may be so made to any individ
ual, corporations or partnership,
and an overall limit of $10,000,
000 is set up for the total of all
loans which may be so made.
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Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
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MACHINE PICKED MEN
FOR GOVERNMENT JOBS;
NEW ERA NOW OPENED
** By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON — The world
is at war and cataclysmic things
are happening and perhaps that
is why you haven't heard that
!the Government is going in for
machine-chosen men.
Before you know it, you’ll be
saying, “How did Mr. Zilch get
where he is in Government cir
cles?” and the answer will be,
“A machine put him there.”
Over in the civil service com
mission, they are installing, as
fast as they can bank after bank
of machines into which you drop
a card and the card comes out
telling you exactly what kind of
a job a man should have.
Or let’s put it another way:
You need an A-l accountant. You
toss a handful of cards into the
machine and out come the cards
of one or two or a dozen A-l ac
countants.
For Goodness’ Sake
The national defense program
has made this possible’ but it
j wasn’t the prime cause. For a
| long time, personnel officials
I have realized that the Go-vern
j ment hasn’t been getting the
j most it could out of the hun
i dreds of persons it hires simply
! because there has been no way
) of classifying them and select
j ing for each job the man or wo
j man whose education, back
ground and experience best suit
i ed him for the spot.
There are expert stenograph
ers who are filing clerks, archit
: ects serving on the capitol po
lice force, lawyers doing pub
licity, and chemists writing re
| ports on the shifting farm pop
! ulation.
This situation has come about
simply because whenever there
was an opening in any depart
j ment there was a properly and
politically recommended person
for the job and he or she got it
i—regardless of the fact that he
, or she might speak French where
no French was needed, or wring
secrets out of a slide rule where
as what was most important was
the kind of a hand he or she
I wrote.
The personnel division of th<
Civil Service Commission ha.
known about this for years and
lias been eager to do something
..bout it, but just try something
ike that on your congressman
and see how far YOU get. The
defense program made fund
available to the commission f r
just this business of getting the
i right people for the right jobs
(efficiency suddenly comes of
I age) and. presto, the machines
were in.
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Survey Under Way
Already, a staff of 50 is at
work on the project, and come
August there will be about 700
persons, all from Civil Service,
thumbing the gadgets to put ma
chine-picked men and women in
to government roles.
In preparation for this, 750,000
cards are being sent out under
the dircetion of William P. Leh
man asking for information
about education, experience, etc.
This survey covers all Govern
ment employees except field
workers of the postal service.
When the data is in it will be
transferred to punch cards and
filed. Then when the business of
filling a particular spot comes up
| the cards will be poured into the
machine and. at the rate of 400
ja minute, the machine will scan
! likely prospects and select the
J likeliest.
The new system will cost about
$400,000 a year, but A. C. Ed
wards, statistics director at the
commission, says it would be
cheap at a whole lot more than
that.
It will reduce the number of
examinations for new jobs, cut
to a few hours the time neecs
,sary to fill a vacancy, and pro
vide an effective system for pro
! motions.
So don’t go kicking any ma
chines around —Some day one
may determine what job you get.
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Statement by Theo C. Wiehe,
President Schenley Inter
national Corporation
This is the second time in our
generation that a European war
I .has created a national emergen
1 cy for the United States. I do not
i want to exaggerate the emerg
| ency. At the same time I think
; that all of us, both in Alaska and
j the United States, should recog
nize that there is need for com
plete unity of purpose and action
on the part of every industry.
so that business gains of recent
months can be fully capitalized
for the benefit of our country.
It is our hope that the dis
tilling industry will have mach
inery in operation very soon en
abling it to make an outstanding
patriotic contribution along with
steel, rubber, aviation and other
groups.
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Here in map form is the Adoli Hitler scoresheet to date of the campaign which started slowly in
1935 and rolled into a Blitzgrieg in 1939 and 1940. By numbers they are:—1. Seizure of the Saar in
January, 1935. 2. Austria disappears, March, 1938. 3. Sudetenland falls, October, 1938. 4. Memel is tak
en in March, 1939. 5. Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia disappear in March, 1939. <>. Poland is destroy
ed in September, 1939, part going to Russia. 7. The Blitzkrieg moves northward into Denmark in ,
April, 1940. 8. Norway is invader on its heels butfights through May and part of June. 9. Luxem
bourg is invaded in May. 10. The Netlierands fall in May. 11. Belgium capituates May 28. 12. Paris
falls with Hitler dictating terms of his peace on June 21, the 21st anniversary of (Jcrmanys reluct
ant acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles.
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