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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 25,1947
'Immoral' US Employees In Danger Of Heavy Firings, Othman Says
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Yes sir, agreed Rep. John W. Taber of New York, the chairman of the appropriations committee, when congress chops down the size of the federal job-holding army, the workers who are left will be happier.
Washington. (UP)—With my own ears I heard him. Rep. Ralph E. Church of Illinois stood up in meeting and said flatly that many federal employees are immoral.
The more a federal worker sits on his (her) handkerchief with nothing more to do than manicure her (his) fingernails, the more immoral he (she) becomes. I'm still quoting Representative Church. I'm not saying one word, myself.
Here you must imagine a row of exclamation points; these will resemble the congressional ears that perked up when Representative Church, who dives on Church street in Ev- $ ^{ \textcircled{1}} $ anton, made his statement.
"Yes," continued Representative Church. "Many of these employees because immoral, wasting time, day after day. You can look at 'em any place. Take the war assets administration in Chicago. The workers there set no example for the rest of the population."
Fire a few hundred thousand federal workers, he continued, and they won't be so inmoral. Then he sat down.
"They won't be sitting there at their desks without enough activity to make them alert," he said. "The reduction will make them more active and more valuable to themselves and to the government."
Then it came out. Representative Church wasn't charging the federal workers with gambling, opium smoking, or drinking champagne from the slippers of nearly-naked ladies. He meant that the business of collecting a federal paycheck without doing much to earn it, is immoral in itself. I have consulted Webster and Mercurion, too, and I am forced to
agree. That word, immoral, covers a lot of ground
The point of all this is that Taber & Co. don't seem to be fooling when they say they're going to fire a lot of federal job holders.
Taber, the gray-haired, bull-voiced keeper of the federal purse, wears a suit until it's threadbare. When he has to travel, he rides the day coach. The way the government is spending money, he says, is unconscionable and intolerable.
He expects to announce soon where some heavy firings will do the most good. In the meantime he has no objection to mention as samples a few thousand federal workers he intends to snick off the payroll. There are too many jobholders at the federal communications commission, the interstate commerce commission, the national archives, the national labor relations board and (in particular) the commerce department.
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