Show h 1 II Il il- il The FIe Federal Payroll Some idea of the vastness of or the he Federal is k obtained when one studies the figures compiled by a special House Hous subcommittee conducting a ahree three year investigation of Fed Federal Federal Federal eral manpower For one thing the subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee has learned that the Federal Government employs ab about t persons The salaries of these persons amount amoun t to almost one billion dollars a month In calling caning for reductions in civilian employment President President President dent Eisenhower and other prominent Americans have voiced the opinion that some reductions could be made with without without without out impairing the governments government's governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's efficiency and the national national national na na- na- na security In looking over th the number of or inthe in inthe in the various departments it seems obvious that the place to affect reductions is in the Defense Department This is true because the Defense Defense Defense De De- Department employs about fifty per cent of all the civilian workers employed by bythe bythe bythe the Federal Government and because it also maintains more than men and women women women wom wom- en in the armed services The Defense Departments Department's payroll totals about abou a year or about sixths five-sixths of the entire Federal payroll Therefore if cuts are to be he made and if they can be made among the civilian in the armed services anc and maybe some reduction in the non non non-c special arms othe o othe of f the services ces a sizable lion ion in the Federal roll pay-roll might be achieved d. d 1 We have mentioned on other occasions that if the international lonal Lional scene ever quiets down he the Defense Dc Department will wm oon onn be under havy navy to affect economies economics economies When one one realizes that of the bi billion bij- bij lion ion lI n dollar budget proposed by President Eisenhower for foris fiscal is a 1958 beginning July 1 1 more than forty billion dollars of this amount goes to th the Defense De De- Defense Cense Department and its programs pro pro- grams the opportunity for economics in this department ment seems before being married and it was vas not uncommon for youngsters young young- to go together for five ix or seven before marI mar- mar I age |