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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Government Pay Roll Lists 6,500,000 National Tonics Interpreted Bruckart by William Washington, D. Katlonal Press Building- after years Washington. At last of talking, a social security gram Is before Social congress. And now Security that lt ls bef? congress there of talk, beoutburst new a brand secur"social cause it seems the themamong can agree never s er leaderIs that selves. The result In the senship in the house and follow adto ate Is trying vainly ministration instructions, and has run afoul of all kinds of difficulties. The end ls not yet, but It Is safe to say without fear of any necessity securfor retraction that the social not go back to will program ity in President Roosevelt as a law an as the form It was presented administration bill I find everywhere 1. Chester C. Davis. 2. By WILLIAM 1 Harry L. Hopkins. 3. Donald Richberg. 4. Harold C. UTLEY MENU FOR TODAY Little Ilg Sausage AAA Sunshine Salad NRA Hum Iuddlng PWA one-thir- tlons like that may or not look like an attractive menu to you and me, but 23,500,000 of our Inspired citizens are eating It or something like it every day, and all of us are paying $100,000,0)0 a month Just for the salaries of the chefs. We may not be paying cash, but were at least signing the checks and sooner or later we'll have to make them NRA good. Bureaucracies of theNewDcal have added more than 110, 0(H) emplojees to the executive department alone, that Is the amount of Increase since February 28, 1033, Just before the Few Deal administration came Into power. It ls estimated that approximately 6,500,000 persons are on the lists who receive salaries and other payments from the government, from President Franklin D. Roosevelt down the line through the long rolls of executives and workers to the least of the millions w ho are dependent upon the Federal Emergency Relief administration. This body says that the average family of four persons has but one wage earner In It. This would seem to indicate that 23, 500, (XX) persons are either wholly or partly depending upon the national government for support. That Is one out of every five In the nation. The Public Works administration under Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes employs 400,000 directly, Itself, and Indirectly gives employment to another 2,(XK),(X)0 on its various projects. Regular routine emplojees of the government, which Include the White House, congress, the departments and miscellaneous commissions, and some of the Independent agencies created h.v the New Deal, account for CSC, (XX). Many Are Employed. Congress Itself, which votes nil the money for the administration's spending, emplojs less than 2, (XX) persons, l,rx5 for the house of representatives and $03 for the senate. Employees of the national labor relations board, listed ns a "regular branch of the government, total 022,-27Military emplojees ore more than more than $1,200,000,000 a year, the salaries of the executive departd ment civil branch now surpass of the total annual revenues of the United States. It is In the executive branch of the government, of course, where virtually all of the bureaus and "administrations and "commissions lie. Else they could not have so eflicieutly accomplished their pose of centralizing the authority and responsibility as they have done. What all of these bureaus are and what they are intended to do are shown by charts and outlines In the United Sta C3 government manual recently released with a cover message from the President himself which rends: "Only through a clear understanding by every citizen of the objectives, organization and of the government availability agencies cun they render truly effective service and assure progress toward economic security. 210, (XX). Federal relief rolls account for 39, (Xs), 000, of whom there are single persons and 4, 500, (XX) families. The Civilian Conservation corps or as It Is ofiidally named, the Emergency Conservation Work organization which Is one of the early comers of the new bureaus, created under the direction of Robert Fechner on April 5, 1933, employed at the last reckoning 383,-70750,-CX- 'lhe executive department, with its alphabetical bureaus, now boasts more employees than at any other time in the countrys history, save the Woild war years. Last October the payroll passed the matk of $ l(M), (xxt, 'XX) monthly, the olllclal figure released by the civil service At commission being $101,888,373, Ickes. 5. Another Jesse H. Jones. billion may 1IOLU by congress. be grant I Codes and Codes. The NRA itself employs 3,09o In its agencies, not among them, however, one Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, who has called the Blue Eagle "dead as the dodo, which Is extinct, and who has written a book and several among those for responsibility with not charged the social security legislation that there Is much confusion and lack of understanding as to what the President has proposed. It Is easily reunderstood. Any time that lt words to thousand thirty quires obexplain a piece of legislation combe must viously that legislation To comprehend what the plex. social length of Jlr. Roosevelts necsecurity message Is, It ls only readers remind to I think, essary, that the message with Its explanation would fill approximately thirty-fiv- e columns of an ordinary newspaper. JIany persons naturally will fall asleep before they wade through that much material. But, let us attempt to summarize the social security bill. It provides, first, for a national system of compulsory old age Insurance; contributory second, It authorizes appropriations to be used as federal subsidies (plain gifts) to the Individual states to help them pension the aged who cannot be brought under an insurance system predicated upon their service In commerce and Industry and third, a voluntary system of old age annuities ls set np. The system of compulsory contributory old age insurance Is designed to protect those who are no longer able to work, but who have done their turn on the payrolls of Industry. An old age fund Is set up In the treasury of the United States. Initially the money comes from the treasury, but thereafter there ls a tax operating on payrolls of all those who employ workers In numbers exceeding four. This tax will start January 1, 1937, at a rate of 1 per cent It Is Increased to 2 per cent as of January 1, 1942; 3 per cent as of January 1, 1947; 4 per cent as of January 1, 1952, and 5 per cent after January 1, 1957. The employer pays the tax, but he collects half of It by a deduction from the payroll of the Individual worker. The age of sixty-fiv- e years Is fixed as the time when a worker shall retire and receive this pension. The pensioner can receive as much as If the Individual dies $30 a month. before retirement, his dependents receive back the amount paid In in his behalf. As a part of the old age pension system the legislation sets np an old age fund In which workers may an annuity, but they purchase never may acquire more than a total of $9,000 maturity value the ultimate amount from which their income may be Increased. Then there Is the much discussed unemployment Insurance. This also ls predicated upon a tax on Industrial payrolls, but It Is a state That is, the federal proposition. government ls attempting to encourage Individual states to enact legislation which will protect the worker in periods such ns that through which we have passed since 1929, In other words, this phase of the legislation ls designed to cause workers and their employers to lay aside a certain percentage of their Income while they are employed to be used when times are hard. There are countless subdivisions In the bill, none of which are simple, that seek to protect the many who for one reason or another do not qualify under the general terms of the legislation. For Instance, aid to dependent children ls provided. Federal health subsidies a kind of heallti Insurance Is pro posed. Maternity aid Is arranged, and extraordinary cases are covered, such as aid to crippled children. There are other subdivisions much too Intricate to analyze here for the reason that their appllcn-tloIs decidedly limited. The drafters of the legislation sought to cover all. Whether they have done so can he determined only after the legl. latlon has been In operation some years. magazine articles about what 13 wrong with NRA. Administering NRA codes for business might well keep many more persons than that busy, a perusal of the government manual suggests. Listed there are more codes than you can shake a stick at, even If it happens to be a very big stick. Theyre Donald It. Itiehbergs worry noyv, not the fiery general's. Some of them are Interesting to contemplate. Another large payroll is that of the Tennessee Valley authority, which Is spending a billion dollars in Irrigation, flood prevention, soil erosion and power development project on the Tennessee river. Rather Mystifying. The FERA (Federal Emergency The average citizen who learned the structure of his government In Relief commission), administered by the schoolroom of the days before Harry L. Hopkins, spent $2,000,000,-00- 0 last year, some of It In payment NRA Is apt to become a bit befudof the bills of the CWA; Jesse If not dled, altogether punch drunk, after fingering the pages of this II. Jones, and the RFC disbursed a total of $632,000, 000 ; the FAA, manual, however. The manual, proand the CCC, $372,0(X),000. vided In loose-lea- f form, so that more pages can be added as more Jinny of the bureaus have been bureaus are created. Indicates that added only during the past year. no lo'-- than 51 such additions have Among these are the FCH (Federal been made by the present adminisCredit Union system) ; FCC (Federtration ns nearly ns I could count al Communications commission) ; them; there are so many "wheels NITO (National Power Policy com1 am Inclined to mission) ; NMB (National Mediation within wheels. think the avetnge citizen might board) ; RRR (Railroad Retirement close the book, gaze thoughtfully hoard) ; NAE (National Archives esover Its green cover Into space and tablishment) and Its subsidiary; murmur, My, my, how smart must NAC (National Archives council); be the folks at the helm to keep TVAC) Tennessee Valley Associated truck of all these things. Inc.) ; FAC (FedThe AAA, or Agricultural Adjust- eral Aviation commission) ; SAB (Science Advisory board), which ment administration, under the direction of Chester C. Davis, which was treated "with authority was npproved by the President. May to appoint committees to deal with special problems In vailous depart12, IDO.'t, "to promote national ecoa function which ought to nomic recovery by restoring the ments, purchasing' power of American be the very acme of the Alphabet fnrmeis to lhe level It occupied In Soup Industry) ; FCA (Farm Credit FFMC (Federal the fix e years preceding the World administration); has 6.03 em- Farm Mortgige corporation); FHA war (llssp 1914), ployees on Its payroll. The Farm (Federal Housing administration); Credit administration (not a New NRI1 (National Resources bonrd); Deal product, since It was created CHS (Committee on Economic SeIn 1923, but an outlet of plenty of curity) ; NI.RI5 (National Labor Rethe New Deal's easy money) em- lations board) ; TWAR (Textile Work Assignment boards), and ploys 0,0, S3 persons. 0t the $8,000, (National Steel Labor IXXt.tHH) easy money let loose by XSLRB government bureaus during 1931, It Relations board). What 1935 will bring In the way dispersed $1 827,000,000. Employed In the actual agencies of augmentation of the bureaucracy of the PWA are 4,999 persons, all will begin to reveal Itself In a few The President has anstriving for "the reduction of un- weeks. employment and the restoration of nounced that he himself will administer the $l,S(X),tXs,(XX) which he repurchasing power through the construction of useful public works and cently demanded from congress to the encouragement of long range be used for work relief purposes. planning In the Held of public Although he has bald that he will name an advisory hoard to assist winks. I have been unable to compute the llOIC, the Home Owners Loan him. New Dealers wore emphatic In cost of this legislation to the fed- It Is Presithat declaration the the the by supervised corporation, era) and state HlLIilt (Federal Home Loan Tank dent who will have the last word Counting governments and hoard) ami oiganized Juno 13, 19 53, about expenditures of the fund. no one, of the Cost course, with an ultimate view of loaning Continuation of the rich New rnn approximate emerIn to the be expense It will be to assist $3,tKX,(HX),(XX) Deal menu will no doubt create Industry R s one of those gency financing of 1,000, (MX) homes, new rugged individual gas pains things so far r,',,,. (XX) (XX), has In and In Us 1931, ns the ng effect as to make for the die hards, especially spent $2.059, utterly food gets more expensive. stopped loaning money. It still emadxnme calculations of In Its the cost In agencies. 20,538 Vnloo extern ploys dollars and cents, Snf- Cl Newnyaper poisons $573,-000,00- 0, s n 1 npo-i-lbl- C, flee It to say that all through the bill as It now wends Its way through are frequent legislative channels either is paragraphs where money to be apauthorized or apnrnnriated One wag propriated In the future. bill covered the money phases of the It that remark a with other the day be-conversations was not unlike the wow tween Amos and Andy, the million five is there for comedians, seventhree million, twenty million, million and so on through ty-eight the list Yet it ls not the money phases In the that constitute the difficulties conIn leaders the as legislation sets up an gress see them, The bill administration of Intricate system far against which even the present Deal agencies New of list flung pales into insignificance. orFirst, there ls the ponderous be to ganization for administration Bein Washington, here created neath that there are state organizations In every state, regional and even city county organizations and administrative bureaus. I think lt takes no stretch of the Imagination to foresee how many workers will be necessary to do Just the plain chores of keeping a record of all the Individuals on the government for adpayrolls, federal and state, ministration of this legislation. Here In Washington, we will have a social Insurance board, a group of three members, receiving $10,000 a year each and serving for six years. The federal emergency relief administrator will have duties to perform In conjunction with the social Insurance board as well as apart from IL This Is not alL The secretary of the treasury ls charged with the management and Investment of all of the monies under the various funds and lt Is he who must see that they are properly disbursed. In congress, considerable Jealousy has arisen among committee chairy men, party horses and those Aroused who would eujoy being administration spokesmen. Some of them, lt hardly need be said, believe their political salvation lies In following the administration blindly and In addition there Is another segment of legislators who keep their eyes on the historical significance of passing events. This group wants to have a leading part in enactment of the social security legislation because, lt must be said, this ls the greatest of all experiments undertaken at any time by the American government From lobby conversation It Is perfectly evident that there are many men In the house and senate who would be willing to retire to whatever rewards their political service has given them only to become known as the father of the social security legislation. This condition has precipitated several humorous circumstances. Senator Wagner of New York sponsored the legislation In the senate and Representative Lewis of Maryland proposed it In the house. Senator Wagners committee arranged to start hearings on a stated date In the senate and that date was announced rather suddenly. No sooner had the Wagner committee hearings been announced than Repre sentatlve Doughton of North Carolina scheduled similar hearings before his ways and means committee In the house. He set the hearings one day ahead of the senate and the rivalry between the two for headline witnesses has been, to say the least, a source of many Jokes. wheel-Jealous- Some weeks ago I reported to yon that there were rumblings of dlffl- culties ahead for J rouble the President's gl- Ahead gantic works pro gram, as his new experiment In recovery efforts ls described. He asked congress for a lump sum of $4,800,000,000 with which to revive the heavy Industries and other lines of commercial endeavor that they may absorb some of those unemployed now on relief rolls. It will be remembered that In his annual message to congress he said with emphasis that federal aid to the destitute must stop ; that the giving of relief directly was a state responsibility. The first hitch encountered by the administration wheel-horse- s In the public guiding works bill through congress. developed In the house when the lenders, anxious to pass the legislation ns the White House dictated, sought a special rule which limited debute to a couple of hours and made It almost Impossible for Individual members to amend the bill. Several scores of Democrats and all of the Repub-lican- s balked. For several days the houe leaders fought to gallantly keep the stubborn opposition from running away wth thing,, but the railT frra tl,e lVncrntIc so large that a had to be offered. It accepted and the Republican and Democratic opponents wer! Suites'., ally sqnehhej. v truw. wi The courtroom buzzed wRh excited whispers as Bruno Ei took the witness stand to testify in his fight to escape con, death in the electric chair. Under the guidance of Attorney accused told the story of his life, and denied having left hn evening of April 2, 1932, the night the ransom money w as pm Condon. by Dr. J. F. Jafsie II1PTI1TSKES STfflD 11 IEFEEE and six blades trlmmlnj when the board went' machines, and that one was slightly out of line This led to investiv ern planing mills using machine. Samples from all of them by a mill finally Defendant Claims Alibi for Night Ransom Was Paid. WEBBER The state . 'LEMINGTON, N. J. X ' rests Its Mse! David T. Wilentz, attorney general of New Jersey, turns to The court recesses for his seat lunch. When it reconvenes, defense attorneys Indulge in the customary maneuvers. Then dapper, legal florid Edward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel, turns and cries By W. C. loudly : Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the stand." Hauptmann appears nervous. He has lost weight during his ordeal In court and his clothes hang from his big frame. He sits slightly hunched over In the witness chair, his hands clasped. He Is wearing the same dark suit he has worn every day of the trial, a light faded tie. blue shirt, and a polka-dotteLess than twenty feet away sits Colonel Lindbergh, father of the child whom Hauptmann Is accused sf having killed to satisfy his desire for ease without working and to Indulge In stock market speculation. When the takes the stand, lt ls the first time Lindbergh has looked at him for more than a few seconds. Once when be was on the stand he glanced at Hauptmann as he identified him as the man whom he believed guilty of the crime, and agalD when Hauptmann cried out at testimony presented by the state, the colonel looked at him Jot a second or two. Now he stares at him as If fascinated, as Attorney Reilly begins his d Carefully, step by step, the famous New York criminal lawyer leads Hauptmann through a recital of his life up to the time the kid naping occurred. Hauptmann answers slowly In a thick, guttural voice, pausing before making replies as though he has difficulty In choo9 His English lng the right words. is none too fluent and his accent Is very marked. Finally Reilly asks Hauptmann If he left home on the night of April 2, 1932 (the night the $50,000 ransom money was paid by Dr. J. F. Condon to a man in KL Raymond's cemetery). The crowd strains forward to catch Hauptmanns nega tive reply. The business of establishing an alibi has begun. Wliat surprises the defense will spring can only be conjectured Reilly Is noted for his ability to turn seemingly hopeless cases Into victories for bis clients. It ls admitted that the state has built up a strong circumstantial case against Hauptmann. Almost every type of evidence with the exception of eyewitnesses, fingerprints and foot prints has been presented. Among the most dramatic blows the state bus struck were those presented by Arthur Koehler, federal wood ex port, who testified that Hauptmann's tools were used to make the ladder left on the Lindbergh estate out of wood purchased at a lumber yard where Hauptmann often worked, and part of It with wood taken from the attic of Hauptmann's own home in the Bronx. Koehler told of an amazing piece of detective work the tracing of the lumber used In connection with construction of the .adder. Ills In xestlgatlnn showed that one of the Knives of the planing machine used In finishing the wood hail n nick In lt. Other calculations, be said, In dented that the machine had eight blades tr. mining the top of the board was III ed S tart! Sets jSr the tit over lira! Iocs lumber had marking those on the pieces used der. A search of 25 to which lumber of tti been shipped eventci him to the Bronx yard ar oped that Hauptmann ta at periods In the yard i cember, 1931, two monT kidnaping, he purchase, tity of this lumber. The piece of wood xb asserted had been tales attic of the Hauptmann originally one board, r sawed In half to mated of the ladder. Nall PTE afte i a p sPa fit s 1 sc frt foi held Mr I up, he Peaged a did Pa S e Ihea, Jriculai said, and he added that conceivable that this vt cidence. Other testimony press plainly, k'ter ill. Mo phan ; charges that of the series ol admitting posses-- , ters goo he board correspond nail holes In Joists In tin state B( (Lt, k stroi Jlrand ke! I baby, that he left one In the nursery at diet, bergh baby disappeared possessed the child's L and that he visited the estate. The prosecution has lied to show that Haup i c ed the $50,000 ransom ol jfe'Iaau f faugh te told tep unc Wed b t at in, W way Ji'eilly fie that his wealth by that anwut Identifications hare been 6 Dr. John F. (Jafsie") pL An p had day as Charles A. Lindbergh Barr as accepting and ? ransom money, and ter Whited, Charles Ross dus Ilochmutb puffing The Lindbergh estate. much expected to have Inf' cause of the time tween w hen they are and seen nauptmann t fas It 'ere b late 1' alch ulng IS' the on childs w, eridtf e If and 1 a"1"' note left in the refuted by the defence. feel that exists for only one Hauptmann witting tool. k't0 g throv the luk was 'bed (her, on leader would be tcrical parallel, ba n cess in covering to p'lde his ability 01 physical proof befo 'need h Le " ft i0 f " Is n to, It- ' , - 'U no an et sot f , jr , tOQl he i 1 ,,, a; is 1 "i mi b trl . 'l.r' furrier duced In court. fou ly returned persons oral .ul e red ( . I c, nber whether fishing this In 01,1 J1 he 1, the uot retly the carried on In Hall witness has niann nnd lNh o In the brokers n mer bad tlieie was no ml lerln ar d who planned who used lnuptin-,fm"1 for his later stated has Reilly the man who fur' for the stock nut' control of How far tua cleai terioJ9 mj who died in . a k1 Iwould lead contention to that the know "eej k . nability and proof that This w idpa P committed gui!t ( a Pram Hauptmann, be one offering an k' at Observers is, h s suit, sleeping a 1 ecu package ng Kih muebj Raiipt-th- ransom notes lost k not identification. The physical doubtedly carry testimony that hu e , v,1 , J. f , ' s family. ,,rh fl1d to testify tinl rr.n the in part '.ictkully rrr;11,,,. tl dot j d a'leri hiKK t tr |