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Show 'THE federal PAYROLL. With the addition of more than twelve thousand new civilian employees em-ployees to the federal payroll in July, ; monthly disbursements for govern-jment govern-jment salaries of this group rose j above $111,000,000. The increase in civil servants resulted in an additional addition-al expense of more than twenty-one million dollars, figured on an annual , basis. j Bringing the total to 729,769 civ'l-i civ'l-i ian employees alone, the July additions addi-tions must be regarded as further : confirmation of a fact t hat hardly needs corroborative evidence, namely, ,that Mr. Roosevelt's 1932 campaign ! promise to curb federal bureaucracy as one means of achieving his pledged pledg-ed economy has been cons'gned to the political scrap heap. Providence Journal. |