Show W washington ashington V V snapshots by james preston tile the ordinary american taxpayer bo be lie farmer bushi businessman essman ditch digger or just plain oswald J blimp probably realize that his money none v is helping to pay tho the salaries of s some onie men and women who are on th tho 0 ir neder at al payroll alone furthermore lit ho lifts has to to foot the hills bills for their buildings heat aig light lit and the materials wit with h will which of 1 they work but worse stul the chances are that lie he doomit appreciate the fact face matt some of them are spending ills his hard earned money to convince lalni in that he should pay more taxes to vin employ ploy more federal workers here are arc the facts the latest figures available show salow tho the following total number of per cons ons outside of those on viba projects I 1 I 1 drawing pay form the federal fedi government executive departments congress J judiciary 1800 1860 army navy aay or a total of 1312 naturally people on oil the payrolls dont like tobe to bo cut off II 11 hence nce they resist congressional attempts to et cut 1 t appropriations lut but that Is not hot nu all they even vengo go so far as to go out and spend taxpayers money to oppose legislation that lq I 1 pending in ill congress for example tile justice depart bleat now la Is investigating the ni MI dional labor boad to determine whether and why it lobbied against wagner act tin the house ot of just put plit a provision it in in A bill directly forbid ding tile interior department to use radio programs for the pur pose of 0 influencing legislation in the first instance accord illg to advance information the act amendments might liale have deprived some labor board wor work k eis til a of their jobs ua and in tile the second seco 0 nd if congress could be influenced to extend an existing temp arary law interior luler lor department workers would be kept on the payroll tills this column las has already co commented m upon tile the millions of dollars bring being spent by federal depart ments to convince the public that they are doing fi a good job so iso that their appropriations will continue without reduction but in their of cf torta forts lit hi this direction the government press agents sometimes descend to the ridiculous 4 those publicity men tn in theory are alio supposed to give only important and helpful information to the public but tiny any one days coffee tion of their press releases will disclose reanis reams of li useless seless alon in fact oil ow lug suggested that a scrap book could b be made of useless information froin from government press agents here tire are some soine sam plea colored Oo lored marbles consistently leave li ive higher dielectric constants alinn white varieties f united states exports of sugar machinery during the calendar were valued at 11 twelve wild alu tou ducks tagged with wah gold plated bands will be shipped by airline to the nations capital from san francisco friday march 8 alib division of simplified practise of the national bureau of Stall standards dards announced today that simplified re 1181 usi 28 8 covering board used by tho the bookbinding book binding industry has again been reaffirmed 11 blackout measures lit in effect hout geimann Gei AGer many mally hino have resulted lesul ted 1 iu u the creation oi of a large and new industry tor for uie the production or of buttons with ances of i separate american compositions thu athu work projects administrations program brought brou glit tho the works ol of 2208 native or resident compos tia ers to american audiences up to march maick 1 I 11 it is that huu bull dreads upon hend hendress reds of these are aie at a substantial cost it would vituld seen that taxpayers ll 11 laivo live to be concerned about small that eliat congress confess ls is looking into the question |