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Show ! Where Your Taxes Go I I ! How Uncla Sara Spends Your Money in Conducting Your Business By EDWARD G. LOWRY Anthor "Washington Ctoco-Ups." "BaaJcs nd FicrjiciaJ Systems, etc Contributor Political and Economic Articles to Loa4iu$ Periodicals &nd a Writer erf Rocogniiod Aulinxily oa tho National bovecuiucu Busiaeea Methods. I iii i - -- - -' Oapritit, Western N c-a.-spar-xer Umoa VII. WHY GOOD MEN DOLX1E The govanimeut service iuut look Uueiy to the gmduutoa frotn colleges and universities In recruiting for Ita technical work. Itei)llea to un Inquiry a41i,eesed to smrvo forty f the l&adlus cull egos and universities of th eoua-try eoua-try to LLycover what class of men took ei vil service examJ uat iona, w hthr the nuhiher is dcrooing and, if bo, tlie rerifiofw, diecJe vividly wbut th training iK&iatAB of UvhnleaJ and ein-Ulic ein-Ulic man think ftbout tho foruit) as an owj4oyr. Tl.oy warn tfair groduutea against gororuiiieitt eervlott, and the graduates heed the warning CVniftgie Institnte of Tchno4og at Pittahurgh, reports: It la oortaJnJy true Uvat Ch hut of oir groduatoa auts not introatl hi fforora-menL fforora-menL efljioioyntvent because they Pee! that, ftrM ot aii. It doea no pay adequate imi-artee, imi-artee, nor daee It offer apportuolty for advunoocneot that pctvate errterprte cJoee. IMUii spring I tntervlowocl all the members mem-bers of tha gTuadng c4aas, exoept the women, axid none o tiiem would consider government empioyraent, a 1 though there were Rtany poeitlona open, . . . There are now about 1,600 male graduates of Ltvo InstiUit-a, and I will venture to state that not more than ten are employed by the Kovernment. lienJes of similar tenor and Import were received from the University of Ch'ktio, Iceland Stanford, university, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton university, Indiana university, univer-sity, and the University of Wisconsin. Inequality of compensation Is one of the chief reasons that deter scientific scien-tific men from going into the government govern-ment service. Congress fixes the salaries sal-aries of most of the government employees. em-ployees. I can give a concrete illustration illus-tration of how it determines the salaries sal-aries of scientific men. Dr. Leiand O. Howard and Dr. Edward Ed-ward W. Nelson are two scientists In the employ of the government who have national reputations. The appropriation bill fof the Department De-partment of Agriculture was under consideration in the house on January 30th, 11)20. The secretary of agriculture agricul-ture had been recommending for flvo or six years that Doctor Howard's salary be increased from $4,500 to $5,-000. $5,-000. He proposed it again In that year's bill. When the Item was reached In the discussiou on the floor, this colloquy col-loquy ensued : Mr. Stafford MJeter Chairman, I reserve re-serve a point of order on the paragrapii. In the entomologist whose saJary you propose to increase the same person recommended rec-ommended for an. Increase last year? Mr. Lever Yes; he has been Ln the government gov-ernment service many, many years. The Chairman I make the point of ar- Mr. Lever I concede It. Mr. McLaughlin of Michigan Will th gentleman reserve his point of order? Mr. Htafford I will reserve it. Mr. Mcl-aughlln The committee made th recommendation to increase the saJary saJ-ary aO, took testimony on K and con-eider con-eider ed it very careftilly. In our Judgment Judg-ment the Increase In aaiary ouxht to b made for an otliclal who has been ln tlia dopartment, as the chairman sa-ys, tor a loog time at the ha4 f this bureau, IM boa performed abl and faithful servioes. The salary 18 It&a than tlU paWl to the heads of other bureaus. We f-eH, ftftet listening to all that voe Bald, aod with a know of tiw worn he has been doing and had doc, the salary proposed Is not too lortt, Mr. &a.fford w kwig baa be been there T Mr. Lever Be baa been these forty-two years. Mr Stafford Wfeat ra bis ape? Mr. Lever Over edxty, perbape neoref aeventy, but he to stiH vigorous arxi abl to do good work. He ts one of the sreaiest entomelefrtsts in the woitld. The ChalrmaA The paint oi order la BustaLned. Five minntofl later the matter of Doctor Netaon'a salnry vtts reached. The secretary of agrtealtrire recommended recom-mended an lncrft of his pay from $3,500 to $4,000. This happened : Mr. ftt&fford Mister Chairman, I ro-serre ro-serre the point ot order on the paragraph. para-graph. Will the chairman ef the committee com-mittee lnfarm the house to how Irmg thl b biologl st has been to the servl c; ol the government and how long he has been receiving tlie present salary of $3,600, on which you recommend an Increase ol Mr. Lever Mister Chairman, this gentleman, gen-tleman, whoso name Is Nelson, has been In the. service of the department sine November, 1S90. He has served as chlei Hold naturalist from 1907 to 1912, and wa assistant in charge of the biological investigation, in-vestigation, from 1313 to 1914. On August 6, 191-4, he was appointed assistant ch.i& of the bureau, and on December 1, 191ft was made chief of the bureau. He tooii the place of Doctor Heoshaw. Mr. Stafford And the salary has beet $3,500 since L916? Mr. Lever Yes. Mr. Statford What is his age? Mr. Lever I should think that Doctoi Nelson is round fifty years of age. Air. Stafford He is not superannuated Mr. Lover Oh, no; he Is a very vigorous vigor-ous man. . Mr. Stafford Mister Chairman, I withdraw with-draw the point of order. Doctor Howard, was refused his in crease of pay becuuse he was too ol "over sixty, perhaps nearer 'seventy.' Doctor Nelson was allowed hie Increase In-crease because he was not superan nuated out in his prime, "round fiitj years of age." Now, as a mntter of fact, Doctoi Howard U more than two years youug er than Doctor Nelson. Is it any won der that scientific men of any attain meuts are reluctant to enter a service whore the measure of the value o thair services la sot down in any suci haphazard and casual ray? |
