| Show government pay roll lists V Z X A yak Z 2 A ar r k I 1 1 IRI ike X 1 chester C davis 2 harry L hopkins 3 donald chberg Hi 4 harold ickes 5 jesse H jones by WILLIAM C UTLEY FOR TODAY little pis pig sausage AAA sunshine salad plum pudding RA eions like that may or may N not luok look like an attractive menu to nou ou and me but 23 25 of our inspired citizens are eating it or like it every day and all of us are paying a mouth month just for the salaries of the chefs we may not tie be paying cash but were at least signing the checks chaks and sooner or later well ell have hate to make them good bureaucracies of the new deal have added more than employees to the executive department alone that Is the amount of increase since february 28 1933 1913 just before the new deal administration came into power it Is estimated that approximately 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 rolla of executives and voi kers to the least of the mil bill lions hons who are dependent upon the federal era emergency relief administration this body says that the average at family of four persons has but one wase wage earner in it this would seem to indicate that 2 persons are either wholly or partly depending upon the national government for support that Is one out of 0 every five in the nation the public works administration under secretary of the interior harold ti ickes employs directly itself end and indirectly gives employment to another on its various projects regular routine employees of the government which include the white house congress the departments and miscellaneous commissions land end some of the independent agencies created by the new deal account for many are employed congress itself which votes all the money for the administrations spending employs less than 2000 persons 1005 for the house of representatives find and for the senate employees of the he national labor relations board listed as a regular branch of the government ern ment total military employees are more than federal relief rolls account tor for 10 19 of whom there are single persons and families the civilian Conser conservation vadon corps or as it Is officially named the emergency conservation fer work organ organization iza tion wb which I 1 cli Is one of the early comers of the new bureaus ere created abed under the direction of robert fechner ner on april 5 1933 1033 employed at the last recko reckoning 1708 the executive department with its alphabetical bureaus tiow boasts more employees than lit at a any BY other time in the count rys history save the world war years last october the payroll passed the mark of IW W monthly the official ciril figure released by the civil service commission being at more than 1 I 1 a year the salaries in the executive department civil branch now arpas one third of the total annual j revenues of the united states sa fa n the executive branch of the government of course where virtual letual ly all of the bureaus and administrations trat ions and commissions lie else they could not have so efficiently accomplished complis hed 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 states government manual recently released alth alth a cover message from the president himself which reads only through a clear understanding by every eiery citizen of 0 the objectives jec tives organization and availability of the government agencies a genales can they render truly effective service and assure progress toward economic security rather mystifying the avera average a citizen who learned the structure of his government in the schoolroom of the days before NIIA is apt to become a bit befuddled it if not altogether punch drunk after fingering the pages of this manual however the manual provided in form so that more pages can be added as more bureaus are created indicates that no less than 51 such additions liae hae been made by the present administration as nearly as I 1 could count them there are so many wheels within wheels I 1 am inclined to think the average citizen might close the book gaze thoughtfully over its green cover into space and murmur my my illy how smart must be the folks at the helm helin to keep track of all these things the AAA or agricultural adjustment administration under the direction of chester C davis which was approved by the president may in 12 1033 1933 to promote national economic recovery by restoring the purchasing power of american farmers to the level it occupied in the five years bears preceding the world war 1909 1914 has employees on its payroll i the farm credit administration not a new deal product since it was created in 1923 1023 but an outlet of plenty of the new deals easy money employs persons of the easy money modey let loose by government bureaus during 1931 it dispersed 1 b employed in the actual agencies or of the are persons all striving for the hie reduction of unemployment and the restoration of purchasing power through the construction of useful public works and the encouragement of long range planning in the field of public works nolo HOLO the niome owners loan corporation po ration supervised by tha federal rome nome loan bank board and organized june 13 1933 1033 with an ultimate view of loaning to assist in the emergency financing of homes spent in 1931 and has stopped loaning money it still employs 2051 8 persons in its agencies another billion may cuy be granted by congress codes and codes the NKA itself employs in its agencies not among them ho however vever one gen augh S johnson who has called the mile eagle dead as t dodo which Is 14 extinct an and ario lias fins written a book and several magazine articles about what Is wrong with administering NHA codes for or business might well nell keep many mort more persons than that busy a perusal ol of the government manual suggests list ed there tire lire more codes than you can shake a stick at even if it happens to be a very bl big stick donald R RIch bergs worry now not the fiery geDe generals rals some of them are interest ing to contemplate of course there are the codes that liae hae been approved for the most important industries those are to be expected but the careful reader of the manual discovers that there is even a wrapped toothpick and wrapped manicure stick code listed immediately underneath der neath is the burlesque Bur lesue theatrical code then there are the covered cohered but ton compressed sed air fresh oyster nottingham lace curtain corn cob pipe pecan shelling and pretzel codes all in all there are codes listed as approved how many were examined and not approved Is not told 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 projects on the tennessee river the FERA federal emergency roher reher commission administered by harry L hopkins II spent 20 last year some of it in payl payment ent of the bills of the jesse EL 11 jones and the disbursed a total of AG the FAA and the many of the bureaus have hare been added only during the past year among these are the federal credit union system FCC federal communications commission national power policy commission national mediation board RRB railroad retirement board NAE national archives establishment and its subsidiary NAG NAC national archives council tennessee valley As socia ted cooperatives co operatives inc FAC federal aviation commission SAB science advisory board which was created with authority to appoint committees to deal with special problems in various departments a unction function which ought to be the very acme of the alphabet soup industry farm credit administration federal farm mortgage cor horation po ration federal housing cousing ad ministration national resources us board CES committee on economic security NLRB national labor relations board textile work assignment boards and national steel labor relations board what 1935 will bring in the way of 0 aug augmentation of the bureaucracy will begin be in to reveal itself in a few weeks the president has announced that he himself will administer the 4 which he recently demanded from congress to be used for work relief purposes although he has said that he will name an advisory board to assist mm him now dealers were emphatic in the declaration that it Is the president who will have the last word about expenditures tures of the fund continuation of the rich new peal deal menu will no doubt create new ru burgel ged individual gas pains jiing for the hie ilio flie liard hard 4 especially a us ahr food leq more tj 1 pensive 0 ne newspaper spa cr union |
