Show government pay roll lists MX I 1 TZ 41 az I 1 1 Z A y VV 1 chester C davis 2 harry L hopkins 3 donald 4 harold ickes 5 jesse H jones t by WILLIAM C UTLEY MENU FOR TODAY little rj pig sausage AAA r sunshine salad plum pudding RA eions like that may or may dot cot look like an attractive menu to you and me but 25 of our inspired citizens are eating it or something like it every day and all of us are a month just for the salaries of 0 the chefs we may not be paying cash but were at least signing the checks and sooner or later well have to make them good L bureaucracies 0 of the new deal have added more than employees to the executive department alone that Is the amount of 0 increase since february 28 1033 1933 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 rolls of executives and workers to the least of the mil lions who are dependent upon the federal emergency Einer gency relief administration this body says that the average family of four persons has but one wage earner eamer in it this would beem to indicate that 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 Inter lor harold la L ickes employs directly itself 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 and some of the independent agencies created by the new deal account for I 1 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 and tor for the senate employees 0 of the national labor relations board listed as a regular branch of the government ern ment total MIll military tary em are more than federal relief rolls account for I 1 19 I 1 of whom there are single persons and 4 i families the civilian conservation corps or as it Is officially named the emergency conservation atlon work organization which Is one of the early comers of the new bureaus created under the direction of robert Fe fechner cliner on april 5 1933 lo 10 B employed at the last reckoning the executive department with its alphabetical bureaus now boasts more employees than at any other time in the count rys history save the world war years last october the payroll passed the mark of monthly the official figure released by the alie civil service commission being at more than 1 a year the salaries in the executive department civil branch now surpass one third of the total annual revenues of the united states scales it te Ss in the executive branch of the government of course where virtually all of the bureaus and administrations trat ions lons and coin commissions missions lie else they could not cot 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 with a cover message from the he president himself which reads only through a clear understanding by every citizen of the objectives jec tives organization and availability of the government agencies can they render truly effective service and assure pro progress gregs toward economic security rather mystifying the average citizen who learned the structure of his government in III the schoolroom of the days before NHA Is apt to become a bit befuddled it if not dot 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 have been made by the present administration as nearly as I 1 could count them there are so many wheels within vi heels abells 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 how smart must be the folks at the helm to keep track of all these things the AAA or agricultural adjustment administration under the direction of chester C davis ab which nb fell was approved by the president may 12 1933 to promote national economic recovery by restoring the purchasing power of american farmers to the level it occupied in the five years preceding the world war 1909 1914 has employees on its payroll the farm credit administration not a new deal product since it was created to in 1923 1023 but an outlet of plenty of the new deals easy money employs persons of the easy money let loose by government bureaus during 1931 1031 it dispersed 1 I 1 employed in the actual agencies of the are persons all striving for the 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 11 the home owners loan corporation por po ration atlon supervised by the federal home loan bank board and organized june 13 1933 with an uit ultimate view of loaning to assist in tile the emergency financing of homes spent in 1931 1031 and has stopped loaning in oney money it still employs persons persona in its agencies another billion may be granted HOLC by congress ron cress codes code and codes the itself employs in its agencies not among them however one gen hugh S johnson who iho has called caled the blue eagle idea apal as ane t e dodo which Is extinct eitl net annl an ano ling has written a book and several magazine articles about what Is wrong with administering codes for business might well keep many mort persons than that busy budr a perusal of 0 the government manual suggests list ed there are more codes than you yoli ca can 0 shale shake a stick at even it if it happens to be a very big stick donald R Rich bergs worry now not the fiery generals some of them are interest ing to contemplate of course there are the codes that have bae been approved for the most important industries those are to be expected cut but the careful reader of the manual discovers that there Is even a wrapped toothpick and wrapped manicure stick coce chae listed immediately underneath der neath is the burlesque theatrical code then there are the covered but ton compressed air fresh oyster nottingham lace curtain corn cob ripe 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 relief commission administered by hirry harry I 1 L hopkins spent last year some of it in payment of 0 the bills of the jesse n H jones and tile the disbursed a total of the FAA and the CCO many of the bureaus have been add ed only during the past lear among these are the federal credit union system FCC federal communications commission national power polley illicy commission national mediation board RRB railroad retirement board NAE national archives establishment and its subsidiary NAC national archives council tennessee valley associated soc socia ted operatives cooperatives co inc FAO FAC federal AN aviation lation commission SAB science advisory board which was created with authority to appoint committees to deal with special problems in various departments a function which ought glit to be the very acme acine of the alphabet soup industry farm credit administration federal farm mortgage corporation corpo i po ration FITA federal housing administration national resources board CES committee on economic security NLRB national labor relations board textile work assignment boards and national steel labor relations board what 1935 1035 will ill bring in the way of augmentation of the bureaucracy will begin to reveal itself in a few weeks the president has announced that he himself will administer the OW which he recently demanded from congress to be used for work nork relief purposes although he has said that ile he will name an advisory board to assist mm him new dealers were emphatic in the declaration that thai it Is the president who ho will have the last word about expenditures tures of tile fund continuation of the rich new deal menu menti will no doubt create new rugged ruges individual gas pains for the lie die h birds ardit especially as lie foot food gets mole it pensive 0 western newspaper union |