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Show Government Pay Roll Lists 6,500,00C - x x M x x ! ' x . XU ' - X.X. X X X X I XX?XX X xX i 'X X ,X J . rf vN x- 0- r-V t ; - VX, J s 1 . . X, X X XXx x N , K SV X X x -x X X-xx" SX XX X : ' , X " x . x C " . -ix i - x . ' x V" l 1 f 1 sx , ' ' Tx- I , v x x , - (CH s r :;; - , ml 1. Chester C. Davis. 2. Harry L. Hopkins. 3. Donald Richberg. 4. Harold Ickes. 5. Jesse H. Jones. f By WILLIAM C. UTLEY MENU FOR TODAY Little Pig Sausage AAA Sunshine Salad NRA Plum Pudding PWA NRA tions like that may or may not look like an attractive attrac-tive menu to you and me, but 25,500,000 of our inspired citizens citi-zens are eating it or something like It every day, and all of us are paying pay-ing $100,000,000 a month just for the salaries of the chefs. We may not be paying cash, but we're at least signing the checks and sooner or later we'll have to make them good. Bureaucracies of theNewDeal have added more than 116,000 employees to the executive department alone, that is the amount of increase since February 28, 1933, just before the New Deal administration came into power. It is estimated that approximately approximate-ly 6,500,000 persons are on the lists who receive salaries and other payments from the government, from President Franklin D. Roosevelt Roose-velt down the line through the long rolls of executives and workers to the least of the millions who are dependent upon the Federal Emergency Emer-gency Relief administration. This body says that the average family of four persons has but one wage earner in it. This would seem to Indicate that 25,500,000 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 Harold L. Ickes employs 400,000 directly, di-rectly, itself, and indirectly gives employment to another 2,000,000 on its various projects. Regular routine rou-tine employees of the government, which Include the White House, congress, con-gress, the departments and miscellaneous miscel-laneous commissions, and some of the Independent agencies created by the New Deal, account for 6SO.00O. Many Are Employed. Congress itself, which votes all the money for the administration's spending, employs less than 2,000 persons, 1,905 for the house of representatives rep-resentatives and 805 for the senate. Employees of the national labor relations re-lations board, listed as a "regular" branch of the government, total 622,-771. 622,-771. Military employees are more than 210,000. Federal relief rolls account for 19,000,000, of whom there are 750,-000 750,-000 single persons and 4,500,000 families. The Civilian Conservation corps or as it is officially named, the Emergency Conservation Work organization which Is one of the early comers of the new bureaus, created under the direction of Robert Rob-ert Fechner on April 5, 1933, employed em-ployed at the last reckoning 383,-703. 383,-703. The executive department, with its alphabetical bureaus, now boasts more employees than at any other time in the country's history, save the World war years. Last October Octo-ber the payroll passed the mark of $100,000,000 monthly, the official figure fig-ure released hy the civil service commission being $101,SSS,573. At more than $1,200,000,000 a year, the salaries of the executive department depart-ment civil branch now surpass one-third one-third of the total annual revenues of the United States. It is in the executive branch of the government, of course, where virtually virtu-ally all of the "bureaus" and "administrations" "ad-ministrations" and "commissions" lie. Else they could not have so efficiently accomplished 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 re-cently released with a cover message mes-sage from the President himself which reads : "Only through a clear understanding by every citizen of the objectives, organization and availability of the government agencies can they render truly effective effec-tive service and assure progress toward to-ward economic security." Rather Mystifying. The average citizen who learned the structure of his government in the schoolroom of the days before NRA is apt to become a bit befuddled, befud-dled, if not altogether punch-drunk, after fingering the pages of this manual, however. The manual, provided pro-vided in loose-leaf 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 administrationas adminis-trationas nearly as I could count them ; there are so many "wheels within wheels." I 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 Adjust-ment administration, under the direction di-rection of Chester C. Davis, which was approved by the President, May 12, 1933, "to promote national economic eco-nomic 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 6.0S3 employees em-ployees on Its payroll. The Farm Credit administration (not a New Deal product, since it was created In 1923, but an outlet of plenty of the New Deal's easy money) employs em-ploys 0.GS3 persons. Of the $S,000,-000,000 $S,000,-000,000 easy money let loose by government bureaus during 1934, It dispersed $1,827,000,000. Employed in the actual agencies of the PWA are 4,099 persons, all striving for "the reduction of unemployment un-employment and the restoration of purchasing power through the construction con-struction of useful public works and the encouragement of long range planning in the - field of public works." HOLC, the Home Owners' Loan corporation, supervised by the FHLBB (Federal Home Loan Bank board) and organized June 13, 1933, with an ultimate view of loaning $3,000,000,000 to assist In the emergency emer-gency financing of 1,000,000 homes, spent $2,059,000,000 in 1934, and has stopped loaning money. It still employs em-ploys 20,538 persons In its agencies. Another billion may he gran011 HOLC by congress. es Codes and Codes. ee The NRA Itself employs 3,093 ur its agencies, not among them, ho.ie ever, one Gen. Hugh S. Johnsot who has called the Blue Eagle "demj as the dodo, which is extinct," nui who has written a book and sevetot magazine articles about what te wrong with NKA. Administer NRA codes for business might keep many more persons than t5? busy, a perusal of the governm manual suggests. Listed there ; I more codes than you can slmk( stick at, even if it happens to hi" very big stick. They're Donald Richberg's worry now, not the H' general's. Some of them are hit esting to contemplate. Another large payroll Is that of Tennessee Valley authority, wli is spending a billion dollars in 1; gation, flood prevention, soil eros and power development projects the Tennessee river. The FERA (Federal Emergei Relief commission), administered Harry L. Hopkins, spent $2,000,01 000 last year, some of It in paym. of the bills of the CWA; JeU H. Jones, and the RFC disburse!1 total of $032,000,000 ; the FAA, $5' 000,000, and the CCC, $372,000,00 Many of the bureaus have b added only during the past ye Among these are the FCU (Fede. Credit Union system) ; FCC (Fed al Communications commission:. NPPO (National Power Policy co"-mission) co"-mission) ; NMB (National Mediatl board) ; RRB (Railroad Retireiw board) ; NAE (National Archives tabllshment) and its subsidlaft NAC (National Archives councL TVAC) Tennessee Valley Assoc.". ed Co-operatives, Inc.) ; FA0 (1q eral Aviation commission) ; Si (Science Advisory board), wlir. was created "with authority r to appoint committees to deal wc special problems in various dep; ments," a function which ought be the very acme of the Alpha Soup industry) ; FCA (Farm Cr( administration); FFMG (Fede Farm Mortgage corporation); t. (Federal Housing administration NRB (National Resources boar CES (Committee on Economic curity) ; NLRB (National Labor . lations board) ; TWAB Tex Work Assignment boards), NSLRB (National Steel Lao-Relations Lao-Relations board). s What 1935 will bring in the Wo of augmentation of the bureaucrifa will begin to reveal itself in a la weeks. The President has 111 nounced that he himself will I adn,i lster the $4,800,000,000 which hetu eently demanded from congress be used for work relief purpou, Although he has said that . M fu name an advisory board to a -1; him, New Dealers were emphatl'm the declaration that it the Pi ar dent who will have the last about expenditures of the fund a Continuation of the rich Deal menu will no doubt cr new rugged individual g as Pt for the die-hards, especially as t food gets more expensive. n , western Newspaper Vnloo. t 61 t |
