Evening journal., 1918-07-08
UNDER TIE ROBE OF WAR.

THE Bourne, president OF tne hepuD-
lican Publicity Association, has many friends and
admirers in Delaware They viii read with interest the
following statement issued by him bearing upon the
and the partisan to which the great struggle is
being put by certain Democratic leaders
with It's original estimate multiplied by ten. the
United States Employment Bureau receives s59O239 in
the Sundry Civil BILL and agency has been created
whose utility for war purposes is questionable but
whose political potentalltles Thus is
another example given to the public that politics is
adjourned"
in December last the Book OF Estimates OF Federal
appropriations carried item In the Sundry Civil Bill
Of s50OOO TO enable the Secretary during the
present emergency TO furnish information and render
assistance in the employment OF wage-eaners through
out the United States may be deemed necessary in
the prosecution OF the war. This was approved by the
Secretary Of the Treasury. in accordance with law, But
soon thereafter supplemental estimate sent to the
House Committee Appropriations increasing the sum
10 Si2500O0 and June II the House increased the
item TO si50OOOO and passed IT, This encouraged the
Labor Department that June 9i the Acting Secretary
Of Labor decided to follow the example Of other de-
parimenal chiefs and a letter sent to the Acting
Secretary Of the Treasury requesting the appropriation
be increased to s59O239 Of the very great
pendtures and activities which not contemplated
at the time the estimates already submitted had been
prepared. This request forwarded TO the Vice
President approved under date OF June 81. and laid
his desk until June "a, when 1t referred to the
Senate Committee Appropriations and ordered to be
printed Remarkable to state that very day
the item passed by the Senate and confer
ence. No one, OF course, had had time to read the
port and the public knew nothing about IT, s759oOOO
is such small these days that question
raised.
'The Senate amended the purpose Of the appropris-
aid the Standardization Of all wages paid by the
Government OF the United States and its agencies with
provision that money hereafter appropriated
of hv sha ha
available TO pay wages Of the standard agreed
upon by the War Labor Policies Board. So with the
War Labor Board the commissioners labor mediation
and conoiatlon, and War Labor Policies Board the
job the only dscoverabe function orthe United States
Employment Service by which could for its
expenditure of S759OOOO would be to follow up the
ton the War Labor Policies Board in standardzing
by trapsng the country to II the boards
decisions were being properly carried out And to do
this the Employment Service has provided for 9s di
rectors at $500 each annuay 1852 directors at s2OOO
200 travelling examiners at s200O 3On clerks at from
s02O to Si700; GOO janitors and 80 messenger boys.
This is bureaucracy gone amuck and yet with method
in its madness if these traveedpad mnions should keep
their fingers the political pulse Of labor, petng and
coaxng the refractory and keeping Washington Informed
by of political espionage without parallel since
the adoption Of the Bill of Rights.
"Ths is example, and many occurring under
this Administration. II any legislator out against
Congress he accused OF seeking hinder the
program, and so well have the goats been mixed with
the sheep that hold up item entails the halting
Of all the day the people Of this country will
awake to what going That win be about the time
scraping the barrel Little be said than
that such instances are cumulative evidence Of the
necessity Of running for existence busi-
basis Proud this nation Of its strength. it
should be remembered that Hercules destroyed himself
in trying to from his body the tunic ofNessus"