Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-20
WILL VOICE VIEWS
OF RECLASS|F Y|NG
Government Bureau Heads to
Make Addresses on Pro-
posed Legislation.

What administrative heads of the
government departments here think
of proposed reclassification legisla-
lion will be revealed at meeting to
be held at Sis o'clock Saturday night
at the new National Museum under
auspices of the Washington Academy
of Sciences.
DR.. E. b. Rosa. chief physicist of
the bureau of standards, will deliver
an address on "A ReorganiZed Civil
Service" which will constitute a dis
cussion of the governments employ
ment policy and its relation to eff
cheney in the government service.
Owing to DR.. Rosa's position as sec
rotary of the recently established Fed
eral Club. composed of administrators
of the departments. his address is ex
pected to voice the opinions of the
majority of his colleagues.
Other Speakers in List.
The subject will be discussed by
Col. w. B. Greeley. chief forester. De-
partment Of Agriculture. and presi-
dent of the Federal Club; Paul F.
Myers. deputy commissioners of inter
nal revenue: DR.. George Otis Smith.
director of the geological survey; DR..
F. G. Cottrell. director of the bureau
Of mines; DR.. p. =. Claxton, commits
sioner of education; o. c. Merrill. eX-
ecutive secretary, federal power COM
| mission; President Martin A. Morri-
son of the Civil Service Commission
and Lewis Merriam, assistant director,
Institute for Government Research.
This 149th meeting of the local
Academy of Sciences is expected to
become historic in recla ssification an
| nails, as being the first time that ad-
ministrative officials, as such, voice
fcation. While many of the men
named above were more or less ac-
tive on the staff of the recla ssification
commission, they did their work
then as members of the commission
rather than as executive heads of
bureaus.
At the meeting Saturday night the
administrators will plainly speak of
reclassification from their own official
standpoints. 1t is understood that
! what they will say will have the full
approval OF the members OF the
cabinet who have been approached
upon the subject.
Employees Already Heard.
Government employees have often
expressed their opinion as to reclas-
sif1cation, and have in operation an
effective organization known as the
Joint conference on Redistribution.
hearings before the commission last
year.
Administrative officials of the gov
eminent, however. including CABINET
officials. have been somewhat reticent
concerning Redistribution, and while
attempts were made at various times
to get such officials opinions, sucn
were not forthcoming SO freely as
from the clerks themselves.
The viewpoint of the administrators
is of peculiar Importance. it is real.
lied, owing to the very large part
they play in governing the great de-
partments here and their 10000 en-
ployes. It was for this reason that
the officers of the Washington Acad-
envy of Sciences. asked DR.. Rosa tn
draw UP an exhaustive and authorita
tive paper, which might express the
views of administrators as well as one
man might express the opinion OF
MANY. and then asked representative
| administrators themselves to discuss
| the subject.