Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-01

RETIREMENT WORK
TO MOVE SWIFTLY
Pension Bureau Gets Ready
for Action When Bill
Becomes Law.

1t will be the policy Of the pension
| bureau to put the retirement legfs-
lation for government employees into
operation without delay. as soon as
the bill is enacted into law by the
signature Of the President. Commits
sioner Gaylord NJ. Saltzgaber an
nounced today.
While the bill is in conference in
Congress to adjust the age limits OF
| retirement the pension bureau Is
| making its first plans today for the
| active carrying Of the legislation into
effect, SO that annuities may be paid
to superannuated federal employees
promptly.
Under direction Of the commissioner
of pensions, who will work out the
| details with the Secretary Of the In
| terror and the heads of other govern
| ment departments. forms will be sent
| out to the approximately 5000 federal
| employees who are over sixty-f1ve
years old.
No action will be taken by the bu-
| bill passed by the House yesterday
| shall be enacted into law by the
Presidents signature. It is hoped
that this will take place by May Is.
Filing Of Applications.
Applications for retirement must be
| filed by those eligible sixty days after
| the enactment of the law. Letters of
instruction will be issued by the pen
sion bureau from time to time in the
need worry about the matter at this
time.
The right to retire rests with the
employees fof the government who
reach the proper age, but the right
OF retaining such employees after they
nhnS
with the heads of the various depart
ments and bureaus.
It is intimated that there will be
given little opportunity for super
animated employees who still feel the
desire to work every day to do SO. as
ment law means retirement, and those
who have reached the age limit
should retire.
The civil service commission will
nave an important duty to perform,
In cooperation with the pension bu-
tirement bill. The civil service body
will keep all the records of the en-
ployes, and will furnish the pension
bureau with the data on which it will
retire employees.
Steps probably will be taken to
prevent the bringing to bear Of out
side influence to retain supperanuated
employees in the service. This is one
of the most delicate questions in re-
lation to the whole retirement prop
osition. and no active steps have been
taken toward its solution yet. =,
Rejuvenatfon Of Bureau.
1r carrying into effect the retire.
me legislation tho pension bureau
viii in a sense, be rejuvenated, 1t Is
dec jared. as it will handle not only
this work for the entire United States,
but shortly will take charge of two
other great pieces Of Legislation, the
H.::!!er ELL, awaiting the signature of
the President, which gives increased
pensions to pensioners Of the war of
1912, war with Mexico and civil war.
and the act to give pensions to veter-
ans Of the Spanish-American war.
1T is extremely gratifying that the
bill has passed after so many years.
endeavor." declared John s. Beach OF
the pension Office. president OF Fed
eral Employees Union. No. 2.
Il consider it as one of the most
constructive pieces OF legislation at
fectjng the civil service that has
ever been passed. Particularly grati-
flying was the very large vote yester-
day In the House, justifying the pre-
diction that public sentiment was at
last aroused in support of this char
acter Of legislation"