The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-06-18

ucl 10 ueIefmlne what changes should
pc made in provisions of law to the
END that all requirements in respect
70 the reporting to congress of finan-
cial data and estimates shall be
Drought together in one place, co-ordi-
mated, revised, and brought into har-
mony with the budget which the presi-
dent is required TO submit to con-
gress The results of, the investiga-
mons made by the bureau of the budget
are TO be embodied in report each
year to the president. who is au-
tnorized to transmit the report to con-
gress if he sees fit.
The president will, once a year. fix
date by which the heads of the sew
eral executive departments and all
other officers shall submit to him es-
Inmates for the public service, and for
the permanent appropriations not 9TH
erwise estimated for, and such esti-
mates of the public revenues and con-
dition of the treasury as the presi-
dent may direct.
President to Submit Budget.
The new legislation makes 1t the
duty of the president to send to con-
greSs on the first day of each regu-
lar session document to be known as
the budget. This budget is to CON
tain balanced statements of the rev.
enues and expenditures of the govern
ment for the preceding year and of the
resources and liabilities of the treas
ury at the close of the year, his es.
Inmates of the revenues and eXpendi-
lures of government for the current
nscal year and of the resources and
liabilities. Of the treasury at the close
OF the year, also his estimates Of
the revenue and expenditure needs of
the government for the ensuing fiscal
year, and how, in his opinion, those
needs shall be met.
There is also created a department
to be known as the accounting depart
ment, which is to be an establishment
OF the government Independent of the
| executive department and under the
control and direction of the controller
general of the United States. The Of
| flee of the controller of the treas
ury and the assistant controller of
the treasury are abolished to take eff
feet July l, this year. All other Of
ficers aud employees of the office of
the controller of the treasury are to
| become officers and employees of the
accounting department at their pres
ent grades and salaries.
At the head of the accounting de-
partment there is to be created a new
government officer who will be known
as controller general of the United
states, and there will also be an as
sistant controller general. The con-
trOller general will receive a salary of
$4,000, and his assistant a salary of
$500 The legislation transfers to
the lew accounting department all the
powers and duties which the controller
of the treasury and the auditors for
the various executive departments
/, now have. The legislation automat-
ically abolishes the auditors for the
departments. The incumbents of the
offices are to be transferred at their
present salaries to the accounting de-
partment.
Fighting Child Labor.
To abolish child labor not merely
by prohibiting employment but by
providing suitable education is the
aim Of the stay-in-school campaigns
now being carried on or completed in
20 states in cooperation with the chill
dren's bureau of the department of
labor. The campaign is to be followed
in the fall by a back-to-school drive
, in order to&Ound up the children who
fail to report at the opening of school,
since the influence of vacation work
in leading to permanent withdrawal
from school has been strikingly shown
| An encouraging feature of the cam
pajgn is that six of the states taking
part in it are among the ten in which
more than 20 per cent of all the chill
dren between ten and fifteen years of
age are regularly engaged in agricul-
tural work. Rural child labor, which
involves three-fourths of all the child
workers in the country, is the most
difficult form of child exploitation to
reach. 1t is subject to no legal regu-
latiOn except through school attend
ance laws, and these are, as a rule,
inadequate and poorly enforced. In
three of the six states mentioned, the
percentage Of illiterates over ten years
of age represents more than one-fifth
of the total population. The other
three states have illiteracy. rates con-
siderably higher than the country as
whole.
Work Carried on in Many Ways.
The campaign is being carried on in
accordance with local needs and re-
sources. Moving pictures and slides
are being utilized in some places to
show the harmful effects of too early
work and the advantages of schooling.
Posters and leaflets urging children to
make wider use of the vocational