The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-07
OF GOVERNMENT
 ENCOURAGED
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

WASHINGTON, June 7.-(Special ! Correspondence) e).-Employees of the federal government are greatly pleas ed and encouraged by the policies of the Administration concerning them When is it known that there are more than 100000 government employees it i will be seen that this class are no in- considerable number of our popula- tion. Allowing only three to family there must be more than 2,oOO,O ,OOO people directly or indirectly who draw their living from working for Uncle Sam.
 Congressional committees are now working on the problem of reclassi. fication of salaries, and general re- organization of all the conditions un. under which the government employees work
 Summed up it may be said that in- crease in the moral of the govern ment worker, coupled with every. thing that will make him or her more efficient and contented with the work. is the principal plan of the Admins tration.
 Economic and efficient service, with a fair salary for work well per formed, is to be the solgan henceforth in all the government departments and bureaus.
 The postoffice department, under the able management of Postmaster General Hays, is the first department to begin to put in operation the i'm provements, it might almost be said reforms.
 The government printing office, which is the largest printing estab- lished in the world is preparing to follow the example of the Postoffice Department. George H. Carted, of Iowa, is the new public printer and he is enthusiastic for anything large that will increase the efficiency of the big printery and it's large force of employees.
 In the PoStoffice Department MT. Hays is preparing to institute a bur eat of welfare work for the employees
 Exports in this line of endeavor will soon be operating. Similar steps tn hn toll in hn ment Printing Office.
 All the other departments of the government are reported to be get ing ready to follow the example of the Postoffice Department. The cen tr2l idea is to make the government employ an enthusiastic helper of the government, rather than a mere sal aried automation doing his task list lessly from day to day with an eye solely to keeping his job and nothing else. The idea is to interest them in their work to the Xetent that they will believe they are really important eDGs in the great government ma chine.
 If such plans are carried out, and there is no reason to doubt that these plans will be successful, there is efficiency of the employees, and a consequent increase in the efficiency of the whole Federal government
 Congress is preparing to reduce considerably the number of govern ment employees, particularly in Wash ington, but this decrease will be made with an eye not to decrease the effic- icncy of any of the government activ- ities.
 For many years it has been real zed by well informed congressman that something must be done to re- organize the government service, for the purpose of economy and efficien- cy. The first step toward this end was taken with establishment a few years ago of the clerks pension sys- tenn, whereby aged government en- ployes can retire on certain precent- age of their annuel salaries. Noth- ing has been done more to increase the moral and efficiency of all the government employees than this law.
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