Evening star., 1922-12-10
States Relations Service and
Publications Division to
Be Abolished.
HOME ECONOMICS BUREAU
IS FEATURE OF NEW PLAN
Various Branches to Be Put Under
Directors Accountable
to Secretary.
Bf WILL T.. kEN<CnS


me Department of AgriclItt,r,. j.;
W pe reorganized-from withiu-so
! that the three lines of work-scien-
tinc. regulatory and extens;on-cau
be headed UP under separats direc-
Tors accountable directly To the S.c-
retary.
This means doing away with two
important services. as they now exist
/ the states relations Service and tE.
"i'islon Of publica ations-by reallo-
! eating their work. A new buresu
oi nome economies will be created
with scientifically trained and ex-
perienced woman in charge.
~ IS the frst attempt ever made
ieaiiy I" organize the Department of
Agriculture. which claims to servo
d'rectiy more people throughout tho
chiteo states than any other branch
VI lhe federal service. 1t carries the
| 'eeoihihehdaI" Of the budget bu-
reau ana Is now being considered bv
me House appropriations comni,,,-.
| "hich VIII undoubtedly report favor
! ably upon it,
Department .Just Crew.
AS thls reorganization REQUIRES N,
increased appropriation, but. ON the
/ contrary. promises a decided saving
/ Win increased efficiency. members of
'he appropriations committee SAY.
! because 1t is SO obviously good busi
ness and essential for efficient and
economic administration, there i.
eeiS reason to believe that Congress
VIII authorize the proposed reorr.n,-
cation"
Inc department of Agriculture tik.
! iopss' just grew" something after
the manner of an icicle. More than
any other branch of the federal
! service. II carries on functions and
administers appropriations not An
! thorized by substantive law. Year
! after year some new work has been
legislated for. most often as riders
on appropriation measures. and iust
thrown at the Department of Apr,-
culture. This is the first real effort
ever made to thoroughly organize
that department.
In view of the fact that Secretary
I Hoover reorganized the Department,
of Commerce as he saw fit. and thar
. Secretary Wallace is now reorganlz-
: ing the Department of Agriculture
while both Secretary Hoover and
Secretary Wallace have So strenu-
ousiy opposed certain proposals In
! walter F. Browns tentative pro-
gram of reorganizing the entire ad-
ministrative branch of the govern
! ment-which has resulted i'm a dead
! lock that prevents President Hard
N
: tons on reorganization to Com
gress-the situation becomes more in
] teresting.
The consolidation of the bureau of
markets and the bureau of crop es-
Inmates on July l. 1921. resulted in
a saving of approximately $4,000
through the reduction of the person.
mel engaged on administrative work.
! secretary Wallace points out in his
: annual report a similar consolida
! tion of administrative services was
effected on July i, 1922. when the bu-
reau of markets and crop estimates
was further merged with the offic.
| OF farm management and farm eco
nomics to form the new bureau Of
| agricultural economies. in which the
! economic work of the department is
now centralized. 1T is estimated"
| Secretary Wallace SAYS that a,
additional $4,000 was saved in over
head expenditures by this consolida
ton. In addition, the consolidation
has made possible the coordination
! of the work of various technical di-
visions of the three former bureaus.
. thereby eliminating duplication and
overlapping throughout the economic
units"
What this actually did was TO take
three bureaus and offices doing close
ly related work. SO close that there
! was much overlapping. and combined
them so that all work could be CO.
ordipated efficiently. The Bureau of
Markets, the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates and the office of far manage
| ment, all doing economic work were
merged into the one Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics.
Omces Combined.
| In the states relations service, by
! the consolidation of the two Washing
ton offices engaged in directing the
! work of agricultural extension, SAL
aries aggregating approximately S20.-
| 900 have been saved. and as the re-
suit of centralizing and rearranging
! the clerical work in the administra-
| tive offices of the same bureau sal
aries of clerks to the amount of ss-
600 have been saved. The states re-
lations service is in effect a bureau
, Of the department with several sub
Offices There were two offices in the
| bureau that dealt with extension
| work-one was handling fifteen states
south of the Mason and Dixon line
and one was handling thirty-three
states north and west. There were
| five divisions under the northern Of
| fee and six under the southern Office.
not similar but all doing the same
kind of work-administeri exten-
| sion work in cooperation with the
| extension services OF the state agri-
cultural colleges.
The northern and southern offieca
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