Evening star., 1924-03-01
CAN YOUR TAXES BE CUT?
A Series of Articles on the Cost of Government;
Where the Money Goes, and Why.
BY JOHN r. SINCLAIR,
Author of Can Europe Hold Together"

was spent for the fiscal year 1923 a
total of $665,0o0 for the work An
increase of approximately 100000 Is
provided for in the 1924 budget. It's
most important and necessary work.
3. The employment service bureau
is still another. This is a COMPARE
lively new bureau. 1t is hoped to
make 1t the central clearing house
for labor throughout the United
States. This bureau In 1923 cooper
ated with forty states in it's work.
Together there were placed In posi-
tions total of 2,156O0O persons
out of 2.SS7.000 registrations. This
agency is a cooperative agency.
worla4ng closely with such agencies
In the several states. There were SO
persons in this bureau July ], 1923.
and a total Of $223.OO0 was spent in
the work. For 1924 approximately
the same expenditure Is contemplated.
The Woman's Bureau Bill
4. The woman's bureau is an i'm
portant division. It was created in
1913 as a war service and in 1920
made a permanent bureau Of the De-
partment of Labor. 1t has as it's OBJ
ject ito formulate standards and pol
icies which shall promote the well
fare Of wage earning women. I'M
prove their working conditions, in
crease their efficiency and advance
their opportunities for profitable en-
ployment-"
Miss Mary Anderson. long a promi-
nent worker in this field, has charge
of the bureau. Eorty-seven persons
were employed in this bureau in
1923. an increase Of twelve over 1922,
and $4,000 was spent by them in
their work. This amount is increased
to 100000 for 1924.
8. The children's bureau is, next to
immigration, the largest and most
important service in the Department
Of Labor. First, it deals with the
health and care of infants. On the
question of infant mortality forty
states are cooperating with this bu-
reau. 1t deals with the whole prob
lem of child labor in the United
States. tt is is all the more impor-
the United States Supreme Court de-
claring federal regulation OF child
labor unconstitutional
Miss Grace Abbott, an exception
ally capable woman Of long expert
ence. has charge Of this work. On
July 1. 1923. there were employed 241
persons. This is an increase nf
lseventy-one durin. the year. a total
of SSS0.0o0 was spent for the fiscal
year 1923. Az increase Of 100000 is
6. The bureau of immigration Is the
most important of all the bureaus of
the Department of Labor. 1t has
complete charge of all the work of
admitting aliens to the United States.
Just now it is engaged in an ex-
haustive stuy of the whole question
OF immigration.
Head Tux Cuts Expense.
The present Secretary believes in
more restricted immigration. He
wants the bcttet immigrant only ad-
mitted. He is very much concerned.
He points out that 2.067.7o4 aliens
entered the United States during the
last four years. Of whom one-half
were from eastern and southern Eu-
rope. He points out that of the
100000 foreign born whites in the
, United States today less than half
are citizens. He appears very anx-
ious about it. He wants two spe-
cific things: D That the immigrants
be picked In Europe by our own
be required to register for citizen
/ ship work for a short period of train
ing after being admitted to this
country.
employed. In 1928 the bureau spent
s3.115.000. For 1924 the appropr ia
tion is increased by approximately
100000.
The Department of Labor, for all
its work. spent s6.69S.o00 gross for
the fiscal yeareended June 80. 1923.
They are asking for approximately
s7.7o0,OOO. or about s1,000,000 more
than for 1923.
But this is but half the story. We
| find in the Treasury report for the
same period that this department col
lected in receipts, mostly from the
, immigration head tax, a total of s5.-
| 10000.
To sum UP. The Department of La
Dor, doing vast service and ernI 10y
| ing 1924 people, cost the people of
| the United States approximately ST.
| 100000 net for the year ending June
| 80, 1924. The government is paying
out more every twelve hours for in
| terest on the public debt than the
Department of Labor is spending
every year. Manifestly. this is not
the place where expenditures can be
materially cut.
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| Tomorrow One-Tenth Of 4 Per Cent
For the State Department..