Evening star., 1924-01-16
PR|NCELY SALARIES
LURE j. 5. EXPERTS
Government Departments
Constantly Denuded of
Trained Employees.
DOZENS MORE WILL GO
department Of Agriculture Scien-
lists Are Notoriously I'm.
nerpaid.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

president Coolidge and the cabinet
are giving serious attention to the
systematic separation from govern
ment service of men who can earn
digger salaries in private life A
recent cabinet meeting was devoted
almost entirely tc discussing the ex-
tsting situation. Heads of depart
ments declare that federal efficiency
- faced by real menace. Hundreds
or expert, experienced officials in re-
cent times have resigned from under
paid positions to accept business. en-
ployment at much larger pay. There
is hardly an executive department
that has not suffered. The diplomatic
ana consular service has been par
tlcularly hard hit. Unless the Rogers
DILL providing for somewhat better
financial treatment, is passed by Con-
gress. the foreign service is bound
to lose dozens more of its best men.
Not only are low. federal incomes
responsible for this state of affairs.
but the mania for Investigations" is
VIGOROUSLY depopulariZing govern
ment service. Good men, observing 6
the passion of Congress for putting
officials on the rack have little desire
TO serve their country at the ever
present risk of having regulations
blasted to crafty some ones political
purposes
Standards Post Refused.
Secretary Hoover offered the post
OF director of the bureau of standards,
whose salary is $4,000. to eleven men,
who refused it. 1t was vacated by
DR.. S. W. Stratton. who became presi.
dent of Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology at $4,000, plus a house.
an automobile and other perquisites.
c. II. Huston. assistant secretary
of commerce, relinquished his $1,000
salary to head an oil corporation at
100000. Francis r. Wadleigh. for
merly chief OF the coal division of
Hoover's department at $4,000 year.
is now president of coal company
at $24 900 One Of Hoover's CONNER
cial attaches in South America, who
received $1,000 has been captured by
an international construction corpo-
ration at $4,000.
Julius G.. Lay, for years a star"
American consular officer abroad, re-
signed the $4,000 foreign trade ad-
vfsership at the State Department
IN 1920 to Join speyer & Co,
other consul general recently quit an
$4,000 post for a five-year private
contract at s25.o00 a year. Hardly
day passes that some trained officer
or our foreign service is not offered
considerably more remunerative en-
ployment In commerce or finance.
business on Lookout.
Foreign governments. as well as
American business corporations. are
constantly on the lookout for them
A; Z; Miilspaugh. who was petroleum
has become financial administrator
Gently foreign trade adviser at the
State Department., is now administra-
OF Of
These men receive salaries that make
their American government pay beg
carly by comparison.
by bP is ralasd nS
Srissinger of the Federal Reserve
Board found it almost impossible
while controller of the currency to
hold expert national bank examiners.
ing $16,500 in government salary, was
drafted the other day by the National
City Bank, New York, at an emolu-
ment several times that amount.
examiner. was Communicated by the
Chase National Bank under similar
circumstances. Daniel c. Mulloney
and Herbert n. Scott. well known
bank examiners, accepted Boston
banking positions at salaries far in
excess of federal pay. A Detroit bank
tempted Frederick Brown. another
prominent examiner, into it's service
w. r u. Harding, former governor
of the Federal Reserve Board, was
hired at s25, 900 a year to be president
of the First National Bank of Boston.
more than twice his government SAL
ary. The income-tax division of the
internal revenue bureau is being
sapped of good men all the time.
Metropolitan law firms and corpora
tiofls covet the services of men who
know federal tax practices from the
inside. Government pay cannot hold
them.
Scientists Are Underpaid.
The Department of Agriculture of
ferS one of the most typical cases of
underpaid government employees who
continue to serve their country out