The Glenwood post., 1924-11-13

CarleS are WoL populate0.
The postoffioe department has one
third Of million employees At the
present time and is probably among
the best known departments. Forty
million letters are mailed each day
besides the parcel post. To this de-
partment is appropriated six hundred
million year, practically every cent
of which is paid back by postage
stamps registered letters, etc.
The office of the first assistant
postmaster general has to do with the
establishing of postoffices. The sec.
ond assistant is in charge of the mail
on the railroad trains and the air mail.
This assistant and Mr.. Taylor got q
million and a half dollars to run the
night air mail from Chicago to Chey
enne and establish emergency stations
along the route. Mr.. Taylor feels that
this is good thing as the flight can
now be made from New York to San
Francisco in go hours and gives. en-
ployment to many aviators, who fought
in the World war.
The department of the navy is
called the country's first line of de-
fense Its duty is to guard the
shores There are eighty-si thousand
enlisted in the navy proper and nine
teen r!o' sand marines The Colorado,
Maryland and Wig RIA are among the
:arg-;i chips.
T.e m.,,Ior i6par'nent has fiftten
bureaus under i, II, first and most
import mt = tn d office, wtie!
has :; d. V .rh ?lI ic lands. The ne.I
is the bureau Of lad I affairs. The
are nrw 2.5,oG0 ;hii.is on the rs
: erv,ti ~ mich a. CT include ,tr
iviti>nd Indians 1t an enorr ~
Job TO know what to do with them and
and what to expend on them. One of
the congressman from Oklahoma is
7-l6 Indian. The Indians now have
been given the right to vote. The
Usage Indians are the richest, but are
limited to $1,000 a year for if the
government gave them all they were
| entitled to at one time they would
elbow it in'' in a very short time.
The bureau of pensions pertains to
the Civil war veterans and prior to
that time. There are now Al widows
left from the war of 1872, and Mr..
Taylor explained that many of the
veterans of this war married young
girls when they themselves were per-
haps in the seventies or eighties and
these widows are now probably close
to the 100 mark. There are six hun
dred thousand people on the pay roll
under this department and this does
not include the World war veterans.
The bureau of patents has charge OF
the issuing Of all patents. One-half
of all that have been issued in the
world have been issued by the United
States. Every applicant has to pay
$40 and there are many freak patents
applied for.
The g illogical survey is of great
service in making scientific and oil in
vestigations.
The bureau of reclamation is one of
the other departments. This is of
great Importance to the western states.
There is a station at Montrose and
one in Grand Junction, in charge Of
what are. known as the Uncompahgre
and Grand Valley projects.
The next bureau is the bureau Of
national parks of which we have two
in Colorado, Rocky Mountain and Mesa
Verde. More people visit the Rocky
Mountain park each year than any
other park, not excepting Yellowstone.
There are also government hospitals
and universities that come under this
department and Mr.. Taylor said that
whenever they do not know how to
classify anything they put in the in
terror department.
The agricultural department has
grown enormously and is composed of
many bureaus of which the forest ser.
vice and public roads are a part.
The department of commerce is the
travelling salesman for the United
States. 1t consists of the bureau of
census, bureau of Standards bureau of
fisheries and bureau of lighthouses.
The department of labor is the last
department and the largest work is the
bureau of immigration.
In summing up the things to come
oerore TINS session of congress, known
as the "Lame Duck Session. Mr..
Iaylor stated that the first thing