Evening star., 1925-10-23
EXPLAINS INTERIOR
j OFFICES SAVINGS
Work Backs National Park
Plan and Higher Retire
ment Pay.

How the Interior Department,
through co-ordina,ing its activities,
has saved S2,35I,oO0 du.4ns the last
year and Will return $1,000 900 10 ne
Treasury this year as an uneXpeAded
portion OF qls Appropriation for tA4s
year is plained - .npa-e, x.
viewing t.le activities u The depart
menI JUS. made pu llC.
In the pamph et Secretary Work
takes w., in addition ne new s1ul
idge conservation policy, advocaIss -re
eStaD'1--.uelC O4 fHp sTeat HS,. .aft.s
parks IN Inc EaSl-.n ae Glue Ridge
section OF VirgIaia and The 3 eat
Smoky -aslon OF Moran carolina aaa
TenneS3 ,c-and dnr.ares IA tor
HUMANITARIAN II sons. I.r H,
other, the GoverGu all -H4 /, s.uN.r
a more i.ta table retire G,a5s pa. q
is provluei in tie pG-se"a lnnu4
Co-o,d,natiou Urged
The savings when Secretary Work
has accomplished ,hrUu h co-orCiIIa
ton in the interior Department, and
previously In the Post Office Depart
ment, is taken as the strongest pos
sible argument in favor of co-ordina.
ton and reorganization of the Federal
service from within the various de
i1artmentS, through executive dfreC
tion, preliminary to the proposed gen.
eral reorganization of the entire Fed
eral service as one unit.
Greater latitude to heads of the
Federal departments and the with
drawal of Federal activity in States
where the now duplicated or join,
work can better be done by State
administration Is advocated by Sec
retary Work as meriting the consid
Grafton of Congress, because he find
there Is a limit to the coordination
of governmental activities by the eX
ecutive branch under existing laws
Authority should be centralized in
Washington" Secretary Work says
'but responsibility for operation
should be decentralized in State.
wherever possible"
Secretary Work recognizes thai
there must be also an interdepart-
ment as well as intradepartment co
ordination, and he cites the Alaska
jurisdiction, with 8 or 10 executive
departments and some % bureaus
participating, as an illustration. The
Governments activities in Alaska
should be covered into one depart
ment and under one secretary in the
Presidents Cabinet" he believes.
Backs Conservation Policy.
The new Coolidge conservation"
policy, covering the Nations natural
resources, which discards the idea of
Theoretically sealing these resources to
preserve them for future generations.
and substitutes the common sense plan
Of using what Is needed but eliminat-
ing waste, was explained by the Sec
retary, in whose custody most of these
resources are placed.
Secretary Work disclosed some of
the other recommendations he will
make in his report. He suggests a
comprehensive survey to determine
definite Government policy for all
phases of the Colorado River develop
ment, for the increased use of water
power as a means of conserving the
Nations coal resources, and for the,
conservation Of the fertility of the
soil in farming sections. a subject
which he declares has not received
proper consideration in programs al
ready adopted.
Secretary Work points out that
these two proposed new parks, ulti-
n,ately, will provide outdoor recrea-
tional facilities for more than 50,000.-
live within a close radius of the Blue
Ridge of Virginia, and the Great
Smokes Of Tennessee and North Caro-
lima will be accessible to many millions
more in the South Through chain
of improved highways running north
and south along the Appalachian
range the two areas may be Joined
and operated TO supplement- each
ether"
Saving to Government.
s'For humanitarian reasons, IL for
no other. the Government should pro-
Vidc a more suitable retirement pay
than the present annuity to retired
employees, which Is often insufficient
to meet the necessities of existence"
Secretary Work declared In the pam
phiet.
Then, to clinch his argument. he
claimed that from an administration
standpoint the effect of an increase
in annuities would operate to the
benefit Of the Government by lessen
ing the pressure for retention in the
service of employees who have reach
ed the retirement age and. whose ef-
ficiency has been depleted by old age,
but whose resources do not permit
them to face the future on the pres
Il