The Washington times., 1925-02-06
LORD DAN CUT
j. 8. FORCES
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AsOnLlnu0u from rage LII s.
nsends no change in the number Of
employees. For sixteen OF them IL
recommends q change downward.
For ten Of them, however, it actual
" recommends, In spite Of all It's
passion for economy, . change up
wards.
i This will illustrate to the public
the pressure that exists upon the
Bureau Of the Budget and upon the
President in the matter OF trying
to reduce expenditures and staffs
when the drift Of the times IS
toward enlarged Federal services to
the. public.
Would Increase Employees.
It has been shown in preceding
articles that our Federal employees
from among whom drastic reduc.
tons OF staffs can conceiyably be
made number. really only 177,1I1
IL we eliminate from our considera
ton our pensioners land me like,
and our postal and military forces.
The whole gnun1Der OF strictly
executivebraIioh employees IN the
District s6f, ofnmbia is this year
ION the AvefageL 49. Ts7: -
The Bureaus OF the Budget, hav-
ing recof1nended reductions in staff
for sixteen Of our executive &C,
tivities- In the District, and having
recommended expansions in staff
for teTlsof those activities, arrives
at the following result:
While this year our executive
employees in the District were
g. .s7, next year they win be
Tins we are in fact. ut the head.
quarters Of Government, going in
precisely the opposite direction
from the ONE recommended by the
President.
Must Clamp Down Lid.
IN this observers judgment the
only strong thing that can be done
about it is to close the lid abso.
lutely down on all new proposed
governmental enterprises in Com
gress The people can take their.
choice. IL they want new Federal
services, they are never going to-
ret any spectacular reduction I'm
the number Of Federal servants.
Let us take, for instance, the
new Board OF Tax Appeals. This
may be a fine thing. 1t may be a
great convenience to taxpayers,
Very well. But then let the tax
payers realize that they are bound
to pay for the convenience.
The boards duties. are growing,
and the board is growing. During
the fiscal year it had fourteen
"chief attorneys. For the next
fiscal year the Bureau Of the Bud
get allows 1t sixteen, During this
fiscal year. it had fifteen senior
clerk .stenographers." For che next
fiscal year the Bureau OF the Budget
allows it twenty-one. Altogether
during this fiscal year the board
has had fifty-five employees. Dur
ing the, next fiscal year it must
have eighty-one.
The upShot of the whole matter
then can be summarized as fol-
lows:
Some, 1,87O,156 of the 1,847, 267
persons now on the Federal pay.
roll belong to categOries which can.
not be effectively touched as long
as our present pension policy, and
our present retirement allowance
policy, and our present national de.
Tense policy, and our present Post
office Department business growth
continue.
The u remaining 177,111 persons
are getting reduced in number only
in certain departments and bureaus
and are getting actually increased
in others.
The ones in which they are get
ting increased are dominantly new
ones, like the Board Of Tax APP.
peals and the Tariff Commission
and the new reorganized and. pre-.
.gumably highly useful bureau OF
foreign and domestic commerce in
the Commerce. Department.
The conclusion Is that If we want
these new services and keep ON
wanting still newer ones all the
time. then the PRESIDENTS road
toward presenting MS with any even
slight and moderate contraction OF
our huge aymy Of Federal pay.
rollers is going b be one OF tho
longest and hardest in our history.
Copyright, 1920