Evening star., 1932-04-26
Jobs SACR|F|C ICED
TO USELESS ROADS
Interior Slash to Accompany
Preparation for Park
Routes Not Needed
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included 100000 for the roadway
projects. Instead of accepting this rec
| ommendation, only $500,000 was cut
! from the item by the House, and other
! appropriations essential to the safe
conduct of the Government were elm
mated.
For the amount to be paid for the
roadway work, it is pointed out. the
salaries of the 4,o93 employees slated
for the job-cutting AK could be paid
and a sufficient sum would be left over
to allow geologists to continue on with
their research in the prospective potash
fields of New Mexico, These FIELDS; tney
believe. will assure this country latent
supply of potash for fertilizer that
would be sufficient to carry this Nation
through another emergency such as the
World War.
This example Of economy" has
caused, according to officials OF the de-
nartment. a general decentralization"
among the personnel, as each worker
feels the Job ak hanging over MS or
her head
This favored action" as Mr.. Wilbur
expressed himself in his letter to Mr.
Garner. seemed to me to indlcate
desire 10 fill up the local pork barrel
rather than to facilitate good govern
ment."
Oficials have mapped out prelimi-
nary plan to be followed, effective July
/ in the general dismissal of employees.
The plan, of course, is dependent on
tie omnibus bill amendments calling
for furloughing employees and to allow
an interchange of appropriations wltnln
a department or agency up to 10 per
cent. If these amendments fall, the
following plan for curtailing the per-
sonnel in each bureau is likely to be
carried out:
The discharge Of approximately 1913
permanent Civil Service employes-lo5
! in Washington and 538 in the field.
! The discharge Of approximately 3,225
/ temporary employees and employees work
! ing for contractors during the coming
| field season. OF this number l,6O0 are
now employed.
Many Here Would Go.
| OF this total IL employees in the
! Secretary's Office here will be dismissed.
The General Land Office will dismiss
| II in Washington and 56 permanent
| employees in the field. An additional
/ $50 temporary employees in the field Will
| also be put out of work.
A total of 72O employees in the Indian
Bureau will lose out. Al of whom are
located in Washington, 254 are perma-
nent field employees and 425 temporary
field workers.
In the ONCE Of Education here "a
are slated for dismissal.
The Bureau Of Reclamation will lose
1889 permanent and temporary work
ers, 4 of them being stationed here, and
! As other permanent workers in the
/ field. The rest are temporary employees
now working under contract in the field.
Three hundred and ten permanent
and temporary employees will be let out
of the service in the Geological Survey,
| 81 being located in Washington and
| the rest in the field.
! The National Park Service will lose
! S perm anent employees and TOO tenn
! porary workers in the field.
The Alaskan Railroad will have to do
without the service of 10 permanent
employees.
] Thirty-two permanent and 113 tenn
porary employees in the Bureau of
Reclamation will be placed on part
! time basis.
Department employees are almost
unanimous in asserting their bureaus
have been used as political foot balls"
in an effort by individual members of
Congress ito make a showing back
home"
The climax was reached, in their
opinion, when, after the House ap-
/ proved the Senate's straight 10 per cent
cut of the supply bill without consulta-
| tion with officials, Speaker Garner,
| speaking to newspaper men off the
floor, accused Secretary Wilbur of fall
ing to cooperate in the general scheme
OF economy.
Fullest Cooperation Given.
To this statement the Secretary re-
piled that he had co-operated to the
fullest extent, pointing to his letter to
Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance
Committee, making specific fund re-
duction recommendations amounting to
S5,043, 43, and requesting hearing If
any Substitutions in these items were
to be made. Mr.. Wilbur said the COM
mitee gave no consideration to this.
He reminded Mr.. Garner that the
CON mlttee's plan was unnecessarily
damaging to the work of the depart
mept. Nevertheless, he added, cit
was promptly accepted by the Commit
tee on Appropriations and later by the
Senate and the House. 1t emphasized
local desires instead of good administra-
| ton.
1T made $4,000, 900 for park roads
and trails more important than the
welfare of hundreds of well trained men
and women doing needed Government
service. Certainly it seems reasonable
to wait for the improvement of a few
miles of open road rather than to turn
men and women into the streets.
The abrogation of the House of its
established right to conference for the
careful study and adjustment of de-
partment needs seems indefensible to
me. We favor well placed economy
We proposed a plan for bringing econ
omy about.
Our objection is to methods which
emphasized pork barrel filling at the
expense of orderly budget making and
good and effective government. The
procedures OF budget making built up
through years of difficulty should not
be destroyed in the name of economy.
1t is a question of sane, orderly and
considerate budget making at those re-
duced levels required by national erner-