Evening star., 1933-08-09
MANY SPARED JOBS
IN REORGANIZING
MOVE TOMORROW
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MUvE IUMUKKUW
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at Ellis Island, Edward Corsi, an
nounced today in New York, according
to an Associated Press dispatch, that
he was sending his resignation to Sec
retary Perkins.
Employees TO Be Retained.
An important reorganization move
that is to be effected now, but with pro-
viso that the employees are to be retained
until September 30 is that establishing
| the Office of National Parks, Building
! and Reservations, which is to assume
! functions of administration Of public
buildings, reservations, national parks
national monuments and national ceme-
terieS.
| One Of the functions going into the new
| Set-up will be the Once of Public Build
ings and Public Parks of the National
Capital. which is abolished, with some
$500 employees. What percentage Of
/ these may eventually lose out is uncer-
tain. but seven weeks leeway will give
officials chance to know their needs
and be governed accordingly The Sd ne
! is true OF the persons involved in the
other units to BE- merged. including the
National Park Service, with about 400
employees.
! Arno b. Cammerer, who is succeeding
Horace NJ. Albright as director of the
park service, is due TO head the new
| grouping. Mr.. Albright is entering
private business
! In addition to Public Buildings and
Public Parks. other groups to be abol-
ished as their duties are taken over by
the new set-up are Arlington Memorial
Bridge Commission, National Memorial
Commission, Rock Greek and Potomac
Parkway Commission. The Public
Buildings Commission also was slated
for abolition, but attention of President
Roosevelt was called to the fact that
this Is legislative agency made up CT
members of Congress, which may not
be abolished legally. and Senator Cor
nally, Democrat of Texas. the chairman.
who took up this matter with the Exec
utlVe said he received assurance that
the plan would not go through.
Other Shifts Held Up.
A number of the proposed site
supervisory shifts. including that which
would have taken Arlington Cemetery
from under War Department control.
also has been held up by presidential
order but control of the old Battle
VIII 60 to the new agency.
| The Interior Department also is to
take supervision of expenditures for
several commissions, including the Fine
Arts Commission
/ This department also takes over the
/ functions of the Federal Board for
Vocational Education, but here. too, it
has been provided by the President that
there shall be no personnel changes
until September 80.
Three important planned changes
held up by presidential order until
December 31-unless sooner ordered
involved the establishment of central
lied procurement and disbursing divi-
slons In the Treasury and formation
of Division of Internal Revenue to
include the present Bureaus of Inter-
nal Revenue and Industrial Alcohol,
and the permit functions of the Pro-
hibition Bureau.
Time Needed to Function.
Inability to get the new establish
ments. with their thousands of workers,
functioning in time, was the principal
reason for this delay. and the fact too
that the national prohibition law may
be repealed in a few months also was
taken into consideration in the studies
bearing on the intended revenue set-up
The delay in forming the procure
ment and disbursing divisions, which
are designed to do away with those
maintained by the individual govern
mental establishments. has knocked
something like $4,000, 900 of of the con-
templated savings program which the
reorganization program. as originally
drawn. was estimated to bring.
The Budget Bureau puts the annual
savings under the present Arrangement
at $5.000,000. as compared to SOS, ,OO0,-
600 originally projected Added loss is
due to the Presidents act in Suspendine
until 60 days after the start of the next
Congress the IS per cent cut in funds
Tor educational and agricultural &C.
tivities In the States and Territories
a retrenchment that was vigorously
assalied in the last Congress.
Procurement Division Delay.
The delay in establishment of the
procurement division also resulted in
delay until February 10 of abolition OF
the Federal Co-ordinating Service
while abolition Of the Employment
Stabilization Board and transfer of its
functions from Commerce to Public
Works has been held up until March l
The remaining changes under re-
organization include:
Functions of prosecuting in the courts
OF the United States, claims and de-
mands by and offenses against the Gov
ernment, and supervision of United
! States attorneys, marshals and clerks
in connection Herewith, centralized ir
Department of Justice
United States Court In China, anc
District Courts in Panama Canal Zone
and Virgin Islands also go to Justice
Solicitors for Treasury, Commerce
and Labor transferred to those depart
ments from Justice.
Assistant Secretary Of Commerce fol
Aeronautics becomes Assistant Secre.
tary Of Commerce.
| National Screw Thread Commission
Is abolished, and records 60 to Com.
merce.
Civil Service Commission takes ovel
from Census Bureau preparation o1
official register.
Compilation Of statistics for citie!
under 100000 abolished in Bureau o1