Evening star., 1933-07-31
DELAYS
SOME REGR0UPING
PENDING REPEAL VOTES
CONTINUED Prom First Paee.)


otherwise directed. Employees of the
Federal Board for Vocational Educa-
tion. which goes to the Interior Depart
ment, also are to stay in until Septem-
Der 80.
The transfer Of national cemeteries in
foreign countries to the State Depart
ment and those in insular possessions
now administered by the War Depart
ment to the Bureau Of Insular Affairs of
the War Department is postponed in
definitely. as Is the shift to national
parks. buildings and reservations OF
its supervision.
The transfer Of legal work now per-
formed by the Veterans Administration
to the Department of Justice will be
postponed to September 10.
Delays Parks Shake-up.
The order specifically provided against
dropping before September 80 any
workers in the Parks, Buildings and
Reservations set-up, In which the
greatest shake-up was faced in Public
Building and Public Parks Of the Ma
tional Capital, with 2,700 employees. but
the jobs of thousands of others will be
continued in holding up formation Of
the central disbursing and procurement
divisions. for throughout the Govern
ment there Is personnel engaged IN
these duties. For instance, 1t has been
estimated that there are about 1900
disbursing officers scattered over the
service, and procurement activities also
involve many.
One problem was developed as the
result Of the delay. and that is the
fate of the permit functions Of the Bu-
reau of Prohibition. The original re-
organization order gave specific direc-
tiOns for ALLEGATION Of all prohibition
functions when the bureau is broken
up, and provided the permit work
should 60 to the Division Of Internal
Revenue. Now. with formation OF the
division held up and the bureau being
dismantled, the destination Of the per
NIT work was uncertain.
At the Bureau OF Internal Revenue
the opinion was expressed that the
shift would be made to that bureau; at
Prohibition, doubt was expressed as to
Just what would happen.
Gives Time for Adjustment.
In addition to the Public Buildings
and Parks personnel, there are
about 400 employees in National Park
Buildings and Reservations Agency, who
would have had to be dropped, even
though they were Immediately reap
pointed, in order to comply with the
law, and the same treatment would
have to be accorded to the half dozen
other small groupings destined for the
new arrangement.
In providing that all these workers
should be retained for the present, de-
spite the fact that the consolidation
will 60 through as scheduled, the execu-
tive order said this action was being
taken "in the interest OF good admins
tration."
In one quarter 1t was said that this
would give administrative officers .
breathing SPELL and that by the end
OF September they would know their
personnel needs and be governed ac-
cordingly.
The upshot is that the workers
really benefitting under this are those
who might not have been reapp0inted
at once, If at all.
Dry Law Considered.
It developed today also that Acting
Secretary Acheson Of the Treasury had
urged delay in the formation Of the
Division Of Internal Revenue. Is we'll
as the setting up of the disbursing and
procurement divisions. which also will
defer transfer Of the office of the
supervising architect Of the Treasury
to the proposed procurement division.
It was explained that more than
20. 900 employees would have been trans
ferred, and that It would also be neces-
sary to set up regulations for the new
division, and that this could not be
done by August 10.
It Is known also that the question OF
prohibition repeal entered into consid-
GRAFTON. For instance, II repeal comes,
there likely will be some changes In
the permit functions Of the Bureau Of
Industrial Alcohol, and in delaying ac-
ton, whatever Is done can be final.
The order covering cemeteries, parks
and monuments, specified those to be
affected by transfers, and developed that
Arlington National Cemetery, now un.
der the War Department. Is not to be
switched. The battle-ground Cemetery
here. however. goes 70 the new set-up.