Evening star., 1939-04-25

Service is transferred from the
Department of Labor and con-
solidated with the unemployment
compensation functions of the
Social Security Board in order
that their similar and related
functions of social and economic
security may be placed under a
single head and their internal
operations simplif1ed and in
tegrated.
The unemployment compensa-
ton functions of the Social Sc
curity Board and the employ
ment service of the Department
of Labor are concerned with the
same problem, that of the en-
ployment, or the unemployment,
of the individual worker.
Therefore, they deal necessar-
lily with the same individual.
These particular services to the
particular individual also are
bound up with the public assist
ance activities Of the Social Sc
curity Board. Not only will
these similar functions be more
efficiently and economically ad-
ministered at the Federal levels
by such grouping and consolida-
ton, but this transfer and mer-
ger also will be to the advantage
of the administration of State
social security programs and re-
suit in considerable saving of
money in the administrative costs
of the governments of the 48
States as we'll as those of the
United States, In addition to
this saving of money there will
be considerable saving of time
and energy not only on the part
of administrative officials con-
cerned with this program in both
Federal and State Governments,
but also on the part of employ
erS and workers, permitting
through the simplification of pro-
cedures reduction in the num-
Der of reports required and the
elimination of unnecessary dupli-
cation in contacts with workers
and with employers.
Because of the relationship Of
the educational opportunities of
the country to the security of its
individual citizens. the Office of
Education with all of its func-
tions, including, of course, it's
administration of Federal
programs of vocational educa-
ton, is transferred from the De-
partment of the Interior to the
Federal Security Agency. This
transfer does not increase or ex-
tend the activities of the Fed
eral Government in respect to
education. but does move the ex-
listing activities into a grouping
where the work may be carried
on more efficiently and expedi-
tlously, and where coordination
and the elimination of overlap
ping may be better accomplished.
The Office of Education has no
relationship to the other func-
tlons of the Department of the
Interior.
Public Health Transfer.
The Public Health Service is
transferred from the Treasury
Department to the Federal Sc
curity Agency. 1t is obvious that
the health activities of the Fed
eral Government may be better
carried out when so grouped than
II they are left in the Treasury,
which is primarily a fiscal
agency. and where the necessary
relationships with other social
security. employment and edu-
cational activities now must be
carried on by an elaborate
scheme of interdepartmental
committee work.
The National Youth Admins
tration is transferred from the
Works Progress Administration
to the Federal Security Agency,
since its major purpose is to ex-
tend the educational opportuni-
ties of the youth of the country
and to bring them through the
processes of training into the pos
session of skills which enable
them to find employment. Other
divisions of the Federal Security
Agency will have the task of find
ing jobs, providing for unemploy-
ment compensation and other
phases of social security, while
still other units of the new
agency will be concerned with the
problem of primary and Sec
ondary education. as we'll as vo-
cational education and job train
ing and retraining for employ
ment. While much of the work
of the National Youth Admins
tration has been carried on
through work projects. these have
been merely the process through
which its major purpose was &C
complished, and, therefore, this
agency under the terms of the
act should be grouped with the
other security agencies rather
than with the work agencies.
For similar reasons the Civilian
Conservation Corps, now an
independent establishment, is
placed under the Federal Sc
curity Agency because of the
fact that its major purpose is to
promote the welfare and further
the training of the individuals
who make up the corps, i'm
portant as may be the construc-
ton work which they have
carried on so successfully. The
Civilian Conservation Corps is a
small co-ordinating agency which
supervises work carried on with
the cooperation of several reg
ular departments and independ-
ent units of the Government.
This transfer would not interfere
with the plan of work heretofore
carried on, but it would enable
the Civilian Conservation Corps
to coordinate its policies, as we'll
as its operations, with those other
agencies of the Government con-
cerned with the educational and
health activities and with human
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