The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-01

suits are shown in
 Q series of 32 sum-
 mary statements
 EdsOn and breakdowns, covering i63 pages, 2 feet long and 3 feet wide, bound ina report more than an inch thick.
 To come to the point and present the bad news like Q night club check that can only be appreciated on the morning after, the total pub- licity cost for this fiscal year of 19Al is $27, ITO, ,0o0.
 The report shows that 153 agencies of the executive department of the government fad in this year services of information, education, contact with the public, publicity, press agentry, propaganda or whatever you want to call them.
 The number of full-tiine informa- tion specialists engaged in this work was 2895 and the number working part time in this service of public enlightenment was 3l,6lS. The re- port is so detailed that the services of these 3l,6is part-time workers has been estimated on an hourly basis, with the result that the Bud. get Bureau has been able to make e complicated computation showing that If all this work were done by full-titne employees only, 1t would have required the services of S,433.6 employees. Putting 1t another way, 9,433,5 man-years Of labor went into the job of keeping you citizens in. formed on what your government was doing in lo4l.
 The payroll for this job, 1t should be added signifcally, was $l94e3,- 470. Other expenses of $e,306,4 ,470 mrst be piled on this figure to achieve the $27,7eo, ,e40 total afore. mentioned. All figures cover opera. tions in both Washington and the country at large.
 PUBLICATIONS
 TOOK HALF
 Breaking the total down by types of publicity, 1t Is seen that publica. tionS of one kind and another ac- counted for Si3,76l,797, approxi. fnately half of the total.
 Next largest item was for Icon. tacts," S6, ,i6o,300. Contacts in the government sense Of the word are of two kinds-group contacts in which some government expert goes out to make Q speech to explain some goV- ernment program, and individual contacts in which only one person worked on.
 Government press services cost cost Si,i70 900 with 232 full-time and 7l6 part.time press agents working total of 42i.2 Tnan-years at 0 pay. roll cost of si,oS7,os5 for the job.
 Other items, in round numbers, include these: radio S43B, ,000, ex. hibits $s3o 900, motion pictures $e0o,- 900, lantern slides and lecture ma. terial $i4e,000, photography $780,. 900, educational cooperation S5lO,- ooo posters $9o,ooo, miscellaneous S65i 900. Correspondence-the mere writing of letters to give information on government programs-is estl- mated to have cost $4,li0,e00. The smallest item in the summary Is for paid advertlsing-Si3,60o.
 Breaking the totals down by de. partments of the government, De- partment of Agriculture accounts for 42,9 per cent of the total or $li,. 887 300. It has I'll full-time public relations employees and 20y643 part. timers, the two working 0 toal of 26ol.7 man-yearS on their job. The payroll is $s 9e4, ,446. CORRECTION
 In Q previous series of articles on the governments publicity activities, this writer cited certain figures on the work of the of1lce of Govern. ment Reports which have then been found in error. In fairness to OGE, these figures are here corrected, as follows:
 While OdR asked for an appro. priation of $i,5o0,000 and it Is au- thori2ed to receive not over this amount of Si,600,000 and 1t Is au- thorized to receive not over this amount, the actual appropriation Tor the fiscal year l942 Is Sl,003, ,730.
 As q result of this reduced appro- propriation, oGR is curtaIling--not expanding = its activities. A new state office has been opened for Maine, but West Virginia, Kansas Oregon, and South Dakota offices have been closed and the work in these four states, as well as In Nc. braska, Iowa and Arizona, has been combined with that of other states. The field force of OQR Is therefore 100, instead of l0o, as stated, and further reductions of staff may be necessary.
 The current circulation figures for O0R's Bulletin Is e43 copies 0 day, and for Magazine Abstracts, 1924 copies c week.
 OdR's clipping service now covers 400 instead of $50 daily newspapers and It's news service for cour: try papers goes to o,3o0 of the 10000 weekly newspapers in the U. 8. '