Evening star., 1948-04-18


business leaders and men who have
the fact that the Federal executive
establishment has grown to the
point where there are as many Fed
eral employees in California as there
are in the District. In some States,
he said, there are as many Federal
employees as State and local en-
ployes put together.
This raises host of problems, in
cluding the management OF person.
mel, budgeting and other factors.
There are huge and extremely
dangerous problems of administra-
ton abroad" and ut is an unusual
department these days that does not
have at least one of its top staff
abroad, creating shortages Of per-
sonnel at home and treating on a
tentative basis a problem that is
permanent" Prof. Pollock declared.
Problems Farmed Out
Instead of building up the COM
mission with an array of personnel,
it decided to farm out the various
problems to committees, firms and
other groups.
The problem Of natural resources
is being considered by committee
headed by former Gov. Leslie Miller
of Wyoming. Serving with him are
DR.. Isaiah Bowman, president OF
Johns Hopkins University; Prof.
Samuel Trask Dana, dean OF the
School of Forestry and Conserva-
ton, University of Michigan; Gill
bert F. White, president OF Haver-
ford College; John j. Dempsey. for
mer Governor of New Mexico and
former Undersecretary Of the In
terror; Horace Albright, former
director of the National Park Serv-
ice and now an outstanding busi-
nessman, and Donald H. McLaugh-
lin, former dean of the College OF
Engineering, University OF Cali
fornia.
The Craftsmanship of the Person.
mel Policy Committee is held by
John A. Stevenson, president OF the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. His
committee colleagues are James p.
Mitchell, vice president, Blooming
dale Bros, Inc; DR.. George D. Stod-
dard, president, University OF 1lli-
nois; Rawleigh Warner, chairman
of the board OF the Pure Oil Co.;
Alfred H. Williams, president OF the
Federal Reserve Bank Of Phila-
delphia; Lawrence Appley, vice
president of Montgomery Ward &
Co.; DR.. Vannevar Bush, chairman
of the Research and Development
Board; Alvin Dodd, president of the
American Management Association;
Col. Franklin D'Olier, former chair
man of the Prudential Insurance
Co.; DR.. Alvin Zurich, vice president
of Stanford University; DR.. Earl G..
Harrison, dean Of the University OF
Pennsylvania Law School; DR.. Rob-
ert L. Johnson, president of Temple
University; David Lilienthal, chair
man of the Atomic Energy Commits
sion; Robert Ramspeck, vice presi-
dent, Air Transport Association; An
drew Robertson, chairman Of the
board of the Westinghouse Electric
Corp; Senator Byrd, Democrat, of
Virginia, Tracy S. Voorhees,, presi-
dent of the Long Island College Hos
pital, Brooklyn, N. Y, and DR.. Leon
ard D. White, professor of political
science, University of Chicago. Ad-
vising the committee on certain
aspects of its job is the management
engineering firm Of Cresap. McCor-
mick & Paget.
Not Merely Cheeseparing
John w. Hanes, former Under
secretary Of the Treasury, heads
the study on fiscal, budgeting and
accounting policies. T. Coleman
Andrews, chairman of the Com
mittee on Federal Government Ac-
counting of the American Institute
of Accountants, will delve into ac-
counting phases of the work, aided
by members of the Institutes COM
mittee.
Regulatory agencies are under
scrutiny by committee comprising
Owen D. Young, former Senator
Robert La Toilette and Prof. Robert
R. Bowie of the Harvard Law
School.
Senator Lodge, Republican, Of
Massachusetts, had this to say when
the reorganization plan was being
discussed in Congress: The day
that our Government becomes so
clogged and so inefficient, and so
full of cobwebs and dust and mon
key Wrenches in the machinery that
1t cannot translate into action the
aims and aspirations of the people,
on that day this form of govern
ment will disappear. Therefore, in
contemplating the reorganization of
the executive branch, we are not
engaged merely in a little cheese
pairing hunt for the purpose of saw
ing a nickel here and a nickel
there: we are engaged in a great ef-
fort to keep the Government the
source of national strength and ma
tional morale and national enthus-
iasm that it has always been, and
must be in the future if the coun-
try is to be true to its promise"
Prof. Pollock put 1t this way: "If
there is anything that is evident
today, it is that we have multiplied
so many scientific devices and
mechanisms, not merely Of human
destruction but otherwise which we
have not been able to regulate or
which we cannot properly utilize for
the full welfare of society. In other
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