The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-07-03

collected by the thousand ana
one agencies of the Federal gov
ernment occasionally have some
useful purpose. l often hear from
businessmen about the repeated
requests for statistical informa-
ton from Washington. Probably
running a close second to the
fevers incurred by computing
and paying income taxes is that
of being badgered to compute
and collect reams of figures on
similar to, but slightly different
from, ones furnished just short
time before.
But the statistics which John
Q. Public provides are mere
child's play in comparison to the
data which local governmental
offices furnish to regional, dis
trict, State, and central offices.
Employment figures are good
example. Washington can tell
the number by age, gender,
education, and skill of all per-
sons working or wishing to work
in each economic area through
out the nation. Working with the
State of Ohio, the Federal gov
ernment divides the 18th Con-
gressional District into five
economic or labor areas. One of
these has GAINESVILLE as its nu-
cleus; another is Marietta; a third
is Cambridge; a fourth is Perry
county; and fifth is Monroe
county, which is new in terms
of employment and industrial
history.
Certain governmental pro-
grams are geared for areas in
which there is considerable sur
plus labor. Chief among the
programs or benefits to which
the surplus classifications en-
title an area is the preferential
consideration given to industries
in the awarding of defense con-
tracts and the special effort made
in locating government owned
focilities in such areas.
At the present time the classi-
fication of the various areas in
the 18th district are as follows:
"a Cambridge Including Guern-
sey and Noble Countess has
been classified as an area OF
considerable unemployment; (2)
Marietta (including Washington
County, has been given the same
classification; (3) GAINESVILLE Gin
cluding Muskingum and Morgan
Counties) has not received an
employment classification; (4)
Monroe County and go Perry
County Grouped with Licking
County have not been included
in reports submitted to Washing
ton.
FcderaleSe
BY the time that a particular
piece of legislation has run the
legislative gamut, it has acquired
some sort of identifying label
In sorne cases, that label is the
particular House or Senate Bill
number which it first bore. This
is particularly true if the mum
Der is an easy one to remember
Great competition exists to ge'
such a number because it viii
add luster to the proposal
Several years ago, the paper!
were filled with news of H,R. l
which was the 1855 extension O
the Reciprocal Trade Act. This
year, when the Act was extended
again, the Bill number recelvec
little prominence because it wa:
not a number with appeal. In
stead, the longer name of Reel
procal Trade Act was the iden
tifying feature.
Usually, the descriptive name
sticks with legislation, such a
the Social Security Act, or th'
Wage and Hour Law. Occasion
ally. the name of the author, o.
authors, is used to the exclu
sion of number or content, sucl
as the Taft t-Hartley Act, thu
Smoot- -Hawley Bill, the Hill-Bur
ton Act. The name of the ad
vocate of the law, even though
he not be in the Congress, some
times attaches, such as The Mar
shall Plan, or The Eisenhowe
| Doctrine.
| When a Bill is signed by tn
President, it supposedly loses it
identity as House or Senat
Bill of a certain number, and tn
name of the authors are drop
| ped when it becomes a publ
law. Thereupon, it receives
new number. These are chrome
logically applied as the proposal
become law. Occasionally, lay
becomes known by the numbe
| it receives after enactment. p
48O was an enactment of tn
84th Congress in 1854, providin
for the disposal Of surplus agr
cultural products overseas i