Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1947 — Page 21

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N.Y. Harbor Today

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (U. P)~

Ship movements scheduled today in New York harbor:

Arriving: George Washington

from Bremerhaven.

: Marine Marlin to Southampton, Le Havre and Bremerhaven; Santa Cecilia to. Valparai80; Santa Rosa to the Caribbean.

Government Agencies

Still Show Increase

* Average American in 1946 Worked 2 Days * Each Week to Pay Direct, Hidden Taxes

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‘By CHARLES T. LUCEY Soripps-Howard “Staff. Writer WASHINGTON, Feb, 7—The average American last year worked nearly two days of every week to pay direct and hidden government

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taxes, The total federal, state and local

billion, out of a national income of $164 billion, Washington took the great ghunk of it, nearly $40 billion. Republican leaders are trying to find a way to reduce the federal

carve down the $37.5 billion federal budget asked ° for 1948, It's more diffi- §& cult: than the : G. O. P, cam-

paign oratory last fall indicated. National Chair- = ‘man Carroll Reece promised to slash the fed~ eral payroll to Mr. Lucey about a million, which still would be higher than before the war. But the latest reports show nearly 2,300,000 civilian workers drawing U. 8. treasury checks, and a massive headache is involved for anyone. trying to eliminate half of them. Congress itself has piled many new functions on the government structure and thriving little bureaucracies that grew up in wartime by no means are willing to lie down and die.

A Washington Legend Most agencies, apart from those

{directly fighting the war, added war{time workers and many still show

substantial increases over prewar payrolls. Qulte a number of wartime |agencies ave folded or are in the

markable volume for just 15 minutes a day, and Process, but the trouble of liqui-

dating any bureau, once established are a Washington legend. The wartime foreign econoinic ‘administration is no more, but its functions today are split four ways {in the agriculture, commerce, treas{ury and state departments.

The foreign information end of the office of war information, a much-criticized war agency, is now under the state department tent. The wartime inter-American af-

{fairs office folded, but some of its

functions continue in the state department. The office of strategic services wept in part to the state and war departments and some personnel to the new national intelligence | authority. OPA Payroll Still Large

OPA controls are off nearly every-

{thing’ but rent and sugar, but for

114,500 OPA payrollers the melody

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|against a pre-war 10,000;

‘lingers on. Residual bits and pieces of other wartime alphabetical |binations still live in an office of | temporary controls and elsewhere.

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One government responsibility ends, another begins. Fighting a war means veterans | must be cared for when the guns are stilled, and it takes personnel to

| care for thegr. In 1939 the veterans

administration got along with 36,000 employees. Today it has 220,000.

Someone must run Uncle Sam's bargain counter on surplus goods. Today it takes 56,552 war assets administration payrollers to do it.

When the Republicans get down to payroll cutting they'll find here and there an agency getting along with fewer workers than in 1939— the interior and agriculture departments, federal trade’ and federal power commissions, for example. But many are increased.

New Functions Added

The justice department has risen from 9600 employees in 1939 to the commerce department from 18,700 to twice that; state department from 5700 to about 23,000; the postoffice department from 294,000 to 458,000; the treasury from 68,000 to more than 100,000. _ New functions have been added, old ones expanded—and the inevitable result is lengthening payrolls. Whether agencies are large or small, the genera] trend is upward. The federal security administration has 31,000 employees now as federal communications commission, 1400 against 600; general accounting office, 12,000 against 5000; Reconstruction Finance Corp. 10,000 against 4000. . Now and then something like the wartime office of censorship, the Mt. Rushmore Memorial commission or the Golden Gate exposition commission actually liquidates, folds, cleans out. But not often,

Expectant Mother

‘Falls to Death

CHICAGO, Feb. 7 (U. P.).—Mrs. Lois Bennett, 20-year-old expectant mother, fell needlessly to her death last night as a two-alarm fire swept through a three-story apartment building. Mrs. Bennett, who lived on the top floor, tied a sheet to a back porch railing as the flames approached her apartment. She tried to descend to the floor below, but lost her grip and fell to the ground. The woman's husband, Paul, 25, a cab driver, remained in the kitchen of their apartment. He was carried down a ladder by firemen.

Protest ‘Woeful Waste’ BRISTOL, England, Feb. 7 (U,

{P.).—The city council was scanning

its ranks for a skinny councilman today after outraged citizens protested that -210-pound Councillor R. N. Harrison caused a ‘woeful waste of the public money” when five men had to spend a full day widening a manhole so he could

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