Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1932, Page 10

K10 xxx LAND UTILIZATION ABSORBS OFFICES Agriculture Department to Have Jurisdiction Over New Branch. __(Continued From Seventh Page) icy of Congress “to group, co-ordinate, and consolidate executive and adminis- trative agencies of the Government, as; nearly as may be, according to major purpose,” and to provide a single agency to which the President may turn for information and advice in matters of administration, it is_therefore pro- posed to transfer the Bureau of Effi- ciency and its dutles, powers, and func- tions to the Bureau of the Budget. Branches Abolished In Hoover Plan. It is recommended that the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commis- sion be cbolished. I pcinted out in my memorandum on the Department of the Interior relating to public works that the National Capital Park and Planning Commission is performing | similar functions. There is no necessity | for the continuance of both commis- sions. In the executive order dealing | with the consolidation and grouping of public works activities I have provided for the transfer of the administrative duties, powers and functions of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission to the Department of the Interior and the temporary retention of the commission as an advisory body until such time as it is abolished as ber recommen-zd. Transfer of the operation, protection and maintenance of the parks, park- ways, playgrounds and recreational ac- tivities of the District of Columbia_from the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks to the municipal government of the District of Columbia: _ At preseént the operation, protection and maintenance of the parks, park- ways_and certain of the recreational activities in the District of Columbia are placed under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Buildings end Public Parks. The appropriations are made from the revenues of the District of Columbia. E The Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks also serves as a service agency to the various departments and | establishments in the District of Co-} lumbia in that it has charge of the maintenance, protection and operation of the Government buildings. | In the executive order on the De-| partment cf the Interior I have trans- | ferred this office to the Interior De- | partment in accordance with the plan to consolidate and group all service | agencies in that department. | The function of managing, protecting and operating the local parks, park- ways and recreaticnal activities is | purely municipal in character. e i municipal government of the District | of Columbiz now operates certain play- grounds end recreational activities, The transfer of these activities of the Officz of Public Buildings and Public Parks to | the municipal government of the Dis- | trict of Columbia wculd serve a two- fold purpose—(1) it would consolidate the control of all parks and playground activities in one place, and (2) it would relieve the Federal Government of the control of activities that are purely local in character and which are paid for out of District of Columbia funds. I recommend that legislaticn be en- acted transferring these activities to the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Abolition of the Employes’ Compensation Commission. As previously indicated, one of the functions of the Department of Labor is the protection of the interests of labor, and the functions of the Em- ployes’ Compensation . Commission in || the administration of the longshore- men’s and harbor workers' act, which |} Tequires..certain private employers to | provide compensation for the injury of their employes, and the act of May 17, 1928, providing compensation for em- ployes of private industry in the Dis- trict of Columbia, fall cleerly within this, category. Accordingly, I have pro- vided by executive order for the trans- fer of these duties to the Department of Labor, It has also been indicated that the powers and dutles of the Employes’ Compensation Ccmmission which have | to do exclusively with relationships be- tween the Federal Government and its own employes properly fall within the jurisdicticn of the Civil Service Com- mission. I have therefore provided in an executive order for the transfer of these powers and duties to the Civil Service Commissicn and the temporary centinuance of the Employes’ Compen- sation Commission to serve in an ad- visory capacity to the Civil Service Commission until it can be abolished by legislation. | When the foregoing transfers have been effected there will remain no real occasion for the continuance of the | Employes' Compensation Commission. | I therefore recommend that it bz abol- ished. National Training School for Boys. The Reform School of the District of | Columbia Wwas organized by the act of May 3, 1876. The name was changed to the National Training Schocl for s by the act of May 27, 1908. It is controlled by a board of seven trustees, | appointed by the Pre also two consulting one a Senator, appointed the presiding officer of the Senate, and the other & Slippers | i | 1l | | | | THE EVENING NG STAR, WASHI "ON, D. C., FRIBAY, DECEMBER 0994 SO 951 member of the House of Representa- tives, appointed by the Speaker, Deligguent boys under the age of 17 may be committed to the institution by the judges of the criminal or juvenile courts of the District of Columbia and by Federal judges in other jurisdictions. The Department of Justice has made agreements with the various State au- thorities to provide for the care of delinquent boys in their respective State institutions. During the past year the number of boys in the institution from places Gutside of the District of Co- lumbia has been reduced almost 50 per cent and it is expected that there will be further reduction as the boys now committed to that institution beeome 21 years of age and are released. The National Training School for Boys will in the future become a reform school for the District of Columbia. This institution should be placed under the control of the Board of Public same manner the National Training act of March 16, 1926. I therefore recommend the enact- ment of legislation which will abolish the board of trustees of the National Training School for Boys, and which will transfer the duties, wers and functions of that board to the Board of Public Welfare of the District of Columbia, HEF“ ALFALFANS Senator Key Pittman of Nevada Elected Club President. Senator Key been elected president of the Alfalfa Club, it was announced today. Other officers chosen at a recent meeting in the Army and Navy Club are: vice president; Frank J. Hogan, second vice president; Charles P. Light, secre- tary-treasurer, and the following mem- bers of the board of managers: Levi Cooke, J. Harry Covington, J. Harry Cunningham, Admiral Grayson, Henry Hall, Joseph H. Himes, Mr. Light, Thomas P. Littlepage, William J. Mc- Nally, Senator Pittman, Edgar C. Sny- der and Edward J. Walsh. COUNT’S CASE DELAYED Decision on Plea for Damages Held Up Until Next Week. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 9.—A de- himself as a cousin of King Carol of Rumania, for damages he said he suf- fered from a beating, was deferred yes- terday until next week by the State Industrial Accident Commission. Count.de Witte said he was beaten at ber 27 by Morg was employed as s Brandeis, former Omaha merchandiser. Instead of seeking damages from lowers, De Witte brought a claim against Brandeis, his empl time he suffered his disabilit; Welfare, District of Columbia. in the | School for Girls was so placed by the | Pittman of Nevada has Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson.| cision on the application of Count Wil- | liam Schurch de Witte, who identified | THREE PURPOSES BACK OF MERGERS | Centralized Responsibility and More Efficiency Aim of Hoover. _V(Conlinut'd From First Page.) emphasized for years by all those in the Government service and students of government and organizations outside cf the Government that have taken a | special interest in the reorganization | problem. Heretofore the Government | has never been able to effect the desired | reorganization because it has never been able to get within the jurisdiction of | one departmental head complete juris- diction over a particular governmental function. For instance, public health activities have been spread out under various departmental heads; so also merchant marine activities and particularly pub- lic works with rivers and harbors work in the War Department, public build- ings in the Treasury Department and 1 roads in the Department of Public Works Division. Under this scattering, there was no chance for unification of administra- | tive procedure. | One of the best features of the Presi- | dent’s reorganization set-up as viewed | by those who have made an intensive study of the subject over many years is the grouping of engineering activities under a Division of Public Works in the Interior Department under a designated Assistant Secretary of Interior for Pub- lic Works. Into this group are put 15 now widely scattered agencies—dealing with reclamation, geological survey, public buildings, public roads, rivers and harbors development, non-military activities of the Army Engineers, roads and bridges in Alaska, the office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, the duties and functions of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and various other commissions such as the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, the Arlington Memorial: Bridge, Com- mission of Fine Arts, George Rogers! Clark Sesquicentennial, Mount Rush- more National Memorial Commission, | and the two service agencies—the Gen- eral Supply Committee and the Gov- srnment fuel yards. he idea is that all of these agencies picked up here and there throughout the Federal service have certain engi- | neering activities in common, and when grouped under cne administration uffl-‘ cer whose special duty it is to co-ordi- nate the work ss far as possible, the | way will be found to operate more judi- | ciously and effectively. Without such | grouping co-ordinated work and ad- | | responsibility for co-ordinated action ! Similar to sefs selling elsewhere at $69. ever ’OI‘ ALL COMPLETE Delivered ¢ Instcl!od : | forms, 'SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO.= i i g placed in one cabinet officer the situa- tion is different. Can Shift Duties. For this reason the President in his executive order says: “With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Interior shall have the power, by order or regulation, to consolidate, eliminate, or redistribute the bureaus, agencies, offices or activ- ities and/or their functions, in the De- partment of the Interior in so far as such action may be required to carry out the purposes of the consolidation herein ordered, and by rules and regu- lations not inconsistent with law to fix the functions thercof and the duties, powers and titles of their respective executive heads.” And to get full benefit of the special training of Army enginecrs, but to fore- stall conflict of authority between mili- tary and civilian officials, he directs that commissioned officers of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, shall continue to be detailed by th® Secre- tary of War upon request of the Secre- tary of the Interior for work on rivers and harbors' projects: but while so de- tailed they shall be under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and their pay and =allowances shall be charged against the appropriations for the projects to which they are assigned. As directed in the executive order, here is where the greater Budget Bu- reau comes in. ‘The President transfers to the Budget Bureau: “1. The powers and duties now exer- cised by the General Accounting Office which relate.to the designing, prescrib- ing and installation of accounting systems and procedure in the several executive departments and in- dependent _establishments, except that the controller general shall retain the power and duty to prescribe the form and manner in which accounts shall be submitted to his office for audit. “2. The powers and duties now exer- cised by the General Accounting Office which relate to the administrative ex- amination of fiscal officers’ accounts |and claims against the United States and the adequacy and effectiveness of the administrative examination of ac- counts and claims in the respective de- partments and establishments and the| adequacy and effectiveness of depart- | mental inspection of the offices and ac- counts of fiscal officers. “3. The Bureau of Efficiency.” Limits Its Powers, The General Accounting Office was created with the distinctive duty of | auditing Government accounts, as an agency cut apart from all Government departments or units thereof, but, the Presidents finds that by “interpretation” this office has extended its powers and duties into the field of administration, affecting various departments and es- tablishments. So, under the authority | given him by Congress, the President divorces the controller general from any “interpreted” administrative duties. He turns over to the Budget Bureau the duty “of developing the forms, systems and procedure of accounting and the administrative examination of ac- counts.” He turns over also the Bureau of Efficiency as an investigation agency for the Budget Bureau. In explaining his action in clearing er at the | ministration is stymied, but with the |away the grounds for “interpretation” of administrative powers from the Gen- eral Accounting Office, the President says: x‘m controller general should have the power and duty of prescribing the form and manner in which accounts | are submitted to the General Account- ing Office for the purpose of auditing and to require all information necessary for such audit. It is not, however, a proper function of an establishment created primarily for the purpose of auditing Government accounts to make the necessary studies and to develop and prescribe accounting systems in- volving the entire field of Government accounting. Neither is it a proper function of such an establishment to prescribe the procedure for nor to de- termine the effectiveness of the admin- istrative examination of accounts. Ag- counting is an essential element of effective administration, and it should be developed with the primary objective of serving this purpose. It should be so standardized as to facilitate the preparation of financial data and re- ports for the Government as a whole, as well as to provide the proper basis for audit. The accounting forms, sys- tems, and procedure prescribed for the Government establishments become the most effective means available for the use of the department head in ad- jurisdiction; and they also furnish the information upon which future require- ments must be predicated. Administrative Function. “The administrative examination of accounts is, as name implies, an ad- ministrative function. It is the final essential link in the administrative con- | trol of the fiscal activities of a depart- ment. It is not restricted to the check- ing of the accuracy of computation, al- though this may be & necessary inci- dent of the examination. Its real pur- pose is the complete and detailed anal- ysis of the actual expenditures, which enables the department head to control the activities for which he is respon- sible. It provides him information as to the actual cost of the various objects for which he has authorized the expen- diture of appropriated funds, enables him to furnish the President, through the Bureau of the Bucget, with justifi- cation for estimates of future require- ments and thus forms the basis of the whole estimating system of the Gov- ernment.” This discloses an effort to create in the Budget Bureau an agency of undis- puted authority for the executive branch for the purpose of making organization studies, for purposes of control of meth- ods and procedure in the Government departments as a whole, as well as the fiscal funciion of preparing the depart- mental budget as an agent of the Pres- ident. 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The Bureau of Lighthouses, now in the Department of Commerce.” The Shipping Board is not in this grouping of marine activities because of its regulatory functions. So it was left out of the departmental group, while the operating functions repre- sented by the Merchant Fleet Corpora- tion were gathered in. FIREMEN LEAVE HOSE Volunteers Answer Call to Hall and Watch It Burn. The Somerdale, N. J., Fire Company, a volunteer outfit, recelved word there was a fire at the amusement hall of the Meadowbrook Farm Inn. 1t charged up to the scene with bells clanging and siren screaming, and the men got ready to put out the fire. ‘Then they discovered the hose had been left behind. The hall burned to the ground. Dwarfs to Have Colony. A colony of little houses for dwarfs g Pll,““"'d in a tract in the suburbs of erlin SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | 1S FAMED PALAGE |Croydon Institution Was Once Home of Archbishops of Canterbury. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. LONDON (By Mail) —A girls’ school neat London, the Old Palace School at | Croydon, has much of England’s history written on the walls of its class rooms. The building has been a school only since 1889. From the time of Lanfranc, who became Archbishop of Canterbury | a few years after the Norman conquest, to the end of the eighteenth century, the old palace was the residence of the | primates of England, and many English Kings and Queens have been enter- tained there. The chapel, now used for upper} | school prayers, was built by Archbishop Arundel about the year 1414, and was | | renovated by Archbishops Bourchier | and Morton. Stafford Built Great Hall Archbishop Stafford was responsible for the great hall, which was built in | 1450. It is 50 feet long and 90 feet | high, and was used as a banqueting hall. The fine open-timbered roof is | of Spanish chestnut, and in the center | of the west wall is a stone shield bear- | ing the arms of Edward the Confessor his immediate successors so impaling the quartered royal ectas of | England and France, a device assigning | |it to Henry VI, who proclaimed the | Confessor patron saint of England. The arms of Archbishop Stafford are | | emblazoned on the angel corbels below | the high three-light windows, and the arms of Archbishops Laud, Juxon and | Herring appear on_different parts of the walls. Queen Elizabeth danced in | the long gallery adjoining the great hall, and the young Duke of Rothesay, | afterward King James I of Scotland, who was first imprisoned at Pevensey Castle, was later removed to the care of Archbishop of Courtnay at Croydon. Palace Neglected 100 Years. The old palace had over a hundred | years of misfortune. 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