Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1934, Page 16

HOWARD' BUDGET BALANCED BY CUTS Reduction of Teaching Staff Credited With Helping Fiscal Policy. Drastic reductions in the teaching staff at Howard University, with sal- aries “far below the average agreed upon by the Government” were con- tributing factors enabling the uni- versity to balance its budget during the past fiscal year, according to the sannual report of President Mordecai ‘W. Johnson. It was nec to reduce the teaching staff by 35 members, Dr. Johnson reported to the Interior De- partment, and “needéed advances in rank were delayed for the third suc- cessive year.” considerable number of THE EVENING STAR, Mooney Adds to Postal Force, Anticipating Heaviest Yule Increases in Staff to Continue Until Christmas—Broadcast Early Mailing Plea Tonight. Anticipating the heaviest holiday mail in the history of the Washington post office, Postmaster W. M. Mooney said today he will start to add extra help this week and will increase the staff steadily until Christmas day. Population increase in the District, caused by the increase in Government personnel, already has had a marked effect on regular mail bandled here, Mr. Mooney said, and is expected to be even more noticeable in the holiday rush. This rise in holiday volume started during the past week, Mr. Mooney said, with the mailing of a packages to Another problem confronting How- | the West Coast and other distant ard University, which is principally|Points. It is hoped, however, the maintained by the Government, is|Piok-up will be much greater this week the fact that the institution has yet “about half-way to go in the develop- ment of a staff of mature professors.” Examination of university salarie: the report said, confirms this judg- ment. 21.Schoh.n Needed. The university is spending approxi- mately $175,000 less in salaries than would be necessary to obtain and hold | the services of a sufficient number of | mature professors. “The securing of | 27 capable scholars for important | positions on the professorial staff is| the outstanding educational need,” Dr. Johnson said. “All other im- provements are subsigiary to and ‘wait upon this for .their fullest ef-: fectiveness.” In setting up a 10-year program | for the development of Howard Uni- | versity, the Government agreed upon a definite salary scale for teachers. Despite partial restoration of the 15 per cent reduction in all Government pay, the report reminds that the sal- ary cuts struck the teachers before the minimum salaries in this scale could be uniformly estaplished. “The result is that during the fiscal year 78 of the 135 full-time members of the teaching staff were receiving actual salaries below the minimum for their rank agreed upon by the Gov- ernment in the 10-year program,” the report points out. Only Eight Above Average. “Forty-nine others received salaries glightly above minimum, but below the average, while only eight, or less than 6 per cent, received a salary at or above the agreed-upon average. “Under these circumstances it ap- pears imperative that the full amount of the prevailing salary cut shall be restored at the earliest possible mo- ment and that additional funds be secured to enable Howard University to improve the salary offerings to its teachers.” 8o far as the physical plant at the university is cancerned, a progressive building program was started with the aid of $2,100,000 in public works funds. Since these appropriations bids have shown building construction costs to have risen by 17 per cent and scientific equipment costs 68 per cent, the re- port said. So far the Public Works Administration has awarded the uni- versity an additional sum of $85,500, or approximately 4 per cent, to make possible the construction of the build- ings. The building program includes a chemistry building, library, recitation building and a heat, ligh} and power plant, EMPLOYES T0 TALK CONGRESS PROGRAM Meeting Tomorrow to Resume Merit System, Pay and Hours Discussions. ‘The National Legislative Council of | Federal Employe Organizations tomor- | row will resume consideration of the | program for Government workers to be urged in the next Congress, in a meeting at the Colorado Building. At the first session last week the eouncil decided to center efforts on bolstering the merit system; pay res- toration as of January 1, and elim- ination of excessive hours of work. These three items have since been indorsed by the Maryland State Fed- eration of Federal Employes’ Unions, at a meeting in Baltimore, following talks by Luther C. 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