Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1936, Page 11

FEDERAL SURVEY 10 BE DISCUSSED Senate and Roosevelt Groups to Co-ordinate on Reorganization Studies. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Co-ordination of the studies on Gov- ernment reorganization by the Presi- dent's committee and the Senate com- mittee headed by Senator Byrd of Virginia is expected to be worked out st a meeting called Wednesday by Byrd. The co-ordination will be di- rectly in charge of Louis Brownlow, former District Commissioner, and later director of the Public Admin- tstration Clearing House, Chicago, whom Senator Byrd appointed chair- man of his advisory committee and ‘who was later named to a similar posi- tion by the President. There is a sharp distinction between the work to be done by the Senate committee and the President's com- mittee. The latter is expected to con- cern itself exclusively with setting up a direct contact between the President and the various units of Government so the Chief Executive at all times will have immediate knowledge con- cerning the work of every branch of the Government. This is an entirely new proposal, sponsored by the Presi- dent. Senator Byrd said that he will give the President and his committee his hearty support in having this phase of reorganization approved by Congress. Aim of Commiitee. The Senate committee, it is under- stood, is to be left entirely free from executive interference in working out its own program. The committee hopes to simplify the Government or- ganization in the interests of efficlency and economy. Senator Byrd has had questionnaires sent to the various branches of the Government and has received replies from 138 boards and bureaus—54 of which were organized within the last three years. He points out that 14 different Government organizations have to do with banking as an il- lustration of possible duplication and overlapping. The Brookings Institu- tion is well along on its special fact- finding study of the Government set- up for the Byrd committee. Fred W. Powell, acting director of the Insti- tute for Government Research, senior member of the staff since 1928, is in immediate charge of this work. He has been making economic studies of governmental agencies for more than 20 years. Members of Committee. Senator Byrd has not heard how many committee members will attend the meeting Wednesday. On this com- mittee are Senators Robinson, Ar- kansas, Democratic leader; McNary, Oregon, Republican leader; O'Ma- honey, Democrat, Wyoming, and Townsend, Delaware, chairman of the Republican Senatorial ~Committee. Members of the Advisory Board are: Chairman Brownlow, Luther Gulick, New York, director of the Institute of Public Administration; William Tu- dor Gardiner of Boston, former Gov- ernor of Maine; H. W. Dodds, presi- dent of Princeton University, and John D. Clark of Cheyenne, Wyo., professor of economics at the Uni- versity of Nebraska. Brownlow and Gulick were also selected by the Presi- dent on his advisory committee, with Charles E. Merriam, professor of po- litical science at the University of Chicago as a third member, The House also has a special com- | mittee to study reorganization, Chair- man Buchanan of the Appropriations Committee being chairman. The other members are: Chairman John J. Cochran of the Committee on Ex- penditures, Representative Prentiss Brown of Michigan, who in the re- cent primary won the Democratic nomination for Senator; Representa- tive Prederick R. Lehlbach, Republican, of New Jersey, former chairman of | the Civil Service Committee, and Rep- resentative James W. Wadsworth, Re- publican, of New York. As far as can be learned this committee has not started its work. Prosecutor in Jam. LOS ANGELES (#).—United States District Attorney Pierson Hall lost his brief case. He found it only to learn | his 6-year-old daughter, Mary Ellen, had appropriated it for use as & school | lunch box. Over his code book was smeared rasberry jam. i HAHN Cast Your BALLOT ~—for the people’s choice ««+ « the most modern, the most satisfactory shoe re- newal service in the history of this gr-r-eat republic! We stand on a platform of 14 planks— all together a Vvitally needed service . . . Get ready for bad weather afoot . . . let us overhaul your last season’s shoes— or dye ‘em! SAVE! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1936. He has only one guess rig]zt or wrong / % ?‘W about gasoline Yy can't be wrong ... when I+ is made in only one grade ...and that grade gives unfailing top performance Get your copy of this new book, “ELECTION YEAR FACTS” edited by LOWELL THOMAS gasol.ine, for .gll.ftdllf Jf‘ttl.ll], fliyfitflifly CCCGICtCtl.OIl, ; AT ANY SUNOCO STATION Knockless power, flon’ mileage, Clean burning action. 7;51 Blue Sunoco in your own car, against any SELLS AT REGULAR GAS PRICE While-You-Wait Service 14th & -G Leave at any Hahn Store er Phone Dlst. 5470 NO NEED TO PAY MORE ... THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU PAY LESS