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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1937. e —_—_—,€Y,Y,Y__,_,_—,— e - -—-_Y,S,_l e A DPESFEHT FOR TENURE LAWS Convenfion Reports Demand Greater Job Security for Teachers. Bs the Associated Press. DETROIT, June 30.—Long a cham- pion of “academic freedom,” the Na- tional Education Associatign girded itself anew for thie struggle at its seventy-fifth annual convention today. Reports to the representative ass sembly, legislative body of the N. E. A, redefined academic freedom as a ne- cessity for proper conduct of “dem- ccratic affairs” and demanded enact- | ment of teacher tenure laws in all States. A 1936 Michigan case of “mistreat- ment” of school teachers was cited by the Committee on Tenure headed by Donald DuShane of Columbus, Ind., school superintendent, in denouncing “unjustifiable” discharges. The committee asked the gagement of five re-en- Highland Park, Mich., teachers who were fired, the | report said, “primarily” because of their support of certain candidates in Management, Louis Brownlow, says it committee.” Follows January Report. the authors collaborated, crat, of Arkansas. the scope of that legislation. ing Office, and obviously former Con- troller General John R. McCarl, com- its grip on Government purse-strings, tures. “Current budgetary should be, & control is, responsibility of or trol,” the report said. sibility does not now | upon the President because of | improper distribution of powers in the !by the Committee on Administrative which is headed by “does not necessarily reflect the views of the In general, however, the report went | along with that of January on which and also | with the reorganization bill just sub- mitted by Senator Robinson, Demo- However, the pro- posed appropriations set-up is beyond It continued the critical trend of the original report, reserving its bit- terest shafts for the General Account- plaining that the authority that may | be exercised by a controller general makes that official a “little President | in matters of administrative routine.” In suggesting that Congress loosen the report argued for permanercy of | the policy that has been adoptea with | | respect to some emergency appropria- tions, under which the President has | been given a free hand in expendi- the President, although he may delegate to fiscal officers under his direction the authority to exercise such con- should find it advantageous to make the appropriations in lump amounts, subject to executive release and di- rection in their expenditure.” G. A. O. Control a Hindrance. Another stumbling block to free- dom in expenditures, it was added, | has been the control exercised by the General Accounting Office. The set-up proposed for the Treas- ury probably would be possible under the direct or implied powers of the Robinson bill, and includes a plan for stripping it of patronage employes. In urging that the Budget Bureau be made an “integral part” of the Treasury, the report pointed to their interrelated functions, and said the bureau as constituted has “two se- rious shortcomings.” Explaining, it was pointed out that the bureau “lacks a strong, broad-gauged staff and it has failed to develop some of its important | functions” along the lines of research and investigation. The Budget Bureau would be one {of five or six major divisions into | which the Treasury would be laid out The others would be fiscal control, revenue, receipts and payments, and r | supply, but it was added that a unit or office should be created to “concern | itself with the borrowing activities and the ultimate liquidation of the various | loan agencies of the Government that “This respon- | rest squarely | the LAST DAY have been set up under emergency legislation.” “Each of the proposed bureaus or offices of the Treasury Department,” the report continued, “should be un- der the immediate management of a director or commissioner, who would be a permanent service officer of the Government. In the division and sec- tion staffs of these bureaus or offices the so-called political appointees, such as the commissioners and collectors of internal revenue and of customs, the controllers of customs, the register and assistant register, the treasurer and the assistant treasurer, and the director of the mint, should be elimi- nated or replaced by permanent serv- ice officers.” The fiscal control bureau would take over certain functions of the General Accounting Office, including the right to settle all claims either by or against the United 3tates, and to maintain & central accounting system for the Gov- ernment. The supply office was seen as an ideal landing spot for the Gov- ernment Printing Office. Public health, the controller of the currency and part or all of the func- tions of the Coast Guard would be transferred elsewhere. More than half of the 62-page re- port was devoted to criticism of the General Accounting Office, where, in 15 years, “instances abound of prac- tices required by decisions of the controller General that are mad- dening to observe when better results could be obtained more quickly and less expensively by different practices.” If the report recommendations— which practically are on all fours with the Robinson bill—are carried out, it said the G. A. O. will be cut down to 15 or 20 per cent of its present size. The Budget Bureau would get the Accounting Office duties under the Robinson bill that the report would vest in the fiscal control office of the Treasury, but otherwise the two are in agreement. In effect, pre-audits would be done away with and post- audit of accounts carried out by a general accounting office, which would be an arm of Congress under the di- rection of a general auditor. Advance Decisions Favored. On the question of pre-audits, how- ever, the report said: “To insure uniformity and restraint without impairing executive responsi- bility, the Treasury should give the equivalent of advance decisions on doubtful questions regarding payments. ‘These should govern the action of administrative officers as advance de- cisions of the controller general now do, except that they might be subject to opinions of the Attorney General regarding the Treasury’s jurisdiction to decide questions. Furthermore, advance decisions wouid, of course, be within the range of comment by the auditor. If he found them objec- tionable and the Treasury proved un- willing to modify them, he should report them to Congress for action. “At this point a Joint Congressional Committee on Public Accounts, such as provided by the Robinson bill, would enter. “The work of such a committee should be highly effective,” the report says. “There is abundant evidence of | this at present in the occasional ap- | pearances of cabinet officers before congressional committees. If the Becretary of the Treasury or his deputy were regularly required to appear before this committee to defend in the presence of the chief auditor all payments and decisions upon which he and the auditor disagreed, an ample basis would exist for intelligent and effective action by the committee and by the Congress to hoid the ex= ecutive fully accountable.” Moore’s Moorwhite Primer, the pere fect seal for exterior woodwork. 922 N. Y. Ave. Natl. 8610 to ENROLL for BERLITZ SUMMER COURSES \ French. German & school board election. A sixth teacher, dismissed at the game time, later was re-employed to fill a vacancy. The dismissals in the light” of the teachers' political activ- ities, the report charged, constituted a | “definite denial of civil rights.” A report by Dean Henry Lester Smith of Indiana University, chair- present system of financial adminis- | tration. Appropriations Made to Agencies. “In the first place, Congress makes appropriations directly to the spending agencies of the Government. This | procedure reverses that normally fol- | lowea by parliamentary governments, { under which these agencies musi come man of the Committee on Academic | to the Executive for a release of the Freedom, said that only with such ;'appmm')auons before making expen- Jiberty can “democratic affairs be well | ditures. It compels the President to conducted” and teachers work “with- | treat with the spending agen out interference | order to persuade them to sc Representative Brooks Fletcher, | the expenditure of their appropria- Democrat, of Ohio, co-author of a | tions over the months or quarters of §100,000,000 schoot aid bill which he | the fiscal year, setting up, if possible, said was blocked in its progress by & {a small reserve which may not be House committee’s use of the “un- |expended. Under this scheme, cur- democratic device™ of the secret ballot, | rent budgetary control is little more advised the convention last night to | than a matter of persuasion create stronger public opinion in be- “Not only rs this so, but Congress half of education. | has greatly strengthened the hand of bureaucracy in the several spending agencies by making detailed appro- priations and attaching thereto many stipulations regarding the purposes of expenditure. Althoug priations unnecessarily restr | istrative action, the bureau chiafs have | preferred to be thus hampered by C gress in making their expen rather than submit to tem of budegtary cc President “This situation does not see have sufficiently impressed con & sional Jeaders to catise them to aban- || S lestne sotsfoction Qua- don, as they should, detailed appro- | SivelylinWask ngtonibyiBarker: Spanish_and save 5 POSITIVELY no enroliment for these Special Courses shall be accepted after JULY 1st. Classes % AM. to § P.M. The Berlitz School of Languages 1115 Connecticut Ave. NAt. 0270 FOR SALE OFFICE and BANK EQUIPMENT Apply Park Savings Bank 14th & Kenyon Sts. N.W. Phone Col. 5000 JOHN ARGENTINIAN N;MED BUENOS AIRES, June 30 () —Dr.| J. A Saralegui was announced today as Argentina’s representative for the International Congress of Radiology in Chicago. 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