The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1922, Page 4

PAYS $14,000,000 AVEAR SHPPNG BOARD HELP: ITE COLLAR AIS THRIVE wank and File Get Meagre Pay * for Services, While Army of thing Iike 1,100 steel vessels taid up. To look after these ships requires 2,223 employees who draw total yéar- Rayner ras we ly wages of $2,789,240. Only eleven of those employees draw more than The white collar staff average In $5,103 a year. Only the President, Cabinet members, members of Con- gress, judges, executives, some secre- taries and heads of departments are paid salaries-in, excess of this. ‘The number of Government: employees outside the Shipping Board drawing sularies averaging more than $5,000 is comparatively small. By Martin Green. Correspondent of The Evening People as? paying salaries|crs are paid $12,000 a year each. Emergency Fleet Corporation staff covering seven pages. The salary in- creases and new jobs appearing in this Hist amount to about $2,600,000, And this at a time when Gen, “Hell's Maria” Dawes fs roaming around Washington with an axe, under Presi- dential warrant, supposedly slashing expenses right and left in every de- partment of the Government, Gen. Dawes was ‘‘Hell’s Mariaing’’ profusely when Albert D. Lasker was tuken out of a Chicago advertising agenoy and placed at the head ef the Shipping Board last June, with him from Chicago Mr. Eimer Schlesinger, an eminent ¢erporation lawyer, who is now the guiding light in the Emergency Fleet Corporation. But Gen. Dawes didn’t scare Chair man Lasker and Mr, Schlesinger. ‘They proceeded to bring in W. J. Love and J, B. Small, experienced shipping men, at $36,000 @ year each, and H. 8. Kimball at $30,000 a year, pay of the lawyers to $11,000 a year maximum. However, the lawyers are .there— seventy-eight of them in the Ship- ping Board, and their combined eal- aries make a hole in the appropria- tion amounting to $700,000 a year. The other employees of the legal de- partment run the salary roll ‘up to $962,681 a year, and other expenses amount to $514,340 a year, bringing the total expense of the legal depart- a thril! through the Shipping Board fore was boosted to $25,000 a year, or practically trebled. One man’s salary was raised to $10,000 a year because the Shipping Board didn't want to humiliate him, asa member of the organization tes- tified In defending Mr, Lasker’s sal- @ry standards before & sub-commit- tee of the Appropriations Committee. One of his swhordinates stated that steamship comipanies have been pay- ing thelr managers and other execu- tives from $60,000 to $60,000 to $100,- 000 & year. A representative re- marked that steamship companies paying such salaries ought not to come into Congress asking for a sub- sidy, Outside of the Administration forces the Shipping Board has cut down expenses and reduced the pay- rol], The reason is that the organ- ization had about 800 ships at sea a year ago and flow has about 300 which register an operating loss of about $1,000,000 a month. 1 and A. F. Mack at $26,000 a and ignature to the adoption papers pre- A300 o siaate Tho bulk of them draw She OT neyers to Whee they| The activities of the Shipping! iF"i'ty Or ‘Hunter and his wile. Dr. ‘rom $50 a month to $140 a month. promised salaries ranging from Board and the Emergency Fleet Cor-| Hunter is the pastor of the Presby- The average pay ts « little more than) $10,000 a year to $25,000 @ year,|PoTation at this time are confined to| terian Church of the Covenant. $70 a month, or $840 a year. Congress, however, restricted the|*UP*rvising the operation of the ves- sels still afloat, caring for the vessels tied up and trying to sell ships and surplus property. There is also un- der way a great advertising cam- paign to attract passengers and freight to Shipping Board vessels. The organization which has in charge the disposition of surplus material has @ payroll of $1,765,554 a year. Other expenses bring the cogt of this department up to $2,778,491 a year. There is a lot of complaint The complainants say the department names to a newspaper, but they say they would willingly go before a Congressional Board of Inquiry and testify under oath to some of their experiences. nn STEPFATHER MADE FATHER. Manager of Italtam Bank Now Le- gal Parent of Wifes Children. Surrogate Foley approved the papers that made Phillp Reed, Manager of the National City Ban’c at Genoa, Italy, father to Thomas, Henry and Elizabeth Marjorie Hall, eighteen, eixteen and fourteen respectively. He had been only their stepfather, thelr mother having married him after she divorced Louts R. Hall of Greenwich, Conn, Harriet Cecelia Herbert, five months old, ame the daughter of the Rev. Dr, a irs. Graham C, Hunter of No. 150 East 40th Street yesterday when Surrogate Cohalan affixed his murror wail Tevealto you after using Gouraud’s Cream for the firs time. Send (5c. for trial Stee Gourauds ¢ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1922. Ca —: Best & Co. Fifth Avenue at 35th Street Established 1879 ’ THURSDAY New Spring Apparel for Women ’ At prices as interesting as the clothes! Women’s Hand Tailored Tweed Suits 49.50 ° imported and domestic tweeds in box-coat or belted style, with stitched collar and new double stitched pockets. World.) ‘The Chairman of the Shipping| ment up to $1,477,021 a year. Ale “who “cone to anne ee PERS Bopeeeie aoe Silk lined and beautifully hand-tailored. Copen, tan, TON, Feb. 224-The| togrd and the other six commission-|_ Th* Lasker policy of high pay sent |the intention of purchasing suppiles. beige, coral, jade, grey. Sizes 36 to 42. and the Bmergency Fleet Corpora-!i5 a tard one to b . x THIRD FLOOR , Ma to the Shipping Board and Meith wate ieee it token aT iit Oriental Cream cy Fleet Corporation total- at $11,000, dGe at $10,800 and nine-|4¥cted along conventional Govern- tely $14,000,000 a year. gsbovt onefourth, or 63,878,220, teen at $10,000. There is one at $9,500, seven at $9,000, eight at $8,500, two of the lucky 662—who pay forty-six at $4,500, sixty-one at $4,200, eurhteen at $4,000, 142 at $3,600, sev- enty-four at $8,300, f Among the 142 employees drawing $3,600 a year is E, E. Remsburg, a brotherin-law .of President Harding. | He was put on the payroll on Oct. 12, 1921, in the Francisco office of the Shipping Board with the title of “agent.” Mr, Remsburg has heen for some years a resident of Southern | California engaged in raising oranges. In the Congressional Record of Jan. 21 of this year appears a list of the white collar Shipping Boagd and ment lines. When Mr. Lasker began planting the payroll with high sal- An instance is that of Mr. A. J. Frey, one of the Vice Presidents of the Emergency YWleet Corporation. He was appointed on May 1, 1918— during the war—when the. Shipping Board was hitting on all cylinders and turning out ships like a machine turne out cigar boxes, and his sal- ary was $3,500 a year. He struggled along on that, ap- parently contented until the Lasker regime came in. New men holding positions approximating his in im- portance, were put on the payroll at $25,000 a year, His salary, there- ay ai ‘ lil A Sensible Corset For Sports Wear While the very young girl may successfully wear an elastic girdle, All Wool Tweea Cape, Silk Lineu, $19.50 NEW FROCKS! Materials including Canton Crepe, Roshanara, Kasha Crepe, Crepe Knit, Poiret Twill, Taffeta, Tricotine, ete. $14.95 to $35 $11.95 to $35 Sale of 500 Sport Coats And Capes —Camel’s Hair Women’s New Spring Top-Coats at $8,000, two ut $7,800, twenty-nine aried men he had to inerease the $42 Dersohe drawing salaries ot 1.008, forty-nine at $6,000, foriy.|*ulaties of hundreds of old. em- Hs $3,120 0 Yaar up to 995,000. | occ” ut’ $b.000, eighteen at $4800, | Dloyees holding elmilar positions, ® English tweeds, tailored after the English manner; Scotch plaids, Shagmore and Polo coats, with raglan sleeves in loose or belted style. Sizes 34 to 42. 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