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Training for Counselors to
Be Conducted by George
Washington U.
To help provide efficient counselors
for various camps conducted by Com
munity Chest agencies, the fifth
camp counselor training course for
men and women will be opened Feb
ruary 11. It will be sponsored by the
Council of Social Agencies and con
ducted by George Washington Uni
versity in co-operation with the Camp
Committee of the council. The course
will be given 12 Thursday evenings
from February 11 through May 6,
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Such training was said to be needed
this year because of a shortage of
competent counselors and camp offi
cials when the two Community Chest
camps were opened last year on the
Federal Government's Chopawamslc
site at Dumfries, Va. The Boys’
Club of Washington, which con
ducted one camp, had an adequate
staff for its own purposes, but the
Jewish Community Center camp, a
new project,, had to employ entirely
new personnel.
May Add Third Project.
Prospects that a third camping
project will be added at Chopawamsic
this year to take care ot those who
formerly went, to Camp Good Will,
under the auspices of the Family
Service Association, enlarges the field
for counselors. The course generally
attracts young college men and
women.
National and local leaders in the
camping field will conduct the course
discussing camping and its place in
education, characteristics of the camp
age child, the camp program, stand
ards of health and safety, hints for
successful leadership and similar
topics.
At the section meetings the classes
will be divided into sections studying
hand crafts under the direction of
Jacqueline T. Smith as chairman, na
ture lore with Lillian Smith as chair
man. programs for camp fires and spe
cial occasions with Margaret Cross as
chairman.
One Week End at Camp.
One week end will be spent st a
camp near Washington for practical
experiences in camp craft. There will
also be several hikes with camp crafts
activities for those interested.
One semester hour of credit in the
school of education is given for the
successful completion of the course.
Registration will be conducted Febru
ary 3 and 4 in Corcoran Hall. College
students or persons over 18 years of
age may register.
The committee in charge of arrange
ments consists of Mary Edith Coulson,
Council of Social Agencies; Dorothy
Davidson, director of Camp May Fla
ther; Julian Salamon, field co-ordi
nator, National Park Service: Linn C.
Drake, Boy Scout executive; Miss
Florence Dunlap, director of Kamp
Kahlert: Louis Barrett and Ruth N.
Atwell, director of physical education
for women. George Washington Uni
versity, who is the chairman.
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SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
TO HOLD EXHIBITION
forty-sixth Annual Event at Cor
coran Gallery January 31
to February 22.
The forty-sixth annual exhibition of
the Washington Society of Artists is
scheduled at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art from January 31 through Feb
ruary 22.
The exhibition will be judged by
three painters and a sculptor, not of
the society, who will present a first
priae of $100. Bronse medals will
be awarded In the various classes of
the exhibition, figure composition,
landscape, still life and sculpture.
The final date for entry cards hai
been extended to this Wednesday.
$126,547 LOANED IN 1936
The Credit Union of Treasury Local
262, National Federation of Federal
Employes, made loans aggregating
*126.547 in 1936, according to the
annual report made public yesterday.
The assets increased 70 per cent to
$68,645.15 in the last year.
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it only toot$ a slight movement to convince him to go away from there in a hurry.—A. P. Photo.
Cost of Federal Press Staffs in I
Excess of $100,000 Monthly
Uncle Sam is spending about $1,*
200,000 a year paying salaries of em
, ployes whose principal duty is dis
tribution to press and public infor
mation regarding his multitudinous
! activities.
Thirteen of the Government's major
| agencies are. spending $78,972 a month
—which is nearly $110 an hour, 24
I hours a day—for the salaries of 312
such employes. Pay rolls of other agen
cies not included in this total will
bring the grand total to more than
$100,000 a month at a conservative
estimate.
The Providence Journal assembled
this information, similar to that gath
ered by the Brookings Institution for
the special Senate Committee on Gov
ernmental Reorganisation headed by
Senator Byrd of Virginia, through
inquiries made at the 10 regular Gov
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eminent departments and the eight
major alphabetical agencies.
Two of the regular departments—
Juatice and Labor—ignored repeated
requests for the information. Another
regular department, Iriterior, has a
press section combined with that of
the Public Works Administration.
Only one alphabetical agency. Reset
tlement Administration, failed to pro
vide the statistics, stating that pres
sure of work made it impossible to
get the Information until it had been
assembled for the Byrd committee.
Scope of Propaganda.
These statistics provide the first au
thentic picture of the scope of the
Federal Government's propaganda
agencies, which critics have charged
are overmanned.
Whether such charges are well
founded cannot be stated because of
the lack of comparative figures for j
other years. Admittedly there are j
more press and public relations em
ployes on the Government pay roll now
than before the New Deal, but, with
the vast emergency program and ex- |
panded regular activities of the Gov- i
ernment, some additional employes I
were necessary to keep the public in
formed.
Senator Byrd's group has not yet
completed its survey of the press agent ;
situation. In the meantime. Senator i
Byrd said he is reserving decision as
to whether, the press corps of some
departments are top-heavy.
The Department of Agriculture
leads all other Government agencies
both in the number of press and :
propaganda employes and in the
amount of monthly pay roll. Ex- (
plaining the employment of 78 persons
with a monthly pay roll of $21,762, j
this department asserts that it carries
one of the world s largest research or
ganizations, and that some press and
public relations employes are neces
nr; to give the result* of thi* re
search to the world.
Next In size is the psess corps of
the comparatively new Social Security
Board, employing 61 persons with a
monthly pay roll of $15,125. Social
security is finding what certain other
emergency agencies, notably F. H. A.
and H. O. L. C„ discovered in 1033—
that a high-powered press section is
necessary to "sell1’ its program to the
public.
Third in size is the A. A. A. press
and public relations corps of 46 per
sons with a monthly pay roll of
$11,679. In the absence of definite
Information, it is believed that re
settlement’s propaganda section com
pares with that of A. A. A.
The War and Navy Departments,
because both follow the custom of
assigning line offioers, who are car
ried on the military pay roll in any
case, to duty as press relations of
ficers, reported only the small items
of civilian clerical assistance for such
officers, thus making the services low.
est ranking of all departments in size
of press bureaus.
In view of the fact that the survey
showed total monthly pay rolls of
$78,972 for 13 agencies, a conservative
estimate of the total pay roll of all
press bureaus was made at well over
$100,000 a month, or more than
$1,000,000 a year.
Republicans charged during the
campaign that the New Deal had
“absorbed'’ hundreds of newspaper
men In key propaganda posts. Maga
zine writers have estimated that the
Ne.w Deal employs up to 1,500 former
newspaper men. Precisely 75 former
newspaper men are employed among
the 312 public relations employes of
the 13 agencies covered by the pres
ent survey.
The following tabulation give* the
number of employes in each of the
Government departments which re
plied to the Providence Journal's re
quest:
Number Monthly
Department. employed, pay roll.
Treasury - .. 15 *4.225
Agriculture . 78 21,672
Interlor-P. W. A_. 8 3,000
War .... ’ 5 710
Navy _ 5 350
F. H. A .. 25 6.913
Post Office_..... 4 800
State . 4 1358
W. P. A. 32 7,010
A. A. A.. 46 11.679
Commerce _13 3.130
Social Security.61 15,125
H. O. L. C.. 16 3,000
Totals _312 *78,972
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HON ADVISES
G.O.P.TOAID LABOR
Suggests Party Make Close
Contacts—Bricker Calls
for New Leaders.
Bt (lie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 16 —The Re
publican party was called upon today
by National Chairman John D. M.
Hamilton to "re-establish” close con
tact with labor, while an Ohio party
stalwart, former State Attorney Gen
eral John W. Bricker, suggested new
leadership was needed.
Hamilton. Bricker and Mrs. Grace
B. Reynolds, director for Western
States of the women’s division of the
.Republican National Committee, all
spoke before the sixteenth annual
luncheon of the Women’s National
Republican Club to an audience of
about 3.000.
Hamilton said the Republican party
had come to be regarded as a "closed
corporation,” and at another point,
obviously referring to the Old Guard,
he remarked:
"Liberal is as liberal does. Let
those who proclaim themselves as
liberal accept a liberal program.”
He was not present when Bricker,
calling the Republicans to "con
scientious service to party and
country,” said the situation "requires
a new leadership.”
"There are few people In this hail
today who have access to labor and
who understand the needs and aspira
tions of labor," Hamilton said. “The
first thing the Republican party
should do in its effort to rehabilitate
is to re-establish that personal rela
tionship.”
"No matter how' the vote was read,”
he added, “we stand in the position of
a minority party.”
The task before that minority, he
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; operate with the majority wherever |
co-operation was deemed deserved and
to come in closer contact with labor
and other groups.
Briclcer, who denounced the Demo
crats for “greed for patronage,’’ out
lined this suggested course for his
party:
Opposition to come “from the intel
j ligent rank and file’’; “study and un
derstanding of what is taking place"
and a campaign of "education and re
lentless personal effort.”
"We today,” he added, “are not
fighting for jobs or political control,
but for the preservation of a system,
under which we have so gloriously
builded.”
Mrs. Reynolds attributed Republican
defeat to what she described as the
short duration of the campaign.
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