$1 out of $5

$1 out of $5

As Congress had authorized him to do, President Hoover last week signed an executive order creating a Veterans' Administration. In it will be united the independent Veterans' Bureau, the Department of the Interior's Pensions Bureau, independent National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The President said: "I regard this consolidation as the most important step in governmental machinery reform since this Administration came into office."

Long had the President recommended such unification of nationwide veterans' welfare activities. High were his hopes that one office force, one chief, would reduce the costly prevailing ratio of salaries to huge disbursements. Under the new pension laws, the Veterans' Administration will deal with about $800,000,000, far more than any other U. S. department, $1 out of every $5 spent by the Government.

Choosing a man to spend that sum wisely might have been a hard task, but President Hoover found the man at hand. He appointed to be Administrator of Veterans' Affairs the Director of the Veterans' Bureau, Brig. General Frank Thomas Hines, Wartime Chief of Embarkation, famed Army administrator decorated by five nations. Continued the President: ''General Hines has been offered a very important commercial position, but has agreed to remain on temporarily to give me the advantage of his wide experience in reorganization of the new setup. As I have said, we will be able to make important economies."

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