REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE WEATHER BUREAU. 



United States Departiment of Agriculture, 



Weather Bureau, 



Washington^ Septemher 12, 1922. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a report of the opera- 

 tions of the AVeather Bureau durin<i^ the fiscal year ended June 30, 

 1922. 



Respectfully, 



C. F. Marvin, 



Chief of Bureau. 

 Hon. Henry C. Wallace, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Another year of progress and growth of the Nation has passed, 

 during which the Weather Bureau has maintained its operations 

 and service in a normal and efficient manner. There is an increasing 

 use made of the advices, warnings, and information supplied by the 

 Weather Bureau to the public and those interested in agriculture, 

 commerce, the industries, and navigation. Use of the Wea,ther 

 Bureau service means preparedness for future conditions and result- 

 ing economic benefits which constitute in a high degree the justifica- 

 tion for the costs of conducting the work. 



The program of the daily routine of service is far from a per- 

 functory one, founded as it is upon hundreds of twice-daily reports 

 of ever-changing, ever- variable weather conditions and their distribu- 

 tion over a wide extent of territory which, in fact, now includes a 

 great jDart of the Northern Hemisphere. Alert and intensive mental 

 study of daily weather maps on the part of a corps of many experts 

 is essential to the issue of successful advices, w^arnings, and informa- 

 tion. Under the present unsatisfactory conditions of employment in 

 the Weatlier Bureau, the conservation and recruiting of its corps 

 of experts trained in this work is a very serious matter. In no way 

 is this more convincingl}^ demonstrated than by the results of the 

 thorough and careful study made by the Bureau of Efficiency of 

 the job schedules of Weather Bureau employees, resulting in the allo- 

 cation of practically all employees of the bureau to salary grades 

 according to the proposed reclassification, appreciably in advance 

 of the compensation these efficient and deserving employees now re- 

 ceive. It seems appropriate to quote the following passage from my 

 annual report of last year: 



The long-promised and long-delayed reclassification of Government salaries 

 Is nowhere more greatly needed or justified than in the Weather Bureau. The 

 imaginary economies in withholding urgently needed increases for properly 

 strengthening and recruiting the personnel are not economies, but sap ana 



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