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MAXIMl'M hAI.AIlIK»(. 



STATEMENT OF DR. E. D. BALL. Dlirrrrnp nr SCIENTIFIC 

 WORK, DEPARTMENT OF . :tE. 



Mr. ANi>i.K><>\ W t" will i.ii.f w|) ihi' itriu 



iclatiw to luuxirmitu .«^iiluri«'s, and tlir cuMiinii 



I^ill on tlurt it«^m. Supposo you tell us what ymi hiivi« 

 this itciii tliis yc^ar and what you prop«)».<' to dii 



Doctor li.vi-L. In tho r«)nsi(h'ration of this ilr.n m ii 

 \vi' ui;iO('d that ono-half of the positions (hat yoii havr jid 

 should ho xi^vil for laisinjx the sahirio.s of the outstanding; rt->ran'h 

 MU'n of tho (K'partincnt, ^o tliat wt* wouM h(» nhh- to hohl tl. n 



that we ah.sohitrlv must haN c in t)r(h'r to he «'fhcirnt. and ii;. ihr 

 otluM" half shinihl \w res<»rv«<d for hrin^in;^ in nuMi from thr out'itir f<»r 

 positions in which wo <lid not havo in tho doi)artnu>nt the loadornhip 

 that wo do-sirod. As tho Soorotary has tolii you, up to tl«o prosi-nl 

 timo wo havo not used any of tho $(),">()() maximum positinr\>, Ix • •• ■• 

 wo liavo not boon ahh' to (iiul tho mon wlio had I ho <juahly «»f I. . 

 sliip on tho outsi(h' who woro willing; to como into the doparlnient 

 for .?(),50(). 



I do not moan to say that wo will not <;ot tho^o mon. hu; 



lindinii; it exooodingly difhoult to indui'o ni«>n to ot>mo to tho depart- 

 ment won at $<),50(), and tho same thini; is true of the S"). .'»()() posi- 

 tions. The men whom wo havo oonsidoro«l that wo oouM ofTer 

 §/)..")()() to havo found it vor\ dillioidt to make up their minds to ( .m.' 

 to the department at that salary. 'V\\o reasons for thit are t 

 Fiist, tlicit the salaiy standards of tho J)o|)artmi'nt of A«;ri<'ulturo are 

 not yet oomparahlo with tho salary standards of tho odu<'ati<»n.d 

 institutions from whi<'h wo must draxs those mon -that is. from lh«' 

 loading univei-sities and a^^rioultural schools. In the .second pi««i\ 

 tho retirement privileo^os in the Goveniment service are not in ar.y 

 way oomparahlo with the retirement privileges of tho avera.' '•• 

 tional institutions. Tlio maximum retirement pay of a - 

 niun in the Department of Agriculture at this time is S7l20 a yea! . 

 wliilo tho average retirement pay for a professor in an institution is 

 about one-half of his salary th.it is. it i< sometimes inio-iialf of his 

 salary at the time ho is retired, atul it is s(>motimes one-fourth of the 

 sum of his s»Uary at the beginning of his professoi"ship an«l at the end. 

 In any event, it is much higher than tho retirement p.-iy in tho 

 department. 



In oflering those advanced p(>siti(ms to men on the outside, they 

 must, of course, be men of relative maturity, bocau.se they must havo 

 already developed h'adership. That means that they h 'eady 



acquired a considerable interest in the retircnu-nt |i- .. ^^ It 

 means, in other words, that it will not bo long before they will bo 

 able to utilize the retirement privilege which begins in the m>titution 

 usually at GO and sometimes at ()"» yoais of age. while the (lovernmont 

 service with our smaller retirement pay. it does n«)t begin untd 70 

 veai-s of lige. Tho thini factor, and it has been the detormininjj 

 Victor in several cjvs(»s, has been that when they come to Washington 



