202 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
The CHarrman. Are these estimates given in conformity with your 
recommendations? 
Professor Moore. Yes, sir; entirely so. 
The Cuarrman. There is one additional at $3,000, the one that you 
have spoken of; I understand that. The other two professors come in 
the same as last year. I take it that you promote one of the profes- 
sors to $3,000, and take one of your district forecasters and give him 
$2,500. 
Professor Moore. Thatis correct. The estimates are in accordance 
with that statement. If you take one of the men at $2,500 and increase 
him to $3,000, you do not decrease the number of $2,500 professors, 
because a district forecaster moves up to that position. 
The CHarrman. You do not increase the number, only the salaries? 
Professor Moore. That is all you do. We want to inaugurate a 
complete flood division in the Weather Bureau, and I think that recent 
disasters, both in Kansas and other places, show the need of such a 
division. It is of great importance to the country. 
Mr. Bowtr. Does that necessitate any increase of salaries for the 
men doing the same work? 
Professor Moors. The officials referred to are men of high scientific 
attainments; they have seen many years of arduous service and study; 
neither of them has been engaged in the work for less than twenty 
years, and they are in the front rank of their profession. They are 
the chief forecasters of the Weather Bureau, and upon the character 
of their work must rest, in a great measure, the value of the weather 
service. Their responsibilities are tremendous. At times the balance 
between life and death hangs upon their judgment, to say nothing of 
the saving or loss of millions of property. The warnings of a single 
storm moving up the Atlantic seaboard save hundreds of lives and 
from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 of property during each storm, and 
there are a number of these storms each year. Since so much depends 
upon the skill and judgment of these men, it would certainly seem a 
wise economy to pay them a fair salary for their work—one even 
larger than recommended. 
either one of these men has mentioned the subject of an increase 
of salary to me. 
Mr. Borws. I think you made a good case for them; I just did not 
understand it. 
Professor Moorr. I am going quite fully into that. 
Mr. Burtzeson. I would Tike to know, before you go ahead, if this 
provision is made for the flood service, whether it is going to embrace 
the Brazos river? 
Professor Moors. Certainly. We have already sent an inspector 
down there. 
The Cuarrman. You are not increasing the force, only the salaries 
of the force? 
Professor Moors. Yes, sir. In another paragraph you will see that 
we have asked for $30,000 for this flood work, and we propose to make 
a division here with five clerks where we have only one, and we pro- 
pose to have a professor in charge of that work, to take up the work 
more thoroughly than has heretofore been done. 
The chief of the proposed river and flood division will be charged 
with the supervision and proper conduct of the river service of the 
entire country, which, even in its present partially incomplete state, 
maintains over 300 river and rainfall stations. : 
