Do.

2

1,000

2 old and 1 new car on mine inspections.
2 old cars on mine inspections.

Do.

2

1,100

2

200

900

1

1,650

1 old and 2 new cars on mine inspections.

Total

70

41, 130

58

11, 130

30,000

127

55,000

Dr. MENDENHALL. That is the same amount of limitation, Mr. Fitzpatrick, that we had in 1936 and 1937; and that is now estimated by the Bureau of the Budget for 1938. It is an amount based on our experience with our large fleet of cheap cars, nearly all of them trucks. Mr. FITZPATRICK. There is a table here showing new cars-70 in all I believe in the amount of $41,000.

Dr. MENDENHALL. The net purchase cost, after exchange of wornout vehicles, is limited to $30,000. We had on June 30, last, 170 passenger-carrying vehicles and 521 trucks. That is nearly 700 cars to be serviced. This $55,000 is the limitation on the amount that may be expended for the servicing of the 170 passenger-carrying cars. That is practically all maintenance, operation, gasoline, and so forth.

Mr. FITZPATRICK. That $55,000 is under the cars as I see it here. Dr. MENDENHALI. One hundred and seventy cars. That is about $300 annually per car for gasoline, oil, repairs, tires, and all of the rest of the expense, including storage when necessary.

Mr. FITZPATRICK. The total cars there is not 700. The total is 127, and then there are 70 new ones.

Dr. MENDENHALL. That item is for the servicing of a total of 170 passenger-carrying cars; and 170 goes into $55,000 about 300 times. That means something like $300 a year for complete maintenance of a passenger-carrying vehicle, including its gas, its oil, equipment, and

tires.

Mr. FITZPATRICK. That includes gas and every thing?

Dr. MENDENHALL. Yes. That is the result of experience.

These cars, of course, are given very rough usage; some for a considerable portion of the year. I have not the figures on the periods of service. Some, of course, run the year round.

Forty-four of those cars are more than 4 years old. Thirty-two are more than 2 years old. The rest are relatively new cars. From our own experience we find that it costs something like that to maintain a car for a year.

USE OF OFFICIAL CARS ON PERSONAL BUSINESS

Mr. LEAVY. Do any of your people ever use these cars for personal purposes, private use?

Dr. MENDENHALL. I think we can safely say "No." There may be an occasional use contrary to regulations.

Mr. LEAVY. Is there a regulation prohibiting the use of them for personal purposes?

Mr. SEARS. Yes.

Mr. LEAVY Do you have your cars identified by some insignia indicating whom they belong to"

Dr. MENDENHALL. Oh, yes.

Mr SEARS. They are all required to carry the Survey's emblem on their doors. Of course, they also carry Government tags

Mr. LEAVY. There has not been a single instance where you had an employee making use of those cars on holidays and Sundays? Dr. MENDENHALL. I do not know of any single instance. Questions like this, however, have arisen: Government cars have been used all day on Government work, and in some instances they have been taken home in the evening by the Government employees living in that town, who have stored them in their own personal

garages. I don't know the details, but there has been a Comptroller General controversy over that.

Also, we may have Government garages, public garages, Survey garages, that are not adequate or which were crowded at the time.

I cannot say that there have not been sporadic misuses of this kind. I should not dare to say that among the hundreds of our employees that kind of thing has never been done. But certainly it has not been done in any general way. Certainly it is contrary to regulations. And certainly these men are constantly impressed with the fact that they should not do it.

Mr. LEAVY. Then, in addition to this group of cars that you have here, do you have employees who use their own personal cars, and you allow them on a mileage basis?

Dr. MENDENHALL. Yes. Where we do not have Government cars available for a particular assignment we make an arrangement with them and give them mileage or actual expenses.

Mr. LEAVY. How many cars of that type do you have?

Dr. MENDENHALL. There are relatively few. I could not give you an intelligent guess as to the number. When they are used, it is apt to be for a single trip out from a point where there is no public car available.

Mr. LEAVY. Do you have a fixed schedule of compensation for use of a personal car by an employee by the mile?

Dr. MENDENHALL. We use a schedule by which in each case a mileage rate is selected so that the cost is less than that by a common carrier. Our figures run 2 and 3 cents a mile in many of these inps. Only in certain types of work do we allow as much as 5 cents

a mile.

Mr. SEARS. That is in straight field work, where men use their cars away from the routes of common carriers, just as they would use an ocial car or truck.

Dr. MENDENHALL. It is our intention that there shall be no abuse of this, and I do not think that there is.

Mr. LEAVY. I want to get this into the record: Do you find that the Government ownership of an automobile is more economical as it *le than it is to have the employee furnish the car and operate a et a mileage basis?

Mr SEARS. Where we find that a car is required to be used constantly, and we have the funds available to purchase a Government car, we ordinarily do so. But in certain types of the work where there. is only an occasional requirement for a car for official purposes, Government ownership would not be economical, and it proves preferable to Low either actual expenses or a mileage reimbursement for the use of a personal car. In practically all such cases, I believe the owner of the car loses, and the Government gains at his expense.

TRADING IN OF OLD CARS IN THE PURCHASE OF NEW

Mr. LEAVY. Do you have any basis upon which to exchange cars after they have had so many miles or after so many years of service? you have any arbitrary basis? I see that you are going to exchange arge number of cars this year.

Mr. SEARS. If we have worn-out and unserviceable cars, we can offer them as trade-ins on the purchase of one or more new cars.

Just as found earlier by experience, the present group of seven working illustrators is just enough to keep pace with the reports as received currently, and has no surplus energey that can reduce the arrearage, which now amounts to more than 1,300 man-days of work. Nevertheless, the small increase included in the estimate for next year, from $21,500 to $22,000, proposes no change from the present personnel (which, with the clerk on half-time, represents a pay roli of $21,570), but merely provides a margin for the required supplies and for the photographic and typesetting work that results in genuine economy and increased output.

ENGRAVING AND PRINTING GEOLOGIC AND TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS

This third subitem provides the funds for publishing, in the Survey's own nap reproduction plant, the geologie, topographic, and other maps that result from the field surveys of the engineers and scientists, and for reprinting them as required. In the face of continued increase in the number of new maps awaiting publication and in the distribution of maps and hence in the requirements for reprinting, the appropriations during the past few years have not been correspondingly increased; on the contrary, they have been considerably less than in earlier years. Tie inevitable result has been an accumulating arrearage in the issue of new map; the abandonment of hope for reprinting nearly 200 geologie folios and numeroas other maps long out of print, but for which the demand continues; and an acceler ated increase in the number of topographic sheets and base maps that are out of stock and awaiting reprint (85 a year ago, and about 160 now), a situation that brings almost daily complaints from Federal and State agencies and from coparies and individuals who badly need the maps, wish to buy them, and cannot understand why the Government lets them stay out of stock and unavailable month after month.

In the past fiscal year, 1936, there was again an increase in the distribution of the maps, especially in the number sold. The total distribution reached pariv

three-quarters of a million copies, of which 80 percent were sold and the rest were distributed to Senators, Representatives, and depository libraries (as provided by law, and to other Federal and State agencies for official use. Distribution of maps and folios during the past 3 years, for comparison, is summarized as follows.

The estimate of $120,000 under this heading for the fiscal year 1938 is at 17crease of $10,000 over the appropriation for the current fiscal year 1937

of this increase is for new equipment, and $5,000 is for completion of part of the work now in arrearage.

Some of our old map reproduction equipment is badly in need of replacene? ↑ and is inadequate for the heavy demands of modern map printing. In the esti mate for 1938 provision is made for the absolitely necessary purchase of a rea map-printing press at a cost of $16,000 to replace an old flat-bed press purcha« ! in 1890, and for $2,000, which represents the minimum needed for misceriates equipment. This amount of $18 000 for equipment is $5,000 more than we a spend for that purpose in 1937, but 84 600 less than we spent in 1936. Other equipment is becomurg bad's needed, but we hope that we can get through the con, Eg year without it This additional equioment, which would cost $x an to $10 000 or more, consists of a new prism camera and a modern type pros to print the lettering for our mats, both of which are to replace old obsolete man elines, and an offset provit 2 Dress to take the load off our offset prix fing jiremsen on whzeb we now have to prove P ́e maps prepared for offset printing

The other 85,000 of t'e increase is for an attempt to make sotne mroacis or arrearage in man pitjcation. The sim is entirely inadequate, as is in "catent below, bit is recessary to print t'em que which, by the end of this fiscal vest. will have been et graved in ter a Pable Works allotment, but not yet prints i ar i ma le avada de to the map users.

Repayments for map reproduction for other branches of the Survey and for other Federal agencies in 1938 are estimated to amount to about $162,000, which is $30,000 less than the estimated repayments for 1937 and $47,000 less than the actual repayments for 1936. As a matter of fact, actual repayments have, for several years past, exceeded estimated repayments. It is rather probable, therefore, that the actual repayments for 1938 will exceed the estimated $162,000 by as much as $30,000. If so, the item of administrative furloughs estimated at $30,000 will be considerably reduced if not eliminated.

The Public Works Administration allotted funds to clear up a large part of the arrarage in publishing topographic maps of areas surveyed several years ago and also to engrave and print most of the topographic maps surveyed under a Public Works allotment to the Topographic Branch. Unfortunately, we have been able to secure only 18 additional copperplate engravers, and our press room has been so overloaded with work for other Federal agencies that we will not be able to pent in 1937 all of the maps that our additional staff has engraved.

Of course, the work that our engravers will do during the last 2 or 3 months of 1937 could not be printed before June 30, because of the delays in proofreading,

We have made every effort to lessen this prospective arrearage by repro1.ction of some of the simpler maps by photolithographic processes, but most of the maps are intricate and do not lend themselves well to photolithographic reproduction from the point of view either of time or cost.

On July 1, 1936, we had in hand 99 Public Works sheets and will receive by Apl 1, 1937, about 88 additional sheets for reproduction, making a total of 187. It is estimated that we will complete the engraving and printing of 55 sheets by June 30, 1937, and will complete the engraving but not the printing of 36 additongl sheets. It is therefore apparent that we will have engraved about 36 topographie maps under the Public Works allotment which will have to be printed alter July 1, 1937, out of our regular appropriation, and will have about 96 sheets which the engraving will not be completed.

As to the work normally performed under this appropriation, resulting from revs financed by regular appropriations and cooperative funds, we had in hand in Jiv 1, 1936, 78 new topographic maps and expect to receive before June 30, * 437, about 57 additional maps, making a total of about 135. It is estimated at we will complete the engraving and printing of 40 of these maps by June J} 37, tad will have partially finished the engraving but not the printing of about 36 more. This arrearage will have to be completed by our regular force 1938 at an estimated cost of $60,000. This estimate does not include many tenographic maps surveyed by the Topographic Branch in 1937, estimated to be at east 50, which will be received for reproduction early in 1938.

As to reprints of old topographic maps, we had 80 in hand on July 1, 1936, "ave received so far during the year 228 more, and have on the stock list as out fsteek about 110 more, making a total of 418. It is estimated that we will 5st by June 30, 1937, about 210, leaving an estimated arrearage in reprints ·Jv 1, 1937, of 208, which will cost about $41,000 to correct and print. This matter of reprints has become serious because of the extraordinary demands for graphic maps from Federal, State, and private agencies which have made arze inroads on our stock.

During the fiscal year 1937 we will have completed all of the preparatory work fmost of the printing of the large four-sheet topographic map of Texas and arge four-sheet geologic map of Texas. Both of these maps are now in **of stage Both have to be printed on our large multicolor press and we hope it cannot promise that all of the printing will be finished by June 30, 1937. We will not be able to make any progress on the publication of two geologic now in hand and have had to refuse to undertake the publication of several *** geologic maps prepared in cooperation with State geological surveys. From the foregoing statement it is apparent that our arrearage in publication # topographic and geologic maps on July 1, 1937, will involve the future expendiof about $190,000, without taking into account many topographic maps that be received for reproduction in 1938.

Whout prompt issue of these results of the Survey's work, the public as well Federal and State agencies are deprived of the benefits and value of these 4 which are so essential for many purposes. Yet with large numbers of new 1 constantly received from the field, and with increasing distribution from stocks, the funds have been inadequate to keep pace with the needs.

Mr. FITZPATRICK. Under this item of printing and binding do you get out pamphlets, circulars, and things of that kind to send out to the public?

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