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that this was the first job he had ever had where he and his family did not have access to a bath tub at least once a week. Although on one occasion it was already almost eight o’clock at night and he had had nothing to eat since noon, had been driving members of the survey staff steadily since early morning with the thermometer well below zero and was then thirty miles from home, he was reluctant to accept an invitation to dinner with the staff until someone had the inspiration to say, “I’ll let you have a crack at my bath room in the hotel.” That settled the matter. To a certain type of employee, considerate of his wife and children, conditions of the home and access to schools mean even more than wages.

. Attention should here be called to a situation which developed in connection with the use of the Classification Act for the District of Columbia as an ostensible standard for the field services. As very few employees in the District of Columbia received allowances of quarters and meals, the salary schedules for the District provided only cash salaries and the act required the Personnel Classification Board to “make necessary adjustments in compensation for positions carrying maintenance.” Later the Comptroller General ruled that this clause required deductions to be made from the salaries of the Indian Service employees who were receiving allowances. The emergency was met, in a mechanical sort of fashion, by adding an arbitrary fairly uniform value of quarters to the cash pay to get a new gross pay and then deducting it again for value of quarters leaving ‘the employees where they were before, except that the percentage deduction for the retirement allowances was figured on the new gross pay, thus making the deductions a trifle larger.

Knowing all the facts, one can sympathize with the reservation superintendent who took vigorous exception when a member of the survey staff asked a school dormitory matron whether fifteen dollars a month was deducted from her salary for the privilege of occupying the tiny room where she spent the night so as to be immediately available in case of the least demand upon her services. To him it seemed as if nothing but praise was due the Indian Office for its success in meeting the emergency in a way that resulted in no loss to the employees. He could not understand the point of view that consideration should be given to the actual value