approximately 750 offices of its own and was affiliated with 2,000 labor-community boards. In addition to our own offices, the largest item in the mailing list was to industries who employed large quantities of labor. Since curtailment of a large number of our offices and due to scarcity of funds, it is intended to make the Bulletin a monthly and at the same time reduce the circulation from approximately 60,000 to 10,000 or 15,000. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION SERVICE BULLETIN. 1. Name of publication: United States Immigration Service Bulletin. 2. How often issued: Monthly, as near the 1st of the month as possible. 3. By whom issued: Prepared under the direction of the Commissioner General of Immigration, Department of Labor. 4. Authority for publication: The printing appropriation of the Department of Labor. 5. Date of first issue: The Immigration Bulletin, containing only statistical compilations, was first issued about 1906 or 1907. In its present form, containing both statistical data and news matter, the bulletin was first issued on April 1, 1918. 6. Where printed: At the Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 7. Number of copies printed of last issue: 3,500. 8. How distributed: All of the copies, except those for file, are sent out to the officers of the Immigration Service and to the public which has made request to be added to the mailing list. 9. Annual receipts from subscriptions: None. 10. Annual expense of printing and issuing the publication: $1,003.07. 11. Annual cost of preparing publication for printing: No separate cost, the preparation of this matter being incidental to the other administrative work of the Bureau of Immigration. 12. Total annual cost of publication, including the two preceding items: $1,003.07. 13. If publication is not printed at Government Printing Office, etc. No reason why this publication can not continue to be printed at the Government Printing Office. 14. Is publication a duplication, in whole or in part, of any other Government publication, etc.: This publication duplicates in no particular any other Government publication; without it there would be no organ through which the bureau could reach the officers of the Immigration Service and the general public interested in statistical matter relating to immigration. 15. Submit reasons and recommendations, if any, for continuance of publication until the close of the next regular session of Congress. if not specifically authorized by Congress: The necessity and utility of a publication of this kind has been demonstrated by 12 or 13 years' actual publication, and the ends of good administration are promoted by the continuance of the publication. Similar aims could not be obtained by means of circular letters or typewritten communications. and the officers and public interested in immigration problems could not have their needs met by the annual publication of statistics in the annual report of the bureau. The advantage of this publication far exceeds the small cost of its publication. BOY POWER. 1. Name of publication: Boy Power. 2. Issued monthly. 3. Issued by the United States Boys' Working Reserve, United States Employment Service, Richard Hatton, editor. 4. Authorized by the Department of Labor. 5. Date of first issue, printed by Government, October 5, 1918. 6. Printed at Government Printing Office. 7. Forty-five thousand copies of last issue were printed. (April issue will be reduced to 10,000 copies.) 8. Free distribution as follows: 9. No annual receipts. (Esti 10. Expense of printing and issuing last issue, $307.14. mate for April, $107.) Estimated annual cost based on issue of 10,000, $1,284. 11. Annual cost of preparing publication for printing, including salaries, wages, materials, and other expenses properly chargeable to editorial and other work other than printing, based on issue of 10,000, $2.500. 12. Estimated total annual cost of publication based on 10,000, each issue, $3,784. 13. Government Printing Office. 14. It is not a duplication, but relates entirely to the United States Boys' Working Reserve. 15. (a) The United States Boys' Working Reserve represents the reserve boy power of the country which is available for the seasonal demands of the farm. (b) Its supervisory force, largely volunteer, assumes responsibility for control and distribution of this reserve power in such a way that definite economic return to society is combined with educational activities for each individual boy. Some medium for the dissemina tion of information and instructions to this large force of volunteers is essential to success. Boy Power meets this need and does it efficiently. (c) During the next few months and until the close of the next session of Congress, the seasonal demand for farm service is at its maximum. Boy Power is especially needed now. (d) It is far more economical than mimeographing and mailing information and instruction. (e) The constantly increasing demand for Boy Power evidences its value. NAVY DEPARTMENT. PERIODICALS. NAVAL MEDICAL BULLETIN. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, April 15, 1919. SIR: Referring to your letter of March 12 in regard to section 11 of Public Act No. 314, approved March 1, 1919, I have the honor to request that the Joint Committee on Printing authorize the continuance of the printing of the United States Naval Medical Bulletin, published quarterly by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department. Detailed information in regard to this publication, as required by your letter, is inclosed herewith, together with a copy of the publication in question. I earnestly request favorable action by your committee in this matter, as the Naval Medical Bulletin is invaluable in connection with the training, education, and instruction of medical and dental officers of the Navy. Very truly, yours, Hon. MARK A. SMITH, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Chairman Joint Committee on Printing. To: Secretary of the Navy. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY, Subject: Section 11 of Public Act No. 314, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved March 1, 1919, in re public printing and binding. Reference: Your letter to all bureaus No. 3794-2397, March 20, 1919. 1. In obedience to your direction you are informed that the United States Naval Medical Bulletin, with its supplements, and the Annual Report of the Surgeon General are the only publications issued by this bureau within the purview of the above-mentioned act. 2. As the annual report of the bureau becomes a part of the report of the Secretary of the Navy and is required by law it is assumed that it does not come within the prohibition of the act mentioned; the following information is submitted for the benefit of the committee concerning the publication of the United States Naval Medical Bulletin. 1. Name of publication: United States Naval Medical Bulletin. 2. How often issued: Quarterly. 3. By whom issued: The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 4. Authority for publication: Not specifically authorized by title but heretofore authorized by each annual appropriation act as "hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction." 5. Date of first issue: April, 1907. 6. Where printed: At Government Printing Office. 7. Number of copies of last issue: 4,500 copies. 8. How distributed: To each naval hospital, naval dispensary, and naval vessel, and individually to all members of the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Nurse Corps, and Hospital Corps; also as exchanges with other publications and with colleges, public libraries, etc.; 500 copies are issued to the superintendent of documents, Government Printing Office. 9. Annual receipts from subscriptions: None, so far as this bureau is concerned; the superintendent of documents sells at a bare cost price. 10. Annual expense: About $7,000 during the year of 1918; prior to the war the number of copies issued was very much fewer and the annual cost proportionately less. 11. Annual cost of preparing publication: Prepared under the direction of a medical officer assigned to this duty and to other duties in the bureau; one yeoman (F.) second class is also assigned to this duty and to other duties; no civilian personnel is engaged upon this work. 12. Total annual cost of publication: The answer to this question is included in answer No. 10. 13. If publication is not printed at Government Printing Office, etc. The answer to this question is in the answer to question No. 6. 14. Is publication a duplication of any other Government publication? This publication is not a duplication of any other Government publication nor does it relate to any work done by any other branch of the Government service. 15. Submit reasons and recommendations for continuance of publication: The United States Naval Medical Bulletin is a vital part of the training, education, and instruction of medical officers, dental officers, nurses, and Hospital Corps men, many of whom by the nature of location and of other duties are out of touch with other sources of professional education. This Bulletin has proven itself of such great value to the entire Medical Department of the naval service that its continuance is urgently recommended. RECRUITERS' BULLETIN. W. C. BRAISTED. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, April 15, 1919. SIR: In accordance with the provisions of section 11, of Public Act No. 314, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved March 1, 1919, I have the honor to request that the Joint Committee on Printing authorize the continuance of the printing of the Recruiters' Bulletin, issued monthly by the Marine Corps Recruiting Publicity Bureau, New York City. Detailed information, as required by your letter to me of March 12, is inclosed herewith, together with a copy of the publication in question. |