European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday March 9, since colonial Days pay system always Odd by Marc Niue Washington Bureau chief Washington is de sense officials Are hopeful that proposed changes in military compensation will Clear away a majority of the snags in a sys tem that has been causing Trou ble since colonial is so Complex that former defense Secretary Robert , Brilliant product of the computer age admitted to Congress several years ago that the average Serviceman did t understand the system and ansome cases the defense officials did t understand it either. As a result of studies Bya defense department group headed by rear . Lestere. Hubbell Over the past two years the Pentagon is coming up with a straight salary sys tem for the career Force i place of the confusing pay and allowances that have been apart of . Military life for almost 200 years. The salary Range will run fro about $5,000 for the lowest rank ing career Man to about $33,000for the top generals and admirals it is the Hubbell study is still under wraps and a break Down of the proposed salary is still under review by the administration the idea itself is old. Almost 100 years ago Congress Man John a. Logan from Illinois complained in Congress about the confusion of army of his complaint came a salary system that did t work any More efficiently than the first pay plan of the continent Larmy during the american re Volution because it failed to take into account the fluctuations of the Economy. Now the Hubbell Groupthink it has the problem solved by tying salaries to the pay of the nation s 2.4 million civil service employees which in Turnis linked with the pay on the private Economy through an Nual reports of the Bureau of labor statistics. Each year the bus makes study of what is paid to the Butcher the Baker and the White Collar professional. This is translated into pay changes for Federal employees and if con Gress goes along with the Hub Bell plan for the Serviceman in time. When the 13 colonies went to War in 1775 to fight for in dependence from England pay tables were set up by the Continental Congress. It was t Lon before fringe benefits were added raises for some Grade were introduced and things be Gan to get complicated. Here Ina simplified form Are some of the monthly army pay tables of the 18th and 19th centuries things really became confused Logan complained in Congress. He said the pay of the Gen eral of the army is $4,800, but he draws $19,278 from the pay master. Now How does that come about the excess Over the pay proper is on account of rations forage commutation of quarters and everything else a Man can imagine summed up i S.C. a Way that neither you nor i can sit Down and figure it out satisfactorily. The same sort of thing i found All the Way Down. A brigadier general s pay is $1,488, capt. It sol. 1775 $20 $13 1/3 $8 $7 1/3 $6 2/3 1785 $35 $26 $6 $5 $4 1790 $30 $22 $5$4 $3 1861-64 $60 $50 $20 $17 $13 in addition uniforms equip ment and rations and forage for those who had horses were fur the first table after the revolution the army also provided the special pay of $5 month for musicians instead of the private s $4. This is probably the first Case in the army of specialist pay. It did t lust Lon because when the army took a out and the pay of a private dropped to $3 a month. The musician s pay dropped to $3 a month the civil War when but Brig. Gen. Mcdowell draws$7,428.74, Brig. Gen. Cooke draws $7,622.55, Brig. Gen. How Ard draws $5,655.61 and Brig. Gen. Augur draws $5,959.40. Why is there S.C. a differ ence the reason is this at some places the quartermasters allow the generals larger prices for forage and commutation of quarters than at others. We propose to reduce All this to a system we propose to give each officer S.C. pay As he is entitled to we propose to give it by the year a regular fixed did just that with the first military salary Law in july1870. Unfortunately it failed be cause no provision was built into the system to take care of a rising Cost of living so piecemeal changes were made by adding a bit Here one year another amount somewhere else a Fol lowing year and by the end of world War i things were As con fused As they were during Logan s Day. A major revision was made in 1922 and the Hook commis Sion conducted perhaps the most fundamental pay study of Thi Century in 1948 and among other things proposed the salary system but nothing came of the suggestion. The Hook commission abolished some of the special pay including those for Marine corps Cooks $150 a year for army lieutenants and captains for the care of their horses 10 cents per 100 words for army stenographers reporters mail clerks and assistant mail clerks in the Navy Marine corps and coast guard and separate pay scale for the mine planting service and the Marine corps band. Now the salary system i again under discussion but this time it faces the realities of economics by tying the proposed salary to the wages of this reason defense officials Are sure it will be a Success if adopted by Congress. Combat headache shrapnel from North vietnamese Artil Lery riddled this . Marine s helmet at Kite Sanh hut it Only gave him a headache. None of he fragments got through the helmet liner. A photo Many want to alter draft system by John Beckler Washington a mounting american casualties in Vietnam and the Prospect that More Young men will be sent there Are building pres sures for changes in the draft system. Anytime there Are More youths of draft age than the Mil itary needs the Choice of who goes and who stays Home is hard to make and the present system appears to satisfy no than a year ago the de sense department said the policy of drafting the oldest registrants first was not desirable from any yet it continues. The president of Harvard recently told Congress the new regulation wiping out defer ments for graduate students was bad for the army the colleges and the nation. President Johnson has asked that National standards be applied for draft classifications and Congress gave him authority to Issue them. But the 4,089 local draft boards still set their own standards and they can vary from county to county. There la blame enough for everyone in the government for the failure to draw up and implement a system As fair As can be devised but for Congress the failure has been most abject. It had the Chance last year to carry out a comprehensive revision of the Law and threw the Opportunity away. A presidential commis Sion had spent a year drafting recommendations and Johnson asked that most of them been acted. But the House armed services committee decreed that 110 great changes Wero needed and its View prevailed. In an exhibition of legislation by default the House rubber stamped the committee s Bill at a session begun late in the Day and chopped off peremptorily so members could depart on a Long memorial Day weekend some on a junket to House had sat until 2 . The night before working on a is space travel a woman a by Ronald Thompson new Orleans a the american Way of space travel has always been a Man s , some scientists wonder if the time has come to give the weaker sex a whirl at it. Who knows said e. , a research scientist for the air Force. An All female Crew might be the Best to go Johnson reacted to a suggestion that Crews for manned missions to the planets be made up both of men an women. The at a meeting Institute of aeronautics an astronautics. Those attending generally greeted the idea with wry laughs off beat remarks an the statement that s just too far in 20 years a least. We be got Basic technical problems to overcome controversial school Bill. The members were tired and Crotch Ety when the draft Bill came up and cries of vote vote were heard within an hour. Sensing his colleagues mood chairman l. Mendel Rivers d-s.c., of the armed services committee put through a de Bate limiting motion. It left members with less than a min Ute to explain major Amend ments intended to carry out some of the commission s recommendations. All were shouted . Imagine putting the together for that Long. We d be creating a communications problem that could be Stranahan a guidance and control specialist May Well be the Best Crews All women As opposed actually he said there s a scientific need to. To Flenow. A woman s psychological attempted particularly w � _. Senate where sen. Hilward a Best suited for S.C. ," Stranahan added you can t beat around the Bush. There s a certain male female relationship the Bill resulting from that session will be the Law of toe land until june 30, 1971, unless the House or Senate armed services committees can be persuaded to reopen the matter S.C. persuasion is _ now betas Kenn or a mass. Recently offered a Complete overhaul of the Law trying again to put in Man of the provisions recommended by last year s commission. A consensus might be women in space yes. Coeducational trips just maybe. Johnson said that while women might fit Well at a space ship control Board a mixture of the sexes could Well create problems. 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