Show 0 1 LONGS OBJECT LESSON Navy Department Furnishes Examples Ex-amples of Civil Service Washington Dec Secretary Long I of the navy in conversation with an Associated Press reporter today expressed ex-pressed the hope that the present civil I service system would not be impaired He said he had entire sympathy with the congressmen who are brought directly di-rectly in contact with applications for official positions but he believed that the president was right and should be sustained He was of the opinion that the great body of the people have no desire to go back to the old system certainly not I their attention is called of the I to the merits case The secretary added that his department depart-ment was now both In the clerical and labor lines entirely withIn the civil service rules except with regard to about a dozen placesthose being mainly persons employed off and on at about 2 a day He was rather glad that these were left under the old system sys-tem as they furnished an object lesson les-son to some of its objectionable features zn WJ b |