Show k s I MANY GOVERNMENT JOBS 1 NOW OPEN FOR WOMEN i civil Service Positions that Can Be Obtained by Passing Philippine Islands I t I TUDY Your Qualifications I STUDY S for sire alre the Position You De Desire I In Clerical Work bo be i Accurate NeAt Quick In Confidential Positions be II i Loyal Conservative Dignified I Trustworthy k AU All government positions are secured I either through appoIntment or by bypassing passing civil t I These examinations are held In int t every State an and Territory save Alaska and in Washington D O 0 Tho They t occur each spring and fall faIl under tho direction of oC the Civil Service Commis Commission sion Washington D C Dr T 1 P Chapman is the tho h head or of this commis I J slon sion a year car the Civil Service Commission issues a revised Manual or of Examinations which contains all the tho Information applicants applIcant need concern concernIng concerning Ing the tho filing or of applications and the tho examinations The January edition contains the schedule of the tho spring examinatIons and the tho Jul July edition the tho schedule of at fall examinations Suppose JO you wish to secure a goV goc goVernment your Jour local post postoffice office or as teacher to the tho Indians or orns oras ns as stenographer In ono one of the depart departments departments ments nt at kind or of work which appeals especially to you Write direct to the tho United States Service SenIco Commission Washington D DC DC C for tor the tho 11 Manual n of and application blanks Read Rea the tho Manual carefully Ily decide Upon pon one oue ex cx examination and send n a postal card ask ing for blanks for tor tho one examination k j f From most of oC these examinations ap appointments appointments may bo be made not only to Do a particular class or of positions but to toan an any positIon the qualifications tested are aro required Appointments to Federal posItions In Porto RIco Hawaii Hawn 11 and the tho Isthmus or of Panama are made on tho same samo basis as those In Inthe Inthe the States and Territories With the tho exception or of a very ery few Federal post positions lions In the Philippines appointments to government posItIons in those thosa islands ands aro made mado In accordance with the tho PhIlIppine CivIl Service Act but the United States Slates Civil Service Commis Commission sion afon hol holds s such examinations as the Philippine Civil Service Board may request Your Manual gives very cry complete Information relative to em in the tho Philippine even advising as to clothing llmer Amer AmerIcans usually dress In white whito drill suits Those who go to the tho Philippines will find It to their financial advantage to halt until the they reach rench Manla before purchasing an any clothing for use In that climate Serviceable drIll sulfa sulla are mado to order lu in Manila for or about 3 each ach Heavier clothing adapted to the tha climate nt at timer lime cnn can also be purchased at very reasonable price Positions under or municipal control are not fled filed as a result or of ex cx examinations held h by the United states Commission Neither has hns tho commis tf cit j jo i 1 I i C r Jo slon sion connection wIth an any civIl school or doing business b by corr correspondence or otherwise nor has hasit it nn information to furnish in re regard regard gard to such Duch Their representatives are not permitted to Inspect the ox or of competitors Authentic may bo be ob obtained obtained from tho commission and without cost You Yon must bo be ver very care CuI to sign your letters and to put sufficient stamps on the tho letters You need not however stamps to receive the reply from rom the commission This Is all aJl ver very simple rs IS It not Just go to headquarters direct and all you need expend Is one stamp and anda a postal card cardAll cardAll All examination papers are aro shipped direct from rom tho commission to tho place or of examination It if you live west of the MissisSIppi forward your cation callan so as to reach rench the commission I not less than ten days das before the tho date dato or of the examinations It YOU ou IIvo east or of the tho Mississippi you must send In your Jour applications not less than six days das Foreign The reports or of the tho commission showing Its Work and containing the tho civIl service act rules and regulations can bo be consulted at the principal pub public public lic libraries Mot or of the tho laws and I regulations with which you on wIll need to familiarize yourself for examination can bl be ob obtained b by writing the tho depart ments direct For example for copies ot of tho naturalIzation laws and regula tion or for tho ImmigratIon and Chinese exclusion laws send to the Division of Naturalization and Immigration gration Department of at Commerce and Labor Washington D C There Thero are ara very vory few fow town or State libraries which do not have govern goern government ment bulletins on file It If yours ours has not this is 15 a good time Uma to request your our library board to them It if ItOU you OU have havo leanings toward the tho lot let me a advise you ou or of the tho Importance of studying one or moro more foreign languages Send for a copy of Form 1141 and specify the tho selected in answer to 1 Hero arc aro the languages which Uncle Sam has to know In den dealing ling with ImmIgrants Arable Arabic Armenian Assyrian Arable Arabic Bohemian Bul garlan Chinese Croatian Danish Dutch Finnish FlemIsh French Gorman German Greek Hebrew jargon jarson Yiddish ilin doo 1100 Hungarian Italian Japanese Lithuanian Montenegrin Magyar Magar Norwegian Persian Polish guese Russian Servian Slovak Slovenian Kranish Spanish Swed I Ish Syrian Syrian Arabic Turkish Yiddish Hebrew jargon When hen you OU receive your our papers you yon will learn when the n you OU wish Is to be hold held and you OU can select an place named on the tho list That Is isyou you ou are not reQuired to take tako the tho ox ex examination at your place of residence You may only take tako ono one examination at ata ata a time limo All examinations begin at 9 a m local time lima You wIll find tho place where held b by asking the tho post postmaster postmaster master In the given town or city not later than a won m on the tha day of ex examination examination Should YOU desire to Wee talco the tho examination In Washington D C COU you OU will be directed to Ninth street treet Northwest Unless It Is specifically stated other otherwise wise or In cases where a woman can cannot cannot not obviously do the tho work tork the they are eligible to take lako all the tha examinations When you lIe begin n to wonder why tho proportion or of men Is so much greater I In government positions take taka a com common common mon sense view of the tho matter antI and re remember remember member that n a man has a vote fOtO Post Postoffice office omco positions and clerical work worl In the departments at Washington seem to appeal most to women There are arc women postmasters yoU know are classified ell ns as first sec second second ond third and fourth according to their annual receipts The Tha highest salary In tha first class Is cave I If f k I for tho ho Postmaster or of the New York whoso whose salary has been Lied fixed b blaw II law at Almost 01 the tho postmasters per Ilor cent of oC the total number aro In the tho fourth class and so receive less than 1000 1 a year car More than or of the total num bor receive less than n a year and moro more than receive less than thaD 00 A rough approximation show that tho average annual compensation or of a postmaster Js is about or Of the women 91 1 per cent are aro In the tho fourth class On Only I or of 1 per cent cento of o the tho women are arc In the first and 2nd secand sec I and classes These salaries look very en small when put down in black and white but a large number of oC small are located In stores and carried on In connection with other othor business While there thero are aro no women ell city mall carriers there thero are aro several t women who drive Uncle Sams mall i wogan over Rural Free Freo Delivery Delhery rou routes tos Cultivate Your Congressmen r rIt It is always worth in seeking I a government position to make mako the Ito acquaintance of oC your our Congressmen i and UnIted S States lles Senators and any J 1 men holdin political In your i town count county and State Learn tho rho I umber number of at your our Congressional district an d who your jour statesmen ClIO aro j i |