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Show bemq chieftain rakes republicans on civil service role In a recent speech before party workers, Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler lashed out at the Republican administration adminis-tration for undermining morale of the nation's civil service men and women. Mr. Butler charged: "In our federal civil service system it's harmful to the morale of seasoned, able career administrators admin-istrators when there is needless importation into short term government gov-ernment service of 'business brains.' 'We would all agree that there are great contributions to be made through careful recruitment recruit-ment programs which bring the needed skills into federal service. But all too frequently we find that the attitude of those leaving private business for a tour in government service is more like the missionary off to do good among the heathens. They descend de-scend upon the able career public pub-lic servant with the thought that anyone who has not met a payroll pay-roll could not possibly know how to run an organization. "Morale can be shattered if sub-, ordinates feel that they may be I subjected to political harassment for analyzing and reporting the hard facts of what they see and learn. Now, a governmental system sys-tem cannot effectively operate if employees feel even the most subtle pressures to change the substance or meaning of field dispatches toward what they be lieve is wanted as against what the cold hard realities show is really happening. "At the policy making level of our government, the status and quality of the Commissioners of the Civil Service System become be-come a vital key. These posts should be filled by persons who represent the very essence of the principles underlying the merit system. Good government, in' its , finest sense, is not served when the status of the Commission is threatened by erosion of the quality of Civil Service Commissioners. Commis-sioners. "As that great friend of the civil servant, the distinguished chairman of the Senate Post Office Of-fice and Civil Service Committee, Commit-tee, Olin Johnston, recently said, 'The country cannot afford to accept less than the best for membership on this commission. What a mockery it could become if the fate of the merit system should come to depend upon policies pol-icies made by persons whose own careers were based upon diametrically dia-metrically opposed standards and values." Senator Johnston reminded us that "we all have a great responsibility re-sponsibility in seeing that the Civil Service Commission itself does not become a mere 'dumping 'dump-ing ground' for officials whose only qualification is that they have been good patronage dispensers dis-pensers for the administration then in control." |