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Show PULLS GET IMPORTANT PLACES FOR IGNORAMUSES Special Cable to The Tribune! LONDON. May 13. England lias always al-ways prided herself sinco civil service became be-came the fixed policy of the government that places in the public service only went to those who won them by merit. The attention recently drawn in parliament parli-ament to certain methods of promotion to higher posts In tho civil service has aroused the keenest Interest. Tho basis of the complaints which arc being made Is that men whose only qualification Is that, they were with a cablnot. minister in South Africa or at school with a M. P. are brought In without examination and appointed to lucrative posts, whllo their work, for which they are unfitted, has to bo done by subrodlnates. It is said that a man recently appointed appoint-ed to a position with a salary of 5S000 publicly admitted that he couldn't do a sum in fractions, although he was h 1 "on history." |