Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-06 | Page 4 | Extending Civil Service Gains Added Attention

Extending Civil Service G Gains ins Added Attention Consideration of civil service by bythe bythe bythe the National Recreation congress as a means of obtaining a competent competent competent compe compe- tent personnel is but one evidence of oC the acceleration of emphasis toward the improvement of public public public pub pub- lic personnel according to the current issue of the civil service assembly news letter The National Recreation association asso asso- elation clation is listed as one of several professional groups showing this concern Among others listed by bythe bythe bythe the news letter are the American Public V Welfare e c I f a are r e association which at its 1935 convention adopted a resolution favoring the merit system in employment of at welfare workers and the American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean Association of at Social Workers Work Work- ers which has n a civil service committee committee com coin giving attention to the se selection selection selection se- se lection and anti treatment of oC social workers on a merit and career carcer basis The American Association of Probation Officers is noted as having shown interest in sounder personnel practices for tor some time Members of the public health nursing and dietetics professions are also discussing civil service as a means of elevating standards stand stand- ards Prominent among the citizen and civic groups concerning themselves themselves themselves them them- selves with personnel improvement improvement improve improve- ment by the merit system is the National League of Women Voters Vot Vot- ers cra which has organized a two two- year ear campaign In this direction Civil service commissions and other public personnel agencies themselves are more active than they have been for some sonic time in improving their own procedures s. s the news letter also notes and the they arc are devoting more attention to their relationships with outside outside outside out out- side citizens' citizens groups and professional signal associations Recent letters to President Roosevelt from the tho National Civil Service Reform league and the National Federation of ot Federal are cited as evidence of this concern These communications communications communications pointed out the dangers of oC continuing wholesale exemptions from the merit system in tho the federal federal fed fed- eral oral service ser To both letters tho the president replied that within the near future it is hoped to apply the civil chU service law Jaw and rules to federal agencies now exempt at exempt at least to all tho those e agencies which are to b become c c com 0 in c established branches of oC the government