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Show Friends in Ofic. Euge-ne F. Ware has resigneH as Commissioner of Pensions, and his resignation has been accepted. It is well. We hope President Roosevelt will appoint ap-point a successor who will have some qualifications for the office. With the exception of John C. Black and H. Clay Evans the pension commissioners have been rather a sorry lot for some time. It is an important im-portant office and should be filled by an able man. Ware never did anything much except write things that some of his fool friends said were poetical. poeti-cal. He is erratic and has no executive ability. His conduct of the office has been anything but satisfactory. satis-factory. The President has made some queer appointments. appoint-ments. A poet for pension commissioner and a railway rail-way man for Secretary of the Navy are hardly the choices the people expect from a President who should be a good judge of men. The rresidHflt is apt to let his personal friendship or admiration overshadow over-shadow his judgment when he makes appointments. The case of Dr. Leonard Wood is in point. Friends may be delightful men of whom no persona per-sona criticism could be made, but they are rarely the men to fill important positions. The President would do well to apply his civil service rules to his own appointees occasionally. |