| Show I MORE EFFICIENT IS WANTED Secy ecy Knox Evolves Plan to Im Improve Improve Improve prove Personnel and for Bet Betterment Betterment Betterment of Service WILL GRADE Advancement Will VIII be he From Tx Tower Lower to I Higher Demonstrated Ability Will be he the Test Te e Washington Dec 5 To Improve the time personnel J 1 and efficiency of the diplo diplomatic matic service awl ami to encourage secre seere secretaries of oC legations to qualify for tor promo promotion ton tion to tho rank of or ministers President Tart Taft has approved u a plan suggested by hy Secy See Knox and ho loo published It tt tonight as an executive order The 1 new nen project provides for tOI a board d dof of oC examiners to pass PMS upon all applicants applicants cants for tor appointments as secretaries and prescribes the standard 1 to be maintained maln t I Secy Sec Knox in ht a letter submitting his plan to the president points out the th remarkable growth of oC the political and commercial relations of the United States Stales with foreign nations md Uld the tho increasing difficulty difficult of the time problems to tobe tobe tobe be dealt with Records H olds of efficiency of all tho the under undersecretaries secretaries will be he preserved in tho time state department and appointment from rom outside tho service to secretary ships will be he made only to the class of C third secretary of 0 embassy or in incase Inca inease ease case ca e of o higher hl vacancies of or second sec me e j I I I I I I I I rotary of oC o legation le or 01 df secretary seel tar oC I legation nt at posts which have hae assigned to o them only ono one secretary Vacancies In ship of o the hl clashes in the future will be filled b by y promotion from fromm lower 1001 grades ammi an anI I efficiency and nOIl ability demonstrated In Inthe Inthe Inthe the service so will be tho the tests o of or advancement ad advancement All the In tho the future will be he graded glae according in to the import price or difficulty l or other othel aspects a oC of I II the work worl done at nt each mission u and these classifications will be made mown known to the service so that every nan anau may m know Just where l ho stands 3 i oh Time Tho examining a board to consist I of the secretary 8 of state slate time the solicitor for tor he time department d of oC state the chief of Cf he time diplomatic bureau and null the chief ex examiner ea of QC the tho civil service commission will determine the fitness of or candidates candidate designated by the time president for 01 exam examInation nation The examinations will be held at Washington and will be both oral and written Knowledge of or these theBe subjects will determine time the fitness of oC tho time can candidates International law diplomatic usage at least one modern language other than English cither German or Spanish the natural com commercial commercial mercial and industrial resources of or tho the United States American history government gov and institutions and the modern mod mOI ern rn history of ot Europe and the far tar east enst eastIn eastIn In the oral examination candidates candida tea must demonstrate alertness general contemporary information natural fit fitness ness J for tor the service address command of ot English anti and general education e n A physical examination will be he supple supplemental supplemental supplemental mental Candidates must m st bo be between 21 and 50 years ears old From tho the successful can cnn candidates candidates an aai appointive list will be he pro pre prepared pared and from this the time candidates will willbe willbe willbe be chosen The Time department will aim to apportion apportion apportion tion representation fairly among states state and territories |
