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I UP TO YOU AND CONGRESS At the present time It would be a to speak of ot the national 1 1 t ha having villI a personnel Syi i h teal at all The reform accomplished by hy the establishment of ot the ch civil chU il service service servo ice commission and the merit system Iris lias touched but one phase of ot the Ole perI personnel per per- I tunnel problem and that but partially ance Into the government sen ice nothing has been done In the wa way of ot erecting the go government go eminent son sen Ices kes Into careers that will attract und anti retain efficient e men Bad as conditions con con- were In la this respect before the war var they have become many times lr worse l during and since that event The Tle correction of ot these evils presents pre pre- sell seua a problem of ot great complexity It cannot be bc achieved by a n half halt heaved or way half tinkering with the present system Nothing but a thorough thorough thor thor- thorough ough U of ot the whole personnel personnel person person- nel system and the establishment of ofu I u new lit si system stem covering nil all phases of ot th the ques question lon and embodying the most ed ell etl principles of personnel ad- ad will meet the needs of 11 tU- tU a situation Fortunately a beginning begin begin- Ii ning ig hu luis lots h keen been en made In this direction It t lit ut it least furnishes a starting point for lor ac action looking to the giving to the gen l government eminent of ot the the personnel s system stem thU it must have ha If It government work l I p 9 o le Lc even en measurably well ell done i c 1 situation now Is that there Is tin tent lIsl demand on ou the part of or orthe the i public that the whole administration tion of or the national government be put u II more inure efficient basis and that I the tile pre pie ent waste of public funds resulting re rev suiting from present defective organization organ organ- and methods shall cease that congress i rc's ss Is alive to this demand and andI I 1 Las us Lunde a n start toward meeting It that the fundamental defects In the existing sV stem are well known and tin till that t the direction efforts looking to reform should take tale are clearly Ih fed The Thine responsibility Is thus squarely up to congress If f the problem that confronts con con- pus guess IlS In III securing this laudable end Is zed zed It will be found that the reforms are The rev re- torn h liy congress Itself of Its own orand or- or 1 and methods of procedure tit the revision rc of the present 8 system S 'S tern tem under which the financial needs I of the II government are determined and andr andl r l' II the setting up of ot an agency Y Yand und and Ir procedure through which the ex- ex of public funds may be controlled and congress be bet beI t I gen that Information regarding such cs which it must have lune If It It Is to assure Itself that Its Us agents the administrative services lees are properly performing their duties and to act Intelligently In In respect to the futuro future 31 ant of funds the provision of ot an organ through h which the President i may In lu fact tact as well as In name discharge dis charge his duties as head of ot the administration ad ad- ministration the reorganization of the administrative branch of ot the government gov go so as ns to eliminate the present pres pies ent widespread overlapping o of or juris jurisdictions jurisdictions dictions and functions and Indefensible ble bie duplication of ot services organization tion plant and work and the complete com com- complete recasting of ot the present system under trader which the personnel required to man the go governmental plant Is seL se- se L cured curea compensated promoted us us' signed to particular tasks and con controlled controlled trolled to the end that not only onty Justice justice Jus jus- tice will be done to the several se classes of governmental o employees but that thata a personnel system will be established that will Insure a maximum of efficiency effi em dency clency In 10 the actual conduct of ot public affairs A study of action actually had or now under tinder way shows that steps have ha been taken toward the accomplish accomplishment men I of or each of these fundamental reforms The Introduction of ot a budget system is a long step forward I dont don't mean In the least to give th the Impression that all private business Is perfectly run and that only government govern ern ment went business Is badly managed or that all nil the efficient people are In private private vate ate employ and only Inefficient In the tha public service Neither of those con exists In the common phrase you have got gotto gotto gotto to hand it to Alexander Alesander Hamilton for devising a n scheme that has hns stood up since revolutionary days It has not been fundamentally altered since his day There has been no readjustment of salaries In the departmental servIce service Ice ce for sixty years jears ears That Implies a certain loyalty and faithfulness on the part part ot of the workers My only desire is to disclose th the th present condition of government em employment employment that good men are leaving and that the present tendency If not checked will Inevitably drive out of the service all nil of the efficient and leave lea only the mediocre and Incompetent I have said little m myself but have chosen to let the men working for fOI the government go tell the stor story Evely Every Every Ev Ev- Ev ery ely assertion of fact In these articles comes from frolD some responsible source or authority within the service I I am amnot amnot amnot not making a criticism or attack from the outside but merely serving as a a mouthpiece for tor your hired meu |