Show where your taxes go how sp n spends your money in conducting your four business Bu by EDWARD 0 LOWRY atam WA tw caw C evv ricks gat A rby 11 mya ato t C contributor Contri albut betor fol ro tia tie aa l ll df Pr toiK kad 4 k writer ol 01 R C 1 ad tty tb be buelon J czyleka wl WS V pr amia XI 10 1 HIRE government HELP the chit service servile commission hire al alli 13 emp employees employ loees eca tn in the classified service of the government the only thing to be aid said about the classified rolce to 1 thit tt it ha has not yet been but you shall henr hear what the civil ice commission has to say about abou t hir ing help without comment from me there la in an utter lack of definitely tely planned and well organized amplo policy in the government governa ent stry ice ibbie ll 11 need for or a centralized employment office with jurisdiction la in all matters relating to emp employ larent chent dihe 0 he employment methods of tha the gov erni wit lit should be uch such as an to serve kir i a model for privat private business there Is at present nj central con trot over the executive service short of the president the president Is a busy tian anil and cannot concern hini eit with the details of the execl 1 ive e dc do part apartments ments ilie lack ack of efficiency in government bar ha a marked effect on private business definite IX Dt unite finite information concerning the number of federal civil employee employees in different branches bran chea of the service nad and tt it e amount of the government pay roll ere are not na rea illy lily available an official re register gisler or blue book 0 lesien every two years it ie Is out of date long ung before it Is printed A provision sion ol 01 the civil service rulee rules theoretically gives th civil se vice commission autho tUy to collect and anti n maintain complete personnel statistics the labor und expense involved hoe hot ever ver practically prohibit the col cot lecco n and compilation of reliable stai sta i ial dot daa f la in to the limits of the commissions mi ismons authority Is tre oe abse absence ilce of authority to enforce its fin finding dInn the tile connin na 1 lon can make recommend ai Al tlona to the departments and offices ond and urge atiel th A observance but it arn oot not enforce them 1 congress coi CoL gress passed what la Is known as tho the civil service law january 10 1883 tills TVs act created the united civil service the law wai intended to ct c re ire in purt the evill trace traceable ahle to the spoils schem s arteni which grear out of the tour four yea yeah tenure of act of IM 1820 during the 1 40 years after the organization of our government au ad practice with regard to tco the tile elvil ser service serice ice seemed to conform to the intention of the founders toua flera the constitution fixed the term terra I 1 I 1 no of deer ta ili the exe executive guffie branch cf cl the except those of 0 the pres pros adint and unit vice president it waa was the established usage during these first 40 eare ears to penult executive except members of 0 the cabinet to hold office for an unlimited period during good behavior the practice aa wae changed in I 1 by the f our ear ten lire ure act the spoils system as tt it vas as officially described 83 a early as 1835 WUA introduced and extended until it permeated the entire civil service of the country the fundamental purpose of the eav il 11 serille en ice law wa to establish la in the parts of the service covered by its provisions a merit system whereby selection for appointment should be made upon the basis of demonstrated relative fitness without regard to political li religious or other uch such considerations side rations the act requires that the rules shall pr provide olde among other things for op open e n competitive examinations for testing the fitness of apply rits for the classi fled tied service the making of appoint from ancar those passing with highest grades au an apportionment of appointments n the departments at washington among the states and ter it a period of probation before absolute ap appointment and the prohibition hibi tion of the ise lse of otti official cial authority to coerce tee tte action of any person a 0 bod la in 1883 the year in which the civil serece law A 1 enacted positions in the civil bervice service were wert made subject to competition the entire number er of positions tn in the federal executive civil service on jule u 20 1016 1916 was at the beta height bt of the war expansion there were approximately irately men and women employ plowed 1 I in the federal ex civil ter bervice vice about or of ahm haid positions subject to competition oa on joly 31 1 1020 the th entire number of ft feder dertl civil positions as nearly early as can be estimated d had been reduced to approximately of these were subject to corn cont pet li I 1 on or in other words in the service the force ie in till suit lowly slowly but steadily decreasing during the 19 30 months of at our part lel pation in aba war the civil service commission bayt competitive exact nations under the civil service law and aud nily rules to lightly slightly less jeff thai than 1000 per am and about CX persons with tested qualifications were supplied PIled by the th CO to tte errice service A nor mal years business is bout about 0 persons examined and about |