Show N 1 RUSH FOR FOIL JOBS IN DRY FORCE FORce IS ON CONSCIENTIOUS ON OB OIl- OBJECTORS APPLY APPLYBy By Dy RODNEY ROD EY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON July 19 The The new crop of prohibition enforcers may be a crew fired by holy zeal for the cause of arid righteousness Nineteen thousand citizens have ap applied ap- ap applied applied plied for the 2500 enforcement Jobs which congress threw open to the public and among amon the applicants are many who have assured the civil ser ser- service service ser ser- service vice commission that they are all aU burning up with eagerness to put the bootleggers in prison and make the country safe sale for the eighteenth amendment and the wives and kiddies Officials of 01 the civil service be believe be- be believe lieve that much of this sentiment on the part of the applicants is genuine and they admit that it will be taken Into consideration despite the fact that no man Is discriminated against In case he doesn't favor faor or 3 prohibition as a national policy I Butchers bakers and candlestick makers are all after the prohibition Jobs which pay from 1140 a year ear for tor warehouse watchman to a year ear for the assistant commissioner and ad ad- Oyster boat captains lumber camp managers army and navy officers small manufacturers real estate deal deal- dealers dealers dealers ers government officials railroad superintendents several editors and scores of other varieties of men who have been bosses are out after the administrative Jobs MUST PASS STIFF EXAMS IS For the mere agent Jobs applicants have come from every walk of life life lICe from sewer scrubbing to teaching and preaching Many private detectives want Jobs as agents and investigators Up to the Jobs require writ writ- written written written ten examinations Above e that candi candi- candidates candidates candidates dates must pass through oral tests Examiners test applicants for the better betterS Jobs as to personality dress poise posture speech tone of voice judgment resourcefulness physical fitness energy and what not They test them to determine whether they are executive or subordinate types and to determine whether they would be loyal to their employers They hurl abstruse hypothetical situations at them th m and then try to bully the can can- candidate candidate Into making an easy answer Just to see if It he has a a. mind of his own The falling-down falling point for tor most of the up higher applicants has been a alack alack alack lack of qualifying experience In the case of administrative Jobs lobs the can can- candidates must have had four tour to six years experience handling large opec oper operations and numerous subordinates Under experience is not re required re- re required required on the theory that any intel Intel- intelligent Intelligent intelligent man can be made a good pro pro- prohibition prohibition agent although senior investigators Investigators at must have had con con- considerable considerable rable Investigating experience A candidate having ha passed his oral or written exam exam or or both Is then subjected to a careful character In In- In He Is checked up in his own neighborhood and his previous sites of employment Results of the experience nce test examinations and character investigation are then com corn combined combined for rating Last of all he Is fingerprinted and the finger prints compared with the records In the department of Justice By this method it is hoped to keep the prohibition service from being b loaded with known km wn criminals OLD AGENTS EASED OUT The bootleggers however will not be confronted with the embarrassing necessity of ot becoming acquainted with too many new faces all aU at once It is true that most of the present en enforcers en- en enforcers enforcers forcers will be eased out as the shin- shin shinIng shinIng shining Ing faces of ot the outsiders who passed the exams come In the door but con con- congress congress gress grass m in its infallible wisdom failed to provide funds for tor handling the 19 applicants The civil service ice will handle the administrative e ports first and hopes to have some new executives on the Job lob by October 1 but it cannot com corn comply comply ply with mth the new law which provides that hat the entire 2500 Jobs be occupied by civil service men from that time on Tle commission doesn't expect to take care of the ordinary agents and Inspectors until congress meets me ts again and provides the money |