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Show Civil Service and Perfection One fKain n lot of talk about the c'vii f.ervice. The subject has bcpri before the pub'lc for years, with most of the tn'klng generally undertaken un-dertaken by the X)lltlclans whose party happens to be out of nower at the time. Hie. spoils system that tun been generally practiced for decades in the United States Is somctliine of an evil. Most of us admit it and yet, we arc m'rald. the habit of l-uitlng political favorites in public ofilce will continue for some years to come. Usually a party, just coming Into power, will Justify defer de-fer ed placing of Jobs In th? civil se; vice b..- explaining that to do sc would r.! to pcipetuato th Jobs rf those icwiidcd by the opposition. opposi-tion. We are certainly anxious to sec some .'yr.tcm ntrochiccd In American Ameri-can p.'JIIlcs tlnut will d'.'vclnp what i wnu'd il 'career men' In government gov-ernment service. At the same time. 1.1 in clthxn who throws up his hat every tlnm civil service is merit on-ed on-ed unci Imagines that all will be perfect once every job gets into the classification, has another gues coining. Speaking frankly, there is nothing noth-ing ihat keeps an individual on the job as much as knowing that he has to do it well cr get out. The danger from civil service is that the employe soon gets the idea tnat he has a job for life, that the service is des gned mostly for his own employment and that he can sit tight and collect his pay. Whether Whe-ther this Is to be compared with t'.i". danger that exists from political politi-cal lavcritism the reader will have to judge for himself or herself. The men and women who work 'or ifce goveinrrents of the Un ted States, including State as well a3 federal establishments, are no better bet-ter and no worse than other Americans. Amer-icans. Some of them are capable, sincere and devo.ed to their tasks. Oiltrs are lcafers, time-servers irrt ordinary bums with political pulls. Protected by a mantle of civil service they would continue to be d Vided into the same classes, perpetuated on the payroll |