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Show WASHINGTON NEWS rf" FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Veterans Preference President Roosevelt has said: "I believe that the Federal Government, Gov-ernment, functioning in its capacity ca-pacity as an employer, should take the lead in assuring those who are in the armed services that when they return special consideration will be given to them in their efforts to obtain employment. It is absolutely impossible im-possible to take millions of our young men out of their normal pursuits for the purpose of fighting fight-ing to preserve the Nation, and then expect them to resume their normal activities without having any special consideration shown Jhern." The agency most directly concerned con-cerned with the placement of veterans in positions in the Federal Fed-eral Government is the Civil Service Commission, which administers ad-ministers the Veterans' Preference Prefer-ence Act of 1944. This Act brings togteher for the first time the various statutes, Executive orders, or-ders, and regulations under which preference in Federal em-1 ployment is given to honorably I discharged veterans and their widows, and to the wives of dis-, abled veterans who are them-' selves not qualified for Federal employment. The Civil Service Commission i gives preference to veterans "in 1 certification for appointment" by adding 5 to 10 points to the earned ratings of honorably separated veterans. Ten points also added to the earned ratings of disabled veterans, and . to the wives of veterans entitled 10 this 10 point disability preference, pref-erence, as well as io the unmar-I unmar-I neu widows of honorably seper-ated seper-ated veterans. Thus, the earned ! score a veteran makes on an examination, ex-amination, plus his 5 or 10 point preference, often places him a-inong a-inong the upper three eligibles on lists from which appointing officers may make selection. As a fruther precaution, Congress has specified that an appointing officer must show reason for passing pass-ing over a 5 or 10 point preference prefer-ence eligible, and that reason must indeed be valid before the Commission will permit any ap-paintment ap-paintment to be made without giving preference to the veteran . on the list. There was a time when a phys-: ically handicapped person had little opportunity of obtaining! employment. That time has passed. The Government's war- time experience proved that ! physically handicapped persons, when properly placed, make excellent ex-cellent employees. During the past two years more than 40,000 handicapped eligibles have been placed in Federal positions. -- |