Show IF EX d X FIGHTERS F I 1 ga u A aff el E S IN CIVIL SERVICE sixty thousand have passed examinations for positions under the government PUT SNAP THE WORK I 1 K amendments to the law establish preference for soldiers not disqualified by war wounds number increases steadily washington the civil service Is undergoing der going a change for many former army men are still in the service and are injecting some of the old time war var pop pep into their handling of the mail keeping records of government insurance helping to liquidate the nations nat lons war anar contracts putting to together gether the results of the 1920 cenus census opening up lip anil and irrigating and draining new government land clerking in till nil the various government departments doing anything that needs to be done around the national household the number of ex service men working for the government Is increasing steadily and today numbers who nho have passed the hie examination all and who ilio have been certified for appointment at the present time the actual count Is ex cx service folk now detailed for duty with the government but with thee new nets appo appointments ointments Int ments the number will be doubled ani and trebled in the near future like old times it reminds it a person of old times to wander viander through some government buildings and hear bear a head clerk shout out the n never ever to b be e forgot forgotten ten snap to it writes J W nixey smith many a sedate find and settled tor for the agos ages government bureau has had its papers and its calm ruffled recently its as the thousands of then men who did their hitch in the army or the navy walked in under ivil advil service to occupy desks in just about the same mariner manner as they would take trenches they hurt papers around its as if they were throwing milli millet bombs and they chase in and out as it if they were always after a german bitterly lamented one old timer about to be retired to make wily way for the new bloo many amendments looking toward civil service jobs for ex service men and A omen and their dependents have been added to the civil service laws law flye five such amendments and two executive orders of the president have been instrumental in opening the gates of government service as wide as possible to all the ex service man oue one amendment establishes preference tor for all honorably discharged discharge so soldiers sailors and marines wives neives of disabled men and widows of service men la in appointments to certain positions in the district of columbia another amendment provides for tle lite reinstatement of an all civil service employees who went to war another restores to their places on the civil bervice eligibility list all those who lost st their civlo service status by reason of joining the military or naval forces s A fourth amendment makes it possible tor for a disabled ex service ninn man to hold a civil service position in spite of his disability upon the certification ol of the federal board for vocational education that he has been trained for and is capable of performing the work the fifth and last amendment provides that instead of the percentage of 70 required to be made on the regular civil service examinations a percentage of 05 made by ex service persons shall result not only in their passing but in ili their being placed on the civil service ell eligibility list above all others regardless of the marks made civil preference of the two executive orders of the president on the subject of ely civil ll 11 service and the he ex es service man one provides vi des for the reinstatement within five years of nil an honorable discharge of those who held positions before the war la in the compe competitive tithe classified service and the other extends civil service preference regulations to nil of the first second and third classes despite the fact that war veterans are on oil the civil service eligibility list and that these el changes banges have been made in the law in their interest only have so co far received civil service appointments there tire are two reasons for this the first and most obvious is that there have not been vacancies the second Is that tile the law requires in ill the lie making of tile the civil service appointments the names of the three highest shall be submitted to the department part ment liend head where the name of an e ex serice man Is submitted along with mh tile the of two other persons who 1110 have made tile the 1119 highest best marks of any civilians taking the examination the department head bead may deboo choose r e either the ex service ervice man or one of the other two tor tile the position thus all of the co congressional gressional ri ameni amendments ments and preference talk notwithstanding the civil service ice job fc the ex ex service man depends in a great measure mpa aire upon the department heads of the government salaries in the civil service vary greatly the average departmental position in washington pays anywhere from 1200 to a year yea r while many civil service positions in the work of the different departments throughout the country pay as low as aa a year with quarters teri and mount as high as a year all s salaries under 2500 carry a yearly bonus of 20 2 0 |