Show discrimination 7 the civil service set vice cammi as sending out blanks to be filled i arf ri by applicants for civil service appointments some of these state that ex service men will receive preference however the ex soldier actually has no to chance as a rule for such arent ment the reason tor for this is that innocent looking limit clause which places a maximum age limit for applicants cants at 35 years and the further condition of a college education A man now 30 36 ye rs of age ald would have bep bee only 17 years old in 1918 and could not have joined the army without special permission from r his parents few men could have acquired d a college education n before the war and still be under 15 5 years of gf age following the trying experiences of the battlefield battlefield or the rigors ot of army discipline in the training camps few nien men were able to take up life where they had bad left off 1 very few were afforded opportunity n for continuing their education it is therefore a statement ent to declare ex service men receive preference following the world war many ex men were unwittingly tricked into proving up on their homesteads eailler than non sen ser ice men it was a privilege ge granted by the land office for the ex soldier to prove up in less than the usual three year period and many did prove up lip within a year and powei e privileged to pay taxes two years before their rion non service neighbor who filed at the same time 1 |