Tuesday, February 21, 1922
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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St. Valentine's
Day
FEBRUARY 14
CASH VARIETY STORE
Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Author "Washington CloM-Up.." "Bank, and
rpanclal System.," etc. Contributor Political
sod Economic Article, to Leading Periodical,
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Copyright, Western lNewptpcr Lnion
XI.
HIRE GOVERNMENT HELP
The civil service commission hires
all employees in the classified service
of the government. The only thing to
be said about the classified service, Is
that it has not yet bceu classified.
But you shall hear what the civil serv
ice commission has to say about hir
ing help, without comment from me.
There is' an utter lack of definitely
planned and well-organized employ
ment policy iu the government serv
ice. There Is need for a centralized em
ployment office with jurisdiction in all
matters relating to employment.
The employment methods of the gov
ernment should be such as to serve
for a model for private business.
There is at present no central con
trol over the executive service short
of the President. The President is a
busy man and cannot concern himself
with the details of the executive de
partments. The luck of efficiency in govern
ment offices has a marked effect on
private business.
Definite information concerning the
number of federal civil employees in
different branches' of the service and
th amount of the government pay
roll are not readily available.
An official register, or blue book,
is issued every two years. It is out
of date long before it is printed.
A provision of the civil service ruleg
theoretically gives the civil service
commission authority to collect and
maintain complete personnel statis
tics. The labor and expense involved,
't however, practically prohibit the col
lection and compilation of reliable sta
1 tistical data.
j In addition to the limits of the com
mission's authority is the absence of
authority to enforce its findings. The
commission can make recommenda
tions to the departments nnd offices
and u"ge their observance, but it can
not enforce them.
Congress passed what Is known as
the civil service law January 10, 1883.
This act created the United States
civtl service commission. The law was
intended to cure in part the evils
traceable to the spoils system, which
grew out "of the four-year-tenure-of-olllce
act of 1820.
During the first 40 years after the
organization of our government, ad
ministrative practice with regard to
the civil service seemed to conform
to the intention of the founders. The
Constitution fixed the term of no of
ficer In the executive branch of the
government except those of the Pres
ident and vice president. It wus the
established usage during these first
, 40 years to permit executive officers,
except members of the cabinet, to hold
office for an unlimited period during
; good behavior. The practice was
I changed in 1820 by the four-year-ten-:
ure act. The spoils system, as it was
j officially described as earl,y as 1835,
was Introduced and extended until it
permeated the entire civil service of
the country.
The fundamental purpose of the civ
il service law was to establish, in the
parts of the service covered by Its
provisions, a merit system whereby
i selection for appointment should be
made upon the basis of demonstrated
relative fitness, without regard to po
litical, religious, or other uch con
siderations. j The act requires that the rules shall
; provide, among other things, for open
i competitive examinations for testing
I the fitness of applicants for the class!-
fled service, the muklng of appoint
I inputs from among those passing with
: highest grades, an apportionment of
appointments In the departments at
Washington among the states and ter
ritories, a period of probation before
absolute appointment and the pro
hibition of the use of official authority
to coerce the political action of any
person or body.
Ia 1883, the year In which the civil
service law whm enacted, 13,924 posi
tions In the civil service were made
subject to competition. The entire
number of positions In the federal
executive civil service on June 20,
1910, was 480,327. At the height of
the war expansion there were approx
imately 1,000,000 men and women em
ployed in the federal executive civil
service, about 700,000 of whom held
positions subject to competition. On
July 31, 1020, the entire number of
federal executive civil positions, as
i nearly as can be estimated, hail been
'reduced to 01,1111. Approximately
j 4.V,xh of these were subject to com-
petition, or, In other words, in the
classified service. The force is still
slowly but steadily decreasing.
i During the 19 months of our partlcl
j pation in the war the civil service
i commission gave competitive exami
nations under the civil service law and
1 rub s to slightly less than l.(J0,iOO per
1 sons, and about 400,000 persons with
tested qualifications were supplied by
the commission to the service. A nor
mal year's business is about 200.000
persons examined and about 50,000
appointed.
Resourc
es
An object lesson of practising
Economy and Thrift to achieve
Independence can be learned by studying
the methods that George Washington
employed.
During the trying days of the Revolution,
the great leader was called on time and
again to admonish thecolonies toeconomize
and save so that they might have the re
sources to attain that goal they sought.
How well they succeeded is a matter of
history.
You too, can attain Financial Independence if you
will just lay aside a few spare dollars each week
and place them in a Savings Account with strong
reliable Bank. We will add to the amount with 4 per
cent interest. Why not come inand get further par
ticulars to-day?
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Heppner Ore.
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