Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-22

ment when he Is ACKNOWLEDGEMENT as
old clerks are continued in service IN some
cases. doing little or no work. In almost
every other country pensions are paid to
clerks for disabilities arising from length
of service or infirmfty.2 Bolivia, Haiti, Co
lombia, Venezuela and Victoria are the
only countries which stand with the United
States in refusing to pension civil employees.
China gives clerks one years pay 1or seven
years service as a pension. In Russia and
in the Danish West Indies pension rights
extend to widows and minor children OF
government clerks.
Examinations Required.
Most of the nations of the world require
entrance examinations Of civil clerks, as
does the United States, and most Of them
require also physical examinations. Rus
STA requires academic certificate from
those applying for appointments. In Tur-
key applicants must be graduates Of the
Turkish political school In Sweden col
legiate or legal education is required. In
CUBA an academic certificate is required.
In Persia penmanship and letter writing
are the only qualifications necessary. There
IS no entrance examination in Manila,
Morocco, Haiti, Colombia, Bolivia or Ven
ezuela.
Women in the public service here have
reason to be pretty we'll satisfied with their
lot- Ihere are no limitations on the EN-
ployment of women in the public service
IN ms country, except as the head of a
department may discriminate against them
py ASKING the civil service commission to
sehd MIN the names Of me1. The law re-
CARDS men and women as EQUAL In almost
every other country, if they are employed
at all, their employment is limited to GER
tam classes of work In Great Britain,
ior example, the employment of women is
limited to the postal service. In Ecuador,
Egypt, Haiti, Hawaii, Manila, Persia,
CHINA, British India: Bavaria, Bolivia and
turkey women are not employed in the
NO otha trxy tlrrr
SO blessed as in this!
In Regard to Pensions.
In England persons appointed directly by
the crown or admitted on civil service COM
MISSIONS certificate are reasonable after
ten years of service, the pension being one
sixth of the previous salary and emolu-
ments For each additional year of
service one-sixtieth is added to this
pension. But the commissioners of
the treasury may fix less num-
her CT years as persionable in peculiar
cases. An employe retired for injury in
the Inc OF duty receives, if he has served
less IMAM ten years, a gratuity not exceed
ing three months pay for every two years
service, or surerannuation allowance not
exceeding Oh ,-siXth of original salary An
employe who leaves the service because of
disability may receive, in the discretion of
the commissioners, gratuity not to eX-
oeed one months pay for each years ser
VICE An employe who loses his place
through abolition of the Office may receive
an annual allowance, within the discretion
or the commissioners of the treasury. This
allowance is not to exceed two-thrds of
the salary formerly drawn. A pensioner
may engage in any other occupation; but
II ne does any other work for the govern
mt bis total remuneration from the pub
TIC fund must not exceed the salary he re-
celved at the time he was pensioned.
In Germany the pension of an employee
lp6 of civ no,
at oTe-quarter of actual salary and in
creases by cne-siXtieth each year up to
three-quarters of actual salary.
In Prussia a person may engage in other
service without forfeit.ng his pension. In
Saxony he forfeits his pension If he ac-
cepts other renunerat ton. In Bavaria
clerks can retire only at seventy years of
age.
In France an employee of the civil service
may retire usually at sixty or after thirty
years OF service. A pensioner may engage
IN private business without FORGETTING his
pension.
In Switzerland officials are elected for a
three years term of service. There are no
civil pensions. Clerks and employees usual
~ remain in service only for the term
OF the chiefs employing them-three or at
the most six years
In Holland there Is no fixed term of Of
nee. Pensions are granted to employees
siNty-hve years old or who have become
disabled after ten years of service.
IN Sweden the compensation of employees
is divided into salary and active service
money A clerk draws both while in
active service, but draws only salary when
he is sick or absent for other cause
In Norway pensions to civil employees are
determined by the legislative body, the
storthing. acting on individual cases usually
on a royal proposition.
In Russia the state deducts . per cent of
salaries to form pension fund.
Turkey pensions disabled clerks and those
who served thirty years.
In Egypt a deduction of ; per cent of
SALARIES of those on the permanent list
provides a pension for the clerk who has
served twenty-five years and is fifty-five
years old, or the clerk who has reached
s!xty-five. All clerks who are disabled in
service are pensioned and SO are those
whose offices abolished