The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-10
ANACONDA news.
CIVIL SERVANTS WANTED
An Examination to Be Held in
This City July 28 and %.
A CHANCE TO GET OFFICE
Competent Clerks Wanted in the Land
and Surveyor Generals Ofices-Se-
lection by Civ Services Examin-
atomic Person Barred.

There are more ways than one of
serving Uncle sam. 1t is not necessary
TO grab a musket. put on a blue coat
with brass buttons and acquire a reg
ular troopers vocabulary in order TO
be of service to your old uncle. Some
people. IL is true. can make more of a
mark in the world with a gun than they
can with a pen. but the opposite is
also true. The elderly party in the
long-tailed coat and Senator Tom Car
ter chin whiskers needs all kinds of
nephews to assist him in running the
show. otherwise known as the govern
ment. Besides the armies in Cuba and
the Philippine islands Uncle Samuel
has a vast army of civil servants. As
the name would imply the civil servant
is a quiet fellow who does not fight,
but is supposed to put in his time in an
Office somewhere looking wise. saying
slittle. generally dong less and drawing
$50 much per month. The great mis-
fortune in a civil servants life is that
congress has not come to his relief and
divided the year up into more months
than II. The civil servant does not
kill Spaniards-he kills time.
Every once in a while Uncle Sam
advertises for civil servants and Sc
lects them by calling for examina-
tions in different parts of the country.
Just now according to advices recent
e1y received by w. T.. Thomas, assistant
POSTMASTER general OF Anaconda. Uncle
Samuel needs a few persons qualified
10 act as clerks in land or surveyor
generals Offices in the Western and
SAtYshnrn 1snfnG NJ Thnnana 90 GaAra-
tary for Anaconda Of the United States
civil service commission and every
month or SO he is called upon to hold
some kline of an examination.
Although the free delivery system in
eAnaconda has not been in operation "A
Year yet. Mr.. Thomas has held at least
ffhree examinations for letter carriers.
Anaconda had all the competent letter
carriers the office needed, but the post
master general believes in furnishing
literary entertainment for the people
out West. and whenever the fancy
strikes him he orders a cocktail for
himself and a civil service examina-
stion for the amusement of the ambi-
.tious youth of Anaconda. There usai
sto be a hardware man back in Ohio
who let his accounts run for ~ months,
then. just before the new year he
would start making IN his bills. He
would read OF from the ledger the diff
IeTent items 10 MS clerk, VINO would
jot them down on a billhead. Every
once in while the merchant would
raise his eyes from his ledger and say.
x"Charley. L think that bill would stand
20 pounds of 10-pennies about hat
place" His bills were works of art
and acumen. and the profit that ne
reaped in the way of added nails was
a fright. That is about the way with
the civil service outfit in Washington.
The commissioner calls i'm a clerk and
says: George, how long is 1t since
they had a civil service examination in
Ansconda?"
About two weeks, your honor saws
George.
We'll. start up another I guess they
can stand an examination about this
time"
There are people who are not i'm full
accord with the administration which
may happen to be in power at Wash
ington. or who have no influential pa-
litical friends with a pull on any ad-
ministration, hat greatly admire n
put faith in the civil service commits
sion. There are. however. base mate
rialists who would rather stand close
40 the senators and congressman of
stheir state than get marked 100 per
rent. in a civil service examination.
These materialists pretend to believe
that a senator or representative in
&kAA IS all W. ~ ~ a AAah III AAAf
way of getting an office han all the
civil service commissioners that ever
lived. The base materialists are al
ways attempting to shatter the ideals
of life.
No one can make Mr.. Thomas, the
secretary of the civil service commis-
sion in Anaconda. believe that civil
service reform has not reformed. He
therefore invites all those who would
like a position in a land office or In the
surveyor generals office TO write to the
civil service commissioner in Wash
ington for blank applications to tax
the examination which Mr.. Thomas
will hold in the court room of the city
hall July % and IS. MIR. Thomas has
given out the following Information re-
garding this examination:
The positions for which these exam
fnatione will be held are as follows:
First. Clerk qualified as stenograph-
er. typewriter and LAM office book
Keeper.
second. Clerk with a thorough
knowledge of land law and a general
knowledge of the system of public lan1
surveying.
Third. Clerk with qualifications of a
land surveyor. including plating, com
putting and drawing. and also with a
knowledge of the system of public land
surveying.
Fourth. Thoroughly competent to-
geographic craftsman with a genera