The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-07-03
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The New York Tribune is pub
fishing a series of practical and au-
lucrative discussions of the profess
sions and callings open to young
Americans, and under the caption
of " Public Service 7" has an article
written by Charles N. Fowler,
member OF the House of Repre-
sentatives from this district. Mr.
Fowler gives his views clearly and
at considerable length. Outside of
the army and navy, according to
Mr.. Fowler's statistics, there are
Ioo, 600 men and women in the
service of the United States He
gives some little space to those
holding civil service positions and
says that the opportunities to rise
in the service Of this country are
about the same as those out Of it
He believes that from the very ma
ture Of it, the civil service law car
ries with it the necessity Of civil
pension if the government would
be just to its servants who have be-
come old and worn out in the ranks
of its workers This plan of civil
pension list seems TO present many
difficulties, chief among them has
been encountered in the attempt to
elaborate comprehensive scheme
that would commend itself to the
public, and especially to public men
who regard any pensioned place as
inconsistent with the nature of our
institutions. Mr.. Fowler regards it
as the plain duty Of the government
to establish such a list and The
Chronicle believes it to be more and
more the spirit of the age to have
som such means of caring for men
and women who have gown infrm
in the service. The large employ
ers of men, such as railroads and
other corporations are taking up
this view Of the matter and it would
seem like picayune policy for the
government to neglect it.
This sound piece of advice is
part OF Mr.. Fowler s creed Every
boy born and brought up ON Amer
lean soil, should, so far as in him
lies, prepare himself for the duties
Of citizenship in all its local rela-
tionships, since our government
rests upon the individual entities
and must rise or fall with the aver
age intelligence of the people. Our
public school system, therefore, is
the foundation stone of our govern
mental structure, and one Of its
chief features should always be to
teach the nature Of our political in
stitutions and the duties of citizen
ship.
Public service, Mr.. Fowler AYERS,
calls for the same qualifications that
a respected business career requires,
but in addition, aptitude and indie
fatigable ability is also called for.
Mr.. Fowler's experience leads him
to express the thought that the
false notion now too often enter
tanned that under the government
there are many fat jobs, any one of
which would make man of the as
pirant, can only lead to disappoint-
ment, even though his highest
ambition is merely to pass the time
away. Under the government, as in
all other vocations, positions do not
make men-men make themselves
and unless young man hasideas
and purposes he will fare no better
under the one than in any of the
others The price Of success is the
same the world over and in all re-
lationships, and that price is one 5
self, if the achievement is to be
conspicuous and the result glor-
ious.
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