Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-04-21
CIVILSERV|CEGROWS.
EXAMINATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT
POSITIONS INCREASING.

r examinations = More Expected
Nearly Three Times as MANY =
: Last Year-Northwest FurnIsbs,
Large Number of Applications.
ne square deal" and plenty of adj
Vertising are regarded as resnons,h,e
ior tne unusual number of applications
ior positions in the classified servioo
OF the government.
Up to the present time 144os an
piications for the spring examinations
ior the entry into the civil sarv,oo
OF the government have been filed with
ene commissioner at Washington n
~ Inc commission estimates that
Inis number will be increased to Of
ieas. lS'ooO before the time for ra.
celNng applications expires
The applications from the westo
states Oh washington. Idaho, Montana
wyoming, Colorado, North and south
Dahota' Oklahoma and Indian Terri. |
'oiy mus tar received have been great. |
er than during any similar ner,ods
since the establishment of tho civil
service commission. The western neo-
PIE seem to have suddenly become IN,
Dued with the notion that thew would
IKE TO enter the government service
fAs tne quota of nearly all of the west.
7.n states Is not complete the chances
u appointments from those states are
nuch better than from the eastern
states
Las. year the number of applications
OF the spring examinations was be.
ween 1000 and 5000. It will tous on l
'ear that the applications this wear ,
re TWO and one half times greater 1
nan last year, and last year was a {
ecord breaker up to that time. II
1t is not hard times that is bringing 1,
e" applicants for government places Is
ecause the people of the country o
ere never more fully EMPLOYED than ri
ley are today. 1t is not the navment d
nign salaries by the government a.
lat is bringing about this eager chase o.
Ter government jobs, because while ST
ages IN every branch of industry NJ
ave been increasing during the past e'
'Veral years, the tendency in the SER bi
ce OF the government is for wages
come down. Some years ago there :
ere no clerks under $1,000. Now there
e many working for the government
salary OF very much less than that
ure. There must be some reason
the excessive increase in the mum.
oI applicants, and people who XII
We studied conditions in the civil 30
wee commission have come to the I'm
nciuslon that there are lust two Or
Uses for it. One is the fact that all Os
II the country there is vast
cunt OF confidence that under Sis
osevelt the civil service will be run Ma
lctly "on the square," and that q
uare deal" will await every one
enters the lists as an applicant Adj
2 other is the fact that tbis foot,ro Dir
the situation has been widely ad-
used by civil service institutes all
the country.
S a matter of fact the commission
'eing run now just about as il has Asa
many years in the past There is fuJ
;nange. But many people living in MIX
ote localities have known but lit Shll
Of the commission and its n,o+bodo Vas
some OF them have felt that some.
or other man or woman must ~,
pull in order to get into a gov
nent Job. With Roosevelt re-
ted there is conviction that he Asa,
see that every one has a good Adzl
'. There is also the feeling that Idzu
aown on the occasion of every Iwat
ge OF administration. The peo- Kas,
believe that when change of Miss
nistration is made there will be Toki
ienoFais from Office. YakI
csc applications, numbering a.
and estimated to run to $4,000.
or about $4,000 places, or for an
lge OF about one person for every wa
places, to be filled. 1t is not like the I
is. year there will be more than const
places vacated under the govern "nlcl
In the list of places that are to congf
led by the spring examinations. comp
are positions under the govern De &C
In this city numbering $4,000. I'M vesse
ne railway mail service number GERS,
1000, under the Indian service demol
the service in the Philippines. snlps'
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