Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-09
SUPPLY OWN RECORDS WAR CLOUD TO SOUTH
Treasury Employees Must Fill Bolivia Is Snaring at Peru
Out Blank Cards and Argentina.
AS TEST OF EFFICIENCY DISPUTE OVER BOUNDARY
AS TEST OF EFFICIENCY
Their Superiors Also to Supply
Cards Giving Ratings.
ASK SOME FATEFUL QUESTIONS
Character of Work Performedsto Be
Closely Inquired Into-Many
Dismissals Likely to Result.

In the next day or two each of the
thousands of employees of the Treasury
and its branches will receive large
blank upon which he or she is to tell
in the minutest manner possible the
story of his or her entry into the de-
partment. the character of work done
in the past and now being done, the
salary on entering the department and
ut present, what state, county and con-
gressional district appointed from.
whether through the civil service or
otherwise, and about everything else
that tells the departmental history of
an employe. On the reverse side of the
big card are eight blank lines for the
employe to make whatever comments
he or she desires as 10 anything or
anybody connected with the depart
ment.
The employe, too. is cautioned that
every question must be answered with the
greatest care and accuracy. and that If
card has TO be returned for an answer a
note will be made of the fact. The en-
ploye is advised TO write his or her
answers upon bank paper before putting
them upon the card.
The head of each bureau or Office will
also receive blank card for each en-
ploye of his Office, and he is informed
that he is TO give with the greatest care
the efficiency rating of every employe
under him and have this rating in the
Office of the Secretary of the Treasury by
the 18th of August.
Two Records on File.
BY the foregoing methods of blanks
the Treasury committee on the condi-
,ion Of affairs in the establishment will
soon have before it two cards bearing
the record of each and every employe
himself or herself, made out in his or
her own handwriting. and emphasis is
laid on the fact that the clerk must
make OUT the card in his or her own
ra,nIS ,iandTrltlng The The, other card will be
hcer, with his or her rating of efficiency.
TO the thousands of clerks in the de-
par,ment the important card will be
heads OF bureaus. Upon these ratings
Will probably result a number of dis
The card for heads of bureaus and off,
GERS to ill out regarding clerks is headed
Treasury Department Efficiency Report"
and 1t is requested that the blank lines
be filled out by typewriter. II practicable.
The first part of the card deals with the
name, age. compensation. place of ap-
poiutment. position, birth. etc. of the en-
ploye, but then follows the fateful ques-
ton:
Is. Efficiency: quantity of work;
per cent: quality OF work: interest
manifested in work..
III Is employe extravagant in use of
government supplies or careless in expen-
ditures?
IL Is emplose fully earning present
salary?
"ls. Leave taken during 1905: Annual
sick: average for past five years.
"13. Would service be improved il this
employe were retired on a civil pension?
If so. why?
40. Has employe observed the spirit
and letter of executive order of January
20. 1906?
IL. Remarks
Must Contain Superior's Signature.
The foregoing card must bear the sig
nature OF the person in immediate charge
of the einploye. and also that OF the
head of the bureau or chief of division.
The superior officer is cautioned as to
the reports. One paragraph of the letter
o. Instructions says: Justice TO the gov
crument and to the efnploye calls for
scrupuious care in making ratings. Chiefs
will he hello s:ric .ly responsible for fair
and impartial ratings.
Chiefs are directed to state the quality
of Work OF employees in these terms:
Excellent" good, average fair
poor.
The quantity of the work done by
employees must be stated in percentage
On the basis of 100 per cent as equaling
tire amount of the particular class OF
work that can be performed By thor
oughly efficient employe.
Tho desire OF the committee of the
Treasury. headed by Assistant Secretary
Norton. is to ascertain not only the eff
cheney rating of an employe, as to guam
tity and quality, but whether the en-
ploye manifests interest In his or her
work. Clerks who have simply been
content TO get down to work at o'clock
and quit with the stroke of 4:30. without
showing interest IN between those hours,
may have 10 make some explanations.
Without being too plain about the ques-
tionS asked il is known TO be the desire
OF the Treasury committee to get a COM
plete record OF Superannuated employees.
This information Is sought under question
~, given above. Just how this Informal
ton Will be treated after il IS compiled is
not known. The problem OF what to do
with d superannuated clerk who has CIV
en- his or her best years 10 the govern
ment IS going to be as delicate one with
the committee as IT has with others who
have wrestled with 1t.
M. Mcveagh's Circular.
Secretary MacEeagh, who Will leave
Washington this afternoon for his sum
rer vacation and leave this question of
reorganzing his department to the COM
mittee headed BY Mr.. Norton, has pre-
pared tho following circular letter Ito all
officers of the Treasury Department:
complete efficiency record of each en-
ploye in the service there are inclosed
herewith two blank cards for each en-
ploye under Your direction.
Il Treasury Department efficiency re-
port-This card will be made UP ton the
typewriter. II practicable under your di-
rect supervision. signed by you and by
the immediate superior of the employe
il should be studied and all questions
carefully, correctly and fully answered.
The question relative to duties should
be answered fully, in order that the de-
partment may know precisely the char
acter of the work each of It's officers and
employees is performing. The use Of mere
descriptive words alone. such as clerical
or scientific will not be sufficient. The
actuaa duties should he described
I'm stating the quantity and quality of
work and the interest manifested therein.
i'm answer TO question 15 great care
should he observed to express actual con-
ditions. and the work OF all persons en-
gagged upon the same class of work
should he carefully compared before the
ratings are made up. 1t is intended that
the departments records shall show the
amount OF work performed by each officer