The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-27

amendment, however, will add to the
list of those exempt from the provis.
ions for displacement, by inserting
the words, and all civil service
clerks and employees"
This will place among the exempts
civil engineers, superintendent Of
construction, inspectors of clothing,
clothing examiners, inspectors of sup
plies, inspectors of animals, chemists,
veterinarians freight and passenger
rate clerks, employees of army trans
port service, employees of the harbor
boat service, clerks and such other
employees as may be required for tech.
nical work.
Congressman Kahn is being con
graduated for winning this great vic
tory for the army civil service CLERKS
and employees, many of whom have
given the best years of their lives,
with faithful, intellectual work in the
running of the governmental olncial
desk routine of the army. Practically
the business machine of the land
service is in the keeping and being
daily discharged by this splendid
corps of civilian attaches of the army
of the United States
1t is a well recognized fact that the
training for a successful field officer
--one versed in tactics and in the art
of war, drilling, maneuvering, etc, of
troops and men, is not often consid-
cred a good business man West
| Point does rot educate her cadets
for a continuous clerical or desk po-
sition or details. The duties of an
active line army officer on the con
| trary, seems rather to tend in an op.
posite course from the necessary bust.
ness methods that have to be en-
ployed i'm running the vast machinery
of the land forces of Uncle Sam S
army family.
The officers and a large majority Of
the enlisted men are no doubt ably
qualified experts, as far as booE
! knowledge is concerned, to do any
and all clerical work connected witt
their various departments or corps
but they could not be in the field, OF
hikes and drilling when officer dutia!
were calling or waiting to be done.
So the army officer has his place t,
fill and the government clerk of thC
army has his duties to perform. One
with men, for the protection of life
and property and duly unfolding the
| dignity of Old Glory and all that il
stands for, and the army clerk to dea
with the paper, records and prepare
| ton for the even running of this huge
organization As some admrer OF the
modest government clerks has assert
! ed, they are the brains Of the govern
mCnt, with their high education anC
patient desk work accomplishing
mighty things that never are known
outside of the Office walls.
/ Representative Kahn has conferred
a great favor not only on this mag
nificent body of clerks but on the
army itself, in being the happy pos
SCISSOR of these business men assO
ciated with it, Working together, the
army man and the civilian, they make
most successful team, both needini
the other properly to round out the
affairs of the home government Eacl
for the other and both for God
Congressman Kahn visited Honolulu
several months ago, and the many PEG
pie here who heartily enjoyed his sta!
and campanionship will be glad Il
hear of this recent glorious victor
won by Hon. julius Kahn in the cap
itol at washington, d. c
Gen. Ainsworth's Work.
There is a general feeling amoni
the service in the mainland, and thos
who know about matters military
that the Hay report and bill are ad
Imittedly based on data supplied b.
the late Adjutant General of the Unit
ed States army The military critic
of Major General Fred c. Ainsworth
new retired, broadly intimate that h
inspired if he actually. did not writ
those portions of the report attackin
the various statements made by Sec
Rotary of War Stimson and of tn
chief 81 staff Major General Leonar
Wood, in their hearing before tn
military committee of the House. Pei
sonalities of the most uncomplimen
airy character abounded in the repor
From official letters in answer t
inquiries of army affairs made by tn
Secretary of War of the then actin
IAdjutant General, the same unfriendl
spirit and language are evident whic
are plainly displayed in Represents
tive Hays report, hence the belief b
many that Mr. Hay drew his subjeC
matter from the overworkad head {
, the Adiutant Generals office at Wasl