Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
GOOD POSITIONS
WITH UNCLE SAM
GOING BEGGING
tligibIes for Various Positions
Are Scarce, Civil Service
Commission Finds.
MANY EXAMINATIONS SOON
One Plum, Paying $4,000, viii
Fall to Some One of the
Many Competitors.
MANY EXAMINATIONS SOON

WASHINGTON, Sept 2O-Jobs
under the Government are going a.
begging, and the Civil Service Com
mission to-day issued announcements
Of examinations to be held for a num-
Der Of positions, almost every an
nouncement bearing this significant
statement in black faced letters:
AS the commission has expert
enced considerable difficulty in secur-
ing a sufficient number Of eligibIes
for positions qualified persons are
urged to enter this examination"
Among the positions which the
commission seeks to fill through COM
petitive examinations is that of pre-
parator in the bureau of entomology
Of the Department CT Agriculture. The
position, according to the announce
ments, will pay the successful candi-
date $50 a month The examination
consists only Of passing in spelling,
arithmetic, letter writing. penman-
ship, copying and demonstrating.
general aptitude for the job. "prac-
teal tests in preparing, mounting and
labelling chronological specimens.
both pinned and microscopic"
All For $50 a Month.
Another place the commission has
thus far failed 10 fill and for which
an appeal is made is that of a teacher
of metal working and mechanical
drawing in the Indian service. The
.ob also will pay $50 a month. In
q ldiuon to being both an arithmeti-
clan and an artist the applicant, ac-
Cord.ns To the specifications might
Wen have "a knowledge OF wood
turninE.' However, the commission
odds, this knowledge lis desirable,
bat not essential"
The real prize position open to that
citizen Of the United States who can
qualify and demonstrate his super
C!itv ever his fellows pays $4,000
year II is the position of professor
Of larmacology in the public health
service.
THE sneCifiC position mentioned, 3"
slya the Commi ssiOn's announcement,
lis one of much responsibility and 1t
is desired to secure the services of
man who has broad training and eX-
ltIE'Nt ITdtIltdl experience III various
branches Of phaTmacology. phySi-
ology, physiological and pharmaceu-
tical chemistry. chemotherapy, etc, s.
they relate TO medicine and the pub
lie health"
Ten Years Experiences Necessary.
Those seeking 10 pluck this plum
however the commission insists. must
have had ten years OF experience
along the lines laid down and like
wise must have had training that
would qualify them for the degree of
Phi. d. if they haven't already ac-
quired that distinction.
Other Jobs which are open and for
which examinations will be held dur
ing September and October are: Fish
culturist, male, bureau of fisheries;
apprentice fish culturist, male, also in
the bureau of fisheries; structur Al
craftsman frst-class. and structural
craftsman. second ella IS, in the
isthmian canal service; laboratory
apprentice, male. in the bureau of
standards; dynamo tender. male, at
Ellis Island, \. Y; Junior fuel engi-
neer male in the bureau of mines,
station at Pittsburg; assistant in bo-
tanical laboratory work, male in the
bureau of plant industry; statistical
clerk, in the departmental service, and
scientific assistant departmental ser
vice