The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-13
CIVIL SERVICE CALLS YOUTHS.
Letter Urges Many Americans to Try
For Service in Ordnance Depart
ment on October 9th.

That soldiers are not the only men
that the government needs to carry out
Its extensive war program was revealed
by the letter to Carl Maegaard, of the
Kenosha postofice force, in which it
was urged &C a patriotic duty that Ke-
nosha young men should try at the com
petitive examination for positions in
the Ordnance Department. This exami-
nation was to have been held August
18th but due to the small number of APP
phcants it has been postponed until
October Oh. The positions open in
the Ordnance Department, where men
are especially needed by the govern
ment are for sub-inspectors and assist
ants with salaries at 500 to 1926 a
month for service at Detroit, Mich,
Clintonville ard Kenosha, Wis, and Pc
oria, Ill. The need has arisen due to
the large war orders which have recent
ly been placed IN these cities.
Applicants for these positions must
be between the ages of 90 and 81 and
must not be employees of the firms
which have government contracts I'M
less they have written permission from
these firms of their release in case they
win the appointment. Competitors will
not be re 1uired to report for prelimi-
nary examination but they will be
ranked on a scale of 100 on counts,
1920 physical ability and 500 training
and experience; they must have a gen,
eral knowledge of machine shop prac-
tice, be able to use gauges, micrometers
and calipets, understand the operation
of machines and be competent to read
drawings. The various rules and stud
les of the examination may be obtained
upon application either to the local
agent at the postofice or to the secre-
tary of the Seventh Civil Service Dis
trict, Postofice, Chicago, I'll.
The government assures the appli-
cants that the ratings will be made i'm
mediately following the examination
and that appointments will follow soon.
The complete list of positions opened
by this examination to all American
citizens who meet the requirements is
as follows:
Mechanical engineer, artillery ammu-
milton, $4,000 to $4,000 year
Mechanical engineer, experimental
work, $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
Mechanical craftsman, 81, 900 to ST.
400 year.
Apprentice craftsman, $3.50.
Inspector OF artillery ammunition, ST.
500 OF $4,000 a year.
Inspector of field artillery ammuni-
tion steel, $1,000 to $4,000 year.
Assistant Inspector of field artillery
ammunition steel, $3.50 to SIS a day.
inspector of ammunition packing
boxes, 1882 day to $1,000 year.
Inspector and assistant inspector of
powder and explosives, $1,4O0 to 3d.
400 year.
Inspector o. ordnance equipment, ST.
500 to $4,000 year.
Assistant inspector OF clOCh equip
ment, $500 to 1925 month.
Assistant inspector of leather, 800
toI$125 month.
Assistant Inspector of small hardware
$50 to 1926 month.
Assistant inspector of textiles, $50
to 1925 month.
Assistant inspector of leather equip
ment, 800 to 1925 month.
Clerk qualified in business admins
tration, $1,000 to ST. 500 year.
Index and catalogue clerk, $1,000 to
$1,000 year.
The examination for index and cata-
logue clerk is open to both men and
women; the other examinations are OPP
en- only to men.