The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-08
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FOR U. S. CIVIL
SERVICE JOBS
Army and Navy Need Highly
Trained Civilian Workers,

Forty different kinds OF civil service
examination have been given in Okla
homa City during the past six months
according to r. B. AlIbayh, secretary
OF the board OF civil service examlna-
tions, and OF the 800 applicants for ex-
amlnationS. at least one third have
passed Also numerous applications
have been received for non-aSSemblcd
n1n-compctliye examinations
Ihrty-seyen women and seventeen
men took the examination for depart.
mental clerk May Is, and OF the number
at least forty passed. About the same
ratio passed the examination for first
grade field service June !, when TWEEN
ty-ilve men took the examination.
Ility-one women are on the list Of
cliglblcS for postofiice positions but the
kinds OF work they can do is so limited
that they have not all secured position,
However men are badly needed for
postoiiice service. Allbaugh states, and
an examination will be held July y
Able bodied men between the ages Of
lS and Is are wanted
Thousands OF Women Needed.
Government stenographers and lyplSt,
are 50 badly needed that any person
who averages 70 in the examination
will be assured an appointment An
examination will be held here July 9. at
o'clock IN the afternoon
The government needs thousands OF
women for war work, according to a
statement sent ou, by John l.. Nc
Lhenney president OF the United States
civil service commission The commits
sion urges women TO offer their serv-
ices TO the government at this time OF
great need AS men are called to the
colors women must take their places
and keep the machinery behind the
armed forces moving at the maximum
OF efficiency More and more as the
war program progresses, the govern
ment is depending upon women to per
form the tremendously increased
volume OF work in the civil branches
The force OF Civilian employees in
Washington, d. G., increased from 80
600 to approximately 10000 during the
first year ot our participation in the
war or this increase Of 10000 more
than 2500O are women Women make
up the increase IN government offices
and establishments outside Of Washing
ton in less proportion, for the reason
that the greatest expansion in the field
has been in the large manufacturing
plants OF the war and navy departments,
where thousands OF mechanics and la
borers are employed in shipbuilding
and in manufacturing ordnance and
other war material Women are not
available for employment in trades po-
sitiOnS to any great extent. but their
services are being untitled in every
way that is practicable.
Sixty Varieties Of Work.
The United States civil service com
mission is calling for women for gov
ernment work of not less than sixty
different kinds The list includes
stenographers, typiSts, bookkeepers,
sificatlons which require training in
some special or technical line. stats
ticians, operators OF various kinds OF
calculating, addressing and duplicating
machines; proofrcaders, law clerks
welfare executive secretaries, drafts
men of a dozen kinds. telegraph and
telephone operators, trained nurses,
chemists, physicists, library assistants,
inspectors of undergarments, finger
print classiiiers and many others.
Right now the civilian branches OF
the army and navy are in urgent need
Of thousands of highly trained workers,