The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-30
HELP IS URGENTLY
NEEDED IN WASHINGTON
Well.Paid job In Government Depart
ments Await Competent Workers
In Various Lines.

ments Await Competent Workers
In Various Lines.
Help is still urgently needed by the
Government departments in Washing
ton. There are available jobs ranging
from $40 year for junior aid up'to
$500 for pulp and paper engineer,
announced by the Civil Service Com
mission.
Inspectors of telephone equipment
are needed. The salary is $1,000 a
year. Only men are eligible. Appli-
cants must be high-school graduates,
and must have had three years ex-
perience in manufacturing, testing, or
installing telephones. Inspectors of
telegraph equipment who have equal
familiarity with that work will be
paid $1,000 year. The pay for in
spectors of radio equipment is the
same, and inspectors of vehicles in
GLIDING automobiles, will receive ST.,
500. Salaries of $1,000 are offered for
inspectors of field glasses who gre fa-
miliar with the work.
Laboratory assistants and aids in
the Bureau of Standards are also In
demand. They will receive from 5000
to $1,000 year, according to expert
ence, and both men and women are
eligible More highly qualified labo-
ratory assistants may receive entrance
salaries of $1,000 to $3.50 year.
Men who want to become appren-
tice fish culturists, at entrance salar-
les of $500 to $500 year, may take
examinations at various places in the
United States on November 20 and De-
cember II. High-school graduates
can find places at $40 to 1920 a year
as junior aids in the Bureau of Stan
dards.
A vacancy in the Forest Products
Laboratory at Madison, Wis, will be
filled by the Civil Service Commission,
which is seeking a pulp and paper en-
gineer at a salary of $4,000 a year.
Applicants will not be assembled for
examination, but will be rated on
sworn statements of education and
experience and corroborative evidence
obtained by the commission. Applica-
tons should reach the commission by
the closing hour on October 30.
There is a continuous demand for
bookkeepers. The basic salary is ST.
900 year. Appointments may be
made at higher or lower salaries, ac-
cording to experience and the results
of examinations, which are given
every Tuesday.
The Department of Agriculture
needs plant pathologists, male and
female, at salaries of $1,000 to $4,000
a year, and assistants in plant nutri-
ton at $3.50 a year Applications
should be prepared promptly.
Locksmiths are wanted by the Post
Office Department and in the Treas
ury Department at $3.50 a day and
$4,000 year, respectively. The ex-
animation is set for November 5. Wo-
men are eligible for appointment as
copyist topographic craftsmen as
well, as men. These positions pay
81, 100 to $4,000 year.
Editorial clerk examinations will be
given November 20 and December II,
and salaries are set at $1,000 to 81 900
year Women may apply for these
positions. Men only, however, may
apply for the position of inspector of
dairy products at $1,000 to $4,000 a
year.
Good jobs for qualified men are
available in the Forest Service, which
seeks an industrial specialist in forest
products. Salaries range from $1,000
to $4,000, according to education and
experience. Toluol experts linen
onlyJ can get $1,000 to $4,000 a year,
An investigator in seed marketing is
wanted at salary of $2,25O to $4,000
year. Men who want jobs on In
dian reservation in Oklahoma can
find work as oil gaugers, If they have
had the required experience, at sal
aries of $1,000 to $1,000 annually.
Physicians are needed for the Pan
ANA Canal; junior engineers are
needed to $1,000 year; and inspec-
tors OF engineering materials are re-
quired by the Navy Department at
$4.4S to $500 a day.
Jobs open alike to men and women
include those of balance of stores
clerk, Ordnance Department, at $1,000
to $1,000 year; assistant engineer Of
tests, Navy Department, 1919 to $4.96
a day; and assistant in the PATHOLOGY
cal laboratory, Bureau of Plant Indus
try, $500 year.