Arizona republican., 1921-04-17
By Frederic J. Haskin


 wASHINGTON, D. c. April 15.- plum said the young man who had tried the newspaper business, the real estate business and two or three oth- CT businesses. and found them all somehow unsuited to his peculiar talents
 His most obvious talent was for cultivating standins with the great and the about to be great. He knew the time had come to cash in on all the small favors he had done for rising politicians all the smiles he had smiled and the hands he had I shaken.
 | And he is by no means lonely in | that intention. A crowd is gathered about the plum tree of political pref crment, waiting eagerly for the ripe | fruit which is about to fall. The old timers say that never has the crowd of office seekers, both those who come to Washington or are already there, | and those who stay in their home | towns and work by mail and by l proxy. been so great as 1t is this year. You have to go back to 1912 in order to find a comparable condition, for in 1916 the war in Europe made conditions somewhat abnormal. In | was elected the Democratic national committee had no less than 150,000 letters from applicants for jobs. At that time there were in the gift of the president only 10,064 positions, the other 262.60S government jobs being in the classified service.
 There are no similar figures avail able for this year, but 1t may safely
 bo said that the general condition is | 1xN,r tl,n nf- times as many applicants for jobs as there are jobs. Each of these is vali-
 antly determined to sacrifice his
 private life and career for the good
 of the country. No wonder there is
 a scramble. No wonder no admin
 istration ever gets down to business
 until the pie is all distributed and the howls of the disappointed have sub-
 sided.
 Varieties of Job Seekers
 The varieties of these job hunters
 would be hard to catalogue. They
 vary all the way from rich men seek
 ing to crown their careers with diplo-
 matic appointments, to staunch Re publicans of long standing who want
 to be rewarded for their loyalty aby
 places as watchman Or elevator oper-
 ators in the capital buildings. Every . sort of claim and obligation is brou9ht forward. Innumerable let , terS of endorsement and introduction arc passed around. Years of time arc T wasted. And after it is all over, only a few per cent of the applicants car
 be accommodated, and then an enor
 nous crop of bad feeling with ; : baleful influence upon many a politi ! cal career, is the most obvious resul ; of this process of selecting the de 7 serving.
 II !, The proper method of getting a DO 2 litical job has become almost stan :. dardized. You should make it clea II early in the game that you rank higl T among the faithful and the deserving Y You must be highly and conspicu V ously active in a political way. Thel n you must be prominently mentioned e Get any good friend, or several O " them to do this work. Here you cal
 afford to aim high For example, s will do no harm to let a little repor r be circulated that you have bee
 mentioned for a cabinet place or
 high diplomatic post. This fact ma
 be mentioned in a speech at the loca is citizens association meeting. It ma .s even get into the local paper. In thi n and other like ways you will gradu e ally get yourself recognized as one