Evening star., 1922-01-03
"a ARE APPOINTED
T0MEMBERSH|P ON
| PERSONNEL BOARD
Names Reported to Civil
Service Commission.
Others Will Follow.

Others Will Follow.
Twenty-four persons have -cs~
designated to date and reported to
the Civil Service Commission as
members of the federal personnel
board. under the recent executive
order of President Harding. The
first meeting of the board will be
held when all the departments make
their selections.
Persons designated to date follow:
Navy Department, Capt. A. L. Willard,
aide for navy yards.
Interior Department, Morgan r.
Brock. chief of appointments, with
James F. Gill, representing labor
and mechanical forces; Hayes Hay
maker. representing miscellaneous
clerical forces, and DR.. P. S. Smith,
representing the technical employees.
Labor Department. Robert c. Starr,
appointment clerk.
Donovan ID. c. Representatives.
District of Columbia. Daniel ].
Donovan, auditor.
United States tariff commission,
John F. Bethune, secretary.
State. War and Navy Department
buildings. Lieut.. Col. c. .. Sheriff.
with F. w. Hoover and Emmet Ham
ilton as assistants.
Federal board for vocational edu-
cation Z. j. Aronoff, secretary, with
Miss Marie E. Schutt. as assistant.
Smithsonian Institution. James G.
Traylor. appointment clerk. D.,
chief clerk, with Martin A. Roberts
and F. w. Ashley as assistants; super.
intendent of library building and
grounds. F. L. Averilf, with w. H
Rabbit as assistant.
United States Shipping Board. G. O
MacConachie and ]. P. Faherty.
United States Botanic Garden. VIII
liam N. Stiefel.
General accounting offices, E. F. IN
body.
United States Housing Corporation
John NJ. Kline.
Other Appointments Soon.
Selection of representatives on the
new board, members of which serve
without any compensation and have
recommendatory power to the Presi'
dent, will be made by the remaining
government departments and inde'
pendent establishments within few
days.
President J. H Bartlett Of the Civi
Service Commission, ex-oficio chair
man Of the federal personnel board
announced today that the meetings o!
| the board will be open" and that ths
| first meeting will be held as soon a:
possible. There is no disposition OF
! the mart of officials to make any Sc
cret of the activities of the ne"
board. but all feel that great thinss
commission has received pledges o.
support from the National Federation
! of Federal Employees and other or
ganizations.
made himself a sort Of business head
| the government. President baIuett W
day said that the new personnel ooare
will merely attempt to do for the people
| in government service what the admin
| istration already has done with nateria
| things, through the functioninS OF I'M
budget bureau.
Aims Are Explained.
| 'The Civil Service Commission, TO
the better accomplishment Of its owl
distinct work, very much needs the ad
| vice and cooperation which can COM
through the meeting together Of q boar
! composed of representatives OF each de
partment and independent estabiishmsn s
Of the government" Mr.. Bartlett told !
COMMITTEES Of organized employees whtcl
waited upon him recently to offer CO
operation.
understand their needs, meet their de
mands, and secure mutual understand
ing and cooperation. 1t can also. whel
once a policy Of mutual understanding
is attasned, have behind 1t the mora
support Of this board thus composed
which means the entire administration
No Conflict Seen.
.The personnel problems other thai
tho strictly civil service problems ar
so linked together and follow =
closely upon the problems which tn
Civil Service Commission already hai
/ that It is conceded they can best b
handled all together under the sam
| head. and hence the new, personne
board was placed under the supervi
| sion Of this commission.
'"There il no purpose In this execu
tive order to conflict, but rather
nurpose to occupy whatever terri
| tory is left unoccupied by status
| and TO do unitedly and systematicail.
the things which are now done sep
arately and without coordination o
not done at all"
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