Evening star., 1924-08-17
:" ELIOW-WORkER with three |
- Presidents all of whom called |
him friend" and regarding |
whose Invaluable work"

- iSoiocuecs oil OF "nOm called
him friend" and regarding
L whose "invaluable work"
ROO evelt paid particular
Experienced in four branches of
governmental work. egisIativc
executive. military and municjpal.
"A page in the famous Fourty-
fourth Congress. which decided the
iliden-Hayes election. and many of
whose members achieved fame as
atesmen-including the two mar
tyred Presidents, Garfield and Nc
kinley.
Helper in compiling the tenth
census.
Appointed as mere boy, without
solicitation on his part, more than Al
years ago as one of the two original
employees when the Civil Service Com
mission was organized, and continu-
ously In service ever since as one
of the best-known men in the public
service, generally recognized as "a
square man. courteous, fair, i'm
partial and sympathetic, out Of the
bigness of his warm heart treating
all men alike regardless Of race,
creed or color.
Grew With Commixsfon.
tract representative of the Civil
Service Commission with the Gov
ernment departments, the story of
whose life is the story of the United
States Civil Service. He entered as
a boy; his hair is now white. The
civil service started with three COM
missioners. stenographer and a
messenger-fve persons in all; it now
has $50 employees. The institution
has grown, while the man has grown
old.
Among the thousands Of department
chiefs and Government officials in
the well-nigh countless departments.
bureaus. boards, commissions and
other branches of the Federal service
there is not one who comes closer to
the people outside of the service than
Mr.. HaIloran. who until less than two
years ago was for many years certi-
fication clerk. Few men in the Gov
ernment service upon whom rests
the responsibility of making those
outside the service part OF that
service and of bringing together
civilian official as employe and en-
ployer have achieved as enviable a
record as has Mr.. Halloran.
He is largely responsible for the
more numerous employment or ~om-
en- in the Government departments
When he first called attention to the
failure to appoint women. one large
bureau now employing hundreds had
only one female, a telephone operator.
Ry his constantly calling the alter
ton Of the administrative officers TO
this high class of eligibles the scrN-
ice has been more generally opened
10 educated and ambitious women,
and thousands have been appointed
as d result.
He is widely and favorably known
,s ."rhe D'Artignan of the Civil
Service"
Embraces 100000 Persons.
Right here it is well to REMIND
leaders that the executive civil serV-
ice Is one of the most important
branches Of the GoverEment-and the
largest. This service is separate ana
distinct from the legislative. judicial.
military and naval 1t lncludes not
only the departments in washington
hut also the public offices throughout
the country. known as the helo setV-
ice, comprising the 13 civil service
districts, embracing in all some
500 900 officers. and employees of which
some 425, 900 are In the classined serE-
ice and some 10000 employed IN
During the year ended
June 80, 1922. the commission ex-
amtned 2O6.007 persons, of which
number 63,s67 were appointed to po-
sitions.
Under the administrations of Presi-
dents Grant and Hayes spasmodic at
tempts were made to establish a
merit system. but it was not until
after the assassination OF President
Garfield by a disgruntled office-seeker
that the movement took effective
shape and form, resulting in the pas
sage Of the law to regulate and i'm