Evening star., 1927-04-28
CIVIL SERVICE
|. SCHOOLS CHECKED
Officials to Confer Saturday
on Means of Stopping Mis-
leading Advertising.

s. Carving forward the drive against
civil service schools which grossly
rnisrepresent' their ability to carry
applicants for Government jobs
through examinations and secure
Jobs for Them III. E. Morgan, director
of information of the Civil Service
Commission, will attend the trade
practice conference in Pittsburgh
Saturday called by the Federal Trade
Commission to stop fraudulent ana
misleading advertising of all CORES
pondence schools. Federal Trade
Commissioner J. +. Nugent and Mr..
Morgan viii leave here Friday night
for the conference, which will PROB
ably last two days
While the Civil Service Commission
contemplates no immediate actloh
against civil service schools in WASH
+ ington. which claim TO make the way
easy for applicants to secure Gov
ernment jobs, MIR. Morgan sald a
careful watch is being kept on the ad-
vertising Of sM&h schools and II they
overstep the bounds of reasonable
claims they will be prosecuted.
Three Courses Open.
Three courses are open to the Civil
Service Commission in its task OF pro-
tecting the public against fraudulent
advertising and misrepresentation ana
preservation of the merit system in
civil service appointments. 1t may
turn any case over to the Federal
Trade Commission for action, to the
Post Office Department for misuse of
the mails or to the local or national
Better Business Bureau. Any one OF
these methods, Mr.. Morgan said, Is
effective in bringing to an end the
alleged fraudulent advertising and mis-
representation of which some schools
have been guilty.
The Pittsburgh conference was
called by the Federal Trade Commits
sion to secure an agreement among
correspondence schools on their adj
vertising to eliminate, so far as pos
sible, claims which they cannot back
up in fact. Civil service schools, ad-
Vertising certain passage of Govern.
ment examinations and preferred
places on the list of eligibles, are
said to be among these.
Schools Rolls Cut.
The Government Service Institute
of New York, the latest civil service
school against which the Civil Service
Commission has directed its attack,
opened last night, according to New
York reports, with but Is of the ex-
pected 500 students. -Four members
of the faculty, two Of whom were as
sistant United States attorneys, and
two employees of the prohibition
bureau, We're not on the teaching staff
when the institute opened. The
school is said TO claim an easy road
to passage Of the examinations for
posts in the prohibition unit, under
an increase and reorganization of the
prohibition enforcement staff by which
upwards of $500 employees will be
added to the rolls. The political in
f1uence of a New York jurist was
said by officials of the school to have
been enlisted in behalf of the students.
Civil Service Commissioner George
r. Wales today professed him.
self unable to see how the school
can aid any applicant for a post
in the Prohibition Bureau enlarge
ment, since the indicated mental
capacity of the applicant, as shown
by his examination, is of more impor-
tance than the rule of thumb learn
ing, which may be impaired in civil
service school. This applies particu-
larry. he said, TO the high admins
Trative posts, paying up to $4,000 a
year.
100, 1000 to Take Test.
Every safeguard is being thrown
around the examination for pro-
spective Prohibition Bureau employees,
designed TO protect the Government
against the likelihood of employing
agents of bootleggers, former con-
victs and persons convicted of moral
turpitude.
The commission expects about 100,-
900 applicants to take the examina-
tion. out of which the $500 who pass
with the highest marks will secure
the appointments. Even among
these, according to Commissioner
Wales. there are certain to be some
"black sheep" who will have to be
weeded out after their appointment.