Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08
PLANS ORAL TESTS
FOR DRY LAW Jobs
Civil Service Body Formu-
Iating Examination Program
to Guarantee Efficiency.

Oral tests for those who hope to
qualify for the $500 positions in the
new Prohibition Bureau are being for
mulated today at conference called
at the Civil Service Commission for
this specific task.
Realizing the Importance of the
problem, the commission, it was an
nounced, called together not only
some of it's best qualified employees
in Washington" but also from the
field. to ensure that those who are
to conduct the tests are properly
trained"
The task of formulating plans for
the oral examination will probably be
long drawn out, and the final setting
up of a register may be protracted to
the point where it may run into the
time limit set by Congress October / ,
according to the best indications from
the commission today.
Congress Fails to Provide Funds.
Having handed the commission the
task of bringing under civil service
the army of prohibition employees, Con-
gress failed, when the deficiency bill
was not enacted in the last-minute
Senate jam, to provide funds with
which to do the work The commits.
ceeding with what dispatch it can
with the big task.
The conference meeting today for
the first time will continue it's SEES.
sions daily for week." said formal
statement from the commission The
oral tests for the administrative Do-
sitions will follow immediately-those
for the lower grade positions to be held
as soon as practicable. All told there
are, approximately. 10000 applicants
for all classes of positions under the
Bureau of Prohibition.
1.-THE purpose of the oral examina-
ton is to determine the applicant
personal characteristics and address,
adaptability, keenness and quickness
of understanding, observa ton, judg-
ment and discretion; in general, his
personal fitness for the performance
of the duties of the position for which
he has applied.
Trained Examiners Demanded.
Realizing the difficulty of establish
ing uniformity in oral examinations
and the danger of arbitrary judg-
ments, the Civil Service Commission
has called the present conference to
insure that those who are to conduct
the tests are properly trained A
manual has been developed for their
guidance, although the examiners will
be allowed latitude in framing their
questions
The oral tests. which constitute the
second stage in the civil service eX-
aminations, will be followed by the
character investigation. 1.-THE honesty.
integrity and general character of
each applicant will be thoroughly in.
vestigated," the statement said. Facts
in the applicants history evidencing
moral turpitude, disrespect for law
or uneth1cal dealings will render him
ineligible for further consideration
The last step will be the finger
printing of all who attain eligibility
in the examinations. The fingerprints
viii be compared with appropriate
fingerprint records
Conference Personnel.
The conference opening today was
participated in by the following best
qualified employees:
DR. l.. j. O'Rourke. director of re-
search: James G., Yaden, chief of the
examining division; Henry A. Hesse
chief of the division of investigation
and review: Ismar Baruch, assistant
to the chief examiner; Frederick w.
Brown, consulting examiner: Harry T.
kranz, Ernest G. Dodge and Elwyn C.
Babcock. examiners; James V. Swan:
son. district secretary at Chicago:
Lawson A. Meyer. district secretary
at Atlanta: Edward II. Jennings, dis.
trict secretary at New Orleans: Bal
lard Fl. Clemmons, district secretary
at st. Louis: Harry A. Button, as.
sistant district secretary at Boston,:
John A. Burby. assistant district sec
rotary at San Francisco, and Charles
X. Anderson. chief clerk in the office
OF the district secretary at New York.