Evening star., 1936-08-22
u. S. JOB SEEKER S
1t Is Straight and Narrow Road They Must
Travel to Prove Their Fitness Both
Intellectually and Morally.

rental price includes delivery and re-
moval after the trial run.
Other young women ambitious to
enlist in Uncle Sans letter-writing
army, but devoted to a special ma
chine, arrive in taxicabs with their
own typewriter and correlative furni-
ture. District hackers are tolerant
about this excessive load and are in
clined to keep themselves informed
about examination dates, it is said.
To prevent friends from exchanging
information in written examinations,
a rare occurrence, examiners report,
desks are widely spaced, and during
examinations none may leave the
room unaccompanied, since it would
be possible to conceal information in
clothing.
In the written examinations with
four land -half-hour limit, questions
are split into sections, so those TAX
ing the tests may leave the examina-
ton room every hour or so for stroll
and a cigarette When they return
the next set of questions is distrib-
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were being sold at Mckinley the other
day, another commercial enterprise
growing out of the activities of the
Governments employment bureau.
Not many competitors stay the full
time allotted, according to Mrs.
Cowles, and If they do they are usually
having struggle. Some turn In the
papers they have finished. others
merely look over the questions, become
discouraged and leave, presumably to
be anti Government forever. Wednes-
day morning one young woman. su-
poSedly an A. B. and, consequently,
veteran of many final, got so nervous
standing in line that she departed
without even seeing the questions.
Competitors ars asked to report at
$50 am, usually. and doors of the
examining rooms are not open until
o'clock or later.
EXAMINATIONS in the District are
- held at the regular examination
rooms, at Seventh street and Consti-
tuition avenue, accommodating 200,
except when applicants exceed that
number, which they usually do these
days.
During the last two years the COM
| mission has been faced with the
largest examination program in the
history of civil service, not excepting
the World War period.
The present rush for civil service
| ratings is caused, according to j. H.
| Weiss, assistant chief examiner in
charge Of field services, not so much
by New Deal emergency appointees
attempting to qualify for regular civil
service as by the fact that, due to
the provisions of the economy act Of
the Hoover administration, few ex-
aminations were given until the last
fiscal year, with the result that lists
all over the country were depleted.
Employment conditions in the business
world also contribute.
OF applicants taking the sub-rail-
way postal clerk examination, 1000
of the 100000 qualifying were placed
Immediately, because the recent
| change to a 40-hour week forced the
Post ONCE Department to add that
many employees. The new list, Weiss
says, should supply the letter-dis-
tributing branch of the Government
for several years.
The examining section of the civil
service manages to give examinations
at astonishingly low costs. Per cap
ita figures recently collected by the
division show that it costs the Gov
eminent only $l.26 per person in un-
assembled examinations, such as those
for craftsmen and teachers. Assem-
bled examinations for professional
and scientific positions. such as phar-
macists, naturalists and social serv-
ice work, cost S2.91 per capita. Cler-
icai examinations for stenographers