Evening star., 1947-07-06

employees may soon get tne cnane
Reversing the procedure which
has caused many Federal worker
to gripe about the unfairness of the
supervisor in grading them, rat
ing Of supervisors by their under
lings would enable Government
agencies TO determine how many
supervisors are actually suited for
their jobs.
The novel plan is being consid-
cred by the Special Advisory Com
mittee of the Senate Civil Service
Committee. Composed of top Gov
ernment officials as well as leaders
of the various Government en-
ployes' unions, the committee is now
working on ways to improve the
efficiency rating system in the Fed
eral service.
Under the proposed rating of SUI
pervisors, the employees would judge
their bosses on such things as these:
Is the supervisor sympathetic,
friendly, even tempered, impartial,
fair in dealing with minor errors,
loyal to all subordinates, easily ac-
cessible? Also, does the supervisor
reprimand in private, accept full re-
sponsibility for his or her errors,
encourage questions and suggestions,
and give due credit for achieve
ments?
Woe unto some of you supervisors
A Civil Service Commission Off
cial, who has what almost amounts
to complex in keeping politics out
of civil service matters, was no end
upset the other day by some visi-
tors from the Chinese Government.
The Chinese officials came to
Washington as guests Of the Civil
Service Commission, to study civil
service procedure in the United
States. 4.
After greeting the Chinese dele
cation at the airport and driving
them to their hotel, the commission
official told them to call him at his
Office when they we're ready to begin
their tour of the commissions
offices. He then wrote on a slip of
paper the commissions phone num-
Der, IRE. Sill"
AS he was leaving. q perceptible
shudder went through him when
he heard one Chinese read aloud to
a colleague, Republican Sill"
The investigating staff of the
Senate Civil Service subcommittee
investigating the affairs of Govern
ment Services, Inc. has made two
alternative recommendations to the
committee.
They are (a) dissolve GSI and
turn the operation of the So Fed
eral cafeteriaS and snack bars here
to private concessionnaire or to
various employe associations, or (b)
permit GSI to continue operating
the cafeterias under close Govern
ment supervision, but diyest it of
control of the rest of its concessions,
such as tourist camps, sailboats,
summer camps, etc.
The subcommittee however, which
is headed by Senator Baldwin, Re
publican, of Connecticut has given
no indication of what 1t will finally
do. In connection with the tnves-
tigating staf's recommendations 1t
should be remembered that 1t served
in the role of prosecutor during the
recent hearings, and. that it Is only
natural that it would bring in a
recommendation unfriendly to GSI.
Bureaucracy Will-Never End Note:
A Commerce Department official
was busy with something or other
the other day and delegated his sec
retary to compose some official cor
respondence for him.
The secretary dashed off what
she considered to be brief, to-the-
point business letters and showed
them to her boss.
mo, this will never do,' he
shouted. The letters are too simple
even a 1O-year-old child could
understand them
Departmental Roundup - The
Public Buildings Administration is
a feuding with the brass hats in
the War Department. Seems PBA
claims it has the right under law
to take over the maintenance work
of the huge Pentagon building.
The Army pooh-poohs this claim,
and continues operating the build
ing by itself .. Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach is bemoaning to in