Evening star., 1948-10-12


tions, despite Joseph Youns.
the fact that a number of persons
with permanent status are avail
able for these jobs.
Other agencies also have been in
volved in these charges and an
investigation will also be made to
determine If these practices are
going on.
Any such practice is a fragrant
violation of civil service regulations
and is the opposite of President
Truman's executive order. which
called for the return Of the Gov
eminent to a permanent hiring
basis personnel system.
KEEP TRYING - Kenneth c.
Vipond, the assistant chief examiner
of the Civil Service Commission, is
telling the story about the persistent
would-be Government employe who
would never say die.
The fellow took an examination
for. a Government job and wound
up with the inglorious grade of 10,
which was 60 points short Of the 70
mark needed to make a passing
grade for a Federal position.
Undaunted. he soon took another
exam and this time did even worse
a grade of 7. He then took four
more futile exams. scoring the low
grades of IS, IA, 8 and II.
But was he licked? Well. read on.
He totted up the grades on the six
tests and found they totaled 66.
Then he hastily dispatched q letter
to the commission. which read:
II have now made passing grade
of 66,, when you count up my grades
on the six tests which I took. And
with the five points Of veterans
preference that I am entitled to,
I have total grade of II, or more
than enough to entitle me to a
permanent Government job"
P. S.: He didn't get the job. But
there are those who feel that a man
with his perseverance and ingenuity
certainly should fit in someYhere In
the Governments scheme Of things.
RFC DISMISSALS-Old-tim ca
reer employees in the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. are continuing to take
Ia beating as the RFC continues its
program of uquidating its war unit
functions.
RIO oficials acknowledge that
career workers with up to 10 years
Of Federal service to their credit are
being dismissed in the program.
And agency ofncials say more dis
nlissals are in the ofiing. They ex-
press the hope that their reduction
in-force program may be completed
by the end Of the year. Meanwhile,
a number Of the dismissed career
employees are charging that seniority
and retention rights are being
ignored by RFC in the reduction-in-
force program.
QUERY-In all likelihood, the
Senate Civil Service Committee will
approve quickly the appointment of
James M. Mitchell as Civil Service
commissioner, when the nomination
comes before 1t next year.
But there Is apt to be some
pointed questioning regarding Mr..
Mitchell's relationship with the
Federal Personnel Council and the
various personnel officials in the
Government who are members Of
the council.
There are some on the commit
tees STAFF who want to make sure
that Mr.. Mitchell isn't "too chummy
with the personnel crowd"
They say that all too often" in
the past the various personnel peo-
pie in Government agencies "have
had their way" with the Civil Serv-
ice Commission in debating policy
and lin thwarting needed changes
in the Governments personnel
practices" Consequently. they con-
tend, rank-and-file Government
employees have suffered.
And they say Mr.. Mitchell, as
executive director of the Civil
Service Assembly, always has
worked closely with the Federal
Personnel Council and the personnel
directors in the various Govern
ment agencies. They assert they
want to be sure that Mr.. Mitchell
will take an independent and COM
pletely objective viewpoint" with
him when he assumes his new Job.
Friends Of Mr.. Mitchell point out
that he owes no allegiance to any
group, and that he will be a forth
right, Independent commissioner
They base this appraisal on his
past record in personnel manage
ment. Consequently, they add, the
Senate Civil Service Committee
should have no fears on this score
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PLEASED-Gov. Deweyis state.
ment on civil service, first disclosed
in yesterdays Star, naturally wal