Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — Uncle Sam's Working Force Has Necessarily Increased To Achieve Country’s Aims [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sam's Working Force Has Necessarily Increased To Achieve Country’s Aims

For every five helpers Uncle Sam had in 1916, he had ten and a fraction in 1917. This additional force was needed to achieve the government’s war aims. Workers will win the war. It is the business of the civil service commission to sort these for Uncle Sam," appointing to government jobs those which best answer his requirements. To Increase the government’s force, the commission was forced to increase its own. In reporting the busiest year in its history, it speaks of having had to use $250,000 of the president’s special emergency fund for national safety, in its man and woman hunt. Enough remains to tide it over till an appropriation can be made. One interesting thing found in the report is that a number of applicants and appointees for various positions found Uncle Sam’s pay too meager to accept his positions when the appointments were offered. Five hundred appointments were made without examinations in emergency cases, for the first time in the history of the commlsison. A retirement-with-penslon system was recommended at the foot of the commissioa's war storjr.