Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...minor public jobs, requiring incumbent Jewish officeholders to resign within two months; from positions in the Army, Navy, Air Force; from jobs as teachers; from positions in press, radio, cinema. Vichy was very proud that these decrees were milder than Germany's-that Jews may retain civil rights as citizens. Some professions were not purged...
...having once assumed a bigger public service, the chief problem that confronts these men is how to achieve also a better public service. Particularly crucial is the development of a more equitable system of Civil Service examinations. An increasing amount of weight must be given to native ability rather than experience--this on the supposition that the naturally able man can, in a short time, make up for the superior experience acquired by his innately less competent rival...
...college undergraduates, is an article by Enno Hobbing, former President of the Guardian, on "Youth and the Public Service." The position of the young man interested in a government job is, in the eyes of Hobbing, a particularly unfortunate one. Not only is he blocked by the Civil Service emphasis on experience, but he is also completely befuddled and bedamned by an annoying little custom known as veteran preference. In many instances, veterans receiving an examination grade of 60 or better are placed at the head of the Civil Service list, while no other competitor can even pass his examination...
Another problem which is given attention is that of "Political Neutrality." In view of the Hatch Act, and all the "little Hatch acts," what will be the future status of the civil servant? Is it necessary or advisable to deprive a man of his inalienable rights on the doubtful grounds that he works for the government? Mr. Wallace Sayre of the New York Civil Service Commission, who treats of the question at some length, heartily condemns this incipient tendency to "gag" the government employee...
Among those principles, which contribute to what he described as "the golden mean between destructive criticism and complacent dogma," the President included the civil liberties which are protected by the Bill of Rights, the "political machinery which enables the mass of the people to decide through elected representatives on major issues," and the protection of minority rights...