Excerpt from Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the United States Civil Service Commission: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1918 Sir: The merit system of appointments has been maintained in its entirety through the second year of the war. Although it has been a year of greatly increased activity, every safeguard essential to the integrity of the merit system has been preserved, and the effective coordination of the civil and military branches promoted. In the fiscal year covered by this report, 551,391 persons were examined, of whom 214,567 were appointed. The commission, with its widespread organizations, has cooperated effectively with the departments, thus reducing waste and confusion and insuring the appointment of persons best qualified to serve the Government. The abnormal demand for additional employees which began during the closing months of the last fiscal year continued through the present year, in which there has been an increase of 161 per cent over the number examined in the previous year, and an increase of 150 per cent in the number appointed. It is apparent that this increase was largely occasioned by the expansion of the service due to military preparations, but it should be pointed out that the number of separations from the service, exceedingly great compared with any previous number, necessitated a considerable portion of the appointments. A comparison of the numbers examined by periods is afforded by the table following, which shows the persons examined and appointed in five-year periods and in the year covered by this report. It will be observed that the number appointed in the past year was nearly as large as the whole number appointed during the preceding five years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.