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You know what the problem is, you can see what it is, you think how to do it right and how to do it better and meet the problems of the day as it comes.

Of course this was interesting, because it was a direct contact of the problems of people with their employment. The employment, to be sure, was Government employment, but that's very rigid. The first batch of mail that comes to your desk as a new Commissioner is a batch of letters of people who have a kick. You can call them kicks or you can call them appeals--I mean, it's “please help me,” you see--“I'm misunderstood, I'm miscast, they won't let me do this.”

Civil Service law is a law passed way back in 1884, I think, 1884 or 1886. It's an old law, and there are certain things laid down in the law, but more than that, there's been a terrific amount of interpretation and regulations and added materials, you see. A lot of regulation has accrued to it, you see, merely by the passge of time.

What are the duties of the Civil Service Commissioner?

Civil Service Commissioners? There are three, and they have equal powers. Oh yes--all coequal. It's a real committee. It's a real committee, and always has been.