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that three persons--the top three--are referred first, and the appointing officer may have his choice of the top three. They taken their choice, and then you continue on down the line till you've what's called “exhausted” the list. Of course, the list is made up of persons who have passed examinations with a grade of seventy or better, and when you get down to seventy or seventy and a quarter and seventy and a half and ones like that, you're getting down to the bottom of the pile, if the lists mean anything.

Of course the method of examination has changed a great deal in recent years. It changes all the time, as more is discovered about methods of examining and testing individuals, and testing capacity and testing talent. Then, there's a great deal of examining of persons on the basis of their experience. On the higher levels, you see, when you're appointing people to the higher levels, you get them to give you an analysis of their education and experience. Of course if they make a mistake on their descriotion of their experience and falsify it, they not only go to the bottom of the list, but it's a penal offense. Nothing should happen to them if they say they worked as a something or other in the General Electric Company when they never did.

We had a man who nearly died because after he'd been in the service for twenty or thirty years, it was found that