Once outside or on your way home, some questions will begin swimming a marathon in your think-tank. Such as these for instance: “Did those top-notchers really know the business of their office?” “If they did know, why did they troll you around for an hour to get information which a shirt-sleeved _worker_ gave you in three minutes?” “If they did not know, then what have they been doing during their five or ten years of service?” “If they know so much, how many years would it take “Boob” Sikes of Boobtown to learn as little as they appeared to know?” By the time the questions begin to take on this sort of “How old is Ann” character, you will have reached the conclusion that you have discovered something and have seen things to prove it. Just here it may be pertinently asked, why those top-notchers in that postoffice should be blanketed by the stipulations of a civil service law which gives them merit credits and grades for the years they have been in the service? If you and I have been loafing on a job for five, ten or more years--been foozling with the duties of that job while heeling and fanning for a political party--why should the law credit those years to us as service “experience?” In placing any service or a division of any service under a merit classification, the law should require that every position in such service be filled by examination, and such examination should be open alike to the shirt-sleeved employe already holding a position in such service and to outsiders. Such a requirement would show what of service value there really was as a result of the years an employe had been in the service. Do you ever go to Washington, D. C.? If so, the next time you go, take in one or more of the main divisions of the Postoffice Department. Some guide or clerk will probably be detailed to steer you through. Your pilot will talk considerable and his talk will listen well. You need not, however, hear all nor even much of what he says. As advised in your visit to the Presidential postoffice, keep both your ears and your eyes open to hear and see what the service employes say and do.