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The entire government service may be likened, not to a single 

 large corporation which has one employment agency, but to a 

 large number of corporations of many different kinds associated 

 in a great group by a holding corporation. An employment 

 agency maintained by the holding corporation would not select 

 the personnel nor make promotions for every separate company. 

 The officers of the separate companies in intimate contact with 

 the personnel and the work would do that. But the central 

 agency could be of great service in finding men, arranging trans- 

 fers from company to company, formulating policies, checking 

 the practice of the several companies, and cooperating with and 

 advising and educating their employment officers. Such a case 

 is not perfectly analogous to the federal government, but it is 

 nearer to it than a single corporation having one employment 

 agency. 



6. EXTENSION AGENTS AND ADVISORY COUNCIL 



Extension agents of the Civil Service Commission located in 

 the departments or going about from bureau to bureau would 

 be able to render important assistance to administrators and to 

 keep the Commission informed as to the operation and the needs 

 of the service. Personal contact between the representatives of 

 the Civil Service Commission and administrative officers is very 

 essential to avoid misunderstanding and ungrounded suspicion, 

 as well as to give the Commission fuller knowledge of the needs 

 of all branches of the service, and to give administrative officers 

 more intimate knowledge of Civil Service procedure and the 

 practice of other branches of the service. 



The meeting together of such a body of liaison officers for con- 

 ference and to report to the Commission would enable each one 

 to become acquainted with the best administrative methods pre- 

 vailing in the departments, and to carry back to the department 

 or establishment he was serving information and suggestion of 

 the greatest value to administrators. Such extension agents 

 should be men of high character and attainments, possessing 

 tact and talent for dealing with men, and with considerable ex- 

 perience in the government service. They would acquire an 



