U. S Civil Service Explains “Photo
graph Rule” for Indentifying
Competitors
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Washington, Aug. 3 (ANP) —
In response to several questions
submitted by The Associated Ne
gro Press during a recent call up
on the U. S. Civil Service Com
mission. that body this week is
sued a statement relative to the
subject matter embodied, in ANP
queries .
It had been discovered that
there was no law compelling sub
mission of a photograph in con
nection with govern mental civil
service examinations. It is a rule
■which the Civil Service Commis
sioners set up themselves. The
Commission was requested to set
forth in writing, its views of the
photograph requirement and its
authority for not directing that
tha person receiving the highest
mark in an examination be given
the first appointment.
U. S. Civil Service Commission
ers aro the following: Harry B.
Mitchell president, Lucille Foster
McMillin and Samuel H. Ordway,
Jr. Lawson A. Moyer is executive
director and chief examiner. The
Commission’s statement to ANP,
over signatures of William C.
Hull, executive assistant and ex
plaining the “photograph rule’’
declares: “In order to protect the
Government against fraud and to
preserve the rights of all compe
titors it is necessary that any per
son about t« be appointed shall be
identified beyond doubt as the
person who was examined.
“To accomplish this purpose,
various plans of identification
were discovered. From the begin
.ning of the examinations for the
Philippine and Panama Canal ser
vices, each competitor was re
quired to present to the examiner
at the time of examination, a
photograph of himself taken with
in two years, as a means of iden
tification.
• 1 ms at course, is a positive
identification of the competitor.
The requirement was later ex
tended to other services. By action
of May 27, the use of photographs
for identification of competitors
was extended to all examinations.
This was done after the question
had been submitted to all depart
ments and independent offices and
had received their unqualified and
unanimous approval. The reasons
advanced at that time have made
it seem advisable to continue the
practice of requiring photographs
from competitors.’’
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those making the highest average
in examinations, the statement
said:
“There has been no rule, tempo.
-ary or otherwise in connection
with examinations for the compet
itive classified service, requiring
the acceptance of the hghest man
0j woman on the list of persons
who have successfully passed a
given examination. So far as it is
recalled, the present members of
the Commission have never for
mally expressed their opinion such
a rule and their viewpoint on the
matter is not of official record.
“On this subject, there is an
At-orney General’s decision (13
Op. Atty. Gen. 516. Aug, 31, 1871
reading as follows:
“An Act of Congress or a rule
promulgated by the President may
require that the selection shall be
made from persons found by an
examining board to be qualified in
such particulars as diligence,
scholarship, integrity, good man
ners and attachment to the
Government. The appointing pow
ed would still have scope for the
exercise of its own judgment and
wi.l,
Congress cannot restrict the
choico of the head of a depart
ment shall make selection.”
Prof. Fred Hall of
Dillard is Highly
Trained Musician
New Orleans, La, (By E. L.
Hercules, Calvin Service)—Fore
most in the ranks of Negro mus
icians is Prof. Frederick D. Hall,
director of the Music Department
of Dillard University. This able
musician has had a wide and vari
ed experience in the field of mus
ic, not only in the United States,
but al-o in foreign countries. In
deed, he is one of the best trained
'musicians .that our race has pro
duced.
After receiving his A. B. degree
from Morehouse College, he enter
ed Chicago Musical College from,
which he received a Teacher’s Dip
loma and the Bachelor of Music
degree. Later, he received his M.
A. degree in music from Columbia
University, and a special Super
visor’s Diploma from Teachers
College of the same institution.
Further study in the field of mu
:iic was done at Pittsburgh Music
al Institute, Indiana State Norm
al, and American Conservatory.
As he was not satisfied with con
fining his musical activities to this
country, Mr. Hall went abroad to
widen his research in Europe and
Africa. In Europe he did resi
dence work in piano, organ, com
position, and voice at the Royal
College of Music, and research in
the Status and Function of Music
in Education in England, Wales
and Scotland. During tiiis time,
he visited many schools as a spec
ial guest of the London County
Council Thus, he had the
opportunity of studying English
methods, and was able 'to make
comparisons through tests and ex
periments, between British sys
ecs and those of America and oth
e/ countries.
While traveling in Wales he had
the unique distinction of conduct
ing some of the famous Welsh
choirs during the Welsh Folk Fes
tivals. Upon leaving the United
Kingdom, he went to do research
work in West Africa. He spent
five months in the Gold Coast Col
only in the study of native music,
and in search of sources of Amer
ican Negro spirituals. While pre
paring for the trip to AfVica, he
took courses in Primitive Cultures
and African Languages at London
University. In pursuing these
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courses, he performed so credit
ably, that he was made a Fellow
of the Royal Anthropological In
stitute. While travelling in Eur
ope, he visited various festivals, i
among which were the Welsh Na
iirnal Eistedd, the Oberammergau,
Passion Play, and the Saltzburg
Festival. Before returning to this
1 country, he completed an oratorio
l'or chorus, orchestra, and soloists.
Is Versatile
Today, Mr. Hall is distinguished
as being a musician of the most
versatile order, having done note
worthy work in composition, as
well as on the concert stage as
artist and conductor, and as a tea
cher. As result of the serious
study of Negro Music which he
has made, he is now preparing a
book entitled “The Music of the
American Negro”, and another
'entitled “Music Education in Am
erican Negro Schools.”
In the capacity of President of
the Asociation of Music Teachers
in Negro Schools, Mr Hall is mak
1 ing every possible effort to raise
! Negro music above the very high
| mark that it has already attained.
| The individuals and groups that
, ho has trained, are famed through
out the country and in the Cres
cent City, his choirs enjoy unlim
ited popularity. His greatest
contribution to present music is
the presentation of the annual
lower Mississippi Valley Music
Festival. This songfest is the
pride of the Mississippi Valley,
and its rare quality attracts num
erous music lovers each year.
NAACP. Endorses
Wagner National
Health Bill
Richmond, Va„ July 26— En
dorsement of the principle of the
Wagner national health bill and
a scorching denunciation of the
“reactionary leadership” of the A
merican Medical Association which
fpposes the New Deal measure
featured the Health and Education
panels at the 30th annual confer
ence of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People which closed here this week
The conference also condemned
in resolutions drawn up in the ’
various panels and adopted by the
parley as a whole, fascism and
Nazism and the “spreading anti
Semitism in America”; urged the
abolition of discrimnation in the
country against “Negroes and oth
er m:\irifcies”, and stressed the
necessity for the broadest and
most progressive unity among
youth around physical security
and civil rights.
Official announcement elf the
NAACP’s position on the Wagner
health bill was made by Dr. Louis
T. Wright, outstanding Harlqm
surgeon, in a fiery address on the
“13,000,000 Negroes in America,”
ho said, “12,900,000 are too poor
to pay for adequate health ser
vice.
Bitterly (scoring the AMA lead
ership as having “created a pow
erful political organization” a
gainst the good of the American
people, Dr. Wright asserted that:
“The AMA leaders care no more
for the health of the Negro than
Hitler cares for that of the Jewish
people.”
He declared that “Negro health
cannot be separated from white
health.” He pointed out that when
hospitals bar their front doors to
“Negro patients, doctors and nur
ses, they open their back doors to
disease and epidemics which may
be disasterous.
“Disease germs are not color
coscious,” he said. He accused the
AMA of being “morally guilty
or socially and mentally incom
petent to meet the needs of the
American people for adequate
kealth service.”
PUBLISH LIST OF ILLINOIS
WPA EMPLOYES GETTING
$1,20# AND UP A YEAR
Chicago, Aug. 3 (ANP)—Lt>cal
political leaders of both parties
last Friday sea. ned with interest
a list, printed in a morning news
paper, namming all Illinois WPA
employes receiving a salai'y of
$1,200 or more a year.
A cursory examination of the 4
column list printed in the Chicago
Tribune failed to reveal the names
of any colored employes among
the 1,000 WPA-era in the upper
income brackets. The names were
obtained through efforts of Con
gressman Leo E. Allen (Rep., 111.)
ranking member of the house rules
committee.
Representative Allen said the
list shows the existence of a pow
erful political maehince founded
on work relief funds in Illinois,
and also shows the need for pas
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sing the Hatch bill (now before
the house) which would take poli
tics out of relief. He said:
“Previously there was every in.
dication that the WPA had been
used in Illinois as in other states
to create a political organization
with its purpose the continuance
of the Roosevelt administration in
power. Now we have the proof in
names and figures that this is
the fact:
“There could be no worse crime
than taking the funds voted to
relievo unemployment to pay pol
itical workers, to influence elec
tions and to corrupt voters.
Publication of this list may help
the citizenry to realize the inexu
sable misuse of funds intended to
relieve misery.’’
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