Excerpt from Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the United States Civil Service Commission: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30 1922 Sir: The work during the year ended June 30, 1922, was more nearly normal than was possible during the war and the period immediately following. Reductions of forces continued, the number exceeding 36,000 during the year. At the end of the fiscal year the Government service as a whole had 560,863 employees, an increase of 123,000 since the year preceding the beginning of the war. This may seem large at a time when there is necessity for curtailment of expenditures, but it should be considered in connection with activities which grew out of the war and those due to new legislation. The increase resulting principally from the war is about 99,000. This increase is largely in the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments and in the Veterans' Bureau, the last named being wholly an outgrowth of the war. The increase in the Treasury Department is partly due to new activities, such as administration of the income tax and prohibition laws and the expansion of old activities growing out of the larger public debt. If there had been no war and the average annual increase had been maintained the increase would have amounted to nearly 75,000 between 1916 and 1922; therefore 48,000 instead of 99,000 would appear to be the increase due to the war and would indicate that more than one-half of the increase in work was absorbed by the employees. There remains some war work which may be cleared up and permit a further reduction in force, and probably further reductions will be possible through enactment of reclassification and reorganization measures. The volume of work of the commission in some respects shows a decrease. While the number of persons examined and appointed was smaller during the year, there was not a corresponding decrease in the work. Much has been done in bringing up arrearages in records. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.