Excerpt from The Character and Functioning of Municipal Civil Service Commissions in the United States: Report of the Committee on Civil Service Governmental Research Conference of the United States and Canada Our public service is becoming ever more important. During the last century and a quarter it has not only increased enormously in absolute size, but relatively it has grown about ten times as rapidly as the population of the country. At the present time there are in the civilian public service of our federal, state, and local governments approximately persons, exclusive of teachers in the public schools. This means that one in every group of 45 inhabitants of the United States is now a civilian govern ment worker. If we should include teachers in the public schools, the ratio of public servants to total population would be larger still. The annual payroll of this army of government employes, exclusive of teachers, is probably in the neighborhood of or about $120 for every family in the land. 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.