...public administration. A few generations ago, a president of the United States could truthfully say "The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit...readily qualify themselves for their performance." Contrast this genial assumption with technical facts of modern administration. The trained technologist...

...administration. A few generations ago, a president of the United States could truthfully say, "The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit...readily qualify themselves for their performance." Contrast this genial assumption with technical facts of modern administration. The trained technologist...

...expense of the many. The duties of all public offices are, or at least admit of being made, so plain, so simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance. ... In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any...

...expense of the many. The duties of all public offices are, or at least admit of being made, so plain, so simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance. ... In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any...

...expense of the many. The duties of all public offices are, or at least admit of being made, so plain, so simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance. ... In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any...

...capacity of the people. Jackson said in his first annual message: "The duties of all public offices are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and...than is generally to be gained by their experience." The frontier did not believe in the expert; the typical American was a "Jack of all trades." Jackson...

...fixed rewards of the present day 1 See CR Fish, The Civil Service and the Patronage, chap. iv. " The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit...long continuance of men in office than is generally gained by their experience. . . • " In n country where officers are created solely for the benefit...

...capacity of the people. Jackson said in his first annual message : "The duties of all public offices are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and...in office than is generally to be gained by their experience.11 The frontier did not believe in the expert; the typical American was a 'Jack of all trades."...

...public duties." The Executive also informed the Congress, " That the duties of all public officials are, or at least admit of being made so plain and...performance. And I cannot but believe that more is lost by long continuance in office than is generally to be gained by their experience." Such was the doctrine...

...United States a few generations ago to the effect that "the duties of all public officials are at last being made so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify for their performance," no longer holds true. Technical training of the most highly specialized type...