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Proclaiming that positions in his cabinet will be open to men of all parties and that Chairman Hamilton will not receive that usual sugarplum of campaign managers, the job of Postmaster-General, Governor Landon has attempted to portray himself as the St. George of civil service reform. One would like not to dispute the good intentions of the Kansas executive, for a government staff capable of rendering efficient service in modern conditions is one of the crying needs of the country. But aside from the obvious fact that cabinet positions hardly rest in a class with the rank and file...
...Senate employs 21 pages, and youngsters consider the post of page a rare political sugarplum. But several of the Senate pages will have to be discharged this fall because the District of Columbia Superintendent of Schools has announced that under a law passed at the last session he has power to compel school attendance of all children under 14 years...