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Le Petit Parisien 31 octobre 1924

FOR AND AGAINST

Are twenty thousand civil servants going to be eliminated?... It is said... But which civil servants are going to be eliminated?... It is not said... Will we at least avoid eliminating the essential civil servants?... I do not know...

Civil servants have already been eliminated... Ministers have already taken "reduction" measures. Thus, there used to be five guards at Auxerre prison... These five guards sometimes had to watch over sixty prisoners... Were there too many of them? Is it too many five men to maintain order in a prison where sixty rascals, ready for anything, are gathered? ... It was decided that it was too much ... Administrative "compression" was made ... Today there are only three guards in Auxerre ... As these three guards all need to take some daily rest, there are never really more than two guards on duty ...

That is why, the other day, a bandit was able to calmly shoot one of these two brave and modest officials ...

In Aix-en-Provence the prison administration has also removed guards. And that is why three amiable inmates of the prison, three dangerous scoundrels, were able to go for a walk in peace...
And that is why, I naively admit, I am extremely wary of the elimination of civil servants... If there are useless civil servants, of course, I ask, like all taxpayers, that they be eliminated... Only, I am afraid, if there are useless civil servants, that the administration will not be able to discover them... I fear that it is precisely those who remain in place, in peace, who will be judged absolutely indispensable and who will be, if necessary, increased... A civil servant, if he is useless, always has connections, useless jobs always going to important or recommended citizens... If civil servants are eliminated, I am very afraid that we will be led, once again, to consider as useless poor civil servants without connections and, in fact, indispensable. The "administrative cutbacks" of Auxerre and Aix-en-Provence authorize us to be afraid, to be afraid for the poor civil servants and to be afraid for us, poor taxpayers...

Maurice PRAX.

he mayor of Morez (Jura), sends us a letter of rectification which is also a letter of confirmation. He asks us to reproduce in extenso the job offer emanating from his municipality and which we had shortened to shorten and not to be cunning. Here is the complete text of the advertisement:
TOWN OF MOREZ (Job offers) We are looking for a household without children, the husband to be a supervisor at the Ecole pratique, the wife, cook at the boarding school. Salary 4,000 fr., room and board... Another household, without children, the husband as a janitor at the Ecole pratique; the wife to be an assistant cook at the boarding school, or a single janitor...
This rectification fully confirms a recent "For and against". But the mayor of Morez takes the trouble to tell us why he is asking for two households without children: because the two jobs offered are very hard. Because he can only make two rooms available to each household. Noted. But these clarifications were not in the advertisement.

M. P.

Are twenty thousand civil servants going to be eliminated
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