Abstract
IT is a far cry from Maeterlinck's poetic drama, The Bluebird, to anything so prosaic as a government office; yet the blind quest of Tyltyl and Mytyl in the play is typical of the unseeing policy of the United States government in going out into the highways and byways, often the political highways and byways, for its supervisory civil officers, overlooking subordinates with years of experience in the branches of the service in which the appointments are made, who might be promoted to the higher positions with profit to taxpayers. Can the duties of a collector of customs, a collector of internal revenue, or a register of a land office, for example, be learned in a better place than in a custom-house, an internal revenue office, or a land office? They cannot.
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