Dog protects his masters home

Title

Language

English

Source

Volume 1 (Issue no. 8) September 1935

Year

1935

Subject

Dog training

Watchdogs

HUMAN-animal relationships

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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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222 THE YOUNG CITIZEN September, 19.'15 lCiOOD ITIZfM/HIP rrimt jobs. We give these jobs tc om party henchmen. It is a priv · ilcge for them to hold these jobs." This legislator thinks that the spotf~ s~1stem is good as long as the men they place in government jobs arc not their relatives. In order to prevent this bad practice, our constiSERVIN6 THE 60VERNMENT tl<.tion requires that appointments ~o the civil servise muse be made on! r according to i:he merit and fitness ot the person to be appointed. The~e qualifications are to be determin·~d hr means of competitive examinations. There are· positions, however, which need not be filled by examinations. These are the confidential or technical positions. and positiom b} which government policies a1c determined. A citizen of the Philippines may serve the country in many ways. But the most direct way of rendering this service is for one to be either a soldier or an employee or officer of the Government. The tint cl<iss of service is called military service and the second, civil service. There are different classes of civ· 'ii service. officers. Some are _elected such as municipal presidents, provincial governors, and members •.)i the legislature. Others are appoint~ ed, such as the heads of executin d1:partments, chiefs of bureaus, ckrks, stenographers. and other min0r employees of the Government. All of them rnay be cl~ssified incu two groups: political officers and non-political officers. Most of the political Officers ar1• elected; but some are appointci.l. such as the heads of the executive departments. They represent in :\ way the political party to which thCy belong. They hold office during a brief period of time, generall v th1ee years. Wheri defeated in the ekctions, or when their party fails tu get a majority of the ,votes at thl? election, these political~1officus ceuse to hold office. " The non-political officers do not represent any political party. They mzy be grouped into two classes: (I) The judges and (2) the oi'ficers or employees performing the everyday functions of the Governrnrnt. The judges, as we have already seen, are made by the Consti. tution independent of outside control. The highest political leader in the executive or legislative departments may not tell them what they should do. The independence of the judges has always been considered necessary by every person. The officers and employees uf the Government performing th~ rcvtine duties of Government <lat bv day, such as clerks, stenographers, as!>;stant heads of bureaus and offices, are sometimes known as administrative officers. They have not al ways been gl.ven the independen'c that the}' should have. There was a time when these administrative em.ployees 'Were all removed whenever a change took place in the men having the power to appoint them. For instance .. when the Republicari.:> of the United States defeat the: D1'mocrats, most of the admini'\cr;itive employees are changed. They a1c replaced by followers of the Repi.:.blican Party. This system is c<11led the Spoils System. The party under this system uses Government positions as rewards to their men. This is a treacherous act to the taxpayer, because it is he who pays the salary of the. government offiars and employees. It is not the politic.ii party that furnishes the money fat salaries. The taxpayer, therefore, has the right to complain against the spoils system. Once appointed to a civil service position, a person should not be changed juSt because a political leader does not like him. Neither should he be expelled from his office just . because a political chief wants to pu~ hi.s favorite man in his place. So that these things may not happen, the constitution says that no perso!l occupying a civil service position mz:.y be removed from office except when there is cause for his removal. The constitution wants us to consider a public office as something belonging to the people, not as th·~ property of any man of any polii:ical party. It should be used by the person who fills it for the benefit of the public, not for his personal benefa. Because of this, men should br chosen for a civil . service positio11 for only one reason. That reason is A few weeks ago a member of that he is able to do the work well th.: Philippine Legislature was said and that he has the character re· to ha:ve stated the following: "V..f'! quired to hold the office in a propt:r do not appoint r~latives to govefn- manner. DOG PROTECTS HIS MASTERS' HOME Near a village in Malabar. lndil, tl--.e dog rushed at the snake and a fight 'to the finish took place be- grabbed the -cobra's head between tween a cobra and a house dog. The hi:: teeth, shaking it violently. But big cobra snake was trying to enter the poison which the cobra had inthr house of the dog's masters. The jl:'cted into the dog had taken efdog seeing that the cobra was at- feet and the. faithful animal fell tempting to pass through a hole in over dead. However, the dog too, the house went after it. The snake had given the cobra its death stroke raised its head and struck the dog and it fell from the dog's mouth a a number of times. Greatly angered lifeless body.

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