An article appeared in the last issue of the Civil Service Record on "Government Regulation and the Civil Service" by F. W. Taussig, instructor in Political Economy, in which attention is called to the question of government telegraphy. The desirability and feasibility of making the telegraph a government institution is clearly shown. This method has been in vogue in England ever since 1868 with very good results, due in a great part to the purity of the civil service there. The only thing which prevents its adoption here is the bad state into which our government service has come under the "spoils system." As this, however, is being rapidly done away with, we may look forward to cheaper and more efficient telegraph service under the management of the government.
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