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THE WORLD’S FAIRS 
an exceedingly short spaoe of time. The 
last Exhibition at Paris, for instance, was 
organised in only eighteen months. 
It would be entirely impossible to attain 
success without the help of an element al- 
ready schooled in the public Service. 
Now, it is the fundamental priuciple of 
all public Service, that the employee has 
conscientiously and obediently to carry out 
the work, that is laid out for him, but not 
to take any initiative upon himself. The 
chief of the department alone bears the 
responsibillty, and consequently not even 
the most unimportant order can be exe- 
cuted without bis signature. If he had 
nothing to do, but to sign Orders, he 
might get through with his work, but as 
he is at the same time the ntoving spirit 
of the entire department, he is always 
overworked, and hardly ever able to be 
fully “ajour.” 
In an exhibition admiuistration this 
will not do. Everything ought to be 
settled at once, like the business of a com- 
mercial tirm. Front the very first deter- 
raination of a certain date for the openiug 
of the exhibition, results that every con- 
tract in Connection with the exhibition is a 
time-contract, the possibility of the exe- 
cution of which depends upon an imme- 
diate decision.