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a standing rule that Cadets are never to be sent by mail steamer out always by intermediate (1st class).
E.C.S.
Indian feeling seems to have changed as Indian feeling seems to be that
I am sure that
I.C.S.,
no Indian Civilian nowadays would write himself any more than "M.A." Out of India I have never heard of anyone being addressed on a letter as "I.C.S." In India, the correct address is So and so Esq C.S.
I doubt the desirability of pandering to this morbid affection for alphabetical affixes and there are special objections to the present proposal.
We ought not, I think, to recognise any right on the part of the Cadet Officers to call themselves "The Civil Service" to the exclusion of other equally important branches of the service. They have no more claim to monopolise the name than have the holders of Class 1 appointments in England. Even if "E.C.S." were recognised as standing for "Eastern Cadet Service" it would be open to objection. Such men as Mr Delfield, Mr Wray, Mr Ebden, Mr Hazeland were not Cadets and so could not use the initials and the increased dignity of the service would be compensated for by a loss of dignity owing to these high officers being apparently written down as of a lower caste. The same observation would apply also to a Col Sec: introduced from without the service.
Further unless Ceylon is included, the word "Eastern" would be a misnomer. To include Ceylon would seem to imply a closer connection than can exist between the Ceylon service and that of the other Eastern Colonies and would strengthen the claims of the Ceylon service to be paid on exactly the same scale as the other service.
I cannot see that any such title is needed. In their Colonies everyone knows who these gentlemen are: outside nobody cares.
If they must have an affix, there is no reason why every Civil Servant should not have C.S after his name when he is in the Colony, and, as a matter of fact, the newspapers frequently so describe them, in the Ceylon case writing "C.C.S."; but this practice needs no official sanction.
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My personal opinion is that a Civil Servant can travel 2nd class by steamer.
The prestige which, however ridiculous the matter is in itself, will unfairly besmirch the position of future holders hereafter, I agree with Mr Stubbs' quotation.
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what is the average difference in 1st class fares to Ceylon by maild steamers and Intermediate steamers.