Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-03-21
POSITIONS AS ASSISTANT sEcRE.
TARlEs IN WASHINGTON
ARE DESIRABLE.
HELP LATER IN BUSINESS
Treasury Department Places Have
Been steppIne-stones for Many
Newspaper Men-Attorney GEN
erals Hard Task In Selecting Aida
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


pointed all the assistant secretaries
which have places in his office. There
are one or two assistant secretaries
however. who are pretty sure to re-
main in where they are. They are
men who are accounted invaluable In
their positions, having held them SO
long that every detail Of office work
is known to them, and they have be-
come so useful in courts of last re-
sort" that they probably will not be
disturbed One such man is Second
Assistant Secretary Of State Alvey A.
Adee, who has been in office so long
that most people have forgotten the
date Of his entrance thereto, and it
is probable that Mr.. Adee is willing
that they should forget When any
body wants to know anything with yir-
tuaiiy an afidayit's strength TO back
the information he goes 10 Mr.. Adee.
Newspaper men for a good many
years have been very much in evil
dence in the treasury department as
assistant secretaries, Two former
Washington correspondents are now
assistant secretaries OF the treasury
and 1t is possible that one of them at
any rate will continue to hold his job
Frank A. Vanderlip, who is now presi.
dent of one of the greatest banks in
the world in New York city, was once
an assistant secretary of the treasury
under Lyman ]. Gage. Before becom.
ing Mr.. Cages assistant Mr.. Wander
lip was reporter on the Chicago
Tribune. Robert Armstrong was an
other newspaper man who was made
assistant secretary of the treasury.
His chief was Leslie M Shaw, of Iowa,
who was appointed to the treasury
secretaryship by Theodore Roosevelt.
The two present assistant secretaries
who were newspaper men are Robert
0. Bailey, formerly with the Associat-
ed Press, and Sherman Allen, formerly
with the New York Herald.
Why These Places Are Desirable.
The assistant secretaryships are
much sought for, especially in the
treasury department, for they are con-
sidered stepping stones to fine busi-
ness positions in private life after a
change of administration has retired
an incumbent from Office Charles D.
Norton, who was an assistant secre-
tary Of the treasury and later Mr..
Taft's private secretary, now has
high salaried position in New York
city, and the same general prosper
tty in business life has met nearly all
the former assistant secretaries Of the
treasury. The training which they
get in the department, directing as
they do customs matters, revenue
matters and public building matters,
is considered admiral preparation for
executive position In big business con-
Germs
The men who get the positions of
assistant secretaries in the treasury
will be considered ex-
tremely lucky, but only less lucky |
will be those who enter on similar |
positions in the department of com
merce and labor and Of the interior,
and of the postofiice department
where assistant secretaries are known
IS assistant postmasters-general.
These assistant secretaryships, as
far as Washington is concerned, are |
looked upon as the prime prizes, out
side, Of course, of the places which
pay bigger salaries and which almost
always 60 to men who have made
name In politics and also in the gen
sral world Of accomplishments. The
attorneys general will have to appoint
my number of assistants, one being
named to the place OF chief assistant
t Is said to be hard task for the
attorney general to pick his material
or the prosecuting Offices.
Attorney Generals Task.
The encouragement has to enter
uits against great corporations which
'iolate the interstate commerce law,
md of course he has other suits of va
ious natures. The great corporations
ire rich and they employ the best
egal talent which money can secure
O defend them In court. An untrain-
ID assistant to the encouragement
las hard time of 1t when he goes
ID against lawyers who know business
rom A to Q, and know all the tech
localities which ever have been de-
ended upon to win any kind of a case
n any kind of court. The president
ever has had very much to say about
be appointment of assistants to the
The ambassadorial positions which
fr. Wilson must fill can go only to
ich men, and 1t is said he is exceed
agly sorry that such is the case, for
e knows a number of men already in
he service who he would like to pro-
lote, but promotion for them is said I.
D be impossible because they have
OF the means to support 1.-THE Office
nd the dignity" OF the ambassadors
ank.
The members OF consular service :
i'll probably not be disturbed, for