The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-28

Department. He has been in and
about the Treasury Department long
er than any Of the present hlgn Of
ficialS.
Over in the Navy Department is
another newspaper man private sec |
rotary gaining his first experience IN
public mploy. Howard A Banks
| was taken by Josephus Daniels from
the editorial desk of the HICKORY
y. c.. Democrat, to be private sec.
rotary, when Br'er Daniels hlmseI!
was yanked away from his editorla!
desk at Raleigh to be secretary Oh
the Navy.
An ardent partisan Democrat. Mr..
Banks is an editor who has won ma
tional fame for his gentle, ever-klnd-
ly but keen wit. His quaint humor,
the quirks and FRANKS he played III
his editorial column delighted the
editors Of metropolitan papers once
he had a fierce and famous editorial
controversy with the Norfolk VII
ginian on Did Methuselah Live Till
the First Year Of the Flood?" Major
Hemphill, of the News and Courier,
ruled that the fight was a dog-fan.
1t was Mr.. Banks who introduced
Shop Digger, t Swan of Banner
Elk" to the New York Sun, and
thereby put Blowing Rock on he
birthplace Of Josephus Daniels, dis
putting the claims Of little Wash
ington," n. c., to this honor.
While Mr.. Banks was a rural editor
at the time of his appointment, he
has had some 20 years of work in
the field OF daily journalism. He had
f, been managing editor of The Char
lotte Observer, and served for two
, years on the local staff of The Phila-
delphia Record" For a time he vas
instructor in English at the Univer-
, sity of North Carolina.
: Outside Of the department Mr..
Banks big interest is in his three
small boys, aged 6, 4 and ,. Just
now he is reading in his leisure Pesta-
e lozzi, F'roebel, Preyer, MOntessori and
everybody else who writes about chile
t training.
Lik Private Secretaries Pedigc
and Meyer, w. F. Callander, private
secretary to the Secretary of Agricul
ture, is a product Of the civil service
q 1t Ions has been a theory among civil
IS service employees that these desirable
t. private secretarial positions are no
IS for the rank and file of the service
but ever go to political appointees.
The experience of MeSsrS. PedigC
Meyer and Callander does not sup
port this theory.
20 Comes From Canada.
er Mr.. Callander is a Canadian b
10 birth, of Scotch ancestry. He lived O
~ his native farm near Ottawa until h
as was IS. He was graduated from tn
- Kemptville, Ontario, high school,, an
y began a course Of study at the nor
ne NAL school, intending to be a teache.
3 but gave it up and went in 1898 t
on Des Moines, Iowa. There he took
az course in s~tenography and bookkeeI
ne ing at a business college. After hold
~ ing two or three minor positions
ne Des Moines he went to Davenpor
III Iowa, with the Rock Island Railroa
u r - - 100000 - -
%ographer to the secretary of the ALI
Chalmers Company.
TT Since living in Washington, M
ter Calender has been graduated fro
the law school Of the Georgeto6
ter University, and has taken special st
Of dies at the George Washington VI
YES versity. He is a member Of the 81
trict of Columbia bar.
in Mr.. Callander is married, the fat
er Of two sons, and is active in chur'
ia and Y. M. c. A. work. His vac
5 is tons he usually spends duck shooti
Of in canada.
the No private secretary in the cor
has a record Of longer service to ]
the chief than John Ruskin McArdle, w
'ars is Postmaster General Burleso1
ri~ght-hand man. Thirteen years a;
III when Mr.. Burleson came to Washir
Ugh ton as REPRESENTATIVE in Coneress \
ne McArdle came with him as his priv:
rye secretary. and he has served in II
ad- capacity ever since
Mr.. McArdle is a native Of In
pendence, Texas, born in Augu
1882. His father was a noted ar
en- and historian of the Lone star Sta
e OF An asset enioyed nv two Other 20
was net private secretaries is nosSasSed
OF Mr.. McArdle: his service on Capi
the Hill. 1t gives him an intimate kno
was edge OF the legislative branch Of
Government.
~ u
80 to the Secretary of State, came i
r, Of oat -. .ecoio OF poiltl
anne uona account tna'
~ 1912 Mr.. Wyvel was the Democr,
,ar1- candidate for Representative from
Forty-third District Of New YORK
g. after a brisk triangular fight was
e feated by Charles II. Hamilton