The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-03
COLLEGE MEN CLIMB HIGH
IN UNCLE SANS SERVICE
Dr. Lester Jones Latest Addition to the Number Of Uni
versity Graduates Put Into Office by the
Present Administration

The recent appointment of DR.. E.
Lester Jones as superintendent of the
Coast and Geodetic Survey has again
called the attention of official Wash
ington to the fact that the present ad-
ministration has put more young college
men in high positions than any adminis-
tration of the past
DIR. Jones is the most recent additio3
of college men to high governmental
positions and glance shows college
men all down the line, beginning with
the President himself and going down
to the smaller positions that frequently
are stepping stones to prominent posts.
DR.. Jones was just one day short of
50 years when he was sworn into Office
on April y. He is the son of c. II.
Jones. publisher of New York. DR..
Jones studied at Princeton, an agricul-
tural school in Massachusetts,, HeideI-
berg, Germany, and under a number OF
private tutors. specializing in zoology, for
estry. animal husbandry, wild life. and
various other things.
He Investigated Alaska.
DIR. Jones was a State warden of New
Jersey from 1899 until 1901. aiding the
Fish and Game Commission. Then he
became assistant commissioner OF the
Bureau of Fisheries here. Among the
things he did in the Bureau of Fisheries
was to Investigate" Alaska for President
Wilson and recommend number of i'm
portant changes in the administration OF
the territory.
DIR. Jones owns a 3O0-acre farm in Gull
pepper, Va, where he raises stock. is
good roads enthusiast and worker. ana
has a reputation as an amateur base
ball player. AS head of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, one Of the most high
brow" bureaus of the government LII.
Jones is certain to make good. &C
cording to his friends. He is typical OF
the group of college men elevated dur
ing this administration.
Notable in the group is Carl Schurz
vrooman. Assistant Secretary OF Ag-
riculture. Rich, young. highly sue
cessful scientific farmer. who makes
his many farms pay and who writes
poetry, travel sketches, light hction
and weighty economics on the side,
he really wanted to be Senator from
Illinois. but when the chance to De
come, Assistant Secretary OF Agricul-
ture came along he grabbed 1t and
works some fourteen hours a day al
the job.
Then there are young Franklin d.
Roosevelt and Henry Breckenridge:
Assistant Secretaries respectively OF
the Navy and War Departments, ca.
ger, earnest, Industrious, both OF
whom have acquired regulations for
high efficiency in their work.
Houston Thompson. the famous
Shag Thompson of Princeton football
fame. 10 another. He Is Assistant
General in charge Of defend
ing suits against the United, states
in the Court of Claims. .
Borrowed Professor.
Franklin X. Lane, Secretary Of the
Interior. has shown decided prefer.
ence for getting young university
men about him-University OF Cali
fornia men for choice. When he took
once he borrowed Adolph c. Miller.
professor of political economy at the
Of California and man
whose private fortune 10 about ten
times that Of the Secretary's, to come
to washington and be assistant to
the Secretary at q salary of $3.50
year President Wilson got acQuaint-
I'd with Prof. Miller.