The Washington times., 1936-01-29
Human Side of News
By Edwin C. Hill

lold days of agriculture and few
handicrafts and professions.
Here's the business and profess
sional background Of the special
agents:
Advertising, amuSements, bus
driving, economist, florist, garage,
grocery business, haberdashery,
hardware, hotel, ice business, in.
surance, jewelry, leather, meat,
merchandise, mortgage, news
paper, personnel, photography,
piano, poultry, public utilities,
publishing, purchasing agent,
radium, real estate, restaurant,
statesmen, secretary, shoes, ste.
nographer, taxes, theater, typist
and warehouse.
The agents have been EN-.
ployed in the following indus
tries: Automobile, copper, cot
ton, dairying, factories, farming,
foundries, iron, logging, lumber,
milling, mining, motion pictures,
oil, railroads, steel, sugar, tex
tiles and tobacco.
In financial work, the agents
have been auditors, bookkeeperS,
brokers, investment financiers,
paymasterS, bankers and cashiers
this list including 16 brokers
and 81 bankers.
The list widenS endleSSly to in
clude military experience, legisla.
tive work, judicial work, foreign
trade, diplomacy, customs service,
immigration and postal services,
sculpture, music, stamp collect
ing, coin collecting, school teach
ing, medicine, dentistry, phar.
macy and veterinary medicine.
Sciences are represented as fol.
lows:
Archaeology, astronomy, chemis-
try, drugs, geology, microscopy,
ornithology, psychology, ballistics,
physics, fingerprints, Identified
ton work and technical research
work in physics, chemistry and
metallurgy.
The physical status and attain.
ments of the agents are attested
by their qualifications as profes-
SIGNALS or semi-professionals in the
following sports:
Auto racing, badminton, base.
ball, basketball, billiards, boating,
bowling, boxing, crew, fencing,
football, golf, handball, hockey,
Workmanship, hunting, lacrosse,
polo, soccer, skating, skiing,
squash, swimming, life guards,
tennis, track, trap-shooting and
wrestling.
VERSATILE
The average age of the agents
is slightly over IS years. The re-
quired age for entering the service
is between Is and IS.
The above lists merely the prev
iouS educational and occupationaI
background. The training, in spe.
cialized lines, continues intensely
during the entire term OF service.
More than SO per cent of the
men have had legal training. OF
these. 65.12 per cent had such
training when they entered. The
others have carried on law studies
while in the bureau.
Of the 470 holding university
degrees, 272 have one degree; 1876
have two degrees; 10, three de-
grees, and three have four de-
grees. And to top off the show
ing of versatility, there are nine
agents who have been engaged in
religious work, including one
preacher and one missionary.
Under the politically detached
and effective supervision of j.
Edgar Hoover, an imprisoned
apostle of scientific efficiency in
law enforcement, the bureau has
been kept free from political en-
tanglements.
In personnel and in achieve
ment to date, one finds there one
of the finest achievements of gov
ernment-not forgetting the 100
per cent record of the bureau in
catching kidnaperS.
Copyright, 1885, by King Feature
! Syndicate, Inc)