Show I 1 HE AS ASKED fOR JUST ONE JOB lO t Ohio State Journal TournaI In 1887 an Ohio boy came e to t Washing ton as an assistant as messenger IB In the i treasury department dep HIs Hin salary was was wasa St 3 a month or oi a year ear After six 51 j i tea Ira years Y service the other ather I day da to become vice Ice president nt of one of 01 r j i the leading banks In Washington His salary for a nath nth now Is 15 more mor than thap it itI was wag then for fot a year I When he resigned he was not an a as 38 messenger He was an assistant I secretary e of at G the trea YI v Y The career of ot this boy b y Is one oJje of the most moat remarkable in ja the e history o othe ot I the government He ha ad risen from zm the lowest position in he the deportment department to the one next the highest The only of officer o above him was the secretary of the treasury He was ao also one of the very few tew to be appointed to an assist assistant ant asit from froma a clerkship The story of ot his Ills success should be I instructive and interesting to all aU So SoI I of the most important and unique incidents in the career of ot Mil MU MUton W WI ton E Alice Alles of Sidney 0 O years ago as assistant 8 I messenger and but a Tow few lays ago assistant secretary talY of the tx as ury of the tl United States Stes S many of which have never before been published Learning that he secured his inal appointment through the influence of General G Benjamin LaFevre who was then a member mem r of congress I hunted that gentleman up the other day and asked him if he be was responsible for the appointment of ot Milton MUton Ailes Alles to a position position position tion in the treasury treasur department dep six nix sixteen teen years yer ago Yes sir sIP I am and Im rm mighty proud of ot it too replied the old oid genera general ear earnestly neatly nestly and aM enthusiastically y Im j as U proud of that fact a n as I am of anything I ever did in my life nCe Can hCan you tell teU me anything about the tile secret of Alles AIles great success and any incidents in his career I continued Yes sir I can replied the former congressman and Im glad gad of the chance to do it Why I tell t n you that young Allen Ailes is ia isa Isa a wonder in more waya than one Away i iback back in my congressional career Allen Ailes T when hen a mere boy come com to fo me in Sidney one day and told me he would thank me very much to get him a position in Washington And I remember distinct distinctly ly one thing he said and the earnest manner in which he said it It was this General I want a place and I dont care eare where it is or what the sal salary salary ary 17 is te all SI I i nant is to get Inside some building in Washington and if I once get In Ill never bother you any more morel I Ill ru never ask you for any other o her help as 1 i long as I am there All AU I want is to get i in and Ill Til take care of myself after that And the little towheaded rascal kept his word what I r like he kept his word I got him a job as as assistant assistant assistant messenger me not even a messen messenger messenger messenger ger mind you ou but an assistant mes rues messenger messen sen erand and from that day to this he has never asked me for a single thing else never asked me to help him get a I promotion or pr a transfer or anything During the eight years I was in I congress I was bothered almost to death most of or the time by b fellows com corn coming comIng ing ln to tome me and asking me to go to some somebody somebody somebody body or 01 other and try to get their sal salaries salaries salaries aries raised or something of that kind but Ailes Allen never asked me rue for any help He kept his word religiously and Im T the thc g cr Boy tio it tie He Made a ight That Always Wins Pins j I t proud of the fact ct that t I L got Sot him his first firsti j i t appointment f That the way he got in ln continued f t the general genera and this is the w way ay he be got get CB Ca Aft After r be he b got Ills job as assistant messenger he be began to study the themes mes messenger messenger Naser situation in m the tb treasury depart department meat ment He at once ante became bf ame a student nt of tf the m messenger r branch brant th n of the tM financial i wing of the government nt andin an and t in a short time he had nad mastered it practically and theoretically theoretical He soon oon knew an al the in intricacies and ramifications of the men mea mesI i 1 sender sen division He was an n authority auto ty on the th subject su t Seriously Ser he started in inas Ip i as a messenger messen to succeed d and be he was vas wasa vasa I a good gocI goc messenger But he did more i i than this He lie in other diree directions i i i j He began oc gan to to spread out He H got hold holdI j I I of some law books and studied in his hise i e spare time After a while he heard of ofa ofa a law clerkship that was soon to be beI bet j I t filled He kept on studying to get this I place I believe he knew more mON law Ia v than many of the clerks clerk s who were filling similar positions but he satis fled He was determined to get set that j law clerkship and he se going to take any chances II So when the summer vacation cation came he be went out into the country and took j i his law books with him For a solid month he studied law eighteen hours j every day and on his return easily I passed the examination I t I That was the beginning of his suc sue success i cess cern and he h rose steadily thereafter I filling almost every position in the civil civilIn I 1 J service in the treasury department until 1 he reached the place next to the secre secretary secret t I tary of the treasury himself i j Yes sir Pm rm proud and glad that I Iwas Iwas was lucky luc enough to appoint that boy boYI j I H He has bas earned every promotion he has hasI j I received Drained every everyone one of them by merit pure merit and secured nothing by political influence or pull pun On the day before Secretary ARes Ailes left the treasury for his new work I dropped in to see him and asked j I him If he briefly tell me some something something something thing about his career that would be of interest to the people in Ohio While I Iwas Iwas Iwa was wa talking with him he was kept busy every minute signing scores of papers J I giving instructions to one clerk after 1 I another as they filed In now no talking I lover over the phone and then to a visitor but always patient courteous and calm It is a simple story said he I re received received I an appointment as assistant mes messenger messenger j in the department when I was 19 years Jears old That was sixteen years ago I I came here determined to do the best I could and If I 1 have had any an unusual I measure of success It 11 has simply been I because I have always alwa s tried to do doI I everything the best I possibly could Many fany others could have done as well wen if given the opportunity I studied hard tried to master the business of the de department department department as much as possible and was gradually promoted promote ed from froni one ne position to another until in 1901 I was ap appointed appointed I pointed by PJ ent McKinley McKinle as as assistant assistant secretary I believe that is all J there the is to it Please dont donl make any you y u may say ay about me ate too I strong f After being admitted to the bar barI I 4 concluded Mr AHe it was my origin original la 1 al intention to return to Sidney and andI I practice law for I f like that profession i and nd desired very ery much to return home bOme to live but fate seems to have hae decreed ed t otherwise and I leav Iea eai the treasury after a ling service to toi take ke up my duties with the bank bask here in Washington After Alias Ailes secured cured a his hs position as asla la Jaw lw clerk po ft began to hunt for forim him im He took one examination after another passing all n with ith high averages In one examination I his hb general average was Wg 94 and in another KS N the latter tetter figure fi re being the highest of ot thirty per persons perSons sons sens taking the examination 1 I The treasury department has h a large collection of scrapbooks on all sorts of subjects and in one ne of these t are a great treat many clippings s from frum newspapers and magazines from train all parts of the country of articles referring to this assistant t I I from Ohio Papers from New Ne I Orleans Orlen tc IC NOIh Noffie nave printed stories of his unusual carter career carteri i Speaking of Nome reminds me that a ayoung ayoung ayoung young brother of or former Secretary Ailes Atles who had a minor clerkship in the treasury department ent a year or two ago resigned his place to go to Nome as an ans anI t I assayer s for a bank thre there Though but butI j I 25 S l years old he has a responsible posIt i t tion in this far away way a bank and Is con considered considered one of the t e best assayers to be found anywhere Young Allen Ailes has made the trip twice and his Ids last voyage came Dear near being his last for to o all time When within seventy miles of Nom Nome their ship was caught in the ice and came near going through the straits They were forty days at sea 5 a on what should have I been a trip I refer to the younger Alice Ailes now in Alaska to show I that others in the family have h ve nerve and grit Shortly after fter his elevation to the as assistant assistant assistant I Alias male a trip i it out home to Ohio Ohle for a neede rest One Onel t l day da while home he met a old Jady lady who had known him all his life She told him she understood he be had been ap appointed appointed appointed I pointed to 10 a nice office in Washington and that for the life Ufe of her she I see how a boy like Uke Milt Ailes could I have so much to say about running the government He modestly told her that his office was not so Important as zt sen senator senator I ator or a cabinet officer or a member of the supreme court but that he had a good deal of work to do Finally the theold theold theold old lady asked him how much the gov gOY government government paid him for his work and here Ailes Ail s weakened He have haye cour courage courage courage age enough erf ugh to tell her he was getting over a year jear so he said aId it was wasI something over 2090 Good gracious I ejaculated eja the old woman I 1 under understand understand understand stand now why the national debt has never been paid when such young fel fellows fellows fellows lows as you get so much of the gov governments govi i money Other young men have made great I success in the treasury department I Two have left the service to engage in banking One was Comptroller Eckles who became president of the Commer Commercial cial National bank b of Chicago The Theother Theother other was Mr Ailes Alles predecessor Mr who was wa made vice president president dent d nt of the National City bank of New 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