Show 1 L i NEW MEW PUBLIC PRINTER AT THIRTY FOUR YEARS TEARS OF AGE HE HEADS THE BIGGEST PRINT SHOP IX IN THE WORLD His Office Pays Out Annually Over Oyer in Four and a Half Million Dollars Wa Is Wages 15 One o of ot the Presidents President s Youngest At the head of the biggest printing office In the world at the age of a 34 That Is the position In which Charles A. A Stillings finds himself to When the he Hon Frank W. W Palmer resigned last from fram the office of Public Printer President Roosevelt found himself facing the n necessity of making appointments appointments appoint appoint- one of the most mast Important ments meats that had bad ever fallen to his lotto lotto lot lotto to consider The printing required for the United States Government Is so 80 de do- detaIl detail voluminous and of such diversified tail that It Is necessary to operate the enormous plant in which the printings printing Is s produced in the most perfect way At the head of this great printer th the President resident knew he must place a a. man who would be bo manly among men strong trong of character quick of decision and with a a. thorough grasp of every detail of oJ the printing business In everyone of its many branches Many men backed by strong political influence the President once nce were presented to the for or his consideration in making appointment for Public Printer but none seemed to be possessed of all aU of his his' the he necessary qualifications until attention was directed to a progressive of oftie sive Ive sive young man whose knowledge the tie printing business covered the enIre entire entire en- en tire Ire field and who had bad had bad practical experience in Boston Bostan Philadelphia and Washington one one Charles A. A Stillings And so after a a. thorough examination Into nto Mr gs' gs commercial career the he President finding that Mr Stil- Stil lings hugs ability was just what he he- had been teen looking for appointed him as the executive head of the Government Printing Office The Senate promptly confirmed the Presidents President's appointment and nd so Mr Stillings has become the active head of the establishment A A. brief Idea of the volume of f business business busi- busi ness ess conducted by the Government PrInting Office may be obtained from the he following figures Last year they paId aid in wages to ta Its various employees the he sum of and nearly three iree millions more were spent for various arlous supplies including paper new machinery and maintenance of the plant lant Every dollar of this great groat sum sums Is s e expended under the check of the Public Printer and it is evident that much wisdom is needed in handling money where so large an amount is i in- in vol ed Mr Mr- Stint-ago Stint is especially fitted by training Inclination and ability for forthe forthe he the the position n. n He forms an attractive addition to the ranks of the young men with whom wham President Roosevelt has w 4 V at wr The Government Printing office The The Largest Print Shop in S the the World Charles A. A Stillings the New Y Public Printer i surrounded himself In th the administration tion of the Government affairs He re received received received re- re re- re his education in the Phillips Grammar School and the English High School at Boston Bostan After leaving school he le entered his fathers father's printing office where he rec received ived a varied and thorough thorough thor thor- ough augh experience in all branches of the trade finally working up to the position position pasI- pasI tion tian of general manager and later becoming becoming becoming be be- coming sales manager of the Griffith- Griffith Stillings Press an organization which took over the business formerly con- con ducted by Mr Stillings Sr In all of Mr Stillings' Stillings transactions he tie has shown shawn an unusual aptitude for far organization and possessing a marked degree e of personal magnetism has drawn into a a. close friendship with himself many men o of dignity and posh tion Mr Stillings Is a a. Mason having attained the honors of the thirty sec ond end degree of the Scottish Rite and is also a Mystic Shriner |