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Show YOUNG MAN HAS OLD JOB y. One of the youngest officials of the Wilson administration is at the head of the oldest scientific depart' ment of the government, and his ap-pointment ap-pointment was not the result of luck, accident or political influence, but thj recognition of remarkable qualifier tions which fitted him for the position. posi-tion. It was on the fifteenth of April, the day following his thirty-ninth birthday, that Dr. E. Lester Jones became be-came superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey, the service which, according to Secretary Redfieid, "deals first with humanity and second with commerce." Perhaps no one in the survey, no matter how long he has been in the service, has spent more of his life in the open than has Doctor Jones. Indeed, it would seem, that by environment, en-vironment, training, education and temperament, he had been qualifying for the superintendency of the coast and geodetic survey all his life. He was born in Orange, N. J., and as a small boy was the companion of his father, himself a'scientist and a student of nature. " Doctor Jones was educated at Princeton and Heidelberg; in Germany he hunted, fished and studied in the Black forest and specialized in zoology. For five' years he was connected with the New Jersey fish and game commission, com-mission, and his first service in the national government was as deputy commissioner com-missioner of the bureau of fisheries. |
