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fe mo Starting at scratch, and with no fancy handling, he eattaired the ful directorship on sheer merit within the short space of seven years. Now thic “of | Investigation wasn't a new thing. It had been poing since 1908. in fret it uns i "practically gone when he came into the picture. — That is, it was just enovher lack g : luster agency of government, closely limited in range, and shy of significence, until the took hole. Since then its advance in scope, efficiency, and usclusners 2 no less solid and substantial than spectaculer. Wherefore, we honor ourc- Wes Department of Justice. Within a few years after becoming Director he had greatly enlarged the Bureau into an organization of college and field trained personnel of cutsternding “quality, strategically deployed over the country, integrated not only by quick trigger scientific mechanism tut by passionate loyalty of the :en to their ieeder “and to the exalted ideals of their corps. ir. Hoover has not only hend pickec his y personnel, but fortified them with the most up-to-date equipment ana the latest _ scientific techniques. Early impresped, for example, with the superiority of the finger-print system of identification over all others, he is chiefly resporsib-e for its ascendancy in this country; ond in internationr.1 ware. Withal, the heoam quarters of the Bureau in Tashingvan today conetitut te the. forenosi laboratory of La me _ applied criminology anywhere extanbs” Quite properly is one of our own Holland ig a “ _ Society member y whose nane ‘apy, and ‘then appears in the prees, say te him recently, Wir # > in a letter on White House etationery, ¢ that he had put the F.E.I. in "the forefrout q are st anit 4 . of the law enforcement agencies, of the world." — 8 _ Not the leact refiyrkabie ue all thie is that, he has brought it about irrespective of changing political FEgines and despite ga maze of local juri:cictions¥ ophateetoe of verious kinds dotting the map of the: .e United States. Throuch his ee 6