Securing Competency in Bank Examiners
| Published date | 01 May 1924 |
| Author | Peter G. Cameron |
| Date | 01 May 1924 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271622411300149 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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SECURING
COMPETENCY
IN
BANK
EXAMINERS
prises
over
sixty-five
hundred
(6,500)
members.
Every
rank
from
general
superintendent
down
to
assistant
fore-
man
has
been
filled
by
promotion.
Every
officer
of
the
department
entered
the
service
in
the
labor
class
as
a
sweeper,
a
driver
or
a
dump
boardman.
The
department
has
millions
of
dollars
at
present
invested
in
motor
apparatus,
including
specially
designed
machinery
for
snow
removal.
While
the
problems
confronting
this
department
are
not
so
complex
and
varied
as
those
in
the
Po-
lice
and
Fire
Departments,
neverthe-
less
the
proper
cleaning
of
the
streets
and
the
prompt
removal
and
dispo-
sition
of
ashes
and
garbage
are
essential
to
the
health
and
comfort
of
the
com-
munity.
Many
of
the
present
officers
in
the
higher
ranks
had
less
than
a
common
school
education
when
enter-
ing
the
department.
By
attending
night
school
or
by
home
study
they
have
acquired
sufficient
education
to
express
their
ideas
in
writing
clearly
and
concisely.
The
result
has
been
that,
in
examinations
for
the
higher
ranks,
the
written
examination
papers
of
candidates
compare
very
favorably
in
point
of
composition
with
those
of
other
branches
of
the
service.
Mention
might
be
made
of
other
employes-in
the
Prison
Service
where
the
wardens
and
other
administrative
officers
obtained
their
positions
by
pro-
motion,
having
entered
originally
as
prison
keepers;
the
Municipal
Ferry
Service,
where
deckhands
may
eventu-
ally
become
captains
or
superintendent
of
ferries,
and
oilers
and
water
tenders,
chief
marine
engineers;
the
many
branches
of
the
Inspection
Service,
each with
its
own
line
of
promotion,
ranging
from
the
inspection
of
the
quality
of
gas
to
the
erection
of
forty-
story
office
buildings,
from
the
in-
spection
of
plumbing
in
a
tenement
house
to
the
casting
of
steel
water
pipes
at
the
foundry;
but
the
writer
is
very
much
afraid
that
he
has
al-
ready
overtaxed
the
patience
of
his
readers.
It
needs
no
argument
to
prove
that
in
order
to
attract
the
most
desirable
class
of
applicants
for
positions
in
the
public
service,
the
inducement
of
possi-
ble
advancement
should
be
held
out
to
them.
If
such
advancement
depends
upon
personal
favoritism
of
any
kind,
the
employe
will
naturally
endeavor
to
cultivate
the
friendship
of
those
who
can
extend
such
favor.
If,
contrari-
wise,
he
believes
that
progress
depends
upon
his
own
efforts,
he
will
endeavor
to
fit
himself
and
to
work
for
such
ad-
vancement.
The
system
of
promotion
used
in
New
York
City
is
not
held
up
as
a
model,
but
it
is
believed
that
progress
has
been
made
and
that
the
results
which
already
have
been
at-
tained
warrant
its
continuance
along
the
lines
which
have
been
formulated.
Securing
Competency
in
Bank
Examiners
By
PETER
G.
CAMERON
Secretary
of
Banking,
Commonwealth
of
Pennsylvania
THERE
is
perhaps
no
official
posi-
A
tion
that
requires
a
higher
order
of
ability
and
greater
thoroughness
and
conscientiousness
in
the
performance
of
duty
than
that
of
bank
examiner,
be-
cause
of
the
great
interests
with
which
bank
examiners
have
to
deal
and
the
accompanying
vast
responsibility.
A
man
may
be
fully
competent
to
satisfactorily
discharge
the
important
duties
of
a
bank
examiner,
so
far
as
training
and
experience
are
concerned,
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