Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 26, 1920, Page 10

PAGE TER ro AMERICANS IN OTHER CAPITALS DRAW MERE PITTANGE BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN WASHINGTON, D, G., March 25.—The news that the gov- ernment of Great Britain has given its diplomatic represéntative in Washington more than $100,000 a year in Salary and expense money has brot into discussion once more our own system of paying and housing our diplomatic representatives, which makes it impossible for any most but very wealthy men to hold the American ; diplomatic] Mr. Polk replied to this. “If the British ambassador came here jana lived at a hotel we would consider y everyone is aware that we do/ that he was showing contempt for the not provide our ambassadors with suit- ‘United States,” he said. And Repre- rters in most capitals, and that |sentative Sabath added: of them the salaries they re- “The people of foreign nations judge t pay their rents, But the/a country by its representatives and put a new face on the matter. Never, since the days of Franklin's mis- sion to France, has so much depended upon the diplomatic corps. True, there is a tendency to belittle the diplomats for the unsatisfactory way in which they are conducting the affairs of the world—but, after all, they are still con- ducting them. The diplomats arranged the world war for us, and after we had fought that for them, they arranged the world peace. Never before were such moméntous questions decided so secretly and arbitrarily by diplomats, so- called. And it is very noticeable, too, t in the trading which went on in Paris, those nations which had the best diplomats came out ahead of the game, and those with the worst diplomats me out, So to speak, minus their very shirts. Diplomacy has been‘lescribed as an application of the principles of horse- trading to international affairs. So it seems to be. And the late European jamboree illustrated the fact that a sharp trader can get more for a spavinned mule than a rank amateur can for a sound and blooded horse. The moral seems to be—as long as we are going to conduct international. affairs by the horse-trading system, let us have good trader: To do this, we must pay our traders more money than we are now paying them, and we must give them better houses to live in.. This is an especially opportune moment for acquiring the necessary real estate and building the necessary houses, because the rate of exchange in our favor makes it possible for us to get more for our money in Hurope than ever before, and more per- haps than we will ever be able to get again in a long time. Then, too, new countries have been created, and they are countries which look to the United States as one of the greatest of the powers. We should es- tablish ourselves properly in these countries, the authorities say, by hous- ing our diplomatic representatives with dignity. And there are other countries where, before the war, we were known commercially, but not politically, as act- ing Secretary of State Polk recently put it—countries that bot our ‘sewing machines and reapers, but had never heard of us as the defender of small nations and large ideals. These nations are now aware of us as a great political force, and they expect our dipfomatic representatives to live up to that great ness, The above are the principal argu- ments in favor of housing our diplo- mats with dignity and paying them important t is a very old one. they live. An American representative in one of those countries who lives in some old shack will leave a mighty poor impression on the business men and on the community, and the people will not have as much respect for him as they will have for a representative of Monte- negro, if he has the right Kind of digni- fied place.” There seems to be something in it. Qven in this home of homely democ- racy, Wwe seem to see certain evidences that men try to impress each other by appearances. In fact, it is doubtful if there is any country in the world where more money is spent on appearances. Whether it should be so or not, both men and nations are judged largely by the appearances they make, and surely Americans should not be lacking in an appreciation of that fact. Nowhere on earth has the art of bluffing been carried to-higher perfection ‘than in the United States. When it comes to butting pn dog, we put on more to the square inch than any other people on earth and carry it better. It is in this land of homely simplicity that the celluloid col- lar, which ‘may be cleaned with rubber, the necktie which sits on the collar button, and the stiff shirt which is all front-nd no back, were invented. It is the American stenographer who wears French heels and a fur coat while living on pickles, crackers and matrimonial hopes.: It is the American clerk draw- ing $25 a week who buys a large tour- ing-cay of the installment plan and goes out to. conquer an impressed and as- tonished world . And yet we allow, our Politicians, themselves the greatest bluffers in a land of bluff, to make cheap capital by declaiming against dignified pay and housing for our diplomats on the ground that it is un-American to appreciate the Value of a good front. To get back to the matter of embas- sies, it is not mainly a question of whether we should or should not keep up certain appearances. The fact is that we must do so—custom and circum- stances make it Obligatory. Our am- bassador in Great. Britain, for example, gets $17,500 a year, all told, The Brit- ish ambassador in Washington, in addi- tion to more than $100,000 in Salary and expenses, gets. the use of a. residence ‘worth more than $300,000. Now our ambassador in Great Britain gannot possibly pay the rent on a suit- able house with his Salary, much less the expenses of living and entertaining. Hence, the -well-known fact that our ambassador to Great Britain must al- ways be a rich‘man. He must be chosen JOUSING OF UNGLE SAM'S DUPLOMATS. GAN EBKTED $100,000 1$ ALLOWANCE DRAWN BY BRITISHER WU. § how they conduct themselves and how | | | ’ ' CHICAGO—When Maurice Maeter- linck, the Belgian symbolist and poet, visited Chicago recently on his lec- ture tour, he was entertained at the University of Chicago and President Pratt Judson presented him with a copy of “A Short History of Belgium” by Leon Van der Essen. essor Van der Essen formerly was professor of history in Louvain University and delivered a series of lectures on Belge history in’ the University of Chicago after he had been forced to flee as an exile from his native land before the advance of the German armies. He later was recalled by ing Albert to serve on the historical section’ of the Belgian Peace commission. He is looked u; as the most distin; hed. ‘li historian of Belgium \ His new volume, Airplane Rides to PHILADELPHIA, March 26.—(ni- ted Press.)}—Offers of free airprane rides to Elkton, will feature the opening of the Philadelphia aeronautic’ show here Monday. They were limited to three couples who ‘during the week choose nuptials, Major F. A. Johnson will. conduct the tours. Applicants must be 21 years old on both sides, of not more than average weight, and honeymoon lug- gage is limited to 15 pounds each. The flights, Major Johnson, partictpant in many ‘aerial conflicts in the late war, says, will hold great hazard for his passengers. “But {¢ is up to them,” he said. “If they are bound to’ get married, it is well for them to become accustomed to enough to meet their expenses. They seem strong and sufficient, and public sentiment at this time seems to concur with them. Yet the arguments against caring for our diplomats as other great nations care for theirs ave always pre- valled on the floor of the house. ‘They prevailed five or six years ago when the Louden bill was passed. That bill, as drawn, provided that congress might appropriate money for building houses for our diplomats in foreign capitals. On the floor of the house it was amended so that not more than $150,000 could be expended in any one capital and not more than $500,000 in any one year. ‘That completely scotched it, because we cannot buy or build suitable embassies in the capitals where we need them most for $150,000] but aeven embassies and consular and each. In general the ground would cost | legation buildings, and they are all in more than that. A measure known as] Asia and Tatin-America, except one. Be- the Rogers bill has now been favorably | isdes leaving its diplomats ‘to find their reported by the house committee on|own homies, it pays them from a halt foreign affairs, which amends the] to 4 fitth as much’as the representatives Louden act by striking out that limi-| of the pame countries in Washington tation. It will be interesting to note | tective, its fate on the floor of the house. tar For when such a bill reaches -the $100 REWARD floor, invariably certain members arise and declaim against the “un-American magnificence” which such an appropria: Will be pall to person or per- tion implies. They conjure by the un-|M{| 9008 furnishing information lead- ostentatious democracy of Jefferson.|§ %™& to recovery of diamonds from ‘the women’s ‘rest- room in aes Theater last Sat- for his money, rather than for his brains. He may have brains, too; but mioney'is necessarily the first considera- tion. 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