Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 33

DIPLOMATS' SCHOOL URGED BY SENATOR Would Establish Training Courses in State Depart- ment Under New Board. Establishment of a foreign service school in the State Department, in which the Government could train men for the diplomatic and consular service, was proposed to Congress a few days ago in a bill by Senator Thomas, Demo- crat, of Oklahoma, which has been re- ferred to the foreign relations commit- tee for consideration. ‘The operation of such an institution would be one of the functions of a pro- posed board of foreign affairs, which also would be set up in the State De- partment under the terms of the bill. The plan for founding the foreign service school, as outlined in the meas- ure, is similar in some respects to the method by which Uncle Sam prepares his future Army and Navy officers at West Point and Annapolis. Age Limit Is 17 to 31. Each Senator and member of the House would have the right under the bill to nominate one person for admis- sion to the foreign service school. Nominees would be between the ages of 17 and 31, and would be required to take physical and mental examinations. Before beginning the period of train- ing the nominees would be required to sign an agreement to enter the Gov- ernment_service and Temain for a definite length of time, provided their services were requested within two years after completing the course of instruc- tion. Among the powers the bill would confer upon the board directing the institution would be: To employ and fix the salaries of professors and in- structors; to map out the curriculum; to make necessary expenditures for personal services and rent of building space in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. Two Branches of Study. The bill calls for two branches of fnstruction at the school, one cover- ing consular and diplomatic work, and the other commercial. The measure contemplates payment of compensation to nominees during the period of in- struction, the amount to be determined later. Each person successfully completing the diplomatic and consular course would be eligible for appointment as foreign service officer, unclassified, and each successful graduate from the com- mercial course would be eligible for the position of foreign commerce officer, class 5. ‘There is a provision in the bill that, whenever practicable, persons registered at the Government school could, with the approval of the board, avail them- selves of instruction given at existing educational institutions in the District of a similar character, all expenses in- cident to such instruction to be paid by the United States. ‘The board of foreign affairs, which the bill would set up in the State De- partment, would be composed of several officials of the executive branch of the Government and several members of Congress. The board would have other duties to perform, in addition to direct- ing the proposed foreign service school, namely: : (1) “To provide for the collection of information in respect to matters per- taining to the relations between the United States and foreign nations; (2) at the request of the President and of| the Secretary of State, to advise with them in respect to such matters: (3) if not incompatiblewith the public in- terest, to make available to the - gress such information~as it to be necessary, and- (4) to exercise supervision and control over the for- gign service school * * *.” Would Retain Procedure. The board would be composed of the Secretary of State, who would be chair- man ex-officio; Undersecretary of State, who would be the executive head; the solicitor of the State Department, the Secretary of Commerce, direc- tor of the Bureau of Foreign and Do- mestic, and the chairman and ranking rity members of the Senate and tion foreign relations are carried on by the President in the name of the Secretary of State, and that it was not the purpose of his measure to change this procedure, but “to pro- vide all possible information and assist- ance to the President and Secretary of State in this work.” He referred to the creation of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in the Depart- ment of Commerce and said that sgency has abundantly justified its existence. The Senator explained that the bill is intended to create a permanent bu- reau of foreign affairs that would make available to all administrations infor- mation and advice in formulating poli- cies. Chairman Borah of the Senate For- eign relations committee, said he has not yet studied the bill and was not readvz, therefore, to comment upon its provisions. GAMBLING DEN ROBBED. EVANSVILLE, Ind., (#)—Nine men armed with auto- matic pistols and machine guns last night robbed a gambling establishment and its patrons of between $2,500 and $3,000 and held up a drug store, in which they obtained $160 irom the cash register and a diamond ring and stud valued at $400 from the proprie- tor. The druggist was bezten on the head with the butts of pistols when he re- sisted. The bandits escaped in an automobile. December 17 OLD WOMEN RULE AT NAVAJD AGENCY Girls” Work Is Planned With View to Eventual Invest- ment With Power. A land where old women rule and where the nineteenth amendment was in effect long before it was incorporated into the Constitution exists beneath the Stars and Stripes, officials of the Interior Department were reminded yes- terday, when the report of Supt. H. H. Kneale of the Northern Navajo Agency was received and made public. The agency is in the Arizona-New Mexico country. In preparation for ruling in later years, the Navajo Indian women learn to work early in life, the superintendent said in his report, adding that “every member of the Navajo family works.” Work Basis of Life. “Especially is this true of the women,” he wrote. “They herd sheep. They cook. They wash and repair and fabricate garments. And with all they card and spin and dye and weave eternally. You visit them and sit down to talk a half hour, but their fingers race on with the work in hand all the time of the visit as if their very life depended upon completion of the task before them. “The children herd sheep and are forever engaged in some useful occupa- tion. They take on a sense of responsi- bility about the time they are weaned and seldom lost it in after life. The men herd sheep, occasionally one is found weaving; they knit socks for themselves; they hunt horses—an end- less task; they haul wood and water; they visit the distant trading post; they hunt cattle; they are the farmers— preparing the soil, repairing irrigation structures, etc.; they build hogans. Every one s busy and busy all the time. “The woman is the power on the Navajo . reservation. Some man may pretend he is an authority and set him- self up before the whites as such, but almost invariably back of this assump- tion of authority is some old woman who rules, and with a rod of iron. Seldom Know Neighbors. “There is no Navajo community life. The immediate family sticks together. ‘The old grandfather and grandmother, the father and mother, the sons and their wives, the daughters and their husbands, and the children form a lit- tle group—a common flock in which every member of the group has an in- terest. The head of this group is the grandmother.” Supt. 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C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928. ilies living a few miles away—their nearest neighbors—and the explana- tion given is “they do not belong to our clan.” Three" generations and more often live in a group that farms but ope family, Mr. Kneale declared, “and the head of that family is in all prob- ability an old woman.” . Grid Stars Honor War Heros. Just before the annual game at Glas- gow, Scotland, between Ireland and Scotland, the players and officials of the Irish League foot ball team visited the National War Memorial at Edin- burgh Castle. A wreath in the form of an Irish harp with one broken string, and bearing the inscription: “In Glor- jous Memory of Our Fallen Comrades,” was laid at the entrance of the Memorial. New House Ventilating System Tested Hourly to Determine Success of Method The proposal of Senator McNary now pendmg before the Senate rules com- mittee to defer action on enlarging the | i Senate chamber until there was an op- portunity to observe the effect of the new ventilating system in the House has drawn increased Nation-wide at- tention to this new system. Members of the House generally are much pleased with the operation of the new method of ventilation thus far, and-the office of the architect of the Capitol is keeping a chart of hourly performance in testing out the new in- stallation. This system takes outdoor air, washes it, cools of warms it, to bring t to the proper temperature and humidity. This air is then pumped into the House chamber through the celling and the exhaust removed through the floor. There is a separate exhaust for the gallerles and a_sep- arate supply and exhaust f@r the Dem- ocratic and Republican cloakrooms. 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