Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 8

CAREER IDEA LOSES IN NEW DIPLOMACY Hoover Credited With Inten- | tion of Naming Business ! Men as Envoys. | | I BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Appointment of former Vice Presi- dent Charles G. Dawes as Ambassador to Great Britain and prospective nam- ing of Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey as Ambascador to France cen now be depicted, on authority, as in- dications of what is going to happen all along the line in the American foreign service. The Dawes and Edge appointments are to be regard~1 as opening guns | in the Hoover program to put more business in diplomacy and less “career | diplomacy” in Uncle Sam’'s foreign | business, The new policy presages | sweeping changes in the existing per- sonnel of American embassies and le- | gations abroad. The ambassadors and ministers most likely to be retained in service are those who either are busi- ness men or have demonstrated a strik- ing aptitude for developing American | business. Mere “career’ credits seem | doomed for the scrap heap. It is now recalled by the professional | diplomats in service both at the State | Department and overseas that it was | Gen. Dawes himself—new Hoover envoy to the Court of -St. James—who two | or three years ago delivered a deadly broadside against “career” diplomats. Views On Fitness. | The occasion was a mmmencemenll address at a midwestern —university. The then Vice President did not attack | the professionals in the foreign service | en the ground of lack of ability. He assafled them as being condemned. by the “career” system. to spend so much of their time out of the United States; that they were hopelessly out of touch | with present-hour trends in this untry. A \'06" that account. Dawes argued. flw,\l ecould not bs 100 per cent rflecllvei in representation of American interests. “The seneral also questioned the inability of career men, because of their purely | diplomatic training and equipment. to | cope with the practical questions of finance, commerce and trade which enter so conspicuously into modern in- fernational relations. The Hoover pro- gram for reorganization of the foreign service is based on precisely such con- siderations. Here and there, throughout the world, the United States already has business me) dors and business mee ministers. Alanson B. Houghton, who has retired from the London embassy, | is & manufacturer by occupation, being en in the glass industry in New York State. Ogden H. Hammond of | New Jersey, Ambassador to Spain, is| & real estate man and railway executive. | Other Instances Cited. Alexander P. Moore of Pennsylvania, Ambassador to Peru and former Am- bassador to Spain, is.a publisher. Al- ber: H. Washburn, Minister to Austri is & lawyer. Col. Noble B. Judah, Am bassador to Cuba, also is an attorney Dwight' W. Morrow, Ambassador to Mexieo, is a banker and lawyer. Rich- ard M. Tobin, Minister to the Nether- 1ands, is a California banker in private e. - Ip practically all other countries American ambassadors and ministers today are men who have grown up in the foreign service, ie, known as “career” diplomats. Among them are Messrs. MacMurray at Peking, Fletcher at Rome, Schurman Berlin, Bliss at Buenos Aires, Gibson at Brussels, Mol gan at Rio de Janeiro, Phillips at Ot- taws, Culbertson at Santiago, Caffery at Bogota, Einstein at Prague, Dodge at , Young at Santo Do minge, Gunther at Cairo, Skinner Athens, Summerlin _at Tegucipalga, it at Budapest, Sterling at Dublin, Eberhart at Managua, Swenson at Oslo, Philip at Teheran, Stetson at Warsaw, Dearing at Lisbon, Wilson at Buchares! Grew at Constantinople, Harrison at| Stockholm, Wilson at Berne, Gran Smith at Montevideo and Blake at reer” fellows are men , these of ability d extensive experi- ence many lands. But only a few | of them—and that is the point—fit into | the He diplomatic scheme of things. which calls for business acumen as the indispensable quality. One of the few is Robert Peet Skinner, American Min- icter to Greece, now in the United iStates on leave. Skirner was transfer- red to the diplomatic branch in 1926, after 30 successive years in the consular service, including posts as consul-gen- eral at Hamburg, Berlin, and London. He is probably the outstanding “busi- ness man diplomat” now in the foreign service, because of his three decades of work in the purely commercial branch of | our international relations in key coun- ! like Prance, Germany and Great | Area for Expansion. President Hoover and Secretary.Stim- | son are credited by authorities in po- sition to know with a desire to “com- merelalize’ the foreign service especially in Central and South America. It is in Latin America that Hoover sees Uncle Sam’s future cconomic destiny, as far as foreign trade is concerned. He held that view consistently while Secretary of Commeree. It was fortified by his experiences and observations during his will tour” on both sides of the in the capacity of President- well informed persons, business men- diplomats are eventually to supplant “eareer” men at various Latin Ameri- <An centers, though the system of plac- ing business men on diplomatic guard at other foreign outposts will by no means be confined to the Western Hem- isphere. ! It may be several months yet before the Hoover-Stimson foreign service broom beings to sweep. It may sweep | gradually, rather than at one fell swoop. But definite warning is forthcoming that the business men-Ambasadors presently to take up their duties at London and Paris, are signs of the times which are coming sooner or later. | (Copyright. 1920.) | A total of 3277 motor vehicles were | imported in New Zealand last January, | eompared with 867 for January, 1927.| 82T -PROOF AGE LOCAL 3 LONG DISTANCE MOVING AGENTS ALLIED VAN LINES = 1 i | gree; Mr. BUYS BACK STOCK Gannett Gives International Company $2,700,000 for Newspaper Holdings. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 4—The $2,700,000 holdings of the International Paper and Power Co. in four of the 17 newspapers owned by Frank E. Gannett were bought back by the publisher today. A check for this amount was given the International to retire all the com- pany’s_investments in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Albany Knickerbocker Press, the Albany News and the Ithaca Journal News, the only Gannett papers in which the company had taken in- terests in return for a loa nouncement by the Brooklyn Eagle of the transaction, Archibald R. Grau- stein, president of the International, who testified before the Federal Trade Commission in Washington last Tues- day that his company had invested $10,000,000 in certain newspapers, wired the commission of the repurchase. He said the International would continue to furnish newsprint for Gannett. An editorial in the Brookiyn Bagle told of the re| hase and said that when Gannett ceepted in perfectly good faith a loan of approximately $2,700,000 from the International Pa Co., which acted in equally good faith. it was because the loan could be had at terms better than were available in the open money market. “The International did not ask and did not receive any voice in the policies Eagle of any Gannett newspa- he editorial said. €= wasHED CLEANED coLp - STORAGE R FURS 1313 YOU STREET, N.W. PHONE NORTH 3343 | E. Morgan, Thomas eorge P. 1 Almost simultaneously with an an- | T |going to lead a real farm life. 7,200 Pairs of Our regular super-fine $1.45 “Women's Shop’ PLACE WREATH .ON STATUE OF HORACE MANN Glasson. [ 1 2 PARENTTEACHER DELEGATES ARRIVE National Organization Has Annual Convention Here. Arlington Service. | Facing a weck of discussion of the problems bound up in the education of the youth of the country, the annual convention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers will be opened {and Mrs. Marrs will place a wreath on | Kansas City, Mo. Group of delegates to the annual convention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, who yesterday placed a wreath on the statue of Horace Mann at headquarters of the National Education Association. , W. Lankin, Mrs. S. M. N. | 8 In the photo, Marrs, president of the National Con- | —Star Staff Photo. IMARION TALLEY SINGS SWAN SONG| AT PERFORMANCE IN CLEVELAND FROMPOWERFIRM ., Do Brans o Retie to Farm i Missouri, Ohio or Connecticut as ‘ \ ‘ Way Back to By the Associated Press. | CLEVELAND, May 4.—Marion Talley | sang her swan song here tonight n(m‘ | four seasons as a prima donna of the | | Metropolitan Grand Opera Co. Her | final appearance was in the name role of the opera “Lucia di Lammermoor. | The opera was presented by the Metropolitan Grand Opera Co. of New | York before an audience .of more than | | 8,000 persons. Miss Talley in an ex- | clusive statement to the Associated | | Press told of her plans for the future. | | In her statement Miss Tallev said | | there are no- reservations to her re- | tirement. Doesn't Intend to Marry. “I do not intend to study for a ‘come-back’ as was reported in some | New York newspapers recently. and I |have no plans for marriage,” Miss | Talley said. am not tired of grand opera, but I want to retire and.I choose farm life | because it seems the only sane way to live—the nearest way back to a simple, | natural itfe.” Miss Talley said she and her parents were going to buy a farm either in| | Missouri, Ohio or Connecticut, and | “On the farm I expect to do some- thing reasonable fcr a woman to do. I expect to learn to milk cows and the | usual miscellaneous housework that is | properly the duty of a young woman | who lives on a farm.” Miss TAlley did not know how soon | | the farm life would be started, however, ' All this week—at all our “Stocking Shops” } “LADY LUXURY” All-silk chiffon full-fashioned hose specially reduced Attractively put up in “Mother’s Day Including the Following Colors: Silver Manon Light Gunmetal Cuban Sand 7th & K © 3212 14th Dark ‘—1207 F | quickly grow tiresome. * Gift Boxes Gunwmetal White Pearl Blush Muscade Boulevard Sun Tan Simple Life. 1 | | and said the Talley family would live | in New York “‘until I don't know when.” | Scorns Radio “Mike.’ 1 The retiring star has no plans for a European trip and_will not lend her volee to the radio, but has a two-and- a-half-year contract to sing for a talk- ing machine company. “That will re- | quire me to keep in trim.” she said. During the four seasons she has | spent in grand opera, Miss Talley says she.has seen Americans grow more fond | of classical musical drama, and ex- | pressed the hope that soon some | American composer will offe: an opera on a par with the present classics. American composers seem able to procure beautiful melodies, but never a complete opera of grand opera caliber. The longer American compositions sometimes are pretty the first time they're heard, but when repeated they SAlLS_FOR OLD ‘WORLD. NEW YORK, May 4 (#).—Dr. Randall F. White of Portiand, Oreg., newly ap- pointed medical director the Near East Relief in Transcaucasia, sailed to- night on the Leviathan for France, en route to Constantinople and Russia. Dr. White, who won distinction for stamping out malaria in the Philippine: succeeds Dr. Albert W. Dewey of Den. ver, Colo., who is returning home after seven years of medical service in south- ern Russia. May 12th —and here’s an opportunity to pay tribute to this cherished occasion —in an elegant as well as most practical way! 19 3 prs. #1350 Wing Mode Beige Water Lily Champagne Breeze formally at 9:20 o'clock tomorrow morn- in at the Hotel Washington. Approximately 1,200 delegates participate in the sessions. Tribute Paid to Mann. Yesterday witnessed the actual start of the convention, when at noon, mem- Lers of the executive committee of the will | congress gathered in the lobby at the! Cavalry, has been relieved from duty as | military attache at Havana, Cuba, and | National Education Association, 1201 Sixteenth “street, and paid tribute to Horace Mann, founder of the American iree school system, the date being the 133d anniversary of Mann's birth. | i~ S. N. M. Marrs of Texas, presi-| dent of the congress, placed a wreath | on the Mann statue, and Joy Elmer Morgan, a member of the executive committee, who is editor of the Journal of the Neticnal Education Association, | gave a brief talk. The delegates will participate in a| vesper service in Arlington Cemetery | this atternoon, at which Dr. Randolph | J. Condon of Cincinnati will preside. | Right Rev. James E. Freeman. Episco- | pal Bishop of Washington, will speak the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. | The Mar: District high schools, directed by Dr.| E. N. C. Barnes. | Legislative Program. The legislative program of the con- qress will come under consideration in the Hotel Washington tonight. At this meeting Sena - = Capper, Re- publican, of Kansas, is to speak on law “nforeement and Representative Rob- sion. Kentucky. of Kentucky, on the | proposal to establish a depariment of | education in the Government, with the head holding a cabinet portfolio. | Other members of Congress also are | expected to take part in the speaking program. i Submitsion of reports will mark the opening business session tomorrow. Terre Haute Paper Sold. TERRE HAUTE. Ind. May 4 (#) Sale of the Terre Haute Post, a Scripps- Howard afternoon newspaper. to the Star Publiching Co.. was announvsd here today by Edwin D. Minteer, editor of the Post, and J. Edgar White, ma ager of the Terre Haute Star, a morn ing publication. added to that popular $3.85 | deen Proving Ground, Md., Thief Caught in Act Of Looting Poor Box In Catholic Church By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, May 4.—A thief with maps of Louisville, Evansville and Milwaukee upon which were marked locations of Catholic Churches, was arrested in a local Catholic Church yesterday in the act of robbing a poor box. Bags containing $110 in small coins were found in the man’s rooms. ‘The prisoner, Albert Guistie, 52, explained to police that he used a corset stay covered with mucilage to remove money from the boxes. He always went to the front of the church and prayed, he said, before beginning operations, “to sce that the coast was clear.” OFFICERS ASSIGNED. | Maj. J. B. Crawford Is 'rmmfcmd’rpmnea in Police Court Thomas was to Canal Zone. Maj. J. C. R. Schwenk, United States assigned to duty at Fort Riley, Kans,; Capt. George C. Pilkington, Infantry. from Fort George G. Meade, Md. to San Juan, P. R.; Maj. Carl E. Hocker, Coast Artillery Corps, from the Philip- pines to Fort Monroe, Va.: Maj. James B. Crawford Coast Artillery Corps. from the War Department to the Pan. ama Canal Zone; Maj. Harry A. Auer, Judge Advocate General's Departme: from the War Department to Gov nor's Island, N. Y.; Capt. Samuel Mar- shall, Field Artillery, from Norfolk, Va., to Fort Sill, Okla.; Col. Albert N. Mc- Clure, Quartermaster Corps, from to his home to await Col. Edward E. retirement.” " Lieut. e Band will play and there | Farnsworth, Coast Artillery Corps, at| 1 will be singing by a chorus from the | Fort Preble, Me., will be retired October 1 on his own application. Capt. Gustave Villaret, Infantry, has | been transferred from the Army War | College to the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.: Capt. Leland A. Miller, Ordnance Department, from the Aber- to Fort George G. Meade, Md.: First Lieut. Neal | D. Franklin, Infantry, from Fort George G. Meade, Md. to the office of the Judge Advocate General's Office, War Department. CARDINAL LAUDS PACT. ROME, May 4 (#).—Cardinal O'Con- | nell of Boston, in an interview with| the Italian press was quoted today as saying that the Italo-Vatican concili | ation had been received in the United | States not only with great joy but true enthusiasm not only by Catholics but also by Protestants. “Divine Providence willed that two men truly great should meet—the Pope and the Duce—great for vision above all for courage of will and deed,” the cardinal said. MAY 32 other most i PARENT HELD, BOY'S ‘WUUNMERTMN Hospita! Watches Victim of | Beating Who Was Dis- ciplined. Confined to Gallinger Hospital, suf- | fering from exposure and a beating in- flicted by his father as corrective meas- ures, Lewis Thomas, 7 years old, col- ored, 5309 Hayes street northeast, ac- cording to officials of the hospital, is ‘doing nicely.” 3,000 BIBLE CLASS MEN IN PARADE AT BALTIMORE Delegates From 15 States, District and Dominion in Sessions Over Week End. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., May 4.—Thrss thousand delegates from 15 States, the District of Columbia and the Dominion of Canada, who arrived here today to attend the annual convention of the National Federation of Men's Bible | Classes, paraded through the business district of the city late this afternoon. Following the convention banquet a mass meeting was held in the Sth Regi- ment Armory, where Hugh L. Black, United States Senator from Alabam: | and Dr. Morgan Blake of Atlanta, Ga., were speakers. The father, Dellie Thomas, 28 years | old.” was arrested yesterday by Police- | man Thomas Delaney of the eleventh recinct on a charge of assault. Ar- committed to jail under $1.000 bond I'pending the outcome cf his son's injuries. Parent’s Statement. The punishment was inflicted for committing two offenses Thomas said, Lewis broke the window in a passing automobile with a stone and removed a basket cf laundry placed on the back porch of his home, which his father says he sold. 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