Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1929, Page 4

TREND 10 CAREER M 15 NOCATED Hoover Appointment of John-' son to China Post Seen as P C STHE SUNDAY “STAR, "WASHINGTON NOVEMBER 1 29—PART ONE. 'TAP DANCE SCORES AT FOOD EXHIBIT Solo Contest by Vote of H Audience. Miss Julia Cunningham Wins| clety is staging in the Washington Au- ditorium, little Mary Frances Ormsbee of 2011 Thirty-fifth street and wee Ann Marie Jameson of 1621 Newton street, tied for honors in the dails | “happlest. baby" contest. | was unable to indicate a preference for either of the two baby girls it | picked from the entfy Jist of 29. Con- | sequently each youugsier received $2.50 in gold, The Food Show is in recess today in its reopening at 2 preparation .for ‘The show o'clock tomorrow afternoon. will continue with afternoon and rve- Saturday night. New contests will be staged each evening and the hanpiest baby competition will continue the | feature of the matinees. ‘The audience | | | ning ‘sessions daily until its close next | | | nue; Clifton Metz, 1207 Emerson street; Walter Grimes, 315 Fifth street; Catherine Wise, 5397 Seventh street southeast: Joseph Vita, 1245 B street; Mary Mouths, 1480 Girard street: Erma Dixon, 21 Broad street; Mary Myers, 2115 C street; Charles Chase, 315 Ten- ner, jr., 505 Jefferson street: Leonard Tauber, 1234 Randolph street: Phyllis Schumt, 3540 Warder street; Emma Lou Olivet, 9 Sixty-first street; Mar- garet Burton, 1111 Lamont street; Gil- | bert Bers, 613 Princeton place: Mary Frances Jameson, 1621 Newton street. and Glenn Edward Parenteau, 1423 Chapin street. FETE PLANNED. nessee avenue northeast: David Kush- | RETIRED DISTILLER DIES. Sigmund Kraus, 76, Founded New York Company. NEW YORK, November 16 () —8ig- | mund Kraus, 7 retired distiller, who | founded the firm of 8. Kraus & T 50 years ago, is dead here. | He was born in Bohemia and came to this country at the age of 1 In addi- tion to being the founder and former president of the Kraus Co., he was vice president of the Meadville Dis- tilling Co., and director of the Mer- chants’ Distilling Co. at Terre Haute, Ind. Funeral services will be held to- morrow. Military tap dancing triumphed over | List of Contestants: | Turning Point. i | BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Appointment of Nelson T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of State, to be American Minister to China denotes, in the opinion of qualified spokesmen. definite turning point in favor of | ‘career” diplomats. as far as the, Hoover administration is concerned. Some authorities believe the turn may have been precipitated by the almost coincident resignations of John V. A MacMurray as Minister to China and of William Phillips as Minister to| Canada. . Both MacMurray and Phillips | are shining types of the “career man'” | in the United States foreign service. A | deep-rooted suspicion existed in Wash- | ington that something savoring of a general flight from the service was in | prospect among the “career” group be- | cause it has scen all major diplomatic | plums so far bestowed by President | Hoover go to “outsiders.” The ‘“out-| siders” include Gen. Dawes, at London Senator Edge, soon to go to Paris; John | W. Garrett, at Rome; Harry F. Gug- | genheim, designated 'Ambassador at| Havana: Irwin Laughlin, appointed to the embassy at Madrid, and Gerrit J. | Diekema, former member of Congress from Michigan, who received the ai tractive ministerial post at The Hague. Bound to Revive Hopes. | The promotion of Assistant Secretary | of State Johnson to the legation in China is bound to revive the hopes of hundreds of younger “career” men who have spent their lives in the service and | are now on duty in different parts of.| the world. It is a signal that blue-| ribbon posts. after all. are within their | reach. At present some 26 or 27 of the “missions” Uncle Sam _has abroad—embassies or legations—have as their chiefs, respectively, Ambassa- dors or Ministers who have grown up within the service. Less than 25 years ago this was an unheard-of siuation. ‘The diplomatic, as well as the consular service was the happy hunting grounds | of spollsmen and politicians. The | Rogers foreign service law, enacted five | or six years ago, applies the merit sys- tem only to men below the rank of Ministers. Considering that a _Presi- | dent, therefore, can distribute foreign | service plums without restrictions of | a0y u.r‘rg authorities feel that. by and | arge. the “career” prinicple is bein well looked after. T i This writer learns in_well informed | quarters that President Hoover may be | ; expected to look after it in increasing | * degree from now on. The Johnson 2s- | : signment to China is symptomatic cf | the administration’s policy. That policy ‘calls for the sending of trained spe- clalists to foreign flelds where special training is required for the proper rep- resentation and advancement of Amer- ican interests. Mr. Hoover, for example, might h-ve searched high and low | ; through the non-career world—amon | ¢ American captains of industry—but he . couldn't have possibly discovered a man ; for China who faintly approximates the | {equipment of Mr. Johnson, With 22| | years of incessant experience of Chinese | * affairs, both in the country itself and in | ! the State Department. ' Transfer in Service Cited. ¢ Not long ago President Hoover made | .& transfer in the diplomati-.service, | * which also carries out his ideas abouu | specialists. Leland Harrson, Minister to Sweden, was withdrawn from the at- | tractive post at Stockholm and sent to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The | reason is that the seventh conference of | . pan-American states is to be held in| ) Uruguay in 1934, and the President de- | ! sires that the United States shall haie | . a Minister stationed at Montevideo who | can intelligently lay “the groundwork | , for that important meeting. Mr. Hi | i rison had previous duty in Latin Amei- ica_and speaks Spanish fluently. ‘Throughout both hemispheres there 1ae Juiia Cunningham, the winner; CAT AND DOG SHOW OPENS TONORRON Entries Include Those From Six Staics and 7o For- eign Countries. Six States, the District of Columbiz | and two foreign countries will be rep- resented on the entry lists at the Cat and Dcg Show, which opens tomorrow at L'Aiglon, Eighteenth street and Co- lumbia road. The States are Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey, and the foreign countries are Belgian and Germany, the Princes de Ligne, wife of the Bel- gian Ambassador having entered her Scottish terrier “Mac,” while Frau Kiep, wife of the charge of the Germany em- bassy, has entered her pet skye terrier, is with respect to the latter that Yan- kee diplomats are cspeclally starved. The incessant and expensive entertain- ment nowadays inseparabl> from their jobs must be provided entirely out of their own pockets. Uncle Sam does not even give his Ministers or Ambassadors automobiles. When Mr. Johnson goes to China he will have 1o keep up the proper “front” for the richest nation on the globe out of his $12,000 a year salary. He is very far from being a rich man. A human factor that enters more care>r” diplomats, especially when they have been abroad for any extended period, is the desire to come home and educate their children in American gchools. This is the thing which main- ly determined William Phillips to aban- nd more into the considzrations of our | said to be the only dog of this kind in | Washington. | (. More than 200 aristocrais of catdom | yhn\'l‘ entered in the feline class. Per- | sians of varlous shades, the famous | Siamese sacred cats, the finest of the | short-haired family 'and even a group | | of the Manx cats, the tailless breed, will | be on exhibition. In addition to the | usual cash prizes there will be an un- | usually large number of medals and | trophies. l Tnterest in the dog show will center, | it is beleved, largely around the whip- | pet class, Most of the dogs on display | will be of the smaller varieties, althougn | | pointers, setters and collles also will be | shown. COMMENDS SERGEANT. | Devises Simplified Pay Table for Computing Amounts Due. Staff Sergt. Fred 8. Comings, finance department of the Army, has been offi- cially commended by Maj. Gen. R. L. C-rmichael, chief of finance, for having | devised a simplified pay table for use in | Wallboard | New—per 61tz Glazed 1 Ply— , square foot. . 3c 24 u.:zu...85c porivall. . $1.05 Also insulating | board and fireproof Many other sizes Complete Stock rockboard. priced equally low. | of Shingles, ete. Let Us Estimate and Save You Money on All Your Buil i | plause. sextefle who contended for honors at the food rhow last night (left to right): Hazel Baiarsky, Thelma Bessler, Lou Perron, Esther Osin and Dilah Perry. computing the pay due enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, has been approved by the finance de- partment and now is in use in the Philippine Islands. Gen. Carmichael’s action was taken in accordance with the recently adopted policy of the War Department of recognizing meritorious peacetime services on the official records. SUPERIOR GARAGES IN ALL y_ATERlAU TIN ROOFS PORCHES BUILT WE_ BUILD, REBUILD. REMODEI REPATR ANYTHING AND GIV TERMS N ColSTcTON JERVICE ing Needs 3—Branches—3 q | which table | | | the ballet, jazz and acrobatic forms of the terpsichorean art at the Food | Show last night when Miss Julia Cun- ningham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Cunningham of 1130 Fifth | street, ‘won the solo dance contest for |girls through the approval of the en- thusiastic audience, the official judges. wearing & red, white and blue costume, |began her contending dance with a | salute and when she concluded her drumming tap dance, the audience in- | dicated its verdict with prolonged ap- She was adjudged winner in a field of six and she was presented with a basket of Fall flowers. Tie in Baby Contest. During | show which the District Grocery Miss Cunningham, a vivacious blonde, | So- nue: Joe Worley, | Besides the victorious Miss Cunning- fam, last night's dance contests includ- ed: Thelma Bessler, 1428 Potomac ave- nue southeast; Esther Osin, 6211 Dix street northeast; Dilah Perry, 235 First street; Betty Lou Perron. 1730 Wiscon- son avenue, and Hazel Baiarsky, 5305 Dorsett place. The baby contestants yesterday in- cluded, with the winners: Betty Sou- | der, Cottage City; May Sheehand, 4224 Seventh street; Stanley Cherner, 311 | Fitteenth street; Edward Cook, 4316 Fourth street: Edity Lillycoop. 5011 Forty-sixth street; Arlene Peek, 806 Sumtana place; Arthur Peck, 806 Luin- | tana place: Maurice Clark, 1019 Ham- | lin strect: Alice Lint, 714 Tenth street; the afternoon session of the Humphrey Howell, 1107 Maryland ave- |of dolls and Chinese bean bags will be | 1121 New Hampshire | featured. | astelberg’s Pré-Christmas Sale Raises Gift Standards this year! 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