Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1933, Page 6

A—O ENVDY T[l BRITAIN £ EIGHTH FROM SOUTH Judge R. W. Bingham Takes Up Ambassadorial Duties at St. James. BY GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN. ‘When Judge Robert W. Bingham as- sumes his. new duties as Ambassador to Great Britain, . eight Southern-born men, all ge; in times of crisis, will have represented the United States as envoys to the Court of St. James. ;- Critical riods in which Southern I guen held post were the post- mvo- _ lution era, the decade leading to the £ 'War of 1812, the Jackson era of bank- *dng crisis, the reconstruction ers after the Civil War, and the World War. In a time comparably critical the ¢all | has been said of him by John Yeturns to the South to Judge B & native of Orange County, N. C,, now | & citizen of Louisville, Ky. The list of Southern-born en: to Creat Britain, their States, the dent appointing polntment 10110y th Carolina, . So Wumnmn 1m~ Jnuu ‘Monroe, vu-- service in_London, he devoted himself to the University of of which he was rector at the time his death. Mufly m mfinfl aris: Py o tocrat, s distinguished jurist, United States !enntor and General r President Taylor. He went as mnlater to London in the my dnE of reconstruction, 1868, assassinated and Johnson lt war with ey ‘years later another South -five - Y. a Carolinian, . g?r Hines Page, succeeded him a jon. “fow Great Britain estimated this Ambassador is set forth on the me- morial in Westminster Abbey, unveiled by Viscount Grey, who as foreign sec- retary was closely associated with him. The inscription follows: To the Glory of God And In Memory Of Walter Hines Page 1855-1918 Ambassador Of The United States Of America To The Court of St. James The Friend of Br::\n In Her Sorest Author, journalist, editor, publisher, | scholar, leader of men and thought, it ey, | editor of the New York Times: “When he went to London he could preach democracy and Americanism with the emphasis that almost sug- gested the backwoodsman, and yet dis- | -nd the year of lp-'cuu the Greek dramatists with any British statesman trained at Baliol, and sit down with Sir Edward Grey over l-nd threatening prastically internae tional difficulty. Call lct-m to South. ‘Walter Hines Page's native State and his preparatory school are shared bruhn Southern :successor, Judge D.| who now leaves for the Oolm o St. Mounlt Xfll‘ Al of m Descent. . Al har of English deacent, an from m;'.m. identified with the nfil- James as the enll returns to the South lM 15 as gradusted from fin Unlvcnlty ol North Carolina, and studied law at the University of Vir- ml As s young man he came to sville. He is a member of the American, Kentucky and Louisville Bar Associations; he has been mayor of Louisville and chancellor of the Jeffer~ son Circuit Court. He is owner and blisher of the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, and. is widely traveled in his own country and abroad. Since the first representative out of mmhm l:k:'he gmm of St. James, W an ~Cor= Dered bt fri1ed shirt,. broad-kirted coat, knee-breeches and lhou with wenit at & | buckles, have given way to top-hat, Twenty-two years passed. ‘became the question of the day, and another Southerner, James Barbour of Virginia, 'ent to London as John Stevenson, was aj tdst Jnmuby had been a Legisiature lnd of Congress, Speaker of the House in the stormy sessions | organ. over the re-charter of States morzing ocat and siriped trousers, but ambassadorial vigted As it ‘Was said of America’s first ac- minister to Britain, Pinckney th Carolina, so it may be said North Amerisan News- ance, Ine.) DR PAULLIN REGEIVES $1,000 LOUBAT PRIZE Carnegie Institution Worker Is One of Two Men Honored by Award. Butler of Cdum:!ln ;J‘rwlenlty‘ Ao et ‘went Walter Pmcatt ‘Webb of the University of Texas, Austin, Tex., fof “The Great Dr. Charles O. Paullin-is & member of the staff of the division of historical researeh, Carnegie Institution, and has conducted research work for the divi- sion for the past 20 years. He lives at 1718 N street. e 60 TO SING IN CHOIR ,| Gaul's Passion Music to Be Sung at Mount Vernon M. R Gaul's Passion Music will be sung to- morrow night at 8 o'clock by the Vested cholr of 60 voices at the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South. R. Deane Shure, director gf music n the. church, will direct the ss Edith F. Gottwals at uu pas- Dr. Fordney Hutchinson, communion service will follow the Returning to the United States after ONLY 3 Days LEFT Perhaps you've bought some paint in this sale and need more! Or maybe you've MISSED these values entirely. tor, will preside. The cantata. Wordsworth * * * after settling some | tq announced Monday by President Nicholas Murray | d Daat duy LaviDNG SiaR, OTTO PRAEGER RETURNS TO U. S. AFTER BEING ADVISER IN SIAM Father of Airmail Service Spends Five Years Building Posts and Telegraph Department in Orient. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. | Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, April 12 (N.A] Otto Praeger, Who in 1916 reorganized the rallway mail service and two years Iater launched the United States air- mail, has just returped from Siam, where for five years he has been ad- viser to the posts and telegraph depart- ment, and says ‘he intends to stay in this country for a while and get back into sviation. “I believe that aviation can be m: self- wlthout Governm subsidies.” mgzr know it can. emndc it sell-sustain- ing In Siam. We took mail contracts for 35,000 ticals less than the army was able to do it for and at the end of seven months ed & handsome pront After the start, eommerchl sviation in Siam never was in the Bullt on I7\I|IU~ ‘A tical, Mr. Praeger explamed, i worth about 40 cents. He went on ia say that the air freight and passen business had been built \? 'Ilh nm:t attention to nmuny utility and without any fancy trimmings. That was why it pald. He dmlbed.‘mtldn » costly specialized form of trans. thn with certain definite limits. t was necessary to keep within these limits, he said, to make it a profitable business. He will again open offices as an aviation consultant, although he doesn’t a8 yet know encflg ‘where. Mr, Praeger, once ington cor- respondent of the Dallas News and later postmaster of the City of Wash! lml Second Assistant Postmaster eral in Charge of Transportation, d!- scribes Siam as a very pleasant eountry to live in, with the exception of the three very hot months of March, April| sani and May. The rains begin in June and cool the atmosphere. The wet season Insts six months. Paradise for Women. “Women,” sajd Mr, Praeger, “regard Siam as a good deal of a paradise. mr-nhnunmmtmnumhuol ) " lute monarchies. Members of the !loyll Siamese nmlly wnmgug&nw brought DatP Wikt them many, Western 'mn King, says Mr. Praeger, had been working on s constitution, but othet lludcnh who had been educated abroad had picxefl up radical tendencies and decided tha not | 200,000 tons. repimd the absolute monarchy with an absolute oligarchy consisting of 15 men, 11 of whom were radical followers of Moscow. radicalism extended to economic matters. ‘wanted state trading, Soviet operat] and only oné party, but the King insisted on real party government and two Conservatives were put in charge. ‘The King always had the people with him and the majority of the army. Only one Bangkok regiment and a battalion of marines were dis- affected. The rmluuun-ry group never Tegal power he ably will keep it. Intelligent Rulers. “The truth is” says Mr. Praeger, “Siam has been ruled by sn intelligent | Since class. The princes were laborious and educated workers. The country has a splendid wireless and telegraph system lnd the best railroad in Southemstern Bangkok, the capital, is well P‘M ".hun:;xnd g“bo‘nl lague and sy, ubonic pl an cholen have been stamped out. “The Siamese are not copyists, but originators,” continued Mr. Praeger. "fll! Inlllah aia thmll for the na- in Peninsula. The D\Mh did t.hmn for them in Java and French servants at nominal costs and com-| hire ds filled with fruit and flowers. houses, of European type adapted to the East, with more ares in win- dows and doors than anything else, have every modern convenience. The poog.h are kind, pleasant, courteous and fallures. The biggest crog Siam has been affected mncmu by the trouble in China, its biggest rice . Moreover, there is no market or the ucts of its tin mines and rubber tations. The fish industry is for home consumption. During the last two years plans have been made for fish and fruit canneries for export. Respect Law and Order. “The Siamese have great respect llv and order and a great affection for mrl family,” says Mr. Praeger. because for Iast 80 years the thg have had benevolent monarchs.” e describes King Prajadhipok, who recently visited the United States, as WH have to prove that thiey know their-jobs. “We Ilnlnlil‘lllu with & per- sonnel 100 per cent Siamese,” asserted Mr. Praeger, “and for almost two years 1t has operated without s forced iand- nuu-nhnun One prince, brother of e King, took the inefficient and un- wvflhble railway line, reorganised it and up to the depression made it pe: a profit of from 8,000,000 to 10,000.00{ ticals a year.” Vast Jungles. "Ouulde of the Siamese cities,” Mr. ns, “the whole country e railroad runs from the separated by great strips of Jun(h They used to be se te kingdoms and are now communities in themselves, each valley being an independent economic province. Roads run through these valleys at right angles to the railroad and connecting with it. “There are,no roads 1 to the railroad, and therefore there is no bus competition. If one to motor through Siam, he can put his automo- bile on a train and take it off at any road intersection, but he has to come back to the railroad before he can motor through any other community. The main motor market over there for trucks.” (Oopyrisht. 1033, by North American News- aper Allia: Tt fet the responsibility of planning meals and marketing keep you in- doors when longer spring days and beautiful spring weather call you out-of-doors for trips or golf? DINE AT AVIGNONE’S Our delightful messanine dining room provides a setting of muumr-nn’nuyukvlmchm-dlnnmd iousness—the culsi distinguished French chef. ne of a DINNER 75¢—SUNDAY $1.00 In addition fo our regular dally and Sunday dinner menus are ten different other combination dinmers at from 50c te $1.25. 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Ninety-om nhlpu have been or as & result of this m~ crnmmt mm us. They represent 12 per cent of the total of -.nthu-ud lhlpc In a report to the ber tes, mautcr of commlmlc-uma cuna said the crisis had materially aided this movement, because of the number d ships left without cargoes. Ne less, t.he ml wnnlle of the Italian mercantile marine creased from 3,401,371 \‘mu in 1931 \‘n 3,429,087 tons in llfl. Figures presented Minister Ciano show thlt the United States leads in the total tonnage of ships demolished the war until the end of 1931— 2,565,448. England is next, with 2,094,- 62, and Italy third, with 855,127 WAR FLYER PASSES BAR Charles T. Malone, a member of the famous Lafayette Escadrille, a group of World War fiyers, who served under the Prench colors, today was admitted to the District Bar. He was a certified public accountant in the Bureau of Investigation, De] ment of Justice, dur of the F. H. 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