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VOL. VI, No. II WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER, 1929 The Ratskeller

By ERIK MAGNUSON, Consul, Halifax, Nova Scotia (at Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, 1922-27) IT would be difficult to conceive of a German stowed and received in abundance. Every one town of any size without a Rathaus, a knows every one else. Each newcomer is seeking Rathausplatz, and, above all—the inseparable a cozy corner—eine nette Ecke—where the eve¬ Ratskeller. While the Town Hall and the Town ning may be whiled away in carefree indolence. Square with encircling frescoed houses generally Animated coteries are soon formed. Obliging are, in themselves, master-pieces of old and quaint waiters hurry back and forth with filled trays architecture, it is the Ratskeller in the cellar story balancing on well trained hands at precarious of the Town Hall which receives the lion’s share angles. of popular appreciation. The Ratskeller—the The cutaway-clothed Obcrkellner, of portly Town Hall Inn—is the beloved rendezvous of the stature and congenial countenance, constantly natives. The “gemutliche” atmosphere lends an winds his way among the tallies and up and down irresistible attraction to the Ratskeller as a meet¬ ing place for the town folks after the toils of the day are over. He who would have a place in the assembled circles of convivial companions must needs come early. As the evening grows dusk and the night air takes on a frosty tinge the habitues, at first one by one, but soon in groups of twos or threes and more, are seen mak¬ ing their way toward the temptingly inviting Rats¬ keller with its pleasing illumination and agree¬ able warmth. Friends meet, hands are shaken, Photo from Erik Magnuson and greetings are be- TOWN HALL SQUARE, STUTTGART, WURTEMBERG 365 the aisles looking after the needs and comforts of the guests with pater¬ nal solicitude. He has a friendly word of greet¬ ing for all, whether habitual frequenters or strangers. The fumy air is filled with an unceas¬ ing undulating murmur of contented voices ac¬ centuated by occasional spurts of contagious laughter. Beaming phys¬ iognomies reflect spirits of contentment and hap¬ piness in the process of exchanging views and relieving pent-up stories of gossip with friends

Photo from E. M^gnuaon and neighbors. Every TOWN HALL SQUARE, NUREMBERG, BAVARIA one is happy. The “gemutliche Stimmung” —congenial atmosphere—reigns supreme. The questions of the day, besides local gossip, are being discussed with more or less fervency, while last year’s vintage continues shrinking to the point of renewed replenishment. A permanent institution of the Ratskeller is found in the inevitable “Stammtisch”. This is a table set aside in a selected place for a certain group of inveterate habitues. It is being scru¬ pulously reserved day in and day for the chosen few. The right to each place at the Stammtisch is jealously guarded, and woe unto him who would encroach upon another’s treasured privilege. The knights of the Stammtisch, as well as other habitual frequenters, are in a category of their own and known under the local epithet of Fibster. The Fibsters come regularly every evening and remain until closing time. Business is talked, politics discussed, wars waged, govern¬ ments criticized, and new methods devised for the most expeditious management of public afifairs —all under the blissful influence of the stimulat¬ ing atmosphere. Time is progressing, the evening drawing to a close, and the air is growing heavy. The coteries gradually break up. The individuals are reluctantly departing with miscellaneous remarks on the delightful evening before bidding fare¬ well to remaining friends. Transparent billows of tobacco smoke are lightly wafting their way, past amber-shaded chandeliers, towards the ceiling. Photo from Erik Magnuson Every one has left except a few Fibsters, who Old Town Hall, Weilerstadt, Wurtemberg—Statue of are too deeply engrossed in an unsolved problem Kepler, German Astronomer, born here (1571-1630) to notice the flight of time. 366 But the clock strikes one. It is closing time RETIREMENT and lights are dimmed. The last guests unwill¬ ingly leave this delightful haven of gossip and By JOHN A. L. ODDE good cheer. The final Aufwiedersehen has been (Taken from The Saturday Review of Literature) returned by Herr Oberkellner. The doors are Men to retirement may be born, or may in time achieve it, locked, the lights extinguished, and the Rats- On me the boss has thrust the thing. It galls me to re¬ keller, once more, is dark and silent. ceive it. He tells me I must quit the job (the cause I loathe to mention) Raise chickens for a hobby, and subsist upon a pension. I hope I’ll manage to survive when income has been LADIES LUNCHEON quartered. I dream of sheriffs dragging me to see a budget The Women of the American Foreign Service slaughtered. met at luncheon on Friday, October 18, at the I hate to live a life of ease, but harbor a misgiving University Women’s Club, 1634 I Street, N. W., That nobody will let me have a chance to earn my living. Washington, D. C. Those present were Mes- But it’s the end of autumn. What with labor I have dames Anslinger, Caldwell, Carr, Dawson (and treasured Must yield the winter’s rest which by eternity is Miss Dawson), Erhardt, Imbrie, Ingram, Jack- measured. son, Josselyn, Keblinger, Lay, J. J. Murphy, If naught but pension may remain to cherish an existence, Robert D. Murphy, Moffitt, Peck (and Mme. God help me keep within life’s stream, nor undertake Peck), Smith, Stewart, Swalm, Reed, Thurston, resistance. For strength would fail. I take delight in family, and Washington. It being the first meeting since friends, and Nature, the luncheon on May 28, an election of officers Whose laws I would refuse to change were I God’s was held, Mrs. John K. Caldwell being elected legislature. I’ll banish worry and complaint. I’m in for a vacation. chairman (Mrs. James B. Stewart retiring), and That can’t disturb the soul in me or bust the corporation. Mrs. Paul R. Josselyn, treasurer (in place of Mrs. J. J. Murphy, Jr.). Mrs. H. M. Byington and (The foregoing lines were kindly forwarded by Wil¬ Mrs. Paul H. Ailing were also elected members liam A. Newcomb, Passport Agent, San Francisco, say¬ of the Executive Committee to serve with the ing that he thought it might be of interest to Foreign chairman and the treasurer. Service officers who have retired or are about to do so.)

Photo from Erik Magnuson “AS THE EVENING GROWS DUSK,” NUREMBERG, BAVARIA 367 The

By PAUL W. EATON, Department

THE World Series of games for the In batting, a world series contender seldom championship of the world was played in equals its mark in the season’s previous work. and , October 8 to 14. This is because the games are pitched by the This event is the climax of the national game’s best when at their best. This time the year, and the President of the 'United States A’s .295 for the season and .281 for the series, made a special trip to Philadelphia to witness and the Cubs, .303 for the season and .235 for the last game of this season’s series, and saw a the series. Neither are many bases stolen in a well played and exciting contest. world series, because the managers prefer to The Athletics of Philadelphia, champions of play it safe. Only one was stolen in this series. the , won. This team was or¬ Many records went into the discard. If no ganized by Mr. Cornelius McGillicuddy (“stage new records had been made, that would have name” ), by adding four brilliant been a new record. The record went, young stars, Catcher Gordon Cochrane, First when 50 Cubs were fanned by the A’s pitchers. Baseman Jimmy Foxx, and Aloysius The previous record was 44 in a longer series. Simmons and George Haas, to an already good The strikeout record for a game was also team. The two xx’s in Foxx’s name indicate broken, when Ehmke of Philadelphia whiffed that he habitually -crosses his opponents. 13 in the first game. Twelve was the former The team is known as the “A’s,” or “White mark. Elephants.” Their adversaries were the “Cubs,” There was great pitching in this series. In of Chicago, champions of the . percentage of games won and lost in the regular Mack’s first major league engage¬ season, the A’s had four pitchers in the first five ment was with Washington as a catcher, in 1886. He showed qualities which caused his rapid advancement to man¬ agerial and administrative positions, and is one of the most respected, admired, and popular leaders of profes¬ sional baseball. He is treas¬ urer and one of the principal owners of the Philadelphia club of the American League, valued at several million dol¬ lars, as well as its team manager. The American League en¬ try showed decided superior¬ ity, winning four games and losing one; and Mack emerged from the conflict “on top of the world” of baseball—tbe only winner of four world series. The losers are a better team than they showed in the series. It was marked by , strategy, contradictions, and breaks, and the A’s got most National Photo Co. of the breaks. Baseball is kaleidescopic. CONNIE MACK AND JOE McCARTHY 368 in the American League, and the Cubs had four of the 11 pinch hitters used in the series struck in the first seven in the National. Small per¬ out. Captain Hornsby, of the Cubs, whom most centage of runs made off a in a full game critics call the best straightaway right-handed is the real test of his effectiveness, however. In batsman ever in the game, struck out oftenest, this respect the pitchers stood as follows in the eight times. series: In the first game, Pitcher , of Earned runs per nine allowed by Philadelphia, beat Pitcher Charley Root, of the Grove and Walberg, Athletics... 0.00 Cubs, 3 to 1. Ehmke’s slow, underhand, side- Bush, Cubs 0.82 arm delivery, camouflaged by a deceptive change Ehmke, Athletics 1.42 of pace, baffled the Cubs. Neither side scored Earnshaw, Athletics 2.43 until the seventh , when Foxx made a Malone, Cubs 4.15 home , the only of the game. Root, Cubs 4.73 Shortstop English of the Cubs, a comparative Other pitchers allowed novice, was a bit tightened 6.75 or more. The first up, and missed two double five are great. The next two plays in the ninth inning, are good. They were great either of which would have except in one bad inning in prevented the A’s’ last two each case, which reduced runs, but the Cubs’ solitary their averages. run was also unearned, and Mack’s strategy in han¬ Ehmke would have had a dling his pitchers was mas¬ shutout if perfectly sup¬ terly. He had the fastest ported. and the slowest pitchers in In the second game, the game, Grove and Pitchers Earnshaw (A’s) Ehmke. He crossed the and Malone (Cubs) started. wiseacres by starting the Malone went out in the slowest, and reserved his seventh inning, after six fireball artists for relief runs had been scored off roles. His course was justi¬ him, and Earnshaw after fied, as Grove saved two three were earned off him games and Walberg one, in the fifth. Grove re¬ when the starting pitchers lieved him and stopped the faltered. Mack would not Cubs in their tracks, the assume that the starting A’s winning, 9 to 3. pitchers would finish, and In the third game, Earn- none did. except two for shaw started again. He each team. was beaten, 3 to 1, and Guy The big explosion, which Bush, a “kid” pitcher of practically decided the se¬ the Cubs, did it. Earnshaw ries, was the White Ele¬ allowed only six hits and phants’ mad stampede in struck out 10. while Bush the fourth game, since gave nine hits and struck which they should be Mam¬ out four, but won. Bush moths or Mastodons. pitched himself off the Beaten 8 to 0 in the first mound with every delivery six and a half innings, they and allowed only one hit arose in their might and in the last four innings. scored 10 runs in their half His work was heroic, and of the seventh. Under broke a string of ten technical scoring rules, all HOWARD J. EHMKE straight world series games these runs were earned, but won by the American lucky breaks favored the / League, which had not lost one to the National Ore of the contradictions in the series was, League since 1926. that in three of the five games, the team that In the fourth game, Pitcher Quinn of the made the fewest hits won. Another oddity, eight Athletics was knocked out in the sixth inning. 369 gle took a lucky bound, preventing a double play. Efforts have been made to make Wilson the “goat” of the series, on account of missing those “sun hits.” He was not at fault. The sun was in such a position that Haas’s line drive stayed exactly between the sun and the fielder through most of its course, and no player, however well equipped with glasses, could get a fly lost in the sun in that way. Pitcher Root may have considered his eight run lead decisive and eased up without realizing it, but even this would not have been fatal with¬ out the sun’s intervention. The A’s broke five world series records in this inning, and the Cubs saw more fireworks than they ever witnessed in the pineapple belt of Chicago. They were : most hits in one inning, 10; most runs in one inning, 10; most men in one inning, 15; most batters up twice in one inning, six; most times same pinch hitter up in one inning, two. In the fifth game, Pitcher , of the Cubs, held the A’s to two hits and no runs in the first eight innings, while his teammates scored two. Malone continued his remarkable work by striking out the pinch hitter who started the ninth inning for the A’s, and had two strikes on the next batter when he singled over third base.

JAMES E. FOXX Root of the Cubs, gave only three hits and no runs in the first six rounds, and the A’s were trailing, 8 to 0, when they went to bat in the seventh. What happened then was baseball, when a team or player may be a deuce through most of the proceedings and an ace near the end. The A’s suddenly made 10 runs on 10 hits in one inning. The break that helped the A’s in this unequalled performance was the blinding of the Cubs by the sun. They were unlucky in having the A’s come to bat during the short period when the sun, sink¬ ing behind the stand, shone in the eyes of the Cub pitchers and fielders. But for this, it is claimed, Root could have fielded Bishop’s ball that went for a hit, and could have started a double play, retiring the side with only three runs instead of 10. Haas made a in this inning, which would have been an easy out if Wilson had not lost it in the sun. It was responsible for three runs. Most accounts of the game say that Wilson also lost Miller’s short fly in the sun, but baseball men who saw it, think Wilson, who was playing National Photo Co. deep, could not have gotten up to it. Simmons’ sin- ROBERT M. GROVE 370 house” of the Cubs. , utility player of the A’s, led them in batting, with .421. He is a great “money player,” and to him each con¬ test was “just another hall game.” The White Elephants are resting, and the pink elephants are having their innings in Philadel¬ phia, now that the open season for Cubs is over. The Cubs’ owner and their manager are both natives and former residents of Philadelphia. Mr. William Wrigley, of Chicago, owns the Cubs. He is well known as a sportsman and a multi¬ millionaire manufacturer of chewing gum. He is a born salesman and showman, has factories in Europe, owns three ball clubs, Catalina Island off the coast of California, a fleet of steamers and tugs plying between Catalina, which is 100 square miles in extent, and the mainland, and residences in Chicago, at Lake Geneva, and on Catalina, but still he is not satisfied. He wants a world championship for his Cubs, and swears he will have it, “by gum.” He has, directing the Cubs, President Wil¬ liam L. Veeck, an able executive and former newspaper man, and Manager Joseph V. Mc¬ Carthy, a baseball genius, who has accomplished the unusual by making something out of noth¬ ing. He brought the Cubs from “tail-end” status to pennant winners in four years, and, like John Paul Jones, he is “just beginning to fight." Haas then hit a home run, tying the score. After the next batter was thrown out, Simmons doubled to the scoreboard. Foxx was passed intentionally, and , next at bat, watch¬ fully waited for the “pay ball,” and when he got one to suit him, doubled, scoring Simmons and ending the game and the series. Big special trains had steam up and everything was ready for the trip to Chicago, where the next game would have been played— and then came the “big blowoff.” It was a great exhibition of gameness. Usually a world series has some outstanding hero. This time all the Athletics were heroes. For the Cubs, Bush, who won their only victory, and Wilson, who led the batters of both teams, with an average of .471, and made the best catch of the National Photo Co. series, distinguished themselves. PRESIDENT AND MRS. HOOVER AT FINAL GAME OF Wilson is called the “power- SERIES AT PHILADELPHIA. (Attorney General Mitchell at left) 371 The Masterbuilder of American Nationality”

372 Chief Justice John Marshall

By CONSUL CHARLES D. WESTCOTT, Department JOHN MARSHALL was born in 1755 in the sity be too strong for the liberties of its own looming forests which then covered Prince people, or under its constitutional limitations too William County, in Virginia. His parents, zvcak to enforce its lawful authority and main¬ Thomas and Mary Keith Marshall, were of tain its own existence. On the contrary, the marked intellectuality and religious convictions, decisions of John Marshall demonstrate that amounting in the latter to deep mysticism and the Constitution insures the liberties of the peo¬ inspired prevision. In a contemporaneous ac¬ ple by a system of checks and balances unique count it is written that “Mary, his mother nur¬ in the history of civilization. tured John in the untamed wilderness of their Marbury v. Madison (1 Cranch 137) was the forest home, rearing him in the fear and admoni¬ first great decision by Chief Justice Marshall tion of the Lord.” Those qualities indeed were (1801). It is one of the foundation stones of accentuated in their eldest son, as history relates, his reputation, in which he held “that an act of and proved to be decisive factors in his subse¬ the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is quent career. His inherited characteristics were void. This theory is essentially attached to a further developed by the social, economic and written constitution, and is consequently to be political evolution of his successive environ¬ considered by this court as one of the funda¬ ments. In his youth he was engaged, as colonel mental principles of our society.” In McCulloch of Virginia infantry and artillery, in the hard v. Maryland (4 Wheaton 316) he declared, in and unremitting service of the Revolutionary defining the implied powers of Congress: “Let War (1775-1781). In his early manhood he was the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope largely instrumental in framing, adopting and of the Constitution, and all means which are defending against political assaults the Consti¬ appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that tution of the United States (1787-1789). After end, which are not prohibited but are consistent a period of constructive service as Secretary with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, of State (1800-1801) his maturer years were are constitutional.” The judgments of John dedicated, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Marshall will remain unchallenged while the to the task of unfolding the powers, illustrating Constitution stands. If that instrument should the principles and defining the limitations of our perish, they will still remain as evidence of the national charter (1801-1835). principles by which the Nation rose to greatness, He died in 1835, having established by his and by the disregard of which it will surely fall. epochal decisions, in the thirty-four years of his incumbency, practically all of the funda¬ It was given to Chief Justice Marshall, as it mental doctrines of constitutional and interna¬ has been to few of our national leaders, to be¬ tional law subsequently applied by the American hold while living the unveiled splendour of his courts. During that period the volume and finished work. Justice Story in the abridgment erudition of his legal work were extraordinary. of his “Commentaries on the Constitution,” There were decided a total of 1,215 cases, in 94 testifies to this as an eye-witness (1833), and of which there was no opinion and in 15, the his words are here quoted lest we forget: decisions were “per curiam.’’ Sixty-two cases “When indeed I look upon your judicial labors, during involved constitutional questions, in 36 of which a period of thirty-two years, it is difficult to suppress Chief Justice Marshall delivered the opinions. astonishment at their extent and variety, and at the exact learning, the profound reasoning, and the solid principles Of the remaining 1,106 cases he rendered the which they everywhere display. Other judges have at¬ opinions in 519. The effect and operation of tained an elevated reputation by similar labors in a the juridical principles thus established are single department of jurisprudence. But in one depart¬ attested by the fact that of the thousands of ment, I allude to that of constitutional law, the common laws passed by Congress since 1835, only 44 acts consent of your countrymen has admitted you to stand without a rival. Posterity will assuredly confirm by have been declared unconstitutional and void by its deliberate award what the present age has approved the Supreme Court. Moreover, those decisions as an act of undisputed justice. Your expositions of effectually repudiated the political heresy, so constitutional law enjoy a rare and extraordinary author¬ persistently urged by Patrick Henry against the ity. They constitute a monument of fame far beyond the ordinary memorials of political and military glory. adoption of the Constitution at the Philadelphia They are destined to enlighten, instruct and convince Convention, that the Federal Government by future generations; and can scarcely perish but with the virtue of its constitutional powers must of neces¬ memory of the Constitution itself. 373 THE TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE HON. JOSEPH P. COTTON, Undersecretary of State FOREI&NS&^J5URR\L I have not been long enough in the Department 1 Vnl, VI. NOVEMBER, 1929 No. n~| of State to form any general judgment about the Foreign Service. But certain things about it are fairly clear. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY AMERICAN FOREIGN The Foreign Service is a Government organ¬ SERVICE ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. ization—like others. There is nothing particularly The American Foreign Service Journal is published monthly by the American Foreign Service Association, and is distributed mysterious or sacrosanct about it or its activities. by the Association to its members gratis. The Journal is also The future of the Foreign Service depends es¬ open to private subscription in the United States and abroad at the rate of $4.00 a year, or 35 cents a copy, payable to the sentially upon the effectiveness of the individual American Foreign Service Journal, care Department of State, Washington, D. C. Foreign Service officer. His work may often be Copyright, 1929, by the American Foreign Service Association. under most difficult conditions—with a minimum of effective supervision and scanty and often de¬ layed recognition of good service. Under such CONTENTS circumstances his work may degenerate into the humdrum of looking after the mechanical details THE RATSKELLER—By Erick Magnuson.... 365 of the international affairs of the United States. RETIREMENT—By John A. L. Odde 367 If in addition to falling into dullness the Foreign Service officer adds the complacency of mediocrity, WORLD SERIES—By Paid W. Eaton 368 then the Foreign Service becomes a poor job. On the other hand, if the individual Eoreign JOHN MARSHALL, CHIEFJUSTIC E—By Service officer starts with a willingness to endure Charles D. Westcott 373 difficulties and brings to his work curiosity, will¬ To THE FOREIGN SERVICE—By Joseph P. ingness to take his fair share of responsibility, Cotton 374 imagination, initiative, and a capacity for team¬ work with his fellows and the other Government ITEMS 375 services—then he will have a good job and the BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES 377 recognition of his usefulness will not be long postponed. FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES 386 FOREIGN SERVICE EXAMINATIONS 389 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CHANGES 389 The next issue of the FOREIGN SERVICE JOUR¬ NAL will contain news of a character which will TREASURY DEPARTMENT CHANGES 389 greatly encourage every friend of the Foreign COMMERCIAL WORK FOR SEPTEMBER 390 Service who is interested in its future and the welfare of its personnel. The announcement to DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATIONS 391 be made will go far towards convincing the mem¬ bers of the Service that their confidence in the EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND 394 future of the organization has not been misplaced BOOK NOTES 396 and that their own individual welfare has not been overlooked. LETTERS 397

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 399 Paul W. Eaton, whose articles in the JOURNAL on the World Series have in previous years given so much pleasure, has kindly favored us this year Particular attention is called to that portion of with another article. Mr. Eaton has been con¬ Consul Busser’s letter, published in this issue, in nected with the Department of State for many which he appeals to the women of the American years. Baseball is more than a hobby with him; Foreign Service for literary contributions to the it is a matter of deep study, and he is fortunate JOURNAL. Such assistance on the part of the in having an acquaintance with many of the na¬ women of the Service has long been desired, and tional leaders in the game, for which reason his it is hoped that they will now respond to this articles in the JOURNAL and other publications appeal. are always read with interest. 374 ITEMS

Consul Keith Merrill, Chief of the Foreign iastic interest in the work of the school and of Service Buildings Office, Department of State, left the individual students won for her their affec¬ Miami on October 26 by the Pan-American Air¬ tion and gratitude. Miss Johnston’s resignation ways (Air Mail Service) for Habana, Belize, took effect September 30, and she has been suc¬ Managua, and Panama. At Panama he will pro¬ ceeded by Miss Cornelia Bassel, who has been ceed by the Pan-American-Grace Airways down connected with the Foreign Personnel Division the West Coast, stopping at Buenaventura, Guaya¬ of the State Department since 1925. quil, Lima, and Santiago de Chile; from there he will fly across the Andes (at an elevation of Mrs. Natalia G. Summers, archivist of the 18,000 feet) to Buenos Aires, Argentina. This Department of State, returned to Washington air mail route has just been inaugurated by the September 23, after a visit of about two months above mentioned companies, the first through air to Europe, where she visited London, Paris, mail from Buenos Aires having arrived in New Berne, Munich, Bamberg, Berlin, Potsdam, and York on October 23- in 11 days, a week earlier Amsterdam, in order to make a study of the than would have been possible had the mail come care and preservation of official documents in by the fastest steamer. the several foreign State and Government Mr. Merrill’s journey is in connection with the archives. selection of sites for Foreign Service buildings at the places visited, particularly where they are The Queen of the Netherlands, on the occasion most needed at unhealthy posts on the West Coast. of her birthday last August, appointed Mr. From Buenos Aires, Mr, Merrill will sail for Frank W. Mahin, American Foreign Service Tangier, and then go on to Albania, where the officer retired, formerly American Consul at Legation is being finished; and so home. Amsterdam, officer of the Royal Netherland Order of Orange Nassau. The Minister of For¬ eign Affairs and the Netherland Charge d’Af- David A. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of In¬ faires at Washington, joined in congratulating dexes and Archives, and Mrs. Salmon, returned Mr. Mahin on this high mark of royal distinc¬ early last month from a three-weeks cruise in tion, which it is understood is conferred in ap¬ the West Indies. They stopped at Havana, preciation of services rendered to the people of Colon, Panama City, and Port Limon; at the Holland. last named port they visited San Jose, Costa Rica, where they, and Dr. and Mrs. Ditmars, of the New York Zoological Society, who were Consul General Ely E. Palmer, en route from fellow passengers, were entertained by Minister Bucharest to his new post at Vancouver, stopped Roy T. Davis. in Washington on October 5. He was joined here by Mrs. Palmer, who has been in Washing¬ ton since last winter. Before going on to Van¬ Miss Edna Earl Johnston, secretary of the couver, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer spent a week at Foreign Service School in the Department of Mr. Palmer’s home in Providence, State, was married on September 28, 1929, to Mr. Conrad Murat Strong, of Alexandria, Va. Consul Carl O. Spamer, en route from Am¬ Mr. and Mrs. Strong will be at home after No¬ sterdam to Shanghai, left Washington on Sep¬ vember 1 at “Clarens,” Quaker Lane, Seminary tember 27 for Seattle, where he sailed for his Hill, Fairfax County, Va. (post office, Alexan¬ new post. dria, Va.) Miss Johnston acted as secretary to the Foreign Service School ever since its open¬ Consul John P. Hurley, formerly at Vienna, ing in April, 1925; and, as Consul General Wil¬ is spending sixty days leave at his home in liam Dawson said some time ago, her enthus¬ Brooklyn, N. Y. ' 375 Diplomatic Secretary John M. Cabot, Santo function. Mr. Randolph is expected to arrive Domingo, passed through Washington on Sep¬ in the United States late in October and will tember 27, on his way to his home in Beverly spend two months leave before sailing for his Farms, Mass., where he will spend his leave. new post at Bucharest.

Diplomatic Secretary Hugh Millard, after 60 Consul John J. Muccio, on his return to the days leave in the United States, came to Wash¬ United States on home leave from Hong Kong, ington, where he spent a few days before sailing visited San Francisco and Los Angeles for for his new post in Teheran. Mr. Millard plans conference work. He spent some days in Wash¬ to go alone to Teheran via Constantinople and ington and his old friends in the Department he will later be joined in Persia by Mrs. Millard. were glad to see him again after several years absence. Consul Muccio expected to sail for his Vice Consul Randolph Harrison, Jr., Habana, post on the S. S. President McKinley, which is spending his home leave at Lynchburg, Va. was due to leave San Francisco on October 25. Consul General Frank C. Lee, while on leave from his post at Singapore, attended the ses¬ Vice Consul Charles F. Payne, Colon, is spend¬ sions of the Pacific Foreign Trade Convention ing his home leave at Dayton, Va. at Seattle, September 18-20, and the meeting of the Regional Advisory Board of the American Vice Consul Prescott C. Childs, is spending his Railway Association, which also met at Seattle, home leave at Holyoke, Mass. Upon the ex¬ September 20. On his return to Washington, piration of his leave he expects to leave for Mr. Lee visited Chicago and Boston to hold trade his new post at Valparaiso. conferences with business men interested in the Singapore district. The following consular of¬ Consul David C. Berger, Swatow, is on leave ficers also attended the Seattle Trade Conven¬ in the United States, which he is passing at his tion: Erie R. Dickover, Kobe, Japan; Edwin F. Stanton, Tsinan, China; George A. Bucklin, home in Gretna, Va. Victoria, B. C.; and Harold S. Tewell, Van¬ couver, B. C. Consul George P. Shaw, San Luis Potosi, after a short time spent in Washington left on Consul Howard Donovan, formerly at Bahia, September 24 for New Orleans, where he ex¬ Brazil, who has recently been on a short assign¬ pected to stay until October 15, on which day ment in the Department, left Washington on he was to sail for his post. September 30 for Windsor, 111., where he spent two weeks before going on to San Francisco, Vice Consul Lawrence Higgins, Mexico City, from which port he expected to sail for his new called at the Department on September 21. He post at Kobe, on October 25. expected to be in Boston until the end of Octo¬ ber, at which time he was to return to Wash¬ Vice Consul John H. Madonne, recently ap¬ ington. pointed to the consulate general at Warsaw, sailed for his post on October 2. Consul Henry S. Waterman, from Saigon, is now on leave in the United States, and is doing Consul Sydney B. Redecker, Naples, is spend¬ trade conference work at Seattle and Portland, ing his home leave in Brooklyn, N. Y. while en route to Washington. Diplomatic Secretary Leon H. Ellis stopped in Washington for a few days early in October, Vice Consul Cloyce K. Huston, Aden, sailed en route from San Jos'e to his new post at for his post via France on October 2 after spend¬ Peiping. ing leave at his home in Iowa and in Chicago.

Consul John Randolph, Baghdad, was enter¬ On October 3. 1929, the Secretary-Treasurer tained by His Majesty King Faisal on Septem¬ of the American Foreign Service Protective Asso¬ ber 3, at a farewell dinner at the king’s Harth- ciation mailed to Mrs. Henry C. A. Damm, a iyah estate. Senior officials of the court, check for $6,000, the amount of Group Insurance including the master of ceremonies, attended the carried by her late husband. 376 The following consular clerks recently arrived ceremony, Mr. Chapman and his bride-elect pre¬ in the United States to take the examinations sided at a luncheon at the Hotel Washington, at for the Foreign Service: Richard W. Morin, which the following guests were present: Colonel Paris; Halvern L. Norris, Tokyo; and J. Alvan Joseph F. Gohn, Commander and Mrs. Charles Andrews, San Salvador. S. Kerrick, Commander and Mrs. Isaac C. Kidd, Mr. E. W. James, Mr. R. D. McAfee, and Vice Consul Harry D. Myers. Mr. and Mrs. Chap¬ BIRTHS man planned to visit the Pacific side of the Canal prior to sailing later in the month to Mr. Chap¬ A daughter, Liv Randi Johnson, was born on man’s post, Cali, Colombia. May 5, 1929, at Oslo, Norway, to Consular Clerk and Mrs. Edward Johnson. Mr. Alfonso F. Yepis, American Clerk in the A son, Oliver Edmund Clubb, Junior, was American Consulate at Guaymas, Mexico, was born on August 11, 1929, at Peiping, China, to married to Miss Isabel Mendoza, of Guaymas, on Vice Consul and Mrs. Oliver Edmund Clubb. October 2, 1929, by the Juez del Estado Civil. The witnesses for the bride were Fernando Nunez A daughter, Eleanor Louise Huddleston, was V. and Francisco Barreras (formerly Mayor of born on August 21, 1929, at Funchal, Madeira, Guaymas). The witnesses for Mr. Yepis were to Consul and Mrs. John Fletcher Huddleston. Vice Consul Earl W. Eaton and Mr. Gustavo Mendoza, father of the bride. The religious A son, Reed Paige Clark, Junior, was born on ceremony took place the following day. Consul August 27, 1929, at Santo Domingo, Dominican and Mrs. Herbert S. Bursley were the padrinos. Republic, to Consul and Mrs. Reed Paige Clark. Immediately after the religious ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Yepis left for Mazatlan where they will A son. George Carrington Hulley, was born on spend their honeymoon. August 31, 1929, at Stockholm, Sweden, to Con¬ sul and Mrs. Benjamin M. Hulley. FROM VISITORS’ REGISTER, DEPARTMENT A son, George Washington Go wen II, was born OF STATE on September 14, 1929, at Rome, Italy, to Vice Henry H. Balch, Monterey September 18 Consul and Mrs. Franklin G. Gowen. Barton Hall, Prague September 18 M. L. Stafford, Madrid September 20 Elbridge Rand, Geneva September 20 A daughter, Edith Alice Pierrepont Moffat, Lawrence P. Briggs, Nuevitas September 24 was born on October 14, 1929, at Berne, Switzer¬ Chester W. Davis, Warsaw September 25 land, to Diplomatic Secretary and Mrs. Jay Charles C. Hart, Tirana September 25 Richard M. de Lambert September 25 Pierrepont Moffat. Paul Mayo, Brussels September 25 Robert S. Ward, Canton September 25 Bartley F. Yost, Sault Ste. Marie September 27 MARRIAGES Victor M. Leizer, Rome September 30 Edin B. Earnest, Manchester October 2 Ludlum-Takvorian. Married at Paris, France, C. H. Hall, Jr., Johannesburg October 2 on August 31, 1929, Mr. Clifford T. Ludlum and Edwin A. Plitt, Athens October 3 Miss Victoria C. Takvorian, both members of the Hedley V. Cooke, Jr., Edinburgh October 4 William A. Newcome, San Francisco October 5 clerical staff of the Consulate General at Paris. Edward I. Nathan, Santiago de Cuba October 5 Edgar H. Slaughter, Florence October 5 H. Livingston Hartley, Pernambuco October 8 The marriage of Consul William E. Chapman Foster H. Kreis, Shanghai October 9 to Miss Alice B. Moerner, of Dallas, Texas, took William Franklin Nason, Taihoku October 11 place on September 19, 1929, at Cristobal, Canal Fred L. Thomas, Shanghai October 12 H. Eric Trammell, Guatemala City October 12 Zone. The ceremony was performed by the C. B. Curtis, Habana October 15 Reverend R. R. Gregory, a Presbyterian minister William B. Lawton, Santo Domingo October 15 and Secretary of the American Bible Society. The Leo J. Callanan, Adelaide October 15 best man was Mr. E. W. James, Chief of the Robert English, Constantinople October 15 Bureau of Public Roads, U. S. Department of Harry F. Guggenheim, Habana October 17 Arthur V. Flavin, Palermo October 17 Agriculture, who was in Panama to attend the Chas. C. Eberhardt, Managua October 17 Pan-American Road Conference. Preceding the Thos. W. Voetter, Curacao October 18 377 FROM LONDON, ENGLAND France has proved very popular with the Em¬ bassy staff this summer, Diplomatic Secretaries (CONSUL NATHANIEL P. DAVIS, Correspondent) Belin, Buell and Gerry all having spent brief Consul General and Mrs. Albert Halstead and holidays in that country. daughter returned to London on September 8 after a motor tour on the Continent, the chief Counsellor of Embassy Ray Atherton has com¬ object of which was to attend the Salzburg Musi¬ pletely recovered from an operation for the re¬ cal Festival. Miss Halstead is sailing for New moval of his tonsils and adenoids. York on September 25, 1929, and will give a song recital in that city in January next. Mr. Dana Dawes, son of Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, has returned to the United States after Consul Robert B. Macatee is back at his desk a short visit with his parents. Miss Virginia after simple leave spent with his family in the Dawes is remaining in London. Isle of Wight. The many friends of Commander and Mrs. The satisfaction felt by all consular officers in James Orville Gawne regret their departure from London at the promotion of Commercial Attache London. Commander Gawne, who has been As¬ William L. Cooper to be Director of the Bureau sistant Naval Attache, has been assigned to duty of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is tempered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and is being replaced with regret that Mr. Cooper must leave London. in London by Commander Ralph T. Hanson.

Surgeon J. S. Boggess, U. S. P. H. S., has Assistant Commercial Attache Homer S. Fox been transferred to Copenhagen and has been has arrived and taken up his duties in London. succeeded by Surgeon D. E. Robinson, who was He replaces former Assistant Commercial At¬ stationed here some years ago. Dr. Robinson tache Frederick Lee. has many friends in London who are rejoicing at his return. Consul General Hathaway, Munich, visited the Consulate General recently. Ide came to Eng¬ Consul and Mrs. L. C. Pinkerton are preparing land to place his son in school. to leave for the United States in October. Mrs. N. P. Davis arrived in London early in During recent weeks the Consulate General September. Consul Davis was transferred to has been honored by visits from Congressmen this office while on leave of absence in the United Anthony J. Griffin, of New York, a member of States, and it was necessary for Mrs. Davis to the Appropriations Committee; Sol. Blum, of return to Pernambuco to pack the household New York, Foreign Relations Committee, and effects. H. H. Watson, of Pennsylvania, of the Commit¬ Among the many callers whom the Consul Gen¬ tee on Ways and Means. eral has had the pleasure of welcoming recently were Consul General Haskell, Zurich; Consul Cooke, Plymouth; Consul Finley, Edinburgh; FROM SOUTHAMPTON Consul Savage, Southampton, and Consul Consul John M. Sprague, Gibraltar. Savage, at South¬ hampton, Eng¬ Vice Consul and Mrs. E. B. Ernest, Manches¬ land, reported that ter, passed through London recently en route to Vice Consul Roy the United States. Mrs. Ernest, who, before her E. B. Bower, for marriage, was a British subject, is making her the past nine years first visit to her husband’s country. attached to the Consul General and Mrs. J. K. Davis will S o uthampton spend October on leave in France and Spain. Consulate, sailed from Liverpool on Renovations of the outside of the building and September 28, on extensive redecorations within have greatly im¬ the S. S. Anchises proved the appearance of the Consulate General. for Singapore, to 378 which office he has been assigned. Prior to his open singles, men’s open doubles, and the mixed departure, Mr. Bower was presented with a sou¬ open doubles. He won the singles, and was on venir which is shown in the illustration herewith. the winning teams in the other two events. Three In addition to the staff of the office, the French entries—three first prizes. Consul, who is the Dean of the Consular Corps in Southampton, and the French Vice Consul joined in the presentation. The plate shown in the photograph bore the following inscription: FROM MARSEILLE (CONSUL B. F. HALE, Correspondent) ROY E. BOWER With the regard and esteem of the staff of the American Consul General and Mrs. Gamon spent their Consulate and Consular colleagues, Southampton, vacation in the Black Forest, staying most of the England, September, 1929. time at Triberg; Consul and Mrs. Calvert made a 10-day trip to the Pyrenees and Barcelona; Consul Hale and family also spent a few days in FROM THE NETHERLANDS the Pyrenees, making his headquarters at Mont Louis; Vice Consul and Mrs. Moriarty stayed at (VICE CONSUL J. STANFORD EDWARDS, Correspondent) Embrun in the Hautes Alps. The Honorable Richard M. Tobin has re¬ John Gamon, Jr., son of Consul General signed as Minister to the Netherlands and his Gamon, passed his entrance examinations and has successor, the Honorable Gerrit Diekema, of received his appointment to the Naval Academy Michigan, has already been appointed to the post. at Annapolis. Mr. Hallett Johnston will be in charge of the Legation until Mr. Diekema arrives. A daughter, Elaine, was born July 1. 1929, to Mr. Tobin made a host of warm friends in the Clerk Harry M. Donaldson and Mrs. Donaldson Netherlands, due to his gentle manner and gen¬ (nee Boulet). erous hospitality, as well as his sincere interest in the art and music of the country. He left The Hague on August 29, in company with his sister, Recent callers at the Consulate were: Vice Mrs. Clark, and it is his intention to spend some Consul Lawton, Cairo; Vice Consul Livingston, weeks in Europe prior to returning to America. Before his departure, he received from the hands of Queen Wilhelmina the Grand Cross or Order of Orange-Nassau, the highest distinction which can be conferred by a sovereign of the Netherlands. Upon Mr. Tobin’s departure from The Hague about four hundred people assembled at the sta¬ tion to take final leave. Among them were mem¬ bers of the diplomatic corps and a number of high officials of the government, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonkheer Beelaerts van Blokland, and a number of delegations from other cities. The Minister was visibly affected by this evidence of good will and friendship. All important Dutch dailies devoted leading articles to the work done by Mr. Tobin in pro¬ moting good relations between the United States and Holland. HAMBURG NOTE Consul E. Talbot Smith, at Hamburg, a mem¬ ber of the British Lawn Tennis Club of Ham¬ Photo from Sam Parks burg e. V., entered in three events of that or¬ Staff at Biarritz Vice Consulate (Excepting Vice Consul ganization’s annual tournament, viz: the men’s Roy McWilliams), Vice Consul Sam Parks in center 379 <0

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380 Bradford; Vice Consul Morton, Athens; Min¬ Consul General and Mrs. Homer M. Bying- ister Robert P. Skinner, Athens; Consul Damon ton, and their six children, sailed on August 24 C. Woods, Paris; Vice Consul Thompson, Co¬ on S. S. Roma, en route to Washington where lombo ; Miss Gaulin, clerk in the Legation at Mr. Bvington assumes the chairmanship of the Riga; Consul Redecker, Naples. Executive Committee of the Foreign Service Per¬ sonnel Board. FROM MADRID The Plonorable J. Butler Wright reached (VICE CONSUL OWEN W. GAINES, Corre¬ Naples on September 3, en route to his post at spondent) Budapest. Consul Maurice L. Stafford is spending a two months’ leave of absence in the United States, Rome sailing from Vigo on September 1. While in the (CONSUL WM. OSCAR JONES, Correspondent) United States he expects to call at the Depart¬ John W. Garrett, American Ambassador at ment and will spend the greater portion of his Rome, arrived in this city on September 24 and leave at his home at Coronado, Calif. Vice Con¬ he was met at the station by the Embassy and sul Owen W. Gaines, who recently returned to Consular staff. Madrid from a temporary assignment to Oporto, Portugal, is in charge of the consulate during Charles C. Plart, American Minister to Al¬ his absence. bania, was in Rome in the first part of Septem¬ ber en route to the United States. Don Eduardo Nadela y Barrera, father of Miss Concepcion Nadela who has been a valued em¬ James Clay Short, Captain, U. S. A., has ar¬ ploye of the Madrid consulate since 1919, died rived in Rome to take up his duties at the world- at his home in Madrid on September 3, at the famed cavalry school of Tor di Quinto, Rome. age of 78. Interment was in the cemetery of Nuestra Seiiora de la Almudena the following John J. Murphy, representing the Department afternoon. of Commerce at the International Housing Ex¬ hibition held in Rome from September 12 on, Miss Marie E. Gyr, formerly clerk at the called at the Consulate during the sessions. American consulate at Nassau and recently trans¬ ferred to Madrid, arrived the latter part of July Franklin C. Gowen, Vice Consul in Rome, at and has assumed duties at the consulate. present on 30 days’ local leave of absence at Leghorn, announces the birth of a son, George, NEWS ITEMS FROM ITALY on September 14, in that city. Naples Walton C. Ferris, Vice Consul at Palermo, visited Rome during September. (CONSUL ERNEST E. EVANS, Correspondent) Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher arrived in Consul and Mrs. William Oscar Jones re¬ Naples on August 2 and left the following day turned to Rome during the latter part of August for New York on S. S. Augustus. after spending simple leave in the vicinity of Ancona on the Adriatic Sea. Third Secretary Selden Chapin, newly ap¬ pointed to the Embassy in Rome, arrived at Florence Naples on August 13 on S. S. Saturnia. (Contributed by CONSUL ILO C. FUNK) Ambassador Garrett, newly appointed to the Consul Richard B. Haven, detailed Vienna, Rome Embassy, put in to Naples in his yacht for stopped with his brother, Consul Joseph Emer¬ a few hours on August 16, and was met by Con¬ son Haven, for a few days in August while on a sul General Byington. motor trip through North and Central Italy and Switzerland. Consul General and Mrs. Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr., reached Naples from Paris in the evening of Consul Joseph Emerson Haven departed on August 23. leave of absence on August 20. 381 United States Representative Louis C. Cram- panied by his wife and two sisters from Califor¬ ton, of the Appropriations Committee, accom¬ nia, who have been visiting him in Spain. panied by Mrs. Cramton and his son and daugh¬ ter, spent several days in Florence during August. Vice Consul Herbert A. Lowe, of the staff of the Consulate General, is spending a three weeks’ Congressman Ernest R. Ackerman, of the Ap¬ vacation on a trip through Southern France, propriations Committee, spent a short time in Switzerland, and Germany. Florence during August, and then proceeded to the Republic of San Martino. Arrangements for his visit were made through the Consulate. FROM SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

(CONSUL J. C. HUDSON, Correspondent) BARCELONA NOTES August 20, 1929 (CONSUL GENERAL NATHANIEL B. STEWART, Consul and Mrs. J. C. Hudson arrived here Correspondent) from Singapore. Mr. Hudson has been assigned Honorable Milton W. Shreve and Honorable to assist in the Consulate. Ernest R. Ackerman, members of the Subcom¬ mittee of the Appropriations Committee of the Upon the arrival of Consul Hudson, Mr. House of Representatives, to investigate the Walter T. Costello, Vice Consul, departed for needs of the Foreign Service of the United States Suva, Fiji, where he was to relieve Consul abroad, spent several days in Barcelona during Roberts, while the latter took leave of absence the latter part of July. with permission to visit the United States. Mr. Costello expects to enjoy home leave prior to re¬ Honorable Louis C. Cramton, member of the turning to his post and will probably leave Suva Appropriations Committee of the House of Rep¬ as soon as Consul Roberts returns. resentatives, and his family, spent a week in Bar¬ celona at the beginning of September, visiting the Mr. Albert M. Doyle, accompanied by Mrs. Exposition. Doyle and family, passed through Sydney en route to Brisbane from Rotterdam. Mr. Doyle is Mr. Francis L. Pierce, of the Editorial Sec¬ the newly appointed Consul at Brisbane. tion of the Department of Commerce, was in Barcelona for several days at the beginning of A recent caller was Mr. Hunt, clerk in the September visiting the Trade Commissioner, Mr. Consulate General at Melbourne. Mr. Hunt took Evett D. Hester, and the Exposition. a short holiday to Cairns, Queensland. Mr. James F. O’Neil, Treasury Attache at Consul and Mrs. Bernard Gotlieb, from Wel¬ Paris, paid a short visit to Barcelona during the lington, New Zealand, were recent visitors. They last week of August. are on their way to New York to enjoy home leave after having spent a few days in this city Mr. Grosvenor Jones, Chief of the Finance waiting for their steamer. and Investment Division of the Department of Commerce, and Mrs. Jones spent several days in Vice Consul Black, of Brisbane, is now on Barcelona the first week of September. During simple leave and enjoying a few days in Mel¬ his visit Mr. Jones addressed the American bourne. Mr. Black, who was in charge at Bris¬ Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, and was bane prior to Mr. Doyle’s arrival, called at the tendered a luncheon at the Ecuestre Club by the Consulate. president of the Chamber. Consul General E. M. Lawton, who reached Consul F. A. Henry, who has charge of com¬ the retirement age at Sydney on August 23, mercial work in the Consulate General, spent the 1929, was given a number of farewell parties, and month of August on vacation at Kitzbuhel, in the Sydney press had numerous articles indicat¬ the Austrian Tyrol. ing his popularity with the Australian public, as well as with the American colony in Sydney. Consul Curtis C. Jordan, a member of the staff Among the functions in his honor were dinners of the Consulate General, is spending a short or luncheons by the Millions Club, St. Stephen’s vacation motoring through the Pyrenees, accom- Social Club, American Society, besides numerous: 382 receptions in private homes and by select coteries Vice Consul Lawrence Higgins departed from of friends. Mexico City on September 7, for a leave of ab¬ Not all the honors went to the Consul General, sence in the United States. however. Mrs. Lawton shares with her husband the esteem of the public, especially as expressed Captain Robert E. Cummings, Infantry, ar¬ by the American Ladies’ Circle, which she rived on October 5 to take up his duties as As¬ founded six years ago, and by the ladies of the sistant Military Attache. English Speaking Union. Each of these organ¬ izations gave formal receptions for Mrs. Lawton, Harvey Eric Trammell, Vice Consul at Guate¬ at which she was presented with drop ear rings mala City, spent October 7 in Mexico City on his of black Australian opals and diamonds, and with way to the United States. a magnificent dressing table set of tortoise shell. Mr. and Mrs. Lawton sailed at the end of August by the M. S. Sawokla for Europe via Of the seven American entrants in the Mexico Suez. They expect to winter in Europe for travel City Diplomatic-Consular Tennis Tournament, and finishing courses in French and Italian, and Consul Genera] William Dawson is the only sur¬ to reach Washington in the early spring. vivor. He played the British Consul General, J. B. Browne, in the semi-finals, and now is to play Mr. Yoshizaki, of the Japanese Legation, FROM MEXICO CITY in the finals on October 23. (VICE CONSUL JAMES E. BROWN, JR., On the afternoon of October 13, Ambassador Correspondent) Dwight W. Morrow returned to Mexico City, ac¬ Mrs. William Dawson returned to Mexico Cite companied by Mrs. Morrow, Miss Elizabeth Mor¬ on September 24 from a five-weeks’ trip to the row, Captain Lewis B. McBride, Naval Attache, United States. Mrs. Dawson’s son. Edward Mr. Joseph C. Satterthwaite, Third Secretary, Mr. Balloch Braedy, entered Phillips Exeter Academy Arthur H. Springer, Private Secretary to the Am¬ in Septemlier. bassador, and Mrs. Springer.

STAFF OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY AT MEXICO CITY, JULY 25, 1929 Bottom row, left to right—Captain Lewis B. McBride, Naval Attache; Stokeley IV. Morgan, Counselor; Dioight IV. Morrow, Ambassador; J. Reuben Clark. Jr., Former Undersecretary of State; Herschel V. Johnson, First Secretary. Upper row. left to right—George Wythe, Commercial Attache; Lieut. Col. Gordon Johnston, Military Attache; Allan Dawson, Third Secretary; Edward P. Lnivry, Second Secretary; Joseph C, Satterthwaite, Third Secretary 383 FROM SHANGHAI Teusler being head of St. Luke’s Hospital at Tokyo, and also being physician to the American (CONSUL J. E. JACOBS, Correspondent) Embassy there. At their request, a visit to a Singapore rubber factory was arranged, despite Howard Bucknell, Jr., Second Secretary of a sun radiation of 152° F. on that afternoon. the American Legation, visited Shanghai for a The management presented Mrs. Wilson with a period of about 10 days after an extended trip large bouquet of rubber roses, the only kind avail¬ in the interior of China with the American Red able here, and the first flowers of that kind she Cross Commission to China, for the purpose of had ever received. investigating famine conditions. Mr. Bucknell was formerly attached to the Shanghai Consulate Vice Consul Samuel G. Ebling, Penang, left General and his friends in Shanghai were glad to that city for a temporary assignment at Colombo, see him again. on August 10, Honorary Vice Consul Reginald B. Zumstein remaining in charge at Penang. Walter A. Adams, Consul at Nanking, paid a week-end visit to Shanghai. Vice Consul William W. Butterworth, Singa¬ pore, recently had a serious attack of dengue Consul David C. Berger, of Swatow, passed fever which necessitated his absence from duty through Shanghai en route to the United States for about 10 days. on home leave of absence. Dr. Carl C. Hansen, Honorary Vice Consul at Consul and Mrs. Henry S. Waterman, of Sai¬ Bankok since 1909, died on August 2, 1929, after gon, formerly assigned to the Shanghai Consulate a lingering illness. Dr. Hansen reached the age General, spent several days in Shanghai en route of 67 years and had been engaged in mission and to the United States on home leave. Their hospital work for many years in Persia and friends in Shanghai were glad to see them look¬ Siam. He is survived by Mrs. Hansen and by ing so well after their stay in the tropics. their two daughters, Ayuna and Lillian. Dr. Hansen was a connoisseur of Siamese and Consul J. E. Jacobs spent three weeks’ simple Chinese art and a close student of Oriental leave visiting Tsingtao and Diamond Mountain affairs. His connection with the Foreign Serv¬ in Korea. ice was an interest very close to his heart, and he died next door to the American Legation with Vice Consul and Mrs. David M. Braddock, re¬ the American Minister at his bedside. cently assigned to the Consulate at Medan, passed through Shanghai en route to that post. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Miss Lillian-May Wilkinson, a clerk at the Shanghai Consulate General since 1919, having October 17, 1929. resigned her position on account of ill health, left The following candidates were successful in for her home in the United States. the recent Foreign Service entrance examina¬ tion : Robert A. Acly, of Stockbridge, Mass. William W. Adams, of Washington, D. C. FROM SINGAPORE AREA William K. Ailshie, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. (CONSUL JOHN H. BRUINS, Correspondent) Edward Anderson, Jr., of Jacksonville, Fla. Ralph J. Blake, of Portland, Oreg. Minister Harold O. Mackenzie, Bangkok, re¬ William F. Cavenaugh, Berkeley, Calif. Claude B. Chiperfield, of Canton, 111. cently gave a demonstration that times are chang¬ Sebe A. Christian, of Sapulpa, Okla. ing, even in Siam. Departing for a holiday in Montgomery H. Colladay, of Hartford, Conn. Sumatra on August 27, Mr. Mackenzie missed Charles A. Converse, of Valdosta, Ga. the express train from Bangkok by a minute, char¬ Edmund J. Dorsz, of , Mich. tered an airplane, and soon overtook the train. Andrew W. Edson, of Meriden, Conn. William S. Farrell, of Miller Place, New York. Frederic C. Fornes, Jr., of Buffalo, N. Y. Singapore was favored on August 13 by a sur¬ Willard Galbraith, of Los Angeles, Calif. prise visit from Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, accom- Paul J. Gray, of Lewiston, Me. companied by Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph Bolling Bernard Gufler, of Tacoma, Wash. Thomas A. Hickok, of Aurora, N. Y. Teusler. They were bound for Japan, Dr. Leo P. Hogan, of East Orange, N. J. 384 Richard S. Huestis, of Ticondercga. N. Y. Charles A. Hutchinson, of Duluth, Minn. Robert Janz, of Norman, Okla. Lucius J. Knowles, of Boston, Mass. George Bliss Lane, of St. James, N. Y. Edward Page, Jr., of West Newton, Mass. James W. Riddlcberger, of Woodstock, Va. William E. Scotten, of Pasadena, Calif. Alan N. Steyne, of New York City. Kenneth S. Stout, of Portland, Oreg. James H. Wright, of Chillicothe, Mo.

A shipment of old furniture that will soon leave the warehouse of the Security Storage Com¬ pany in Washington is the subject of a romantic story, published on September 26, 1929, in The Daily News of Washington. It reads as follows : SECURITY STEEL VANS In 1891 a charming young Washington girl was married to a young Spanish marquis, one of at the present time in the secretaries at the Spanish Embassy. He was a member of one of Spain’s oldest and most noble London, Paris, Vienna families. In a house on R Street between 17th and 18th Prague, Madrid N. W., they set up their first establishment. A few months later the young marquis was trans¬ Biarritz, Lausanne ferred to another capital and their establishment Los Angeles, New York, Boston had to be broken up. The whole houseful of furniture was sent to Philadelphia, Atlanta, and the Security Storage warehouse. The young hus¬ (soon) Vancouver, B. C. band and wife moved away. They never came hack to live in Washington. They never sent for the furniture. But each year a check came for For information and rates concerning the storage charges, and each year the charges Van shipment or shipments in cases to or mounted until they exceeded many times the value of the furniture—Victorian chairs, tables, from anywhere, address us either in sofas, beds, etc., not valuable as furniture. The Washington or at Paris. total charges, when the shipment leaves the ware¬ house next month, will have amounted to a small 31 Place du Marche St. Honore fortune—$15,000. Telephone Central 30-89 One day in 1925 a handsome, white haired Telegrams “Medium” lady called at the Security office. It was the bride of 38 years ago, grown old and widowed. She would dispose of the furniture, she said. vawe* The company would hear from her soon. But they never heard. She had become a citizen of Europe. Her #?ruri!|i J&orag? (jorapanfl home was at Biarritz, one of the most beautiful cities on the French coast. Her two children were for 39 years providing SECURITY for house¬ grown; one had inherited his father’s title and hold goods, valuables, works of art, etc., in was living in Madrid. The other lived in Biar¬ ritz. Storage, Shipping, Moving Several months ago she died. The furniture was inherited by her children. 1140 Fifteenth Street And because of its sentimental value to their Washington, D. C. mother, instead of disposing of it they are having it sent to them in Europe. Part goes to the young C. A. ASPINWALL, President. Spanish marquis in Madrid, and the rest to his sister in Biarritz. 385 FOREIGN SERVICE Released for publication October 5, 1929. The following changes have occurred in the CHANGES American Foreign Service since September 28, Released for Publication September 21, 1929. 1929: Lewis V. Boyle, of California, now Consul at Tahiti, The following changes have occurred in the Society Islands, assigned Consul at Agua Prieta. His American Foreign Service since September 7: assignment to Prescott, Ontario, has been canceled. Lawrence P. Briggs, of Michigan, now Consul at Charles C. Broy, of Virginia, now Consul at Nassau, Nuevitas, Cuba, assigned Consul at Bahia, Brazil. Bahamas, detailed Consul at London, England. Harold M. Collins, of Virginia, now Consul at Nantes, Philander L. Cable, of Illinois, formerly First Sec¬ France, assigned Consul at Ensenada, Mexico. His as¬ retary at Brussels, now assigned First Secretary at War¬ signment to Bahia, Brazil, has been conceled. saw, Poland. John W. Dye, of Minnesota, Consul at Ciudad Juarez, Early B. Christian, of Louisiana, now Vice Consul at Chihuahua, Mexico, assigned Consul at Montreal, Dublin, Ireland, assigned Vice Consul at Stockholm, Canada. Sweden. John F. Martin, of Florida, now assigned to the De¬ Albert E. Clattenburg, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Vice partment for duty, has resigned as First Secretary. Consul now assigned to the Foreign Service School, as¬ William F. Nason, of Massachusetts, now Vice Consul signed Vice Consul at Athens, Greece. at Taihoku, Japan, assigned as Vice Consul at Yoko¬ Thomas L. Daniels, of Minnesota, has resigned as hama, Japan. Foreign Service Officer and First Secretary. Charles S. Reed, 2d of Ohio, now temporarily as¬ Howard Donovan, of Illinois, Consul now detailed to signed as Vice Consul at Taihoku, Japan, assigned Vice the Department for duty, assigned Consul at Kobe, Japan. Consul at Tokyo, Japan. Alphonse Gaulin, of Rhode Island, has resigned as For¬ Conger Reynolds, of Iowa, now Consul at Stuttgart, eign Service Officer and Consul General at Paris, France. Germany, has resigned. Sydney Gest, of Pennsylvania, Vice Consul now as¬ William T. Turner, of Georgia, now Vice Consul at signed to the Foreign Service School, assigned Vice Con¬ Yokohama, Japan, assigned Vice Consul at Taihoku, sul at Habana, Cuba. Japan. George J. Haering, of New York, now detailed Consul Ernest A. Wakefield, of Maine, now Consul at En¬ at Kobe, Japan, assigned Consul at Rangoon, India. senada, Mexico, assigned Consul at Nuevitas, Cuba. Donald R. Heath, of Kansas, now Consul at Berne, Robert S. Ward, of Ohio, Vice Consul now assigned Switzerland, assigned Consul at Port au Prince, Haiti. to the Foreign Service School, assigned Vice Consul at Samuel W. Honaker, of Texas, now Consul at Port Canton, China. His assignment to Tokyo, Japan, has au Prince, Haiti, assigned Consul at Berne, Switzerland. been canceled. Robertson Honey, of New York, now Consul at Ham¬ Bartley F. Yost, of Kansas, now Consul at Sault ilton, Bermuda, assigned Consul at Nice, France. Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada, assigned Consul at Phil H. Hubbard, of Vermont, now Vice Consul at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Berlin, Germany, assigned Vice Consul at Manchester, England. Non-Career Benjamin M. Hulley, of Florida, now detailed Consul Mr. K. C. Carter, of Quebec, has resigned as Con¬ Stockholm, Sweden, assigned Consul at Dublin, Irish sular Agent at Gaspe, Quebec, Canada. Free State. Lloyd E. Riggs, of Illinois, now serving as clerk in Robert B. Macatee, of Virginia, now detailed Consul the Consulate at Karachi, India, appointed Vice Consul at London, England, assigned Consul at Nassau, N. P., there. Bahamas. John H. Madonne, of Texas, Vice Consul now assigned to the Foreign Service School, assigned Vice Consul at Released for publication October 19, 1929 Warsaw, Poland. The following changes have occurred in the R. Borden Reams, of Pennsylvania, Vice Consul now assigned to the Foreign Service School, assigned as Vice American Foreign Service since October 5 : Consul at Havre, France. J. Webb Benton, of Pen Ryn, Cornwell Heights, Penn¬ Alvin T. Rowe, Jr., of Virginia, now Vice Consul sylvania, now assigned as Second Secretary of the Le¬ assigned to the Foreign Service School, assigned as Vice gation at Warsaw, Poland, is assigned Second Secretary Consul at Bluefields, Nicaragua. of the Embassy at Madrid, Spain. Joseph I. Touchette, of Massachusetts, now Vice Con¬ Hiram A. Boucher, of Minneapolis, Minn., now Consul sul at Alexandria, Egypt, assigned Vice Consul at at Cobh, Irish Free State, assigned Consul at Rome, Algiers, Algeria. Italy. David A. Turnure, of New York, has resigned as Norris B. Chipman, of the District of Columbia, now Foreign Service Officer and Vice Consul. Vice Consul at Tallinn, Estonia, assigned Vice Consul Robert S. Ward, of Ohio, Vice Consul now assigned at Riga, Latvia. to the Foreign Service School, assigned as Vice Consul Chester W. Davis, of Utica, N. Y., now assigned as at Tokyo, Japan. Consul at Warsaw, Poland, has resigned. Stokeley W. Morgan, of Camden, Ark., Counselor of Non-Career Service Embassy, now assigned to the Department for duty, has resigned. Gustave L. Sondheimer, of New York, now clerk in the Consulate General at Berlin, Germany, appointed The following Vice Consuls (non-career) have Vice Consul there. been appointed Foreign Service Officers, Unclassi- 386 fied ($2,500) and Vice Consuls of career at their James J. Murphy, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pa., now as¬ post: signed to the Department. Alexander K. Sloan, of Greensburg, Pa., now at Riga, Sidney A. Belovsky, of New York City, Vice Consul Latvia. at Vancouver, B. C., Canada. Class Eight to Class Seven Claude H. Hall, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., Vice Consul Charles H. Derry, of Macon, Ga., now at Paris, at Kingston, Ontario. France. Non-Career Peter H. A. Flood, of Nashua, N. H., now assigned to Raymond L. Archer, of Wilmcrding, Pa., has resigned the Department. as Honorary Vice Consul at Medan, Sumatra. Charles W. Lewis, Jr., of Ann Arbor, Mich., now at Roger A. Black, of Mansfield, Ohio, has resigned as Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Vice Consul at Brisbane, Australia. Horatio Mooers, of Skowhegan, Me., now at Quebec, Albion W. Johnson, of El Paso, Tex., now serving as Canada. Vice Consul at St. Michael’s, Azores, assigned Vice Con¬ James E. McKenna, of Boston, Mass., now at Can¬ sul at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. ton, China. Winfield H. Minor, of Danville, Ky., has resigned as Alfred T. Nester, of Geneva, N. Y., now at Naples, Vice Consul at Calcutta, India. Italy. William J. Wilson, Jr., now serving as clerk in the Christian M. Ravndal, of Decorah, Iowa, now at Consulate General at Mexico City, appointed Vice Con¬ Toronto, Canada. sul there. Francis H. Styles, of Falls Church, Va., now at Ant¬ The following promotions have been made in werp, Belgium. the Foreign Service, effective October 16: Class Two to Class One Ray Atherton, of Chicago, 111., now at London, Eng¬ land. Edwin L. Neville, of Cleveland, Ohio, now at Tokyo, Banking Service Japan. Class Three to Class Tivo James C. Dunn, of New York City, now assigned to To Foreign Service Officers the Department. Wesley Frost, of Berea, Ky., now at Montreal, Canada. Class Four to Class Three F. Lamont Belin, of Waverly, Pa., now at London, England. With over thirty-eight years Thomas H. Bevan, of Arlington, Md., now at Oslo, experience in banking and trust Norway. Class Five to Class Four business, we offer every financial William C. Burdett, of Nashville, Tenn., now at facility to those in the Foreign Brussels, Belgium. Service. Monnett B. Davis, of Boulder, Colo., now serving as Inspector. John Farr Simmons, of New York City, now assigned A banking connection in Wash¬ to the Department. ington with this Institution will George Wadsworth, of Buffalo, N. Y., now at Cairo, Egypt. be a source of satisfaction while Class Six to Class Five on duty at a foreign post. Harry E. Carlson, of Lincoln, 111., now at Tallinn, Estonia. John G. Erhardt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., now assigned to the Department. Clement S. Edwards, of Albert Lea, Minn., now at Valencia. Spain. AMERICAN SECURITY Charles R. Nasmith, of Merion, N. Y., now at Porto / _g_ AND TRUST C OIM PANVJ Alegre, Brazil. Harold L. Williamson, of Chicago, 111., now at Paris, 15th and Penna. Ave. France. Class Seven to Class Six Four Branches Philip Adams, of Cambridge, Mass., now at Campbell- Capital, $3,400,000 ton. New Brunswick, Canada. Surplus, $3,400,000 John L. Bouchal, of Wilber, Nebr., now at Port Said, Egypt. WASHINGTON’S LARGEST Augustin W. Ferrin, of Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., now at Teheran, Persia. TRUST COMPANY William P. George, of Gadsden, Ala., now at Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 387 Unclassified to Class Eight Arthur F. Tower, of Rochester, N. Y., now at Leo¬ William H. Beach, of Concord Wharf, Va., now at poldville (Loanda, Angola). Bombay, India. Richard R. Willey, of New York City, now at Aden, Arabia. Culver B. Chamberlain, of Kansas City, Mo., now at Whitney Young, of New York City, now at Kobe Yunnan fu, China. Japan. Samuel G. Ebling, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, now at Penang, Straits Settlements. Samuel Green, of Baltimore, Md., now at Sofia, BOARD OF EXAMINERS Bulgaria. The Secretary of State issued on September William F. Nason, of Brockton, Mass., now at Yoko¬ 16, 1929, the following Departmental Order: hama, Japan. J. Hall Paxton, of Danville, Va., now at Peiping, Referring to the Executive Order of Septem¬ China. ber 11, 1929, constituting a Board of Examiners C. Warwick Perkins, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., now at for the Foreign Service, the following Assistant Danzig. Secretaries of State are designated members of John S. Richardson, Jr., of Boston, Mass., now at Tananarive, Madagascar. the Board: Mr. Wilbur J. Carr (chairman), Robert B. Streeper, of Columbus, Ohio, now at Mr. William R. Castle, Jr., Mr. Nelson T. Tientsin, China. 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FOREIGN SERVICE CLASS. 1929 Front roiv—Norris B. Chipman, G. Howland Show, Edivard J. Norton, William R. Castle, Jr., Wilbur J. Carr, Nelson T. Johnson, James B. Stewart, William H. Hesslcr. Second row—Charles E. Bohlen, Alvin T. Rowe, Jr., Robert G. McGregor, Jr., Nelle B. Stogsdall, Albert E. Clattenburg, Jr., William Karnes, John H. Madonna, Syd¬ ney G. Gest. Third row—Dorsey G. Fisher, R. Borden Reams, Stuart Allen, Robert S. Ward, Daniel M. Braddock. Fourth row—Warren M. Chase, Hiram Bingham, Jr., Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr., Henry S. Villard, Margaret Warner, Claude A. Buss. 388 FOREIGN SERVICE EXAM¬ TREASURY DEPARTMENT INATIONS The Commissioner of Customs, in a communi¬ cation dated September 30, 1929, states that the The Department of State announces that following changes in personnel and stations of written examinations for commission to the For¬ the foreign investigative force of the Bureau of eign Service will be held commencing December Customs have taken place: 2, 1929, at the following points: Atlanta, Bos¬ ton, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, New Orleans, F. X. A. Eble, formerly in charge of the office at New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, St. Paul, San Berlin, Germany, has been transferred to the United Francisco, Seattle, and Washington. States and appointed Commissioner of Customs. Francis B. Laughlin, in charge of the office at Flor¬ The oral tests completing the examination will ence, Italy, has been transferred to the United States. be held in Washington beginning March 3, 1930. Norman E. Kane, formerly in charge at Vienna, Aus¬ Applicants desiring to qualify for the Foreign tria, has been transferred and placed in charge at Flor¬ Service must lx- specially designated for exam¬ ence, Italy. ination. Applications for designation are to be Hubert C. Anderson, who was stationed at Manila, addressed to the Secretary of State and must be P. I., has been transferred and assigned to duty at Shang¬ hai, China. filed not later than 40 days before the date set Thomas P. Drew, formerly attached to the office at for the written examination. No designations London, England, has resigned from the Service. for the examinations to be held on December 2 Lucien L. Picard has been transferred from Vienna, and 3, 1929, will be made after October 22, 1929. Austria, to Paris, France. David L. Brown, attached to the office at Berlin, Ger¬ many, has resigned, effective on September 30, 1929. Max Richert has been transferred from Berlin, Ger¬ DEPARTMENT OF COM¬ many, and assigned to duty in the United States. MERCE Wilson C. Beers has been assigned to duty in the United States, having been transferred from the office at The Foreign Service Division, Bureau of For¬ Vienna, Austria. Miss Freda Naef, formerly on duty at Vienna, Aus¬ eign and Domestic Commerce, Department of tria, has been transferred to Berlin, Germany. Commerce, furnished on October 11. 1929, the following personal notes of their field represen¬ tatives : Correspondence Courses Available Commercial Attache William L. Cooper, from Lon¬ don, has taken up his new duties as Director of this To Children of Foreign Service Bureau. Officers Mr. Charles E. Brookhart has been promoted to Trade Commissioner and placed in charge of the Winnipeg The Department of the Interior announced in office. a communication to the Secretary of State, dated Commercial Attache Julean Arnold, from Peking, vis¬ September 19, 1929, that the plans for furnishing ited a number of commercial centers en route to Wash¬ correspondence courses to pupils in isolated places ington. Trade Commissioner George R. Canty, who re¬ under the direction of the Commissioner of Edu¬ cently returned to the United States, is on a trip to the cation have progressed to a point where the serv¬ West Coast. Mr. Hampden H. Dashiell, Assistant ice is expected to he available early this fall. Trade Commissioner from San Juan, is on leave in Southern Maryland. The courses are arranged to provide instruction There have been several new appointments: Mr. through the elementary and secondary school Donald W. Page, as Trade Commissioner to Calcutta; grades and will be correlated with the best courses Mr. Herbert W. Barrett, as Assistant Trade Commis¬ in our public schools. Lessons are mailed to the sioner to Winnipeg; Mr. Carl H. Boehringer, as Assist¬ parents at the rate of about four a month, the ant Trade Commissioner to Singapore; Mr. Milton T. parents serving as contacts between the pupils and Houghton, as Assistant Trade Commissioner to Santiago, the Bureau of Education. This service will be and Mr. Warren S. Lockwood, as Clerk to Trade Com¬ without charge, but textbooks and supplies needed missioner at Batavia. should be purchased by the parents. Mr. H. Lawrence Groves, Commercial Attache to Ber¬ lin; Trade Commissioner Julian B. Foster, Wellington; It was further stated that these correspondence Mr. J. Bartlett Richards, Trade Commissioner to Bom¬ courses will be available to the children of all For¬ bay, and Mr. Myron L. Black, Assistant Trade Commis¬ eign Service Officers and other American fam¬ sioner at Wellington, have recently sailed for their posts. ilies living abroad. 389 COMMERCIAL WORK FOR STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 26 Broadway New York An increase is noted in the volume of trade data received in the Commercial Office of the Department of State from Consular offices dur¬ ing the month of September, 1929, as compared with the corresponding month of the preceding year, as follows: 1929 1928 Reports ..1 1,745 1,702 Trade Letters 4,541 3,963 Trade Lists 128 334 World Trade Directory Reports. . 3,612 3,076 Trade Opportunity Reports 385 363 The Mark of Quality The officers whose posts and names follow pre¬ pared reports received during September, 1929, rated EXCELLENT: Basel, Vice Consul Al¬ bert W. Scott; Batavia, Consul General Coert du Bois; Belfast, Consul Russell M. Brooks; Brad¬ Socony ford, Consul Alfred R. Thomson; Dairen, Consul William R. Langdon; Dresden, Consul George P. Waller; Kovno, Vice Consul Bertel E. Kuniholm (1) , Vice Consul Paul J. Reveley (1) ; Lourenco Marques, Vice Consul Eugene M. Hinkle; Mazat- Products lan, Vice Consul Waldo E. Bailey; Munich, Con¬ sul General Charles M. Hathaway, Jr.; Paris, Consul H. Merle Cochran (1), Consul Damon C. Illuminating Oils Woods (1) ; Sao Paulo, Consul Charles R. Came¬ ron; Shanghai, Consul Jay C. Huston, (2 re¬ Lubricating Oils and Greases ports); Sheffield, Consul William J. Grace; Singapore, Vice Consul William W. Butterworth, Gasoline and Motor Spirits Jr.; Toronto, Consul Emil Sauer. Trade Letters (one letter from each post ex¬ Fuel Oil cept where indicated parenthetically) received during the same period from the following- Asphaltums, Binders and named posts were accorded the rating of EXCEL¬ LENT : Alexandria, Amsterdam (2), Bahia Road Oils (2) , Barcelona (5), Beirut, Belfast (6), Berlin, Brisbane, Brussels, Bucharest (4), Buenos Aires Paraffine Wax and Candles (3) , Canton, Cardiff, Cologne, Edinburgh, Fort William, Frankfort (3), Funchal, Genoa (2), Lamps, Stoves and Heaters Glasgow (4), Guaymas, Halifax, Hankow (3), Havre (2), Helsingfors, Lagos, Lausanne, Lon¬ don, England (5), Lourenco Marques (2), Branch Offices in the Principal Cities of Malaga, Malmo (2), Manchester, Medan, Mel¬ bourne, Mexico City, Milan (2), Nanking, Japan Philippine Islands Turkey Nantes, Naples (2), Oslo (2), Paris, Port an China Straits Settlements Syria Prince (2), Prague (2), Rio de Janeiro (3), Indo-China Netherlands India Bulgaria Rome (11), Rotterdam (4), Saigon, Saltillo, San Siam South Africa Greece Jose, Santo Domingo, Sao Paulo, Shanghai (6), India Australasia Jugoslavia Surabaya, Stockholm, Sydney (Australia), Tan¬ gier, Tegucigalpa (3), Tientsin, Trieste, and Val¬ paraiso. 390 SHIPPING REPORTS During the month of September, the Shipping Section of the Division of Foreign Service Ad¬ ministration accorded the rating EXCELLENT to shipping reports submitted by the following- officers: Vice Consul C. W. Gray, Buenos Aires; Corner 16th and Eye Streets, N. W. Vice Consul Terry S. Hinkle, Singapore; Consul Benjamin M. Hulley, Stockholm; Vice Consul Eugene W. Nabel, Rotterdam; Vice Consul Dan¬ iel Miller, London; Consul E. Talbot Smith, Hamburg; and Consul Leonard G. Dawson, Vera Cruze. DEPARTMENT OF STATE OCTOBER 15, 1929. On account of the increasing number of re¬ Only three minutes from the State, War quests received from libraries, professors of in¬ and Navy Departments, the White ternational law, and others to he supplied with House, and all Clubs, and is the copies of the various publications of the Depart¬ center of all that is worth ment of State, the latter is inaugurating a new while publication program. 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EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND The Harriman and Pugsley Scholarships are Several officers in Washington were recently now available for the education in the United discussing the need of a Foreign Service emerg¬ States of Service children and a great advance ency fund for urgent relief cases. It was agreed would be made if those scholarships could be that there was such a need pending the time supplemented by a fund which would afford mem¬ when Congress, which is showing more and more bers of the Service and their families the relief interest in the welfare of Government personnel, which they may need in times of stress or makes the necessary appropriations. emergency. The necessity for such a fund is illustrated by The suggestion is made that a part of the sur¬ a number of cases with which the officers on duty plus belonging to the Association, be set aside as in the Department have had to deal within the a special relief fund. It then might be possible last few years. In one of these, a subordinate to build up that fund from contributions received officer whose salary was just sufficient for the from persons who are interested in the Foreign support of himself and family, was taken seri¬ Service and in the welfare of its members, and to ously ill and removed to his home in the United use the income from the entire fund for relief States where he recovered after a long period of purposes. convalescence. The Department, under existing legislation, was able to give him only 60 days’ (The foregoing suggestion, originating from leave of absence with salary. At the end of this certain Foreign Service officers on detail in the period, the officer and his family would have been Department, will undoubtedly appeal to members left destitute had not officers in the Department of the Service in the field, and their comments subscribed to a fund for taking care of the fam¬ are invited.-—Ed.) ily during this period of distress. In another case an officer died suddenly leaving The JOURNAL is always glad to receive his wife and child practically destitute. A fund photographs for publication. At the pres¬ was raised from voluntary subscriptions of ent time the supply on hand is very limited. officers in the Department to afford relief. 394 All branches on the same tree; all growing out of the Chrysler root principle of standardized quality Pooling Genius to Promote Quality BY POOLING the experimental and Obviously, the various products of the research appropriations of all divi¬ several units differ in design and con¬ sions, Chrysler Motors eliminates dupli¬ struction, because each is created to fill cation of effort and maintains mechanical its particular place in the Chrysler Motors facilities and personnel that any single line. Yet all units have in common the unit of them would find prohibitive. right to command the entire engineering The brains and energies of some 900 resources of the organization, to the end that its product may be made the best persons employed in one vast engineer¬ ing laboratory are thus made available of its kind. to the entire organization, for it is the Chrysler Motors gives genius the fullest Chrysler Motors policy that all advance¬ opportunity for expression. Furthermore, ments in processes and all improvements the attainments of genius, when fully in materials shall be common property. proved by test, are immediately trans¬ It is the policy, too, to include such lated into those practical forms that improvements in all products, from the benefit the public in terms of greater highest-priced to the lowest, as fast as motoring satisfaction, greater motoring manufacturing efficiency permits. economy, and greater motoring safety.

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395 “Economic Foreign Policy of the United Books I Have Read Recently States.” By B. H. Williams. New York. Mc- Graw Hill Book Company. $5. This is a useful and Found Interesting volume for both the officer desirous of keeping abreast of the times and the man preparing for the examinations. There are many insinuations By TYLER DENNETT we may question but, nevertheless, it is a valuable “A Lost Commander: Florence Nightingale.” reference book covering the history of the sub¬ Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. Doubleday, ject from the period of the Revolution. The Doran & Co., 1929. author would have done well to have refrained “James Ford Rhodes, American Historian.” from mention of the World Court policy of the M. A. De Wolf Howe. Appleton, 1929. United States which, it seems, is almost irrele¬ “A Preface to Morals.” Walter Lippman. Mac¬ vant to his discussion. However, these few short¬ millan, 1929. comings should not detract from the book’s other “Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858.” Albert J. Bev¬ features. eridge. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928. BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON.

“Home of Nymphs and Vampires” (The Isles Reread: “Penrod,” Booth Tarlington; “Enjoy¬ of Greece), by George Horton, American Foreign ment of Poetry,” Max Eastman; “Phi Beta Service Officer Retired (Bobbs Merrill Co., In¬ Kappa Addresses,” Charles Francis Adams; and dianapolis), has elicited such warm praise that “Democracy,” Henry Adams. his friends will be interested to read some of the press comments. The Philadelphia Public Ledger says, “The book is a joy”; and the San Francisco BOOK NOTES Argonaut that it is “a book to charm”; the In¬ dianapolis News remarks that it breathes “the very Citizenship and the Survival of Civilization. spirit of Old Greece.” Professor Williamovitz, the By Sir George Newman (New Haven, Yale Uni¬ dean of classical and archaeological scholars of the versity Press, 1928. Pp. 254.) world. Dr. Dorpfeld, the Homeric scholar and ex¬ Reviewed by William E. Mosher, Syracuse cavator of Troy, and other professors of German University, described it as “a notable contribution universities in a signed memorandum pay this to the literature on citizenship. He speaks not tribute that “Hardly any other works have ap¬ alone as a thinker but as a doer as well. . . He peared that describe so charmingly as Horton has writes as both a practical administrator and a done the life of the modern Greeks”; while the scholar, one trained in the fine traditions of British Washington Post declares the book is “truly a scholarship in the fields of history and political work of literary genius”; and those who know philosophy. In outlining the implications of good Consul General Horton’s ability as a raconteur citizenship, Sir George Newman substitutes for the earlier duty of defending the state the duty will endorse the compliment the Portland Oregon¬ of serving it creatively and productively in every¬ ian pays him by saying he is “a master weaver of day affairs. If, for instance, business is to be tales.” The New York Times Book Review in good business, the good citizen will conduct if in a lengthy article said “no literary background is all of its ramifications as a public service. In required to appreciate the warm sympathy and the words of the author, “To work toward the distinct individuality that stamps this volume as practice of good and sound commerce, medicine, an exceptional travel book” and finally says that law, education, literature, art, is good citizenship; “much of the charm of the book lies in the fact to create or produce conditions of life conducive that it never condescends to be stilted or conven¬ to human association, welfare, and integrity, to tional, while breathing the warm spirit of the justice, and equity for all men, is good citizen¬ country whose guardians were Olympus’ gods and ship ; to advance the development of mankind, whose past must always be glorious” ; it adds that the concord of nations, and the emancipation of the imprisoned splendors of the soul, this is also “the illustrations supply just the right supple¬ good citizenship.” In other words, to the author mentary touch.” The book is published at $3.50, the life of the good citizen in its whole range and and any readers who would like to obtain a copy in all of its phases is permeated with and animated are invited to subscribe therefor through the by devotion to public service. JOURNAL. 396 “Foreign Affairs,” published by the Council on Foreign Relations, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, kindly writes that they have decided to con¬ tinue their special subscription rate to members of the American Foreign Service of three years for $10.

LETTERS

PlEDRAS NEGRAS, MEXICO, September 2/, 1929. To THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL: I have read, with much interest, the letters in the col¬ umn devoted to that purpose. As to the effectiveness of the JOURNAL in its chosen field, I think it should be borne in mind that the editors are “part time” men and have other work in hand. Under these circumstances, it is wonderful that it should have been so ably handled and the only explanation seems to be the facility, which the Service inculcates, of handling a multitude of subjects with limited means and time. I desire to suggest, as among the needful improvements of Service conditions, the allocation from the Post Al¬ lowance appropriation (which seems to be lawfully indi¬ cated) of a certain sum to each officer at the time of a transfer from one post to another. It has been my ex¬ perience that a transfer is usually a very costly affair to the officer. While the transportation of effects is paid In Office, Factory and for by the Government, the deterioration in those effects as the result of rough handling is not, and it is my ex¬ School perience that about two transfers is equal to the pro¬ verbial fire. In a change from one climate to another a In the commercial centers—in the complete new outfit of wardrobe is required for each cities and far-off corners of the earth—in member of the family and the previous outfit is, prac¬ tically, a total loss. Then there are many expenses con¬ the schools of every nation—in fact nected with getting settled in a new post. wherever human thoughts and deeds are I believe the French Government makes a special al¬ lowance to cover these items in all cases of transfer of recorded — there you will find the diplomatic or consular officers. Underwood the standard of typewriter As I am, probably, at my last post in the Service, my suggestion seems to be clear of all "Ulterior-motivity.” efficiency. Sincerely yours, Stenographers and typists realize that “Under¬ PAUL H. FOSTER. wood” means fast and accurate typewriting— with less fatigue and better work. The execu¬ CARDIFF, WALES, October 3, 1929. tive, too, appreciates the value of “Underwood” DEAR SIR : You and your associates on the JOURNAL work—clear, clean-cut letters down to the last staff are certainly to be congratulated upon your progres¬ carbon, and he knows that when a letter is sive policy, and especially upon your liberal attitude in “Underwood” typed it represents the company’s welcoming suggestions for the continued improvement of highest standard. the JOURNAL. YOU have already received a number of important criti¬ A demonstration on the “Underwood” will cisms and suggestions from officers in the field. I heart¬ place you under no obligation. ily agree with several contributors that the discussion of Service problems would vastly augment the usefulness UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER CO., INC. and popularity of the JOURNAL. There are numerous 1413 New York Avenue N. W. Service problems which could be discussed to advantage, Washington, D. C. but for the sake of brevity I need give only one illus¬ Branches in all Principal Cities tration. Every Foreign Service officer is vitally inter¬ ested in the proposed Act amending the Act of May 24, for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States. Although this proposed UNDERWOOD legislation making important changes in the organization and administration of the Foreign Service has been be¬ Speeds the Worlds Business fore Congress nearly two years and is embodied in the 39 7 bills introduced in the last regular session by Senator Moses and Mrs. Edith N. Rogers, it is simply amazing that none of the various reforms proposed have ever been discussed in the columns of the JOURNAL. These are among the chief topics of conversation in Consular cir¬ cles, and it would seem that the experience and consid¬ ered views of many officers in the field would not only be of mutual interest but also of some value to the Depart¬ ment of State, Congress and business circles interested in every proposal calculated to strengthen the esprit de corps and to encourage every member to exert himself to the utmost to increase the usefulness and prestige of the Service. It is understood, of course, that such a discus¬ sion would be entirely free from the airing of real or fancied personal grievances and from criticism tending to undermine Service loyalty or discipline. However, if any tactless or indiscreet observation should appear in any contribution on a Service problem there is always the alert editor with his ruthless blue pencil. Another suggestion is that more effort be made to se¬ cure articles from retired officers, most of whom have resided at various posts and had many interesting ex¬ The Power Plant by Earl H or ter periences, so that their reminiscences would undoubtedly prove instructive as well as entertaining reading. Then, too, it would be of great advantage to the rest of us to retain the interest and cooperation of these retired officers In thousands of power and manufactur¬ in everything that concerns the unity, welfare and devel¬ ing plants the world over, Gargoyle Lubri¬ opment of the Service. Novv for the “last but not least” of my suggestions: cating Oils are helping to reduce margins Why is it that contributions from the wives of Foreign of operating costs. Service officers are apparently never solicited or even encouraged?^ If in Consular circles the husbands only Wherever you find machinery, you will desist from “talking shop” long enough, what interesting tales of the Service do the wives unfold—far more enter¬ usually find Gargoyle Lubricating Oils taining, judging from my own experience, than that of also, reducing depreciation and lowering their husbands. The ladies are usually much keener ob¬ servers of their environment, and their wits and sense of costs of maintenance, power and lubrica¬ humor have not been dulled by daily pondering over tion. innumerable rules and regulations and trying to reconcile all the seeming ambiguities and inconsistencies. If the 63 years of world-wide experience in the Editors and others could only persuade the Consular wives to contribute to the JOURNAL, it could be made one manufacture and application of high of the most interesting and popular periodicals in official quality lubricating oils justifies this uni¬ circles. There is plenty of literary talent in the Foreign Serv¬ versal recognition. ice (in which should be included the wives), and there is no group of people who lead more varied and inter¬ esting lives (which is one of the compensations for our relatively low salaries). That this talent and experience Quality Brings Leadership have heretofore been utilized only to a slight extent, chiefly being confined to the kind of articles which ap¬ pear in the travel and geographic magazines, is evidently due partly to lack of the necessary encouragement from the editorial staff, and partly to constitutional timidity on the part of Foreign Service officers and a feeble spirit of cooperation and comradeship. I believe that this spirit would be greatly strengthened by the removal of some of the inhibitions which so stifle free discussion and dis¬ courage the display of talent and exchange of views. Certainly the inauguration of a more liberal editorial policy should bring forth talents that are now hidden and Lubricating Oils evoke discussions that would arouse widespread interest and make the Service a more progressive, respected and self-respecting body. VACUUM OIL COMPANY With best wishes for continued success in your self- sacrificing and laudable efforts to improve the JOURNAL, I remain, Faithfully yours, RALPH C. BUSSER. 398 SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND, October 11, 1929. SIR: In view of the generosity of Mr. Chester D. Pugsley in offering certain scholarships for the benefit of the children of American Foreign Service officers, it has oc¬ curred to me that the Foreign Service officers them¬ selves could, without great hardship, establish three or six scholarships, each of a value of $1,000 per annum, for the sons and daughters of American Foreign Serv¬ ice officers. If three hundred Foreign Service officers would volun¬ tarily contribute ten dollars each annually, there would result an income of $3,000 per year for the purpose. If the contribution be fixed at $20 per year, each officer, the annual income would be $6,000. The distribution of the scholarships could be made by the Executive Committee of the Foreign Service Asso¬ ciation, in accordance with whatever rules the Asso¬ ciation might prescribe for the purpose. I will gladly contribute annually ten dollars or twenty dollars, as the case may be, for the purpose. I have no selfish interest in the matter, as my son is at Balliol, Oxford, and it will be a number of years before my daughter is old enough to attend any college. I believe it is very probable that if the Foreign Serv¬ ice officers make the effort to provide opportunities for an American education for their children, American business men and American bankers of the generous character of Mr. Pugsley will be inclined to help to the extent of meeting contributions of the Foreign Service officers, dollar for dollar, and thereby even more scholar¬ ships may be established. Why not give the suggestion a trial ? Very respectfully yours, WILLIAM J. GRACE, American Consul. Photograph by G. F. 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