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The Foreign Service Journal, November 1924 THfe AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL NEW AMERICAN EMBASSY AT PARIS Vol. I NOVEMBER, 1924 No. 2 FEDERAL-AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK NOW IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION IN WASHINGTON, D. C. W. T. GALLIHER, Chairman of the Board JOHN POOLE, President RESOURCES OVER $13,000,000.00 THE PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. I. No. 2 WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER, 1924 The Career THE American Foreign Service Association, deeply what the chairman has said with respect which consists of the Diplomatic and Con¬ to our relation in this important work, hut I cannot sular Services, gave a luncheon on October think of any of those who are in the Foreign 1, 1924, at Rauscher’s. The Secretary of State Service, here or abroad, as really in a subordinate was the guest of honor. capacity. We are all working together according Mr. Young said: to our different assignments and I am sure that “Your Chairman today is not unmindful of the my dominant feeling in connection with that work fact that it would he both exceedingly unseemly is one of constant gratitude to the fidelity and in¬ and inappropriate for him, a humble and sub¬ telligence of those who make it possible for those ordinate officer of the Department, in requesting occupying the higher official positions to function. the Secretary to he so kind as to speak to us for I have always during the time I have been in the such length of time as to him may be agreeable, Department been sensible of the ‘esprit de corps’ to touch even remotely on what might be termed of the Service and I am gratified that that has the personal field. Yet there is just one thing now a better basis. It is not for me to review to say, and one thing I propose to say, and that what has recently been accomplished, but we have is this: Of the long line of distinguished men before us a new period of hope and of greater who have occupied the high position of Secretary satisfaction in the work of the Foreign Service of State probably all, certainly many of them, officer. have called forth from their subordinates and as¬ “Young men are always eager for the oppor¬ sistants in the Department the very best efforts: tunity immediately at hand. They see something energy, ability and support. With respect to the which seems almost to be dazzling because of the present era not only is this equally true, but with immediate benefits within their grasp. Then, these efforts there have been evidenced a spirit having achieved the object of that ambition, they of absolute devotion to the Chief, the man him¬ find that their lives are full of routine, that there self. With the permission therefore of the Sec¬ are many difficulties, that others in other lines of retary I wish to ask him to address us calling activity are perhaps going ahead faster than they upon" him not only as the Secretary of State, not and so the tendency is towards dissatisfaction and only as the honorary President of our new For¬ to a certain amount of cynicism. I have seen that eign Service Association but also as the Chief of in many young men who apparently were favored a very happy, devoted official family. (Ap¬ at the outset of their careers with some position plause. ) of exceptional promise, but soon came to a feeling Mr. Hughes replied: that they had missed the real opportunities of life “Mr. Chairman, Members of the Foreign Ser¬ and that others were much better off than they. vice Association:—I am quite sure you would not Now there is only one way to avoid that. I don’t expect anything more from me at this time than a suppose it is possible to have the benefits of all few words of fraternal greeting. I appreciate careers in any one career, but when you have 37 chosen a career the best thing is to make that own national life but the future of the whole worth while, to make it pay. Any career can be human family. You should have the greatest made to pay. possible satisfaction in the sense of the import¬ “The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the man ance of your work. of industry, of intelligence and of hard work. “Of course you can never get through with There is no vocation that will yield anything to your task, 1 think that is a good thing. Formerly men of another sort and there is hardly any I had the notion that there would be a period reputable vocation but which will pay large re¬ of great activity which would cover a certain wards to the men who will make it worth while. number of years and then there would be a period I hope there will never enter into the mind of of less activity and finally one would reach a the Foreign Service officer a feeling of distaste, state like that of the Bhuddist Nirvana, a serene of dissatisfaction, a sense of disillusionment be¬ contentedness in doing nothing. Now that doesn’t cause his career is not all that it was felt it might exist. The further you go along and the more be at the outset. Success in any career is never you have to do, the more you incapacitate your¬ in anything outside. It is primarily in the satis¬ self for doing nothing and being happy in doing faction you get out of work. It is primarily in the noth ng. A man never arrives; he must always absorption which you find in the immediate task. make good. If you get to a more exalted place It is the task that you are you have new responsibilities. doing, if you approach it in The more exalted your place, the proper way and realize the easier your fall, and you its possibilities, that will give may fall farther and more you the happiness you crave. heavily. Promotion is merely You will have little time to an invitation to another test. spend in retrospect. That You never can escape the test. absorption, that interest in Now the thing is to enjoy it. your work can be had in al¬ And that depends on taking the most any line of activity that work more seriously than you is really worth while, that take yourself. If I may explain you know is helping to form such a paradox, what I mean is, the fabric of civilization. according to the sacred text, “Certainly this satisfaction that no man should think of is possible to those who are himself more highly than he engaged in this most import¬ ought to think. Nine-tenths of ant work of promoting and our embarrassments and un¬ defending the interests of happiness come from thinking our country in connection more highly of ourselves than with foreign affairs. What we ought to think. Now if you could be more appealing to think of your work as some¬ any man of patriotic sen¬ thing worth while, that it is timent than to have an highly interesting, that it is im¬ opportunity of that sort ? portant, then make the What could be most of it and don’t more interesting trouble yourself about than to be con¬ its being appreciated stantly a s s o c i- by others. We know ated in his work there are a great with the currents many persons of influence who haven’t through the achieved all world, with the they wanted to activities which achieve. The joy are really deter¬ is in the chase. mining the fu¬ Harris and Ewing The sense of ture of nations. having accom¬ Not simply the HONORABLE CHARLES EVANS HUGHES. plished some- future of our SECRETARY OF STATE (Continued on. p. 62) 38 The Tale of The Sacred Barbarissi By MATHILDE VOSSLER KEELEY JERILY, that is the kernel of the seed of Bedouin coffee flavored with aromatic herbs; the \ / truth!” muttered Abou Dahir as he roused spicy fragrance of aniseed which was given off by V himself from the profound meditation the carafes of the Arab’s favorite beverage, which had been enveloping him like a mantle for arak; and the perfumed smoke of the cher¬ the past half hour. ished water pipe, mingling together, contrived I was frankly relieved to witness these symp¬ to produce in me, after a time, that indescrib¬ toms of returning consciousness in Abou Dahir— able rensation of langour and laissez faire friend, story-teller, and usually so foreign to philosopher—for, hav¬ us Occidentals. ing only recently ar¬ After that proper rived in the Oldest interval of waiting City Still Extant as a always necessary for Vice Consul of the Oriental service to get Largest Republic, I under motion, the nar¬ had not yet acquired gileh, with a gleaming the pleasurable faculty lump of charcoal al¬ of losing myself in the ready lighting up the byways of contempla¬ pungent tobacoo, was tion. brought. I could In answer to my scarcely restrain my puzzled look, Abou impatience until Abou Dahir continued, “We Dahir had taken his have an Arabic prov¬ first long pull through erb which says: ‘When the cord of his pipe choosing a new abode, and the water in its examine the neighbors bowl had begun to before examining the bubble, bubble with its house.’ Nothing truer calming rhythm. was ever uttered!” “Now, Abou Dahir, “That begins like a your story. You may story worth the tell¬ continue with the ing,” said I, encour¬ knowledge that your agingly, meanwhile listener has his ears in clapping my hands to the right place.” summon a waiter.
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