AMERICAN
JAGERSPRIS CASTLE, IN DENMARK Photograph taken and contributed by Joseph C. Grew, American Minister to Switzerland
October, 1923 ■ — FEDERAL-AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK W. T.Galliher,ChairmanoftheBoard.John Poole, President. The WorldisaGreatUniversity Can’t youseetherichgoldenharvestin . ingtoteachusitslesson;give and themindthatcanunderstand. Everything hasitslesson—itall depends ontheeyethatcansee are alwaysinGod’sgreatkinder¬ garten, whereeverythingistry- us itsgreatsecret. From thecradletogravewe Savings Department Then whydoyouwaitt enterprise andsaving? WASHINGTON, D.C. Press ofRansdellIncorporated Washington, D.C. Biographical Sketch of President Calvin Coolidge
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE was horn July 4, 1872, at Ply¬ mouth, Vermont, where he first attended school, but, early mastering its educational requirements, he continued his studies at academies in the neighboring towns, Black River Academy at Ludlow and then St. Johnsbury Academy, at St. Johnsbury, from which last named institution he entered Amherst, graduating in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After graduation, Mr. Coolidge entered the law offices of Judge Ham¬ mond in Northampton, Massachusetts, where, for twenty months, he assiduously studied preparatory to his admittance to the bar and the opening of his own offices. Mr. Coolidge was married to Miss Grace A. Goodhue, of Bur¬ lington, Vermont, on October 4, 1905. They have two sons, John and Calvin, Jr. Amherst, Tufts and Williams Colleges conferred upon Mr. Coolidge the honorary degree of LL. D., in 1919, and, in the fol¬ lowing year, he received a like degree from Wesleyan University, Bates College, and the University of Vermont. The political career of Mr. Coolidge began in 1899, when he was elected a member of the Northampton City Council, and from that time his rise in public life has been continuous. In 1900 and 1901, Mr. Coolidge occupied the position of City Solicitor, and in 1904, under appointment by the Supreme Court to fill a vacancy, served as County Clerk, but declined to stand for election to suc¬ ceed himself. The years 1907 and 1908 found Mr. Coolidge serving North¬ ampton as its representative to the General Court, from which position he rose to that of mayor, which office he held during 1910 and 1911. Mr. Coolidge, still rising in his career as statesman and poli¬ tician, served from 1912 through 1915 as a State Senator, being elected President of the Senate for the years 1914 and 1915. The ensuing years, 1916-1918, found him Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and, in 1918, was elected Governor of the State. He was re-elected in 1920. Mr. Coolidge. following the elections of November, 1920, took the oath of office on March 4, 1921, as Vice-President of the United States, which position he occupied until the death of President Harding, August 2, 1923, elevated him to the Presidency.
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Voi,. V, No. io WASHINGTON, D. C. OCTOBER, 1923 The Utility of World Trade Directory Reports By A. S. Hillyer, Chief of the Commercial Intelligence Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
IN the October, 1922, issue of the AMERICAN such additional light on the legitimate activities CONSULAR BULLETIN there appeared an ar¬ of foreign firms as will permit American ex¬ ticle by Herbert W. Gruber, entitled “World porters to gauge their value as agents. The Trade Directory Reports.” That article, in a United States Government is not in the business capable and direct way, told bow the informa¬ of passing on credit risks of any foreign com¬ tion furnished by the Consular Service was used mercial houses. Any figures given out in connec¬ by the Commercial Intelligence Division of the tion with trade lists are intended to show the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and paid a well deserved compliment to the efforts of relative size and importance of the foreign im¬ the consuls in obtaining information contained porter and is pertinent sales information to the in the Directory and touched upon the need of American business concern about to enter or de¬ such information to the American business man. velop foreign trade. In view of the fact that the so-called World During the fiscal year of the Bureau ending Trade Directory now consists of over one hun¬ June 30 last, over thirty thousand requests were dred thousand names of foreign importers and received by the Bureau from American business potential buyers of American products, and that firms for just such information on foreign im¬ each name is hacked up with sufficient informa¬ porters as is contained in the World Trade tion to make a very vivid sales picture for those Directory. These requests were from business interested in export trade, it seems to me timely firms actually in touch with or about to enter into to endeavor to tell the men in the field who are negotiations with foreign buyers. The Bureau, (loin? the work to what extent the information is through the Commercial Intelligence Division, used by American business houses generally and was able to report immediately during that period how regarded by them. on over thirty per cent of the requests received, It might be well to mention at this time that and where the names were not included in our the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Directory we took steps to obtain this information does not and does not intend to usurp the func¬ through the Department of State from the consuls tions of the commercial cred't reporting agencies. in the field. Indeed, the World Trade Directory differs from Many Consuls have expressed their apprecia¬ the service performed by the agencies in that it tion of the more intimate contact with foreign is designed to be entirely constructive, to furnish concerns which their World Trade Directory re- [287] AMERICAN EMBASSY AT TOKYO, JAPAN The structure collapsed during the earthquake of September 1, 1923, without injury to any of the staff port records, as kept in duplicate in the Consu giving advice of this character. Even more per¬ lates, reveal. tinent and personal information is desirable if Appreciation of Services foreign firms wish to be better recommended to Space does not permit the printing of letters American exporters, and we hope to build up we have received expressing appreciation of this this branch of our service in the near future. practical service of the Bureau of American ex¬ Revision of Records porters, but many of these letters refer to the One of our problems is the checking and re¬ work of the consuls and have been forwarded to vision of the large stock of valuable information the State Department for proper notation on the we now have on file so that our records are kept consuls’ efficiency records. constantly up to date. Every consul will at once The Bureau through its various commodity di¬ realize the value of this, not only for his own visions is constantly being requested by Ameri records but also for the World Trade Directory. can business houses to suggest to them firms or Plans are being formulated so that this may be individuals in foreign countries qualified to act done with a nvnimum amount of effort and work as exclusive selling agents. Foreign firms should on the part of the consuls and if we have the be urged to realize that the information which same amount of interest and cooperation from the consuls supply in connection with the World the Consular Service that we have had in the past, Trade Directory furnishes an excellent basis for (Continued on page 302) [288] Makers of The Flag
Address by Former Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane.
This morning, as I passed into the Land Office, The Flag dropped me a most cordial salutation, and from its rippling folds I heard it say: “Good morning, Mr. Flag Maker.” “I beg your pardon, Old Glory,” I said, “aren’t you mistaken? I am not the President of the United States, nor a member of Congress, nor even a general in the army. I am only a government clerk.” “I greet you again, Mr. Flag Maker,” replied the gay voice. “I know you well. You are the man who worked in the swelter of yesterday straightening out the tangle of that farmer’s homestead in Idaho, or perhaps you found the mistake in that Indian contract in Oklahoma, or helped clear that patent for the hopeful inventor in New York, or pushed the opening of that new ditch in Colorado, or made that mine in Illinois more safe, or brought relief to the old soldier in Wyoming. No matter; whichever one of these beneficent individuals you may happen to be, 1 give you greeting. Mr. Flag Maker.” I was about to pass on, when The Flag stoppe d me with these words: “Yesterday the President spoke a word that made happier the future of ten million peons in Mex¬ ico; but that act looms no larger on the flag than the struggle which the boy in Georgia is making to win the Corn Club prize this summer. “Yesterday the Congress spoke a word which will open the door of Alaska; but a mother in Michigan worked from sunrise until far into the night to give her boy an education. She, too, is mak¬ ing the flag. “Yesterday we made a new law to prevent financial panic, and yesterday, maybe, a school teacher in Ohio taught his first letters to a boy who will one day write a song that will give cheer to the mil¬ lions of our race. We are all making the flag. “But,” I said impatiently, “these people were only working.” Then came a great shout from The Flag. “The work that we do is the making of the flag. “I am not the flag; not at all. I am but its shadow. “I am whatever you make me, nothing more. “I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a People may become. “I live in changing life, a life of moods and passions, of heart breaks and tired muscles. “Sometimes I am strong with pride, when men do honest work, fitting the rails together truly. “Sometimes I droop, for then purpose has gone from me, and cynically I play the coward. “Sometimes I am loud, garish, and full of thaf ego which blasts judgment. “But always, I am all that you hope to be, and have the courage to try for. “I am song and fear, struggle and panic, and ennobling hope. “I am the day’s work of the weakest man, and the largest dream of the most daring. “I am the Constitution and the courts, statutes and statute makers, soldier and dreadnaught, dray¬ man and street sweep, cook, counselor, and clerk. “I am the battle of yesterday, and the mistake of tomorrow. “I am the mystery of the men who do without knowing why. “T am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned p urpose of resolution. “I am no more than what you believe me to be, and I am all that you believe I can be. “I am what you make me—nothin^ more. “I swing before your eyes as a bright fleam of color, a svmbol of yourself, the pictured sugges¬ tion of that big thing which makes th:s nation. My stars and mv strines are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm wi'h faith, because you have made them so out of your hearts. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.”
[289] CONSUL PEPYS dubbe, falling on my kneas before her with my marriauge offre almost before she did rightlie September 9, 1670. Found Sarah home from come to herself. Sarah, as alwaies, did protest a tea-gaff at the recktorie and in a great stew and she did acktual thinck she saw a mouse. And pother over a rumour of the impendent departure at all rates the ball room zvas most unusual close from here of oure colleague from .... but from the bad candles during the warrs. After, could gather nothinge more than ye said colleague no more worck to be thought on the night as the his wiffe has been seen at ... . the drapers rest of the evening went in reminiscings and so and notioune’s shoppe enquiring after travvelling at last late to lied and much mispleased that so chestes, such as do bear great leathern strappes little done. about them and cunning fashioned locks. Sarah September 18, 1670. Came today a demand much inclined to beleave in the colleague his for informatioune as to how the people here doe earlie departure though the storie come onlie from regard . . . .* from some new Politick and little Mistress Mordaunt, wiffe to the sugarr and Geographickal Sectioun in the Foreine Offis. molasses merchant, and ecksellent little woman Much mispleased and put out thereat, being who can indeed dance the new steps called, for alreadie so busy and concerned, what with the why is not known, the Waits, most smooth and Reckords of Ficiencie of vices and clarcks captivating gracefull, but not to be given creditt (whych I doe mean to relate in everie detayle of in weightie matters. And indeed were . . . . my new sekeme to the F. O.) and the stablish- to lieve us ’twould be but little losse to oure C011- ment of my new Sundries Reckords Booke and sullar Corpus of divers natiouns and natiounali- that all thereunto propriate and fitt be copied into ties here as he is never one to make cause com¬ it readie with a fair and clean hand withouten or mune and protest with us come we must apply blotts or soyls,—and my demnitioun ackompts to the lockal Magistrates and Authoryties for come agayn due and pressing. But thanks to my redress of some greavance of our respecktiv so laboriouslie acheaved aquayntence with the sailormen or to alter some Classifickation at the lockal linguo have alreadie some notioun of how customs. the matter is regarded and can veriphy my own September 17, 1670. After dinner (most eck- beleaf by enquiring further of Mr. Perkyns sellentlie confeckted by the new cooking-mayd to (whoe hath been in these parts full five and twen- whom I perceive Sarah hath imparted to some tie years) be he not reallie put out agaynst me poynt some of her own skyl, did make remarck- over my winning from him so mightilie the other able progress at transcriving and arranging all eve at Preferaunce, so that Sarah did gird at me orderlie and lodgickal what commershial notes I on my relating it that I should shame myselff T derived at Toppy’s some time agone (too far should, to win so from friends, and I replying yt agone I did fear at first, wondering for a little no fault of mine was therein yt the paisteboards moment on what my somewhatte hyeroglifickal fell so luckilie to me nor coulde I lightlie put notatiouns might mean) but all did soon come asyde my skill (whych hath cost me so manic strayght. Much put to it, however, to attend shillings and pence in the learnyng) and play like thereto what with little Sydney playing in the some simple zany, sore misusing his fortune. T room at Coache and Horses and my wiffe fre- bade her. in some tartness of tone (which I did quentlie enquiring as to what I thoughte of the afterward regrett but naturallie sayd nothing prospects of young Mr. Hancocke, who has but of thereof to her) to calm herselff, I should soon late inherrited his Uncle’s ship-chaundler’s busi¬ lose agayn (which did not at all apeaze her) and ness at this port, winning for wedlock the reek- did I not honestlie share all with her, come T won tor’s wiffe’s younger sister’s best friend now a little, for all she might need in personall adorn¬ visiting- at the recktorie. “Lawks,” said I, upon ment or pressing household needsities? Alack, her asking me the dozenth and second time, how to satisfve a woman; win or lose, ’tis the “probably she will get him if she but want to same with them—and more espeshially is the ensnare the man more than he to esekape,” I said, sameness notable if one lose. “and if she doe but favnt at the right time and September 20. 1670. Found today a most di¬ with a beckoming artfull grace.” Here did nighe verting and profittable crack in the door yt doth come to greaf and spoyl all my admvrable notes communickate from my sanclctum to the general upsetting the ink-horne as at that Sarah did shye roome where sit all my scriveners and whereby I a most monstrous great ball of worsten yarn at (Continued on page 307) my innosent head, for onlie then did I remember * Evidently some confidential matter which Mr. Pepys entered in his journal in an unreadable cipher—very probably the that even she had so faynted and T, like a sillie Foreign Office code of those days.—Ed. [290] Consular Luncheon ON Thursday, September 13, 1923, the mem¬ complimentary references to Mr. Stewart and Mr. bers of the American Consular Associa¬ Shepard and expressions of appreciation of their tion in Washington tendered a farewell long service in the Department of State and of luncheon to Consul General Nathaniel B. Stewart sincere regret at their departure. and Consul Donald D. Shepard, who were about Mr. Stewart was warmly applauded when he to leave the Department for their respective posts arose to thank Mr. Carr, Mr. Hengstler and the at Yokohama, Japan, and Malaga, Spain. officers present for the compliments paid him, Mr. Carr, the Director of the Consular Service, which, he said, were undeserved, and feelingly presided and in the added that words failed course of his remarks to express his gratitude expressed regret that for the assistance and the Department should cooperation which he lose simultaneously the had received during his valuable services of Mr. period of duty at the Stewart and Mr. Shep¬ Department. ard. Mr. Carr referred Mr. Shepard referred to the important part taken by Mr. Stewart to the invaluable experi¬ in organizing and de¬ ence he had gained in veloping the Office of the Department, and Consular Personnel, tendered his resignation which was indispens¬ as Secretary-Treasurer able to the Department of the American Con¬ as a means of building sular Association in service morale, and said view of his early de¬ that Mr. Stewart was parture for his post. esteemed throughout Mr. Shepard expects to the Service for the sail from New York on sound judgment, thor¬ the S. S. George Wash¬ oughness and efficiency ington on Saturday, with which he had dis¬ charged the duties at¬ October 6, 1923. tached to that office. The officers present Mr. Carr complimented regretted that Consul the service spirit which L. C. Pinkerton, as¬ led Mr. Stewart—in signed to London, and the absence of officers CONSUL GENERAL NATHANIEL B. Consular Assistant L. immediately available STEWART N. Green, assigned to for duty at Yokohama Mr. Stewart relinquished his duties as Chief of Yokohama, were absent —to place himself at inasmuch as they were the disposal of the De¬ the Office of Consular Personnel, of the De¬ partment to assist in partment of State, and sailed September 23, to be among the guests the tasks to be per¬ 1923, aboard the S. S. President Jefferson, of the Association at formed and problems to from Seattle for Yokohama, where he has been this luncheon. be met in creating a assigned. The luncheon was at¬ new office under ex¬ tended by the following traordinary conditions, and said that Mr. Stew¬ consular officers at present in the United States art’s assignment was decided upon only after on leave of absence: Consuls Paul Knabenshue, ihorough consideration, for at this time his serv K. de G. MacVitty, Maurice P. Dunlap and ices were greatly needed at the Department. Consuls General Evan E. Young, Tracy Lay Vice Consuls Gilson G. Blake and Harry J. and Edward J. Norton followed Mr. Carr with Anslinger. [291] AMERICAN CON SULAR^ULLETIN
signment and their best wishes for success at his post. Consul J. Klahr Huddle was then unanimously elected to be Secretary-Treasurer of the Associa¬ tion and the meeting adjourned.
The Editors of the BULLETIN wish to acknowl¬ edge with deep gratitude the kindly ass:stance and constructive suggestions received from Consul General Stewart without whose aid and encourage¬ ment the service magazine could not have attained its present proportions or popularity or useful¬ ness.
Mr. John Randolph, who has been detailed to the Department in the Division of Near Eastern Affairs, sailed from New York on September 19. 1923, for his new post at Bagdad.
CONSUL LOWELL C. PINKERTON Retiring Associate Editor of the American Consular Bulletin
RESOLUTIONS OF REGRET The Chairman of the American Consular As¬ sociation at the end of the consular luncheon on Thursday, called the meeting to order to adopt resolutions following the resignation of Mr. Shep¬ ard as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Con¬ sular Association and then to elect a successor to the office created vacant. The following resolu¬ tions were adopted: Whereas, Mr. Donald Shepard has been as¬ signed to duty abroad, rendering it impracticable for him to continue his active services as Secre¬ tary-Treasurer of the American Consular Associ¬ ation, and, Whereas, Mr. Shepard has this day tendered his resignation; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the American Consular Associ¬ ation express to Mr. Shepard its sincere appreci¬ ation of his faithful and commendable services and its regrets that the circumstances of his career render it impracticable for him to continue his valuable work as an officer of the Association, and be it further RESOLVED, That the members of the American CONSUL DONALD D. SHEPARD Consular Association here assembled extend to Retiring Secretary-Treasurer of the American Mr. Shepard their congratulations upon his as- Consular Association [292] Consular Officers Are Victims In Japanese Earthquake
MR. MAX D. KIRJASSOFF, American was faithfully discharging the responsibilities Consul on detail at Yokohama, and Mrs. resting upon him. Often he was commended by Kirjassoff were killed September 1. 1923, the representatives in Japan of business firms in during the great earthquake which devastated the the United States for his active cooperation in the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama. promotion and development of American trade Mr. Kirjassoff was horn in Petrograd, March with that country. 2, 1888. After gradu¬ Mr. Kirjassoff’s re¬ ating from Yale Uni¬ lations with Japanese versity where he re¬ officials, and with the ceived the degree of B. business community in A. he entered the Con¬ Yokohama were singu¬ sular Service on March larly pleasant and suc¬ 10, 1911, as a Student cessful, and both he Interpreter. He was and Mrs. Kirjassoff appointed Vice and occupied a deservedly Deputy Consul and In¬ high place in the social terpreter at Tansui, Au¬ gust 6, 1913; Deputy life of Yokohama. Consul General and In¬ The two children of terpreter at Yokohama, Mr. and Mrs. Kirjass¬ October 29, 1913; off, aged 7 and 4 years, Deputy Consul General were with them in the a n d Interpreter at Consulate General when Seoul, February 12, it was destroyed 1914; Deputy Consul but miraculously e s- General and Interpreter caped the effects of the at Yokohama, April 18, earthquake. The chil¬ 1914; Vice Consul at dren of Mr. and Mrs. Yokohama, February 6, Kirjassoff were carried 1915; Consul of Class to Kobe, where they VIII, October 27, 1916, were met by their uncle. and assigned to Tai- Consul Joseph W. Bal- hoku; Consul of Class VI, September 5, 1919; lentine, of Darien, assigned to Darien Sep- Manchuria. temper 8, 1919, and as¬ signed to Yokohama Mr. Kirjassoff, with February 13, 1922, his wife, is the third where he remained until American Consul who, his death. MAX D. KIRJASSOFF Mr. Kirjassoff’s last American Consul killed by tlic collapse of the during the past 25 assignment to Yoko¬ Consular Building in the earthquake which years, has met death by hama was at a time devastated Yokohama September 1, 1923. an earthquake. The first when the late Consul two were Consul and General Scidmore had become ill and unable to ad¬ Mrs. Joseph T. Prentiss, killed at Martinique minister properly the duties of that important post. by the eruption of Mount Pelee, on May 8, He entered upon his work with interest and zeal, 1902, and Consul and Mrs. Arthur F. Cheney, and at the time of his tragic death, several months killed by the earthquake at Messina, Italy, on after the death of Consul General Scidmore, he December 28, 1908. [293] East and acquired an excellent knowledge of the Japanese language and of economic conditions in Japan. Mr. Jenks was appointed Vice Consul at Yoko¬ hama on September 11, 1916, and throughout his career in the Service he was always diligent, cheerful and conscientious in the performance of his duties.
Miss Doris Babbitt, daughter of Mr. Elwood G. Babbitt, for many years Vice and Deputy Con¬ sul General at Yokohama, and now Assistant Commercial Attache at Tokyo, was killed by the fearful earthquake September 1, 1923, at Yoko¬ hama. Mr. and Mrs. Babbitt and their other daughter escaped by a miracle from certain death.
Edward R. Kellogg, Vice Consul at Yokohama. Japan, died on July 4, 1923, at Syracuse, N. Y.. while on leave of absence. Mr. Kellogg was born in San Francisco, Calif.. April 22, 1864. He attended schools in San Francisco, Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. He studied art in New York, Paris, and Rome and for fifteen years engaged in artistic and research work in Japan. He was ap¬ pointed clerk at Yokohama on January 1, 1918, and promoted to be Vice Consul on October 26. 1918.
UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TABLET AT GIBRALTAR Rear Admiral Archibald H. Scales, U. S. N., commanding the Midshipmen’s Practice Squad¬ ron cruising in European waters, on August 2. 1923, unveiled the Memorial Tablet erected on PAUL E. JENKS the wall of the Armament Building in H. M. Dockyard and presented to the City of Gibraltar American Vice Consul killed by the collapse of by Destroyer Squadron Fifteen in memory of the Consular Building in the earthquake which the officers and men of the U. S. S. Chauncev, destroyed Yokohama, September 1, 1923. who, during the World War. lost their lives on November 19, 1917, when their vessel was lost Mr. Paul E. Jenks, American Vice Consul at while engaged on patrol duty off the Straits of Yokohama, who lost his life on September 1. Gibraltar. 1923, in the great earthquake which overwhelmed Following the ceremony two battalions, one of Japan, was born in New York City, April 6, 1862. Midshipmen and one of bluejackets, accompanied He was educated in Brooklyn Collegiate Poly¬ by a guard of honor from H. M. S. Cormorant, technic Institute, Hopkins Grammar School and paraded before the Acting Governor, the British Yale University, and received the degree of P>. A. and American Rear Admirals with their staffs at the latter in 1884. and other officials. After leaving college Mr. Jenks spent some Before the departure of the squadron Consul years in banking institutions, and was also inter¬ R. L. Sprague entertained at dinner the Acting ested in several newspaper and advertising enter¬ Governor and the British and American com¬ prises. He then traveled extensively in the Far manding officers. [294] The Value of a Knowledge of Foreign Languages
THE course of instruction now prescribed for placent American had a tendency to disregard the newly-appointed consular officers is designed importance of other languages. This condition is to give them more than a mere grounding in to be expected in our country, where, in a district certain details of the routine and technique of of hundreds of thousands of square miles, English consular duty. It is intended to assist young offi¬ is the only language of significance. Too often cers to acquire a broad outlook upon Service prob¬ has he had a feeling of superiority over other lems, an understanding of Service ideals, and to nations, which has been a decided detriment, in enable them to visualize the boundless field of studying a new language, he cannot help but usefulness which lies ahead of them. The in¬ acquire a broader outlook, overcome his lormer struction period is intended to convey to their prejudices and, on tne wnole, have a more com¬ imagination the purposes of the consular organi¬ prehensive understanding of the world at large, zation; to point out the relationship of the Service tie will then appreciate that there are millions to National interests and the interests of Ameri¬ whose viewpoint is wholly different from ours, can citizens, and what is being accomplished as a and will make allowance for such differences. result of the work of the Service. “Primarily language is a tool and not a decora¬ The advantages of foreign language study as tion—it is for use and not for cultural grace. The an aid to efficiency in consular practice were student of foreign trade is learning the language brought to the attention of a class of officers re¬ principally to be able to sell goods and conduct his cently receiving instruction at the Department and business, but, while learning, the language becomes is reported, in part, as follows: a living thing to him and the cultural value is not Everv officer is expected to perfect himself in lost. The literature of the country now becomes the language of the country in which he is sta¬ a delight. Many who understand a foreign lan¬ tioned, and, also, if necessary, to acquire a greater guage know the joy of reading a masterpiece in facility of expression in English. If this is not the original, and then, for the sake of comparison, done within a reasonable time, the officer’s ef¬ sensing a keen loss when reading a translation of ficiency will be impaired, for upon his knowledge it in their own tongue, regardless of how fine that of the language of the country in which he is lo¬ translation may be. Because one is a business cated largely depends his ability to render proper man it does not follow that he should be solely assistance to American interests. If an officer interested in trade matters and commercial sub¬ fails to take advantage of the opportunity offered jects. He should have, of course, a thorough at his post to acquire a knowledge of the language knowledge of his own field, but. at the same time, of the country, the conclusion is that he is lacking if he is versatile and has read widely and intelli¬ in initiative and interest in the Service. gently on many subjects, he will fine! it a distinct The advantages of foreign language study have advantage.” been ably summarized by Mr. Clayton Cooper in When Consul General Skinner, of London, was his book on “Foreign Trade Markets and elected President of the American Consular As¬ Methods” as follows: sociation in 1919, his letter of acceptance of that “In learning a new tongue, one does not merely office contained this advice on the subject of lan¬ acquire a knowledge of the language. An entirely guage study: “Another subject of study too fre¬ new field is opened to the student and he gains an quently neglected except by those who live in insight into the course of mental development of French-speaking countries is the French language. the race. He has access to the heart and mind of Members of the Foreign Service may enter the the people. He learns their ideals, manners and Service with a slight knowledge of Spanish or customs. He gets a broader and more sympa¬ German or a smattering of French and fancy they thetic understanding of mankind. He becomes are equipped for their life’s work, but the fact acquainted with a new point of view, new men¬ remains that unless they possess or acquire a good tality, new social usages, all of which is a distinct working knowledge of French, the sort of French asset to his international equipment. He learns for which apologies need not constantly be made, to think internationally. Too often has the com¬ (Continued on page 307) [295] The Washington Daily News of Tuesday, Sep¬ tember 11, 19Zo, comments favorably upon the etiorts of the Department to distribute the flood of information covering the Japanese disaster telegraphically received from its officers in Kobe, Shanghai, Tokyo, Nagasaki and Nagoya, without whose splendid cooperation such success could not have been attained: PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN CON-
SULAR ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. Hats Off to These Folks! The American Consular Bulletin is published monthly by the This is a story of how red tape and American Consular Association, arid is distributed by the Asso¬ ciation to its members gratis. The Bulletin is also open to pri¬ routine were smashed to smithereens by vate subscription in the United States and abroad at the rate oj $4 .00 a year, or 35 cents a copy, payable to the American Con¬ our Government here in Washington—- sular Bulletin, c/o Consular Bureau, Department oj State, Wash¬ smashed in service to the people. ington, D. C. The purposes of the Bulletin are (1) to serve as an exchange For days after the Japanese disaster among American consular officers for personal news and for communications between the stricken information and opinions respecting the proper discharge of their functions, and to keep them in touch, with business and island in the Pacific and the United administrative developments which are of moment to them; and (2) to disseminate information respecting the work of the Con¬ States were either nil or extremely pre¬ sular Service among interested persons in the United States, carious. including business men and others having interests abroad, and young men who may be considering the Consular Service as a 'thousands of Americans on this side career. of the ocean were wringing their hands Propaganda and articles of a tendential nature, especially such as might be aimed to influence legislature, executive or adminis¬ in suspense and fear for the fate of their trative action with respect to the Consular Service, or the Depar'ment of State, are rigidly excluded from its columns. loved ones. Yet they had no personal Contributions should be addressed to the American Consular means of communicating with them. Bulletin, c/o Consular Bureau, Department of State, Washing¬ ton, D. C. The State Department, realizing this, came to the rescue. Day and night a large staff of workers, under the per¬ sonal supervision of Herbert G. Heng¬ stler, Acting Director of the Consular The American Consular Association Service, stuck to the job. By word of mouth, by telephone, by OFFICERS telegraph and by mail they collected WILBUR J. CARR Director of the Consular Service names of Americans supposed to he in Honorary President HERBERT C. HENGSTLER Chief of the Consular Bureau the earthquake zone and cabled them to Honorary Vice-President Government officials in Japan for news. Consul General HORACE LEE WASHINGTON President Consul General TRACY LAY Vice-President Government offices in Washington ; Consul J. KLAHK HUDDLE Secretary-Treasurer close at noon dur ng summer. This office Consul General EVAN E. YOUNG Chairman Consul General EDWARD J. NORTON Vice-Chairman did not close. It worked full blast all COMMITTEES afternoon, into the night and far into EXECUTIVE Sunday morning. It was open Sunday Consul General NATHANIEL B. STETWART Chairman Consul General DEWITT C. POOLE afternoon and Sunday night. Red tape Consul General EDWARD J. NORTON had "one by the board. Consul General TRACY LAY Consul EDWIN L. NEVILLE “If we can save somebody even an RECEPTION hour’s suspense we feel it is up to us to Consul General AUGUSTUS E. INGRAM Chairman do it.” was the way one of the workers Consul EDWIN L. NEVILLE Consul FRANK C. LEE put it. Consul LOWELL C. PINKERTON As soon as answers came back from BULLETIN STAFF Japan the report was wired or phoned to Consul HARRY M. LAKIN Editor Consul HASELL H. DICK ) . „ those interested without loss of a minute. Consul LOWELL C. PINKERTON j Associate Editors Consul ADDISON E. SOUTHARD Business Manager This’s service. This is “Government Consul HAMILTON C. CLAIBORNE Treasurer for the peonle.” functioning at its best. The American Consular Association is an unofficial and Hats off to the State Department and voluntary association embracing most of the members of the Consular Service of the United States. It was formed to eaffi ’’"dividual who contributed to for the purpose of fostering esprit de corps among the members of the Consular Service, to strengthen Service this fine thing. They did the country a spirit, and to establish a center around which might be good turn. grouped the united efforts of its members for the im¬ provement of the Service. In connection with the foregoing editorial it (Continued on page 305) [296] VISITING OFFICERS Consuls General The following Consular Officers called at the Nathaniel B. Stewart, Yokohama. Department on leave or en route to new posts dur¬ Stuart J. Fuller, Tientsin (reassigned). ing the period from August 14 to September 13: Tracy Lay, Department. Stuart J. Fuller, Consul General at Tientsin. Consuls, Class III Lorin A. Lathrop, Consul at Nassau. Clinton E. MacEachran, Consul at Antwerp. Lester Maynard, Havre. Wesley Frost, Consul at Marseille. Consuls, Class IV Harold D. Clum, Consul at Konigsberg. David J. D. Myers, San Luis Potosi. Emil Sauer, Consul at Cologne. Ernest L. Ives, Alexandria. Andrew J. McConnico, Consul at Guadalajara. George S. Messersmith, Consul at Antwerp. Consuls, Class V Maurice P. Dunlap, Consul at Bangkok. E. Verne Richardson, Pernambuco. John Randolph, Consul at Bagdad. Donald D. Shepard, Malaga. Raymond H. Geist, Vice Consul at Montevideo. F. LeRoy Spangler, Vice Consul at Sofia. Consuls, Class VI Charles A. Day, Vice Consul at Port au Prince. Alfred T. Burri, Tabriz. Robert W. Imbrie, Vice Consul at Constanti¬ nople. Consuls, Class VII John McArdle, Vice Consul at Mexico City. Carl O. Spamer, Rotterdam. Clifford Wayne McGlasson, Vice Consul at Hugh S. Fullerton, Calais. Seville. George T. Colman, Punta Arenas. Harman L. Broomall, Vice Consul at Kobe. Gilson G. Blake, Vice Consul at Ottawa. Vice Consuls de carriere J. Franklin Points, Vice Consul at Toronto. Donald F. Bigelow, Paris. Harry J. Anslinger, Vice Consul at Hamburg. Arthur H. Cawston, Port Elizabeth. Samuel E. Green, 3rd., Vice Consul at Rio de Albert M. Doyle, Amsterdam. Janeiro. Fred C. Eastin, Rio de Janeiro. L. Dale Pope, Vice Consul at Sydney, N. S. James G. Finley, La Rochelle. John E. McArdle, Santa Marta. Sydney B. Redecker, Medan. RESIGNATIONS Consular Assistant Harn'd R. Foss, Consul, Class VI. Leonard N. Green, Yokohama. H. Gilbert King, Vice Consul and Interpreter. Senior Interpreter The following Consular Ass’stants have been Howard Bucknell, Canton. appointed and detailed to the Department: Non-career Officers John H. Bruins, of New York. George C. Arnold, Bucharest. Leo. J. Callanan, of Massachusetts. Charles B. Beylard, Bizerta. Charles Iff. Derry, of Georgia. William J. Rouse, Valparaiso. Samuel E. Greene, 3d, of Maryland. Lewis B. Sparks, Mahno. Ronald D. Stevenson, of Pennsylvania. [297] PROMOTIONS ASSIGNMENTS Clerks to Vice Consuls DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS Ralph C. Goldsberry, Ensenada. Hiram E. Newbill, Tsingtau. Secretaries, Class 1 Arthur G. Watson, Aden. Jefferson Caffery, Tokyo. Donald S. White, Vienna. Secretaries, Class 2 Consular Agent Philander C. Cable, Sofia. Luis D. Marin, San Pedro de Macoris. Oliver B. Harriman, Copenhagen. Cornelius Van H. Engert, Habana. SERVICE WEDDINGS Hallet Johnson, Madrid. Benjamin Thaw, Jr., Santiago. DURKIN-PHELAN. Miss Marguerite Dur¬ John C. Wiley, Lima. kin and Mr. Raymond Phelan, Vice Consul at Teneriffe, Canary Islands, were united in mar¬ Secretaries, Class 3 riage at Paris on July 19, 1923. F. Lammont Belin, Department. George A. Gordon, Department. Mr. Sydney Guv, a clerk in the Consulate at Herschel V. Johnson, Department. Swansea, Wales, was married on July 19, 1923. Frederic D. K. LeClercq, Tokyo. J. Theodore Marriner, Department. The BULLETIN takes pleasure in announcing Walter H. Schoellkofp, Buenos Aires. the following births and congratulates the parents Harold L. Williamson, Bogota. upon the happy events: A daughter, Catherine Bernadette, was born to Vice Consul and Mrs. William H. Brown, on RESIGNATION July 12, 1923, at Plainfield, N. J. Richard N. Thompson, Secretary of Class 4. A daughter, Susan Winchester, was born to Vice Consul and Mrs. Edward Caffery, on June 25, 1923, at Bucharest. The friends of Elbridge D. Rand, Secretary of A son, Armand Lincoln, was born to Vice Con¬ Legation, at Tangier, Morocco, are delighted to sul and Mrs. Manuel Joseph Codoner, on July learn of his rapid recovery from the effects of 30, 1923, at Valencia. the painful accident which he recently suffered. A son, Leslie Andrew, was born to Consul and Mrs. Alfred W. Klieforth, on August 29, 1923, PRESENTATION OF AMERI¬ at Washington, D. C. A son, Robert Rudston, was born to Vice Con¬ CAN FLAG sul and Mrs. Robert Dudley Longyear, on August Consul James S. Benedict, St. Johns, New¬ 4, 1923, at Pantr’afon, Benllech, Parish of Llan- foundland, on behalf of the Rotary Club of De¬ fairmatharfaneithaf, Anglesey, North Wales. troit, Mich., presented to the Rotary Club of St. A son, Richard, was born to Consul and Mrs. John’s, on July 3, 1923, a silk American flag, Edwin L. Neville, on August 26, 1923, at Wash¬ which was accepted for the club by Rotarian ington, D. C. Arthur Mews. A daughter, Maureen Louise, was born to Vice Consul and Mrs. Robert R. Patterson, on July The members of the Narcotic Conference, 27, 1923, at Liverpool. Congressman Stephan G. Porter, Bishop C. H. Brent and Consul Edwin L. Neville, sailed from A daughter, Alice Birkhead, was born to Vice New York September 1, 1923, aboard the S. S. Consul and Mrs. Rollin R. Winslow, on July 12, George Washington, to attend a meeting of the 1923, at Soerabaya. Fifth Committee of the League of Nations at A daughter, Natalie Jane, was born to Vice Geneva to consider the opium traffic. Consul and Mrs. Irvin C. Correll, on August 8, Assistant Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the 1923, Nagasaki, Japan. Public Health Service, joined the party in Paris. [298] AMERICAN CONSULAR RHLLETIN
AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL AT YOKOHAMA The building collapsed during the earthquake on September 1, 1923
The following financial statement of the BUL¬ The cash balance on hand June 30, 1922, was LETIN for the period January 1 to June 30, 1923, $515.59, which compared with the cash balance shows very gratifying results: on hand of $2,821.93 on June 30, 1923, shows a Cr. gain of $2,306.34 in actual cash for the year. Balance from previous quarter $1,113.69 Consular Association payments 900.00 The following are the names and addresses of Advertisements, paid 2,594.33 candidates who passed the Diplomatic examina¬ Subscriptions, paid 749.10 tion of July, 1923: $5,357.12 Stuart E. Grummon, of Newark, N. J. Dr. H. Freeman Matthews, of Baltimore, Md. Printing $1,749.97 Richard M. de Lambert, of Raton, N. Mex. Cuts, illustrations and photographs.. 243.67 Trojan Kodding, of Wilkinsburgh, Pa. Postage and stationery 190.65 Christian Gross, of Chicago, 111. Miscellaneous (including editorial and clerical assistance) 350.90 Stanley Hawks, of Port Washington, N. Y. Cash balance on hand 2,821.93 Carl A. Fisher, of Salt Lake City, Utah. Robert O’D. Hinckley, of Washington, D. C. $5,357.12 J. Holbrook Chapman, of Newark, N. J. To the cash balance on hand should be added Paul Mayo, of Rosedale, Colorado. $672.75, the amount due from advertisers. John N. Hamlin, of Springfield, Ore. [299] Santos and Its Coffee Trade SANTOS is the world’s chief coffee port. The Brazilian steamer cleared for London with a full standard sack or bag of coffee weighs cargo of 159,000 bags aboard, valued at more than 132 pounds, and the annual exportation of two and one-half million dollars. Many of the green coffee from Santos varies from 8,000,000 vessels calling at Santos are en route to the United to 13,000,000 such hags, with a total average value States from Buenos Aires and other River Plate of about $150,000,000. During the banner price- ports, and already have loaded a part cargo, per¬ year of 1919, the total exportation was 9,426,335 haps of hides. Such steamers usually complete hags, valued at $248,000,000, and the 4,462,797 their cargoes with from ten to thirty thousand sacks sent to the United States alone were valued bags of Santos coffee. at approximately $123,000,000. The wharves of Santos are very up-to-date, are Approximately one-half the coffee consumed in over three miles in length, and can accommodate the United States is grown in the Brazilian State about fifty ocean steamers at one time. The of Sao Pau'.o, which normally produces over fifty machinery is nearly all electrically driven and is per cent of the entire commercial coffee crop of the most modern obtainable. The equipment for the world. Other Brazil'an States grow coffee loading coffee is unequalled in any other port of on a smaller scale, but in sufficient quantities to the world. From scores of great warehouses, in bring Brazil’s entire production to about two- which are neatly stacked a total of from two to thirds of the world total. five million bags of coffee, the sacks are trans¬ Santos, the port of the State of Sao Paulo, and ported by long trains of automobile trucks or mule first port of Brazil in the value of exports, is the carts to the dock yards. There the bags are gateway through which the coffee ra’sed in the dropped from the trucks and carts through man¬ interior of the State is shipped to all the principal holes in the street, which lead to a partly under¬ ports of North America and Europe, and through ground system of endless rubber belts. When a wh:ch the State receives annually millions of dol¬ bag of coffee falls on one of these belts, it is car¬ lars’ worth of wheat and flour, coal and oil, and ried to another belt running at right angles to such manufactured goods as automobiles, sewing the first, and so on, until it is dropped into the machines, typewriters, cash registers, and hun¬ hold of the ship itself, without having been dreds of other articles made in the United States handled by men since leaving the wagon on which or Europe. it arrived at the wharves. Several thousand bags New York and New Orleans are, respectively, of coffee an hour can thus he loaded on a vessel the leading coffee ports of the United States, but with a minimum of labor. Baltimore, Boston, Galveston, and the Pacific It is sa;d that the first lot of coffee exported Coast cities also rece've every year many thou¬ from Brazil consisted of thirteen bags, which was sands of bags of Santos coffee. sh’pped from Rio de Janeiro in the year 1800. Nineteen hundred vessels, of which more than About twenty years ago, however, Santos took a thousand were foreign steamers engaged in from R’o the leadership in the coffee trade, and overseas trade, have entered the port of Santos since that time has become permanently estab¬ in a single year, and very few of these sailed lished in first place. The exportation of coffee away without loading at least a few thousand to foreign countries from Santos alone during sacks of coffee. The average number of vessels the calendar vear 1909 reached the enormous total calling at this port annually during recent years of 13,453,103 bags. has been about fifteen hundred, and the fact that Green coffee is not a commodity of a highly the number of American steamers included in perishable nature and, if properly stored, may be these figures has increased from none in 1912, and kept for a number of years. It is sa;d. in fact, only seven during the crop year (July 1-June 30) to improve with age up to about the eighth year, 1913-14, to 162 during the crop year ended June but as it constantly loses in weight during this 30, 1921, is a source of interest and pride to all period, it is usually placed on the market within Americans who wish to see their country’s flag a year after it is harvested. again occupy a prominent place in international The Brazilian coffee tree, an evergreen shrub commerce. some ten or twelve feet in height, flowers prin¬ As a rule, steamers which have called at Santos cipally during the months of August and Sep¬ during the past year have not obtained full car¬ tember, although there are irregular flowerings goes of coffee, but in January of this year a (Continued on page 309) [300] REFERENCE BOOKS A. H. BUCHAN, President & Treasurer Consul General at Large Nelson Trusler John¬ son gives for the benefit of consular officers the Dixon - Buchan following bibliography which, after years of re¬ search work, he has selected as his geographic Tobacco Company INCORPORATED reference and textbooks. A number of additional works of reference are Dealers and Exporters listed in “Training for the Steamsh:p Business,” Virginia-Carolina Leaf Tobaccos a pamph'et issued by the Deoartment of Com¬ LLINS, SO’ TH CAROLINA, U. S. A.) merce, Miscellaneous Series No. 98: PACKING GUARANTEED A good atlas containing physral as well as po¬ SAMPLES SENT ON REQUEST litical maps (such as Andree’s or Stieler’s “Hand REFERENCES: Atlas” or “The Times Atlas”—there is as yet no PAGE TRUST COMPANY, Sanford, North Carolina, U.S.A. Codes Used: reliable AmerVan post—nor atlas). FIRST NATIONAL BANK, ABC Bth Edition A commercial atlas—Bartho’omew’s Atlas of Mullins, South Carolina, (J.S.A. Leiber’s 5 Letter Economic Geography, or Ph'llins’ “Mercantile LONG ISLAND NAT’L BANK, Cable Address: Marine Atlas of the World” (£ 4.146). Hicksville, Long Island, N. Y., U.S.A. “DIBUCO H. R. Mill: International Georgraphy, D. Ap¬ /WWWWWJVWVWWWW pleton & Co., New York. The Statesman’s Year Book (for 1914 and 1922), Tarr’s “College Physiography,” Macmillan Co. COOPERATORS Salisbury. Barrows and Tower: The Elements The following is the number of subscriptions of Geography, Henry Holt & Co., New York. received through the cooperation of members of Principles of Human Geography: Huntington the Association, in addition to the lists which ap¬ and Cushing, John Wiley & Sons, New York. peared in previous issues of the BULLETINS Ellsworth Huntington: Climate and Civiliza¬ tion: Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. Charles R. Nasmith, Ghent 1 Huntington & Williams’ “Business Geography,” G. K. Donald, Johannesburg 1 Wiley & Sons, 1922. George C. Hanson, Harbin 4 Mark Jefferson: Commercial Values: Ginn & Horace Lee Washington, Liverpool 6 Company, Boston. Ernest A. Wakefield, Prince Rupert 1 Hugh H. Watson, Lyon 1 E. C. Semple: Influences of Geographic Envi¬ Charles I. Graham, Tangier 1 ronment: Henry Holt & Company, New York. William Dawson (At Large) 2 J. Russell Smith: Industrial and Commercial James B. Stewart, Tampico 3 Geography, Henry Holt & Company, New York. Donald D. Shepard, Department 4 J. R. Smith’s “Commerce and Industry.” Harry A. Havens, Department 2 J. R. Smith’s “The Food Supply of the World.” Ely E. Palmer. Bucharest 2 R. DeC. Ward: Climate: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, A. E. Ingram, Department 1 New York. John F. Jewell, Birmingham 2 Geography of the World’s Agriculture, Depart¬ Harry M. Lakin, Department 1 ment of Agriculture. Edmund B. Montgomery, Rio de Janeiro. ... 1 “World Atlas of Commercial Geology,” U. S. George G. Fuller, Jerusalem 1 Geological Survey. Irving L. Lmnell, Deoartment 1 J. Brunhes: Human Geography: Translated Henry M. WoRott, Bilboa 2 and edited by Dodge, Bowman and Lecomte— Will;am W. Early, Belize 1 Rand, McNally Co., Chicago. Arthur Garrels (At Large) 2 Andree’s “Geographic des Welthandels.” Edward T. Norton. Department 1 G. G. Ch’sholm: Handbook of Commercial J. Klahr Huddle, Department 1 Geography; Longman’s, Green & Company, New York. Isaiah Bowman’s “The New World.” A total of 2,105 reports was received during Practical Exporting. Hough. the month of July, 1923, as compared with 2,154 Modern Democracies; Bryce. during the month of June, 1923. [301] THE UTILITY OF WORLD izations who in turn make the most effective use of this information without responsibility on the TRADE DIRECTORY part of either the consul or the Bureau. The REPORTS effectiveness of the arrangement is manifest in (Continued from page 288) the fact that during the whole period of its exist¬ and we feel sure that we will, our efforts will be ence the Bureau has not received a single com¬ successful. plaint regarding the misuse of this confidential in¬ We desire to emphasize the importance which formation. Actions, therefore, speak louder than we place on reports coming from the consulates words. from time to time regarding various foreign It is to be hoped that whenever possible, any firms, which in their judgment are undesirable for member of the Consular Service when in Wash¬ American firms to have business dealings with. ington will visit this Division of the Bureau so Such information is fully respected as to its confi¬ that he may have a better knowledge of its dential nature and is passed out by the Bureau workings. without prejudice and in the strictest confidence to a selected list consisting principally of the large banks in this country doing a general for¬ During the month of July, 1923, there were eign exchange business. The consul is absolutely 3,342 Trade Letters transmitted to the Depart¬ protected in any remarks under the confidential ment as against 2,979 in June, 1923. part of the World Trade Directory report, first by the general waiver now incorporated under the The Consulate General at Rio de Janeiro took heading “Confidential Information” to the effect first place in the number of Trade Letters sub¬ that no part of the information is for publication mitted, having (67), followed by Sao Paulo (56), or public dissemination; and secondly, by the London, England (52), Guayaquil (45), and careful system of dissemination to reliable organ¬ Shanghai (44).
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THIRTY YEARS’ SERVICE STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK Rudolph L. E. Friche, clerk in the Ameri¬ 26 Broadway New York can Consulate at Leipzig, Germany, celebrated his thirtieth anniversary in the Consular Service on August 1, 1923. Consul Don S. Haven, in the presence of the assembled staff, expressed ap¬ preciation, personally and on behalf of the De¬ partment. of the many years of efficient and de¬ voted service rendered to the United States Gov¬ ernment. Mr. Friche was born December 18, 1865, at Leipzig, and entered the Consulate at Barmen. Rhenish Prussia, as a clerk on October 1, 1889, where he remained until his transfer, April 1. 1893, to Annaberg, Saxony. His stay at that post was short for on August 1, 1893. he assumed The Mark of Quality his duties at Leipzig, where in November, 1893. he was appointed Deputy Consul and acted in that capacity until 1910, when he was promoted to be Vice and Deputy Consul. Upon the entry of the United States into the Socony World War Mr. Friche served in the Spanish Embassy at Leipzig in charge of the American Consular archives and records but returned to duty in the consulate there on December 9, 1921. the date of its formal reopening, otherwise 34 Products years would have been completed.
Illuminating Oils ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR COOPERATION Lubricating Oils and Greases The substantial income derived from the sale Gasoline and Motor Spirits of advertising space pays a considerable part of the expense of publishing a bigger BULLETIN, Fuel Oil and the members of the staff in Washington therefore expect their colleagues in the field to let advertisers know directly of the more im¬ Asphaltums, Binders and portant results, at least, of their use of BULLETIN Road Oils publicity. For you information and possible use there is Paraffine Wax and Candles provided the following statement of the rates re¬ ceived by the BULLETIN for its advertising space: Lamps, Stoves and Heaters Full page $40 00 per issue Half page 25.00 per issue Quarter page 15 00 per issue Branch Offices in the Principal Cities of Eighth page 8.00 per issue
Japan Philippine Islands Turkey Any suggestions which members of the Asso¬ China Straits Settlements Syria ciation may have in tins connection, together witli Indo-China Netherlands India Bulgaria data in the matter of specific instances of the Siam South Africa Greece more important results which we know are accru India Australasia Jugoslavia ing to our advertisers, would be appreciated by the Business Management of the BULLETIN. Do yon know any possible advertisers? [304] NECROLOGY Joseph Thomas Moran, Vice Consul at Port au Prince, Haiti, was drowned on September 5, 1923, when his automobile plunged over a narrow dock into the harbor. Mr. Moran was born in Lee, Mass., December 26, 1897, graduated from the Lee High School and served from 1918 until 1920 in the Marine Corps. During 1921-22 he was a clerk in the Consulate at Santo Domingo where he was ap¬ pointed Vice Consul on March 23, 1922, and on April 17, 1923, was transferred to Port au Prince, Haiti.
Mr. Duncan D. Dexter, father of Vice Consul Fletcher Dexter, at Lausanne, Switzerland, died in that city on July 24, 1923. Experience (Continued from page 296) may be stated that the Department, desiring to Nothing counts in ocean-travel afford every possible assistance to the survivors service like experience. Operations in the devastated area and to the refugees shel¬ extending over more than 50 years tered at nearby ports, took prompt action in in¬ have witnessed the sound develop¬ structing the following officers to proceed im¬ ment and sure growth of our mediately to Japan to aid in relief work: Consul famous Lines to their present com¬ General at Large Nelson T. Johnson, Consul manding position in the North- General N. B. Stewart, Consul Jos. W. Ballen- Atlantic passenger trade. These tine, Vice Consul John W. Wright, Vice Consul Lines carried more than 210,000 Irvin C. Correll and Consular Assistant Leonard passengers across the Atlantic last N. Green. year, including more than one- Consul General E. S. Cunningham voluntarily third of all first-class passengers accompanied Consul General Johnson from from New York to European ports. Shanghai while Consul Dickover desoatched Vice Headed by the world’s largest Consul Creager from Kobe to Yokohama in ship, Majestic, the Homeric, Olym¬ charge of a relief ship loaded with supplies. pic the palatial, new Belgenland R. Henry Norweb, Secretary of Embassy, who and the famous Big Four of our has been ordered to Tokyo, hastened his de¬ Liverpool service, our Fleets in¬ parture in order to assist the over-worked staff clude 118 vessels totalling 1,238,000 of the Embassy. tons. During the month of August, 1923, there were Our complete ocean services of¬ 3,047 Trade Letters transmitted to the Depart¬ fer five sailings weekly to English ment as against 3,342 in July, 1923. ports, three to France and one each The Consulate General at London, England, to Ireland, Belgium and Germany. took first place in the number of Trade Letters submitted, having (71), followed by Valparaiso Accommodations to suit every (64), Habana (60), Rio de Janeiro (44), and purse and taste. Corinto (43).
During the month of August, 1923, 2.007 gen¬ : PLWHITE STAR LINEET eral and m scellaneous letters were received in AMERICAN Lnre 41-m Ren STAP LIME the Department for transmission to the addresses INTBBNATIONA1 MBRCAMTILB MAKINK COMPANT in the Uffited States. The Consulate at Riga No. 1 Broadway New York forwarded 223, Kovno 217, Warsaw 197, and Habana 127. [305] The General Motors Building in Detroit, Michigan, U. S. A., is the largest building of its kind in the world. It houses the executive organization of the General Motors Corpo¬ »!*• ration. The factories Milu *«** of General Motors, whose products range Hillt from the tiniest ball¬ Him bearing to the finest mm limousine, are located Him in 36 cities and employ over 90,000 people.
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[306] CONSUL PEPYS (Continued from page 290) am able at will to peak in upon them and observe who is diligent and who not—sparing time to chattre or smocke. But found after all little use thereyn for by this manner of peeping and prye- ing myselff lose much tyme from my own duties and so after all much displeased at myselff and my chance disckoverie. September 25, 1670. Came this beforenoone, in the mayle, a little flimpsy thing entytled “News¬ letter of the Consulls.” An some one doth prynt and distribute it at intervals abroad among the Service giving in this wise advice of changes and alteratiouns in the stations of the King’s Officers Abroade, who yt are moved from plaice to plaice, those yt are but new come to the worck, theyr first appoyntments, who yt have left us and who yt are promoted or enhanced in theyr employment. Much pleased to watch so as from a distance and afarr the dumbshow of how our little men’s pursuits of commerse and politick affairs drive us little human puppitts to and froe and from the one side to ’tother across the face Photograph from the late of the globe, ever and alwaies changing as if what Mrs. Max D. Kirjassoff man (and in partickular the Forein Offis) Gouging Chips from a Camphor Tree, Formosa arrangeth might never persist or endure more than a little whiles. And was happy to see how Others—Why Not You ? some go forward valyantlie in their calling and Alexander Weddell, A. T. Haeberle, Frederick yt virtue needeth not alwaies be her owne some¬ Simpich, Robert P. Skinner, Ernest Lloyd what barren reward but sometimes findeth im- Harris, Harry A. McBride, and Maurice P. medyate and Wellcome reckompense. Dunlap—as well as Mrs. Kirjassoff—have September 26, 1670. Sarah, she announceth contributed photographs and articles to the National Geographic Magazine, thus adding today, not much tayken with the “Newsletter,” it zest and income to leisure hours. contayning little of interest to the Consulls, their wiffes, noughte of dresses or fashings nor yet This is an invitation for you, too, to submit photographs of natives—at work or at play— any housewiffes recipies of cookerie nor yet anie and carefully prepared descriptions of the cus¬ tales of love and gallanterie, how the sweet toms and people at your post or in the terri¬ heroine did catch a housbond rycher and more tories you visit, for the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC noble than he which the faire reader hath got MAGAZINE is eagerly seeking such material in herselff. every corner of the globe. All material accepted is paid for promptly at attractive rates, and that which is unavailable is THE VALUE OF A KNOWL¬ returned promptly by insured post. EDGE OF FOREIGN Brochure descriptive of material de¬ sired and booklet about The Society LANGUAGES and Magazine mailed on request. (Continued from page 295) Address, The Editor. they have not gotten beyond the rudimentary state of their career. A consular officer will be for¬ National Geographic given if he speaks any other foreign language im¬ perfectly, but if he is unable in the international Magazine society in which he must mingle to converse flu¬ ently and correctly in French, he will be regarded Washington, D. C., U. S. A. by his associates as unfitted for his task.” While the acquisition of a foreign language for [307] CONSULAR, BULLETIN practical purposes is urgently necessary, officers HOSPITALITY should not overlook the fact that the essentials The public-spirited citizens of a certain Far in respect to ability in consular practice are— Eastern city, noted for its civic pride, distribute general knowledge, intelligence, adaptability and handbills to incoming passengers to guide them integrity. There have been many officers in the in their pursuit of happiness, as follows: service who were excellent linguists but poor Well Come, consuls. Our dear friends! ! A good reading, writing and speaking knowl¬ After finished your faithful work in your long edge of French, and a fair speaking and reading voyage, have meny time Sir! knowledge of say, Spanish, Portuguese, German Recommend to You The Electric-Park. 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308 these are almost as large as a county in our SANTOS AND ITS COFFEE Eastern States. On a single very large fazenda TRADE there are several million coffee trees, with a colony (Continued from page 300) of more than a thousand persons to care for the lasting through half the year. The bright green trees and raise the necessary food crops. The berries grow in size until they are as large as State of Sao Paulo is said to have within its small cherries. Then they begin to redden, and borders 1,000,000,000 bearing coffee trees. by May the picking is well begun. By the end The principal business in Santos, a modern city of June the main harvest is about over and soon of more than 100,000 inhabitants, is the buying, the trees are again flowering for the next crop. selling, and shipping of green coffee, and coffee After the harvest, the berries are dried until forms the chief subject of the conversation heard they are ready for the huller which breaks open on its streets. Scores of coffee brokers daily may the berry and frees the two grains which lie face be seen strolling along the Rua 15 de Novembro, to face within. The cleaning and drying of the upon which vehicular traffic is suspended during grains is a long and expensive process. Several business hours, and where most of the coffee sales months usually elapse after its picking before the take place. It is an interesting fact that most of coffee is sacked and placed on the train ready for the actual trading in coffee is done in the street, the trip to Santos, where it will be rebagged, and although the brokers and exporters have offices perhaps further cleaned, graded, or even blended. well-equipped for roasting and testing the coffee No coffee is grown at Santos, which lies at before the transactions are definitely closed. sea level and is too warm, but within a few Most of the exporters also have a coffee-taster, hours’ ride by train is the plateau region of the a man who judges the beverage made from the State. It is here, at an elevation of from twenty- individual samples by taking a sip from each of five hundred to three thousand feet, that the big the several dozen cups arranged on a circular plantations or “fazendas” are found. Some of table in front of him.
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