g/« AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE * * JOURNAL * * he knows he may be president “Attentive” that’s the word most guests use when And what’s that to you ? Just this. Their “Yes, sirs” they’re speaking about our service. But not long are said just a bit more sprucely than you hear them ago, one of our guests expressed it differently. elsewhere . “Floor, please” sounds a trifle warm¬ Nodding toward a smart little bell boy, he said, er .. “Good morning, sir—it’s 7:30” comes over “That kid’s as eager to please as if he owned a lot the wire a little more hospitably . room service of stock in your hotel. I bet he’ll get somewhere!” is a.little quicker . table service a little more And that remark moved us to let you in on a secret courteous. Small things, if you will—but you like ...the secret of why all our employes show them, don’t you? And this same spirit of such a warm personal interest in what¬ service animates the bigger things that ever work they are doing—and in you. are done for your comfort and conveni¬ Each and every one of them knows 25^ reduction ence in each of our seven hotels. One that if he’s better than his job, he’ll get to diplomatic and of these “bigger things” is the man¬ a better job. And that rule goes right consular service agement that makes it possible to give up the ladder from the bottom to the top. NOTE: the special rate you such a very wide range of very That’s why they’re all “career men” who reduction applies only reasonable prices in rooms and res¬ work in our hotels. to rooms on which the taurants and special services. rate is $4 a day or more. HOTEL NEW YORKER 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY Directed by National Hotel Management Company, Inc. • Ralph Hit*, President Private Tunnel from Pennsylvania Station Other Hotels Under Same Direction: HOTEL LEXINGTON, NEW YORK . NETHERLANO PLAZA, CINCINNATI . BOOK-CADILLAC, DETROIT THE ADOLPHUS, DALLAS HOTEL NICOLLET, MINNEAPOLIS HOTEL VAN CLEVE, DAYTON THE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL CONTENTS (APRIL, 1936) COVER PICTURE Scene in the Holy Land GRACE LINE (See also page 204) "SANTA" SHIPS SERVE COLONEL TOBIAS LEAR By Ernest L. Ives ... 185 NEW YORK UNCLE SAM’S ANTIQUE KINGSTON, JAMAICA By Laura Langdon 188 FAIRY CHANGE HAVANA, CUBA Verse by W. G. Nelson ..... 190 PANAMA CANAL ZONE How IT’S DONE IN SWEDEN ..... 191 ECUADOR KITTY HAWK PERU By Frank A. Montgomery, Jr. 193 CHILE I ERE COLOMBIA By Wallace E. Moessner 195 FIREMEN’S HYMN 197 EL SALVADOR EMBASSY DIARY COSTA RICA By Emily Bax . * 198 GUATEMALA YANGTZE SUNRISE MEXICO Photograph by Thomas M. Wilson 200 LOS ANGELES MARK TWAIN IN SWITZERLAND SAN FRANCISCO By Arthur C. Frost . 201 NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT ...... 205 NEWS FROM THE FIELD . 208 A A POLITICAL BOOKSHELF Cyril Wynne, Review Editor Tice |K«^j Reviewed by C. W. 210 Neutrality—The World War Period Reviewed by Charles W. Yost 211 Stalin EUROPE-SOUTH AMERICA Reviewed by George Verne Blue 211 via NEW YORK FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES 212 Through tickets at no extra cost IN MEMORIAM 214 Shortest,fastest route between NewYork and BIRTHS. MARRIAGES _ 215 Buenos Aires, via Valparaiso and across the AGROUND AT TUTOYA Andes by train or Pan American-GRACE By Aubrey E. Lippincott _ 216 Airways. SOUTH AMERICAN TRAVEL 228 Regular service of de luxe, first class, and SPORT IN IRAN cabin class ships, meeting every demand of By J. Rives Childs 234 time and purse. SERVICE VISITORS * 239 A WISH Verse by Mariquita Villard 244 GRACE LINE TEN YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL 244 New York, Boston, Washington, D. C., Pittsburgh, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and in Mexico, Guatemala, El Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Havana, all tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter August 20, 1934, at the Post Office, West Coast South American Countries, London, Hamburg and Paris. in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 181 PACKARD 120 The ownership of a Packard carries with it a distinction that is to be found in the possession of no other motor car. It symbol¬ izes a tradition of quality that is as old as the motor industry. PACKARD MOTORS EXPORT CORPORATION 1861 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 182 To Patronize Our cA dvertisers Is to Insure a ‘Bigger and Better yournal for Our Service. INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Security and Trust Company 213 Atlas Engraving Company 241 Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba —- 243 Baltimore Mail Line 237 Brewood (EngraversI 236 Cathay Hotel—Shanghai - — 243 Chase National Bank 232 Cognac—James Hennessy & Co _ 243 (Irillon I Intel -Paris 243 de Sibour & Company, J. Blaise 227 Dunapalota Hotel—Budapest 243 Eederal Storage Company 222 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co 184 France et Cboiseul Hotel—Paris _ 243 Foreign Service General Motors Export Co. — 229 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Export Company 217 Grace, W. R., and Company 181 Officers I [arris and Ewing 236 Hnngaria Hotel—Budapest 243 Have A Greater Interest International Telephone & Telegraph Co 225 Kressmann & Co., Ed.—Bordeaux — 243 Than Ever Before In Le Bnissy D’Anglas Restaurant—Paris 243 America’s Capital . Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Co. 214 • When visiting this Martinique I lotel 236 Mayflower Hotel 183 beautiful and lively city, Merchants Transfer and Storage Company . 233 stay at The Mayflower Metropole Hotel—Shanghai 243 Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, where international per¬ Inc — 227 sonages reside and great Munson S.S. Lines 240 events occur. National Geographic Magazine 221 New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. ... 214 • Rates are no higher New Yorker Hotel n Cover than at less finely appoint¬ Packard Motors Export Corporation 182 Pagani’s Restaurant—London — 243 ed hotels. Palace-Ambassadeurs Hotel— Rome 243 Pan-American Airways, Inc 232 Single Rooms from $4 Park Hotel Shanghai - - 243 Plaza Hotel 219 Double Rooms from $6 Rockefeller Center _ III Cover All with bath, of course Sapp, Earle W., C.L.U. 214 Savoy-Plaza Hotel 219 Sea Captains’ Shop, The—Shanghai 243 The MAYFLOWER Security Storage Company of Washington 213 WASHINGTON, D. C. Smith's Transfer and Storage Co. 239 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc 235 Tyner, Miss E. J 214 l nderwood Elliott Fisher Company . 223 R. L. POLLIO United Fruit Company 218 I si Bigg esaa United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 240 S888; Manager United States Lines 218 I BQSfi Q Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV Cover Woodward and Lothrop 215 183 C7^ "}%ij!!i2A uritfiovit CM ouccyijc&^nt HiLERE is convincing evidence that highway accidents can be avoided. Ab Jenkins, the famous race driver who holds more speed records than any other man in automotive history, drove a million miles on Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires over every kind of highway without an accident of any kind. What a tribute to the reserve safety built into Firestone tires — what a reward for careful driving! In a traction and non-skid test, a leading university proved that Firestone High-Speed Tires will stop your car up to 25% quicker. Gum-Dipped Cords have proved in every test that they have greater heat resistance and that they give you greatest blowout protection. You can obtain greater protection for your familyand yourself by equipping your car today with Firestone High Speed Tires. | Listen to the Voice of Firestone Monday evening, over short Wave W2XAF—9350 kc. MASTERPIECE o/ TIRE CONSTRUCTION yircsto© 1936. F. X. & R. Co. FOREIGN S JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. XIII, No. 4 WASHINGTON, D. C. APRIL, 1936 Colonel Tobias Lear By ERNEST L. IVES, Consul General, Algiers THE experiences of Colo¬ His predecessors were John nel Tobias Lear, who was Paul Jones (1792), Pierre stationed at Algiers at the be¬ Eric Skjoldibrand, Jr. (1795), ginning of the 19th century, Joel Barlow (1797), and were of a kind that appeal to James Leander C a t h c a r t the imagination of Foreign (1802). Service Officers. Colonel Lear’s instructions Colonel Lear was born at from the Secretary of State, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, James Madison, dated July September 19, 1762, and died 14, 1803, read in part: in Washington on October 11, “ The Regency of Algiers 1816. He was graduated from being of most importance Harvard in 1783 and two to the United States, con¬ years later became private sidering its influence with secretary to General George those of Tunis and Tripoli; Washington, “by whom be and our stipulations with was treated with great cour¬ the Regency requiring the tesy and regard.” It was to largest expenditures, are Colonel Lear that General the causes why the Consul Washington expressed his last General is established wishes before his death at there.” Mount Vernon on December Colonel and Mrs. Lear ar¬ 14, 1799. rived at Algiers on November Colonel Lear married Miss 24, 1803, presumably on the Mary Long of Portsmouth, COLONEL TOBIAS LEAR American ship Old Tom, New Hampshire, in 1790. She Photograph of a charcoal drawing owned by which anchored off the Mole died two years later and in H. M. S. Barlow, Esq., Portsmouth, New near the Turkish fortress. 1795 he married Mrs. Fran¬ Hampshire. Shortly after the ship’s ar¬ ces Washington, widow of rival Colonel Lear called on Major George Augustine Washington, a nephew of the Dicklehadgee or Minister of the Marine, who General George Washington. Sbe died in 1796. acted as Minister of Foreign Affairs between the In 1803 he married Miss Frances Danridge Hen¬ Regency and Christian countries.