The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-11-05
JUSSBRAND Is
ALWAYS In GAMR
FRENCH AMBASSADOR NEVER
OVERIOOkS BET.
Carctaker of Capitol Is Hurrying
Preparations for Assembling Of
Congress Again.
FOR THE DECEMBER SESSION

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Press) DEAN Adrien Antoine Jules
Jusserand is his name, ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary of
France HIS station, and the suavest.
cleyerest, busiest and most popular
foreign representative at the capital,
his reputation.
When 1t comes to l'diplomating,
the diaper little man who is accredit-
cd to the United States from Paris
has everything on these shores beat
tinguished statesmen would express
! IL. There Isn't an accomplishment
from tennis to public speaking, that
Jusserand doesn't perform gracefully
and well-and always with the pur-
pose Of letting the fact sink In that
France is Damon TO the Pythias of
United States.
In the days when Colonel Roose-
welt swung the big stick for amuse-
ment and the tennis racquet for ex-
ercise. there was no single party In
the capital who was more willing to
submit to graceful defeat-40 TO
love - than Jean ct cetera. And,
necessarily, there wasn't a man at
Washington who was a more boon
companion - not that Jusserand
couldn't play tennis once in a while
when he let himself loose. Occas-
lonally be did.
Jusserand was also indispensable
I to President Roosevelt as an histori-
cal authority-the little Frenchman,
/ by the way. has written several note
worthy books OF history He was in
/ demand as an orator at every occas-
ion from a convention of foresters
to a gridiron dinner; and he was the
most popular ladies' man here at the
capital.
Even now. that Jusserand doesn't
care for golf, and finds President
Taft bit rusty on history. people
here who watch things find that the
French ambassador is still the bus
lest diplomatic person around town.
Every department. from the state
TO the interior, knows him. His
dapper figure fits through all Offices,
and even the messenger boys know
him. At present the representative
| from France Is particularly on the
job at the treasury department His
special object OF solicitude is the new
tariff board. Much depends. so far
as France Is concerned, on what this
committee of three may recommend
regarding the maximum and mini
mum feature OF the Payne-Aldrich
act. France is said to be preparing
to discriminate against America in
the matter of her duties, and there
are rumors OF retaliation on the part
of this country.
Ambassador Jusserand hadn't been
back In Washington from the sum-
mer headquarters of his embassy
more than a few days when he took
pains to call on the treasury depart
ment and get acquainted with Prof.
Emery and Alvin II. Sanders. two of
the members of the new board He
already knew former Assistant Sec
rotary Reynolds, the third member
Up at the treasury they are still talk
ing about that meeting. II looked
like a remarkable coincidence that
Just as the board had gotten together
one day. a clerk should usher In Am
bassador Jusserand. He had 'just
dropped in to pay his respects" to
Mr. Reynolds, but, of course, at the
same time he met the other members
OF the board. They were delighted
that the ambassador had happened
In so opportunely, but those who
are wise know that the ambassador
of France never Just Happens in"
anywhere.
If France hasn't yet learned the
fact someone ought TO tell her that
Mr.. J. A. A. ]. Jusserand knows how
to play the game.
Congress VIII Convene.
In anticipation of the early assem-
bling of congress, now only five
weeks away. Elliott Woods. superin-
tendent of the capitol building, is re-
doubling his efforts to get that big
structure In readiness for the return
ing law makers. Gangs of painters
and decorators are working overtime,
touching up the faded spots in the
corridors and committee rooms. In
some cases, especially at the senate