Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-01-21
SCHOOL FOR CONSULS
george Washington University's
New Move Deemed Big Boon.
TRAINS MEN FOR SERVICE.


Endorses College For Education Of
Young CipIomats-Pians on Foo.
For Their Benefit-Pension System
For Old Age.
Unusual efforts are to be made dur
Ing the next few weeks to place be-
fore the public the great need of the
extension of American commerce
abroad in foreign lands by means Of
more uniformly well trained consuls.
The National business League Of
America has written strong indorse-
ment of the effort of the George Wash
ington university OF Washington to de-
vc.~ij {" s,O... consular training school
In connection with Its new College Of
Political Sciences and will send this
Endorsement out broadcast
1t is the intention to create In the
public mind the great necessity for a
new law which will give the perma-
nency Of statute to reform regulations
1naugurated by President Roosevelt
and Secretary Root which aim ut the
divorcing of consular appointments
and politics and placing the appoint
ments on the same basis as In the
army and navy.
With this idea in view representa-
tive business men of the country have
approved Of the establishment Of the
consular training school. where any
ambitious young man may fit himself
for the important duties Of n consular
office and where he may look forward
to career of service without fear
that the next change in political ad
ministration will cause his recall.
In connection with the Endorsement
Of the National Business League Of
America there will also be issued two
pamphlets written by men familiar
with the needs of n consular training,
says a Washington special dispatch to
the Chicago Herald. One is from the
pen Of Richard d. Harlan. d. D.,
IL. D., special representative Of the
George Washington university move
ment. and the other by John Ball Os-
borne. chief of the bureau Of trade
relations, which Is reprinted from the
North American Review with addi-
tional notes.
In its letter Of Endorsement the Ma
tional Business league says that the
extension of American commerce
abroad and the increase of the ma
TONS influence in foreign lands are
matters which must interest every
public spirited citizen. 1t points out
that more uniformly trained consuls
would secure this boon and that the
proposed new law and the establish
ment Of special consular training
school would supplement each other.
The National Business leagues letter
reads as follows
The league desires most impartially to
commend all of these educational prof.
ectS to the generous financial support OF
the business men Of the country. Only in
this way can we develop that class of
trained men mentioned by Secretary Root
from which the state department can
draw for Its appointments to the foreign
service In order that it may maintain the
high standards that have at last been
created for the consular service
But in order to cooperate with the uni
versities in their efforts to provide spe-
cial education for the new consular serv
ice career opened up by the reform reg
ulations the great commercial organiza-
tons and influential business men through
out the land must now stir themselves to
united action In favor of the immediate
passage by congress of a proper law,
which, as Dr. Harlan we'll puts 1t, will
give the permanency of the stutute to the
regulations which now merely rest upon
an executive ORDER
DR.. Harlan in his pamphlet reprints
letters of commentator from Secre-
tary Elihu Root in answer to a point
ed inquiry from a special group Of
New York importers, who ask, what
guarantee would the business inter-
ests of the country have that the best
graduates of such schools would ac-
tually get the new appointments in
the consular service?" Mr.. Roots re-
ply was SO eminently satisfactory that
they have since all subscribed to the
sustentation fund Of the university
Secretary Root declared he would
raise the standards Of admission to
the consular service 100 per cent If
the means were at hand for preparing
enough men to attain those standards.
Among the new plans on foot are
higher salaries for the upper ranks Of
consulates, pension system to care
for old age after the best years of the
consul officers have been given over
to the service.