The Detroit times., 1910-12-17

the automobile and the horse. AS
sistant Secretary Wilson, when in
| need of relaxation, can run over TO
| New York and jump in the Lusitania.
| Third Assistant Chanler Hale is not
pinched with penury either.
But listen, how things have chang
ed even in the lower ranks. Hugh
Gibson, secretary to the assistant
secretary. who ranks as a secretary
OF embassy on the diplomatic list,
works eighteen hours out OF twenty
four. When anything is wanted, Glib
son gets It, II ii is necessary to do
some overtime work, the poor gov
ernment clerk, who gets down at nine
| o'clock, goes home, and Gibson, who
Is usually on the job at 1880, stays
| and does 1t. When he gets twenty
minutes off for luncheon, Gibson
rushes over to the Metropolitan club,
and bolts wretched pheasant, or bit
Of quail. and hurries back to the
grind again.
Another recent addition to the de-
partment's force is Arthur Orr, of
Evanston, who was secretary at the
London embassy before he came TO
Washington as assistant to the chief
of the bureau of information. Orr
tries hard to hide his iniquity. For
months he was not even suspected
except by his Russian cigarettes,
which are imported especially for
him. But the TERRIBLE truth came
out at last. Orr. in a fit of reckless
ness, rented house next to that of
Secretary Knox, and wheeled up and
down the avenue in his limousine,
within sight of the secretarys draw
ing room windows. Ii is true that
most of his wheeling was done in the
early morning, when he was hurry
/ ing TO work, or late at night, when
! he was coming home, but Ii is a large
car, none the less, and the indictment
| stands. Both Orr and Gibson, when
they have any leisure, which is sell
dom. walk up the street like anybody
else, but all this is a mere sham in
tended to deceive the public. Hunt
ington Wilson has even been known
to ride in an ordinary taxicab
So there you are. This is the pro-
blem that Secretary Knox has on
his hands There are openings for
tho por young man, but the poor
| young man will not avail himself of
the opportunities. He fights shy of
a diplomatic career The idea that
a poor man cannot afford to take up
diplomacy is spreading. 1t is situa.
ton for the great American public to-
ponder Think how discouraging it
is for the poor farmer. who has gone
back to spend a month or two of the
summer at his old home in Europe
to be obliged to place himself under
the protection of the millionaire who
represents his country!
A new national holiday is proposed
in bill now in the committee on
judicviary of the house of representa-
tives. that, if adopted, will make
April 20 of every year day of gen.
eral jollification.
The bill proposes the setting aside
of that date for doing honor to the
name America as the cognomen OF
the continent. Plans for national.
state and civic celebrations each year
are included in the measure which is
lengthy document, outlining the
means by which the name America
was given TO the continent. 10 the
voyages OF discovery of Americus
Vespucci, the Italian explorer.
Rep. Hamill, of New Jersey. the
author OF the bill, declares IL will fiji
long felt want. He says that the
whole continent of America, from
Hudson's Bay to the Isthmus of
Panama would join in celebrating the
day.