Enterprise news-record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1910-1911, 1910-12-31
Third Assistant chanler Hale is not

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 as
sistant secretary, who ranks as a Sec
retary of embassy on the diplomatic
list, works eighteen hours out of
twenty-four When anything is
wanted, Gibson gets it. If it is nee
essary to do some overtime work, the
poor government clerk, who gets down
at nine o'clock, goes home, and Glib
son, who is usually on the job at 1880,
says and does it. When he gets twen-
ty minutes off for luncheon, Gibson
rushes over to the Metropolitan club,
and bolts a wretched pheasant, or bit
of quail. and hurried back to the
grind again.
Another recent addition to the de-
partment's force is Arthur Orr, OF
Evanston, who was a secretary at the
| London embassy before he came to
| Washington as assistant to the chief
of the bureau of information. Orr
tried hard to hide his iniquity. For
months he was not even suspected ex-
cept by his Russian cigarettes, which
are imported especially for him. But
| the ter-r-r-ibe truth came out at last.
| Orr, in a fit of recklessness, rented
| a house next to that of Secretary
Knox and wheeled up and down the
avenue in his limousine, within sight
of the secretary's drawing room win
| dows. 1t is true that most of his
| wheeling was done in the early morn
| ing, when he was hurrying to work
| or late at night, when he was coming
| home, but it is a large car, none the
less, and the indictment stands. Both
Orr and Gibson, when they have any
leisure, which is seldom, walk up the
street like anybody else, but all this
is a mere sham intended to deceive
the public. Huntington Wilson has
even been known to ride in an ordi
nary taxicab.
So there you are. This is the prob
lem that Secretary Knox has on hi
: hands. There are openings for thu
poor young man, but the poor yount
man will not avail himself Of the op
portunities. He fights shy of diplo
matte career The idea that a poo
man cannot afford to take up diplo
macy is spreading. 1t is a situation
for the great American public t.
ponder. Think how discouraging
is for the poor farmer, who has gon
back to spend month or two of tn
summer at his old home in Europe t
be obliged to place himself under tn
protection of the millionaire who rep
\ resents his country.
d A new national holiday is propose
in a bill now in the committee on ju
!, dietary of the house of representative
that, If adopted, will make April 2
. Of every year day of general jolif
:. cation.
The bill proposes the setting asic
of that date for doing honor to tt
= name america" as the cognome
- of the continent. Plans for nationa
- state and civic celebrations each YET
are included in the measure which
lengthy document, outlining Il
- means by which the name Ameri'
!. was given to the continent, the vo
~ ages of discovery of Americus We
~ ~ pucci, the Italian explorer.
- Representative Hamill, of New Je
" sey, the author of the bill declares
will fill long felt want He sa
- that the whole continent of Ameri
:. from Hudson's Bay to the Isthmus
Panama would join in celebrating t
=, day.