The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-02
THE PAGE APPOINTMENT.

The educators and literary men of
| this country are coming into recognl-
| tion by the present administration as
never before. This is quite natural
in view of the position and the work
| of President Wilson in the educational
and literary feld heretofore. He is
himself noteworthy author, as well
as among the first in prominence of
| the educators of the United States. He
is in closer touch and in better fellow.
ship with educators and literary men
than with politicians, so that it is
quite natural that the literary men and
educators should be brought into pub
lie life more prominently than bith-
erto.
The tendency of President Wilson to
look 10 the cultured class for his ap-
pointments took significant form when
he made Chancellor David Franklin
Houston of the University of Missouri
one Of his Cabient officers. as Secre-
tary of Agriculture, man absolutely
unknown personally to the politicians
and Congressman from his State,
His offer OF the British mis-
sion to President. Emeritus Charles
". Eliot of Harvard followed,
and the men most prominently named
for diplomatic positions, such as Thomas
Nelson Page, Augustus Thomas, and
others of the literary and writing co.
terie, prove sufficiently the disposition
of President Wilson to turn to edu-
Gators and writer's primarily for his
appointecs.
The British mission has been vacant
since the death Of Whitelaw Reid :.
President Taft declined to make an
appointment, leaving the position open
to his successor. 1t was first offered
TO Mr., Olney, and then to President
Eliot, and now it has been offered to
and accepted by Walter Hines Page,
editor Of the monthly magazine, The
World S Work.
Mr.. Page was born at Cary, North
Carolina, August IS, 1855, so that he
is now nearing the close of his fifty.
eighth year Mr.. Pages life-worlt has
been along literary and educational
lines. He was student at Randolph
Macon College, Virginia, 1928, fell
low of Johns Hopkins University, 1876
s; he married Alice, daughter of Will
liam Wilson, of Michigan, in 1880; he
was editor of The Forum, 1905; lit
erary advisor to Houghton, Mifflin 6
Company, Boston, 1859; editor Of the
Atlantic Monthly, 1869; and of The
World s Work since 1900. He is a
member of tho publishing firm of
Doubleday, Page 6 Company since 1890.
His chief authorship has been tho pro-
duction of the standard work, "The
Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths. +"
His address is Garden City, Long Is
land, New York.
The natural presumption is that Mr..
Page has an independent fortune, for
otherwise it is hardly conceivable that
he would be willing to take the mission
to the Court Of ST. James; and his
acceptance is probably conclusive upon
that point for our ambassadors TO
Great Britain. as is the case
also with our ambassadors to
France, Germany, Russia, Austria Hun.
gary, and Italy, arc obliged by custom
and social pressure to spend four or
five times as much as the salary Of
$1,000 attaching TO the Office,
Of Mr.. Pages personal qualifications
for this distinguished appointment,
there can be no question He is a
man of broad culture, high attainments,
and under Lis hand as editor, The
Worlds Work has attained a distin-
guished position before the reading
public of the world. There can be
no question but that the Office is worth
ily filed. 1t is creditable appoint
ment, and doubtless Mr., Page will honor
his country in his diplomatic services
in Great Britain, as he has honored
letters in the United States,
SENATE RANKING COMNTITTEE