The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-13

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their efforts in their days
native Of Ohio. twenty years old.
just graduated from ;he Kentucky
University at Lexington. Mr.. Carr
came 10 Washington a quarter OF
century ago. In 1892 he entered IN.
service OF the Department, Of state rs
clerk. While working he carried
on his studies. SO that in 1894 he was
graduated from Georgetown Cniver-
slty as an LII. B.
For ten years his rating in the de-
partment was merely tha; OF a clerk.
but his CHIEFS found him no ordinary
clerk. Hence. in 1902. he was pro-
moted TO be chief OF the consular bu-
reau. in which he had so long worked
After i've years of service he was maoc
chief clerk of the department. hut IN
| 1903 he was called back 70 his first
| love as director of the consular service
| and there he has since remained
Compact of figure with thinning
| blond hair. stubhy mustache keen
| oiue eyes, an engaging smile and an
air OF alertnesS he impreSSes one as
| the embodiment of the modern notion
| or efhclency. His workroom. the walls
lined with books ard record cases and
maps, the tools of his trade carries
out the impression.
: Just recently he has been working
out the readjustment of the service
and its reorganiZa ton made possible
with the passage of the new law
which gives mobility to his force
heretofore laws of Congress fixed the
. relative Importance of the cities and
ports in which American consuls are
maintained. Laws of trade and other
natural laws sometimes cOnfiicteG.
! When a consulate general was estab-
I hShed twenty years ago place of its
: | esta blishment might be very import
n ant indeed. Today il may have de-
e generated and some new place grown
n up.
: To get Congress TO take note Of the
: change is an exceedingly hard task.
) Hence the new law appointing ConSuls
y and coL.suls general to classes and per
t mitung the President to assign and
reassign them to posts where he finds
a they are most needed.
=, There are five classes of Consuls
= general provided for in the new law
ranging in pay from $4,000 for class
FIVE to $12 900 for class one; and nine
IL classes of conSulS, ranging in pay
from 2,000 for class nine to $4,000
T. for class one Consuls enter the lower
a. grades by appointment after exami-
US nation, and then are transferred and
et promoted on their demonstrated eff
LII In the reclassifcation of the service
IS, under the new law, sixteen consulates
a where the need for them no longer
exists, were closed: six were removed
ne to other cities, six new offices Wert
eff created, the salaries of eighteen con
he suls general were increased and the
ce salary Of one consulate that at Not
of tingham, England was decreased.
tn For eXi> i>mple the post at Bueno
,es Aires, by reason of the increased i'm
en- portance of that city and the growth
us of the work there, was increased from
by a $4,000 classification to $4,000; tn
he | post at CallaO, for the same reason
from $4,000 to $500: since Antofa
gasta, Chile, in its relations with tn
United States, is becoming of large
1,o 80, Importance, new consulate was es
us tabliShed there in the $4,000 claS!
ldr Sac Paulo. Brazil, also a new grea
er- trade center. gets a new consulat
also, at a $1,000 classification. An
~ nu other new consulate was estabhShe
els at Changsha, China, in the center {
I'd q developing coal and iron producln
MS region.
luz Placing the COnSulS.
Natural law and natural demand
, ;c | in other words, have been substitute
~ for the edict of Congress as to whel
,fi | cOnSulS are needed.
fnr There has been much shifting abol
49,, of consuls and conSu1s general und'
cen the reorganization. Here IS an e.
NC | ample: In one capital, q large con
80 | mercial center, there "a,
consul general He was a good ma
not we'll placed, for he lacked the e
perience and maturity that an oftic
ole should have for that particular poir
du- Under the new law he has been TAX
arf' away and assigned to a point whe
the he can be more useful, and secol
40 grade consul general. especially qua
'his fed for that capital assigned there.
'lrs: And the cost of it all
of p,,t th;c Question ~ NJ Carr q,
ne watch the proud smile that sprea
dilG over his face.
the The net cost of the consular servi
nick 70 tha i-nitad states is inst ahout 8 {
at a ooo a .aar The gross cost is 80 08
rmy 000 hut &C an offset to this the co
sular officers abroad collect offlc
nate fees and turn them into the Treasu
war | to the sum of 50 .040, 600. In the gre
the cost are included not alone salari
him h~t travel;no eynenses and all otf
rs items of expenditure.
The consular fees collected. in otf