Evening star., 1915-12-31
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Former Ambassador White
Favors Retention Of Trained
Representatives Abroad.
COMMENDS THE SYSTEM
OF PRESIDENT WILSON
Address Before American Historical
Society-Association at Annual
Meeting Chooses Officers.

Society-Association at Annual
Meeting Chooses Officers.
! Prof George L. Burr of Cornell Uni
versity was elected president of the
American Historical Society at the an
nual meeting yesterday at the New
Willard Hotel. The election was unan-
imous. Other officers elected were
| Worthington c. Ford of Boston, first
| vice president: William Roscoe Thayer.
second vice president; Prof. Evarts B.
Greene of the University of Illinois,
| secretary of the council: Clarence W.
Bowen of New York. treasurer: A.
| Howard Clark of the Smithsonian In
stitution of Washington. curator: Wal
| do G. Leland of the Carnegie Institu-
ton of Washington, secretary, and
members of the executive council, as
! follows: Prof. Guy Stanton Ford of
| the University of Minnesota. Prof.
| Eugene C. Barker of the University of
| Texas, Prof. Charles Fl. Haskins of
Harvard, Prof. Ulrich B. Phillips of the
University of Michigan. Prof Samuel
B. Harding of the University of In
diana, and Miss Lucy NJ. Salmon, pro-
Some Important Appointments.
Among the more important appoint
ments We're those of Prof. Claude H.
/ Van Tyne of the University of Michi
gan and Prof. Ephraim Emerton of
Harvard University to the board of ed
| itors of the American Historical Re
view; H. Barrett Learned of this city,
1
| tons. and Prof. George NJ. butcher OF
! Wesleyan Comm University, chairman
of the committee on photography.
| The thirty-second annual meeting of
/ the association will be held in Cincin
natl during the last week of Decem-
/ Der. 1916. The chairman Of the pro-
gram committee for that meeting is
/ Prof Henry K. Bourne of Western Re
serve University; the vice president of
| the committee on local arrangements
| is Prof. Isaac G. Cox Of the University
of Cincinnati.
/ An important feature of the meeting
| Was the presentation of the report of
the committee of nine which was ap-
| pointed year ago to consider the con-
stitution. organization and procedure of
| the association.
! The constitutional amendments pro-
| posed by the committee were referred
| to the next annual meeting of the as
| sociation for action. Certain modifica-
/ tions of procedure recommended by the
committee We're adopted. and the asso-
! citation voted that it was its opinion
that full ownership and control of the
| American Historical Review should be
| vested in the association, but that the
/ present connection of the Review with
! the Carnegie Institution of Washington
and with Macmillan should be contin-
| ued. committee was appointed to as
/ certain what arrangements could be
made to effect the purpose of this reso-
! luton and report thereon at the next
| meeting.
| Would Eliminate Politics.
Henry White, former United States
ambassador at London delivered an ad-
! dress last night in which he told of
the disadvantages of changing United
! States diplomatic officers with the
change of political administrations at
/ nome lie said the consular officers
| and secretaries of enba sles and lesa-
| tons had been placed on a non-poli,il.ll
| footing, adding:
The present administration. in addi-
,ioh TO what II has done for the two
Drahches OF the foreign service to
| which / have referred has made an adj
vance upon any of it's predecessors on
| the occasion of a change of party in
| respect to the retention in office of
| those occupying the highest posts One
| ambassador. trained diplomatist and
! two ministers inherited from the pre-
| vious administration have been re-
| tanned in office; one of those ministers.
| also man who had passed through the
lower ranks of the service was sub
| sequently promoted to be an ambassa-
| dor. His name recently has been sent
! to the Senate for approval as ambas-
! sador to another post, one of the most
delicate in the service.
Two Appointees Recalled.
| From two other posts of importance
| to which men were appointed as min
| listers when this administration came
| in because they were good democrats.
| but who had had no previous expert
ence of diplomacy, the appointees have
| been recalled. To one of these posts a
man of many years training in the
| lower grades of the service, speaking
| fuently the language of the country,
| has been sent as minister. To the other
| the man who was removed for the good
| but unframed democrat aforesaid has
| been sent back as minister.
| But the greatest tribute paid by this
administration to the necessity of
, ira ined men in connection with our fo.-
| eign relations is the appointment of the
| Secretary of State, Mr.. Lansing. whose
| appointment is due, whatever his DO
| litical sympathies may be. to the fact
that he has been for many years a
faithful servant of the public. regard
less of the party which happened to be
in power. And it has met With the ap-
proval-the practically unanimous ap-
States.".
Why Capital Fell in 1914.