Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-21
PITY THE DIPLOMAT
REPRESENTATIVES OF WARRING
NATIONS HARDEST WORKED
MEN IN WASHINGTON.
YOUNGER ONES IN, ARMIES
taI Are
mt, for
urden-

some and Exactin.
BY GEORGE
Washington.-Who hardest
working officials spt Ament in
Washington today?<
The quick answer Il at be the pres
ident OF the United States the secre-
tary of state and the secretary of war
In making this answer there would be
an ignoring of the hard labor claims
of the ambassadors and the members
of their stats VINO represent belliger-
ent countries today in the capital of
the United States
The president, because of foreign,
Mexican and legislative troubles,
works virtually all day and sometimes
pretty well into the night. The secre-
tary of state, because of threatenings
from across the water and from Mex
leo, is compelled perhaps more fire.
quently than the president to extend
his hours into the dark time. The
secretary of war is new man in Of
fee and his work is particularly trying
because he has lot to learn and on
top of what might be called his school
ing has been imposed the necessity of
looking after the welfare of our army
in Mexico and along the border
This work of the American officials
is hard and driving, but it is neither
harder nor more driving perhaps than
that which daily must be undertaken
by the ambassadors and other diplc-
mats in America representing the war
ring powers abroad. Russians, Eng
lishmen, Frenchmen, Germans and the
rest over the water are serving their
governments in the trenches, but while
their work may be the more dangerous
it cannot be any more taxing than that
which falls to the daily lot of the diplo
matte representatives of these coun
tries in this capital of the United
States.
Hard Work for Elderly Men.
1t has been said that the work of the
foreign soldiers abroad may be moro
dangerous than that of their civilians
now in this country in official capaci
ties, but it may be that this statement
in itself is a trifle overdrawn. Some
of the ambassadors and their staff of
| f1cers are getting along in life and a:
many of them work 16 hours day tht
heavy burden of the labor makes then
run the danger of actually beins
worked to death.
When the war broke out nearly al
of the younger men attached to tht
I embassies in Washington immediatel,
started home to join the colors. Witt
the exception of one or two foreign OF
fees in Washington the stats are com
posed of men who have been sent owe
here because they had become inca
pacitated for service in the trenches.
When one meets noticeably tire
looking man in Washington the nat
ural inference is that he is a diploma
representing one of the warning cour
tries. This recently has been write
concerning the work of the foreigner
in Washington:
In not one of the embassies of tn
belligerents in this town is such a
order known as lights out. From an
bassador to doorman the foreigner
toll away until exhaustion comes an
forces them to bed. The belligeren
foreign governments ought to sen
Red Cross detachments to their en-
bassies in Washington"
Their Manifold Duties.
It might be thought that even in wa
times the ambassadors of the power
which are engaged in war would be o.
cupied only with duties connected wit
the state department of this govern
ment. Diplomacy, as it is general
understood, forms only a small part {
the daily work of a Jusserand, a Vo
Bernstorff, or Spring-Rice Thes
men are made the sympathetic recip
ents of every plea in behalf of the
countries. They are obliged to give a,
vice and support to hundreds upo
hundreds of organizations all over tn
United States which are engaged j
work in behalf of the destitute or til
wounded in the countries which tt
ambassadors represent
Diplomatic correspondence is but
trifiing matter of the day when cor
pared to the scores upon scores of lie
ters which must be answered fro
here, there and everywhere concernir
ways and means of doing something
aid the stricken in the countries
, war. The absence of the younger me
! has increased the burden of the eld,
, men who today are doing the wol
, that formerly was done by their assis
, ants, and who have their own work
! addition. To this must be added Il
labor of various kinds of which Il
r peace days knew nothing.
: Birds Interest Lawmakers.
= Spring makes the staid lawmake
3 of Capitol hill turn their fancies light
r to other things than legislation. TT
beauties of nature, bird songs and OF
l. er pulsings of the spring season mo
: them out of their winter moods.
: Recently Thomas R. Marshall vic
president of the United States, to
how, one spring morning, he heard Il
"woodpecker pecking and the bluebi
cheerily singing" and how the SCUM
of the season made their appeal
e him. In connection with this, he to
D of calling the attention of a man
/ the 'woodpecker pecking, while Il
9 bluebird cheerily sang" and was m
with the response: why, it is not