Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-14

small salaries and so when a man has
to give up two or three hundred dol
lars every year or two because Uncle
Sam has seen fit to move him from
place to place, he thinks that he ought
to be given travel pay.
Once on a time diplomatic and con-
sular officers of the Government did
comparatively little for the home gov
ernment except to attend to the needs
of American citizens who happened to
get into trouble in the countries or the
cities to which the officials were ac-
credited. 1t is fact that some mem
bers of congress seem to think that
the foreign service of the United
States is conducted on the same lines
that it was 40 years ago. The truth is
that the state department demands
and gets from the foreign service re-
ports on business conditions, on open
ings for American trade, suggestions
for improvement of affairs in America
based on conditions in other coun-
tries, and for scores CT other kinds Of
work which once foreign-service man
Cannot Live on Salary.
Several of Uncle Sans foreign-serv-
ice men already have resigned be-
cause under existing conditions they
cannot live on their salaries. Others
have reported that unless they are
paid more money or unless some
allowance is made for travel and liv-
ing expenses they cannot continue to
hold their places without running up
debts which they cannot see their way
clear to pay. The state department
has told congress something about the
conditions in these words:
THE cost of living has increased in
Europe and many other countries and
consular officers of the lower classes
are finding their salaries inadequate
| to enable them to maintain themselves
| in a proper manner. The few
consuls having private incomes are
drawing upon their own funds to sup
plement their salaries. Inasmuch as
the living expenses will not decrease,
and as there is good reason for the be-
lief that they will continue to increase,
| it is of the utmost Importance that pro.
vision be made at once to supplement
| the regular salaries of consular Off
GERS wherever it shall be found upon
investigation to be necessary
The government is trying to induce
high class of young men to enter
the consular service of the govern
| wont to ho0iD of oo11rco in tho 1ovyoT
grades where the salaries are small
est. The officials say that they are
handicapped in getting men of high
ability because of he meagerness OF
the sums paid and because at some
posts in the world a man either
must have money of his own or else
ne cannot live. In other words, the
government wants to be able to ap
point poor men of ability to Office anC
not to be forced always to give the
jobs to rich men who may OF may
not have ability.
Red Men in Washington.
An Indian CHEF, Prairie Wolf, O.
the Blackfoot ribe, who came Il
Washington from the West day o.
two ago to try to fix up some
tribal matters with the commissions
of Indian affaiTS, called at the Office o
Gen. Hugh L. Scott. chief of staff o
the United States army, to pay hi
respects. The Indian spoke no Eng
lish, and while General Scott under
stood something of the language of hi
caller, the latter preferred to carry o.
the conversation in the sign language
For fully fifteen minutes the chief Q
staff and the chief of the Blackfee
talked together. Then the genera
turned to some visitors who we're i
the Office and explained what tn
plainsman had said. -Curiously enough
Buffalo Bill dropped into the Office q
the time that Prairie Bear was presen
The scout and the chief talked in tn
sign language and the first thing tha
the red man said in sign words afte
Buffalo Bill had removed his hat wa
that the scout did not have as muc
hair as in the days when he was fo
lowing the western trails.
: Indians are coming to Washingto
, constantly, and as most of the visitor
| are old men who cling to the old dres
{ and the old customs they arrive a
} rayed in all the feathers and othe
finery of days that are gone. The
: make a picturesque showing on th
broad avenues and in the parks, whe1
: they attract instant and general attel
, ton. There is a boarding house
: Washington exclusively for Indian vi
| itors, and there the red men are mao
more comfortable, perhaps. than the
). are in their frontier homes, but it
: possible, of course, that the whi
mans idea of comfort does not agrt
6 with that of his fellow of anoth,
, color
4 Always Look Up General Miles.
n Gen. Nelson A. Miles lives in Was
l. ington The general is getting {
toward the fourscore milestone, b
n seemingly he is as active physically
ever Miles fought nearly every XIII
Q of an Indian that the plains in the o
J, days produced, and the old men amor
S the visitors when they are here alwa
T try to see the general. He understot
8 the sign language well, and althoug
= of course, his conversation with Il
l. reds ordinarily is carried on in the
6 own language or in English, 1t ocC
g sionally happens that the plainsm,
e and the soldier talk together with the
If hands.
| Cruel Necessity.
D. why should you think of abandC