Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-07-02
DR.. DENNIS VISITS
HIS OLD HOME TOWN
Spends Part or Day In Pocomoke;
Meets Old Friends And Is
Warmly Greeted.

Worcester County was pleased on
Friday of last week to have on her
sell again her honored and disting-
uished son, DR.. Alfred P. Dennis, and
ncne shared in the pleasure more than
the people of his native district OF
which Pocomoke City is the metropo-
lis.
DIR. Dennis now holds the position
| Of United States Commercial At
tache at London and it was in the in
terest of his department of the Ma
| tons business that he was recently
called to Washington. Good man that
he is. and interested as he is in our
people, he took time enough before
returning to his post in London, to
run down on the Eastern Shore and
meet his old friends, and everybody
| was delighted to see him.
DIR. Dennis has been in the old
country for nearly three years. In
writing of his experience abroad and
his recent visit to his home country,
the Baltimore News has the follow
ing:
"Much of his time was spent in
Italy as commercial attache of the
American Embassy at Rome. While
at this post he reported to Washing
ton on economic conditi ons in the
Italian Peninsula and in the Islands
cf Sardinia, Sicily, the Balkan States,
Egypt and the former Austrian ter
ritories now united to Italy as re-
suit of the war. At the first of the
year DR.. Dennis was transferred to
London, by way of promotion, to the
most important trade post connected
with our diplomatic service. AS such
he enjoys the ranking position in the
Governments European commercial
service.
In obedience to cable order from
Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Dl.
Dennis arrived in New York on the
Aquitania June II, and has since been
in Washington collaborating with the
officials of the Department of Com
merce in broad scheme for promot-
irg our export trade by increasing
the efficiency of our commercial ex-
perts abroad. Under instructions
from Secretary Hoover, DR.. Dennis
has made a number of speeches in
various parts of the country. During
this week he will get as far west as
| Chicago, where he will be the princi
pal speaker at banquet gotten up by
Chicago business men directly or in
directly interested in our foreign
trade. From Chicago DR.. Dennis
goes direct to New York to catch the
steamship Lafayette of the French
Line, sailing on the morning of July
IL. On the same ship will sail his
brother, former United States District
Attorney Samuel X. Dennis of Balti-
more, and Mrs. Dennis, and Marion
T. Hargis and his daughter, Miss
| Carolyn Hargis of Snow Hill, who are
| going to Europe on a summer trip.
DR.. Dennis was, fortunately, in the
country at the time of the reunion Of
his class C91) of Princeton Universe
! ty last week. He was presented a
silver loving cup by the class and was
| introduced in this wise when called
upon to make the principal address at
the class dinner:
"There may be some difference of
| opinion" said the toastmaster, "as to
lust what constitutes success and as
to the particular men in the class who
may be accounted to have made the
greatest success in life. There can be
nc difference of opinion, however, as
to the fact that our Classmate Dem
mis- has had the most unique, extra
ordinary and variegated career of any
man in the class. He has been far
mer, backwoodsman litterateur, col
lege professor andis now amember OF
our diplomatic service. He has been
camp cook and dishwasher for an
engineering corps in the wilds OF
Alaska He has served on three uni
| versity faculties as professor OF his
tory. He has for eight years done
the work of a cornfield negro in the
swamps of Southern Maryland and
| Virginia. He is the only American
business man to my knowledge who
ever sat on sofa with the King OF
Italy, at His Majesty's invitation, and
discussed with him the merits OF
American disc karrows and the habits
of Pocomoke river shad. Now that ne
/ has been promoted to the post in Lon
don, we may expect to hear that ne
! has been shooting craps with the
Archbishop of Canterbury"