Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-27
HunlariSmS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

IJERE is an impasse from which there
IL is no escape. Diplomacy in its most
exalted circles down Washington way has
given up in despair. has gone right along
and done things in n way that It knew to
be wrong. Diplomacy has done this and In
matters social.
The ambassador extraordinary and plcni.
potentiary from Brazil, Mr.. Augusta Coch ~
rane dc Alencar. is the victim of physical
circumstance. His country and the United
States are on a basis Of such cordinlity a.
exists between almost no other two nations
in the world. Brazil wishing to favor the
United States above all other nations. and
holding to the theory that the best material
comes in small packages, selected Mr..
Alencar. who is very small of stature, for
the Washington post.
lie was a minister. but suddenly his sta.
tion was advanced to ambassadorial rank.
Very shortly thereafter President Hard.
ing announced that he would receive the
diplomats. There was much scurrying among
them to get matters in shipshape for the
reception by the new President At the
Brazilian embassy the tension was great
because new ambassadorial uniforms must
be provided.
In Latin America diplomatic uniforms are
very definitely prescribed. An ambassadors
coat must have just so much gold braid on
it Of just such and such sizes. The impasse
Of the Brazilian representative was not big
enough to hold all this braid on. 1t had
| served all right for ministerial purposes,
but it was impossible to get the ambaSsa'
| dorial braid on. SO this popular and pune
tilious official had to go to the White House
| quite improperly clad in the coat OF a
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes is head Of the
| Fairgrounds Of the nations capital and one
of the outstanding woman officials of the
government.
Seeking to show the world just what
Fairgrounds should be she recently had mo-
tion pictures made Of those in Washington
| Then she arranged that they should be shown
for week at one of the local theatres.
She invited Miss Mabel Boardman. dis.
trict commissioner; Mrs. Calvin Coolidge,
wife of the Vice President, aFl others, to
share her box for performance.
Imagine her chagrin when the program
was run through and no playground pic
lures appeared.
Did you find your pictures" Mrs
Coolidge asked when next they met.
Yes" Mrs Rhodes replied, "and
made the manager give my children three
free matincCs for having lost them
II am recompcnscd," said Mrs Coolidge
That destiny often finds US unwilling tool
in her hands is attCstcd by Senator William
Paul Dillingham;, of Vermont. one OF tn
cultured and distinguished members of tn
upper house of Congress.
Senator Dillingham;. for instance. claim
no credit for having chosen the course tha
was his. He did not want to be a lawyer
His father was a lawyer ahead OF him an'
had reputation for being brilliant advO
cate. The youngster was discouraged D
his fathers pronounced success. He cou'
never expect to approximate 1t. =,
Sn o m n
found that he had no commercial inSunC
whatever. that he did not take TO this call
ing that it was incomparably abhorrent u
him. lie was very unhappy young man
At about this time an uncle wrote hin
from Minnesota. The uncle suggested ina
the yo,ngstcr come out to Minnesota an
read law in his Office. He accepted the 10
vitatipn. not that he had any enthusiasm io
the prospect, but that he might escape IN
grocery store. g.,
So was he started toward the Cnit'
States Senate.
1t is further from the BoUcry to FItt
avenue. II has been asserted, than II is lloU
Nevada to that same fashionable thorousn
fare. This, Of course. Is but another waJ o
asserting that tho haunts of the succCsH'
are more accessible to those residents OF ln
great waste places than to the tccminS trne
mcnts next door. ,
Ewing I,aportc. who grew UP on csttL
ranch iIf Wyoming. subscribrE 10 this theory
lie is assistant secretary Of tho treasury o
tho United States AT the age of twenty'Hry'n
He received a commission TO that poRt IrT,
President Wilson in December last,
March he got second handsomely cngrA'r'
lit to- frame cardboard hcar,ng the sigma
turo of one Warren G.. Harding. :.
The cattle country challenges Wal strsT.
to beat this record.