The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1921-06-09
NEW DIPLOMATS
MUST BE CHOSEN
SELECTION OF AMBASSADORS TO
THE GREAT POWERS WILL BE
ONE OF HARDING'S TASKS.
RACIAL PREJUDICES FIGURE
These the President Always Consid-
ers-New Commercial Policies and
Economic Conditions Must Be
Studied by the Apprentices.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

Neutrality-suspicious. Of the high duties
of President-elect Harding will be to
choose from among his wealthy Re
publican fellow citizens men who are
competent to act as ambassadors to
the great powers of earth, or as min
listers to the lesser powers. The word
wealthy" is not used invidiously. for
everybody knows that no American
can take one Of these places unless he
has an abundance Of private means TO
pay his necessary expenses and to keep
up the traditions of his Office.
The new ambassadors must be men
who understood business in its intricate
commercial sense, and who understand
also the finesse of diplomacy. The
work of an ambassador today is ex-
acting. 1t requires keen insight, tact,
Suavity and well-balanced judgment
The task of choosing such men will be
hard one. If men who are not up
10 standard are chosen, the United
States Will suffer In a hundred and
one ways
Conditions in Europe are just what
everybody knows that they are. The
man who coined the word chaos" had
Just such an inspiration for the coin.
age as the conditions which now exist
all over the world The ambassadors
and ministers of the United States.
present and to come. will have az IA
part Of their high work the effort TO
ala in bringing the T'roverbial "order
out of chaos"
Considering Racial Prejudice.
IT might seem that the appointing
power might rise superior TO the fact
that racial prcjudices exist in the
United States. but Presidents. like
most other men holding elective Offices
I'm the United States. seemingly have
TO consider politics" I'm Amounting
a minister to Great Britain. or TO
France. on to- Italy or TO any other
country President OF the United
states today seems 90 be compelled to
think first about lot Of things which
men here say ought not TO enter into
the matter of One appointment at uL
Years ago James Russell Lowell vaa
appointed ambassador 90 the Court Of
ST. james His forbcars came to tm-
country from England two or three
centuries Hgo When hr arrived at
his post lac said something about feel
as n hc were getting bark homo Ilc
meant merely that ho felt as if hc
were getting bacl, TO the homo of his
ancestors. and that hc l'It in him Tho
pulse of hcredity u seemingly was "a
harmless remark. but 70 raised uel-
icci tempest OF criticism and resent
mcni in iho United States.
The men whom Mr. Harding win
appoint to 0mbassadorir and mini &C.
'crin positions will be- compelled to
undertake the consideration of new
commercial policy for their country.
More than thls they viii hc compelled
TO give q deep study to- the existing
economic conditions I'm the countries
to which they are accredited. The
conditions which mako trade possible
are as different today from those en-
1913 in England, France. Italy. Japan
and elsewhere, as &c is possible for
such conditions to be.
Some One Must BE Sent 20 Germany.
One of the problems which ultimate
ly VIII probably meet the new PresI-
dent is 'hat OF The. appointment Of an