Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-15
of Authorship and Loyalty Keep Consus on Trying Jobs

hundred dollars In brides and no SOAP
10 the United States Government.
This way We get $4,000. anyway"
/ COULD multiply examples OF con-
sulates run by Harvard Pm. D..
once on the faculty OF great uni
versity, or managed by a man Of
considerable business experience ana
undoubtsd business future IL he had
remained at home. or occupied by a
man with several university degrees
and wide reading ana charming per
sonality. ! could multiply examples
of serious Students Of the countries
to which they are sent. men Of cul-
ture. men OF serious character
Leaving out London and Paris and
other great capitals. one thinks i'm
mediately of such men as DIR. Hathz.
way. just transferred from Dublin TO
Dresden; Of knabenshue in Beirut,
Geist in Alexandria. Palmer in Bucha-
rest. Winans and Gwynne In Prag
Kelley in Damascus and Smith in
Hamburg. You should have seen
John y. Hurley and his v. C.'s look
inS after the terrified Americans dur
Ing the Vienna riots last Summer.
su,4tes. Considering ito mention
only few items, tina, in a single
year the service handled 10000 So
called welfare cases" more thar
100000 alien visa vases. well toward
10000 trade reports. more than 1900.
200 letters and thousands Of miscel-
ianeous cases besides the steady
stream Of unrecorded minor incidents
OF consular work. il Is hardly sur
prising that mistakes should be
made Or just cause Of complaint be
given. IL should not be surprisin:
that in more than 200 conxuls and
wee ccnsuls. Of whom $50 are not Of
career. all should not measure I'D to
the highest standard of service.
But after taking a look az tn
foreign services Of other countries.
| as we'll az our own. in II countries
in Europe. Asia. Africa and South
America. I have become. PARTICULAR
impatient with the common America
saving that ours is inferior to Ger
tain others. Man for man. /, Ia IN.
equal Of others-no more, TO less that
, the American citizen is himself m
/ equal in character or attainment o
the citizens of ether countries.
| 1 sat IN their Offices and speculate.
about them. Attacked from withou
and frequently unappreciated from
| within the department, why do an.
OF them stick il?
The answer is that there is sorne
tninS IN the very nature of this cor
suiar bird which viii make him per
sist because Of his strange but mr.
controllahle interest in the intelIectua'
worms of his daily diet.
II Is true many resign Tin the hs-
! TWO years. 10 be exact. 81 have don.
so'. and il is true many are discon
tented. But those who leave ave-
| mere consular Cuckoos. and not n
true bird of the species. That birr.
VIII COMPLAIN. but he will serve.
He viii serve also in IN. psr, bs.
cause OF what ne calls The morale n,
tne service what he calls "ioyslty.~
| The sort. he will tell YOU. s.hs,
makes a man get out OF the trenches
at the zero hour and so over In ths
face OF a barrsye."
or course. the department rule. are
supposed TO provide for hooking ATE,
/ hirl. Witness this story:
\ consul was taken i'll ard eab,aS
the department as 10 his allowance
He received the following reply:
| You are allowed si0o for surrseat
expenses and SlSs for the undertsL.
ers fees and laying out the bcdv.~
Which seems TO sum I'D neatly tn
whole story OF the consular bird,