Evening star., 1934-08-13

age limit, but who kept his age to
himself, came to Washington, served
his term, and no one was the wiser
until long afterward.
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One of our most popular and most
polished ENJOYS Extraordinary and
Ministers Plenipotentiary, J. Butler
Wright, is momentarily in Washing
ton en- route from South America to
Europe. He is being transferred from
Uruguay to Czechoslovakia. Incl
dentally, he is just finishing the full
span of Is years in the diplomatic
service, though not all of it in the
foreign service, for between 1928 and
1927, during the tranquil days Of the
Coolidge administration, Mr.. Wright
was Assistant and Undersecretary in
the State Department here. His first
foreign assignment, way back in 1909,
was to our legation at Honduras; then
to Belgium, then back to South Amer
lea to our embassy at Rio de Janeiro,
1913-15, then to Russia, until the
revolution there, then to London,
1918-21, then home to the State De-
partment. In 1927 he went abroad
again, this time as Minister to Hun
gary, and after three years in that
post he returned to South America
to head our legation at Uruguay.
Plump, erect, immaculate, Mr.. Wright
is the perSonification of the full
f1edged diplomat.
\ n r y
Now that Secretary of Treasury
Morgenthau is back at his desk after
a months vacation on a Montana
ranch, his youthful second-in-com-
mand, Undersecretary Thomas JEFF
ferson Coolidge, Sd, who carried the
burdens of the Treasury in the abb
sence ON his chief, is himself va
cationing in New England The Un-
dersecretary, hand-picked by Mr..
Morgenthau, without any aid and
advice from Jim Farley, and plucked
out of a vice presidency of the First
National Bank of Boston, is endowed
with fine combination of names
| Thomas Jefferson, a hall mark of
Democracy, and Coolidge, bespeaking
financial prudence and conservatism.
| Young Mr.. Coolidge had a fine back
| ground and reassuring financial con-
nections without any entangling al
liances. He was not one of the
money changers in the Wall Street
temple.
X X X
There was a time not so long ago
when any radio address by Gen.
Johnson was printed in full text by
the metropolitan newspapers. But
that time is gone. The generals speech
at the Chicago Century of Progress
10 days ago, in which he lambasted
the press, was widely reported, but not
printed verbatim. The N. r. A., how
ever, continues to mimeograph every
word the general utters. The text of
the Chicago speech is now available
1t appears that the general has again
had recourse to biblical quotation to
reinforce his pungent utterances
Here is a typical extract: when I
took this job I said it would get me in
| the end. There are many
after my scalp. The vast ma
| jority of both business and labor would
not give up the codes and the N. R. A
retains the bulk of public support.
Why in such situation we do not
have an undivided press is beyond me-
I am weary of protesting. AS was said
to St. Paul in his vision on the road to
Damascus, 1T is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks.' I have seen news
garbled, suppressed and colored and
have seen able young men prostitut-
ing their talents in ibelous and mis-
leading stories pandered as news at
the behest of opinionated bosses.
1t is a weariness to the heart
and grievous silment to the stom-
ach. . 1t is mistake to dignity
| the stew pot by mentioning it."
(copyrtght. 1934.l