Evening star., 1937-03-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

child knows how to pronounce Ma"
The Senator adds that his father, born
IN County Cork, when trying to ex-
plain the proper rendition of his name,
used to repeat the following rhyme:
oh the bleat of the lamb
And the fruit Of the bee
Spell the name of the man
Who is talking to thee
OMa-honey."
Secretary Hull now has on duty in the
State Department new special ad-
wiser on japanese affairs-Joseph Will
liam Ballantine, who has Just been
transferred to the Far Eastern division,
where he will serve under its expert
chief, DR.. Stanley K. Hornbeck Ballan-
tine was recently brought home from
Mukden. Manchukuo, where he has
been Consul General since September,
1884. He was born at Ahmednagar,
India, OF American parents. After gradu-
alton from Amherst, he entered the
foreign service as student interpreter
in Japan and has had more than Is
years Of experience at various important
Far Eastern consular and diplomatic
posts, including Toxic, Yokohama and
Canton. Mr.. Ballantine succeeds in the
Far Eastern Division Eugene H. Dooman,
recently appointed Counselor of Embassy
at Toxic.
Administration field marshals in
charge OF the Presidents court reform
project determined to lose no time in
bringing up heavy artillery to reply to
the opposition barrage to be let down
by Senator Carter Glass over Nation
wide network tonight. Over the same
Columbia hook-up tomorrow evening
Senator Joe Robinson, Senate Demo-
cratic majority leader, will address the
country for As minutes. His subject
will be Congress, the Constitution and
the Courts" 1t will be the first time
that the Arkansan has taken to the
air on behalf OF the Presidents pro-
posal.
Despite necessarily attempted inroads
OF spoilsmen, the United States foreign
service has contrived to retain an i'm
pressive number of officers who now
have long terms of duty to their credit.
The list was submitted recently to
the House Appropriations Committee.
It includes the following veterans and
respective periods Of service: julius G..
Lay, Minister to Uruguay, AZ years;
Hoffman Phillip, Ambassador to Chile,
SO years; Charles s. Wilson, Minister
to Yugoslavia, SO years; Joseph G.
Grew, Ambassador to Japan, 80 years;
Paul Knabenshue, Minister to 1raq, 81
years; Maxwell Blake, diplomatic agent
in Morocco, 81 years; Nelson T. John
son, Ambassador to China, 80 years;
William Dawson, Minister to Colombia,
% years; Fred NJ Dearing, Ambassador
to Peru, % years; Hugh s. Gibson
Ambassador to Brazil, % years; Ralph
j. Totten, Minister to South Africa, ~
years; j. Butler Wright, Minister TO
Czechoslovakia, % years; Leo J. keena,
Minister to Honduras % years; George
T. Summerlin, Minister to Panama, n
years; John v. A. MacMurray, Am
bassador to Turkey, 26 years; H. F.
Arthur Schoenfeld Minister to the
Dominican Republic, 26 years; Frederick
A. Sterling, Minister to Bulgaria, 26
years; Cornelius Van H. Engert, Minis
ter to Ethiopia, Is years; Hugh r.
Wilson, Minister to Switzerland, Is
years; Leland Harrison. Minister to
Rumania, "A years, and Nelson Armour
Minister to Canada, 81 years. OF S.
present Ambassadors and Ministers, %
are career appointees-highest percent
age on record.
(cop,risht, 1877