The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-18
WHO'S
NEWS
This Week
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On Oar Gold Cache ing the for
And Director Ross s 81 r. "y ths
Niebelungen legend, old Phafnir
could only sit on his Rhein gold and
there wasn't much more for Mrs.
Ross to do with our frozen $z3, 000,-
000, 900 horde at Fort Knox and West
Point. But there are signs Of q
thaw, and gold may be moving again
in considerable quantities. Lieut..
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took q
considerable supply of $40 gold
pieces to Africa.
Never i'm history has sound
gold coin lost It's sheen or Its
allure, and since expediency IL
now uppeYmost in our world d.
plomacy, rs it is always in war
time, ii won't hurt Uncle Sam
to be known as the old gent with
$23, O0O, 000, 900 in his bucksEin
wallet. Just now, with stan and
scrip, he fares far in hungry
lands where gold pieces clink
and click more convincingly
-. than q thesis ON managed econo-
my. And, additionally, he is apt
to say, 'This is on me-"
Mrs. Ross won't decree new gold
coinage or deploy strategic gold
pieces to help win the war, and
there is no suggestion that we will
buy our way through.
Suffrage is now "a years old and
Mrs. Ross, first woman governor of
an American state when she was
elected to succeed her deceased hus-
band in Wyoming in 1925, was out in
front with Mabel Willebrandt, Ruth
Bryan Owen, Frances Perkins,
Grace Abbott and other capable
women who, presumably were to
lead growing phalanx of women
into high public office.
Women now have more than
One-third Of the votes, and their
public offices have not come
along in that proportion, but
Mrs. Ross has stayed ON as di-
rector Of the mint since April,
1888. War has complicated her
problems in many ways. War
wages boom juke boxes and the
way juke boxes wolf nickels is
n0body's business.
Mrs. Ross, born in st. Joseph, Mo-,
in 1877, of Tennessee and Kentucky
stock, met her future husband, Will
liam Bradford Ross, in Paris, Tenn.
He went to Wyoming for his health,
opened a law office and went to
Omaha and married Miss Tayloe.
Their twin boys, George and AM
brose, are grown, and George was
q Rhodes scholar.
Mrs. Ross has said she never had
any interest or training in politics
until she was elected governor, but
found that experience as house.
wife had been pretty fair prepara-
ton for keeping things in order. BY
all accounts, she has done most
satisfactory job in running the mint.
Each year she alertly supervises the
Opening of the pyx." Pyx is Greek
for strong box, in this instance a
two-by-four oak case in which are
deposited 1000 coins, representative
Of the years coinage. In this an
cient custom, Mrs. Ross passes on
each coin for weight and fineness.
That sounds housewifely.
.ti 81 - sH
THE job of building our political
4 fences in the Middle East falls
to George Wadsworth, career diplo-
mat, one-time schoolmate and life
Goes to LeUdnfine tlm e, friend len,
Countries, knowing liam J. Dom
The Political Score u us, n OUlo-
vans diplomatic maneuvering was
crossed up bit by state depart
ment and owl plans but may be
working again. Mr.. Wadsworth takes
swing trick down along the high
way to Bagdad, as Americas first
diplomatic representative to Syria
and Lebanon. Recalling Robert D.
Murphy's recent spectacular success
in softening up North Africa for
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is
interesting to see another veteran
diplomat of this same general re.
gion at work in one of the last gaps
in the ring around the Nazis.
When Mr.. Wadsw0rth became
Egyptian golf champion in 1880,
without impairment Of diplomat
ic standing, it was noted that
he must be a good diplomat as
in his profession ONE is supposed
not to win too handily in bridge
or golf. At any rate, he moved
on smoothly through various
Mediterranean consular posts to
charge d'affaires at Rome i'm
1871, with steadily accruing
reputation for both sagacity and
diplomatic finesse.
Mr.. Wadsworth is an erudite but
practical person. He formerly was
a teacher at the University Of Bel
rut, with master Of arts degree.
He is diligent student Of middle
eastern history and politics.
Back in 1917, he resigned his
teaching post at the University of