Salt Lake Herald | 1908-02-09 | Page 3 | Ten Years Much Too Long

TEN YEARS ONO lONG lONGI I Root Urges Congress to Reduce Seduce Term of Student In Interpreters Interpreters in Orient Washington Va Feb 8 Secretary I Ihas R Rb has hag urged congress to reduce to ny fi years the term of at service of the tho your youn men engaged as student interpreters in China and Japan Some S me years ag congress was Wag impelled to create thi this thil corps corns in order to secure bright young men with a knowledge of ot Chinese ant and Japanese who would be available f fo If r diplomatic or consular service In th tit Therefore it undertook to i d them a salary of ot 1000 per annum al allowing allowing lowing them for two to years ye r to devot devo their entire time to the tile acquisition 0 t the Oriental languages Now hoJ ever the students are put to work once In the th embassies or legations 11 1 are not objects of charity Secret Root Hoot in his communication to t i gress on this tills subject t says saYi This solemn obligation to remain i ithe j the government service for ten len year en r possibly at a salary of only 1000 i t annum is a very erroneous and one for a II young man nuin to aime TJi lq ir lqIs iris i iia Is ia no doubt that it I discourages an al turns away awa many of the most ing Ins wile who would enter the service an anIn anin in consequence makes It I very ery for the time department to fill fl these thel POM po p tons with young men of the best rn m ini tonal for future efficient officers