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Show heiresses in succession, his present pres-ent wife being Doris Duke, with fifty or sixty millions inherited from her father's tobacco business. Everybody likes Doris. They have a number of magnificent estates in Hawaii, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and New Jersey. Jimmy votes in New Jersey and Intends to run for senator this year, with the backing of the powerful pow-erful Democratic party machine of Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. Smew HMIIiiV. ffl IN Washington Washington, D. C, continues to dlHiilay more interest in pfrson-alltlMl pfrson-alltlMl than In governniental poli-clns poli-clns and legislative programs. That is chiefly hecaune policies and programs pro-grams follow pretty closely the well-established lines of politics, while nobody can tell what any individual in-dividual may do; and occasionally men In public life do things which put them In the spotlight and furnish fur-nish new angles for polltlral con- troversles. Nobody is surprised, or very much Interested, in Washington, over the action of the senate in adding more than 200,000,000 to the Agricultural Appropriation bill as passed by the house. This is election year and the farm vote Is important. The political party in power has a better chance of getting itself reelected If it spends another couple cou-ple of hundred millions of the taxpayers' tax-payers' money In the effort to buy the votes of the farmers. For that Is precisely what this Increase in farm appropriations, to an aggregate aggre-gate of nearly a billion dollars, amounts to. That Is standard political practice, prac-tice, regardless of which party is In power. It does not follow that the distribution of public funds to agriculture and labor or to any other organized pressure group results in swinging great masses of voters one way or the other. The farm vote and the labor la-bor vote are bought and paid for In every election, but the sellers have never been able to deliver the goods. It is an old political racket which practically never works, except ex-cept to distribute a nice slice of cash to voters who pocket it and then proceed to vote the way they intended to anyway. Promoting Personal Welfare Recognizing that the farm appropriation, ap-propriation, the purity in politics legislation, and most of the other proceedings in congress which make headlines have their origin not in any real purpose of promoting pro-moting the general welfare, but are rather intended to serve the personal welfare of their promoters promot-ers or the partisan welfare of their particular political organizations, experienced Washington observers observ-ers refuse to get excited over them, and senators and representatives represen-tatives as a rule are careful to watch their steps lest they lose some votes by taking the unpopular unpopu-lar side. When it comes to discussion of personalities, especially of members mem-bers of the American Diplomatic corps, the gentlemen on .Capitol Hill can say what they please with impunity. They can't lose any votes and they may gain credit as friends of the plain people when the criticize the conduct of the wealthy men, either in their own right or as husbands of heiresses, who represent the United States as ambassadors and ministers to foreign countries. Congress has always been too afraid of criticism from the voters back home to appropriate enough money for our diplomatic service to enable the representatives of this country to maintain the relations rela-tions with the officials of foreign governments which are necessary if the dignity, power and prestige of the United States is to be upheld. up-held. . The result is that nobody but a very wealthy man can afford to I accept appointment as an ambas-sauor ambas-sauor to an important nation. Congress Con-gress allows top salaries of $17,-500 $17,-500 a year to American ambassadors ambassa-dors and such trifling expenses for secretaries, necessary entertainment, enter-tainment, etc., that our representatives represen-tatives at every important post have to spend out of their own pockets reaches two or three times the amount of their salaries. salar-ies. Accounts for Diplomatists That accounts for the fact that our ambassador to Paris is the extremely wealthy William C. Bullitt; Bul-litt; that Joseph P. Kennedy, a multi-millionaire, represents the United States in London; that "Tony" Biddle is our minister to Poland, and so on down the line until we get to "Jimmy" Cromwell, Crom-well, the American minister to Canada, who made himself a front-page headline figure, drew from the secretary of state the sharpest rebuke on record ever handed out to an American diplomat diplo-mat by his government, and started start-ed a debate in congress as to whether whe-ther or not he was a fit person to represent the United States at Ottawa. His statement was decidedly undiplomatic. un-diplomatic. Anything expressing or purporting to express the views of his government which an ambassador am-bassador or minister plenipotentiary plenipoten-tiary says in public is assumed to be an authorized official statement state-ment by his government, and Jimmy Jim-my Cromwell hadn't consulted anybody in Washington before he spoke. No Punishment Beyond the official rebuke by Secretary Hull probably nothing will be done about it. Everybody likes Jimmy Cromwell. Many envy him, more or less openly, for his success in marrying two great |