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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH legends about their incompetence and uselessness. In American Diplomatic Problem fact, there New Oil are in the state department today Policy Demonstrates a whole group of men whose knowland experience In dealing with Hoover s Belief in Conservation Facing New Secretary of State edge that field of foreign affairs which is is vastlv their point-o- f beparticular "pigeon" yond the deserts of a government Stlnison Difficulty Seen in Asking $30,000 Men lo Which starves them and of a con- Adruinifetratiun's Attitude Brings Forth Both C times out of gress which ninety-nin- e a hundred ignores them. Take $10,000 Jobs; Washington Discusses nirndation and Condemnation, With Hoover Aim at New Efficiency Question of Reorganizing Department. Legal Battles Sure to Follow. In Seeking Reorganization. By FRAXK H. SIMONDS. WASHINGTON, March 23. Shali the department of state be reorganised? No single question is more frequently discussed in the national capital today. Primarily this problem concerns Colonel Stimson, the new secretary of state. It seems to be his chief problem. Washington, which has its own views, has asked the question in something like the following form: "Will Colonel 8timson have the state department out of spats by Christ- mas?" The explanation of the current conviction that the state department should and will be reorganized is a little vague. Beyond any debate what John Hay used to describe as "the department" has reached the stage where something must be done about it. Before Colonel Stimson was even identified as the next secretary of state, Washington was filled with the rumors of Mr. Hoover's fixed and even iron determination to produce a revolution in the buMding which lies just across the street from his new residence. All of which naturally provokes the question, "What is the matter with the state department?" What is the actual character of this maor problem now confronting the new secretary of state, hurrying, one must suppose, from his post In the far east to assist and even to direct a transformation of first magnitude? Department Services Demand Those With Own Fortunes. If there is anything wrong with the state department and there must be, since everyone admits it, outside the- department itself it is fair to sa;- that the first trouble arises from the fact that to enter this branch of public service one must be either rich or resigned to abject poverty. - - The critics of the department are never quite clear as to what they are actually criticising, whether it be the character of the men we send to render the clerical and social service necessary to the administration of our embassies and legations abroad, or the Intelligence of the men far less well known and infinitely more important who constitute the experts and build up the information and supply the interpretation of for- eign affairs. As to the former, the problem is Immediate. No matter how good a man may be at the diplomatic game, no matter how much he may know about foreign country, there are only a limited number of posts In Europe to which he can b. sent to serve effectively or live possibly, unless he happens to have a fortune of his own. If one travels, as I do year after year In Euorpe. he is bound to discover that below the rank of ambassador or minister appointments usually made for political reasons the counselors and secretaries of our service may quickly be divided into two classes, the rich, who are paying largely for the privilege of serving, and the poor, who are enduring every form of personal privation and humiliation to follow a profession to which they bring just about the same degree of enthusiasm and ambition that any earnest person brings to any form of human activity. Claim Best Men in Service Fortunate to Have Own Money. To Jump from this to the rather general assumption that only the poor are good and all the rich are incompetent Is as absurd as It is familiar. Some of the best men that I have met in foreign service have been fortunate enough to be beyond the handicap of financial worry, while, on the other hand, amonp the poor there Is the very great wa.' rage, due to the fact that Tiot a fern-- , ana those of the best, give up the struggle, refuse to subject their wives to the humiliations and their children to the hardships inevitable under the circumstances. A good deal of nonsense has been talked in recent years, ever sine the passage of the Rogers bill, noout career men in our diplomatic service. But so far as foreign service is concerned, the financial 'Circumstances are such that there is a real career for only one sort of man; and that Is a man who has the money to take the posts which his service earns for him. Looking to the other branch of this diplomatic business, the part concerned with the experts, who arc the machine who do not make policy, perhaps, but do most emphatically influence it nothing is, in my Judgment, more unjust than the existing t for a Happy: COLOR EGGS Nw,Modm Way lAITf R EGG DYE CHICK CHICK -- ' I LOVELY. BRILLIANT SHADES SOLID COLOR SHEETS I .1' S. I I Saf. Clean, HarmJcM No TaMt I lo Brtak SimpU 1 At til No Powder nr. Pnn.6recrf.Smlp c motm. If four dilw tetrad m hkMMtad Wc. (iub'i NOVEL ''"2! Vend-lO- ' ENTERTAININO INSTRUCTIVE MM MM! Dept. j ' ' 17 Mr. Hoover is generally credited with the purpose to undertake the reorganization of the foreign relations of our country, to bring a new efficiency into them. As a consequence. Mr. Stimson's comine has been awaited with intense excitement in all official quarters, because he is regarded as bringing with him Irom the Philippines a new broom. But while It would be a simple matter to of out existence the unmis sweep takably Incomplete machine which the last two secretaries of state liave, With difficulty and much labor, succeeded in constructing, whence will come the material for replacement? A great deal of ridicule is poked at the state department because of the little boys with spats, because ott the ritual of rank and position at dinner, becau.se of the marvelous skill frequently acquired in balancing teacups. Some of It is fair enough. Such things are the fresh paint of this particular trade and every trade has its solemn owls and its lncscrtbable ayes. But, it seems to me, nothing could be more absurd than to Imagine that the trouble la the state department conceding that there be a trouble, will be remedied by calling in a new lot of And what will Mr. Stimson or Mr. Hoover do with a newly reorganised state department, assuming that the changes are made? Foreign policy in the case of European countries is a matter of vital Importance. Mistakes not only can mean war, but they inevitably involve the loss of power and prestige, So far, foreign affairs have been a minor and side issue, a provocation for congressional eloquence, a field for but never a serious matter, save in one or two crises promptly forgotten. When it comes down to serious matters, the spat-weare- state department waits oirthe senate and rarely ' dares to drop one little bit of truth into the floods of eloquent rubbish which issue from legislators and are directed at without regard to the loreign consequences. . Men Now in Service Cited as Patriotic and WeD Versed. Despite these discouragements we have good men in the state department, men who take their Job seriously and even patriotically, give f 10 of service for every 10 cents of salary, men who know about China and the Balkans and various 'other complicated questions In the European mess. I hesitate to mention names and yet the present first sec retary. William Ft. Castle, has in a long service disclosed an ability and a competence which certainly would make of him an under secretary, qualified in the European sense. Francis White is an authority onJ South America whose value would be clear to any European cabinet or parliament. G. How land Shaw possesses a mastery of eastern European affairs which would give his opinion weight even among Europeans familiar with the problem below the Danube. Nelson T. Johnson's knowledge and experience In problems of the not less complicated Far East made him an invaluable adviser in the critical days of recent Chinese revolution. Hugh Gibson, now ambassador at Brussels, but a "career man" in the best sense of the word, rendered service at the Geneva naval' conference cer- - Advanced Showing for One Week THE WORLD'S FIRST The... UNDER $1000 OWING to the fact that Salt Lake City is a prominent point, Mr. C. H. 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Announcement of the new policy, a radical departure from anything yet proposed, naturally brought forth both commendation and condemnation. While the putting into effect of this new policy is going to lead to no little litigation,-an- d while it will afford a topic for extended debate in congress, there appears to be little doubt but what the president is acting within his legal rights in calling a halt. But how far he can go in carrying out this policy is yet to be determined. He at least can stop new operations under the oil leasing law by refusing to issue more prospecting permits, and this has been done. Advance in Prices Predicted When Policy VVas First Proclaimed. No sooner had the new policy been proclaimed than the cry went up that restriction on oil production will be followed by an advance In prices which the consuming public must pay. The answer of the geological survey director, a hearty supporter of the Hoover policy was, "the public is now getting more than it pays for"; In other words, that the prevailing price of oil and gasoline is too low. In further defense of a restriction on oil output, aside from the fact that there Is now an aiarmlng over production, it is suggested that under present conditions, with oil being producedj aster than It is being con sumed, the small producer is being forced into bankruptcy, and only the large companies are able to make a rotit. pitector Smith of the geo iglcal survey sees in the Hoover re striction a hopethat the little op era tor may at last have chance to make a profit. Those who came to the defense of the Hoover restrictive order point to the wasteful overproduction and to the enormous exports of oil from the United States to foreign markets. One of them said: "Generations to come will look back to this day and point to our wasteful production of oil Just as we of todav point back to frontier days when the American . tainly hardly eoualed in courageous patriotism In recent years. And. In mentioning names, I do not mean to slight many other men who belong to the department of state and have rendered distinguished service which In any other country would have received the reward bestowed for services appreciated and understood. Giants of Industry None Too Big For Department Importance. There may be a great deal of justice in the argument thatt since we have now become world power, we need a state department commensurate With our sise and the magnitude of our loreign relations. In is clear such state, department that giants would be none too big. But how to get giants at the cost of dwarfs or, perhaps more exactly, how to get better men when the good men are neither-- rewarded nor even adequately supported? That is the problem for Mr. Stimson, as well as for Mr. Hoover. We are soon to consider the question of a new tariff. The least considerable of the "spat brigade" Could inform congress, if it were interested, that a few cents extra duty upon linseed oil, fop example, will destroy all the beneficial effects of Mr. Hoover's celebrated "good-wi- ll tour" in at least one great South American county. But does one fancy such information would count with a senator from the northwest, who knows his duty and will perform it? How much does foreign policy count Tinder such circumstances? Stimson can turn out the "spat boys," who are able to afford their own spats, and bring in Incipient Talleyrands shod in "sneakers." but will they stick? He has a tot of good men. Will he get better for the same price? He has, no one will deny, an adequate, supply of deadwood. but green saplings require a fair amount of nourishment He cant go out in the market place and hire brains at the prevailing rate of wages. He can doubtless get a $50,000 man for a $10,000 job In a shining place for a brief period, but that won't much help the service or encourage the others. Stale Department Needs Adequate Salaries and Real Opportunity. The two things that the state department needs, if it is to be a real branch of government, are adequate salaries and reasonable opportunity. Today It offer neither. It gets better men than any other business at the same price and it offers good men less opportunity for real and recognised achievement than is elsewhere discoverable. If there ever was a "sweated industry," diplomrcy, American style, is it. Today the country expects something for nothing from the state department and mors for reorganization because fitla does not get enough that. In a nutshell, is Colonel Stimson's prob- t lem 192i. 24, tify the granting of leases, and more tends to ask congress to' repeal the particularly those who obtained per- leasing law or by enactment suspend mits but have done no development unwork whatever, merely holding on its operations is to be doubted; colfor better times and better prices. der that law royalties are now While undoubtedly those permitees lected and repeal of the law would who have spent considerable money lead to chaos. The president may. sical myths was that of the marriagd of the sky and the earth and their subsequent forcible separation. The Graces (Greek Charities) were V three and number and represented i the perfection of grace and beauty; on development work, though they however, askv congress to support of body and mind. time the if. he has done, what by have not yet struck oil, will ulticonvenes in regular session, mately be granted leases provided congress has not settled itself. their drilling develops oil in paying the oil isIssue no reason to expect that quantities, but those who have done There will override the president; nothing under their permits will find congress it has never done so yet witn any themselves stopped. has iY conservation when president Federal Oil Leasing taw Termed been the issue. Most Wasteful Legislation. Among the most prominent of das- For some years the argument has been heardbut never before taken seriously, that the federal oil leas- SIMPLE HOME MIXTURE USED CAES ing law is the most wasteful legislation enacted by congress in recent Bnlek Sport Touting years. In that It has encouraged InDARKENS GRAY HAIR Chandler Sedan vestment In oil ventures, and has inCadillac Sedan, 7 pan duced thousands upon thousands of Diana Sedan citizens to go Into the oil game, or Cincinnati Barber Tells How Lincoln Phaeton at least make a start. Any citizen Any One Can Prepare It Moon Coach could obtain a prospecting permit in 5 Minute. Nash Roaditer and probably one out of every hunParkard Sedaa dred who obtained permits has proOldunobile Cabinet Count Any man or woman can easily ceeded in some degree to develop Pierre-ArrosimSport Toor. his property; others have been held look twenty years younger by Sport Kdtlr. up by lack of capital and Inability ply darkening their gray, faded, oi Stuta Sedan to finance their ventures. The leas streaky hair. This is now easy to Jewett Coach VI k ing law. however, served as a bait. accomplish with a recipe given by a Cincinnati barber. Vf K ana unaer it proauciion jumpea wiui STUTZ. half-piot a take water, and bounds until Simply leaps production V ALLHAKDSwent far ahead of demand and the add 'i ounce of glycerine and a SHANNON, Inc. country now has a ten months' oil small box of Barbo Compound. reserve, which is far too great for Shake and it Is ready to use. These practical operation and too great to Ingredients can be bought at drug stores at trifling cost. yield the producers a fair return. There are some in congress who Applied to the hair twice weekly question the right of the president this delightful mixture quickly gives It Is easy to virtually to suspend the operations the desired shade. or the oil leasing law. Senator Walsh use, is not sticky or greasy, will not of Montana being among the num- solor the scalp and does not rub - w 0 ber. But whether the president In oft - lAdvJ - i 0 buffalo was all but exterminated, just because good hunting abounded. ana mere was no hand to restrain the slaughter." Conservation Policy Doubly AffrctT Western States With Oil Deposits. Every western state- with oil deposits will be doubly affected by the policy of oil conservation, and every reclamation state will likewise feel the effects, for the check of new development will mean a gradual reduction In oil royalties, and 52 per cent of these royalties go Into the reclamation fund, while 37 per cent go to the states in which the royalties are collected. The effect, so far as local benefits from royaltiei are concerned, will come about gradually, however, for all properties now producing oil and paying royalties will continue to operate or may continue to operate as long as the oil holds out. The reductions in royalties will, therefore, be gradual. The order, however, will check any Increase In royalty disbursements. Those who will be hardest hit by the inauguration of the new procedure will be those who Rave obtained prospecting permits, but have not yet made sufficient progress to jus STUTZ -- w Pierre-Arro- w well-kno- M nt V Mi LMlilLkarJ ampiq of all cars imdefIO0O Studehakefs Erskine Six - i' -- u, urn, .mm - in urn .mm .mj ' ii i. mi. V - n mi ii l mil mill tJ U " n u iiiiiuiii m m mil mum - ,..,,.,,,,,,, , - im i iulm . Mil... ! II ...1,1. - .. . , I ,miij j..... ...uHiil. i.'itj-- . ' , ...jjjji.i .....Jl it . The employee of the state department may affect the plumage of a peacock and go through the Intricate mysteries of official social life with the ease with which I get about in the woods back of my farm, but that is about all he has to show for performing the task of a clerk at the wages of a day laborer, without union protection. His spats are his croix de guerre, earned by dining for his country nightly and financing the return dinners out of his own pocket Mr. Hughes and Mr. Kellogg certainly achieved more than a little in bettering our state department by improving the conditions under which the employees lived. But the fact is that such improvements as have come in recent years have come by improving the Conditions rather than in changing the staff. One wonders whether Colonel Stimson will endeavor to get better men for nothing or increase the attraction of the department for good men. MilAWV :lL - A-.- : l ONLY quality could hidden deep in motor and produce such capacity for t Drive your new Erskine 40 miles an hour the speed later. You'll very first day and at be driving a Champion, and you'll realize it before you've gone a mile. May wc send an Erskine to 62-mi- le sustained high speed as The Erskine has proved! 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