Show Sf wai 1 WASHINGTON O SS IF J G COMES STANDS ItI DY By ny ULES 1 I STEW AnT I NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON Jan Justl 16 JuSt 16 16 for tor variety I nominate W V F Gaulke as General Pershing's successor at atthe atthe i the head of the Tacna Tacna-Arica com coin commission mission The trouble with Ith nearly every everyone everyone everyone com I one this government sends to South America Is a complete unfamiliarity wIth South Americans knows all about them I Picking a man for tor such a job ott account of his qualifications Is la Un- Un Unprecedented un unprecedented of course Still It might be tried as an experiment un-I un Gaulke's from North Dakota originally He lie was waa a farm boy Then he worked In a II gambling house Ito He wu was postmaster somewhere somewhere-or- or other out west Finally he gra vI- vI tat gravitated d Into the agricultural machin machinery cry ery business One of the big farm machinery houses housea sent him to Russia as ft a mechanic Ills His travels took him all allover allover allover over Europe and the Far East Bast Ul VI Ultimately he ho brought up In the Ar Argentine gentine still republic republic still a farm furni ma- ma ma nia machinery chinery man I i Hed He'd saved mt a little money Argentina offers a 0 great many I opportunIties to make quick finan financial cial cleanups Gaulke took tage advantage of a number numer of ot them and they turned out well At last he branched out as an Importer of North American flints for tor Argentine theatres His us ness l- l ness grew until he became some some- some some- thing something of a magnate As A John D Rockefeller would reckon he Isn't rich but I Imagine he could dra draw his check tor for two or three hundred j thousand Gaulke's ent entitled to think well of I hImself and he ho doe does Folks laugh at him for it It IC he didn't have the goods It would gotem make him ridiculous but hes he's got em J He isn't strong on book learning but on hard cold experience I experience And he makes the most of It lAnd lIes lIe's fluent in Spanish too which Is mighty essential He doesn't speak It tt grammatically or English either but either but he knows 20 times as much of It as u the aver er average age age diplomat knows iAm Am Among Aming ng tho the official al suggestions suggestions heard for tor the Tacna-A Tacna Tacna-Arica Tacna stunt are Charles Deecher Beecher Warren who is II utterly unsuitable because of his total American Ignorance of ot the South Amer ican lean temperament commissioner Charles P Anderson commission er Cr of mixed claims still worse than Warren who at least has hoa been am- am am ambassador to Mexico Charles Cheyney Hyde In the same claw class with Anderson John Bassett Moore foore undoubted- undoubted ly iy undoubtedly an able abic International i national lawyer laYer but with nothing else to be said In ID his favor tavor for tor this particular assignment assign ment mont Sumner Welles olles former first see see- sec secretary of embassy In Buenos Duenos Aires and la later laler r chief of ot the tho Latin Amer Amer- lean Ican divIsion ot o the state depart depart- department moot ment who Isn't so 0 bad but whose South an acquaintance I is too 00 much limited I to the t he official o 1 classes Gaulke Is la a getter go-getter go Hea steeped In a kind of South I American sophistication which even enn sensed by bythe the average North AmerIcan He Ito simply knows hIs berries I |