Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-10-23 | Page 7 | Holds Important Post

r HOLDS IMPORTANT POST 1 Secretaries of state have come and gone, administrations have changed, but for more than a quarter of a century cen-tury Alvey A. Adee, second assistant secretary of state, has stood at the helm of Uncle Sam's foreign relations and steered it into safe waters. Mr. Adee is commonly credited with- carrying the state department around in his head, so thoroughly versed is he in diplomatic precedent and requirement. Through long practice prac-tice and good judgment, the succeeding succeed-ing secretaries of state have come to rely implicitly on Mr. Adee's word in diplomatic matters. The war caught Mr. Adee on his annual leave, bicycling in France. He returned immediately. The sigh of relief that went up in the state department de-partment when the venerable secretary secre-tary walked in, hung up his hat and started to work, was prodigious. Much of the work of handling matters with the war territories and that re- . . handed over to Mr. Adee's jurisdiction, lating to stranded Americans has been handl e and everybody is happy at the state department Washington.