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Show DOES NOT SEEK PUBLICITY j Ask almost any man in Washington Washing-ton to name the assistant secretaries of state and this is the kind ot an answer an-swer you will get: "Let's see. There is Adee, who has been in the department since it was invented, and Phillips, a Republican, Repub-lican, who came in in the midst of this administration because they wanted another .experienced man in the department. Why, hang it all, . there must be another assistant somewhere! some-where! 1 have it. What's that fellow's fel-low's name who came here from Wyoming? Wy-oming? 1 think he was a druggist, and, if I remember correctly, he is the Democratic national committeeman from that state." "John E. Osborne?" "Sure, that's the fellow. By jtm-miny, jtm-miny, I have not heard of him since he was first appointed. Where does he keep himself?" John E. Osborne keeps himself pretty much out of sight, so far as publicity goes. He Is not mixing up in international matters to any great extent, and consequently his name is not getting into the newspapers. However, Mr. Osborne is not loafing on his job, which has to do mainly with the finances of the department. Although he succeeded in substantially burying himself, for publicity purposes. Mr. Osborne has kept the sfate department out of bankruptcy, which was no mean job when the European war broke out and everybody looked to the United States for help. Between times he has found opportunity oppor-tunity to set out a few diplomatic seeds, and one of them is now blooming in the shape of a readjustment of Santo Domingo matters which he handled when onta special mission. |