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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1925)
t rr lift fr " " " 1 8 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 20, 1023 u Acclaiming Italy's New Caesar 2 n '' 5 ? El "1 l r M pi p1- - - J g J '.is Not ince days of Rome's .frreatcst glorj has any man had ,the power in Italy that is Mm- solini's as he begins the third i '. year of his dictatorship. While country is being stirred by de tails of a plot to assassinate him, , in which , high names are im plicated, , be is being accorded honors usually, given a king. Photo shows ,"11; Benito" being acclaimed at great Fascist dem - onstration in, Milan. .Inset is photo howing him reviewing great parade. a K4 , ' , N - 1, V v. 5 it h K i 3 viSisr The ITT I M Citizen of Paris Ambassador Herrick was in a gay mood as we rode along in the - inevitable- Rolls, -enjoying the beauties of golden, summer-time Varia and talking, as he lores to do, of the folks we knew at home. His shining eyes caught and held the brilliance of the Parisian morning. His fine, shaggy head tipped back now and then in hearty, silent laughter. His bi.7. overhanging shoulders relaxed against the padded luxury of the car. His firm, masterful hand lay alternately on his knee and mine or suddenly, almost convulsive ly, 'grasped my upper arm. He wa' more youthful, more buoyant more chipper than : at any other Mime during my Paris visit. I had found him that morning ' struggling through a letter of rtme eight or nine Ipages, closely Written in a most illegible hand. Ilearned afterward 5 that it was from an American citizen travel ing in France, who :had been de frauded, as he believed, of a few francs. . The man had taken no account of the value of his .am bassadors time or of his own seager was he to tell his hard- Itick story. 'J "la V that from a personal fiend?" I asked. "I haven't reached the signa ture," replied 4he ambassador, and "then he added, "But if he was,' he isn't!" . It is Impossible for the ambass ador to be idle. Even when he talks,' he has a pencil in his hand and draws pictures on anything that happens to be near. He amuses himself that way at lun cheons and dinners. And he is really an excellent cartoonist. He made a sketch of. a certain high French official that was so good - i' r . -- I begged that he would let me keep it a a souvenir. He gazed solemnly ai the startling and de vastating! V- likeness of , the French statesman and then he slowly tore it into a hundred pieces. 4 Ambassador Herrick is a man of fleeting almost fugitive moods. He is wise in e&unsel and elo quent in debate. But he is at his best in all that concerns the hu man heart. His philosophy is never without humor, but seldom without sadness. Sometimes his mood changes so rapidly that his hearers hardly know whether to laugh or cry. "There are two or three things." he sajd aswe stepped into the elevator orre sultry after noon, "that I would like to finish up before I go home for goad. But really, you know, my" Job is done." ' Then suddenly he again grip ped my arm above the elbow it is a gesture, as he makes it, of almost boyish enthusiasm -and exclaimed: "But a man's best work should be done when all his ambitions are satisfied." 1 had hardly readjusted myself to the new mood, v. hen be added, solemnly: "Satisfied or dead!" There is a note of tragedy about the man. He Is old and full of honors. He is respected as few public men have ever been, without regard to party lines or affiliations, by the. people of his own country. Nobody remembers w hether he is a republican or a democrat. He has proved him self an American and that ''is enough for us. And he is loved, as no other American has ever been-by the country of his ad option or rather by the coun try which has adopted him. But he is not what 'the world calls a happy man. ! lie was joking when he said J the other day that bis idea of happiness was like Mark Twain's, "Being absent when his turn came," just as he was when he answered a similar query as to what he considered the most tragic moment in his life by the quick rejoinder, "The moment when 1 was born." But I carried away with me from my visit with him in Paris an impression of underlying sad ness . "It seems to me," he said, that real happiness is a sort of l idealistic aspiration rather than an actual fact in the lives of people and that there is really more misery than happine3 iu human existence. You perhaps are too young to recollect the de bates in the little red schoolhouse on the burning question, 'Is there more happiness in anticipation than in realization?' But 'hope does spring eternal in the human breast' and 'man never is, but al ways to be blest.' " The reason for much of Myron Herrick's recurring sadness lies close - to his heart. He did not travel the path that led from the banks of the Ohio to the banks of the Seine alone. For fifty years he and his childhood sweetheart trod the way together and. as the old coster song would have it, it didnt "seem a dye too much." When the war came Mrs. Herrick gave herself as unsparingly as did her hus band. She plunged unto every French and Allied charity. And in the midst of her tireless en deavors she died as much a vic tim of the Great war as the poilu who fell in Flanders fields. From that .day Myron Herrick has just been finishing up." At present he is engrossed in two of the projects which lie nearest to his hpart: the new em bassy is a fact and the new gov ernment office, building, which i3 f ; sUIlj a dream. Until Mr. Herrick won1 his victory over a reluctant congress, the plight of the Ameri can ambassador is Paris was even more difficult than that of our representatives in the smaller continental capitals. He has all the j ordinary expenses which the less! prominent ambassadors have, and; many of which they do not dream. Everybody ot impor tance in Europe of importance, I mean, to the American govern ment comes sooner or later to Paris. The American ambassador' inuKt entertain them. He is a sort; of, ambassador-at-large from the; United States to the world. Then, in the summer-time, nearly helf a million itinerant Americans roll into the French capital look ing! for entertainment and assis tance. Senators, congressmen, bankers, journalists, delegates to this convention and that, leading citizens from every state in the union hundreds of these annual visitors to Paris look upon the hospitality of the American em bassy as something to which they hate a right. Herrick,1 fortunately, doesn't hafe to think of money. But he doesn't approve of a situation which confines our representa tion in the diplomatic capital of the world to men who happen to be fabulously rich. So, after long months of log-rolling, he succed ed in wrenching from congress an appropriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a city where embassy investments of other governments range between the million and two-million mark! . Mis successes was more discour aging than failure could possibly have been, because congress, having made the gesture, would now sink back piously content. But one day the "old man," as everybody in the diplomatic ser vice affectionately calls Mr. Her rick, had an idea. The French franc had been falling lower and lower until it was worth some thing less than four cents in Am erican money . The ambassador had an option on just the kind of building we should have for an American embassy, though natur ally at a price far in excess of the small congressional appropri ation. Fortunately, however, the option was in francs. So, as the ambassador lay on his back, snatching a nap between functions one Saturday afternoon, he said ti himself, "Why shouldn't I take some of my good American dol lars and turn them into francs while the franc is low. Then I can take these francs and buy the house I want for the embassy. Of course I can't keep within the hundred and fifty thousand dol lars, but if I move fast, before the franc goes up again, I may be able to get within hailing dis tance of it." j So it was that Myron Herrick. Using his banker's brain and his banking fortune bought an em bassy building that had cost over six hundred thousand dollars for something less than two hundred HEILIG VAUDEVILLE FEATURED ,1 mi 8 O X)n fOGD J,; Mmm ooo 121 SOUTH COaOlERCIAL 'A Specials FOR Saturday ALL 15c BREAD 12c , ALL 10c BREAD 2 Single Loaves for 15c Rye, Raisin, Whole Wheat and the white Milk and Honey Bread. 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He is a symbol of friendship between the two republicsu When the French people, burdened with debt and resentful of delay, incline to for- getfulness of America's part in '", the rescue of civilization, they d think Heirrck and remember, When the, American government. I impatient with France's lmpati- j ence. incline stern measures and 1 j sharp rejoinders, they look once I more upon France's sufferings " through Myron Herrick's sympa thetic, understanding eyes. A symbol! That's what he is. As the tricolor is a symbol. Af& the Stars and Stripes are a Bym-' bol. Few men in Our dav arrive at such a dignity. Oliene Terry and her company or cancers wiil be the headline act on the Heilig Vaudeville program this afternoon and evening. An unusually varied bill . of high entertainment quality is offered. FIELD MAN PAYS VISIT DR. G. L. TUFTS OF WILLAM ETTE HERE FOR WEEK thousand and cabled congress they could take it or leave it. "If you take it," he said in effect, "the government will make four hundred thousand dollars. If you leave it, I'll make the four hun dred thousand. Please Messrs. Congressmen, don't force me to make ail this money!" And for a wonder they didn"t. They were so amazed by Herrick's unprece dented coup that they came through with another hundred and fifty thousand, three hundred in 11 two for the house and one for furnishings and equipment. "Now," he said, "I want to do the same thing for the business activities of the government. Do you know that we pay nearly thirty thousand dollars a year rent for inadequate offices scattered all over Paris? Thirty thousand dollars! Why, that's four percent on three quarters of a million. And for half that money I can buy a building that will save the government fifteen thousand dol lars a year." The new embassy is the joy of his life. The dignified mansion, formerly the home of the late President Grevy o fthe French Republic, stands in a most desir able section, on the Avenue d'lena near the Place Trocadero and overlooking the Seine. Ameri cans visiting Paris can beam with national pride wheH the guide says. "On the left, ladies and gentlemen, is the home of the American ambassador." Perhaps it is the poet in Myron Herrick that makes him say just the right thing at the right time. When a German bomb dropped al most on the steps of the American embassy and helf of official Paris rushed to congratulate the am bassador on his escape, he ex pressed in unforgetable words the thought that must have been in every Frenc mind. "Don't you think," he asked, "that the death of the American ambassador would have been more useful than his life?" On September eighth of that eventful first year, when the in vading army was almost at the gates of Paris, Herrick received from Berlin the following tele gram: "German General Staff recom mend that Americans leave Paris via Rouen-LeHavre. They will have to leave soon if they wish to go." Many Americans, on the am bassador's advice had already left Paris. The diplomatic represen tatives of other countries had al ready taken measures for their personal safety. But Myron Her rick stood by his post. "I represent many important interests" (he wired in courteous reply to the arrogant warning of the on-coming foe) "and I deem it imperative that I remain, to gether with my staff. Under all circumstances, I feel satisfied that 1 ! - l.v.--y;:-::::::v-::..vi:.vi Did You Sleep Comfortably Last Night? or didn't you, for lark of blankets or comfoits to kevp you warm. We have a splendid assortment of blankets, in cottons, wool mixed -and woolen, and also a larne array or comforts. 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I Tufts, field secretary of Willam ette university, he stated that he was spending the week at head quarters in office work. Refer ring to an extensive trip of 2,000 miles which he made this fall throughout the eastern and south ern parts of the state, he said: "Wherever I met W. U. gradu ates I learned that they were held in the highest esteem. Teachers and lawyers and business men and doctors of, earlier days, all are making good. Xot only the insti tution, but Salem also is being ad vertised by the graduates to the farthest bounds of the state. At Pendleton and Bend and Ashland and Klamath Falls and Marsh field and intermediate towns the traveler hears people saying, 'what a beautiful city is Salem.' while others declare 'Salem is the most beautiful city in the state.' 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