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FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 20, 1023
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Acclaiming Italy's New Caesar
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.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
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photo howing him reviewing
great parade.
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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
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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
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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
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of all mankind. I would even pro
tect it for the posterity of the
Hun, who in his madness would
destroy it. .
Myron Herrick is the only man
now anve who is known to fee '
personally Important to the peace
of the world. He is much more
than an ambassador from the
United States to France. 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.
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program this afternoon and evening. An unusually varied bill . of high entertainment
quality is offered.
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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
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should German forces enter Paris
necessary measures will be taken
to protect not only . American
property but other property en
trusted to my care." -'
This decision of the American
ambassador was a tonic to French
nerves and a 6pur if there were
need of one to French courage.
"It seemed clear to me," he
said, "that as the representative
of the greatest neutral power I
should remain in Paris to save
the art treasure of Paris from the
fate of Louvian, for while it was
true that France held the, title,
and was the owner, in a .much
larger sense my country arid all
the world were joint owners in
that art treasure. I meant to ex
ert every effort so that the pos
terity of all nations should not
be denied the benefits of this
held in trust for the inspiration
In an interview with Dr. O. 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.' And
even a Portlander could scarcely
deny the truth of the declaration '
Observations of Oldest Inhabi
tant: "I kin remember when if
Sunday came it didn't mean there
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