WAUPACA EDITOR VISITS ENVOY DANIELS IN MEXICO; SAYS HE'S SECURE IN POST
Burnham, John
Waupaca Editor Visits Envoy Daniels In Mexico; Says He's Secure In Post Diplomat Wins Over Party Quickly With Keen Wit By JOHN BURNHAM (Editor of Waupaca County Post) MEXICO CITY—When "Ham" Fish...
...Wins All Over Yet in two minutes Joe Daniels, former North Carolina newspaper publisher, warm friend of the liberal policies of Roosevelt and tolerant of the ultra-liberal policies of Pres...
...Imagine," he said, "a nation of 20 million people who use only 8 million pairs of shoes a year...
...Daniels wanted to know where, in Wisconsin was our home...
...But you see, judge;' countered the Negro, 'my woman all the time keeps asking me for money...
...you did with it...
...Mexico today is just beginning mass education, schools for all, reading and history and vocational training for the young folks...
...Later she arranged for the four men of the party to go in and visit briefly with the ambassador...
...Mrs...
...Norris...
...Says He's Secure In Post Diplomat Wins Over Party Quickly With Keen Wit By JOHN BURNHAM (Editor of Waupaca County Post) MEXICO CITY—When "Ham" Fish arises in congress to demand the retail of Hon...
...There Is a marvelous field here, if we could only get the people Interested...
...Envoy Tells Story "Why worry about money," the ambassador said with a smile...
...He chuckled again and turned back to the reams of typewritten papers which cluttered his bed...
...We had ourselves noted that in the rural districts all women go barefoot, all men "ear shoes made of an oval sole cut from an old automobile casing to <hich are stapled thongs which tie nbove the instep...
...You could not pick three men more northern In their viewpoints, more Republican, more conservative economically and politically...
...In New England every boy, unless he was lazy or a moron, had a chance to go to school, acquire book learning, learn a trade...
...And better climate and better roads and," with a sly chuckle, "better politics...
...Even in Mexico City most of the adults on the streets wear n shoes, the auto casing slippers or sometimes think the greatest man New England ever produced — perhaps the greatest man America has produced — was Horace Mann, the father of the free public school idea...
...After all, it is yours as much as ours...
...Although the ambassador had done most of the talking and we had remained Just an attentive audience, he assured his wife that he had said only a word or two, then he winked at us and said...
...Besides ourself the visitors included a Boston shoe machinery manufacturer, an army officer and a Chicago heavy machinery manufacturer who was trying to sell rolling stock to Mexico's national railways...
...Daniels is the living soul of Southern charm, and with a chuckle urged her guests to "look around the house and act just as though it were your home...
...The railroad man opined that there seemed ample field for the sale of rolling stock...
...Armed with a friendly personal letter from Sen...
...Not because of what you have, but because of wha...
...said he to the Bostonian, "at your New England...
...Cardenas of Mexico, had those three men agreeing with him, laughing with him at his jokes, won by the Daniels warmth and magnetism which is oft-times compared to the personality of his chief in Washington...
...You see ah neveh gave her none yet.'" When the ambassador turned to us we told him we brought him felicitations from Sen...
...But New England industry dominated, led the way...
...A finer »»an never participated In American public life...
...Daniels appeared then, anxious that we not overtax her husband with too much talking...
...Down here the public school system is Just getting under way, the birth of a middle class system is yet to come...
...At night when ah comes home first thing she asks for is money...
...And you see all that is necessary before you get those markets you want...
...The few shoes they do make are made by hand...
...For over 100 years you've been ahead of us down South...
...Fish is fooling no one, not even the oil companies for which he ij making the gesture...
...Behind his mild-mannered friendliness one discerns, in Josephus Daniels, a keenness of wit, an assured intelligence, an attractive personality which combine to assure the man security in his post, with the good wishes of both Americans and Mexicans...
...I " Well,' said the judge, what does she do with all thLs money you give her?' " 'Ah don' know, judge...
...Well," said the ambassador, "that is all a matter of time and education...
...They don't wear ;hoes—they wear automobile tires...
...These people need new rolling stock, but we're a bit afraid about getting our money...
...First thing In the morning is money, money, money...
...Joscphus Daniels, ambassador plenipotentiary to the Republic of Mexico...
...La Follette we were included In the group of a dozen or so Americans who had tea in the embassy gardens the other day...
...We explained it was a small town, among the lakes and streams...
...You remind me of the colored man in the divorce court that I was covering for my paper back in Raleigh, N. C. The judge asked the man why he wanted a divorce from his wife, why they couldn't settle their differences and remain married...
...Can you Imagine a finer Utopia than a world peopled with George Norrises...
...You know, the way (he world is going, the next generation will be entirely dominated by its women folks...
...Daniels, she regretted, had been ¦slightly ill and was still abed...
...George Norrls made his home each summer...
...People have to be educated to desires and needs...
...Look...
...At night ah cain't sleep ¦cause she keeps me awake asking me the handmade huaraches...
...It was true what he said...
...That was because of education...
...said the ambassador...
...We've a better soil down In North Carolina...
...Consequently New England prospered and led the way industrially...
...With that will come those markets for shoes and refrigerators and automobiles that the . United States is impatiently awaiting...
...La Follette...
...the place where Sen...
...The Bostonian was annoyed at Mexico's coolness towards American :hoe manufacturing machinery...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 17
