Monday, Sep. 14, 1925

Vice Council

Thirty years ago there was between the Consular and Diplomatic services an impassable gulf. No nice sweet-sixteener would have fancied herself in the former, however graphically she might have pictured herself married to the latter.

The Consular consisted of men who had to make a living, who had to live on their official salaries. They got their jobs not by divine right, but in payment of services rendered to one politician or another. And then, knowing the value of a dollar, they gave the U. S., in exchange for their pay, good, honest work.

The Diplomatic service, on the other hand, never expected its young bloods to live on their salaries, but by way of adjusted compensation, was supposed to permit the substitution of tea for work.

Gradually this has, in good part, changed. Consular and diplomatic service have been brought under the same supervision. Transfer from one to the other is possible.

So no one was shocked when pretty, dimpled Miss Pattie Field, age 24, of Denver, was last week assigned as Vice-Consul at Amsterdam, Holland.

She is the second woman to represent the U. S. abroad--the first having been Miss Lucille Archerson, age 31, assigned as Third Secretary (diplomatic service) to Berne, Switzerland.

Although the consular service to which she is assigned is still not quite so Selectable as the diplomatic to which Miss Archerson was admitted, nevertheless pretty Miss Field was all smiles when Washington newspapermen came to report whatever she had to say:

"I am sure women will be useful in the foreign service. Just as in other callings, there are some things in this career that women can do better than a man, especially in the large consular offices."