Thief

Last week about 200 young U. S. men, in various sections of the country and of the globe, swore softly or cursed aloud, as was their wont. They were cursing one Walter A. Miller.

Vexer Miller, aged 30, had been clerk in the office of Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright. Last week, under pressure, he confessed to having "illicitly acquired the advance proof" of the foreign service examination conducted by the Civil Service Commission on Jan. 11, and to having "copied therefrom the full approved text." The 200 young men had taken the examination.

All of them must take it again-- although it is doubtful how many of them were aided by Mr. Miller. Many of them had already sailed abroad. One was on his way to India.