Appointment

Suppose that U. S. President Coolidge should send a Negro as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's? President Coolidge, prudent, did no such thing last week; but he did appoint a Negro, William T. Francis of St. Paul, as U. S. Minister to the Free & Independent Republic of Liberia.

At Monrovia, Liberian capital, it became known last week that Mr. Francis had been for 19 years employed as a legal assistant for the Northern Pacific railroad. In 1924 he was chairman of the Colored Division of the Republican National Committee. "Ah," thought many Liberians, "Minister Francis has deserved honorably and well of President Coolidge."

As everyone knows, the blackamoors of Liberia have deserved well of the U. S. by repaying recently into the U. S. Treasury the whole of their country's debt to the U. S,