Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1910 — Importance of a Word. [ARTICLE]

Importance of a Word.

If you should write a letter to the man who is chief magistrate of this republic you are at liberty to address him as “The President, Washington, D. C.” That will be sufficient. He is not “his excellency,” as is the supreme executive magistrate of Massachusetts, nor “his high mightiness,” a title which, they say, sounded pleasing to. the ear of the Father of His Country. But if you should write a letter to the Secretary of State of the United States, whom the plain “president” appointed to the job, prepare to dip your pen in honorific ink. While the chief magistrate is plain "president,” without any titular epaulets, his Secretary of State is “the Honorable Secretary of State.” It will not do to address him as “the “Secretary of State” simply. He is. something more than that. The etiquette of the State Department requires that the word “honorable” be prefixed to the word “secretary.”— Boston Globe.