The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
HENRY DAWSON
REAL ORGANIZER
DECLARES ROOT
dominates National Red
Cross Chairman to Open
School in Washington.

New York, Jan. 19-Henry P. Davi-
son, formerly chairman of the War
Council of the American Red Cross
received one of the gold medals pre-
sented by the National Institute of
Political and Social Sciences at its an
nua1 dinner at the Aston last night.
Elihu Root, in making the presenta-
ton speech, said:
ct nominate you, Sir, to go to
Washington and start a school of in
struction in organization. You have
taught US the lesson that there lives
still among the American people the
genius of great enterprise, privately
conducted, which explains the build
ing up of our country and furnishes a
reason for the well-grounded hopes of
success in the great war which we
are fighting for liberty. You have
taught US a lesson of faith at time
when many things are discouraging."
Mr.. Root was warmly cheered. The
entire audience rose and applauded
when he was called upon with an en-
thusiasm equalled only when he pro-
posed Mr.. Dawson as an instructor in
organization. Two or three of the re-
cipients of honors deprecated the dis
tinction given to them for achieve
ments which they characterized as
minor in fields Were Mr.. Roots ac-
complishments had been most notable.
Four of the men honored were alb,
sent, all on war work. Herbert Hoo
yer, Federal Food Administrator, and
DR.. William J. Mayo, who, with Mr.
Dawson, received gold medals, were
both detained in Washington by war
work and Dr. Thomas W. Salmon and
ex-Commissioner of Charities John A
Kingsbury were absent in France.
The first speaker was DR.. John H
Finley, State Commissioner of Educa-
ton, who brought back to the institute
the thanks of the Institute de France
for the greetings which it had sent
to the French body. DR., Eugene
Lyman Fisk then made the speech of
presentation connected with the
medal for DR. Francis Gano Benedict
honored particularly for his recent
researches into the effect of alcohol
on the human system. DR.. Benedict,
in response, expressed appreciation for
the work of his assistants.
DR.. Henry Moskowitz, ex-Commis-
sioner of Markets, made the presenta-
ton speech for Mr.. Kingsbury, and
Prof Irving Fisher of Yale, head of
the Institute, performed the same
function for DR.. Leo S. Rowe, pro-
fessor of political economy in the
University of Pennsylvania and As
sistant secretary of the Treasury. DR..
Rowe is president of the American
Academy of Political and Social
| Sciences, and in making the presenta-
ton DR.. Fisher announced that a
committee had been appointed at the
afternoon meeting to negotiate for the
ama1gamation of the two bodies.
| DR.. Stewart Patton made the pre-
sentation speech for the medal to DR..
Salmon awarded for his medical re-
| searches, and in doing SO gave a psy-
| chologist's view of the trouble with
| the Prussian and the pacifist. Their
| fundamental mechanism is practi-
cally the same" he said. Each is
dominated by an impossible wish.
| The great probelm of the future is,
! Can we regulate human behavior in
| diligently? Before making the
world safe for democracy we must
see if democracy is safe for the world,
| if it meets the needs of human be-
| ings; we must make the Prussian
mistake of trying to adapt an inpos-