The Cordova daily times., 1919-04-11
FRIDAY, APRIL Il, 1919
sPoUTER OF RADICAL DOCTRINES

We have watched with much inter- est the unfolding of the life story of the Rev. George D. Heron, who was selected by President Wilson as one of the delegates to confer with the Russians at the proposed Sea of Mar mora conference. Circumstances brought to our notice some years ago the preachments and practices of the reverend gentleman and we have wondered how the country would take his appointment when it became ac- quainted with his character and con- cepts.
 As companion delegate for the Rev. Mr. Heron the president chose that upright, gentle-minded and somewhat sentimental newspaper man, William Allen White of Emporia, Kansas. If we were privileged to confer new titles on these gentlemen we should put it somthing like this: "The Rev erend William Allen White and the Very Scandalous George D. Heron.
 As an apostle of free love, MT. Her ron attained notoriety more than twenty years ago when his radical teachings attracted the attention of rich lady who is said to have financed his preaching and propaganda. Hav- ing obtained divorce from his first or was it his second ?-wife he mar ried the rich lady
 Heron is tall, somewhat oriental appearing, and has, or had twenty plexion When he wore his hair rather long and trimmed his beard just so he looked quite startling like some of the accepted pictures of Christ. He diff fered from some others who simulated the bodily characteristics of the tra- ditional Christ pictures in that he was fastidious in manner and dress. At first his teachings were palely radical, on the order of Christian socialism,
 
 discarded many of the orthodox ten subsequently, those relating to mar riage-and became an outand-out spouter of radical doctrines, in both the religious and economic realms.
 Having moved eastward by devious stages he settled for time in Metu- chen, N. J., where he founded col only of advanced thinkers" One annoying day the less advanced thinkers" of that rural community took after the advanced thinkers" with pitchforks and other persuasive i'm plements. The Rev. MT. Heron evi- dently kept on running until he hit Switzerland There he settled down to rest and obscurity until the war broke out. He came into the limelight again when he rejected secret offer from German agents to carry on some sort of negotiations looking to set clement with the United States. In that case he revealed his enduring love for his native land and we desire in justice, to give him full credit for spurning the Teutonic offer.
 But why did President Wilson elect such a character to treat with the Russians? Was it because Herron's s free love ideas conformed more or\less closely with those of the Bolsheviki whom the allies have been trying to beguile down to Princes island in the Sea of Marmora? We are taking it Tor granted that the President was thor oughly familiar with the career and teachings of the reverend gentleman Both have been university professors one in Iowa and the other in New Jersey, and the president, probably was in New Jersey at the time of the charge of the pitchfork brigade.
 There is nothing reverend about the Bolsheviki. They have discarded re ligion and slain the teachers of Chris tianity. Naturally they would not care to meet with George D. Heron, the more or less reverend, merely to dis pute on points of theology. But the Rev. MT. Heron and the Bolshevikl