The Washington herald., 1920-04-11
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

The attention Of Georsia's electors
is being called by the Wilson wing
OF the Democratic party to the pre-
war record Of Senator Hoke Smith.
who Is a candidate in the Presiden-
tial primaries. He said, following
the sinking of the Lusitania, that
since Germany had notified "the
American people to stay of the high
seas. they should have done it," In
March. 1916. he was named as a
candidate for President by a meet
ing held in San Francisco, which
formulated a platform anti-British
in temper and neutral in policy.
Some of the persons prominent in
this convention have since been con-
victed Of lack Of loyalty during the
war.
Miss Julia Lathrop, Of the Federal
IChildren's Bureau, at her own ex-
pense. recently went to Prague as a
nonofficial but none the less expert
adviser of the Czecho-Slovak repub-
lie on matters of child welfare. She
had counseled with President Ma
saryk when he was in this country
| and he accepted many Of her views
Having begun to put them in prac-
| tice, he naturally wished her to
come and see whether right techni-
cal details were being followed
Now another expert from this coun-
try, with the sanction of the Ma
| tional Education Association and
| in response to an invitation from
the minister Of education at Prague
is going to the new nation to help
set up a democratic system of
RN hfrh T.
Is ]. j. Zmrhal, principal of the
Herzl School of Chicago. For six
months he will act in an advisory
capacity.
James Moore Hickson, lay
member of the Church of England,
who makes his first formal visit
to and mission" in Washington
on the Goth, has been much in de-
mand in Protestant Episcopal dio-
ceses and in many cities of the
| country ever since he first came
to the United States more than a
year ago. BY means more conven-
tional and traditional with the
| church than those employed in the
Emanuel movement" in which DR.
| Elwood Worcester. of Boston, for
time was SO prominent, this Eng.
lish layman draws multitudes oi
diseased and defective persons to
hear him, and he works cures
by laying on of hands and res
to prayer and faith" Naturally
his first ventures were carefully
studied by the authorities of the
| church under which he now works
| with approval. This scrutiny prov
ed to the Investigators that he was
I Ci NJ FOL ~ ~ Nd Nl,a
he might safely be Endorsed" Since
which time he has had the same
sort of general episcopal indorse-
ment that he has now had from
Bishop Harding.
Philadelphia's orchestra hereafter
is to receive no financial support
from f. T. Stotesbury, the we'll.
known banker. He is at odds per.
sonalIy with another important
hacker of the organization and will
not sit on the executive committee
with the latter. The friction devel.
oped. not out of differences of opin.
ion as to management of the or
chestra or the recent raising of it:
endowment fund. but because of in,
timations against Mr.. Stotesbury'.
civic spirit made journalistically by
|
are "touchy" has long been known
The quality nowadays seems to pass
over into the ranks Of patrons oi
musical organizations.
Professor NJ. V. O'Shea. of the
University of Wisconsin. in his own
psychological Laboratories. is car
rying on experiments at the ex-
pense of the committee of fifty for
the study of tobacco. Data collect
ed in thousands of colleges and
high schools, supplemented by in.
formation now being gained in the
laboratories of the Harvard Medi.
cal School by Professor Cannon: ir
those of Johns Hopkins Universit,
by Professors McCollum and DR.
Hooker and in other institutions BY
men Of equal grade, will he at tn,
service of Professor O'S1ea. Ulti.
mately the committee of fifty will
have handed to it a finding by sci
entists that will rival in importanc,
the similar collection of informa
ton respecting tho effect of alco.
hol upon the human organism; and
1T then will sha nSed