The Washington herald., 1920-03-21
In the Lirnelight
By George Perry Morris.


The Society Of Visual Education
is to have the benefit Of the CO.
operation Of q newly formed corpo-
ration OF which RoIIin d. Salisbury.
professor Of geography in the Uni
versity Of Chicago. Is president. He
is well known in washington scien-,
tific circles. His academic career has
been one of contact with Beioit
College. the University OF wisconsin
and Chicago University: but he also
has held important posts under the
United States Geological Survey. and
IL a member of the Washington
Academy Of Sciences. Together with
men from the teaching stan Of the
University OF Chicago and OF Har-
ward University. and in collabora-
tion, with the Utilities Development
Corporation Of Chicago, Professor
Salisbury plans to select and manu-
facture the finest kind of educa-
tional films" by which almost
every subject in a school or college
Icurriculum may be taught. Thus
does the "movfe-world" win into its
circles the stars" among the peda-
gogues. just as it did the stars
among the actors.
Brazil Is turning to the United
States for many things that she
once invariably bought in Europe.
and among them IL advice in mat
ters Of art One Of st. Louis lead
tro n ID.
who designed the new cathedral
for that city. has just returned
from a four-months' trip to Brazil.
and he comes home with a COM
mission to design for the city OF
Porto Allegro a cathedral which will
cost 100000. Final action by him
is dependent somewhat upon the
financial arrangement that is
worked out. The fact is signifi-
cant that the opening has been
made.
Mr.. Taft has a rival in Raymond
Poincare, former president OF
France. Now that he Is out of Of
fce he has no scruples in saying
what he thinks of the Peace Con-
ference. the Supreme Council and
the public men of his country and
lnt IOTmeT allleE.
This problem Of what to do with
the former presidents of republics
never used to be quite as acute as
lit is now.
They were supposed to retire to
activities of a nonpolitical sort and
take up with law-as in the case of
Mr.. Harrison, or with penology-as
with Mr.. Hayes, or with quasi
academic instruction and occasional
deliyerances on civic issues, as with
Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. Mckinley had
no chance to show what his theory
was. With Mr.. Roosevelt. a Presi-
Dental Warwick appeared. He
named his successor. He later
damned him. and later made up
with him for Interior reasons. But
Mr.. Roosevelt did more than this.
He insisted and persisted in attack
ing President whom he had not
favored. He initiated the custom of
sy stematic partisan writing for a
syndicate. He would not and could
not be still. Mr.. Taft is doing like
wise. Will Mr.. Wilson follow the
precedents established by his imme-
diate predecessors, or will he 60
back to the ways of the "fathers?"
Rumor has it that NJ. Poincare,
after a period of attack on his coun-
trymen whom he considers respon-
sible for lack of wisdom, will insist
on NJ. Deschanel stepping down and
out and letting him be premier. OF
/ course. deposed kings have always
plotted to regain power, but il used
to be supposed that presidents OF
republics were not quite so welded
to the tactics Of obstruction and
ambition.
Carl Sandburg is Chicago's lead
ing poet of the modernist school.
He also is a reporter on the News.
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