The Washington herald., 1920-05-06
In the Linelight
By George Perry Mefria

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By George Perry Norris
washingtonians have opportunity
tonight 70 hear Rev. John Keiman.
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church. New York City. He speaks
at the annual meeting of the local
branch of the Mccall Mission.
Lovers OF Robert Louis Stevenson
will know him by his admirable
book on The Faith of Stevenson"
To the student world Of Edinburgh.
Kelman. the yourg Presbyterian
divine, long stood as the successor
of Henry Drummond as a clergy
man who could make Christianity
attractive to them by approaching
It through the gateway OF litera-
ture and the humanities- In due
time he became the assistant To
and later the successor of the ia
nous Alexander whyte as pastor
Iof the famous St Georges Church
in Edinburgh. There he remained
until last year he arrived in New
York TO. follow the famous Jowett
who was returning to England
This summer he goes out to Chins
to see his daughter. who is there
in missionary work Many clergy
men Of many sects know him
through his Lyman Beecher Lee.
lures on Preaching delivered al
Yale in 1918. in which he dealt
with the effect of the war upon
religion. He is broad in his SYM
pathIes and theology, a charming
person; and given q pastorate OF
any length at the Fifth Avenue
Church he will put it out of the
class of reactionary influences in
the Presbyterian Church.
When one contrasts the chaos
and chickering's and aimlessness OF
the New York public school situa-
ton Of today with what il was un-
der the regime of William Henry
Maxwell. who has just died. one
wishes that his replica could be dis
covered. He was Scotch-Irish. loved
to fight for his ideals. never had any
doubt as to what they were, and
seldom failed to win in his contro-
versies.
Former Representative George r.
Lunn, now mayor of Schenectady, n
Y, is not easy to drive either tan
dem or abreast, and IL is not sur
prisinE to know that he has served
notice that at the San Francisco
convention he will not obey the
unit rule" IL that law still domi-
mates the New York delegation.
| One of the most careful readers
Of the latest publicity concerning
Mr.. Charles w. Morse will be for
mer President william H Taft Mex,
in order will be officials Of the Unit
ed States Shipping Board.
What the associates on the fac
ulty of the University of Minnesota
thought of the late Maria Sanford
may be inferred from the following
quotation from the formal minutes
which they passed summing up their
estimate of her: ''She was a true
educator, no mere hired instructor
serving for a daily wage and count
ing her reward OF service in ma
terial gain. To her the classroom
was an opportunity where books
were but a means to an end, and
that end not primarily the imparta-
tion Of knowledge. but the develop
ment of a just power of discrimina-
ton. of wise appreciation, of right
direction of purpose and creative
energy. Her classroom was a lab
oratory of light and with true pro-
phetic zeal she practiced her ma
jestic art. The fruitfulness of those
for whom she labored was her one
anxiety and when realized a sat
isfying recompense." But she was
loId-fashioned, was born in New
England. and had her ideals fixed
in a noncommercial age.
They are poking fun at the legal
istic, redundant. prudently phrased
and guarded terminology of the
peace resolution of Senator
Knox's devising which the Senate
now has before il. 1t has all that
verbiage so Characteristic of legal
documents. How different II would
have been phrased had a Senator
who was a business man or a
scientist drafted IL.
Rex Beach during the coming
year is to be president of the Coun-
Gil of the Authors League of Amer
lea. Since the chief function of the
organization is to fight for its
members professional and economic
rights that are challenged by covet-
Gus publishers and film producers
Mr.. Beach is an admirable choice
There is a punch" to his literary
output that is symbolical of the
man.
st. Louis has recently been visit
ed by Admiral de Graca of the Bra
lillian navy, who il urging the local
! shippers and merchants to get back
| of a proposition for billing goods
direct to and from ports in Brazil
and towns on the Mississippi River
He wants to know why it is that
| goods raised in the great valley
must go to the Nor,h Atlantic coas,
ports, especially New York, before
they can start Brazilward and tC
other lands Of South America. And
DR.. Sebastiano Sampiao, who is tC
be commercial attache of Brazil in
| Washington, is with the admiral and
is asking the same sensible Ques.
tion.
A NATURAL RESULT.