The Washington herald., 1920-04-23
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

Mr.. Hoover's grandparents were
Friends and his entrance examina-
tions. when he applied fer admission |
to his alma mater. Stanford Univers-
ity, California, were vouched for by
Prof. Swain. then teaching mathe-
matics at the university. but later
to become president OF Swarthmore
College. As the scion OF Quaker an
cestors Mr.. Hoover comes TO Svarth-
more this June 70 give the COM
mencement address. and he will have
q sympathetic audience. The Quak-
ers this Presidential year are rather
inclined to brag OF their four posi-
bilities" - Hoover-Lowden-P Palmer
sproul-all Of whom bark back TO
George Fox for spiritual leadership
rather than to Calvin or Wesley.
Former Attorney General and Sec
retary Of War Bonsparte has emerg-
ed from his Baltimore retreat to in
dicate his preference for Gen. Wood;
and to some extent at least he 90
chooses because, as he says. he loves
Gen. Wood 'for the enemies he has
made" This phrase became q classic
In our political terminology in the
days Of cleveland's power. It's life
will be long. for It represents a
permanent mood.
German American propaKanda
leadership is falling into the old
hands. The president pro tenn of
the committee Of ninety-six" is
DR.. Edmund Won Mach and the sec
retary pro tenn is George Sylvester
Viereck. Americans Of German
descent are to be aroused 10 protec-
tion Of their civil rights and du-
ties. Political units irrespective
of party affiliations, are to be built
up in opposition to invisible gov
ernment." Restrictions on person
al liberty. including prohibition"
are 10 be fought d-fashioned
Americanism" is to be the slogan,
Viereck is as irrepressible as he is
impossible: but now. as formerly,
he commands the sinews of war
Won Mach, socially boycotted and
forcibly suppressed. also bobs up
to bore in" again. Apropos the
mathematics of these organizations
of dissent why do they run in null
tiples of twelve? There is the COM
mittee of forty-eight, made up of
the armchair radicals; and here is
the committee of ninety-six, with
aims above noted.
Dean John H. wigmore, Of the
law school of Northwestern Univer-
sity. at Evanston. Ill. has received
from France. His own government
has given him the medal OF distin-
guished service. The latter came
to him for his work under Gen.
Crowder in operating the selective
service law during the war. He
has a militant temperament that
makes him a resolute, grim fight
er, as certain scars on Gen. Ansell.
formerly of the Judge advocates
department, would prove: but ap-
parently Ansell is to win in his
fight for Congressional action mod
flying much the severity Of our
military law. Wigmore is among
the modernists in his conception OF
law and in his methods of teach
ing it; and while not as we'll known
as Prof. Pound. of Harvard. he is
making contributions to new
American Jurisprudence.
With the election of John NJ.
Parker as Governor of Louisiana
the Gulf States see come ihto power
a type Of administrator and po-
!
those of civil war and reconstruc-
ton days. He has more tndepen-
dence of will. less subserviency to
party, a wider national outlook.
and a program that is up-to-date.
His first job will be housecleaning
in New Orleans and at the capital.
A lot of "ringsters" would better
buy their cofins.
Norway. that has a much longer
list of large figures in literature
on its national role than many a
country thrice its size, has sent
hither Johan Bojer, who has come
to see his Scandinavian brethren
and to study our democracy in its
postwar reactions. He seems to
be quite a philosopher of a practi-
cal sort IL his comments on the
tyranny of the egoistic reformer
when he gets power. are typical
of his insight and sense.
William Kent, formerly of the
Tariff Commission and once a Con-
gresham with independent lean
ings, is now q Republican cAndi-
date for United States Senator from
California He is out with a state
ment against further settlement Of
the japanese in California Hawaii.
he holds. has sold her birthright
for a mess OF sugar. He does not
want California ito sell hers for a
mess of asparagus" That has a
Kentian flavor which both his
critics and his admirers will recog-
nize. Constructive, detailed plans for
solution of the Asiatic immigration
and citizenship problem Mr.. Kent
does not give.
ington. This prophet declared that
an ia a. ~