The Washington herald., 1920-04-02
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris

The Manchester Guardian for
some time has had one of the best
types of foreign correspondence
emanating from the United States.
More recently 1t has pushed the cir
culation of the journal in this coun-
try by skillful advertising. Now IL
has established in New York City.
under the control of Capt. Compton
Packenham, what Is intended to be
an office that will increase its adj
Vertising patronage and bring
American and British traders and
manufacturers together in its coll
umns as champions of their respec-
tive countries goods.
Homer Folks. the well-known So
cial-welfare worker and admins
traitor of philanthropies. with a fine
pre-war record In New York State
and a full career during the war az
an adviser in France, has his own
solution of what should be done TO
and with the former kaiser. He
does not favor judicial procedure
and formal prosecution, or exile 10
a remote island owned by the
Dutch. No He would have the cul-
prit taken out of his castle in Hol-
land, and, from now until he dies
forced to travel about Europe and
see the outcome of the war he be-
gan. Belgium, France. Serbia, Ar
menia-these should be necessarily
traversed under ample guard. He
would become a sort of Wander
ing Teuton," doomed to everlasting
facing of his own handiwork as a
taker of life and destroyer of prop
erty.
Professor L0ey Cushing. of the
Harvard Medical School. the re-
nowned specialist in brain surgery
has been chosen to write the official
biography of the late Sir William Os-
Ter. Professor Gushing was a close
personal friend of the great physi-
clan and humanist. He has the
requisite technical knowledge and
literary ability to do a fine piece of
work. Lady Osler will place much
data at his command. Baltimore
and Washington will render up
their wealth of material. In due
time the public will have an invalu-
able record of a most valuable life,
One of the livest and most pro-
gressive of the educational instItu-
tions of the South, the University
of North Carolina has won away
from Atlanta DIR. Howard Odum OF
Emory University. He will be Ken
nan professor of sociology and di-
rector of the new school of public
welfare at the university, the first
of its kind, so it is said in the South.
This is a trophy of the new presi-
dent of the Carolina school, DR.. II.
w. Chase.
Julian Street is to be the spe-
cially favored journalist accompany
ing the delegation of our business
and professional men who sail from
Seattle, April 10. to visit Japan as
guests of Baron Shibusawa. and
other financiers of the kingdom who
are specially concerned to preserve
amity between the two nations.
Julian has vivid style, much
imagination. His stories" sent
back home will be readable-of this
there can be no doubt.
Mr.. Frank A. Vanderlip is to join
the faculty of the Harvard Univer-
sity Graduate School of Business
He will be An at
tache and not a permanent fixture.
H. n
and when he cannot he will not. He
will draw no pay. Home from
Japan in the autumn, he will be-
come the banker turned pedagogue
1t is we'll. The students will get
technique and philosophy mixed
from the lips of a successful doer
and serious thinker.
II. W. Nevinson, the next English
man of eminence to appear in this
country as a student of our present
national mood and as a lecturer, is
an expert in the history of the po-
litical and social evolution of the
Near East. The best Liberal and
Radical journals of Great Britain
have long known his writings, and
he is not without some discriminat-
ing readers in this country.
When the history OF the Philip
pines since 1898 comes to be writ
ten by a competent. disinterested
historian, one of the most credit
able chapters of the American oc-
cupation will be the provision made
for courts of justice; and a domi-
nant Filipino personality in this
process has been Chief Justice Arel-
lano,. who now finds himself con-
strained to retire from the insular
supreme court and live on the pen
sion suitably voted to him by the
legislature.