The Washington herald., 1920-03-20
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.


man of some importance say that
there were two men In the Amer
|ican-Anglo journalistic world. who.
IL they were taken out and stood
up against a wall and shot. would,
by their exit from this life. great
ly facilitate settlement Of the worlds
peace. One was Horatio Bottomiey.
editor OF John Bull" q militant
Notwithstanding paper with a large
circulation among the masses" Ev-
identity he has been hearing from
authorities of state, who. IL they
have not threatened to shoot him,
have done something effective. For
Bottomley is now rivalling the Man
chester Guardian in cooing for fra
ternal relations between the two
nations.
Sanford L. PARROT. who is to be
the general agent of the Rock Is
land Railroad, with headquarters in
New York City. is well known to
Tennesseeans. Thirty-four years
ago he was an Office boy in the head
quarters Of the old Memphis and
Charleston Railroad. He went to a
night school in Memphis and mas
tered stenography and soon began
to climb the grades of clerkship in
the Offices OF the transportation
/ company. He has ben climbing ever
since up that ladder of merit which
/ exists in the railway business to
a degree that is encouraging be
yond description. Mr.. Parrott had
a Baptist clergyman for a father
and In another refutation of the slur
on such parentage.
William Marion Reedy, editor Of
Reedy's Mirror, of st. Louis, has
| thrown in his lot with the commit
tee of As that Is in control of a Lib
eral movement to create a new
party having affiliations with la
| bor He is to preside at a coming
| conference in st. Louis. The tenn
per and deliverances of his journal
of late have shown that he was done
with President Wilson. From a
journalists standpoint. he is one of
the most interesting personalities in
| the country, inasmuch as he has
made a provincial journal-provin-
cial In the geographical sense only
widely read throughout the country.
He loved art, fine literature and So
cial revolt. His own style is brill
liant, adorned with bookish allsuions
but never pedantic, and full of
verve. He will give innovators and
/ radicals a chance to win a reading
III -AAn orr ar d.
itors turn them down. Like the Ar
gonaut of San Francisco in its best
days. the Mirror has proved that a
paper need not be published in Chi
cago or New York to become ma
tionally known or the foSter-father
of incipient famous authors.
Helen C. Statler. of Kalamazoo
Mich, who is seeking the Republi-
can nomination for Congress from
the district now represented by
John NJ. c. Smith, has to her credit a
gallant father. who fought in the
! civil war, and her husband was a
renowned Michigan physician. She
is a graduate of Wells College, Au-
rora, n. Y; has wealth derived from
many sources, is a leading social
! welfare worker of the Safe. and is
backed by the Federated Women's
Clubs. If she should arrive
on the floor of Congress.
her friends predict that she
would be as clever oratorically
as Lady Astor. and quite as intelli-
gent and honest as the average male
Michigan lawmaker. 1t is this sort
of candidate that the League of
Women Voters propose to give the
| male electors a chance to accept or
reject.
DR.. A. P. Fitch, who begins a
months engagement as preacher al
the First Congregational Church
on Sunday, is now a professor at
Amherst College with special charge
of the religious interests of the stu
dents and he also is a teacher of
Biblical literature. There are few
Sundays when he does not preach
in some leading pulpit of New Eng
land or New York, for his equal in
eloquence, native preaching power
and courage in comment on con-
temporary ethical issues is some
what difncult to find. To old ad-
mirers of Phillips Brooks he recalls
the torrential flow of thought and
the desire to shape ideals of that
great preacher. DR.. Fitch for a
time was president of the faculty
Of Andover Theological Seminary.
The war and it's aftermath of
ethical and spiritual problems have
deeply moved him, and he is say
ing things now hard to be under
stood by the pfe-war traditionalists
and ecclesiastics.
By appointing Frederick Dixon.
now editor of the Christian Science
Monitor, temporary editor of the
other journals which they control
and publish, the trustees of the
Christian Science Publishing So
ciety Of Boston have concentrated
in an able man an unexampled
power to shape the thought of the
sect. During the litigation between
the trustees of this publishing So
ciety and the directors of the char
tered society which controls the
body. he has outwardly at least re-
mained neutral and has proceeded
with editing the Monitor on its es-
tablished lines. He has named as
an associate in executing his new
duties. Sir Henry Japp. also an
Englishman. Nothing is more in
teresting. in connection with the
evolution of the governing person
mel Of this religious organization
than to see how completely it's con-
troll has passed out of the hands OF
New Englanders. who were the first
tconverts of Mrs. Eddy. Britons,
canadians. Southerners, westerners
have the say now. 81.
| The pending suffrage fight before
the Delaware legislature will find
Mrs Florence Bayard Hilles uromf.