The Washington herald., 1920-06-04
In the Linelight
BY George. Perry Morris.

A woman, Miss Theo Jacobs. is TO
head a new department of social &C.
onomics at Johns Hopkins Univer-,
sity. This institution cooperating
with the Baltimore Alliance of Char
table and Social Agencies, Is to give
two-years course. Persons are to
be fitted to act as administrators.
secretaries, district organizers and
case workers in social service. Able
teachers from the university, the
medical school. Goucher College, and
the alliance are to be used. Miss
Jacobs is veteran worker in the
city's social welfare activities; for
two years was secretary of the Fed
Grated Charities. and last year joined
the faculty of the university. When
! studied economics with Richard r.
| Ely at Johns Hopkins in 1Se0-9l, he
he may have been dreaming of some
thing of this kind; but woman was
| then tabooed. and the university was
not geared to serve community in
/ terests as ii now is.
Colonies of persons using or un-
derstanding Spanish are becoming
! numerous and so large in this
country that both journalism and the
stage are beginning to cater to
| them. Having this in mind and also
| believing that many non-Spanish
theater goers among students OF con-
temporary dramatic literature and
the hackers of non commercial play
houses, will go to see Spanish plays
well acted, Moris'Gest is bringing to
| this country next autumn, Maria
Guerrero. South America long sinde
gave her a cordial welcome. She
! not only plays the works of her
countrymen. but also some of the
best of the Greek tragedies, and the
finest of the dramas of French, Ger
man. and Scandinavian modern play
wrights.
Misery loves company" il is said.
| DR.. Helmer Key, chief editor of the
Svenska Dagblsdet of Stockholm,
now studying conditions in this
country. says that paper. which cost
his publication before the war the
sum of 100000. last year cost $780,
600. Many of the smaller newspa-
pers of Eastern Canada are threat
cned with extinction because of the
priority Of the claims of the Hearst
and Northcliffe journals in the Unit
ed States and England on the out
put of the large paper mills of the
eastern provinces. Paper-making,
transportation and sale have become
IAN international question" forcing
on executives and lawmakers prob
lens of embargo, price-making, etc.
Bishop-elect C. W. Davenport. of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Easton. though native of Vermont.
grew up in Queen Anne County and
often worshipped in the church in
which he was elected bishop. his
father being rector of an adjoining
parish. The son began his formal
education at the high school in this
city and closed il at the General
Theological Seminary, New York
City. He has had important rector
ships in New York and New England
parishes. Since 1919 he has had
general supervision of the work for
seamen carried on by the church,
and has made his headquarters in
New York City at the Seamen's In
stitute. A specialist in this fmpor-
tant field of labor. he may not be
tempted by the general tasks. duties
and frictions of administrative epis-
copal work.
Massachusetts is to revive the Of
flee of fuel administrator and is pre-
pairing to go back on war basis this
winter. James J. Storrow. the bank
er, of the house of Higginson, prob
ably will be nominated. He is just
back from Europe and a study of
the fuel situation there: and he an
nounces that he fayors an embargo
on all exports of coal from here
there, the law to become operative
at once The Boston press backs
him up.
/ A chair endowed with s150.000 and
drawing present rate of interest
puts its occupant on the sunny side
of easy street. that is, using aca-
ienlic standards of pay. A. Barton
Hepburn. the banker. furnished the
cash to Princeton: she has called
Prof Lauder A. Jones, of the chem
ical and engineering schools of the
University of Minnesota and ne will
lead the students of Old Nassau in
research work in organic chemistry
Princeton is waking up to the fact
that she must be less cultural and
more vocational in her curriculum il
she is To, compete with her rivals
She has a very large investment OF
capita! for a relatively small num-
| her of students