The Washington herald., 1920-08-26
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris
virginia Borrews from


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Va where the Phi Beta Kappa fra
ternity was born. is not thinking
as much about the classics as IL did
when this ''highbrow'' organization
was set going. Its officials also
talk about education for business,
about university extension. about
economics and about practical things
nowadays. To organize this exten-
sion work efficiently they have bor-
rowed for a season from the College
Of Business Administration of Bos-
ton University. Prof. Ralph L.
Power. to whom the extraordinary
growth of the Boston school Of
business has been due to a consid-
cradle extent. Virginia and Msssa-
ehusetts have the common tie of
great aee-judged by our national
standards. Rogers. a Virginian, was
the founder OF the famous Massa-
chusetts School of Technology. Let
the exchange of personages go on!
Lawrence Mt Last Speaks.
Many persons who have read the
romantic and fascinating tale of
now 7. Z. Lawrence. the orientalist
ana erudite academic Briton, won
the Hedjaz Arabs TO fight with the
allles against the Turks in the war,
must have been wondering how he
was feeling now as he contemplated
the altered attitude of the British
and the French toward his fighters
/ from the desert, without whom Al
lenby never would have won Pales-
tine nor the British regained Meso-
! potamia- Unhsmpered by any on
: cial ties and back again in his
| academic haunts he at last has
broken silence to say that the Brit
ish public is kept in ignorance Of
how bad their plight in Mesopota-
mia is; that the Lloyd George policy
! toward the Arabs and the Arab
/ state has been series OF blunders
and that the British rule is both
ruthless and ineffective and worse
than the old Turkish system. Per
sonally he stands absolved from any
! betrayal Of pledges solemnly given
in time Of need. But his country
men have quite another record.
A Pioneer Mccall Mission Worker,
Louise Seymour Houghton, who
/ has just died. was not a great
! woman but she was a very fine
! Illustration OF what culture. liberal
religion and social service could DO
/ for the American woman whose ac-
! tivity covered the last decades OF
the last century, since which time
/ changes have come. Education,
travel and contact with vital per
sonalities had combined with indi-
yidual taste to make her writings
suggestive and charming as well as
/ purposefUl; and in the world Of
religious journalism in it's palmy
days she was a distinct figure, while
her scholarship led publishers 10
use her as a translator and editor
The Kings Daughters owed much
to her for her championship OF their
cause when Margaret Bottome was
laying the foundations Of the or
der. and the Mccall mission work
in France never had an abler Ameri-
can champion.
The Candidacy of Mrs. Ella A. Boole.
So many Republican women in
the State Of New York are out to
get the scalp OF Senator Wadsworth
and prevent him from having an
I other term in the American House
, OF Lords" that il is probable that
Mrs. Ella A. Boole will poll more
votes in the coming primary than
she otherwise might. She also is
likely to get the votes Of wumen,
ics are radicals in personal ethics;
for she is one of the Old Guard OF
w. c. T. L. leaders. having held
official positions in that organizH-
ton since 1856. To be sure idenu-
fication with prohibition will
ALLEVIATE some women. You can not
be anything nowadays without los
ing as well as gaining friends. Not
that this is a new social and polid-
cal phenomenon. Quite the con-
trary. But individuals now are so
free TO express their personal an
tipathies and their likes in their
ballotings that the boycott weapon
is used with unwonted Eest. Mrs.
Boole is too much Of a veteran 70
expect to win the nomination. but
she will be happy IL she puts the
fear" miCrobe into the Republican
body-politic.
Serbia Makes n Professor n Premier
Advent OF DR.. Milenko Nesnitcf
to the presidency OF the Serbian
Cabinet and his choice as Shaper oi
its policy is another case Of an
educator confirmed in his role oi
, publicist. A diplomat Of experience
he sensibly was chosen to head the
Serbian War Mission which came
to this country during the war, q
, mission that impressed all who me
; il with its members ability 10 MAKE
, realistic and poignant the horrors
; Of the national experience and tn,
, need OF American aid. 1 saw rep
resentatives of many nations il
this country during the war IN sim
liar errands; but none Of them
seemed to be so SCARED inward!
E and outwardly by the hell in which
E they had lived.