The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-14

They have Just elected woman
TO be superintendent % the fine pub
lsc school system OF Los Angeles.
Cal The victor IN the composition
Tor " u a wfii-paid and .hieny IN
nuential place-is Mrs Susan NJ. Dor
FAY, long proIninent on the Pacific
Coast as an sducatdf. Those who
chose her believed IN promotion
rather than importation. There is
much 60 be sad for each policy.
She had been a teacher, vice min
cfpai, acting principal and assistant
superintendent. Presumably. II A.
true. as her friends say Of her. that
she knows the Los Aneelss system
from A 10 Y. TWENTY-FIVE years
peht ~ such pos,s s1sosId have
equipped her thus. The last large
Ani"rics1 city TO try this experiment
OF woman superintendent was Chr.
csso. with Mrs. Ella Flag Young.
Authorities diner as to swhether Il
worked we'll. Men for 80 long a
lime have had power In this field that
they surrender II Erudgingly.
One often wonders what some OF
the American collectors Of booles
men OF the mid-nineteenth century
period like Lenox Of New York. Brown
Of Providence. and Crerar OF Chicago
Would gay now. could they speak
Here is George ID, smith coming
home from London, with books chief.
ly for Henry Z. Huntington. for which
he mas spent not Tess than sl.&e00
and most of them purchased en- bloc
from representative OF 1mpecunious
hut cultured English families. They
are doing with their bookish assets.
what the Astors and Vandefbilts OF
New York are beginning TO do with
their real estate. as war taxation
mounts up.
They used 10 think that the. la
mented late Charles BeresfOrd, Of the
British navy, was the naval enfant
terrible, the master Of blazing in
dtscretions:" but he was a rood
boy" and a model Of discretion and
amity compared with Lord Fisher
whose sutobiography~no running
and whose almost daily letters TO the
Times are rivalling the deliverances
Of Bernard Shaw In their vitr1olic
content Having recently paid hts full
respects TO the civil and naval au-
thorfties who blundered through the
war. Lord Fisher is now turning or
Lloyd George and Bonar law and
the House Of Commons. and is calling
for a Cromwell to save Great Britain
! from disastrous ineptitude.
DR.. William Chauncey Emha rdi
OF Newton. Pa. is TO head the stat
of us workers who are 10 spend
the $1,000, 900 which the Protestant
Episcopal Church at its recent gen.
ersl convention allotted for tho
Of aliens. He ha:
had wide experience at home work.
ing among the many race-stock.
OF Pennsylvania. He has won for.
NAL ho4ors from the Greek mon.
srchy for his service TO the Greeks
and to the Greek Church. whiIs
abroad on war work. He has
proved his executive ability by sue.
,cessive parish and diocesan dutie,
well performed: and his edUcatjo
in Columbia and Kansas UNIVERSE.
ties, following his professional
training at two divinity schools
has itted him TO organize the edu-
cational work which his new post
involves. for a stan of field work
ers at home and abroad has yet 70
be enlisted and trained.
1t is a former professor Of GRIM
iRal law and one of the leading
jurists of Philadelphia. George ).
Graham. who is the author of the
severe sedition law now before the
House . of Representatives for
amendment enactment or rejection.
II imposes a death penalty in cases
where murder is the result of the
use Of violence to overthroy or
change the government He also is
the author Of the report of the
Judiciary, Committee on which the
bill is based. They reckon wrong
who suppose that IL is the plan of
"rube." passionate but unin-
formed.
From Toxic to Berlin goes Lord
kilmsrnock as the first British diplo-
matte representative Of the victor to
the vanquished: and while profes-
sionally considered it is 4 marked
promotion. il will be no sinecure OF a
post. No more so will be the
nomineA,s plight who comes from
Berlin to London. or to Washington.
AS for the scale on which the coming
German representatives will live al
foreign capitals. il can hardly be as
lavish as formerly: and the sp-
pOintees may be of quite a different
personal type and social past; and
elaborate embassy buildings may be
on the market. with the new nations
of Europe. the comfortably-of Latin
American countries and Japan COM
ing in as buyers.
The rumors Of deficit in the running
expenses Of Plymouth Church. Brook.
Ign. and the coming forced retirement
of Rev. n. d. Hills from the pas
tOrate are not surprising. Churches
for a time can stand having their
star" orators serve two masters, the
lecture platform and the pulpit. and up
to a certain point the laity will meet
the financial strain which this dual
system compels. But sooner or later
the congregation disintegrstes. the
loyalty of lay officials weakens. and
the DAY of departure comes. Beecher's
and Lyman Abbotts old and famous
church has been very patient.
Rear Admiral Wells Goes
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