The Washington herald., 1920-05-02
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morria.

II III
By ceorge Ferry Morris
President II. w. chase. just fnau-
gurated president Of the University
Of North Carolina, is q New Eng
lander. with Dartmouth College and
Clark University degrees. He is a
specialist in Psychology and peda-
goeics. Since 1910 he has been con-
nected with the North Carolina In
stitution. latteriy as dean. Under
his inspiration and guidance the In
-stitution has established university
extension methods and social and
public welfare agencies. There Is
not one fact in the above list with
out its peculiar significance to any
one who knows the political and
educational history Of the country.
Under Edward Kidder Graham and
II. w. Chase the institution at Chap
eI Hill has taken strides toward ed
ucational supremacy in the Southern
States. 81 modern standards are used
to measure the results.
Archbishop George w. Mundelin,
Of Chicago. primate of the Roman
Catholics of Chicago. for some time
has been recognized as one, OF the
masterful. administrative person.
aIities of the church in this coun-
try. Not only has he fostered strik-
ing growth within his, own official
domain, but also in the great in
terror region, where. for many gen
erations, domestic propaganda Lam
guished as the church centered its
efforts on the dioceses along the
east coast, where q majority OF i'm
migrants settled and had 10 De
cared for. Now he announces far-
reaching plans for making chicago
lthe center of a church university
with which church colleges and 9TH
cr educational institutions will have
/ co-ordinated relations. II is snoth-
or sign that the old supremacy OF
the East is being challenged oy
the Middle and Far West in affairs
4 of church as well as Of state.
Il Former Assistant Secretary OF
4 War Breckenridge, who Is master
lin use Of the foils, may go TO Bel
gium m August to uphold the
American cause in the Olympic
Games fencing tourney. IL so the
ARMY Oficers' Fencing Club, OF this
CITY. will have a representative.
Mr., Breckinridge's hopes rest on the
repetition of his success won In the
New York Athletic Clubs fencing
tournament, just held. in which he
defeated six competitors In the hrst
round, including Sherman S. Hail,
the national champion. This record
is the more remarkable because OF
the rather prolonged absence from
competitions of the winner, VINO
has other forms Of combat to IN
terest him.
a The oldest normal school Tor
Training teachers on the Paclnc
Coast. that at San Jose. Cal, will
have for IL. new head a University
of California specialist in school
administration, DIR. William Kemp.
Both the Eastern Massachusetts
and the New York dioceses OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church have
failed to meet the quotas assigned
to them by the directors OF the
drive" planned to raise millions for
that church's special work. Bishop
Lawrence, of Boston. deliberately
cutting a 100000 assessment to
500. 900 in his appeal to the diocese.
For this unfortunate example to the
-lsmaller and weaker dioceses the
press of the church is concerning
him. which will be a new expert
Ience. But he has his reasons and
, can defend himself.
Persons interested in coincidence.
will find John Drinkwater's state
ment suggestive. He wrote his
l"Lincoln" play at a village in East
lGloucestershire. England. called
lOakridge. When he visited Spring.
lfield. Illinois, to see the home OF
Lincoln, his tomb and other memor'
ials Of the first American. ne
found that Lincoln was buried al
iOakridge.
The coming to town Of Mrs
Joseph Fels for a visit with Secre'
itary Baker and his family indicates
that she happens TO be in the coun'
, try now. Biographer of her nus
DanO, VINO was Oht VI NHS AN
markable Jews the country mas
gained by the exodus from Europe
she dispenses her fortune here, IN
IEnglandy in Russia or in Palestine
as the need may be. Her left hand
knoweth not what her right hand
idoeth SO quietly does she dispense
her Iargesse and with such STEADY
conformity to certain economic and
social ideals that she has at heart
The Baptists have all the other
denominations handicapped in the
irterchurch driyf. 1t looks now as
if the total contribution Of Mr.. John
d. Rockefeller, jr-. TO this special
fund would be not less than Se,ooO.-
600. which recalls the irrevercnt
untrateful song they used TO sing
at the University Of Chicago.
praise oil from whom all
Blessings now"
The demand that former President
Taft become president OF the urban
University of Cincinnati is takinG
formal shape. He admits that he
lis a political backnumber; he came
nearer being president Of Yale al
the time when Arthur T. Hadley was
chosen than he is likely to como
again: Cincinnati is an old home
with pleasant memories attached ia
IT; and academic presidential tradi'
tions have been set up in the family
by his daughters success at Bryn
/ Mawr Why not let the supply meet