The Washington herald., 1920-10-12
WEIR RESIGNS
AT WISCONSIN
College Professor Coming
To Washington to Accept
New Position.
By GEORGE PERRY MORRIS,


Prof. w. W, Weir, Of the soils de-
partment Of the, College Of AgricuI-
ture of WisconsIn' University. has
resigned and will arrive in Wash
ington soon. There he will act as
an expert adviser OF the soil i'm
provement committee OF the Ma
tional Fertilizer Association. One
of his duties will be to edit a ga
zine for the organization. This is
another case of the educator pre-
ferring civilian employment and
freedom to academic restrictions
and underpsyment.
Wisconsin is taking unusual pride
in the high Office conferred by the
American Dairy. Food and Drug Or
ficials' Association, on George J.
Weigle. the able dairy and food
commissioner OF the State His
services in normal times and espe-
cially during the war have shown
him to be a man of unusual organ
iZing ability. He has done much TO
give the State her high place as a
producer OF dairy products of high
grade.
War workers and citizens who
met Peter Dykema when he was in
Washington supervising the musi-
cal phases of the community serv-
ice work for soldiers and civilian
war workers came under the spell
] of his ardor and compelling person
altty. 1t is pleasant TO see him in
his office at the College Of Music Of
| IWisConsin's university. resuming
the charge OF work for the State
that gave him a national reputation
and that led TO his choice for the
national service when we were at
/ war. His impress is being left on
| the cultural growth OF the urban
and rural life of the State. He finds
splendid material for community
choral work among the German,
Scandinavian. and other North Eu-
! ropean. elements of the population.
He knows that music is a common
language binding together differing
racial and religious elements. In
his own way, acting through the
university, he is a real builder Of
lAmericanism of fine type.
Senator La Toilette is now at his
home, directing his own fight
against the league and against con-
servstives and progressives in both
parties. II you visit him in his law
ONCE in the Wisconsin National
Bank Building in Madison you are
lucky II you get a chance to talk.
so steadily do his political subor-
dinates come and 80 TO get advice
as to tactics in the bitter fight he
is waging now against old foes and
also against former friends. If you
meet him he will tell you that physi-
cally he is in better shape than he
has been in many years. His recent
visit to the Mayo brothers for surgi-
cal treatment has proved beneficial.
If all goes well he win be back in
his old fighting form in the Senate.
weekly journal the editors point
just issued a collection of his
speeches. editorials and state papers.
which is in much demand through
out the country. A fourth edition
of his autobiography up to 1912 has
just been printed. That also is
much in demand. 1t is his inten-
ton. as soon as possible, to bring
the book up to date. By SO doing
he will write his "apologia Sua
Vita" as an opponent Of the war
against Germany and as a present
fierce foe of the league.
The case he makes out for him
self when he writes this book will
be eagerly scrutinized. for it will
cover years when he lost many
ardent former admirers, whose
places he is now filling with men
lof a different type, not a few of
them of the Nonpartisan League.
His present bitterest foes admit
! frankly his control. at this hour, Of
a finely organized machine" that
has to be reckoned with. They
fear his power. present and poten-
tial They charge him with puni-