The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
In the LineIght
81 George Perry Moryis.

The challenge to Vice Presi-
Dental Candidate Coolidge. OF Mas
sachusetts. by Seymour stedman,
the Vice Presidential candidate OF
the Socialist party. for debate OF
public issues. will not be accepted.
Silent Cal' had a mother who
reiterated the saying. Little boys
should be seen and not heard" He
never has forgotten the maternal
Injunction. His forte Is in writing
and not In speaking, especially in
the tortuous, rapid-foot work of de-
bate. He ID a creative listener" of
the highest type; but neither Sted-
man nor any other man will trap
Coolidge into debate"
How Lloyd-George and Lord
Northclife do love each other.
"You are to assume that most of
the statements in the Times are
wrong, unless you have got a very
good reason for the contrary. be-
lief" said the British Premier in
the House of Commons this week.
The Issues between nations in max
ing the peace settlement are so
Edominatingly economic and financial
that now that new diplomatic ap-
pointments are being made some of
the more important posts are going
to men without any experience In
the older methods of diplomacy, but
who are known TO be competent and
sstute when II comes to problems OF
banking, reDaratIon, adjustment OF
claims. etc. France has walked In
! this new path by choosing Charles
Laurent as her first ambassador to
the German republic. He is an ex-
pert banker with a wide range of
Information ii experience as such. Sir
Auckland 7Geddes. Great Britain's
! new representative here. is of this
newer type.
President Barrows. the new execu-
/ tive of the University of California,
is calling attention to the competi-
tion which the universities of the
country now face from the great
educational foundations. These have
| ampler funds for research and thus,
! by offering larger salaries and eX-
emption from class room work. are
st tealing away some of the best
scientists of the country. He might
have cited instances in the recent
history of the California institution
to prove his case.
Gossip about the choice OF Can
ada's representative at Washington
under the terms of the understand
ing between Great Britain and Cam
ada announced not long ago, in
cludes the name of G. A. Magrath,
Canada's senior representative on
the joint international commission
and fuel controller for Canada dur
ing the war. His duties in connec-
/ tion with these important posts
have. brought him often to Wash
ington where he is well known and
liked; hence If he came to be the
Dominion's first diplomatic repre-
sentative he would know his setting
and our ways of doing things. He
has had parliamentary experience,
and also much contact with prob
lens of contemporary business. He
came out of the West to Ottawa,
and nominally is a Conservative, but
progressive one.
Henry Ford Is using the Dearborn
Independent, the weekly which he
backs" for a discussion of the
Jewish problem so-called, and he is
doing II in way to raise against
him the charge of fanti-Semitism. He
expected and is getting retaliation
Harvard University showed dis
elimination in making Rufus Jones.
of Haverford College, a Doctor OF
Divinity. To be sure il is not the
wont of Quakers TO run after titles:
but he has become so conscipuous
as historian. biographer and in
terpreter of the life of the Friends
both in this country and in England
that il was quite natural that Har-
ward should honor him. the more
surely because he was taught by
James, Royce. Palmer and Peabody
of her philosophical faculty in the
great days of the '90's.