The Washington herald., 1920-06-19
In the Linegight
By George Perry Morris.

ing Alexander ID. Noyes the re.
ceiver Of an honorary degree. He
has had few. IL any; peers for some
years In the responsible field of "i.
nancial journalism" serving two
constituencies regularly, the New
York Evening Post and Scribner's
Magazine, and many others irreg-
ularly. You may not have the
chance for brilliant writing in this
department of Journalism that Is to
be found in other domains of the
craft. but 1t Is one of the most re-
sponsible posts. calling for much in
tellectual ability. a knowledge OF
the history of business and banking,
and fawless honor. Noyes has II in
him to be ironically brilliant and
powerful in polemics. and when
knew him as a lad in high school
we all thought he was the coming
Tom Mast. We would have said
Puck instead of what he has be-
come. The tvig certainly was In
clined eastward, but the tree Is a
regular Old Hickory OF sobriety and
reliability.
Town planning is forging ahead
in this country faster than most
persons realize who have not kept
run OF events. Moreover, IL is un-
der way in sections of the country
where its ardent advocates in the
general population are few in num-
ber. Thus in Dawson, Colo, on the
broad bottom lands and surround
ing bluffs of the fertile Yampa
River Valley model city is to arise
200 miles from Denver. Farming
and coal mining, fruit raising and
stock ranching are the main sources
of income of the people. Impulse
for this future planned town"
comes from men who have invested
in the mines and who do not want
a typical industrial community"
such as is found in the East or in
England to arise. The town is to
be zoned from the beginning into
residential, business, industrial and
agricultural areas. Streets are to
be laid out with all the topograph-
ical variations of the site in mind.
Parks, of course, are a natural fea-
ture of the progressive plan. The
miners and other residents homes
are to be standardized. The expert
who is cooperating with these new
type of industrial town builders is
John Nolen. whose work is scat
tered from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific and from Massachusetts to
North Carolina. His books on town
planning are sold widely.
Bishop Charles D. Williams, Of
Michigan, who is prominent in the
counsels of the Comm ttee of
Forty-Eight" that is planning to
put a third party ticket in the field.
is the leader of the progressive
social Christianity" element of the
Protestant Episcopal Church and a
man of large caIibre and much in
favor as a preacher to university
audiences. He is not as radical as
Rev. Percy Grant of the Church OF
the Ascension, New York City. but
ecclesiastical, political and social
reform.
Mr.. Frederick Morgan Kirby. OF
"ilkesbarre, Pa, has given $780,
900 to Lafayette College, Easton,
Pa, to found a chair of civil rights.
The instruction must be on "abso-
Lutte rights" The fallacies OF
socialism and kindred theories.
to the donor, must be
refuted so as to aid in conserving
individual energy and thrift" The
college has accepted the gift. Now
the selection OF the man to fill the
chair falls upon the trustees. Abb
solutists" are not as common now
adays as pragmatists.
Ellery Sedgwick, the esteemed
editor of our esteemed contempo-
rary, the Atlantic Monthly, having
been taken to task by some of his
readers for publishing articles by
Russian and German authors deal
ing with contemporary events in a
way quite different from the edi-
torials of the Boston Transcript.
let's these complainants know that
he is not running a chauvinistic
American monthly, but an interna-
review. This is
not the first shock that Mr.. Sedg-a
wick has given the conservative
readers of the Atlantic. He person
ally has praised Bryan and Wilson;
he has admitted Giovanittis poetry:
and he has a keen scent for auto
material showing how
the plain folks of the nation live,
residents of the ghettos. school
teachers in Western mountain re-
gions, and day laborers in ship
yards and stockyards.
Wallace w. Atwood. who succeeds
G.. Stanley Hall as president of Clark
Worcester. is we'll known
in Washington scientific circles
owing to his twenty years connec-
ton with the United States Geo
logic Survey. which brought him to
the surveys headquarters for longer
or shorter stays. Chicago is his
native city and he grew up in that
section of the country and in time
became d professor in the local uni
versity. having academic connec-
tions there for fourteen years. In
1918 he went to Harvard as pro-
fessor of physiography.