The Washington herald., 1920-03-16
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

Rev. Frederick J. Kinsman, for
nefly bishop OF the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese OF Delaware, who
recently was received into the ko-
man Catholic Church by Cardinal
Gibbons, has written an Apology
for his course. which, In book form.
10 soon to bt issued by a leading
New York City publisher. The rev.
Citations Of his inner life as q stu
dent, laymah, priest and bishop are
Of a kind to leave the reader fully
Informed; and the book bids fair to
be one OF considerable Importance
in that group of autobiographies to
which the English thus far have
been the most frequent contribu-
tors, namely, the narratives that
tell OF transfer OF loyalty in mat
ters of the spirit from Canterbury
to Rome.
Doris Stevens Is acting for the
National woman's Party In writing
tthe militant suffragists' story OF
the treatment they received from
officials OF the District of Column
bia while In Jail in 1918. New
York publisher has been found, and
the record, as II seems to the new
ly enfranchised voters, will be made
accessible to historians Of the
movement" They err who think
that women-the radical and woman
the citizen-is going to leave un-
recorded her version of her fight
against man-the conservative and
legalist.
I, with Uncle" Joe Cannon con-
tinuing publishing his "reminiscences
Of his long career in Congress ard
with Hon. Champ Clark about TO
send forth a two-volume narrative
called MY Quarter OF a Century
OF American Politics the signs are
propitious for a better national rec
ord in this department of literature,
one where the British and French
much excel US. The American
statesman, politician, diplomat, pub
licist. call him what you will, dur
ing the major part of our national
history has been too busy Cor
thought himself sol to record what
he has seen, heard or done. Conse-
quently historians Of our national
life have no such array of data for
checking up" what seem to be the
facts of history. as historians work
ing in London or Paris have.
will feelingly regret his collision
with motor-truck. The odds
sgaints him were too heavy. The
wonder is that he is alive and not
that he has nothing more than
fractured leg. A motor-truck would
be especially nasty in its attitude
toward a poetic soul like warfield.
Fortunately he has been taken to
Good Samaritan hospital in Los
Angeles. warfield is so kindly and
gentle spirit that he will thrive
In such an environment. And the
other patients? They are in for
three months of good fellowship.
He will be a histrionic Pollyanna. a
masculine Little Miss Charity"
James P Munroe. of the Federal
Board for Vocational Education.
! who is vice chairman and a rep
resentative of business" thereon.
is the special target of critics of
the boards record in dealing with
| soldiers disabled in the war. New
Englanders and especially citizens
OF Massachusetts,, who know of his
| long and varied record in connec-
tion with educational institutions
in and around Boston. are expect
ing that he will make a good de-
Tense when he comes before the
Congressional Investigators. He has
not said much under the journalis-
tic attack with its headquarters an
New York. 1t is not his way.
Harvard has just made Yale
alumnus and faculty member her
professor of fine arts, a post first
| filled by Charles Eliot Norton, ven-
cradle and honorable name The
appointce, A. Kingsley Porter, is an
| expert in medieval architecture.
Whatever may be said for or
against the choice on grounds of
competency. it is wholly commend
able from the standpoint of inter-
breeding. If Yale College had more
representatives on the Harvard Uni
versity faculty and IL Harvard Coll
lege had more men on the Yale
University faculty. ii would be bet
ter for both academic centers.
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