The Washington herald., 1920-01-31
In the LineIight
BY George Perry Morris.

duced by the chance 20 fieure on the
list OF Harvard's faculty. DT. JIM. T.
Finney. professor Of clinical sur
gerry at Johns Hopkins University.
Baltimore. has declined q call TO
similar place on the stan OF the Har-
ward Medical School. one carrying
with II supervisory control of two
large hospitals. This is the second
EFFORT TO get DIR. Finney out OF Baiti-
more. Princeton University wanted
him q few years ago.
Men are relatively few in number
who can make the requisite adjust
ments which such transfers involve
after they pass the Mites. Wise are
the educators who know when they
are well of and resist the lures OF
runners in" from other institutions,
who fsunt larger salaries. ETC.. in the
faces of the guileless. II was thus
that Francis B. Gummere. Of Haver-
ford College. reasoned when he had
Eliot, OF Harvard. camping on his
trail Likewise Edward Porrttt. Of
Hartford, Conn, declined q Harvard
iprofessorship in modern English his
tory, preferring the freedom OF a
ar-journalist to the treadmin of
q Cambridge classroom.
One of the FIRST Of Germans per-
mitted to land in New York and
under the authority Of a special
passport resume business relations,
turns out to be Edward Strasse.
former genersi manager of the Red
Star Line at Antwerp. He comes.
IL Is announced. to confer with an
important figure in the New York
shipping world. a man who, while
nominaliy American in his loyalties.
as a matter of fact prior to the war
played the game for Great Britain
steadily and profitably; and there
are reasons for thinking he is still
more British than he is American.
Great Britain and Germany. what
ever their rivalries elsewhere. played
the shipping game together against
the United States prior to 1914. Are
they getting together again?
As Italy and Jugo-sIavia ma
neuvre for victory in Europe there
are occasional moves when what is
done in Washington by their re-
spective ministers counts in impor-
tant ways. The younger nation
has a decided advantage in that
her representative, DIR. Slavko Y.
Grouitch. has in his wife a shrewd
American woman with charm as
well as mentality, who has a
,phenome nally large acquaintance
among important persons in and
out of Washington. What she has
not learned about American public
opinion, about the currents OF life
in the American democracy and
about the personnel of the inner
group that SHAPE our history Just
now. is not worth knowing-hgura-
lively and colloquially speaking.
Serbia owes her a debt that never
can be repaid for the interest she
aims and ideals. and for the many
there from the United States be-
cause OF her appeals.
"Jim'' Hills son. Louis. has not
the staying power of his great
father. Or tc put il differently. he
declines to work for the Great
Northern Railroad-and nothing
else-down. TO the day Of his death.
when the road goes back to pri-
vate management he will quit active
control, thereafter draw his divi-
dends. and indulge himself in plea
sures of travel. and similar forms
of relaxation. Trained from youth
to labor. to assume executive re-
sponsibility. to fit himself to step
in when his father passed out. ME.
Hill has made good" But he Is
wise enough TO refuse to be a
chained captive all his life. Men
have been broken in to take his
place and carry the divided lead
he has borne. Now for a time of
play, for full culture. for doing as
one pleases and not as one must,
Mr.. Hill can find much 10 do as a
citizen of the Northwest that will
keep him out OF the mischief of
mere loafing and at the same time
leave him master OF his own time
Swden is fortunate in having a So
cialist leader with as level a head as
Hjalmor Brantli Is. who fights the
Reds" holds his party true to evo-
lutionary tactics, and as a ''pacifist"
is also a realist vita some serase pf
the practical conditions OF life and
government. 1t is interesting 20 Gnd
him now urging, in behalf Of the
group for which he stands in the
RisdaG. that the Norwegian Storth-
ing's Nobel Committee cupport Pres
ident Wilson ard Christian Lange,
secretary Of the Interparliamentary
Union, as candidates deser, ing of the
1919 and 1870 peace prizes.
To be a professor of German litera-
ture in any one Of the universities
and colleges OF countries lately at
war with France is not going to be
an altogether happy experience dur
ing the next decade. Yet men are
being found who Will take the posts
Wesleyan University. Conn, is sur
rendering Prof. Robert Herndon Fife,
jr., TO Columbia University. New York
City. He will follow a gendinely great
teacher and discerning interpreter of
German literature, Calvin Thomas
Professor Fife is a Virginian. with
social as well as literary interests
which carry him into welfare work
Thus, for instance. he happens to be
board of charities.
Bishop Brent of the Protestant
Episcopal Church not only was one
of the signers OF the clerical protest
against action of New York assembly
in suspending the five Socialist law
makers, but he went into the Synod
CT the Province OF New York and
New Jersey a day or two after and
helped carry similar protest
through that body made up of clergy
and laity, though not by a unanimous
vote. Bishop Brent's experience as
an administrator in Asia prior TO the
war and his contacts with the world
and with men OF other faiths ami no
faiths while he was senior chaplain
with the A. r. +. in France. have
paada hin, a much ,,hra pr0rreSSiNe