The Washington herald., 1920-01-25

1t will be found frequently figuring
In the histories of the campaigns OF
III and 1916. Seated In the governors
chair. Governor Parker will have q
chance to show whether he has con-
structive. administrative ability. As
a social prophet and innovstor he has
his rank already established
Arthur Powell Davis, who has been
elected president OF the American So
ciety Of Civil Engineers. a resident Of
Washington. is one OF the leading hy-
drographers of the world. who from
the time he entered the Geological
Survey in 1854 until the present time
has steadily risen in professional rank
and in the Importance of the tasks
entrusted to him Since 1914 he has
been director and chief engineer of
the National Reclamation Service. In
the surveys for the Nicaragua and
the Panama canals he was one Of the
governments leading experts. and dur
ling the construction of the Panama
canal he was consulting engineer. The
honor just conferred upon him ID
wholly deserved
denomination OF Paul Gerard Miller
as Commissioner Of Education in Porto
Rico is recognition. of the service he
has rendered In this post since 1915.
His is the interesting case OF a Wis
lconsin University graduate who VOL
unteered for the Spanish-American
War; went with the army to Porto
Rico. and when the fighting ceased
turned to teaching. rising steadily
from a school supervisor to be school
superintendent. then a chief of the
division OF supervision, and then to
be a principal of a normal school. Re
turning to Wisconsin he taught there
and in Minnesota for a time. but in
1915 was called back TO Porto Rico TO
the highest educational post
John Reed. writer. who has been
indicted by the Chicago special
grand jury. for setting forth Com
lmunist views in publications of the
Communist party. has been q
stormy petrol" ever since he came
out of Harvard University in 1910.
ITO original talent as a writer he
had there added the benefit OF liter
airy training under Copeland. and II
was easy for him to make connec-
tions with some of the best of the
as an occasional contributor. He
first attracted attention as a Jour
nalist with exceptional pictorial and
graphic power by his story of a
four months spent with Villa in
I Mexico in 1913, and when the war
broke out in 1914 he went abroad
with several commissions. He was
one OF the first Americans to get
into Russia to see it's revolution,
the rise of Kerensky, and his DOWN
fallI and the coming into power of
Lenine. He is a Red" IL there be
one among native Americans of the
older race stock. If Russia passes
completely under the rule OF Lenine
and the proletarian movement. and
is recognized by the powers as so
governed. Reed, who is now in Rus
sia again, rs almost certain TO figure
prominently in some post in this
country.
Increase and Cotton Mather and the
rest Of the Puritan priestly caste that
ruled the Massachusetts Colony for
SO many years were not lovers OF the
aesthetic. But some of their descend
ants of this generation are. The su-
/ perintendent Of National Parks. Hon.
Stephen T. Mather, comes OF a Con-
necticut branch of this family. Not
content with managing Uncle Sans
gorgeous park system he is offering
to provide the town of Ddfien. Conn,
with handsome park. He lives there
summers; goes to the church over
which his great grandfather ruled
for so many years. and in countless
ways is showing that pious venera-
tion for ancestors which is a none
too common American trait
Local admirers OF Pierre Monteaux,
leader of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra, will be glad to know that the
trustees have negotiated with him
for his services through the season
of '2l-'2S Slowly but surely he has
been salvaging and reconstructing an
organization that during the con-
troversy over DR.. Muck and the sub
stitution of non-German for German
and Austrian musicians had lost much
of its morale and artistry. He is
proving TO have more versatility and
depth than had been predicted, and
as person he is likesble. DR.. Muck
was as frigid and touch me not" as
an icicle. even in the days of his
highest favor and renown. At the
sible" in his ill-concesled- contempt
for ''the swine" as he was pleased 10
call his audiences.
Hon. Oscar Straus has won another
six-year term as an American mem
her OF The Hague Tribunal Of Inter-
national Arbitration. His diplomatic
experience in the Near East, his
long continued, active support Of the
American policy Of settlement OF in
ternational disputes by judicial pro-
cedure. and his wide European connec-
ttons with influential men Of his own
race. make him a useful member OF
this body. Its future is one OF the
most interesting side Issues OF the
postwar era The league OF nations
calls for a judicial arm of govern
ment. VIII II be established do novo.
or will it take over The Hague Tri-
bunal???
Formal submission to the Holy See
and entrance into the Roman Cath
olic Church Of the Most Reverend
Prince and Duke de Landasberges St
Winock ct de Racha. Rudolphe
Francois 81. Patrice t/ohonsus Ghis-
lain de Decentralization de Lou
raine" is announced. He is described
officially as archbishop de Berghes
| Ct de Racha, metropolitan OF the Old
Catholic Church in America" Since
1914 he has been in the countlf -
ganizing the Old Catholics, who, he
claims, now number <pt less than 80. =
0o0 adherents in this country and
Canada. Archbishop Hayes, OF New
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