The Washington herald., 1920-08-21
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.
Invades Mexieo's Citadel.


been selected TO administer not
only the normal work OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church in
Mexico, but to carry out extensive
extension OF its educational and
eyangelistic. campaign in a country
that is being stabilized by Huerta-
THE cash for the campaign Is ready.
THE Mexican authorities are friend
| lIy Now the strategist starts for the
front Bishop Thirkield has been
president Of two educational insti-
tutions. one Of them Howard Uni
versity Of this city. He is. live
wire, temperamentally considered,
and quite free from Anglo-SaXon
race prejudices.
kitson's sPiIgrim Mother"
Henry H Kitson. the sculptor
whose Minute Man" on the LeXing-
ton Common advertises him every
year to the many thousand tourists
who visit that admirably cared for
national shrine was fortunate in
getting the commission TO design
statue of The Pilgrim Mother"
Plymouth. He has worked out
Ify persons who put pulChritude be-
low ethics. The dame OF Kitson's
thought is not singing
I'm but a Pilgrim here;
Heaven is my home"
She looks as If she had just been
Informed that Miles StandIsh was
/ to call the next Saturday evening.
Chicago University's school Of Eivics
A customary way of eGperimenta-
tion in education and social reform
in this country is to let individuals
with open minds forward impulses
and deep purses experiment with a
rev idea and prove IL workable
and then cities, States. and even the
nation, step in and take over the
tested work. Chicago for many
years has had a privately main
tained School of Civics and Philan-
throphy in which men and women
like Graham Taylor. Charles R.
Crane, Jane Adams. Julia c. La
throp and Edith Abbott have pio-
neered the way toward general and
specific reforms at first scohed al
and now quite beyond sCOrn, save
that Of ra-Conservauves- When
founded the school was not a child
]
have cared to adopt. But this au-
tumn it becomes a distinct part Of
the university, with Professor Leon
Carroll Marshall as its administrs-
tor. His war record was admirable
in expert service rendered the Coun-
ell OF National Defense. the Depart
ment OF Labor and the Industrial re-
latIonG board OF the Emergency
Fleet Corporation The War Labor
Policies Bosrd also had him as eco
rumiC adviser. The moral Of this
tale is that all things come to those
who wait" and that even a suspi-
Cious university is converted by the
facts Of time.
Turning Asia Back from Western
Europe.
The American French attitude to-
ward the present Russian govern
ment has the hearty APPROVAL Of
Prof. J. Dynrley Prince, head Of the
SlavonIC department Of Columbia
{ University, who describes BoIshc-
Vism as "a purely Asiatic develop
ment," born in the brains Of social
philosophers Of AsiGJic provenance
and superimpc sed on the receptive
soil Of sCmi-OrientaI Russia He is
for fighting it just as resolute.y as
Charles MaTtel fought the hordes Of
/ Orientals OF his day.
Yukio OEaki.
! II nature or his fellowmen permit
4 Yukio Ozski TO live out the span Of
his years. his name bids fair 10 he
/ writ large in the history of Japan.
A former minister Of education.
minister Of justice and mayor Of
. Tokyo and a veteran member OF the
/ Diet. he cannot be discounted by
/ his foes as an inConsCquential agi-
! tator- He is a genuine democrat. 4
( convinced anti -militarist. candid
critic Of his own party and Of his
Country's recent record. and to
. prove his fidelity to his convictions
he has recently left the party OF
which he long has been a leader.
His OratOry is brilliant his lndif-
. ference 10 the personal consequences
Of his political action Is superb:
and his hold on the people is strong
His Liberalism he got from Count
Okuma. when the latter was on the
advanced firing line. which he is NOT
now. having become a nationaIIstlr
opportunist. Mr.. Osski never will
become red" but he viii steadily
fight the clans and the CONNER
CialiStS.
4 Specialist in International Law.
Tho death OF Alphcus Hardy Snow
removes from the local circle Of
writers on international law pro
lir and acute thinker with more
than a national reputation among
persons who specialized in his field.
He was Yankee born and New Eng
land educated. and was a lawyer by
profession. In the current discus
. sion as TO the wisdom or unwisdom
Of the covenant Of the lea que Of ma
, tions. about which international
( lawyers differ quite as sharply as
/ do senators and lsymen, he was on
/ the side of the conservatives; and
| his reasons for so thinking he CAV,
! in a paper read before the American
! Association for the Advancement Of
| Science at its meeting in ST. Louis
| last December WashinEton's list
of men functioning in this field Of
! international law has increase
since the new century came in. and
/: will grow at a more rapid rate
now that, willy nilly, We are en-
meshed in world politics and old
/ and new forms Of internatlonallsm
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