The Washington herald., 1920-01-29

The talk Of signals between Mars
and the earth. which is current now
owing to Marconis statement. must
revive interest in a member OF the
Lowell family in Boston. who. consid-
.ering the range OF his speculations.
far outclassed his sister. Amy Lowell.
the poet. and his brother. A. Lawrence
Lowell, the educator and president
of Harvard University. Percival
Lowell long ago contended that Mars
was inhabited and he claimed TO have
proved il. not by signals from afar,
but by careful telescope study OF
changes on the distant planet. These
he said. could have no other explsna-
tion than that they were the designed
product OF Marian engineers. To
gather evidence supporting his thesis,
this Lowell spent lavishly OF his per
sonal fortune and maintained his own
observatory in Arizona
President Hopkins. OF Dartmouth
College. is said to be certain" that
attorney General Palmer had no
higher motive in ordering the deporta-
tion of the proved anarchists than to
further his political interests. Now
1TGSldenl f1OphlUS Is hON ~ pAs0Ai
academic leader OF the Older school;
but one wonders a little whether the
Presidential mansion in Hanover Is
quite the best place TO determine the
precise motives Of a man working in
Wa ashinCton. with his agents in all
parts OF the country. and with much
evidence in hand that cannot be
spread broadcast
frfa af hA AftnrnNU Ganawal
might. with as much real knowledge
OF the facts. send broadcast through
the country a statement to this effect
by way of rebuttal. President Hop
kins in forming his opinion WAS in
fuenced by the Wilsonphohia charac-
teristic of high social and intellectual
circles in New England. and that IS
passed on 10 any and all members
OF the Administration in high places.
Frederick Macmonnies Of all Amer.
lean artists has won the prize CON-
mission for war memorial sculpture.
May he have the genius equal 20 the
rare opportunity: for innumerable
hosts of people will see his handiwork
through the centuries 70 come and
Judge American art by its relevancy
and adequacy. The statue, of super
heroic size. is to stand at Meaux on
the Marine It will be the voluntary
gift OF Americans to show their un-
ceasinC admiration for the work of
JofLxe and the French armies in 1914.
when they broke the German advance.
Not less than $4,000 will be spent on
the statue and its settings. Happily
Macmonnies knows his France quite
as well as the United States. and he
Is known in Paris as well as in New
York and Washington. France. from
the first. has shown keen interest in
this project. which has its symbolical
moral character as we'll as its art
possibilities.
The seniors at Yale College recently
forming a society modelled after the
famous oxford Union. decided that
''any member of the university. Boil
shevik or capitalist. may voice his
opinion on questions Of the
hour" IL he cares 10 share in
the meetings and conform TO
the technical rules of debate laid
down. Charles Taft. son Of a Judi
cially minded president and ex-
president. shaped this liberal policy
and will stand by it: and President
Hadley. up-to-date. has not interfered.
This fact. together with President
Lowell's recent making the case OF
an attacked radical professor his own
and saying that il the one had to go
then he also would. would seem to
break somewhat the charges current
that the older educational institutions
of the East are hostile TO liberty of