The Washington herald., 1920-04-27
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

British scientists, surgeons and
sanitarians are planning TO honor
in a marked way DR.. VIM. J. Mayo,
of Rochester, Minnesota, when he
visits England shortly. The uni
versities also are TO accord their
highest academic degrees. He had
the same experience during his re-
cent tour Of some OF the South
American countries. There are few
cases in our national history of a
great man putting q small town
on the map Of the world. as strik-
Ing as the record this Minnesota a
surgeon has made. To Rochester
go the high and mighty from all
quarters Of the land for treatment;
and his fame is international.
Many former readers and ad-
mirers of the poetry of Bliss Car
man, the Canadian-born author so
much of whose work appeared In
American periodicals and who Lived
so much of his life this side Of the
border, will regret to learn Of his
inValidiSm and they may be willing
TO aid in making his last days com
portable. A fund has been created
known as the Bliss Carman Fund :
and Canadian friends and readers
nave begun to contribute. Carman
while conversant with books and
the literature of the past, was a
singer who usually derived his in
spli alton from nature and from liy-
ing men. He was one OF a group OF
singers from Eastern Canada in
Ciuolhe Roberts and Lanpman who
hioomed forth during the last
iast years of the nineteenth CEN
fury and had much vogue in our
pest literary journals. Tan in
stature handsome in feature, non
chAIant In manner and unconyen-
uonai In attire he came into liter
a[S circles here and won a measure
OF personal affection and fntellec-
tuaI respect that no Canadian pre-
Viously had won.
One Of the leading Japanese. ac-
i've IN all sincere efforts 10 pro-
mote a better state Of feeling he
tween Japan and the United States
anu a iaNorite speaker at the ban
quets given in Tokyo TO American
guests Is Prof. Anesaki, a Bud
dhist scholar OF high rank, who was
one of the first, IL NOT the firs,
exchange professor at Harvard
University under terms OF an agree
ment which had begun operating
prior to the war. and probably will
DC resumed. Prof. Anesaki re-
NAMED long enough in this coun-
Try to get more than a superficial
knowledge Of us, and he went home
10 become one of the most intelIi-
gent interpreters of our life that
has appeared in Japan.
The latest Yogi" to visit US is
from Bombay, by name b. c. Sri
Shewnath, and a nephew of the
Gaekwar Of Baroda. Like his un-
Gle. a progressive. IL not a radical.
and an avowed republican. he has
come 10 the country not to preach
religion, but TO study our politics.
10 attend the party conventions AT
Chicago and San Francisco. and TO
speak to us about the demerits OF
British rule I'm India under condi-
\ tions of suzerainty. where. as he t.
for an Indian democracy. He would
seem to come of a family that likes
| independence and resents over
| lordship. 1t will be recalled how
| the Gaekwar of Baroda at the great
Durbar. when he who is now George
| V visited India expressed, as no
other native prince did. his slightly
| concealed disdain for the personal
! symbol OF British rule. To be sure,
| he was disciplined for IL, but he
had the inner satisfaction of show
| ing 1t. which involved daring It is
he also who has sent a son to be
| educated in the United States, whu
has employed American experts to
4 advise with him in Industrial and
agricultural education for his peo-
pie, and who has made his state the
best governed and most civilized
of anS in India