The Washington herald., 1920-04-01
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

cese of Boston, already has engaged
passage for Europe and will report
to Rome.
There also is a possibility that
Cardinal Gibbons, despite his age
and the risks to be run, will cross
the sea and also pay homage to tie
head Of the church and confer with
him about affairs in the United
states. A recent ruling of the church
orders that directing prelates must
visit the holy see at least once In
hve years, and OF late the American
archbishops and bishops, have not
found II convenient or prudent TO
venture forth. Now that traffic be-
tween the continents is returning TO
normal conditions the exodus Of the
clergy Is beginning. Cardinal Coon
nell will find that the atmosphere Of
the vatican has changed consider
ably since he was persona grata
with Pope Plus X.
Cincinnatrs able superintepdent
of schools, DR.. Randall Condor, is at
odds with the board OF education
and Is threatening to resign. He in
sists that any contemporary system
of education that does not provide
for vocational training Is not up to
the times and is indefensible. The
board thinks that there are too
many "frills" in the school curricu-
lum, and refuses to make sppropria-
tions for the new course. II Is An
old story, known in thousands of
communities. and is typical of the
never-ceasing fight between the re-
dictionaries and progressives.
Mrs. Joseph Choate. widow of the
famous lawyer and diplomat. Is sup
porting the candidacy of Gen. Wood.
Her daughter. Miss Mabel Choate,
is backing Mr.. HooYer's cause.
Which facts are symbolic. The pres
ent state of the public mind and
the disintegration Of parties regis
ter themselves with the new voters.
Families are to be divided. as they
were during the war; radical sons
and daughters of conservative par
ents are to say "a plague on both
your houses"-Democrat and Re-
publican. The social workers. are
to line up against the defenders of
the status quo. and the "least gov
ernment best government" advo-
Gates.
Charles Sprague Smith in his day
was one of the finest prophets of
new social order in the United
States. His handling of the peo-
pie in the Sunday evening mass
meetings at Cooper Union. New York
City, was a model; admittedly so
for the now well known forum
movement, because II was after
seeing how Smith did his educa-
tional Americanizing work with the
masses that George Coleman. of Bos-
ton. went back home and started the
Ford Hall experiment. which has
led Coleman to create and admins
ter the national forum movement
The anniversary of Smiths death
has just come and gone; and for
mer admirer saw to it that in the
! New York Times one of Smiths
best poems should appear as the
best expression possible Of the man.
ner of his living. 1t deserves per-
ennial publications:
FRATERNITY.
Behind tomorrow's veil concealed.
A higher social order waits,
Where ancient wrong its throne shall
yield
And justice rule obedient states;
Where. bound in steadfast brother
hood,
The nations of the world shall
stand.
Their common aim the common good
And love the universal band.
Sure as tomorrow's sun shall rise,
That higher social day will dawn
And they. who seek as highest prize
The common welfare, speed that
morn.
Then. brothers. help each brother
man
To freer, happier. nobler life
And SO fulfill the ages plan
And end forever Sordid strife.
Teresa Carreno. for years, was
the only musician from South
America that We in this country
knew much about. She maintained
until a goodIy age her fine art as a
pianist. and shed lustrc on Nene-
zuela by her skill and abiding vi
rility. Hardly had she disappeared
when Guiomar Novaes OF Brazll
came TO us with the appreciation oi
France stamped on her; and she
has conquered tho most hardened
critics Especially is this true ot
some of the older men of Gotham
Henry 7. Finck. for instance. of the
Evening Post, writing as rhapsodi-
cally about "the golden lava" of her
interpretations of Chopin, as If he
were in his calIow youth. She is a
marvel, creditable alike to the Port
ugese ancestors who bred her and
the republic that deliberately in
vested money in her education
abroad. She is soon to depart for
her home land, having won Europe
and the United States; and one
wishes one could be in San Paulo
to see what they do to her when
they get her back.
The Republican National Commit
tee has two academic experts serv-
ing it in formulating its question
naires and in collating the replies
that come in, the same to be used
in shaping the platform Of the con-
vention at Chicago. At least thai
Is the present theory. One of these
advisers is Samuel McCune Lind
say Of Columbia University, whose
activities during the war made him
we'll known in Washington. and
who has back of him creditable SER
vice for the government from the
time that he went into Porto Rice
following the war with, Spain. The
other adviser is Jacob II. HollandeI
of Johns Hopkins University. also
an expert, especially in problems OF
taxation, who has been very critical
of the fiscal policy of the Fedora
Reserve Board. / am wondering
what the shades Of Matthew Quay