The Washington herald., 1920-05-29
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

Is DR.. Alonzo Taylor to become
the representative OF the United
States on the International Institute
tof Agriculture with its headquar-
ters at Rome? A better man could
not be found to take the place Of
David Lubin. vacated in 1913 by th'3
death of that remarkable Califor-
MIA Jew, in some respects the
greatest man of his race the Ameri-
can nation has had serve it.. The
post should be filled Immediately.
and DR.. Taylor has all the requisite
technical knowledge plus experience
with Mr.. Hoover in meeting Eu-
ropes economic needs. Europe. Asia
and South America realize the instI-
tute's expert fitness for providing
the world with data on food sup
plies. 1t is already busy adding, to
its previous stores of informal ton,
later data derived from the newly
constituted governments of Europe.
1t stands ready to serve the league
OF nations much as the already con-
stituted International Department OF
Labor does or as the International
Red Cross will.
One of the greatest teachers of
English literature this country ever
had was Dr. Francis Ii. Gummere.
of Haverford College. He was
more than a philologist and techni-
cal investigator. He was a lover
of the soul of books and could inn
part their spiritual message to
avid youth. To fill his place fully
is impossible. but the Haverford
trustees have chosen one of his
pupils, Walter S. Hinchman. 20
take the chair which Gummere
adorned. and thus the tradition
will pass on. Professor Hinchman.
after graduating at Haverford.
went to Harvard. as is the wont
of. Haverford men. and then he be-
came a successful teacher at the
famous Groton School. The chan
is so well endowed that he will be
amply paid. which is a source of
qualification. 1t leaves the incum-
bent free to do his best work as
Investigator and meditative reader
and brooding thinker. and in this
case. in an environment charming
beyond description. Though Eliot
of Harvard did his best to seduce
Gummere to leave Harvard he
never succumbed TO the tempta-
tion. He knew when he was we'll
off and refused to migrate to ur-
hanized Cambridge and the dis
fractions of a Boston increasingly
rent with religious. racial and eco
nomic strife.
Victor Lawson, the rich. powerful
and liberal journalist of Chicago.
has released some of his supplies
OF newspaper stock so as to permit
the smaller newspapers of the Mid
die West TO continue publication.
Distribution will be managed by
the Inland Daily Press Association.
Mr.. Lawson is not alone in this
form of cooperation between the
strong and the weak. the greater
and the lesser; but he has made a
larger personal contribution than
any other man. The situation with
which he is dealing is not confined
to his region of the country
understand that owing to the costs
OF getting even a limited supply of
printpaper some of the New York
weeklies. literary and economic in
their type. are running on the rocks
and may soon go down. unless help
eds in some such way as Chicago is
working out. or by additional capi-
tai enabling them to enter the mar
kct and buy at current prices. l
also hear that one of the most wide
ly circulated journals in the coun-
try is now busy working out a
scheme to protect its newsstand
sales from raids of publishers who
get for five cents paper that is
worth not less than thirteen cents.
when separated from the ink that
has been applied to it. As this
process is effective and compare
lively Cheaply carried out. il is not
surprising to learn of the tactics of
the hungry rivals of the monster
periodical.