The Washington herald., 1920-03-07
In the Lineligf1t
By George Perry Morris.

Harendrsnath Maitra. recently OF
London where he had edited The
Voice of India. but . native OF CAL
cutta well known in Indian and
English circles az . Journalist and
authors. har arrived in the country
to spend two years studying our
civilization. It would be fnterest-
ing to know who the drst Indian
(East) of eminence to visit this
country was. can recall that In
the early '70's the Evangical ALI
ance had present one Of the leaders
of the reform movement among the
Hindus, whose theism was like unto
that OF Christianfty's. Later p. c.
Mozoomdar, Of the Brahmo Somaj,
came to the country and had. recog-
milton from the Unitarians. At least
one head of the native states, the
present Gaikwar of Baroda, has
toured this country and admired II
enough to send one of his sons to
Harvard. Since the Theosophical
movement found rootage In this
country II has brought not q few
Indians hither: and during the last
twenty years an increasing number
OF educated Indian youth have been
coming TO our technical and agricul-
eurai schools, men who a generation
aso, IL they left India, would have
gone TO the British universities
seeking cultural education. During
the war our republic has been the
nome OF able Indians who dared not
return to India because of their hos
tility to British rule and their for
mai attacks upon 1t. And then of
course, there is Tagore. He has
come, seen us. and gone home dis
iilusioned and Disguised.
Arthur Norman Holcombe. dur
Ing the war, served with the Bu-
reau OF Efficiency. and later was on
the committee on Standardization
OF telephone rates. His duties in
this latter position kept him in the
city until the wire control board
returned the telephone lines to pri-
vate management. Then he went
to Harvard University, where he
had been an assistant professor in
the department of government since
1913. Now Harvard, as is it's meth /.
Cd OF recognizing his war record
and the personal and technical de-
velopment that civic duties have
brought. has made him a full pro-
fessor In the department of gov.
ernment. Tho Washington expert
ence was not his first touch with
concrete life. Far from II. He had
served Massachusetts on commits.
sions to investigate labor problems
His study of "the State" using that
term as describing the units thai
make up the United States, and moi
as synonymous with the nation, 1,
the most inclusive and authoritativ,
book that his countrymen have tC
refer to.
Clayton NJ Rider of Minneapoli.
must be credited with vision anC
enterprise. He was a sergeant and
in charge Of lie Havre office oi
the "Stars and Stripes" the officia
newspaper of the United State
Army in France, and handled tn,
paper for all troops coming from
and going to England. Relativel,
few complete files of this unprece
dented journal exist. A small per.
centage of these are in the hands
Of men who made up the vast host
Mr.. Rider believes that there is q
market for a reprint of the issue:
from February. 1918. to June. 1919
He has secured capital in Mime
apolis; the A. E. F. Publishing Com
pany has been formed; half a mil
lion dollars will be spent before q
cent comes back; seventy carloads
of paper will be required; and the
largest printing shops in Mime
apolis and Chicago will get the
work.