The Washington herald., 1920-02-25
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

4 There II q lawyer in Boston, by
name Hugh Ogden. who served
Through the war ~ judge-sdyocate
! Of the Forty-second Division with the
frank OF lieutenant colonel. He does
ihis own thinking and Is good deal
lof man. The other day at large
meeting Of the alumni Of the Univer-
sity OF Pennsylvania. Nsathered In
Wilmington. Del, he ventured as an
lalumnus to say some tconoclastic
words about the. management OF the
lcIoseIy and exclusively controlled by
IPhiladelphians, that 1t needs to get Its
sons, resident in other sections OF
1.-THE country, on its governing boards.
etc. He charges the Philadelphia
dynasty with defeating past efforts
to get able men from Chicago and
other cities to serve as directors.
All Of which Is apnopos the coming
election of a provost to follow Edgar
Fahs Smith, and the likelihood that
lit will be another case Of Philadelphia
winning against the field. There are
ialumni who have the temerity to say
that William Fl. Taft would make a
fit provost. Yale liberals" intend to
have something to say about Mr.
Tafts future.
One who Witnessed the triumphal
progress of Adolph Harnack. the
German theologian and Biblical
scholar. among the American univer-
sity and divinity schools during the
lpre-war days, cannot but be inter-
lested in his recent Official statement
to the authorities of Berlin Univer-
,sity, which he serves as privy coun-
lafn
sity library no longer could purchase
magazines or books and that the sci
Ientific magazines Of the nation were
dying out. He Calso intimated that
publication Of scientific monographs
iand learned theses must cease.
There would be more personal SYM
Ipathy for a man forced to make
such announcement il he had not
been SO exceptionally bellieose and
hateful toward the allies during the
war and since.
The emergence of the Hon. J. w
Bailey as the candidate of the "Jef-
lfersonian Democrats" for governor
of Texas brings into the political
arena an orator OF more than ordi-
nary art and a reasoner of more
than average logical power. once
you accept his premises. He onoe
figured SO prominently in the ma
tional Senate that 1t Is difficult for
the present citizen with a political
memory not antedating 1910 to re-
alize what a personality" he had
For reasons which Texans consid-
cred valid he was retired to prac-
tice law; and Washington of late
has seen him capitalizing his
knowledge of it's ways for the ben
eft of his clients. Just what a
"Jeffersonian' Democrat" is today is
not clear enough to make it safe
to say what Mr.. Bailey means when
he uses the phrase; but it does not
mean either the Bryan or the VIII
son sort Of Democracy. Possibly
Tilden and Cleveland, of later party
leaders, come nearer suiting Mr.
Bailey as a model. He wants q
minimum of government interfer.
ence with private business. AND
naturally. Interference limits the
competitions Of trade and commerce
and resulting litigation; and natu.
rally shuts off business for lawyers
Herbert Adams Gibbons, who 1.
LTD. by grace of the University
Of Pennsylvania shown at the re.
cent convocation, Is an author oi
books on the Near East and on the
general European situation which
are not very pleasant reading fol
the members of the Paris Peac,
Conference or for ministers now in
power among the allies. Mr.. Glib.
bons had the good fortune earlier
in his life to reside for some tim,
in Eastern Europe and Western
Asia, and he knows the ins and
outs of the intriguing that ha.
gone on there and is now goinl
on. He writes with a strong eth
ical passion, but he Is guided By
the conclusions of a disciplined
mind working with facts. too Otter
obscured. that are Of much import
ance for the peace of the world