The Washington herald., 1920-06-06
In the lineligl1t
BY George Perry Morris.

President william o. Thompson.
of Ohio State University, who will
represent the public on the commis-
sion of three men who are to arbi-
trate the anthracite coal con-
troversy, is q substantial. level
headed Presbyterian layman who
has steadily become conversant with
economic and social problems. cul-
commission named by the President
TO survey the whole national in
dustrial sitrs tion. He has nigh
ethical standards, shrewd common
sense, and a realism that keeps his
idealism within limits. so effective
has been his experience as a uni
versity administrator in a State
where competition among educa-
tional institutions is at a maximum
intensity. He is not a chaser of
rainbows. nor is he squelcher OF
humanity's hopes.
Californians naturally are swell
ing with sstisfacton because the
| nomination {" the rest Cf Assistant
! Attorney General in the Depart
ment of Justice has come 10 a
woman born in Prattville Up among
the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Miss
Annette Adams graduated first at
one of the State normal :chools'
then at the University of ralifor-
mia, and then WAS a school princi-
pal. In 1912 she vas admitted 10
the bar. In 1918 she Won an ap-
pointment as a California Tepresen-
tative of the Attorney General. and
now she is to be called 70 Washing
ton to have rpecIal charge Of I'M
portant phases of law enforcement;
that is, she will come if the Senate
paves the way by cLrfrmation.
Illinois State university has de-
cided to make permanent the presi-
dency of DIR. David Kinley, who has
been acting president since DR.
James retired. DR.. Kinley has beer
on the faculty twenty-seven years
and is an authority on finance and
economics. Born in Scotland and
started on his personal educational
career in New England. he has lived
Iup to the best traditions of his ma
tive land and his adopted country
| Maryland is to have as State
superintendent of education. Albert
S. Cook, who for twenty years ha:
been superintendent of schools In
Baltimore County and given them q
national reputation. He gets twice
as much pay as his predecessor
which Is a sign of a better salary
scale in Maryland's schools hence
forth. Mr.. Cook is a progressive
with somewhat radical notions
about educational reform, and IL HI
lis continued in ONCE long enough
Maryland will not remain as faI
| down on the list of States as the
latest statistics show her to be II
important details of school manage
ment.
Cook grew up on a Pennsylvania
| farm, had a normal school training
with considerable teaching expert
ence following it, and then he wen
to Princeton University, where hi
graduated in 1895. He won hi
masters degree from the same in
stitution in 1906 with a thesis oil
Education for Social Efficiency.
and that is the sort of educator HI
is. Few men in the country ranl
as high as an authority on rura
school administration and com
munity service.
J One of Mark Twain's oldes
friends in Hartford. Conn, the Rev
E, p, Parker, has just died. He
together with the more famou
Joe" Twitchell. formed a clerica
team that did much to prove to s
c. Clemens that to be a Puritan
was not to be void of a sense o
humor, wit and love of goodfellow
ship.