The Washington herald., 1920-07-23
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morria

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By George Perry Morria
GernaniseA American Scholars.
At the recent conference Of
American and British professors of
English. held in London, Miss n.
Carey Thomas. Of Bryn Mawr Col
lege. shared In the discussion. She
said that for three and q half gen.
| erations Americans had studied
English linguistic evolution in Ger
| many's schools. She hoped that q
| new day had dawned when British
universities and colleges would
meet the demand that German uni
versities formerly satisfied. She has
no doubt but that the former era
had resulted In many Americans
being aiienated from true English
culture. AS for herself she frankly
admitted that after three years
spent in Leipzig she came back un-
| able to write the English language
without Teutonic phrases. Losing
the continuity OF English speech"
IL took her a number of years to re-
| cover. 1t was a rather anomalous
situation that our passion for Ger
( iu8h uSetCNc ScbsCoB WI
the British academic centers were
partly to blame. They made no con-
ccssions to our prospective doc
| tors" Now they intend to. by de-
yeioping seminars and by granting
/ the much coveted Phi. D. degree.
But, as william James of ever
/ fragrant memory pointed out some
| years before he died. there Is a
good deal of 'fetich worship" in
the Phi. d. religion.
Candidate CeoIidge's Diiemna.
The rural. suburban and middle
class urban voters of Massachusetts
approved of Gov. Coolidge's hand
ling OF the Boston police strike;
hut a very considerable number OF
the urban trade unionists Of the
State did not; and they have had
their knives sharpened to get even
with him whenever he again asked
for their votes. As a tactical move
the Central Labor Union of Boston
has invited him to review the COM
ling Labor Day parade, which in
yitation, he cannot, from a political
as well as an Official. standpoint.
lwell decline. But IL he accepts they
Iplan that he must look down upon a
procession headed by the Boston po-
liicemen who struck" Nationally
credited with unusual moral cour-
age and locally known to be equally
shrewd as a politician, the sitters
on the bleachers are watching to
sec how the Republican Vice Pres
idential candidate will steer his
course so as to suffer the least po-
litical injury.
Bishop Oldham.
The prayer offered at the noti-
fcatfon exercises at Marion yes
iterday was not of the Baptist va
riety. as had been planned, but
Methodist. 1t gave Bishop w. F.
lOldham. of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. a chance, which II Is hoped
lhe seized, to disclose his "interna-
ltional mind"
The itinerant bishops OF this
church do know the world at large
because their duties compel them
Ito. Consider this Episcopal over
seer's career. He was born in
India and after education in the
schools of Madras finished his cul-
Itural training in this country
Then he went back to Asia, founded
the Malaysian Mission of the
methodist Episcopal Church, with
headquarters at Singapore and later
Established a school there that now
has over l 900 students. The years
passed, ne all the time mastering
by study and observation the po-
lIiticaI. religious and racial prob
llems of southern Asia, and in due
time he became a missionary bishop
, for that region of the world. When
the United States went into the
Philippines he aided the govern
Iment as a counselor. Now he is
. stationed in the Argentine republic
and is using his exceptional ad-
ministrative gifts in building up the
interests of Professionalism not only
lin that nation but in the republics
J of the west coast of South, America,
| The quality of his writings on
world problems is superior because
, 81 it's range and idealism. He has
, the John Wesley vision which was
. so like that OF Terence. He believes
: in a league of nations.
A Possible senator Who Knows the
Far East.
: II Dr. Paul s. Reinsch wins the
Democratic nomination for United
States Senator from Wisconsin and
If he is elected he will come to the
Senate's debates on foreign affairs
with highly specialized knowledge
Korea. British imperial affairs have
been discussed for generations BY
house of lords, including men
with inst such sDecialiZed knowl.