The Washington herald., 1920-05-13
In the Lineligint
BY ceors. Perry Morri.


as It does into the more traditional /
fields Of its displsy-relIgion, Iitera-
ture and fine arts. Hitherto a PAN
American railway running IL you
please from Ottawa to Buenos Aires
has been the highest achieveme Mt
Of this faculty announced in the
realm Of intereontinentaI railroad
ing. unless IL be the project TO
start from London. go under the
Channel. across Europe and thence
trayersing Asia TO Pekin without
change of cars. But here comes Ju-
laen II. Arnold, American CONNER
fcial attache in Pekin. now in this
country promoting closer afiIistion
Of the United States with China.
who says that some day men will
leave New York on the Pekin Ex-
press. find their way to Alaska.
burrow thirty miles under Behring
Strait and pass through Siberia
down TO the capital of China.
Selection of Herbert Samuel as
first British commissioner for Pal
estine. would be natural in view of
the prominence he has among Brit
lsh Jews as a successful statesman
related to important figures in the
financial and commercial world of
/ European Jewry. The coming de-
parture for Palestine Of Nathan
Straus Of New York City, where ne
will put his wisdom and his money
at the command Of the first officials
OF the State that is to arise on ter
ritory consecrated to the race. is
quite natural. One cannot. IL one
would. escape being infected with
Rladness in this day of widely diff
I fused sorrow and -cynicism, BY the
profound joy that stirs men OF the
; type OF Mr.. Straus. Justice Brandeis
and stephen s. Wise. as they set
about rebuilding Zion.
Prof. ID. NJ. Robinson who has
just been appointed to hn the w.
h. c. Nicker's chair in archaeology
at Johns Hopkins University. has
peen conspicuous among the young
er classicists Of the country for
some time. a University of Chica-
go graduate he went to the AmerI-
can School Of Classical Studies in
Athens in 1902. Later he studied
at Berlin and then returned home
to teach Greek in Illinois College.
FOR the years ls0s-lO he was direc-
tor OF the American School OF Class
ical Studies in Athens ad he bss
done much work as an investigator
and eNcavator of the ruins Of Asia
Minor and Greece, working latter
ly at Corinth and Sardis. In 1905
he came TO Baltimore to lecture on
Greek literature and classical arch
aeology. and his latest appoint
ment is but adequate recognition Of
the place he has made for himself
IN the world Of classical letters and
art
I II one wishes TO cite a case Of
consistency and constRncy in sup
port OF cause lived during a some
what prolonged life there are few
local illustrations more outstanding
than that of Rev. Wilbur +. Crafts.
who is figuring prominently now in
production of evidence before the
senate Committee showing the eN-
! tent to which gambling throughout
the country is due to Marvland's
attitude toward horseracing and
legalized betting. Men may differ
profoundly from Mr.. Crafts cham
pionship of what they call "isms"
but they have TO respect the unde-
waiting course of his Puritan life
and his consuming and consummate
energy lighting for his causes"
There are no arts Of lobbying which
he does not know, and he is a past
master in preparation and circula-
ton OF propaganda literature.
With Harold J. LaskTs nomina-
tion TO the post of professor OF po-
htical science in the School Of Eco
nomics connected with the Uniyer-
stty of London and his decision TO
return to England an interesting
personality leaves our academic and
journalistic world. He is one \of
those intellectual prodigies his
race so often produces who have
enormous powers Of acquisition of
knowledge. Justice Brandeis Of
the supreme Court. who with his
associate. Justice Holmes had much
10 do with bringing Mr.. Laski to
Harvard University, where il was
planned by them that he should MI
timately join the Law School facuI-
ty. is reported as having said Of
the young scholar that il is incon-
ceivable that any man of his years
should have come to know So much
ABOUT so many subjects. But he is
something more than tank He
Is fountain of original thought
on political science. economic re-
construction and social evolution:
as readers Of the New. Republic. The
Nation. The Dial. the technical
journals devoted to discussion of /
those topics, and his books pub /
ltshed by the Yale University Press /
know. Some of his book reviewing I
for the New Republic has eQuaIled |
the best done in the finest Of the |
English weeklies. especially when |
he has been able to center his COM 1
ment around men OF the type of |
Viscount Morley, Lord Acton and |
other outstanding figures in that
borderland between politics and lit |
erature which the British populate |
so much more fully than we do. |
Professor Laski is a radical ''plu- |
ralist." that is an opponent Of the \
big State" wherever found or
functioning. His radicalism has
made him persona non grata with |
many of the Harvard. alumni: bur
President Lowell has protected him
in his academic freedom. Returning
to England from whence he migrat-
ed to McGin University. Montreal. |
when he reacted from untoward
conditions at home. he will shrewd-
ly use his Information about this
country in his new post.
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