The Washington herald., 1920-05-08
In the LirneIight
By George Perry Morris.

The influence Of Robert CorIere
In constantinopie In training youth
who have since stood for liberal
policies In the Balkan states ana of
the Protestant College in Beirut.
Syria, In doing q similar work for
the youth Of Northern Africa ana
Western Asia, has often been COM
mented upon by Intelligent students
of problems Of the Near East. Now
Ike effects Of the American wom-
ans College at Constantinople, on
the women Of the same area. are
being ohronicied. Mrs. Halide Edib
Hanem. who is to serve as MInister
Of Education in Mustapah Kennels
ministry was the FIRST Turkish RirI
to graduate from this college. She
did 30 against the determined on
position Of the Infamous Sultan
Abdul Hamid. and she only sue
ceeded because Of the veiIed sup
port Of American diplomats. She
remained a Mohammedan, but al
once cut free from conventions as
to dress, went to Europe for further
study and for observation Of the
civilization of the West, and re-
turned home to lead in emancipa-
tion Of her sex and in shaping the
nationalist movement in Turkey,
As a writer she has won fame in
the field Of fiction Her husband is
a physician and is minister OF health
In the same cabinet in which she
serves as a minister Of education.
The lure OF business has captured
DIR. Ernest Fox Nichols, OF the
faculty Of Yale University, a physic-
list OF considerable .eminence who
now takes up work with the GEN
eral Electric Company at Cleveland.
Ohio. Columbia University, Dart
mouth College where he served as
president from 1909 TO 1916. and
Yale all have had the benefit Of his
scientific attainments; but he al
ways has had a certain fuidity of
action that made him a loose sort
of academic fixture. The conyen-
tions Of the scholastic world irk
him.. He will be happier where he
is going, and richer.
The recently selected and elected
president of the American News
paper Publishers Association, T. r.
Williams. Of Pittsburg. is a college
man. Franklin and Marshall Col
lege being his alma mater. He
knew what he wanted TO be when
In college. and when he graduated
struck out for Pittsburg and got a
JOB as reporter on the Press. Il
was the frst rung on q ladder that
led him to the post of business
manager; and his new honor is due
to the record he has made as presi-
dent OF the PittsburR Publishers
Association. Unlike some Journal
lists OF influence in the East, he be-
lieves in schools OF journalism. The
University of Pittsburg's school
was founded by him in 1911. and he
has taught on its faculty and still
advises about its policies
There have been persons who have
argued that the successor of John
Barrett as director OF the Pan Amer
lean Union would and should be q
Latin-American. The directorate has
not deemed these arguments conclu-
sive. and most of the directors are
from the Southern republics. The
appointee, who begins his work in
September, is Prof. L. S. Rowe, and
=. NHN'PShb AoE bne post no one
disputes. 1t is a case of an expert
getting recognition. Moreover he
can be counted upon to serve ac-
coptably at all C, nferences of Ameri.
cans where tact. courtesy and under
standing of the pr, ferences and hab-
Its OF the delegates from the South
ern republics will be assets. personal
and official. In9smuch as these con-
ferences multiply rapidly nowadays
the director-elect will have more op.
portunities than his predecessor has
had to direct affairs suaviter in
mndn- well fnrtIto- l..