The Washington herald., 1920-06-25
In the Linelght
By George Perry Morris.

fessor Greenfield, OF Yale Univer-
sity, formerly of Delaware State
College, to work his way to Ev-
rope this summer as a "hand" on
a cattle ship. describes him as a
cows valet"
! President Durkee, of Howard
University, Is a d. d. by the
gracious will of Bates College at
Maine. A former presi-
dent Of Howard University, DR..
Thirkhield, now a bishop OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, has
just been assigned to take charge
of the work of the determination
in Latin-America and Mexico. He
goes with the-sIogan In mind. Mex
leo. next In neighborhood should be
first in brotherhood" He wants to
see the United States be- = big
brother and not a big boss, and he
viii speak for a church with more
than 100000 adherents. whose
opinion the Republican party usual
ly has not cared to counter.
DIR. Max Herr, of Vienna, Austria.
Is in the country now showing that
by his invention, the typophone. the
blind can be taught to read by
sound better than by touch. His
demonstration of the efficacy of his
device made at the meeting of the
American Association of Instructors
OF the Blind, just held. was SO con-
elusive that his informed critics
now say that he has done for the
blind a work only equalled by
Braille a century ago. DR.. Herr
utilises the Morse code and the
photograph. More than 200 ma
chimes are now in use and their
manufacture Is inexpensive. Read
ing matter measured in hundreds
OF thousands of words can be
crowded on small discs.
Hardly have the fires that broke
forth into anne over the course of
Rev. Percy S. Grant, of the Church
of the Ascension. New York City,
been extinguished than the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church is faced with
another outbreak that may cause
high temperature generally. Dean
Ladd, of the Berkeley Divinity
School, Middletown, Conn. has been
given clean bill of health so far
as his own loyalty to "Americanism"
and anti-revolutionary' beliefs goes;
but he declines to stand condemned
because of adherence to the Church
League for Industrial Democracy,
and he is not willing to agree TO in
reference with freedom of thought
and speech of faculty members by
the trustees.
There is profit in acting as mid
dleman between the newly poor OF
Europe and the newly rich of the
United States. The process began
long before the war and has not
yet reached its perfect towering
An estate Of more than $4,000, 900
was left by Henry Joseph Duveen,
who died in 1919, but whose accu-
mutations as an art dealer in Lon
don and New York are now being
partitioned. II works of art could
speak, what tales of altering own
ership. place of deposit or exhibit
tion, and judgment of critics they
could tell.
John Bach McMaster has taught
his last class at the University of
Pennsylvania. and his chair is to be
filled by st. George Leakin Sioussat.
a Baltimorean well known in older
social circles, who has taught at
Smith College, the University or
| the South, Vanderbilt University.
! Brown University and the Cniver-
sity of Michigan. He is one of the
increasing and prominent group of
younger men of the South writing
on American history. who are char
lenginG the assumptions of the
older New England school that for
( so long time dominated the his
torical field.
( One OF the two largest funds for
musical education of Americans
came into existence when Augustus
ID. Juillard, of New York City, a
! year ago established a foundation
D bearing his name, with headquar-
ters in New York City. The prob
lem of who should be its organizing
and administrative secretary has
just been settled by the choice OF
7 DIR. Eugene Allen Noble. former
president of Goucher College in
Baltimore and later president OF
Dickinson College. Carlisle, Pa. He
is winsome personality. an invet-
crate lover of music. and he has
had administrative training that will
count as he goes on with his repre-
sentative work.
! Texas is bound to become famous
I for something beside politicians, oil
production and far-siEhted develop
ment of her gulf ports. George w
Rotan, Ave times champion of the
State in the fine art of lawn tennis
! is now in the North sweeping things
The Walsh Harding correspond
ence discloses the interesting fact
that the Representative of the
Irish Republic" at Paris. is Hon
George Gavan Duffy. This scion OF
an historic family can point with
pride to long array of eminent
kinsmen in Ireland and in Australia
where. by the way. the Irish ques-
tion." as 1t is called. is fiercely de-
, bated and much involved in con-
temporary politics.
Curtiss Plant Abandons
Manufacture of Planes