The Washington herald., 1920-11-27
EMERSON MEDIC
OF HIGH WORTH
New War Risk Executive
Lends Able Experience
To Bureau Post.
3, GEORGE PERRY MORRIS.

By GEORGE PERRY MORRIS.
Ia getting . man Of the grade Of
Or. Haven Emerson 10 become med
ical adviser and assistant director
OF the Bureau Of War Risk Insur-
snce the director, r. O. cholmeley-
Jones, has shown insight Even
prior TO hIs recent hne war record
in the Medical Corps he had made
himself known nationally and in
ternationally. hrst by his service 70
the health authorities Of the State
Of New York, and later ss deputy
commissioner OF health Of New
York City under the administration
OF the lamented Mayor Mitchell.
Since the war closed he has been
serving Cornell University in help
Ing organize its department Of
hygiene and preventive medicine,
and also the city OF Cleveland, Ohio,
where a council made up OF hospital
officials has been using him as an
expert -surveyor" OF local conui-
IlOuN- OTs bneEEOH VIII NOAlAe ~
the Bureau of War Rick Insurance
at a critical stage OF it's history
In addition to questions OF its fu-
ture status-whetber In or out Of
the Treasury Department--of its re-
lation TO the Federal Vocational
Education Board. and Of it's costs
Of administration il also is called
upon to meet a very marked eKten-
sion OF it's hospital service, and
must make provision for the long
years that lie ahead in meeting its
share OF soldier rehabilitation. Here
Il is that DIR. Emerson Will do HE
best work
A Grest-Erasadaughte Of
Henry Clay.
II blood does tell" though SCI
ence Questions IL In the sense IN
which the term Is usually used.
there were excellent reasons why
the late Mrs. Deshs Breckin-
ridge, OF Lexington, Kentucky.
should have been, as she was.
Able ss ap orator. a planner or
political campaigns. she was a gal
liant champion Of a winning cause
by her leadership In a region Of the
country where equal suffrage for
'-Old South" had the English ira
dition OF woman using the home
for such influence Ss she brought
to bear on statesmen. Neither the
hustinEs nor the halls Of legislation
were to be gracsd by her persuasive
I presence. This Kentucky woman
thought otherwise, especially after
she had taken up social welfare
work and had come TO sec how
I politics and social reform were in
terlOcked and how useless Il was
I to lombard reactionary and selfish
influences with resolutions by
churches. women's clubs. etc. when
she became unconventional enough
TO fight for suffrage rights she car
ried with her and protected from
attack women who were likemindcd
but who had no equal social pres
tige. In her an aristocrat had be-
come a democrat. a maker Of con-
ventIons had become unconven-
tional, a woman political leader had
appeared with the UnChallengeabio
stamp OF respectAbility and ability.
Mans BENEVOLENT tyranny in treat
ment OF women and children hence
forth was to be fought in the blue
Grass State" How to breed and
thhNtaNt otANNl NuAAANN VI III ANAH
people was to be discussed hence
racehorses.
A Life Of Admiral Nshaa.
4 former British vice consul at
New York, Charles Carlisle Taylor.
has written a life Of the member Of
Z the staft OF the American navy who,
during the last decades OF the nine
teenth century and the FIRST decade
Of this century. did more to shape
l the views OF statesmen and naval
( administrators Of all nations than
any man OF his profession. Publi-
cation Of this biography Of Alfred I.
MahRn has wisely been deferred
until the author could utilize the
lessons Of the late war TO point
moral and to show the pre- vision o.
his hero in an even bolder light than
could have been possible had the
book been sent forth prior TO 1914.
The naval historians correspond
Z ence. So far az IL has been use6,
discloses his positive convictions
about men and parties at home and
in England. MIR. Taylor describes
the last months OF Admiral Mahan's
life as being fun OF acute mental
distress over imagined responsibility
for the strength Of the German navy
due to the fidelity with which Tirpitz
and others high in command had
accepted his teachings.
J What Col. Hsuse IL Doing.
| The query as to what Col. L. NJ.
I House has been doing since he
ceased to be wholly persona grsta
with the President and active in 4
I semi-official way in shaping the re-
construction policy Of the nation. Is
partially answered. A statemeut
/ shows that aionS with former Pres,-
dent Taft, Raymond Z. FosdicE.
Lords Robert Cecil and French he
has been aiding in writing a volume
deaning the creation and function
ing OF the league OF nations This
lie the first OF series OF three vol
umes endorsed by the leagues off,
cisls.
COLORED GENT WANTED