The Washington herald., 1920-05-31
In the Linelight
BIZ George Perry Metd..

Passing Of authority from DR..
Robert 3. Woodward. president OF
ire Carnegie Institution. 70 the
newly chosen president. Prof. John
c. Merriam Of the University OF
California, will register the closing
OF one and the beginning Of an
other era in the history Of an ex-
tremely useful national. cultural
agency. The new man will have q
task TO equal the record Of his pre-
decessor. That he Ia from the Pa
eific Coast 10 significant. The East
10 row getting from the West some
Of its ablest men. Bread cast upon
the waters by pioneer Eastern dom
ors to Western colleges and univer-
sititE, Is beginning TO return, after
not 30 worry many days. The choice
Of Prof. Merriam, no doubt. IL due
very considerably TO the way he
stood the test Of important execu-
tive control Of the National Re.
search Council during 1888. Not
a few alumni of the University Of
California wanted him for presiden
TO succeed President Wheeler.
DR.. Thomas II. Lewis, president Of
Western Maryland College, for somt
years past has been the outstanding
personality in the Methodist Protes'
, tsnt denomination. He now leavei
that important field Of labor as Al
educator to become president Of thu
general conference OF that sect
with an ofiicial salary. and with su'
pervisory powers approNimatinf
those Of q bishop. Thus does thu
circle COME full wheel, as IL were
and persons who revolted years agS
against anything like administra
tive control admit that for reasons
OF efficiency Il must exist.
Hit whom Il may and dIsclos,
what IL will the naval inquiry ss q
officially tolerated vicious vice-de'
lection methods at the Newport
station should be pressed to the ut
me- st limit. Bishops, chaplains
! plain clergymen. major and minoI
naval officers and an editor, John u
Rathom OF the Providence Journal
figure In the controversy. Natural
ly the latter is pressing for vindi
cation or for conviction OF error.
The coming TO the United Statei
OF Dom Andre Mocquereau, o. s. y.
is owing primarily to the assembl!
! in New York City this week Of In,
annual international congress o.
adherents OF the Roman Catholi'
Church interested in the Gregoriar
Chant music. He Is the chief Euro
pean promoter OF this ancient. no
BILE and dignined form OF religion
art, specially favored by Pope Piu
Y, and now slowly finding its wa!
into use in the churches OF tn
Roman fold, though not without op
position. Dom MocQuereSu is q ven
ersble, but still virile personality
ardent In his intensity OF devotion
to publication and enobling of tn
special form OF art to which he d
welded. The congress he has com
to attend Is the frst Of its kim
held in this country. though the!
have been held annually in Europ
for some time past.
When some judicialIy minded per
son comes to write the history o
the ROOSEVELT Hay acquisition q
the Panama Zone territory and tn
share of the United States in III
Panamaian revolution against Co
lombis. he must deal with the com
ment upon these acts by the lat
James T. Du Bots, diplomat an
author. one of whose last tasks wa
that Of negotiating with Colombo
as to the amount OF damage du
her. He came out OF the task G
meeting the duties OF Minister froI
, the United States to Colombia wit
a far from high appreciation of tn
ethics Of our policy toward IN
Southern republic az shaped by Nj
Roosevelt.