The Washington herald., 1920-02-21
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

frofeest Joseph JastroW, who
seems to be the leader OF the group
of psychologists and students of
mental phenomena who announce
an aggressive campaign Of rebuff
tai OF claims, made by Sir Oliver
Lodge. Is a person. who when he
gets started on q crusade usually
lights the issue through. From his
seat OF academic authority in the
University of Wisconsin he has
long waged a warfare against the
autocratic tendencies in American
university management; and what
he has done in that region of the
lcountry Professor Cattell, formerly
of Columbia University. has done
I'm the East
Professor Jastrov does not mince
his words when dealing with per-
sons whom he considers offenders.
as his description Of Sir Oliver
Lodges infiuence-as he, Jastrow
views it-indicates. There are the
makings of a pretty controversy in
this affair: but II takes two TO
make a fight. and Sir oliver IL con-
stitutionaiiy a "pacinst-"
The historians. scholars and ex-
iperts who served in Paris with the
American Peace Commission are not
Idisposed to take Lying down"
icharges of their inefiiciency, igno-
rance and general inutility that
have been current In the British
and American radical press. and that
hnd consummate expression in Mr..
Keynes now famous book on THE
Economic Consequences Of Peace"
Prot Charles Seymour, OF Yale Uni
versity, was one OF the first to put
on the foils and fight back: Prof.
Archibald Coolidge, of Harvard UNI
versity. followed, and now Prof. Has
kins, OF the same institution, says
that the Keynes book is brilliant
but untrustworthy, and a useful
piece of economic analysis" that
too often is dishgured by the tone
of a party pamphlet" On the whole
he is of the opinion that the book
does not exhibit the impartiality and
balance which may rightfully be ex-
pected from a financial expert when
he writes on finance and economics.
The first chairman of the Nation
al League Of Women Voters is to
be Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Massa-
lchusetts has been her home, but
Washington has been the seat OF
her greatest victories Whether she
was presiding over the hospitalitIes
of the mansion on Rhode Island
avenue, which the National Wom-
ans Suffrage Association occupied
during the campaign to educate
Congress to pass the nineteenth
amendment; whether she was argu-
ing her cause before a committee,
Ior whether she was lobbying with a
recalcitrant Senator or Representa-
tive. Mrs. Park never lost her poise.
She has unusual self-control, a
clear-thinking mind and a lucid
. form Of speech. and is one OF the
"smoothest" propositions as a lob
ibyist and executive that the woman's
political movement in this country
. has brought to the front. She is
! not the type of feminist that Mary
A. Livermore, or Lucy Stone, or
Alice Stone Blackwell were in the
; older days of Massachusetts, fight
ing for social reforms On the other
hand, she is the farthest removed
from the radical, Bolshevik, liber-
tartan type that has come out OF
|. New York City and the West.
4 SuAAG u II NudN 81 c1HlN
in the ministry at the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church. New York
City. DR.. John Kelman. formerly of
Edinburgh, Scotland. should have
had friction with his session" as
the board of ruling elders Is called.
| For venturing. without consulting
his lay advisers, to Join the direc-
torate of Union Theological Semi
nary, he has been taken TO task by
. a majority OF the elders. Here squirt
! forth the fires Of the old volcano
that scorched the flesh and scared
the soul of John Hall during the
last years of his ministry in this
| church. Here is a by-product of
the long fight against Prof. Charles
Briggs, which the Presbytery Of
New York led, when he was the
suspect" professor Of Union Semi
nary and the arch-heretic of North
ern Presbyterianism. according TO
the Fifth Avenue Church's laity's
standards. 1t is a church that al
ways sided with Princeton Semi
nary against Union; and its last
pastor, DR.. Jowett, also a British
preacher of renown. specially inn
ported to fill the pulpit. was aware
of the fact, and when invited to
join the Union Seminary faculty
declined. DR.. Kelman, a Liberal.
has followed his natural inclina-