The Washington herald., 1920-08-25
In the Limelight
BY George Perry Morris.
samuel Mccall and the Tariff Com.
missIou,

Recent rumors have hinted at
President Wilson's determination TO
place former Gov Mccall. Of Massa-
chusetts. on the Tariff Commission.
and have described him as being
most insistently persuasive that the
veteran former Representative allow
his name TO go before the Senate
gain. The article by Mr.lMcCall in
the September Atlantic, dealing with
the Senate. its recent record and its
ever-incressing Assumption OF pow
er, will make opposition TO his can
didacy collective, not personal Hith-
erto the main obstacle in the way OF
confirmation OF Mr.. Mccall has been
Senator Lodge. Now IL will be the
massed senatorial phalsnX.
| Missouri's school Survey.
Missouri's commission on educa-
| tional research is to have A Ross
\ Hill, president of the State Universi-
ty. as its chairman. During the COM
ing year the commission will have
| 100000 to spend in careful study OF
the States educational Institutions,
private as well as public. DR.. Hill
is a Nova Scotian, whose A. NJ de-
] gree was gained at DalhoUsie Col
lege. a veritable breeding ground for
men of eminence. Cornell. Clark
| University and several Of the Ger
man universities fitted him for his
subsequent careeB a. an educator OF
distinction in several OF the mid
West States. The reputation he made
as professor OF educational psychol-
/ ogy and as dean OF the Teachers
| College at the University OF Missouri
during the years l9O3-O7 led TO his
selection as president Of the uni
: Iversity in 1908.
Anson Phelps stokes Praises ConsuIs
Yale's possible coming president
Rev Anson Phelps Stokes. has re-
turned to his duties at New Haven
after a tour of a considerable sector
! Of the world, and he does so with
pleasantcst memories of the consu-
lar representatives OF the nation
with whom he has done business
and from whom he has received IA
vorsI He is not carping or crouch
ing. Quite the contrary. II he is
elected president OF Yale to succeed
President Hadley. il will be a return
to the clerical tradition, broken
when the economist and layman was
chosen
It also would put in the seat Of
power Protestant Episcopslian n
where ConCreg6tionalists nave been
wont TO reign. But then Dartmouth
DID that when it made Ernest Mich
els president: and the liyest friends
OF Yale today are not asking qUes-
tions about sectarian attachments.
OF birth within the New Haven So
Cisl and academic dynasty (Which
decrecd Hadley's election), or
whether candidate is a New Eng
lander They want to know whether
he knows that this is 1920. and that
the privately endowed university is
up against it Against what? Many
, things not dreamed Of in the philos-
| ophy OF Charles w. Eliot or Timothy
| Dwight.
Leon DOminiHn's Next Move.
On the list OF persons who have
| recently passed the consular eNsmi-
nations is that Of Leon Dominian
| Constantinople was his birthplace
! and TO Roberts College he owes his
liberal education as do so many al
the men Of the varied races that
. made up the Turkey OF yesterday
Specializing in geography and CeoI-
Cgy he sought out the Belgian uni
, versity II LieEe for post-Eraduafe
work. and thus equipped he came "a
this country and got practical train.
ing with the Geological Survey. co-
r operating with its agents in the
' Southwest
1 Later his special qualifications led
S 10 his employment by the stat. De
e Tartmcnt in aiding it where qucs.
r tions Of boundaries were I'm dis.
putc; and ii was as an expert in
n this reld that he served with the
D American Peace Commission ir
Paris. on his return to this uoun
try from Paris he resumed rsls.
tions with the State Department. 4
n Drolih~ writer for technical jour.
= mails. his most consequential boob
+, IS a study Of The Frontiers OF
/. Language and Nationality in Eu.
rope"
No argument is needed to con
vince any one that enlistment IL
the national service Of d man know.
ing he Near East ana the genera
problems Of cultural contacts" d,
=, Mr Dominien uocs is d fortunat,
fact, symptomstic is to be hopet
Of policy OF state that will briuE
into the diplomatic and consula
service men whose backgrounds Hrt
= not d $ prOVinCiaIly American $ tn,
: minds Of too many OF the ap
$ pointees undoubtedly are. TIL,
d. country is richer than il knows il
5 men. who Join loyalty to theiI
" adopted land. with most intimatt
n knowledge Of regions and people
where a wise assignment could Sc
them at work and they would hav,
so little to learn and forget com
. pared with the ordinary nominee.