The Washington herald., 1920-04-30
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

OF considerable gravity In Japan as
the democratic movement develops.
The graduates of the Christian in
stitutions and the youth who have
studied in Europe and in America.
plus the graduates of the non
imperial universities, like the one at
Waseda founded by Count okama,
are not disposed to take the national
university and governmentaIly con-
trolled institutional point of view.
Prof. Richiro Hoashi. of waseda
University, has just been tried in
camera for publishing an article con-
travening the imperial constitution;
and the public prosecutor is NOV
ing for his Imprisonment and a
fine.
! or recent apostrophes to the Stars
and Stripes. two have stood out as
having distinction OF form and style
The mans is Franklin X Lanes;
the woman's that Of the late Maria
Sanford. head Of the department
of English at the University Of
Minnesota for SO many years. She
recited II before the recent congress
Of the Daughters OF the Revolution
held in this city. and it gripped the
audience with its beauty and its
power. The comments Of the press
and the public men Of Minnesota on
her character and on her career
show that she was in many ways
the States most remarkable and
important personality. snf-hat she
was beloved with an id -sity Of
devotion that few persoAJ OF any
time of any land have eQualled.
Bishop Cannon. OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church, who has been
touring the European missions and
studying general conditions so as
TO advise on the plan OF relief work
which that denomination has en-
tered upon, has proved to be
hair-trigger polemicist. willing TO
take up the cudgels for the United
States when it's case has beenN mis-
represented by European speakers
or writers. Stephen Leacock's re-
cent diatribe against prohibition"
published in the London Times, at
non a most caustic answer. pub
lished in the same influential jour
nal.
Ever since the civil war and the
establishment of Memorial Day its
celebration in Cambridge, Mass, by
Harvard University professors and
students and by local veterans has
been unusually impressive in its
beauty and dignity of conduct.
This year with all the memories of
the world war" in mind and with
a death roll of $50 Harvard grad
yates to contemplate. the orator OF
/ the day will be Gen. Pershing.
Seats in Sanders Theater will be in
great demand.
With James L. Garvin named as
oficial biographer. of Joseph Cham
berlain. a delayed study Of one OF
the ablest of the British Imperial
lists" will begin to take form and
Americans having letters or other
original material bearing upon
Chamberlain's career are invited to
send their documents to Mr.. Gar
win. pledges by Austen Chamber
lain being given as to their safe
return. The biographer edits the
Observer and is a brilliant London
journalist, albeit not always as wise
as he is clever. He can hardly hope
TO be Judicial in his task for he
was too near Chamberlain while he
lived and served him too pliantly.
Nevertheless, with the stamp OF
family favor upon him he will have
access to data which no other
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/ Bertrand Russell. an intellect
ual' Of the historic whig family so
prominent in English history, a
critic of the war and under re-
straint as to his residence and
utterances while the combat was on.
had accepted an invitation to join
the faculty Of Harvard University
just as the war opened and he was
coming to add lustre to its philo-
sophiCal department.
Now he has been restored to his
former place on the faculty at
Cambridge University. and is a
free thinker and speaker again. II
he had been allowed to come to
the United States and had Joined
the Harvard faculty. would his loss
of academic freedom have followed
here as in England? II is doubt
full. especially in the light of the
sufferance given to Harold Laski,
who. by the way. returns to Eng
land next year to teach in London
University. He can hardly have
uniformly happy memories of his
life in Cambridge. Mass.
James IArkin. of Dublin. has
found that American courts have
a bite to ihem that he never got
from any home tribunal. Found
guilty of criminal anarchy he faces
"a long term in prison. To his
credit at an earlier stage in his
history must be credited an .upris-
ing in Dublin which challenged the
aristocracy of the trades unions in
the Irish labor world, which ex-
posed the horrors of the overcrowd-
ing of the Dublin masses. and
which shook the complacency of
the Nationalist politicians. But he
has travelled a long way since then
toward revolution and conspiracy
against lay and order.
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