The Washington herald., 1920-03-09
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

The "Americanization" movement
has no limits to it's ambition. The
preacher at Columbia University
last Sunday. Rev Charles F. Potter,
prophesied that an American Bible"
and an American church" with Lin
coin as its social Christ" were COM
ing. OF course there are thousands
of persons who think of God as an
American, he and they thinking
alike and approving the same things.
One OF the ablest of Japanese
domiciled in the United States and
serving humanity through funds and
agencies put at his disposal by
Americans is DR.. Hideo Noguchi.
For the past three years with as
sistants and associates from the
Health Section OF the Rockefeller
Foundation. he has been doing ex-
perimental work In Latin American
countries and combating the CEN
ters of plague that hitherto have
infested the world. He more recent
ly has been in Mexico at the invita-
ton OF the government giving Car
rama and his advisers the benefit
or his experience in Ecuador in
combating the yellow fever.
Beatrice Forbes Robertson has
commanded wide following among
sunragists and progressive women
since she came to this country and
Identified herself with its life and
with the cause of women. Aptitudes
inherited from family conspicuous
for years in the players world of
England have given her exceptional
sklll as a speaker and propagandist
She is now, so il is said, suing for
divorce from Swinburne Hale.
MRS. Simkhovitch, whose years Of
experience in New York City's so
ciar welfare work and whose study
OF the interracial problems of the
city have made her known nation
ally. is to join the special teaching
force Of Columbia University set
apart for "Americanization" work.
Which means that, so far as she is
concerned at least, the work will be
done with less crudity, patronage
and ulterior motive than is the case
with other "Americanization" pro-
grams. Readers of the last issue OF
The Survey. will see that there is a
very marked feeling of resentment
on the part of those who best know
the mind and soul of the immi-
grants and their children against
much of the work now being done
by amateurs and super patriots.
With a scarcity of professors In
the universities and colleges of the
frx- Z
Prof. Nicolai, the German who
wrote the Biology of War and
who attacked the Hohenzollerns
and the militarist-Junker rulers of
Germany so trenchantly during the
war (as well as since). to find a
place on a faculty in this country.
1t is true that with the armistice
he returned to Berlin from Switzer-
land, whittier he had been forced
to flee, and that he was reinstated
in the chair of physiology. But his
life is being made miserable by
boycotts and insults, and he frank
ly admits that he would leave the
country were a teaching position
offered him here.
They are getting their experts
where they can to go on the va
rious subdivisions and commits
sions of the council of the league
of nations. Thus they have gone
to Winnipeg. Manitoba. and enlist
ed the managing director of the
provincial water supply division to
serve on the Saar district board.
Canada by this choice gets her dele
gates status confirmed. and her
rightful share in execution of the
treaty admitted.
There were more than 100000
Chinese workers in France during
the war. whose highest interests
were cared for in the main by
Americans long resident in China
men who knew their language, GUS
toms and ideals. One-third of
these. it is said. already have
Joined the Returned Chinese Labor
Association of China, and with their
widened outlook on life and their
growing consciousness of group or
class feeling they are planning to
enter actively into Chinese political
and social reform, aiming specially
at improvement of labor conditions
in the republic. A special delegate
of theirs, DR.. Tehyi Hsien, will
soon appear in Washington to con-
fer with the A. F. L. officials and
with the Department of Labor ad-
ministrators. DR.. Hsien already
has proved his capacity as an in
vestigator and organizer by his
work for the Chinese laborer in the
islands of the Pacific and in terri
tory controlled by Great Britain
and Holland