The Washington herald., 1920-05-12
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

blshop John H vincent, OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, who
has just died. was a larger figure
in his denomination and in the ma
tional life than his contemporaries
yet realize. Co-founder with Lewis
Miller, Of Aron. Ohio, of the original
Chautauqua Assembly and deviser
and promoter for many years of the
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle, he was one of the greatest
popularizers of knowledge for the
American people that the last CEN
tury produced. His works do fol-
low him, as anyone who knows the
range and power Of the Chautauqua
movement will admit. Within the
denomination he stood for higher
cultural ideals, for a broadening and
enlivening OF the literature used in
the Sunday schools. and for frank
admission OF the results Of Biblica,
scholarship. Because he did this
he was always looked upon with
more or less suspicion by the &C.
clesiastical machine. To be sure
he was elected a bishop, but he
never was given full range OF
power. He had a keen wit. a fine
fair of humor, a sense of literary
as well as Spiritual values. and an
irenic spirit that kept him free from
being fanatical in his Methodism.
An interesting article could be
written about Pacific coast ship
builders, admiralty lawyers and eff
cient administrators who came TO
Washington during the war to serve
on the Shipping Board and its col
lateral agencies, and who have been
seized by Eastern shipping interests.
admiralty firms and corporations
reaching out for world trade. The
latest of these men to make such
connections is William +. Taylor.
who has been assistant director OF
operations of the Shipping. Board.
When We entered the war he was
general freight agent of the
Southern Pacific road with head
quarters at San Francisco. He will
now capitalize his experience
gained with the Shipping Board and
put it at the service Of the Export
transportation Company now op-
Grating ships from Baltimore 10
Liverpool and Rotterdam but AL
ready busy planning new routes to
other countries and buying vessels
from the Shipping Board. He also
Will have formal relations with an
international freighting corporation
running lines from PhiIadelphia TO
French Atlantic and South Ameri-
can ports.
The beQuest of the medical and
scientific library of the late Sir
William Osler to McGfn University,
Montreal. is a proof of his devotion
TO an institution which he honoreS
with his presence and reputation al
the pre-American stage Of his ca
reer. As an instrument in the hands
OF Canadian scholars and practition-
ers OF surgery and medicine ii will
prove OF priceless value. Taken in
connection with the funds that are
going to the Canadian medical
schools from the Rockefeller Foun-
datfon' II will do much to raise pro-
fessional standards in the Dominion,
Hollis T. Godfrey. of the Drexel
Institute in Philadelphia. must be
credited with chief credit for one
OF the largest conceptions in Ameri-
can education, the practical details
OF which are to be perfected soon
IN ANt" OEh CITY,
at which representatives of go uni
versities and colleges and more than
500 industrial corporations will sit
down and plan out ways and means
by which Industrial executives can
be trained by the universities ano
colleges. Thus will be met one OF
the CLAIMANT needs OF the hour in
national industry: for not only are
wage earners too few in number
but so are men competent to act as
foremen and as planners OF the
corporations business on the manu-
featuring side.
Woman's invasion of the field of
law hitherto has not carried her
far into the realm of international
Jurisprudence and diplomacy, A
monograph just issued by the Car
negie Peace Foundation. written
by Miss Sarah Wambaugh, dealing
with the history OF plebiscites and
giving an inclusive collection of
the texts in all the important cases,
the same being carefully edited.
shows conclusively that the mind
OF woman is equal to the test in
this Held of research and scholar
ship. The heredity and environ
ment of this Investigator. explain.
If we mistake not. some Of her sue
cess. She is the daughter OF Pro-
lessor Eugene Wambaugh. Of the
Harvard Law School, whose serv-
Ice as an adviser to the War De-
partment during the war was of
great value Long known as a
student Of international affairs and
law, he has reared a daughter with
similar tastes and like capacities.
Henry A. Stimson, the New York
lawyer, who is leading opposition
within the American Legion against
the bonus" legislation. deeming IL
an attack on the Federal Treasury
that will do irremediable harm to
the Legion and to the war veterans.
was Secretary of War during the
years 1913-1915. His character and
ability and the influence he exerts
in certain quarters will aid him in
this contest
Will Drag Net to Catch