The Washington herald., 1920-03-13
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

Vassar College is represented at
the Sorbonne this season in the
person of Professor Woodbridge
Riley, who is lecturing on Repre-
sentative Americans" Washington.
Hamilton and Emerson are omitted
and Walt whitman, Roosevelt and
| William James are included on his
list. The subjective element enters
into all such selections, and Professor
Riley, were he questioned, doubtless
could put up u clever defence for
a list. that. of course, includes
Franklin, Jefferson and Lincoln. The
Vassar professor has written one of
! the keenest studies OF the evolution
/ of theological and philosophical
thought in the United States that
I has been published. and he has a
brilliancy Of statement that will
please the French.
The Invitation to Miss Jane
Adams, of Chicago, to lecture on
social welfare topics at Toronto
University has been withdrawn.
Attacks in the press and popular
clamor have forced this action.
Her attitude as a "pacifist" during
the early years of the war has not
been forgotten or forgiven by the
average man in Toronto. Prior to
1914 repeated questionnaires and
polls as to who was the most i'm
portant woman in the United States
had shown that the founder and
builder of Hull House in Chicago
was the fayorite choice. The war
/ came. She followed her conscience.
Her popularity waned. The To-
ironto experience is not the first
proof she has had of her altered
status.
Admirers of "Gussie" Gardner,
Massachusetts militant Represent
ative during the first year of the
war and a fighting opponent Of
Secretary Daniels. will find that the
letters in the volume of his corre-
spondence just issued have not been
deleted SO as to take the charac-
teristic Gardner punch out OF
them. Being the son-in-law of
Senator Lodge. Mr.. Gardner indited
many notes and letters to him.
which must be reckoned with by
the Senator's coming biographer.
Often the letters a man receives
are as revealing as those he sends.
Clifford Pinchot is to return to his
! first love-forestry. Pennsylvania.
his foster mother State, is to be his
domain. Politics and national re-
| form, for the nonce, are to be set
aside. The more immediate per-
sonal task is conservation of the
timber resources of the Keystone
State, once so superbly ample and
now so precious because of their
relative decline. A smaller man in
the executive chair at Harrisburg
than Governor Sproul might not
have seized the chance to put this
man at work on a Job he loves.
| John Temple Graves. who has been
named a member of the Lincoln
Commission. is a journalist of the
old school, who. We trust is record
ing his "reminiscences for readers of
a later il not for this generation.
Nor can he rightfully omit a chap
| ter on what he knows about Mr.
Hearst. a man and journalistic in
novator. AS a representative of the
South on the Lincoln Commission
Mr.. Graves typifies one of the most
interesting and significant readjust-
ments of judgment concerning
public man that any considerable
number of people ever made.
William c. Dennis. who for two
years has been - Pekin. acting as
legal adviser to the Chinese gov
ernment, has returned to this city
to resume the practice of law in the
international field. He is a Quaker.
with a fine record in promotion of
peace by methods of arbitration and
judicial settlement. and owing to
the sincerity of his convictions on
this subject. combined with his eX-
act technical legal knowledge. he
has to his credit long list of inn
portant activities as an adviser OF
the government in arbitration cases.
Like most Americans returning
from Pekin he is strong against
ratification by the Senate of the
ShantunE award.