The Washington herald., 1920-01-19
In the Limelight
by GEORGE PERRY MORRIS.

Alexander Hume Ford, of Homo
lulu. secretary of the Pan Pacific
Union, is in Washington now, en-
listing support for the organization
which he provides with executive
/ foresight and push. The first con-
gress of this union is to be held in
Honolulu in July, and will have
delegates from most. il not all, the
lands bordering on the Pacific. The
presidency OF the organization has
| been offered to President Wilson.
| Prominent Asiatic and Australian
| statesmen are in sympathy with the
program of the union. which Is TO tie
together in some loose but vital way
/ the many peoples. races and nation
ais" of the countries whose outlook is
pre-eminently Asiatic and American
rather than European. and to en-
able them to know each other
through conferences. literature and
other methods which the union may
dsvise. Mr.. Hume is a longtime
! jour nalist in Hawaii, a man with a
cosmopolitan spirit and ambitious
! to make races and religions frater-
, niZe.
Hudson Maxim, the inventor and
author, has taken to the platform TO
argue for a middle glass" uprising
against its foes on either side. the
capitalist and the labo-er. He has
coined for this mediatinS and con-
trolling section of society the clever
name of the buffer and suffer class"
He believes that the national situa-
1 ct f4Eln nRfl hnr 4
was during tho war. THE Huns and
the vandals are low within our
gates armed with sharper sword
than that of steel. namely the bal
blot. Reduced TO its essence his ar
gument is for the rule Of democracy
by an intellectual. samurai group,
such as II. G. Wells would have.
Apropos this Peoples League for
middle class uniflcation and organi-
cation in the United States it is in
teresting to note that one of its
chief advocates is Charles Henry
Meltzer, the critic of music and dr2
matte art, the writer of librettOs
for musicians and the best trRnsla-
tor into English of Hauptmann'
''Sunken Bell
John Drew temperance on the
stage. in a social comedy role. brings
back a favorite player. with follow
ing that is loyal. Of family long
prominent in the upper social circles of
his calling. but with an ascendancy
now challenged by the Barrymores,
this artist with manners comes back
from siege of i'll health fit to win
new successes; and he will find the
older dramatic critics kindly disposed.
Richard C. Cabot. who is to he pro-
fessor of social ethics in Harvard
University, does so by the generosity
and insight of Alfred T. White of
Brooklyn, N. Y. who has endowed the
chair amply. The Cabots of Boston
have not produced a man in many gen
erations as socially important. in the
best sense of the word social" as this
eminent physician, the founder of the
NEW science of medical social service,
and a teacher of religion. His profess
sional brethren of the older type at
first tried to belittle him, both from the
professional and the humanitarian
point of view. But they have quit 1t.
His status at the General Massachu-
sets Hospital has become more firmly
established with the flight of the
years. MS pldH lot InculCdi sOCldl SeTN-
Ice. first outlined fourteen years ago.
has been initiated in not less than 100
hospitals in this country: his books on
social service and the art of healing.
the religious approach to social moral
ity. and what men live by have been
read far and wide. Any just list of the
ten most significant men in New Eng
land, made during the past fifteen
years, would perforce have included
him. Now he turns from the role of
a practitioner and consultant to that
of teacher. of choice youth; and he
may. under favoring conditions. go on
with his fruitful authorship.
While the country is talking about
the passing of the Bennett family
control of the New York Herald and
Its correlated properties. it may be
wen to note that the current runs
the other way in other cities. Mai.
Clark Powell has Just been given
an important position In control of
the Atlanta Constitution. Evan p.
Powell and Clark Powell, of the two
preceding generations Of this family,
have made their mark In control Of
this property aud as shapers of the
development section of the South to
which this Georgia daily ministers.
The new appointee has an excellent
war record: he knows the newspaper
business because he has worked in
the lower ranks; and be Is now on
the way to step into his fathers
shoes when the latter gets ready to
retire and put on slippers