The Washington herald., 1920-04-21
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

The resignation Of Mrs. Finley
Shepard (formeriy Miss Helen
Could from the national board Of
the Young women's Christian Asso-
citation at the recent annual con-
vention held in Cleveland, is another
interesting incident in a prolonged
controversy which has more than
one angle. Mrs. Shepard wishes to
keep the organisation on q strictly
Evangelical basis and she does not
want 1t to take up with social
IChristianity" and Industrial reforms.
She prefers what she calls depth to
breadth, and intensification of the
religious and inner life of young
women to any extension OF their ac-
tivities as humanitarians. Arrayed
against her 4, a generation of wom-
en- recently graduated from the
women's colleges or acquainted with
the problems of the working women.
who will not boycott Unitarians and
Universalists. and who insist that
the organization can only prove it's
right to popular support and exist
ence by applying the social ethics
of Jesus to industry. Much the
same controversy exists in the Y. NJ.
&c. A where the conservatives thus
far have held their own better than
they have in the Y. W. c. A
The suggestion that Frederick
Douglass be given a place in the
Hall OF Fame connected with New
York University has aroused some
controversy within the ranks Of the
Afro-Americans as to whether he is
the man of his race to be SO first
lhonored. Advocates of Booker T.
Washington appear. but are sharp
lly challenged by the Douglass men.
Douglass. they say. had the undivid-
ed allegiance OF the negroes. Wash
lington did not. Douglass is to the
negro. add these champions. what
lO'Connell was to Ireland. A race
referendum. IL Il could be held ere
the judges decide. might help. but
can it?
Representative Mckinley, Of Illi-
nois, again heads the American
group of the Interparliamentary
Union. which meets in May at The
Hague to arrange for the first gen.
eral conference of the lawmakers of
the nations that IL has been possible
to summon since 1914. Stockholm
is to have the honor Of acting as
host for this conference. and Ameri-
can delegates will be present The ef-
forts Of this Interparliamentary
Union, preceding 1914, had been more
effective than their quiet methods
may have indicated. Its members
believed and still believe in arbitral
and judicial methods of settling in
ternational disputes, and in reduc-
ton of ornaments. AS public at
tention turns from executive TO leg
islative acticp OF a postwar nature
the Importance of this conference Of
lawmakers from many nations prob
ably will increase.
The lamented f. E Southard.
ablest of our eXponents Of psychia-
try. speaks as from the grave in a
posthumous article in a current
number of a technical journal. tell
ing his countrymen that before they
can expect the strike" mania to
pass and industrial conditions as
sumo normal conditions, they must
study industry in the light of men
tai hygiene. and act in the light of
evidence thus gained. 1t was in
this most interesting and pregnant
field of sociology and economics
that Carleton Parker had begun a
pioneering work promising to
make him a large figure in our ma
tional life. The psychiatrist is fast
winning his status as an adviser of
judges in courts based on modern
ideals of investigation and proce-
dure. He can find out what the
grievances" are much more scien-
tifically than the Investigator who
has no knowledge of psychology,
4 motivation. and the reflex influence
of disease. poverty. etc, on the con-
Guct of individuals and on groups
OF men.
stephen Graham, who has been
telling the Royal Institution of
London that the United States is
the most intolerant country of
the world" is an English author.
specializing in Interpretation of
Russia, whose analysis and mystical
alteration OF the Slav Is repudiated
by them quite as generally as his
Indictment of Americans will be by
most Americans. His data about
the United States he gathered dur
ing a walking tour and by direct
contact with the people, especially
the workers on the farms and in
the industrial centers. 1t is not
parlor-car. tourist runabout, fancy
urban caravansary Judgment that
he is giving his fellow Britons.
If ii be true that Maj. Braithe-
waite Wallis, British Consul in
New Orleans. formally filed in be-
half of the British government a
protest against the official reception
of Eamonn de Valera, provisional
president of the Irish republic, by
the acting mayor of the city. then
an interesting new development in
this affair has opened. De Valera
will be quite amply "doctored" ere
he returns to Dublin. Loyola Col
lege, in New Orleans. added an
other LID. to his collection. On
the other hand he was debarred
the other day from addressing the
students and faculty of the Uni