Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
HUMANISMS
by WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

WIIEN the American Society of Inter.
w national Law, of which Elihu Root Is
president, held its first convention for eight
years in Washington n few weeks ago, the
malevoent state of mind that is world wide
had grown out of the war. DIR. Nicholas
Murray Butler, of Columbia University
seemed to express the feeling Of the gather
ing when he said:
There is safety only in travelling at the
rate with which public opinion can keep
pace: and we have been exceeding the speed
limit
Frank Thomas Hines enlisted as a pri.
vate In the army back int1S9s. Twenty
years later he was retired as brigader gen.
cral at the age Of forty one. He it was who
had charge of transportation for the army
during the great conflict and he it was who
made record on his job that was equaled
by few In that stupendous undertaking.
Roscoe G. Mitchell, recently special agent
newspaperman back in 1914 and went 10
vera Cruz to write Of the American occu-
patton.
He had an office and Richard Harding
Davis, the dollar: word war correspond
cnt. came in one day and borrowed his type
writer that he might write an expensive
article for his magazine.
lie hnished the job. mailed the article and
put carbon of It in a pigeonhole, saying
that he would return for 1t later.
About that time mere reporter named
Monte Casey rushed in. He had just ar.
rived and wanted Mitchell to tell him every.
thing that had happened. Mitchell was busy.
SO ne gave him Davis carbon to read and
went in,ntoo on writing dispatches. Casey got the
sheet in his paper if he chose.
week later Davis got a cable which
said that his magazine had just received his
excellent story but, unfortunately. the news.
papers had already printed it under the sig.
He was venerable clerk in the Depart
ment of Interior. at Washington. and he
has sat at certain desk and done a Ger.
tain routine of work in certain way for
forty years
Then along came a new. breezy, Young
assistant secretary from Spokane Wash,
VINO mad ideas of efficiency, one Francis NJ.
Goodwin. by name
Goodwin thought that by changing the
desks In the Office around bit the papers
thnt passed through II could be rerouted and
expedited.
He had the janitor push them a bit from
their accustomed places.
lie did not know that this would break
'nto thc acoustic med scheme of life of the
aged clerk: that it would seem to him
tragedy, a uSurpation. an outrage
The assistant secretary had never worked
Tor iorty years at one task executed in
prescribed way. He hadn't the Experience
offcrse.
Surgeon General Hugh s. Cummings, Of
the Public Health Service. has Travelled all
over the world during the last twenty-f
years has lived in the Orient. in Europe in
Boston IN San Francisco. He no sooner
addresses you. however. than II becomes evi-
dent that he is a native of Tidcwater, Nir.
ginia.
The Surgeon General is n sandy person Of
obviously Scotch extraction. is very tall
slender and graceful, is a model of courtesy:
tie sees the part the United States would
pay IN an international organization from
now angle.
=, More service would be rendered human
lty, It seems to me-" he says, Through
carrying to the nations of the world the
tation than in any other way. That world
admits that we of them all have advanced
fastest and furthcst in sanitation"
ne mad grown up as one of six children
IN the family of u Baptist minister Senator
George H. Moses, of New Hampshire. says
ana had managed TO get through Dartmouth
college II used to be an unwritten re.
lulrem'nt for graduation at Dartmouth that
man work one summer as waiter in
resort hotci, teach a winter school or spend
u vacation as a book agent He met the re-
qulrrmcnts, for he did all three.
Then, after he was graduated he got JOB
rs reporter on newspaper In Concord az
81 week He paid 80 II month tor a rooul
and $500 week for board. This left him
Sf week all his own and IL was DO mufp
with it.
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