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TiL.E SUNDAY STAR, WAbiizsn DEAN INGE FEARLESS IN ME ETING ISSUES He Tells What Is Wrofig With the World and the Shortcomings of the Church. (Continued rom Taird Page.) position being mgn‘:le—he can't be unseated, or dhcépltned—ge has been able ever sinc: to do what he likes, say what be likes, and be what he likes, and he has taken full advantage of the privilege. Enters Journalistic Field. His stipend is $7,500 a year, and he has a old house of 30 rooms to live in behind the cathedral. When he was attacked for intruding into the Journalistic field and taking up space which professional journalists might have filled he replied that it cost him $5,000 a year to educate his four chil- dren—and he had to live. He lives happlly, regged by his chil- dren and companioned by a charming and decorative wife, a little woman who understands him perfectly, discusses his writings with him, acts as his aide and liaison officer, “akes responsibili- ties off his shoulders, goes ahead and ts the country houses in which he takes his holidays (aiways working | holidays; he worked hard even on his honeymoon), presides over his parties in the huge deanery behind its heavy w&yfld wall (they love entertaining), sees that he hss small change in his pockets when he goes out, and that he presents a tidy and well brushed appearance when he dines out, which is often. For a reason which is somewhat ob- -:‘Ee (but maybe Mrs. Inge, who is offi- clally Lady Inge, ge's tired of it, or his sons find it a liability) the dean doesn't like his title of “Gloomy.” He even once had himself photographed smiling (but it looked a bit forged), just to show the world that he has his lighter moments. And he has. He can unbend socially and dispense old jokes and new lime- ricks. Here is one of his minor mas- es: Said the dean to the bishop: ‘T have brought a good fish up, But I'm afraid we shall have to in- Accepted Wine and Cigars. It is also on record that when hie was dining on one occasion with a brace of bishops and some others, the bishops (their lordships of London and Win- chester) waved awny wine and liqueurs. The dean, however, took champagne, d brandy, Then cigars were around. “No, thank you,” said “Not for me,” said Winches- ped himself to a likes. He may en- he also entertains it hugely, what the Archbishop of 'y once described tactfully as ity and sometimes ecten- thought” it glimpses a large of coll truth and common rage it, but and Gt tricity measure sense. His 1 icleas appeal to the die- 'ory. He is the most outspoken But he is quoted by no party, for his ideas, like those of re- tired colonels, elderly headmasters, rich old aunts and crusted civil servants, have something a little odd, a little drastic about them. And he can be unexpected. For instance, he preached & sermon at an international peace con- gress in which ke roundly declared that all the belligerents in the World War were a5 bad as one another—a gem of ure reason which enraged those John ull Englishmen who, when they read his articles and addresses on labor and the middles classes, declare him to be the soundest, sanest man in the country. Rarely Constructive. He is rarely constructive, His genius 1s for criticism. Give him a half brick and pe can do marvelous things with t will bowl over & row of Labor ate some of his terms for advanced rad- icals: “Degenerates, imbeciles, neurotic, half insane, chronic invalids, psycho- aths cherishing sullen or maniacal Rnred against the social order . . . the people of the abyss, loafers, wastrels, criminals, brilliant men with a fatal moral or mental twist, really in- T Revolutionaries he regards as doctors regard lepers, even more drastically. He would not segregate them; he would kill them “like mad dogs.” He denounced President Wilson more heartily than even the latter's Repub- lican enemies, on the ground that to talk of making the world safe for de- mocracy was like talking of making it safe for the very plague of sentimentality and slofl)y weakness that is fastening on mankind like a cancer. When he is told that the voice of the people is the voice of God he retorts: “Rubbish: it is the old divine rights of kings standing on its head—the silliest |of “all fetishes seriously worshiped among us.” Adyocates Riddance of Bomb Throwers. His ideal state is one in which all those who are now preserved by the state, but would perish if left unsup- rorled, would be mercifully finished off n Jethal chambers instead of being left to throw bombs, preach and practice bolshevism and linger on in hospitals, work houses and on the dole. He counts it against medicine that it now keeps alive persons whom nature “with per- haps greater wisdom” might have pre- ferred to kill. And in case this outlook may astonish those who regard Christianity as the religion of pity, we may explain that the regards Christianity based n pity as a mawkish travesty. He lames Jean Jacques Rousseau for the mmluan of that ideal, and curses accordingly. In his opinion there is no sanction, human or divine, for the existence, still less for the preservation at the expense of higher types, of those hordes of hu- man beings whom Nietzsche classed under the laconic term “botched.” The “botched” are the submen and subwomen of Inge's nightmare. ‘They | color all his dreams, inspire all his fore- bodings, dominate all his basic ideas, provide the Aunt Sally for his invective. | - Democracy is the cuit of the subman |and the subman is the dark and evil | creature, spawn of the devil, who | catches man by the heel as he climbs |toward the stars and drags him dowil | to the bestial abyss, to destruction and { the end of the human story on earth. He himself comes from the best ele- ment of the middle class. He is proud g i.l.n el::.y even "fi his family tree on_eugenics as an example of one of the elect stocks that uughtpm be encouraged. Society, he says, is like a tapkard of beer—the scum at the top, the dregs at the bottom and the good liquor in between. Is Both Witty and Relentless. He is very witty, resourceful, relent- less. His enemies find it hard to strike e c.l;l_lnks in his d‘ymcf He h?:l answer ready. Accuse of pessimism and he guotes Havelock Ellis’ saying that when heaven wants to ruin a man it makes him an optimist. And adds that an optimist is a foolish fellow who would buy from a m-:d»umnm-m::mccm He m some of the labor leaders are mere drunken ds. When it was pointed out to him that the most extreme group, the Clydesiders, are fanatical drys, he said he apologized, only possible excuse for their bad mumera.y v He will have the last bite. If an at- tack upon f ruffies him he will refer to it bitingly as “insolence.” He himeelf is always insolent, but he can’t see why he should not be privileged, because, after all, he generalizes and nanes a name or launches a personal ls:?ulm (That would not be ‘Thus, when Rebecca West wrote him an open letter that ought really to have been ted on asbestos, and it ap- in the widely circulated Ex- press, one of the Beayerbrook group land 'a companion of the Evening Standard, in which the dean is a weekly feature, he was hurt, and wrote to the editor deploring that the paper had lent its pages to such an attack upon him. et on with his bishop, r.h“le tel %«' ingto: e veteran nington Ingram, Bishoj of London, mainly because the bishog is in the forefront of the Anglo- Catnolic movement for a reconciliation with Rome. Lately he had the nerve to suggest publicly that the old bishop should London over to a younger bishop and retire to browse his remain- ing years away in Gloucester, where the | country is so charming. _The bishop might have wanted to hit him over the cranium with a midiron, but all he could do was mutter: “What impudence!” Another bishop wrote to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury complaining that he was in trouble with his working- class folk because Inge had attacked the action of the government in enabling working-class children to compete with the children of the professional classes for scholarships at universities. The workers wanted to know if this repre- sented the mind of the Church of Eng- |land, because if it did — | Archbishop Pours on the Oil. The venerable archbishop threw oil on the troubled waters in his character- istic way, making it clear that Inge was speaking for himself and that the church took an entirely opposite view. It 1s possible that the dean would .| not be quite the hornet he is if he were knock a bishop's eye out. give the Pope a bad headache and beat all the wind out of civilization as a whole. ‘When he warns his own church that if it insist leving all the nrticle they have to sub- scribe to on ordination, its pulpits will rfl’nfl! be occupied exclusively by lools, bigots or liars, and adds that “a man must be n humbu ‘When he cuts clean across the ortho- dox n\%‘m scnools, leaves all the timid clerics ding. pulls the noses of stand- back bishops (und tells a reporter gayly that the bighops can't do anything to him, anyway), and goes on to restate 8s a tearch for the nature of end Christianity es a standard of values and a way of life necessitating | the study of Greek philosophy as well as of the Bible, he carries immense multi- with him. educated, br outside the offcial church organization. But when he gets his class bee in his bannet the applause narrows consider- ably; and when he suggests the selen- elimination of the unfit, the dis- the weak and the inefficient, a ng state will take life mercifully more freely than now, even the die- ‘Torles wonder whether these pri- thoughts are not better left unsaid. Growls at Sentimentalism. % 3 ed Canaries ln"l foxes b;u.x;:ll‘n" ! hunter—these touch his in|as motor les @s the Ul many eyel | ts on its ministers really be- not & fellow sufferer with Hamlet, who, you will remember, was “confined to unpack his heart with words.” He has no outlet in action. As dean of the cathedral he reigns but does not rule. The four canons control administration, nge has compared them to cats wait- to pounce upon him, the mouse, if he_dares poke his nose out of his hole. Ternard Shaw, who goes so far as to sy that the dean transfigures the otherwise somewhat deplorable aspect of the Church of England, explains all his class conscious and anti-labor angles by the fact that even such an intellect as the dean's has not been able to withstand the insidious forma- tive influences of class schools devised to turn out a type useful to the state. But there may be much in the fact that nature hes denled Dcan Inge a sense of music. He cannot sing. “God SBave the King” apd the old hunting ballad, “John Peel,” are the only two songs he knows, and the pesling of the organ and the soaring song of the choristers come up to him only as a8 jumble of strange in- harmonipus noises as he sits his stall ler the lofty dome. He has no music in his soul. Per- haps that is more responsible than lnyl«hin,l else for the dark flasiys in which he sees his fellow men” and their future on earth. How, thinking what he docs, he can retain his faith in a Divine purpose, | ical religion, which he draws his salary—may puz- zle most pmle But the dean, al- ways the individualist, has his own m of worship and of faith, For him the .di secret of salvation lies in the mystical saying of the Mid- dle Ages: “I believe because it is un- | believable.” If ho could not believe because it is unbenevnbleium dean would certainly t | be 8 lost so England manufacturers three NOvuyiBER 23, 1930—PART TWO. |COLLEGE GETS PRESIDENT WHO IS NOT COLLEGE MAN Where Is America Going? Dr. Julius Klein Declares Scientific Distribution Can Save Billions and Stabilize Industry. BY J. P. GLASS.» Assistant Secretary of Commerce, two thoughts assail one: ! FTER an interview with Dr. Julius Klein, First, that in the Commerce Depart= ment & statesmanship of the first order has arisen which, without ostentation, is formu- lating programs the highly drama Congress. n far more significant than activities of a whole Second, that in weighing our country's future, we have profound cause for reassurance because of the ex} in the department of a healthy and militant intelligence, non-political in its manifestations, which js deeply concerned with ideals of service to the state. Mr. Hoover has said that “no man contributed more than Dr. Klein” to our successful emerg- ence from the world trade revolution that fol- lowed, and was one of the results of, the Great War. As head of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce under the then Secretary of Commerce, Dr. Klein set up an efficlent system abroad for the distribution of the products of American industry. Now, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce, he is attempting the same program at home. An interview with him ns tre- mendous vistas of new and vital efficiengies in trade—perfections of which the great majority of business men have not even dreamed. Plan Will Save Billions. Efforts already inaugurated in the Commerce Department, and others which inevitably will follow, presage an approaching business era in which precision in the distribution of the output of production will equal that now governing pro- duction. This does not sound sensational, but it is. Really sclentific distribution, balancing scientific E‘cduction. will save the country billions of dol- rs annually. Au economy so many benefits—per] eat could be tragslated into ps increased wages, directly, or through the lowering of commodil H ity cosf some businesses which have lost money made to pay; & couniry better equipped to meet the in- creasingly hectic world competition for trade; and, finally, though scientific distribution alone could not cbviate interruptions of economic pro- gress, it could heip a great deal in uestions: the Depart- the trends of business. I asked Dr. Klein these three ‘What is the most important ment of Commerce is doing now? What is its relation to the future? ‘What does it mean to the people generally and to young people in particular? He replied: ““The most important thing of domestic distribution. «In this country we always have had a perfect Our intelligence new things, or devising new . While buildin increasingly efficient system of production, we passion for production. centered on making ways of making things. with which we are dealing, now, is the problem of the betterment stabilising AND COLLEGE. “Trade associations In the end the Federal must bring all of its a) in striving for more ef DR. JULIUS KLEIN. HE SAYS APPLIED STATISTICS SHOULD BE STUDIED IN EVERY HIGH SCHOOL have neglected to make a really all-encompass- ing study of marketing faetors. But their resources naturally are limited. access to data which no other agenc ropriate facilities to bear lent distribution. [ “The taking of the decennial census this year enabled us to make a real attack upon the solu- tion of the problem. By including in it a census of distribution, we took a tremendous step in the organization of mchlne&nwhlch we hope will some day make distribu duction. “We now are in a position to in selling costs. huge sums have done farther. as precise as pro- save industry Indeed, we already so. However, we will have to go “A census each 10 years is not sufficient. The machinery for supplying data to industry and commerce will have to keep pace with the move- ment, of business, the tempo of which is being tantly accelerated. We see greater changes in five years now than took place in 10 years & rter of a century back. Inter-commodity gl‘:l.lll’y (lumber vs. steel, artificial ice vs. natu- ral, etc, etc.) is one cause, The chemistry of & great system of appli the manufacture of new We shall have to set uj led statistics which accurately {llumine current conditions. Statesmanship Plays Part. + “We can expeet this to be a development of the future, & service through commercial agencies. in which statesmanship must play its It is part—and an important one it is. “Statesmanship always has concerned ftself with fostering and protecting business, In the past, however, no statesman was confronted with cacles of adjustment as those which we “A vast and complex industrial system must nize its efll;g.u. In ernment cannot relate itself to through efforts our political system industry to direct, since everything rests upon the prineiple of individual, competitive ef- fort. However, we can study the needs of trade and supply it with such information as is essen- tial to it. “Selentific distribution, as we hope for it, will save billions of dollars annually. Such a saving would be reflected for the general welfare in high wages, or the concomitant of lower com- y costs. It would be one factor in enabling tion. us to meet world competition. “While sclentific distribution would not be cure for interruptio would certainly tend to produce st in_business. a lal progress, it er trends ns in industr “The form which the machinery of “distribu- interest in sehool. have done wonderful Government, possessing can touch, is a job for part of the tlon ultimately will take cannot be outlined now. be -complete and as nearly ible as possible. “One thin that is needed is widespread public selence of applied statistics. Here education. The study should be & course of every college and high “Puture existence will be connected more and more with conceptions based upon statistical in- formation. The young man wi not fit him to understand this will seriously handicap himself for 1ife training does (Copyright, 1980.) Engineers Are Problem On Katanga Railroad The operation of the Katanga Rall- way, which connects Northern Rhodesia with Belglan Congo, is causing no little concern to the Executive of the Union of South Africa. When the railroad opened a few years ago white men were employed as engine drivers and firemen, but to keep them sober was a problem nobody could solve. The climate in the region in which the train operates is bad enough to drive anybody to drink, and the locomotive engineers found that they could teach natives to do the job for a few cents a week while they caroused in the cabin. The railroad company found out the trick and now employs black labor, but many people hold that it is better to be driven by drunken white men than the black maniacs who now eontrel the locomo- tives on this line. In either case it i a thrilling journey. Americans Survey Farms in Algeria An American expedition to Tunisia in Algeria, for the purpose of surveying | and studying agricultural conditions there, has just heen completed. It was led by two eminent sclentists—Dr. Oc- tor, chief of the Federal horticultural service, and Knowles Reyerson, chief of the botanical service at Washington. The party visited and studied the ex- perimental gardens at Sfax, including its forest of olive trees, which contain virtually 4,000,000 trees. It is explained that the two American savants have ob- tained ample information for the fur- therance of the United State agricul- tural service. BLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions to the Public lem‘g and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column every Sunday. American Biography. Balckwell, A. 8. Lucy Stone. E-St6835b. Bobbe, Mrs. D. D. B. Mr. and John Quincy Adams. E-Ad 142b. Coleman, McAllister. Eugene V. Debs. E-D3428c. Fuess, C. M. Daniel Webster. Two volumes. E-W39fu. Garland, Hamlin. Roadside Meetings. E-G 186a3. Gates, Mr: Young. E,v887g. John Cotton Dana, 1856-1920. E-D 195. Lejeune, J. A. The Reminiscences of a Marine. E-L5354. Powell, L. P. Mary Baker Eddy. E-Ed27p. Politics—Great Britain. Demangeon, Albert. The British Em- pire. 1025. JR45-D30.E. Lloyd George, David. Slings and Ar- Tows. JU45-L776s. Mulr, Ramsay. How Britain Is Gov- erned. JT45-M80. A. E. The Third British 1927. JU46-Z6t. Wages. Diemer, Hugo, ed. Wage Payment Plans That Reduced Production Costs. HFS-D56w. Douglas, P. H, and Jennison, P. T. The Movement of Money and Real Earnings in the United States, 1926-26. HFS-D748m. & National Industrial Conference Board. Wages in the United States, 1014-29. HFS-N217wi. Cookery. Carey, Lancy, pseud. Soup to Nuts. RZ-C 181 188s. Cornforth, G. E. Better Meals for Less. RZR-CB816b. Kel;l;ienlwr Co tion, Detroit. rpora New lights From the Kitchen. RZ- Moore, H. P. T. Old Family Recipes. Zimmern, Empire. Boston. Ples end Pastry Making. RZD-P937p. Handicraft. | Wakeling, Arthur, ed. Home Workshop Manual. Jones, C. C. THY-W 13. Things to Make. 1927. WB-J71, Make It Yourself: 900 Things to Make and Do. 1927, THY-M286. Modern Mechanics and _Inventions. How-to-Bulld-It. THY-M72. Fiction. Lucas, F. L. Ceclle. Mai‘:’ull Rose. Staying With Rela- ns. MacKenzie, Compton. April Fools. Sedgwick, A. D. Phil 3 ted R4 Mrs. | 108 the Tatin republics. 8. Y., and Widtsoe, Mrs. L. | E. D. The Life 8tc ; of Brigham | IN LATIN AMERICA By GASTON NERVAL. INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING. LTHOUGH neglected for a cen- tury, the problem of intellectual co-operation among the coun- tries of the Western Hemisphere is beginning to receive serious consideration in all its far-reaching phases. In the last few months I have had occasion to comment upon three instances which denote this gmvlrx;i i terest in the development of cultus tes in inter-American relations. One was the donation of a certain sum of money by the Cuban govern- ment for an inter-American Institute of International Law, where professors and students from the 21 American republics will be able to gather together in the near future. This institute will be open to men and women of every American nation who wish to take up courses of special study, in charge of which will be teachers from the various member countries. There will be two semester courses each year, and the official lan- guages of the institute will be those of the New World—Spanish, English, Por- tuguese and French. The texts of the lectures and reports of the debates will | be widely published, so that scholars of the whole hemisphere may benefit by 1a: the latest and most authoritative ex- positions of international problems and questions of public and private interna- tional law. A huge inter-American li- brary will occupy one of the large sec- tions of the institute’s palace, now un-| der construction, and it will contain the afficial publications of all the American | governments and the best literary and scientific works of selected authors of North, Central and South America. ‘The second instance was the creation of Latin-American scholarships by the Guggenheim Foundation, which set aside a fund of $1,000,000 for that pur- pose. Before this announcement was made there were, of course, numerous| Latin-American students in the schools and colleges of the United States, but the Guggenheim Foundation offered the first material aid of any importance in| this respect. The Guggenheim scholar- | ships will afford students of this coun-| all necessary facilities for continu- 2k their studies in Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia or any other of In the same way, young men and women of each of the Southern countries may ecome to Ameri- can_ universities. Each scholarship, in addition to traveling expenses, gives the student the sum of $2,000 for one year, which term may be extended if found desirable. It s hoped that the candi- dates for scholarships will be, as a rule, graduates of universities, professional schools or persons who have special-| hingd ize ! in some branch of Jearning, science or art. The Guggenheim Foundation was the firs. official step In creating an ex- change of students between the univer- sities of Latin America and those of the United States. These students, when they have completed their courses and received their professional diplomas, will return to their native countries to teach the newer generations. Knowing tl.e characteristics and the soul of the nation in which they lived and studied, they will teach the truth about it and will take an interest in passing their knowledge on to others. From this constant intellectual exchange there will be formed in time & new fund of inter- national background in this hemisphere, since through knowing each other peo- ple; come to understand and love each o ~r. The first appointments of Mexi- can students for the Guggenheim scholarships were made last January, and those for Argentine ps. are now in preparation. ‘The visit of some 200 Cuban teachers to the United States last Summer con- stituted the third of the instances to which I referred at the heginning of this column. This large party made a most interesting of the Southern States of the Union, rving cultural condi- tions in the country, as well as systems of education which are little known in the Latin republics. When they arrived in New York a debating team of Ameri- can students from the University of Yale was sailing South to visit the principal Latin American capitals. All this, as I pointed out at the time, showed the awakening of an intellectual interest which was nd to open an entirely new era in inter-American re- lations. THE THINGS OF THE MIND. ‘The organization a few days ago of the Executive Committee of the Ameri- of Intellectual Co-opera- tion, under the chairmanship of Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Inte- rior, gives new assurance of that im- pression. This council is the branch in the, United States of the Inter-Ameri- caxf Institute of Intellsctual Co-opera- tion, created by the Sixth Pan-American Conference of Havana in 1928. In accordance with a resolution ap- proved at this eonference, an Inter- American Congress of Rectors, Deans and Educators met in the Oity vana in February of this vide the institute with s and by-laws and a m_for ture activities. At lectual co-operation in American republics. The United States council, consisting of some 55 members, has already been named, and the Execu- tive Committee of this council is the or- ganization which has just announced its establishment. ‘This committee includes such - nent educators as Dr. Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College; Dr, Isaiah Bowman, director of the Ameri- can Geographical Society of New York; Dr. Willilam John Cooper, Comm! er of Education, Washington; Dr. Stephen F. Duggan, director of International Educatien; Merriam, president of the Cal stitution of W president of Wellesley James Brown Scott, pi American Institute of International W, As the report on the organization of the councll reads, although “for many years there has been an interchange of | students and professors between the United States and various countries of South and Central America, as well as along other scientific and cultural Jines, need has been felt increasingly, however, for a permanent center and a continuous direction of this movement, so that the Americas should in the fu- ture even more than in the past unite their efforts to co-operate in the con- stantly expanding intellectual and cul- tural domain of the Western hemi- sphere.” purpose of the Inter- American Institute of Intellectual Co- | operation is to fill this need, and in such task the United States council will undoubtedly have a prominent part. It is encouraging to witness these efforts to develop one aspect of Pan- Americanism which had almost been forgotten in the past. Of the three fac- [y opens tors upon which the success of the Pan- Amerian movement depends none had Wi been so neglected as the intellectual phase. The two others—the political and e. nomie factors—have gained uch ground in the last few years. The strengthening of efficial and diplomatic relations hetween the United States and each of the Latin-American republics has progressed notably. Efforts have been made to avold the reefs which have heretofore obstructed or which still ler the establishment of really closer relations, and everything has been done to win the good will of the governments south of the Rio Grande. the economic phase, it is needless to repeat here statistics of the extraordinary in- crease in the commercial relations be- tween ,’.is country and those of S8panish America. During the last 10 years the totals of exports and imports have doubled, and the interest of business men in establishing trade with the Latins has increased a hundred fold. The increase of capital invested by United States firms and individuals in the various Latin countries has also reached high totals, amounting today to nearly $6,000,000,000. Politically and economically a ap- peared to be going swimmingly. Never- theless, no matter how close the eco- nomic relations, nor how many the good will missions hetween the countries of the Americas, the work of Pan-Ameri- canism could never have been com- as the intellectual factor leved. At Jast this seems to have been realized by those in charge of educational activities in this coun- try and in the Latin consequences of such these fln‘tn dlldp- in nwmfiwmw- change co-operation, Wi are slowly but tenaciously toward the success of Pan-American ideals. A NEW AMBASSADOBR. Seldom has the appearance of a new foreign envoy upon the diplomatie stage of Washis given a ‘“bigger hand” than that which marked the ar- rival of Senor Manyel Meioran, Am- bassador from Argentina. Newspapers and official eircles unani- mously have greeted the arrival of the dist.aguished Latin diplomat with un- usual rejoicing. And this because espe- clal circumstances had given it almost the character of a resumption of diplo- ihd.the" Argontine. Repubiic. - Not. st an 3 they had actuslly been severed at any time, but the coolness and lack of co- operation shown by the recently over-| with thrown administration of the Southern republic toward the United States were so manifest and frequent that public| sif pinion in this beginning to 2uxpect an wfi"-':’:'&:v::’nm: :.m t 3 p.;‘ln:x:‘cl:n flcmrmw lent Irigo- f | United States. country | th yen, an eccentric executive, with ideas gocun.rly his own, had impressed upon is administration a policy of discreet aloofness toward and non-co-operation with the United States. Although he could not very well adopt an attitude of open opposition toward the ‘“great colossus of the North,” he neglected no 0] nity to show his lack of sym- pathy 5&: Uncl;‘f;:n,n‘ue m:ud encoumru cam| Pless against the American tariks sh the supposedly American economic im- perialism in the Caribbean zone; he had predicted menacing retaliations inst the former; he had delayed until the last minute his official invitation to President-elect Hoover at the time of the latter’s South American good-will tour, and he had persisted in refusing to send delegates to any of the inter- national conferenes held in Washington during the last two years. ‘mum of all this, he left the dorial post in Washington va- cant for two years and insisted upon leaving it so in spite of the eriticism of 8 large portion of the Argentine press ln:i.t mAze:‘une hpublln opll;lon ‘When qu such paramoun Knrnnce to the Bouthern republic as the tariff rates were being ussed In Wash- ington the absence of an ntine Am- Argel | bassador was especially felt, and United , | States papers frequently jnterpreted this lu‘:j ('::l\lmnck:nly)mu pmo{l :‘xu lack cf [ 5 , Dot on the of Argen- tine Government bum that of the Argentine people themselves. Fortunately for the success of Argen- tine-American relations, the Irigoyen administration was ousted from power three months ago, and one of the first act. of the new government was the appointment of an Ambassador to the . This appointment went to Senor Malbran, a person g-.mcull.rly qualified to strengthen such relations and to represent the Argentine Republic with great success in Washington. He is an experienced diplomat, long in the career, who has served his country in some of the most important posts of the foreign service, He knows this country, where he has been twice already, once as secretary of legation and once as chief of mission, and this circumstance slone would epable him to attain suc- cess In his present mission. He knows and understands Americans far better than Senor Irigoyen did. It 1s on account of all this and in view of the fact that the presence of ar Argentine Ambassador in this coun- a new era in Argentine- American relations that his arrival in ‘ashington has been hailed so eor- dially. 4 (Copyright, 1930.) Runaway Plane Gives Big Thrill to Italians Several years ago one heard of run- away horses. Today we have runaway airplanes—at least at the Ciampino Air- drome, near Rome. A huge Caproni ma- chine was basking empty in the sun, all set for a trial flight, when its mechanie, ‘who had set the motor going slowly, was surprised to see the plane moving|*0.0¢ forward. A few more seconds of awed hesitancy and the machine an to slide along the ground more rapidly, covered about 100 yards, gently rose from the field and headed straight for the barracks. . Be- wildered -nmum foresaw an inevitable collision, but the robot Caproni made the grade, rose a bit higher and began a serles of acrobatics which the most daring stunt birdman might have envied. After a few moments the wind uuqht it and it was seen to turn on one side and dive to the earth in flames. Avia- tors, in discussing the incident, conjec- tured that the mechanic accidentally opened the '_getml lever as he was jump- ing out of the cockpit. Prohibition Bothersome Question in Hawaii Efforts of “wets” in Hawail to raise the prohibition issue in the political campaigns in Honolulu this year thus far have met little encouragement. Pre- einct club elections, preparatory to the territorial platform convention, were held recently by the Republicans of the Territory, and advocal of a “wet plank” ‘were severely snubbed. ‘Th recelved treatment worse than indig- nant opposition—they either met with derision or were ignored. Leading Re- mum believe that as Hawall is a , With no vote on an amend- ment to the Federal Constitution, it is merely silly to get into a scrap over bition. If prohibition is the States, it goes for Hawali; if PFederal Constitution is amended, the amendment extends to Hawail. Ha- wail has neither Senator nor Repre- sentative in Congress; only a Delegate out vote on the floor. Hence Ha- wall should not get mixed up in a political row over prohibition. ition, e: at a number of pre- einct club meetings, makes it unlikely g‘;:t'r the “wets” will get very of booge, Walter Williams, Soon to Take Charge at Missouri, Educated in Tiny Country School, (Contintied From First Page.) Often wa corrected the fighty grammar of the orator of the day. “And then I began to wonder—if I could do this for men in high office, why should I not earn ml'd“" & position of original authority? Little by little the chance came. Now and then the edi- tor, 11l or called away on some business, intrusted me with pleces to write dur- ing his absence. Small things, little things—but in any life it is these things that accumulate. I worked on, saving my small salaries, so that three years later with a few dollars I was able to purchase a part interest in the Boon- ville Advertiser. “I began writing of the things that happened at home, of the events in our town and county. Hitherto this souree of news in certain aspects often had been neglected. Mrs. Smith could give the biggest pink tea in history without a word of notice from the press. I be- gan recording such things, began writ- ing also of the log cabins and eoon hunts and of Missonri hard cider. Thus from a printer I became a reporter, and from reporter a part owner. After that pendulum, already moving, swung wider with less effort.” Early Became Leader. Three years after the dean made his purchase of which he was speaking, his political ability, often demonstrated since, first became evident when his as- soclates chose him boy president of the ress organization of Missouri. It has n said that this honor may have been due principally to the dean’s abil- ity as an orator, an ability which marked ;um for distinction even at that early ay. From 1890 until 1908, as editor of the Herald of Columbia, # town across the river_from Boonville and the seat of the State university, Mr. Willlams at- ted considerable attention trac Witton opinion, - His Daper Wes 7 : paper was - nized as one of the best edited in entire section. Off and on during this same period he had assumed itional duties. He established the Country Editor, 8 month- ly magazine; he edited the St. Louis Presbyterian and the DHIJ State Trib. une of Jefferson City, and he extes his influence abroad for the first time in 1903 and 1904, when, as commissioner for the Louisiana Purchase tion, he_journeyed around ihe world, Boon after his return from this trip he sat as secretary of the World's Press Parliament, which assembled in St. Louis during the celebration. Dean Willlams became more and more convinced, how- ever, during these 18 years of his resi- dence in Columbia as an editor, that the newspaper profession should train its beginners at the university just as they were trained for medicine, engl. neering and law. College Idea Born. He discussed the matter so persist- ently that in 1908 the curators of the university granted Mr. Williams permis- sion to set up, as an experiment, the first sehool of journalism. And as there was no other such institution in the world, Mr. Willlams, although the hold- er of no college degree was appointed, by virtue of his known ability as editor, as dean of the new school. Thereafter until June of this year he occupied the chair of a full professor on the faculty O!umu“m:.lhr: 800 students n are registered in the dean’s school today, many of them coming from South American tions and twoscore or more from China, 8 country where the dean is held in articularly high regard. Friends of his ve presented to the unlvenl&{h:h: Jay H. Neff Hall on Red Campus, home now of the Missouri School of Journal- ism. On the walls and in the 1 of this building are old parchments and odd pieces of printing which former students have sent him. And in the basement is a well scrubbed modern press which rum- bles of an evening as Columbia ning Missourian, managed, edited and his students, goes to press. Tributes Brought to Dean. Every May also a notable p of persans distinguished in American let- ters journey out to Columhis for what the dean calls “Journalism Week,” at which time they caution and counsel his students. » More a men and women have recelved the degree of Bachelor of Journalism at Missourl since 1908 and s surprising number of the total are still in newspaper work. His graduates have been employed on every major English language paper, with the one exception of “The Singa- pore Straits Budget.” There i5 now in Shanghai a fofmer student of the school who not long ago wrote us that he would like, if he had the time, to work for & while on “The Budget” for no other reason than that the record of the dean might be complete. Soon after founding his school the dean wrote for his students this “Jour- nalist’s Oreed,” a document which since has attracted international notice: Originator of Creed. “I believe in the profession of jour- nalism. “I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with {t are, to the full measure of their respon- sibility, trustees for the public; that ac~ ceptance of lesser service than the pub- lig service is betrayal of this trust. *“I believe that elear thlnklnf clurr nnt‘li:emmbt.,l l:wuncy and fal are fundamental to good journal “I believe that a journalist should Isbo-‘ ‘Ilmm e geid of far with rmafl-ln(huh and the efforts to make & territorial Assue bility as t,pol‘:g:u,uln ther bmhur:mpumuw write otnly what he holds in his heart rue. “I belleve that suppression of the news, for any consideration other ti the welfare of society, is indefensible. “I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one's own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the Tiky not be- escaped. by Dlnaing e may nof y Pl g en- g:lhlfil;s instructions or ‘another’s divi- Ideals Are Set Forth. “I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and clean- ness should prevall for all; that the su- preme test of good journalism is the measure of its public serviee. “I believe that the journalism which succeeds best—and best d cess—fears God and honors man; is stoutly independent, unmoved by of opinion or greed of power, co: Cc- uve'. 'fi'&“m'um never m‘”{m’f"‘ controlled, pal iways respectful of its 'readers, but always unafraid; is quickly indignant at injustice; is un- swayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance and, as far as law and'| honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an al chance; 1is profoundly patriotic :‘:‘fle sincerely promoting international mfld will and cemnfln‘lvofld comradeship; is a journalism of humanity, of and for today’s world.” ll:ly:y;l Dean Wulhmug‘ an idealist, , however, a praci man, warning his nuamu of those who would pull the wool over their eyes. Fleld Is Analyzed. “Journalism,” he says, “is the t, unfinished, faseinating, new udveg{::e. The person, however, Who enters news- per work with the idea that he will me & per, valuable relies of | dr of perhaps they read- Dean Williams has a requirement that no student, unless he be 21 years old, can enter the School of Journalism without two_years of college work to his credit. A friend of his for many years, a charming matron of 8t. Joseph, wrote to know whether the dean wouldn't waive his rule in the special instance of her daughter, who, tl h she had studied in a fashionable school on the Hudson and in Europe, had never at- tended a college. “I should have thought,” replied the dean, “that as a daughter, a wife and mother of lawyers, you would be the last person in the world to assume that the rules might be broken.” “My dear dean,” came the immediate is exactly why I thought be.” The daughter, however, was not entered at Missouri until she was 21, Refused State Office. ‘The Democrats in Missouri on several occasions have asked Dean Willlams to become a_ candidate for the governor- , but he has consistently refused. e has, however, played an active part in the fleld of the press and paper, He was director of the Press Congress in San Francisco in 1915, president of the Press Congress of the World from 1915 until 1925, first president of the American Assoclation of Schools and Departments of Journalism in 1916, ex- change professor at the National Uni- versity of Mexico in 1925 and president of the first Pan-American Congress of Journalism, which assembled in Wash- ington in 1925. By his tact and his friendliness during the performance of these duties, he accomplished much of lasting worth to this Nation—he made friends for. America among important people, among the editors of the foreign press. of Missouri have a During those years when it was fash- ionable in America to sneer at Main dened the world. That is one of the most attractive qualities of the dean's personality— although he has traveled over world, he has never lost this fegce rail flavor of Missourl. Time and again he has returned home from some journey to Japan where he had been guest, of braries | sta Tealization.” At the time of “Arrowsmith’s” great- est vogue Dean Williams, smiling, even= tempered, subtle, suggested that the dia- lect of Missourl should be Bible. Even the ‘you all’ in our dialect came from the by our fathers 8t church meeting of the wording of the spostolic benediction, ‘The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.’” Apostle of Own Life. Dean “¥illiams eonfounds foreign understanding—that citizens who can talk of wagons among the stars without once losing sight of the fact that a hundred copper pennies make a silver Yankee dollar. Mark Twain sent Huck Finn voyaging . Dean Williams born tramps, that we can't sit can’t help it. “There are chairs sold in the United tates,” he declares, “thlns(g‘:llufi’w es us g chairs and us end them that way—but that matter.’ ‘The dean is a man of middle statuge, a white-haired, vigorous man in the sixties, who when he walks has the peculiar habit of holding his arms sta- tionary at his sides. This adds an odd dignity to his bearing. He and Mrs. spend much of their time in their fine early erican home at Co- lumbia entertainihg their friends from their table the guests are served hominy and hot biscuits and fried smoked ham. Often in the evening they talk of the sunken harbor of Sydney, of the view from Tiger Hill at jeeling, or the dean prefers such old-fashioned classics as “Alice in Wonderland” and “Robinson Crusoe.” Bo time moves along. The dean will be formally inaugurated as the new president early in the new year, and on that oceasion, if he so chooses, this gentleman from the red schoolhouse may march with those others who will have gathered to honor him and Mis- sourl in a gown of black and purple. For although the dean himself never went to college, two schools in Missouri and another in Kansas have bestowed honorary doctor's degrees upon him. ‘Thus does the Middle West care for the dignity of her gifted sons where dignity is ve uired. Deserter From Army “Turned Up” by Census Uncle SBam's eensus had one peculiar result in Honolulu—it “turned up” & deserter from Uncle Sam’s Army. More precisely, the deserter turned himself up after a sesson with the census enu- merator, ‘The deserter, Ben Fontes, had been absent without leave from Fort Arm- strong, a coast defense post at the mouth of Honolulu Harbor, for s year and had successfully evaded detection, though living all the while in Honoluhi. ‘When the census enumerator appeared Fontes found himself the targef reporter of stepp! into .-.‘I‘ must ntk:n that lg:: . < for s0 many personal questions that he my . Mmthlnkmxuwerhahm-” ried to the police station and gave him- self up, tel the police that ather be in the g:;d ‘house and {l"sd of anxiety outside and hot and bothered.