Institutes

Summer institutes continued to flourish last week. Receiving most attention were still the Institute of Public Affairs, Charlottesville, Va., and the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass. (TIME, Aug. 19).

Charlottesville. Most vivid of the week's events was a debate between Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran and Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie.

Onetime Gov. William Lloyd Harding of Iowa (1917-21) spoke in favor of the St. Lawrence waterways plan.

Sherwood Anderson, storyteller, spoke on "The Newspaper and the Modern Age," explained he had become a small-town editor (Democrat and Smyth County News in Marion, Va.) because life was dull and vulgar in the Modern Age. "Newspaper writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will get us nowhere. . . . It would be a proud day for me if I could feel in myself something of the beauty and dignity of the automobile in which I rode to this speaking."

Prof. Raymond Moley of Columbia said punishment should be made to fit the criminal, not the crime.

Dean Charles G. Maphis, Dean of the University of Virginia, summer quarter, praised the preparation the speakers had shown, revealed there had been 142 participants, an average daily attendance of 1,334.

Williamstown. Dr. Theodor Emanuel Gugenheim Gregory of the University of London, Faculty of Economics, complained: "The New York stock market has resumed its historic role as a disturber of the economic peace of the world."

George Young, British Labor Member of Parliament, said: "I am aghast at realizing how far and how fast the American and British ships of state have since the war come athwart each other's course and are today heading for a collision."

Count Giovanni Elia, Fascist, declared that even if the fleets of the U. S. and Great Britain should be made absolutely equal "there would still remain the vastly superior industrial power and unassailable geographical position of the United States."

Royal Meeker, U. S. economist, ridiculed the St. Lawrence waterways project, declared that for the same cost eight parallel railroad tracks could be laid between New York and Chicago.

Capt. C. S. Baker, U. S. Navy, defended intervention in the Caribbean on the ground that the tropical climate has degenerated the natives.

Malcolm C. Rorty, engineer of International Telegraph and Telephone Co. said telephone communication was binding Latin America together, pointed out that the Argentine has 192 mi. of telephone wire to every 10,000 of population, the U. S. only 170 mi.

Christopher Nixon, British barrister, suggested the Monroe Doctrine be extended to include the U. S.

Dr. William E. Rappard, onetime Director of the Permanent Mandates Commission, League of Nations, protested against the Kellogg Pact, objecting to "uncertainty as to what it prohibits and what it permits, the absence of any indication as to the nature of the 'pacific means' which are to be substituted for War, lack of any provision for violation."