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Show WHO'S NEWS This Week By Lemuel F. Parton Consolidated Features.-WNU Release. NEW YORK. That brief dispatch from Chile reporting that Berlin Ber-lin had recalled Ambassador Wil-helm Wil-helm Freiherr von Schoen is some-, some-, thing more Von Schoen Recall than a straw May Mean Chilean Swing to the Allies War politics poli-tics Baron Von Schoen has been so long and so deeply intrenched in Latin-American intrigue and so successful suc-cessful in covering his tracks and staying on the job that this four-line four-line news item may well indicate a powerful Chilean swing to the Allied Nations. His organization of subversion In Chile has been exposed and attacked time and again without with-out so much as jolting the baron's bar-on's monocle. He has been most elaborately wired in, not only with double-dealing politicians but with a hemisphere complex of industrial and financial interests inter-ests and German-based cartels. If It is true that they finally have cut him loose from these moorings it surely means that some of the scaliest and toughest tough-est Axis tentacles in those parts have been severed. His family is an old, established firm in international political conspiracy, con-spiracy, in war and peace. His father, fa-ther, the late Baron Albrecht, circulated circu-lated in Europe before the start of the first World war, trying to soften up the opposition, and Baron Wil-helm Wil-helm carried on over here in the Mexican machinations which helped get us in the war. He did this so smoothly that a few post-war years parsed before his role, as an aide to Count BernstorfT, was understood and his activities fully appraised. In 1914, he arrived in Wash-, ingion, after several years as secretary of the German embassy em-bassy In Japan. In an interview, inter-view, which seemed to have been carefully premeditated, he told of Japan's bitter hatred of the United States, and ber determination de-termination to annihilate us, sooner or later. The interview stirred np much angry discussion discus-sion and brought the baron a sharp reprimand from President Wilson, with a hint that the statements state-ments had been intended to promote pro-mote enmity. He was married in 1916 to an American girl, highly placed socially, social-ly, and, as secretary to the embassy, em-bassy, achieved deep penetration in the capital salon diplomacy at a time when our entry into the war was still in the balance. . He returned re-turned to Germany, after the failure of the Mexican conspiracy! and little lit-tle was heard of him until the early days of the Hitler ascendancy. A S THE army and navy propose to take over the colleges, their plan to teach the young how to shoot meets considerable academic oppo- n . n. sition. Presi- Prexies Disagree dents Wris. On Army, Navy ton of Brown ,, and Dodds Taking Colleges of prinCeton are in agreement, but other prexies throughout the country register dissent dis-sent on varying grounds. The main base of opposition is that liberal arts education and small colleges will be casualties. Dr. W. H. Cowley, president of Hamilton college, an active ally of the armed forces in collegiate col-legiate mobilization in the past, finds the plan "quite inadequate." inade-quate." His is a college of about 450 students, and he has been a goal-keeper among college presidents pres-idents against drives threatening the humanities and liberal arts in the colleges. As an educator, he has opposed early and extreme ex-treme specialization and has stressed the importance of educating edu-cating the "whole man." With this strong conviction, he believed be-lieved colleges, by proper adaptation adapta-tion in teaching, could help meet tha demands for youth in the war and at the same time hold their ancient cultural franchise. A year ago, he circularized 200 upperclassmen of his college with a letter urging them to join the navy and has served as a member of the educational committee commit-tee working with the army and navy. He says this committee opposed op-posed the new plan, about a month ago, without success. Dr. Cowley became president of Hamilton in 1938, at the age of 39. As an expert and authority au-thority od vocational guidance, and in educational research, he has concluded that an organized and adequate personality, and the ability to think must taka precedence over special skills. If boys off to war can somehow cram a little sound education into thetr duffle bags, he thinks it will be all to toe good-or, more pre- cisely, he thinks it is urgently important im-portant that they do so. He is the most modern of educators, but has opposed such innovations as those of Dr. Hutchins and StringfeUow Barr, which would reduce the college col-lege course to two years When he was graduated from Dartmouth, he was voted the "most Ph r, SUCCeed'' He CMcaDgodegree 31 1116 Universi He worked for the Bell laboratories labora-tories the Western Electric and Z U. S. Steel corporation, in personnel research, and taught psycho the University of Ohio. He was hn in Petersburg, Va.. anf'ed faMS He iSSfeet' inches" hJ?; han?some and engaging, and a bold and persistent battler in the cau of putting education on Tu Hamilton is a perky little college 1 years old next February and f it i safe to assume that Dr Cowley will get strong support from H. many distinguished alumni " |
