Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-03
Men in the Public Eye

same managing mammas frowned
upon and snubbed the very young OIL
GERS who in the fort across the river
bossed the millionaire corporal around
Just as they pleased. Naturally the
situation was somewhat strained. and
the army higherups did not know
what to do about it.
The other day, however. Corporal
Myer took matters into his own hands.
He applied for permission to undergo
examination for commission took the
quiz and passed it. Probably he viii
receive his commission soon, and then
there will be no more problem.
He enlisted in the army, he says,
because he wants an army career and
because he was unwilling to waste"
four years in West Point. He's a good
soldier, too, is the corporal; and now
he'll rank all the young men who en-
tered the Point three years before he
went into the army.
Bentley Barbour, freshman in Lake
Forest university, just outside of Chi
cago, is a music lover. The way to
mans heart-to most mems hearts-is
through their stomach. Not so with
young Barbour.
Barbour is going through college on a
small allowance. Consequently when
the Metropolitan opera company was
announced to appear i'm Chicago he
didn't have the price of a ticket into
the theater and another ticket into
the city. But he got it. He tasted
actually went without food, for a week;
and he saved the price of his meals, $4.
Then he spent 81 for a railroad ticket
and 81 more for seat to hear such
music as he never before had heard in
his life. That left another dollar to
taper off with, and so he went to a
musical comedy.
Barbour doesn't regret his bargain,
either. He says fasting is easy, and
nows he's thinking of starving himself
to get automobile money.
William S. Horton of New York city
has given the divorce courts a new
problem to solve. Horton has begun
suit for divorce from his wife on the
ground that she is a mulatto. He says
that he never knew this until after
they were married, alleges that a union
between them under these conditions is
undesirable and unnatural. and asks
the court to sever the bonds.
Mrs. Horton has filed no answer to
her husbands allegations. She is said
to have explained her dark skin by
claiming to be of mixed French and
Spanish parentage; and it was not
until her husband detected her pur-
chasing a tombstone for the grave of
her mother whom subsequently he dis
covered had been a negress, that he
knew of her deception.
Horton is a plumbing contractor and
wealthy. He advances the argument
that miscegnation Is crime in certain
states and declares that the law should
free him and thus restore his own self
respect, together with the respect of his
neighbors. in so far as that is possible.
He alleges nothing against his wife's
character, basing his demand for a
divorce wholly upon her color.
DR.. II. w. Wiley, chief of the bureau
of chemistry and who first won fame
through his organization of a govern
ment ''poison squad" has gone cunning
for the cold storage people. In the
senate the other day DR.. Wiley spoke
in support of the Lodge bill, which
provides that food articles kept in cold
storage more than one year shall be
deemed adulterated and which further
provides that all such food products
must be labeled plainly with the date
of their entry into cold storage ware
house.
DR.. Wiley told the dignified senators
that eggs, butter, poultry fish and SIM
liar products could be kept safely for
twelve months, though he expressed a
personal preference for a nine months
limitation. Beef and mutton, he said,
should not be kept longer than four
weeks.
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, director
of the Metropolitan Art Museum in
New York city, but who now is in Eng
land, where he went some time ago to
recuperate from a nervous breakdown
due to oVerWork, is expected back
again in August, and the Metropolitan
attendants are jubilant in consequence.
Sir Caspar is a Briton, friend of the
king, and democrat. He likes to
meet people. does Sir Caspar. He's the
easiest man to approach you ever saw
in your lifetime, and he's facile hand
shaker. This knack Of shaking hands
might make him presidential timber
did not the constitution stand in the
way for unfortunately Sir Carpar was
born abroad. He couldn't help that, of
course, but the constitution holds it
against him just the same.
When he first came to America Sir
Caspar aroused the ire of Vassar young
women by telling them they were too
aristocratic, and praised Wellesley col
lege for its fine democratic spirit. Curl
ously, Wellesley was no less indignant
than Vassar, which goes to prove that
like effects sometimes result from dia
metrically opposite causes.
Sir Caspar used to be director of the
Kensington museum in London, where
he was paid $500 year for his services
as a recognized and perhaps the fore
most living authority on every branch
of ancient and modern art. He was
selected as head Of the Metropolitan by
j. Pierpont Morgan and is now paid
SIS 900 annually. Morgan says he's
cheap at the price.
His selection was opposed at the time
by men who declared the post should
have gone to an American, but some
body remarked that there are no
boundary lines in the great republic of
art" and on this theory Sir Caspar was
confirmed. He's been a success too
Nowadays nobody stops to think that
he's a foreigner. In fact, pretty much
everybody who is interested in art and
knows of his work agrees that he is
the very best man who could have
been named for the place.
Former Governor Folk of Missouri is
looming large just at present as a
Democratic presidential possibility.
There was a time, of course, not so
many years ago, either, when the Dem
ocrats would have laughed at the idea
of nominating a Missourian. The can
didate always was selected from a
doubtful or Republican state, and