The Washington herald., 1920-03-12
In the Linelight
BY Ceorre Perry Morris.

DR.. Irving Langmuir, OF schenec-
tady N. Y. has won the VIM. H.
Nichols gold medal awarded an
nualiy by the American Chemically
for the best original paper submit
ted to that society. Schenectady.
what with Union College and the
General Electric company's stan Of
experts, Is quite an intellectual
center. From a sleepy old town with
conservative Dutch traditions 1t has
come to be q very lively community,
not omitting flirting with socialism
and eiecting one of its adherents as
mayor a few years ago. There lives
and works Charles Proteus Stein
metz. Q wizard in invention, and one
OF the seminal minds In the Ameri-
can scientific world, particularly in
the. field Of electricity. Union Col
lege. famous at one time because of
the administration of Eliphalett
Mott and later Of one of the Potter
family, has seen q renaissance un-
der the presidency of Charles r.
Richmond.
owen Wister. since he wrote The
Pentecost Of Calamity" has been
comparatively unproductive. The
faliow period Is now to be sue
ceeded by a fertile one. Rising
anti English feeling in the United
States disturbs him. He Is to COM
bat IL with book called "a Straight
Deal; or the Ancient Grudge." Old
Philadelphia will thus speak In be-
half of contemporary London; and
the preachment will be provocative
OF dissent in regions of the country
where Americans do not sneeze when
SNUFF is taken in the British capital
William Allen White. of Kansas.
bucolic philosopher and rural jour-
nalist, is going to the Chicago con-
vention as a delegate this year. He
Is q rampant corybantic, unmitigat-
ed -rooter" for Governor Allen as
the Man of Destiny" for the Re-
publican party; and the reasons
therefor. White announces. every del
cgate will know before he gets
through with his propaganda. May
this friend (hitherto) of all men
not get his disposition soured by
too loyal loyalty. He is in for
some bumps" Let us all pray,
who love him. that in becoming a
politician he cease not to be a
scribe. A delegate? II he must
But also a reporter, Of course!
Vachel Lindsay's verse Is popular
in England for much the same rea-
son that Bret Harte's short stories
and Walt Whitman's poems were,
To make hay while the sun shines
Lindsay is going over to London
and to the provincial cities and will
poems shows that in 1918. one Au.
Lafayette Square and gazed about
The jackson statue fell within his
range of vision, and he has de-
scribed his reactions to the Clark
Mills masterpiece" Lindsay vii
have to be counted as an opponent
of any plan to get rid of what most
artists say is sculpture comique. He
rises above the aesthetic to the
ethical, and sings:
Andrew Jackson was a Democrat,
Defying kings in his old cooked hat
His vast steed rocked like a hobby
horse.
But he sat straight up. He held his
course"
Since Cuba for an indefinite time
is to be the favorite resort fol
Americans with cash. leisure and
"thirsts'' and since Havana is to
swell its amusement-seeking popu-
lation much during coming months
it is not surprising that Senior Juar
Martin, director of the Teatro Mar.
got in Havana should have arrived
In this country to study American
productions and learn how best tc
cater to the incoming tide of free
spenders.