The Washington herald., 1920-03-11
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

The Filipino territorial iegisia-
ture has assigned q $1,000 annual
pension to Aguinaldo. He IL meet
ing with kindlier fate than some
fathers" Of countries have had at
the hands of latter-day sons. BY
whatever influence brought to.pass
there can be no question about the
fact that his sudden conversion ia
evolution rather than revolution "a
mode OF best bringing about ma
tional welfare mas contributed much
to the amicsbie relations of the ma
tives and the Americans. Our Con.
gress really may owe him q pension
quite as much as the Filipino one
does.
Illinois University loses Edmund
James James az president. II this
institution has been forging ahead
by leaps and bounds OF late II has
been due to this man. Fifteen years
of service have broken his health
but the State, In the university, hat
an asset worth more to II than
money can express, for II IL now
'functioning" In q way to benefit al
elements of the population, and it,
campus is as large as Illinois. Pro-
fessor James can now retire to re-
sumo those moIe philosophic and
strictly intellectual pursuits thai
once made him q prolific writer and
commanding thinker in the acade
mic world, especially that part of IL
which centers its thought on prob
liens Of political science, social evo
| luton and economic change.
Commodore A. v. Wadhams, U.
N, retired. who has been assigne,
| to command the naval prison a
Portsmouth. n. H.. will step int
shoes lately filled by Thomas Mot
Osborne. the innovator in penology
The new appointee is not withou
considerable experience in this fiel'
OF social experimentation. and h
can check up intelligently the worl
of his predecessor. Governo
Hughes, of New York. in 1907 mad
bin a member of the board o
pardons and parole Of the Empir
state. and in 1918. by the grac
Of Governor Sulzer. he was com
missioner empowered 20 plan an
! build new prisons for the State
During the war Commodore Wad
hams has been a tower OF strengtl
| TO the Red Cross organization. Sine
1853, when he graduated from tn
Academy at Annapolis. down TO tn
present hour. he has been a "doer.
reliable and sympathetic and sane
You would suppose that a natio
or the States. II they got high
grade men for foresters. would lik
TO keep them. Two of the best i
the national service are about leav
Ing, because OF Inadequate pay; an
now it is announced that Hug
IP. Baker. head of the New Yor
College of Forestry at Syracuse,
leaving a $4,000 job there for
$4,000 post as secretary-treasure
of the American Paper and Pull
Association.
One of Massachusetts vetera
political leaders, Hon. Samuel Nc
Call, who has been governor of tn
commonwealth and who was cor
gresham for many years and VIII
has just served laboriously on IN
Industrial Commission named b
the President. is standing as a car
didate for delegate -at-large" to tn
Chicago convention. He is not wei
coined as a candidate by Mr.. Lodg
or by w. Murray Crane or by an
of the "Old Guard" faction of tn
party machine. Their main objeC
ton to him is not on the grounds
lack Of ability, but because of hi
independence of character and &C
ton. He will not stay put. He doe
not run true to form" as the pol
ticians understand that phrase.
collar irks him. 1t did while h
was in Congress. 1t does nov
Moreover he has eyes in the fror
Of his head. II he gets TO Chicag
he will work for Hoover or Woo
but not for Harding.