The Washington herald., 1920-06-16
In the Limelight
BY George Perry Morris.

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The most wonderful old woman
In the world, Sarah Bernbardt not
excepted is former Empress Eugen ME
OF France. At the age of % she
mas just undergone an operation
for cataract, and Is now able to
read again. II she has committed
tc paper her memories of the life
she has lived erd of the men and
women she has seen rise and fall,
what a volume il will be! Not the
Ieast OF the marvels OF her per-
sonality is that she has a gracious
senescence" and has retained charIn
and beauty as they show themselves
occasionally in. the old.
| The plan to give a monument TO
Brazil when she celebrated her in
dependence centenary in 1922 has
| the backing of the best citizens
Of the United States resident in that
republic, and also il will meet with
cordial response from donors in this
country who believe in q Pan Amer
icanism other than political and
economic. and who wish to foster
Interchange of the best art of the
two Countries. We have sculptors
worthy Of the task, and there should
he no mistake in choice Cf the men.
fhe proposed rlaE recalls the fact
that the former Argentine AMI
sador in Washington. Ramulo s.
Naon, gathered funds and had de-
signed and made q statue of Sar-
miento. which was to be set up in
Copley Square. Boston. for which
site was to be provided by tic city.
What has become of the project?
Sarmiento was an educator AMI
statesman who in his plans for the
republic called on Horace Mann. of
Massachusetts,. cid lesser known
New England educators tc help him
in giving the Southern republic the
beginnings OF its ! opular democrat
| ic system of education.
OF course, as the tercentenary
celebration of the landing of the Pill
grims approaches, questions nat
urally arise as to the fate Of The
Mayfower." Strange to say the
| latest investigator of the problem is
J. Rendel Harris, who challenges
the traditional belief that she went
into the trade with the East Indies
and probably ended her days in the
East. He points out that she can be
traced down to 1854, when she was
| the property of a Boston merchant; !;
and he thinks she was broken up on
| our shores. II true il speaks unfa-
vorably for the reverence of the
colonists of the Bay, who might
even at that early date-have seen
that she was one of the great craft
of all time. / said il was strange to
| find Rendel Harris at this particular
task. He has long since made a
reputation in the field of investiga-
| tion of New Testament and the his
tory of the early churches.
The notion so assiduously assert
ed that the only persons at the
| Peace Conference who were not fg-
norant were the Americans must be
checked up with the statement now
current in Paris that lemenceau ad-
| mitted that if he had known how
| valuable Mesopotamia and Mosul
were he never would have conceded
| them to Great Britain in the deal.
| Much has been disclosed the past
| few months to show that IL COM
plete knowledge of all the facts in
volved in the process of partitioning
territory formerly German, Austrian
and Turkish is to be the final test
/ of the fitness of the peacemakers,
the score of Ignorance is not as
heavy against the American histori-
cal, geographical, chronological and
| commercial experts as the first
critics of the treaty tried to make it
seem to be- Just what did happen
at the Peace Confer, nee, as seen by
! Charles T. Thompson, an Associated
| Press correspondent and as COM
mented upon BY Col. House, is to be
| Il und recorded IN a book just pub
! lished, one that deserves quite as
much reading as Mr.. Keynes very
widely circulated book.