The Washington herald., 1920-04-09
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

Greenwich, Connecticut, who is
speaking today at the meetings of
the Association for the Advance
ment of Progressive Education has
a remarkable history as a free
lance" educator who won her great
est success at the Organic School,
Fairhope, Alabama. She would be
the first to admit that her ideals
and methods are not of a kind that
public taxation and a systematized
community school system are now
willing to SUPPORT in most OF our
towns; but she does a valuable work
in showing what can be done with
ia group of children coming from
homes whose heads are resentful of
the lock-step uniformity of the av-
erage school and are willing to have
their children experimental upon.
Judge George w. Anderson, of the
U. S. Circuit Court, Boston, and
agents of the Federal Department
of Justice in that city, are in a con-
fiict over the refusal of the latter to
inform the court about the number
of men employed by the Department
in Red" raids in New England
Judge Anderson is not a dear
friend" of Attorney. General Palmer
and he has not approved the perse-
|cution-as he calls it-of the Radi-
calls. He is a bold. pertinacious in
dividual on or off the bench. Wash
ingtonians had a chance to sample
him when he was a member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Hall Caine, the English novelist,
has a son, q. Ralph Hall Caine. who
was deputy controller of paper in
Great Britain during the war. He is
now in Canada and soon will be in
this country studying the pulp and
newspaper supply problem, assigned
to the duty by British and French
publishers who are much concerned
about the outlook. The chemistry,
technique of manufacture ard mar
keting of paper he has completely
mastered; and as director of IA pa
Iper mills in Great Britain he knows
the practical aspects of the prob
lem he has come to study.
The state, the church, the school
and relief organizations within 4
few years have learned to use the
motion picture for propaganda pur-
poses. Now comes the classic uni
versity falling in line. George Ma
nierre, of Milwaukee. is chairman
of committee of the Associated
Harvard Clubs which has entered
into negotiations with some of the
leading film producers to prepare a
six-reel film costing anywhere from
$4,000 to $4,000. 1t is to be used
widely throughout the country let
ting the spectators know the history
and present opportunities of the
venerable university. Just the form
1T will take has not been definitely
decided. but Harvard men of letters
especially younger men with expe-
rience in writing scenarios are al
work. Among them Richard Wash.
burn Child. Profits are to be di,
vided, and the Harvard treasury in
one way or another will profit. Also
students are to be won to Cambridge
by the fascinating story told. Sc
the theory runs. If the scheme
works well, Yale must follow suit
Myron Hunt. of Los Angeles. Cali.
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of Chicago but since 1903 one of the
commanding figures of his profes
sion on the Pacific Coast, will soor
give the signal to Henry +. Hunt.
ipgton that the library which the
latter has been building on his Sau
Marino estate is ready for its books
Then will begin n procession Of
volumes westward from their pres.
ent places of storage in New York
City and OnecLta, n. Y, such as
America never saw before. and NAV
| never see again. For Huntington
has bought on a scale quite unprec-
edented and has been well advised
and is now the owner of 10000 vol.
umes that are worth not less than
s5.000.000. The capacity of the
structure that Hunt has designed
and William Crowell, of Los Ange.
les has built is 100000 volumes. II
is absolutely fireproof, 200 feet
square. and built of brick in the
form of a comb" 1t has all the
| accessories of a modern library. s
gallery for display of bibliosraphi.
cal and art treasures, halls for pub,
lie meetings, a managers office, anC
quarters in which cataloguers and
other workers will be luxuriousl,
housed. quarter of a million dol.
lars has been spent in building the
structure. When the books are ir
their place and the staff assembled
the plant" will be turned over tc
corporation selected by the col
lector. and the running expenses oi
the library will be drawn from ar
| endowment fund. Then student:
from all parts of the world will find
in Southern California a collection
not to be duplicated in London OF
New York