The Washington herald., 1920-03-15
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris

Iuomas .. Aohms, VINO dppcdEcs
before the Ways and Means Com
mittee the other day and gave q
as his opinion that the recent Su'
preme Court decision on stock divi,
dends had annulled the section o.
the revenue law which provides fol
taxation Of personal service corpo
rations, is q professor at Yale Uni
yersity. As an expert adviser Of tn,
Treasury Department. during the
war and UP to a comparatively re-
cent date. he has had a very admir-
able influence, first. in drafting and
second in interpreting the income
tax law. Few of the academic mel
enlisted in the national scrvic,
have attended to their Job as steadil!
and intelligently. Yale's tempo
rary loss has been the government
gain. Prof. Adams went to Yale {
few years ago from Wisconsin,
State University where he had spe
ciaIized in taxation and sources o
revenue derived from corporations
He is not. as conservative as mos
Of his Yale associates, and repre-
sents more accurately the Middl
West than he does New England.
Not so many years ago Matthew
Hale was the stormy petrel' o
Boston's reform politics. He ha,
caught the fever from Roosevelt
and had been blessed by him witt
the /Order OF the Legion of Re
volt. Hale dipped into local poll
tics and Journalism and for a tim
had a place within the focus of tn
spotlight. Then followed a perio'
Of severe illness and prolonge,
convalcscence. When the war brok
out he came to Washington, be
came interested in the shipbuildinl
side of the national service, go
capital for a venture on the coas
of the South; and now, 10 and be
hold! he is president-elect of a.
association of seventy-five pro
Ifessional and business men fror
North Carolina South Carolins
Georgia and Florida who are in
terested in promotion of the ma
tion's foreign trade and inten
to promote it, especially as 1t ma
originate +. those States. 1t Is
first-rate gospel Of Matthew 10
a section Of the country too lon
Indifferent to the national marin
and to foreign trade.
Professor John Henry Whigmor
of the law school of Northwester
University at Evanston is promi
nent in a fi-ht to put an end t
profiteering in Chicago and tn
suburban towns. If he will hgh
for il ith the vigor and tenacit
that he fought for Gen. Crowde
and the draft" and against Ger
Ansell, he may get somethin
started. At any rate it is crafty
ing to see that he is not a pc
dantic, pupil -coddling pedagogy
| indifferent to human needs. He ha
a sense of noblesse oblige. and l
getting into the peoples fray; no
| his first, be II added.
The world Justly has been fasci
mated by the story of the Englis
! linguist and sholar. Lawrenc
who first won the con
fdence of the Arabians and the
won them to support of Gen. Allen
by and the British against tn
Turks. But there are others VIII
have had a share in the romanti
division of the Mahommedans
the Near East and in the Arabian:
enlistment with the British. Will
lam G. Archer. a former Presbyter
ian clergyman in Evansville, Ind
who went across the sea as ~
worker, is now foreign adviser o
the military governor of Arabia
kand is shaping the policy of tha
country at a time when polittca
and religious currents are runnint
deep and very much at cross pur
poses.
To Ibanez succeeds Manuel Ii
mares Rivas, a Spanish playwright
Of Distinction. He now is in Ha
vana experimenting production o
his plays. Then he will go to Mex
leo, and then come to us. TIL
stream has begun to flow. May
not dry UP. The Latin and tn
Americanized Teuton, Celt, Morse
man and Semitic need to know eac
better.
Artes Jensen. who for the pas
eleven years has taught in tn
schools OF Argentina, Chile. Peru
Ecuador and Uruguay and who /
still on the staff of the militar
college at Santiago, Chile, is nov
at his home in st. Paul, MINI. H
reports q steady and inclusive &C
ceptance by the southern republic
of the educational theories and sys
TENS of the United States; growt
in the number of state-controlle'
primary and interpediate schools
of able support. for popular stat
universities.