The Washington herald., 1920-02-24
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris

! with the coming 10 the Onlteo
States next winter of Wilhelm Men
gelberg to share in conducting the
direction OF the concerts OF the new
Symphony Orchestra of New York
ICity. which Arthur Bodansky has
been drilling into effective action. we
will have a chance TO hear one of the
hest Of the Dutch conductors. II is
an ''ill wind that blows no man good"
and the distinctive present aversion
Ito the German artist lie proving to be
a boon to Dutch, French and Slavic
composers. conductors and soIoists.
Hugh walpole. the English writ
er of fiction, must have had a clue,
gained at home. which has enabled
him to find in San Francisco the
letters and memoranda. covering in
all $50 pages, which passed between
Sir Walter Scott and John Gibson,
his attorney. Local collectors of
such spoil will hardly like to sd-
init any other explanation OF the
fact than that II has been waiting
in q San Francisco bookshop for a
Briton to find. Was it there, some
where on the Pacific Coast, or in
the Californian metropolis, when
Stevenson sojourned in the city and
was about making his fight to the
islands of Samoa? One wonders.
And il so. what could he have done
but covet? He had no spare cash.
and no credit. But how came the
/ correspondence TO the Pacific port
of entry? will il shed any new
| liRht on the great romanticist as a
man of affairs and honor?
President Wilson's message of con-
dolence to the kinsfoIk of the late
Henry B. Endicott, OF Massachusetts,.
called the attention of the public to
the character and achievements of a
capitalist and employer OF labor who
was distinctly of the newer type.
His record of service for Massachu-
setts and the nation during the war
was in some respects unsurpassed,
and he had come TO have the con-
iidsnce Of the masses OF New England
His own group" suspected him more
or less, and secretly. IL not openly,
charged him with class treason. But
they could not question the ability
of the man as a maker of shoes and
as a winner Of a large fortune: and
the purity os his character and the
sincerity of his good will toward men
OF all types were unQuestioned. With
Dennison, Of Framingham. and Filens.
OF Boston, and other men not so well
known, he had come TO stand for a
pew deal in business in New England,
and for Industrial democracy; and
1t was quite natural therefore that
he should have been called TO Wash
ington to share in the conference on
industrial relations, where Mr.. Gary
rather than he. speaking for capital
nnally won: and the conference failed.
Bishop Charles II. Brent does not
take lying down" the criticism Of
him within and without the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church. because he
Joined in the protest against drastic
action by the Federal officials in
dealing with aliens suspected of an
archy and violent revolutionary
iueals and practices. He holds that
guilt in this as in other matters
j
be dealt with summarily because
| tney beIong TO a given group. He
thinks that much of the current leg
isIation' state and Federal. which it
is proposed to enact, is like unto
that which England passed follow
ing the terrors of the French reyo-
luton. He believes that our ma
tional opportunity to truly Ameri-
]
gates is greater than our peril from
any real opponents of our Republi-
can form OF democracy. In any
event he pleads for law. sobrietv
and judicial safeguards for the In
dicted
! When the case of the State Of
Rhode Island vs.. the United States
comes to trial to test the consti-
tutionality of the Eighteenth
Amendment there will be a third
party to the suit, if present plans
do not go awry. They will be the
governors of thirty-two OF the
States, who have followed the lead
of Governor Milliken, of Maine. who
has for his counsel Mr.. Charles r
Hughes, the former governor IN
New York State and former Justice
OF the Federal Supreme Court. 1t Is
quite clever "conceit" that Gov
ernor Milliken has worked out in
heading up this situation. II will
rather minimize the plea OF Little
Rhody" that grave injustice Is be-
ing done to the States as sovereign
entities. Governor Milliken is a sin
cere prohibitionist who has enforced
the Maine prohibitory law as no gov
ernor in decades has done. He has
forced the State Legislature to meet
social needs and demands in con-
nection with waterpower rights. and
he has diminished and checked. IL
not wholly stopped, the raiding of
the State by capitalists in Boston,
who until he appeared were hav-
ing their own way at Augusta. He
has backed the plans for develop
ing Portland's port and thus Civ
ing the State a larger snare Of
export business. He is a relic of
an older day in Maine politics when
II figured large in national politics
because of the caliber of the men
it sent to the Senate and the House.
H At the Theaters