The Washington herald., 1920-05-10
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

usual expert advisers whose pres
ence In the city for long or short
period will add much 10 the So
ciety of the Capital. using the word
society In the best sense OF the
word. Professor Augustus Trow-
bridge. of Princeton University, who
comes for a year to head the de-
partment OF astronomy. msthe-
MATES and physics, made q rare
record in FranSe in charge OF the
sound and fash ranging service Of
the A. Z. +. He had rapid promo
tion and received three decorations.
Columbia University trained him
and Berlin topped him of. Both
Wisconsin and Michigan in their
State universities had the benefit Of
his ability as a teacher and iuves-
ltigator before he went TO Princeton.
Walter Hsmpden. with his COM
pany OF players Of Shakespeare.
went from Washington TO Boston
and added to his interpretations OF
the parts of Hamlet and Romeo that
of Shyiock The Boston critics, and
there are few more insistent on high
| standards than Hale. of the Herald,
and Parker. OF the Transcript, have
been more than friendly-laudatory.
indeed. He goes from Boston for a
tour of the larger cities OF Eastern
Canada where he will find a people
eager for a chance to see Britain's
master mind in drama well acted
Shakespeare makes this special ap-
peal to them plus all those which
we. this side OF the line, feel in our
best moments.
when the history of American re-
lief operations in Europe and Asia
during the war and since the armis-
tice comes to be written, few names
will stand out with as great distInc-
tion as that of Col. william " Has
/ kell.
He II is that Messrs. Hoover and
Davidson have called upon to take
charge of areas Of specially desper-
ate need in southeastern Europe
and. more recently. in western Asia.
I With headquarters at Tifis in the
Caucasus ne has since last Decem-
! Der been supervising the admins
trative relief work of picked corps
OF Americans, mainly women. Boil
shevik victories in the territory, in
cluding capture OF Baku. have re-
/ stah from their distant stations in
the mountains and get them down
( to Tihis, where. IL the peril becomes
too great. he can retreat south and
westward and thus get back TO Con-
stantinople and Europe proper
/ That the Bolshsvik successes have
not been unexpected happen to
know from correspondence with one
Of the American women who has
worked all winter at Kars, at an
( altitude of $500 feet and with the
| temperature 80 degrees below zero
most of the time.
Henry II. Kendall. Of Boston, who
has been elected president of the
American Institute of Architects. is
an ardent Methodist layman whose
fame has gone out in the profession
for the vigor with which he carries
through whatever he puts forth his
hand to do. Honors local have come
/ to him from his fellow architects OF
Boston and he will begin his ad-
ministrstion of the national organi-
zatlon with the good will of all.
1t is generally agreed that the Wash
Itngton convention of the institute
has been one of the most success
=
its aims and so free from rhetoric
and the vagueness OF many deliberate
bodies.
! Invasion OF Connecticut by picked
speakers for equal suffrage, drawn
from every State in the Union. has
had modifying effect Upen Gov.
HOlcomb. who has stood in the way
of a legislative session at which the
proposed Federal mendment could
be passed upon.
( There was a time when he would
not listen to argument. He now
says that he will think about it,"
! Philadelphians Of the better sort
are mourning the death of John c.
Winston. formerly director OF Pub
! lie Works and later chairman Of
the Committee OF Seventy. on. Of
the most positive forces for righte-
BUSINESS and civic decency that the
city has had since the new century
dawned.
A library Of l.6OO volumes OF H.
. Illustrated French masterpieces Of
J the eighteenth century. collected
during long life of bibIioIatry by
+ Robert Schuman. of Paris. eminent
there as a banker. has come on the
I American market The importers
paid not less than S5oO.O 900 for the
collection, and through the auction
room will disperse il among buyers
with deep purses full of war profits.
/ Emma Goldman is homesick for
the United States. Thirty years OF
residence here, though years Of
storm, passion and defiance OF au-
thority, have made her prefer the
republic with all it, eviIs-as the
believes to the i,ussia of l.enine TO
which SHE has been eNiled. Tnerc
! ere others, who voluntarily have
sought Europe since the armistice,
and after sampling it's life have re-
turned home" And this, notwith-
standing the funds they took with
them made them rich when there.
| One OF the highest honors of the
kind awarded by any scientific So
ciety in this country, the Franklin
Institute (Philadelphia) Medal, goes
this year to Svante August Arrhen-
ius of Stockholm. the great Swedish
! hilosopher-scienti who must be
| included in any list OF Europe's FIRST
grade intellects.
Ho.k~nk e.. n.~-.I