The Washington herald., 1920-06-15
In the Limelight
BY George Perry Morris.

Former U. 8. Senator from Ohio.
Hon. Theodore Z. Burton, plans to
"stoop to conquer" He Is to run for
Congress. but as a Representative.
IL was in the House that he made
his reputation and did his best work
for the country. Should he be re-
turned he will come into public life
again with two assets not formerly
so highly developed. He has been a
banker in New York and has learned
that game from the inside. He also
has toured the Far East and made
careful study Of it's economic and
political problems. The next Con-
gress needs men of that sort sorely.
George Eastman's gift Of $4,000
900 to the city of Rochester, y. Y,
for a first class medical school. sup
pleme as II is by s5.0O0,000 from
the General Education Board, con-
firms a habit that is growing on this
camera manufacturer to make Roch-
ester one of the banner cities of the
country. Indeed, IL is this now in
many respects. Since iu was s.
closed that Mr.. Eastman was the
mysterious Mr.. Smith" who gave
SO many millions TO the Massachu-
setts Institute Of Technology. he has
come out into the open as one Of
the countrys most lavish giyers.
The profits of his company last year
were sls 200, 600, so there is no need
TO worry about his food, raiment
and shelter, even If he is generous.
relatively considered.
The woman who seconded the
Of Tal xyin fnF
President, Mrs. Alexandra Carlisle
Piener, is an English born woman
progressive. by profession formerly
an actress, but now a wife with civic
as well as domestic aspirations. 1t
has been rather hard for the Massa-
chusetts Republicans TO adjust them
selves to the demands OF progressive
women for representation, because
the anti-equal suffrage forces of the
State are in close touch with the po-
llticaI oligarchy that assiduously
keeps as much of the party spoil
er descendants and the early settlers
of Salem, Boston and Plymouth.
Mr.. T. Kasahara, chief architect
of the city planning bureau at
Tokyo, accompanied by a secretary
of the department of home AFFAIRS,
is now in this country conferring
with our city planners. studying
such experiments as have been made,
and gaining information that W
be used not only in Tokyo but
throughout Japan. Later they go
to Europe for the same object, and
to make a longer stay. since there is
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pan is being driven to this course
Ly her urban drift, by her huge in
dustrial development. and by the So
cial consequence that come from
crowding. lack of sanitation, etc.
The point 10 be noted here is that
she is ''on the job"
When the United States Shipping
Board steamship Huron recently
landed her passengers in Buenos
Ayres after a eleven days run Ar
gentine folk really believed that the
much talked of progressive CONNER
'cial policy of the United States haC
begun to progress. Previously they
had been somewhat sceptical. AM
bassador Stimson, at a banquet in
honor of the occasion. told the din
He is one of tht few literary gents"
turned diplomats during the war,
who has not rushed into publicity.
But il is not believable that he has
not kept an accurate record of the
contests that he and the British
representative had with the German
minister during the early days of
the war. Frederick J. Stimson, jur-
list and writer of novels. chronicler
of the earliest and best days
New England and depicter of the
intricacies OF soul of modern women, /,
has stage on his diplomatic job much
longer than his Boston friends
thought that he would. He will
come back in due time with much
spoil of an intellectual sort. for he
is keen observer, penetrating
thinker. and broad and generous in
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