The Washington herald., 1920-06-29
In the Linneligf1t
By George Perry Morris.

Only the other day I noted the
presence In this country Of the city
planner of Tokyo. Japan, who has
come hither to get points for. meet-
ing the housing and transportation
problems, of that capital, as 4 and
other cities face congestion Of popu-
lation and tha necessities OF urban
growth along ordered lines. More
recently Ladislas MIchalski,- city
architect Of Warsaw. the Polish CAP
ital, has arrived In this country on
much the same errand. Tentative
plans for spending s1oo.ooe.6o0 IN
| meeting the transportation needs of
that Community have been agreed on
by a group OF high grade engineers.
u city planning committee has been
1 organised, and this oficial envoy
has been sent to spend six months
i studying our srbways. surface lines,
etc. He reports present popula-
titn OF Greater warsaw of net less
hen 100000 persons and a short
nge Of not less than 10000 houses.
j How many celebrities there are In
revolutionary, artistic and journalis-
tic circles IN Europe who. having
won fame there are advertised quite
truthfully as onoe having lived on
New. York's East Side, geniuses. but
unkonwn to the circles that date
back to England. Holland. Ireland
and other lands that furnished the
! first settlers. For instance. Maurice
n lMoscovitch, the greatest "Shylock"
( that London has seen in q genera
tion-and. as some would say, ever
| n
visiting old haunts, consulting with
managers and making preparations
for playing next year. When he was
using Yiddish the New York critics
ignored him. Speaking the language
OF Shakespeare. and with a London
success. he will find none SC Cffish
as not to fresco him.
Judges multiply who attack At
torney General Palmer and the De-
psrtment of Justice. Justices Orr
and Thomson OF Pittsburg. have
Joined Judge Anderson Of Boston in
open criticism of the agents of the
department for their handling of
suspects among aliens. Judge
Thomson says that his blood boils
as he faces the facts. He says that
the methods of the department
have created more anarchy than all
the radical parties put together"
Pittsburg is SO conservative on &C.
onomic issues that the origin of this
dictum is the more significant.
Josiah Kingsley Oil. who has
just died. was a journalist born and
trained in this country who had
prepared himself by study. travel
and first hand observation and con-
tact with men who made history to
write on international affairs espe-
cially in the Far East. Washing
tons journalistic circles knew him
well during his period of repre-
sentation of the New York Herald,
a journal that in the palmiest days
\ of younger Benefits control prof
! tied much by Ohrs service here and
abroad. Bennett, whatever else he
may or may not have done, must be
lcredited with an international
mind" and 4 disposition to make his
paper other than provincial and ma
tional. Were there more proprie-
tors like him there would be more
correspondents with the technical
knowledge that the late George
Morrison and Oil mastered and
used.
| When the time came to write the
biographies or "appreciations" of the
men of Harvard University who fell
! in the war of 1S61-65 il was a for
tunate choice that committed much
of the grateful labor to T. w. Hig-
ginson. essayist. poet, and himself
a gallant soldier. Quite early in
the recent war the Harvard Corpora
tion delegated a similar task of
lfraternal service to Mark A. .Dewolfe
Howe, and ;he first OF four volumes
which the university is to publish
! is soon to appear. Mr.. Howe is an
accomplished practitioner in the art
of biography, with an unusual list
I of works to his credit about men
quite varied in type. He also writes
verse. and during the war has stirred
Harvard men by his hitherto unsus-
ipected depths of passion. OF the
felicity of his technique they knew
previously.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, diarist.
man of wealth and high social posi-
tion. an anti-imperialist. is venture
some enough in his latest volume of
recollections to assail the last
woman ruler of the empire. charg-
ing her with chief responsibility for
tho "iaIperialiFm" which both Con-
servative and Liberal ministers car
ried on during her reign. These
Blunt yet blazing indiscretions"
are but heralds of an attack on the
Victorian era on its political and
economic side, which are to follow
the reactions against its literary
and artistic ideals. As for her Han
overian Majesty the article by Sid
ney Lee in the National Dictionary
of Biography. published soon after
her death. prophesied even greater
candor in days to come.