The Washington herald., 1920-05-18
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

New Hampshire Democrats who
used TO look with hope and solicit
tude to the influence of Senator
Hollis in administration circles, had
to forego that experience when he
fell by the way politically. and
ceased to sit in the Upper House.
During the war he was given Ad-
mtnistrative tasks. and he is now in
France carrying out an important
mission. Fertile in ideas he also,
as side issue, Is financing aid for
the French by a plan which has the
crit CT originality Apropos Of New
Hampshire politics It is intimated
that Raymond Stevens. of the Ship
ping Board. is considering entering
the contest for the place in the
national Senate now held by Mr..
Moses.
Gen. Goethals has a British ad-
mirer in Hon. David Davies. who
would have ConstsntinopIe made
the seat of the league of nations
and Gen. Goethals put in charge of
the internationaIiZed, whiIom Turk
ish capital. The Driton must have
} visited Panama in the days when
the American was first showing that
great engineer could also be a
great executive.
New England Methodism has the
honor of providing the first OF the
new bishops to be elected by the
} general conference OF the northern
branch of the church, now meeting
in Des Moines. lows. Dean Birney.
Of the Boston University School of
Theology who gets this honor is a
man OF a distinctly religious type
with scholarly attachments. His
forte is not in administration so
much as it is in high personal char
acter and the spiritual note.
Canadian Liberals. led by Mac
kenZie King. do not like the speed
and secrecy with which the coalition
ministry has settled the matter Of
a Canadian minister to the United
States without consultation with or
approval OF the dominion parIis-
ment. They say that an issue OF
such national and international i'm
portance should not have been set
tied by the executive without con-
sulting the legislative branch of the
government.
A very important general public
policy will have light shed upon il
by the courts decision upon the le-
gal effort of Capt. Marshall Field.
Sd. grandson of the late Marshall
Field. who calls for immediate divi-
sion of the estate. estimated as now
worth SlO0.O0O.00o. Capt Fields
counsel are urging that the provi-
, sions OF the will which hold the es-
tate in trust until their client is 50
, years old are contrary TO public pol
icy. and taat Illinois law now makes
| such tieing up of private property
illegal. They show that the estate
, by the time Capt. Field is so years
: old. barring Unforeseen changes Of
law and Of property values, may be
worth $1,000. .000, 900 - too large a
sum. they say, for any trustees OF
any estate to keep intact for a few
. heirs Mr. Marshall Field knew how
TO run a department store, but he
did not know much about the Amer
lean democracy. II not now. long
before fifty years have passed over
the head OF young Field. society will
have relaxed the grip pf his fathers
dead hand
Some practical and at the same
time admirably inspirational conse-
qucnces of Walter Damrosch's dI-
rect contracts with EurOpcs master
. musicians while touring with his
New York Symphony Orchestra are
beginning to appear already. De-
busy never could be induced to
come here though he we'll knew that
it meant francs in his purse and
the alteration OF countless admirers.
But Maurice Ravel. composer, or
Ichestra leader and snlOist will come
back with DGmrosch and tour the
country in the late summer, for
which decision may tho gods be
thanked. The American summer is
] such a dreary waste musiCally con-
sidered. and so wastefully SO.
Washington. for instance. has thou
sands of persons hungry and thirsty
, for something more tnan tho motion
picture house orchcstras and the
Marine Rand concerts. excellent
though they be in their own way.
Washington should and can support
orchestral concerts. something or
the Willow Grove sort that give
PhiladeIphians every year a chance
to hear first grade music a. mod
crate prices. NGhah Franko is in
charge there this summer.
They are burying Henry c. kel-
sey tomorrow in Trenton, y. J. AS
Secretary of State for many years
he kept his place in the saddle when
more prominent political leaders
were thrown down. Railway OIL
igarchies came and went, Demo
Gratis gave way to Republicans and
then came back again. governors
had their little day and faded into
obscurity, but Kelsey staid en-
trenched. A politician he also was
something more, which l suppose
explains his security of tenure. He
had made himself indispe nsa BILE as
an administrator. North Jersey
bred him . He came out of the Sus-
sex hills, that even now have not
been invaded much. He was not a
product of suburbiana or indus
trialized cities or commercialized
politics.
Relative values must be changing
in Philadelphia. The ctty's leading
newspaper now writes" up Leopold
Stokowski. leader of the admirable
city orchestra. as the ''City's Best
Friend" a man whose baton as or
lchestra leader is doing more for the
lcity's fame in the United States and
in Europe than all the local finan-
lciers, locomotive builders, etc, arc,
MOVING DAY.
oh. Moving Day, tits unto these
i ! look for woes and misery,
for thou art full of aches