The Washington herald., 1920-08-30
In the Limelight
BY George Perry Morris.
when Melbe.rne Laughed.


Rumor has It that one of the care
takers of a Melbourne cemetery,
trying to show his good will toward
the Prince of wales when the latter
was welcomed by the people of the
Australian capital, placed a large
arch over the gateway OF the city Of
the dead which said, welcome to
the prince"
Bernhnrdt write. Fiction.
The passion for seIf-expression.
denied somewhat now in the form
which she has fully mastered by her
extraordinary career on the stage,
has led Sarah Bernhard TO turn to
| fiction as a medium. Paris is now
getting day by day a story by her
| called La Petite IDOL" in which.
with more or less transparency, she
is limning the persons she has
known in the theatrical, diplomatic
and social world At the tame time
London. in the "reminiscences Of
Margot Tennant AsQuith, is getting
much more acidulous collection OF
character Interpretations.
CorneIrs President.
No decision as TO the successor Of
| President SchUrmsn has yet been
made by the appointing body, but
many OF the alumni are fsyoring a
selection from the faculty in the per-
son of Prof. Allyn A. Young, head
OF the department OF economies and
finance, who is man OF briIlisnt
mind and varied attainments. and
who will not turn a hair to win the
post, so marked is his modesty and
self-undervaluation. He served here
on the War Trade Board in the Bu-
reau OF Research duping the war,
and then went TO Paris with PresI-
dent Wilson and the other peace
commissioners as chief Of the de-
| partment Of economics and statis-
I tics that aided the American dele
gates.
! The Cost of War Toll.
Col. Harry Cutler. Of Providence.
r. l.. who was chairman Of the
Jewish Welfare Board during the
war. and who gave himself and his
/ fortune unstintedly to the service
| OF his race and the cause Of democ-
rscy, has died premstUrely in Lon
I don, victim. like so many other
I men, TO the strain and stress Of the
duties voluntarily and gladly as
p sumed. Russia was his native land.
4 but America had become the object
Of his devotion.
Einsteins Troubles.
The most famous OF contemporary
! physicists and most innovating Of
. conre mporsry thinkers on laws Of
! the universe. Prof. Albert Einstein.
seems 10 be having trouble with
his German confreres and With Ger
mans in general. 1t is dificult at
/ this range OF observation 10 tell
whether it is because he is "rels-
( twist while most OF them are
"sbsolutists," or whether it is be
cause he is Jew. Anti-Semitism is
taking all sorts Of maIevolent forms
in Europe now. Mr.. julius Rosen-
wsld, OF Chicago, should endow a
special chair for. Einstein at Chi
csgo University. where he will find
in Nicholson and other physicists
men who at least understand what
II he, EinsteIn. means by his new
theory.
rban schools and Rural Food Sup
ply.
When Nicholas Murray Butler he
came president Of Columbia Univer-
s.ty in 1902 the institution spent
most CT its income and practically
all of its thought on the humani-
ues' and the sciences, pure and sp-
piled. But he never expected then
that he would live TO see a day when
the university would have a mar
ketinE division connected with
school or business. and in charge Of
an expert woE away from the init
cd States Department OF AgriCul-
ture. Neither did Eliot OF Harvard.
at the same time expect that he
would see d department OF business
and commerce whose experts would
aid retail shoe dealers in marketing
their goods profitably. The man
who is to serve Columbia in this
new field Of applied science and ap-
piled economies is Asher Robson.
who got his training at the Univer-
ctty OF Kansas and the University Of
Wisconsin and as commissioner or
/ agriculture for the state OF Wash
ingtOn. Equally remote from his
: thoughts OF life's possibilities when
he was a Western student OF scien-
tIfiC agriculture Vas the notion that
some day he would be where he
could teach Gcthsmites how TO buy
food economically and how producers
in the adjoining territory could get
their goods to millions OF. consumers
eager for cheaper and better. sup
II lies.
u
William Alexander Blount, OF Pen.
sacola. Fla. wins the presidency Of
the American Bar Association for
the coming year. He bears a name
well known through the South. is a
Georgian by birth and education.
and has sbeen conspicuous among
Southern jurists for his CONTINUOUS
work in the making Of constitutions
revision OF statutes. simplifying Of
court practices and working to bring
about uniform legislation.
Sometimes he has served the State
! OF Florida. and sometimes the ma
tion. He has had some experience
in legislative work and derives con-
siderable OF his income from gen
eral practice with corporations as
clients: but he will live in history
by his labor in the above
fields Of professional service.
! Re-enter Ben Hur.-
Robert Fraser, in the role Of Ben
htur," once more is to thrill money
out of the pockets of thousands Of
theater-goers and put it in his own
and A L. Erlangsr's purse. Incl,
dentally some OF il will find its way
to the heirs OF Lew Wallace, who
first put indianapolis on the best
seller map. and by his book and
! theater royalties attained n degree
OF financial sOlvency that not even
James WhitcOmb Riley ever ap-
preached.
Booth Harrington. a local light
of later day. is said to have en-
tered the millionaire class; but in
his time Lew Wallace led all the