The Washington herald., 1920-03-08
In the Lineliglnt
By George Perry Morris.

George Utley's friends in WASH
|ineton, Baltimore, Hartford. Conn.,.
and other communities where his
expert knowledge a. q librarian has
been recognized. win be interested
in his finding . fne final anchorage
of his professional craft In the New
berry Library. Chicago. Chicago In
this and in the Crerar Library has
two privately-endowed institutions
to supplement. but not compete with
her great public library; nor do they
compete with each other. the crerar
and the Newberyy libraries. as much
as such organizations usually do.
Mr.. Utley repeatedly has had honors
from his profession. During the
war he did administrative work for
the war service Of the A =. L.
which helped create for that organi-
cation a record that no one is at
tacking today during q period OF
after-war "grouching."
Apropos library work and library
extension II is necessary to make
known in the East the scale on
which some Of the Midwest cities
are building their plans for the fu-
ture. Thus in Minneapolis the plan
not only il to construct a new and
worthy central public library. but to
build each year at least three branch
libraries. and ultimately have not
less than seventy such. centers Of
light and leading. The protagonist
of this plan is T. B. Walker. who
can say Come" as well as "Go:"
and he already has done 50 to the
tune of hundreds of thousands of
dollars. With q vast fortune made
iout of timber cut from Minnesota
and California lands, he has given
to the city library building. a
central market, a fine art museum
and collection of paintings He is
the local Carnegie.
Hugh Walpole. the English nov.
elist, like John Galsworthy and John
Drinkwater, has visited the South
ern states not only as a sightseer
but as a lecturer. In several Of the
cities his hosts and 'hostesses have
been the members of the Local
drama leagues. organizations tha,
did not exist fifteen years ago, but
now are doing their share in the
cultural evolution Of the section
competitors, but not rivals, of the
women's clubs which came earlier
Some day 1t will be someone's duty
to analyze the meaning and effect
OF this invasion of the New South
by the European authors, and the
part the organizations named
Drama Leagues" have played in
the sectional, intellectual renais.
sance. When one considers how
large a part in the early history OF
the theater ia the United State:
the South of Colonial days played
as both Montrose J. Moses and Ar.
thur Hornblow in the recent books
on the American theater have made
clear, II is with keener Interest
that one notes such facts as hav,
been cited above. Incidentally, le
it not be forgotten that Drink
water, who has won a secure plact
by his Lincoln" has just saiieC
for England to work out during
the coming summer a play that will
have Robert e. Lee for its hero.
Baltimore has many medica
eminepce, but none more varied IL
his accomplishment than DR.. How
ard A. Kelly. who has just started
for Florida to spend a vacation
increasing his knowledge as a my,
cologist, which, dear layman read.
er, means a student Of mushrooms
toadstools and other forms of flung
life. On Sundays he will preach tn,
Gospel after the orthodox fashion
: for a more aggressive pulpiteer fol
the faith once delivered to tn,
saints" does not live. He does no
need any evidence from the Societ.
! of Psychical Research to make hin
; believe in mans Immortality. Th'
New Testament record Is enough
} for him. st. Paul's experience on tn
u way to Damascus was what tn
: church always has contended it was
, and was not the delusion of a neu
rasthenic. whose thorn in the flesh
was epilepsy. DR.. Kelly has tn
/ ardor for soul saving Of Moody
, with the passion for human servic
. of a Grenfell.
Out in the State Of Washington
they are getting ready to cooper
ate with the province of British
l
, tional peace memorial of a sensibl
{ kind. The advocates of good road
G in both regions are insisting tina
the thing to be done is to Great
a large park on the boundary lin
\ and in it erect a memorial arc
telling of a century of peace be
tween the republic and the Do
\ minion. Naturally one Of the lead
ers in tie campaign is Samue
Hill. of Seattle, the rich man wit
i leisure and a civic conscience, VIII
3 already has writ his name larg
|, in North Pacific country annals a
!, a protector and perfector of grea
o highway enterprises and as a de
t veloper of trade between the Unite
E States and Asia
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