The Washington herald., 1920-04-06
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

IL BY George Perry Morris. u
Bradley Webster Palmer. who
comes to Washington from Boston
to serve on the Federal Reserve
Boards railway advisory commit
tee. is d PennsyIvanian, Harvard
educated. and is q member of the
law f1rm Of which Hon. Moorfield
storey Is the leading member Mr..
Palmer has intimate knowledge Of
the relations between finance and
railway operation, fitting him to
serve as advisor on the values OF
securities offered by the railways
to cover such advances or loans as
the Reserve Board may be asked
to make.
When William Bross was gov
ernor of the State of Illinois and
was aiding In founding the Tribune
Of Chicago, from which his heirs
now draw large revenues, he did
NOT suspect that the day would
come when a grandson would be
indicted in the Chicago courts
charged with conspiracy to over
throw the government OF the ma
tion by force. Such. however. is
the case. and william Bross Lloyd
Is not the only radical descendan,
Of a wealthy. Liberal. father who Is
now illustrating the capacity of the
pendulum to swing away from the
center when It once gets going
Mr.. Lloyd, though wealthy. is not
content with being a '.parlor Boil
shevist." He fights in serried ranks
NIT ~ IzA Il
geant-at-arms of the Communist
Labor party in Chicago.
Arthur Dawson Ficke during his
undergraduate course at Harvard
University and for several years
after that event bade fair to be a
poet with a popular appeal. OF late
he has been getting more esoteric
orientalized. and remote from the
American public in his verse. The
Far East with its art and its phil
osophy have been wooing him. But
withal he has not lost a certain
sense of the practical. as his de-
cision to sell his collection of Japa-
nese prints just at this time shows
He had chosen with discrimination
and he is now $e2,4s7 richer.
New York City not only is chal-
lenging London as a financial CEN
ter, but also as book mart for the
costlier and rarer manuscripts that
come into the worlds market. This
is proven by the announcement that
Wilfred NJ. Voynich, long London's
renowned book vender, is leaving
London for New York and will
make II. in due time, the distrib-
uting center for his treasures ac-
quired through branches scattered
about the world. The Rosenbach
Company. of Philadelphia, also has
set up New York store. or course
now that George D. Smith has gone
prematurely. after an unprecedented
career, American collectors OF ajol
rank must ind new agents to exc
cute their commissions.
Oberlin College comes in for $500.
600 from the estate of Miss Lucy
Spelman. and the general education
board gets an equal sum from ths
donor. The one will be used tc
train girls for foreign missionary
work; the other to educate negro
girls OF the South to become nurses
Miss Spelman was Of the Rookie
feller family circle, and had the
same sort of interests that attract
the men members of the Baptist
family.
DR.. Carl Alvin Schenck, now OF
Hesse-Darnstadt. but once well
known in forestry circles in this
country as an expert adviser oi
George Vanderbilt in building uI
-. ~
has been giving his opinions to an
American interviewer about the fu'
ture of Germany, economically con-
sidered. 1t is suggestive to find
him urging Germany, now that she
is so short of coal, to convert her
forests into cash and aid in national
restoration in this seemingly drastic
way. The governments policy he
considers too conservative. IF II
is ever a time to empty the ma
tion's savings box, that day has now
arrived" he says.
Criticism Of Mark Twain" has
taken on something like objective
form now, he being some years
dead; and books and articles ap-
praising his true place among the
worlds humorists and satirists be-
gin to appear. Witness especially
the article in the current Atlantic
Monthly by Gamaliel Bradford. Bos'
tons contemporary Interpreter OF
historic characters, American and
French. While critics dispute it is
still open to lovers of the man and
his humor to show their abiding
gratitude by helping save from the
vandal the house in Hartford, Con-
necticut, where Clemens lived for
so many years. The Society of
Connecticut artists is standing
sponsor for honest use of such sub
scriptions as are sent to 92 Pratt
street, Hartford, where its secretary
Nunzio Vayana- mark the name,
sits at the receipt of custom.