The Washington herald., 1920-01-17
In the Limelight
by GEORGE PERRY MORRIS.

Reginald De Koyen gained more
popularity and won more shekels
by his operate creations than any
American composer ever did until
Victor Herbert appeared. De Kov-
en- owed much of this fame to the
best aggregation of singers and
actors - the Bostonians'' - that
ever was assembled to tour the
country with tuneful airs and
clever words. His creative period
of highest excellence was in his
early manhood, when necessity act
ed somewhat as a spur. But he had
not ceased to aspire to a repetition
of the former conquests: and he
was busy rehearsing a new opera,
RIP Van Winkle." when the cue
to go hence came.
Middletown, Conn. center Is,
Methodism was his birthplace. and
he must have been a lad there
when John Fiske also was roam
ing its streets. absorbing the con-
tents of such books as were avail
able. and occasionally going, to
Boston to lay in full sets of Vol
taire and other heretical books
with which to shock the loyal local
Arminians.
William Allen White, Progressive,
journalist. rural philosopher, ana
delegate designate to Prinkipo. has
thrown himself into the Kansas
! fight over the Industrial Court bill,
and has sided with Governor Allen
and the Legislative majority. Not
even the lurid eloauence of Frank
p. Walsh has been able to alter his
opinion that Kansas in enacting
this law is showing Congress the
way to social peace and equity. In
the light of Whites time tested
sympathies with the "proletariat"
this attitude is significant.
rangement. The plan was put into
effect, but the executors of the Nc
Kay will appealed to the courts;
the supreme judiciary sided with
the dead hand" and the fine edu-
cational omelette had to be I'M
scrambled. Now the two institu-
tions are competing in field
where, by every law of sense and
expediency. there should be only
one school.
McLaurin's next revelation of his
skill was in getting the Duponts of
Delaware: George Eastman, of Roch-
| ester. and other men of large wealth
made out of applied science to be-
| come lavish donors. He soon estab-
lished working relations between the
institution and some of the finest of
the industries of the country, by
which each partner profited; and
only recently he had worked out a
new application Of the plan by which
the new endowment fund has gained
large sums. in return for which the
institution is pledged to give expert
advice.
| During the war President Mac
Laurin not only led the Tech" in
prodigious activity in training avia-
tors, engineers, ship captains and
other specialits needed by the govern
ment but hel came on to Washing
| ton and assumed severe tasks and
grave responsibilities connected with
the educational work of the War De-
partment in the nations colleges and
universities. The strain has been too
wearing for him to resist an attack
of pneumonia. But what a record of
service for his adopted land he has
made in little over a decade!
Suspension from the ministry of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of
Rev. Frederick ]. Kinsman, who re-
| Gently resigned as bishop of the
diocese of Delaware, has been or
dered, pending investigation and
action by the House of Bishops.
Deposition from the office and from
the ministry probably will come in
due time and he will pass into the
Roman Catholic Church. Protestant
Episcopalians also will watch with
| interest the outcome of the inves-
tigation of the case OF Rev. Percy
Grant. of the Church of the Assem-
sion, New York City. The minor
charges of disregard for church
laws relative to matters that enter
into the normal life of a priest do
not interest the public or the
church at large nearly as much as
Mr.. Grants alleged or real alliance
with rdicalism of a sort now under
the ban, and the use he is said to
have apparently made of his church,
with consent of his vestry, for
propaganda purposes.
The Protestant churches during
the past year or two have been
approving tacitly If not enthusiast
tically declarations by their social
commissions, which have been very
much more unconventional in their
ethics and political implications
than most persons realize; and pre-
cisely such, head-on collision be-
tween lesser and higher clergy as
seemingly now impends in New
York in the Grant case has been
'toreordatned for some time