The Washington herald., 1920-04-20
In the Limelight
BY George Ferry Morris.

In the report OF the Fine Arts
Commission, just issued. the sec
retary. Mr.. Charles Moore, deals in
detail with the conflict aroused by
the effort TO set up the Barnard
statue of Lincoln in London, the
defeat OF the plan. and the substitu-
tion OF replica OF the St Gau-
dens' statue OF the nlinoisan that
is one of the glories of Chicago.
When set up in London this statue
will stand on the circular plot of
land in front of Middlesex Guild
facing the Houses of Parliament,
and IL will be a near neighbor Of
George Canning's efigy. The de-
lay in finding a stone for the ped
estal makes Il quite improbable that
Londoners will see st. Glaudens'
masterpiece until near the close of
the year. Cornwall is to furnish
the granite base, eleven feet high;
and since granite now costs money
in Cornwall. and since the labor
costs Of preparation OF the site arc
up date. it is estimated that the
! American donors stand 10 spend not
less than $4,000 on these details
alone. When will statue of
George Washington front the
Houses OF Parliament. II some
rich Nirginians should offer q
statue would it be accepted? hc-
cording 10 post-prandiaI oratorS
out of Parliament il would.
Most Americans visiting English
I universities as lecturers hitherto
have gone TO Oxfsrd and Cam
bridge. occasionally the Scotch uni.
versities have welcomed them. But
the new and fiourishing urban uni
versities of England have seldom
interchanged their experts with
those of the United States. The
more significant then the departure
for Leeds University OF Prof. WILL
lam 7. Sedgwick, of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. a
leading sanitarian and biologist and
pioneer worker in certain fields
of applied science.
William Chaplin Huntington. who
is en- route TO Paris TO take up hi,
important duties as commercial at
tache Of the American Embassy, has
had a singularly varied and inform.
ing preliminary career fitting him
for the post. Educated at Columbis
University and in Germaay and spe.
'cializing in metallurgy he won high
hQnors. Thus he is a man Of scien.
tihc training. AS linguist hs
speaks the more important Ian.
guages of Europe. In Washington
he has had an important career ir
connection with the Bureau of For.
eign Commerce. organizing il and
putting at its service his first-hand
knowledge of trade and manufac.
turing in general. and OF condition.
in Russia in particular. Residence
4 in Petrograd contributed to this uT
to the time of the revolution: anc
later he kept well Informed of &C.
tual events during the kerensky
and Bolshevik regimes. He is {
writer and speaker of ability: ha.
resources that will enable him to d.
ton: and is of the caliber Of mel
. AhoN NAE etNNA ~" ~
too seldom.
Friends of Harriet Prescott Spot
ford have just been helping he
celebrate joyfully her s5th birth
day. She is prolific in her old ag'
and has just brought forth anothel
volume Of poems. She was a young
er contemporary Of Whittier Holmet
and Lowell. and was liked by then
all. not only for her clever pros
and verse, but also for her charm
ing. witty and vivacious personality
AS age has come on she has strucl
an ever-deeper note of spiritua
power in her writings. Washing
tonians of certain circles know he
well. owing to her prolonged an
nual visits in the city, especiall!
during the Lifetime of Edward A
Moseley. the hero of the fight 4
get the Interstate Commerce Com
mission established and the fight {,
keep IL running true TO form afte
il began operating.
Roger Babson has a fair for pub
licity's value which has made hin
successful pecuniarily beyond tn,
dreams of his youth. Following
the attack by Senator Smoot an,
the Congressional committee. he a
once capitalized the fact in pro
noting the circulation of the jour
nal he is said to have acquired b!
secret connivance."
| One of the scholars enlisted b,
the government in the military in
formation branch of the army dur
ing the war and sent into Centra
| and Eastern Europe as a studen
of conditions and reporter of fact
was Charles Wellington Furlong
the well-known explorer in Soutl
America and Africa. He is restiv,
under the charges that he and othe
men stationed in Italy and tn
Balkans did not know the mean
ing of what they saw. and tha
| they kept the American delegate
at the Peace Conference misinform
ed. Now that he is free to speak
he is telling plainly of what h
conceives to be the chicanery an'
unscrupulousness of Italy's actiol
with respect to Fiume. and tn
rights of Turkey to be heard, a
over against the claims Of the Ar
menians and Greeks. He is decid
4 edly of the opinion that when ricl
| Armenians. outside of Armenia an'
within it. do their duty by the Ar
menian poor then Armenia can witt
better grace come to the Unite,
States asking for aims.
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