The Washington herald., 1920-05-19
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

Louis A. Coolidge, OF the United
Shoe Company. who Is prominent
as an official in the newly organized
Constitutional Liberty League, with
headquarters in Boston. was at one
time an assistant secretary. Of the
treasury. and prior to that in his
earlier years was a. well known cor
respondent for newspapers, sta
toned in Washington. He has now
become wealthy, and powerful
among the conservative Republicans
Of Massachusetts. The list OF charter
members OF this league. founded TO
fght prohibition and all restrictive
laws, reads like a directory Of the
Bay State district and Brookline.
and includes descendants of Fedsr-
alists. Whigs and pioneer RepubI-
cans, who are now more ardent for
State Rights" and opposition To
sumptuary laws than the Jeffer-
sOnian democracy OF Virginia or
South Carolina is.
The traction company of Kansas
City is reported as trying to induce
Gen. Enoch II. Crowder, OF "selec-
tive service" fame and more re-
Gently a reviser OF Cuban. election
laws. TO come and be member of its
board OF control, promising a salary
of $4,000 a year. He would rep
resent the city on the board and
have collective. symbolic power
usually spelled PUBLIC INTEREST.
as over against labor and capital
The City Railways Company argues
that a man who could organize vic
tory over Germany can be trusted
to protect public interests. and at
the same time do much TO better
administrative methods Of the cor
poration. 1t is a sound inference.
but the salary promised is not big
enough for the man or the job he
is asked to do.
Appreciation in the value Of the
estate of Capt. Joseph Raphael de
Lamar from an estimated value
when he died of 322,0Oo.O0 to S52.-
2S2.2s7 now. will give the medical
schools of Harvard. Columbia and
Johns Hopkins universities each
more than $1,000 900. This man
of mystery" this Monte Cristo OF
Idaho" bad an eye for the beauti-
full. a lust for the luxurious. a zest
for the regal that made his various
homes. with their belongings. veri-
table museums of art and palaces
OF splendot. and the rise in value
Of the rugs. paintings. sculpture.
armor and fabrics which he once
owned will now help cure disease,
discover causes of plague and make
the lame walk and the blind see.
MrG L Rfno g. II
York city's wealthy women who al
ways islon the firing line of social
reform. dispensing funds for civic
bettermeRt and proving herself a
stewa5dess Of wealth, She now Is
pledged to erect a Sl,O00.0o0 play
ground stadium in the Bronx dis
trict for the use of children and
children's psgeants. the same TO be
a memorial to her husband. When
will Washington have adequate
provision for the nations and the
Districts great outdoor ''func-
tions?"
With Japan's nationals" now
furnishing a larger part of the pop
ulation OF the Hawaiian Islands
than any other people the neCes-
sity is felt by the older American
element still in control OF educa-
tion and the religious future OF the
islands to adapt their policy TO pre-
else conditions of the hour. This.
ii seems. includes Strengthening the
force of educated. Christisnized
Japanese leaders of the new Asiat-
ic population; and to this end the
College of Hawaii has just invited
DIR. T. Harada, former president Of
the Doshisha College at Tokyo, TO
join its faculty. The poshiSha is
one of the leading nongovernmen-
tai colleges of Japan. founded by
American Congregationalists and
still supported by them.
The scientific men of the country
do not seem 10 have many SQUAD
bIes over awards OF honors. or IL
they do they conceal the fact from
the public. Late this week. W. l..
i. Emmett will travel down from
that city with the awful name of
Schenectady. y. Y. and receive from
the American Institute of EIectri-
cal Engineers the Edison Medal an
nuaIly awarded by the Institute
The decision is based on Mr. En-
NETS inventions and developments
OF electrical apparatus and prime
movers. lie is one of the staff OF
experts that the Edison Company
has serving II at its great center
of investigation and manufacture in
the city that once was most famous
nationally because of Union College
and Eliphalet Knott