The Washington herald., 1920-03-24
In the Linnelight
BY George Perry Morris.

Charles Dana Gibson, as owner of
Life" will come into control Of a
property that under Mitchell and
Martin, as owner and editor. had
become credit to our Journalism.
May no ruthless hand be laid upon
E. s. Martin by the new owner, for
he Is one Of the healthiest- minded.
sanest and most constructive edi-
tors Of the country. even IL by vo-
cation q humorist Of the lambent
type. Mitchell was never appreci-
ated while he lived for the inde-
pendence he showed as owner of a
property that made money. but that
might have made more IL he had
suppressed his convictions In order
| to cram his purse. He stood stur-
Idly by Metcalfe when the latter.
as "Life's" dramatic editor. was
mauiing and rapiering the sordid
commercial theater managers of
New York. Gibson in his day was
a national figure. and IL he had
nst, quit black and white and taken
to oils for q season he might have
remained so. But when he returned
| to his old medium he could not win
his old audience, for II had sought
new idols; and a new purchasing
constituency had come on the
scenes that had to be won by
works" as theologians would say
| The case of Ellen N. La Motto Is
interesting because II registers so
clearly the thinness of the partition
between art and ethics at their best,
and needing only the Indictment OF
a great crisis to break down the
barrier and fuse the artist in the
reformer. The world first heard
of this woman as an exceptionally
fine Interpreter of the poetry OF
China and its cultural ideals. This
she did both as a translator and as
q writer OF original verses. But
now she is a candid. relentless pic
turer of the greed. chicanery and i'm
perialism Of the OccidentaIs who dc
business with China. who manipu-
late for their own ends Der internal
politics and her relations with the
Western powers, and who scrupfe
not to get rich out Of business that
rots the bodies and damns the souls
Iof Us victims. Her latest book, The
iOpium Monopoly" is terrible in it;
arraignment of the factors now
forcing on the Chinese a traffic that
they prohibited and suppressed for
season prior to the war.
Prof. Burgess johnson, of vassa,
College. caln for the formation oil
society the members Of which will
pledge themselves to act together
Unr
Federal Senate Is driven out of Il
Prof. johnson Is q prolific writer
or books for and about children n
and he has the guileless faith OF
. child. apparently.
Julia Marlowe. whose immediate
return to the city as an inter
prefer of Shakespeare Is anticipated
by old friends and many admirers
owes her professional comeback
TO restored health. Mr.. Sothern. heI
husband. in commenting on the fact
attributes it to her rational diet
her daily regimen OF exercise OF
q semi-military sort, and her will
to be we'll The dire prophecies
Of physicians have been given the
lie, and she is herself again"
II the National League of Women
Voters machine" proves to be a.
finely geared for action as friend
Of that organization say it is, much
credit must be given to Mrs. Ray.
mond Brown, of New York State
She has practiced her tactics In New
York State to the CONSERVATION OF
the old party ''machinists:" she has
organised schools for the instruc-
tion of voters in civics. and has
prepared textbooks for their use
In short. she has been a major fig.
ure in that process of educating
women for use OF the suffrage which
Is making them far superior in theil
equipment for that duty when com.
pared with the average man who
has just become 81 years of age
and therefore automatically emit.
tied to vote.