The Washington herald., 1920-03-10
In the Linelfght
BY George Perry Morris

Roman Catholicism has recently
had recognition in q new quarter
by the election to the Rockefeller
New York City lawyer, prominent
in educational and civic movements
in that city. and an outstanding
figure in the National Catholic War
Council The ever widening range
OF tnis organizations benencence
and power in the educational and
phitanthropic worlds has led to a
natural demand that its personnel
be equally inclusive.
4 The man who made the Yale
School of Forestry. Henry s. Graves.
succeeded Clifford Pinchot as head
of the United States Forest Service
and settled in Washington. During
the war he has figured prominently
in all the national enterprises for
aiding the allies and the A, e. r.
with timber, and In all the efforts
to re-forest the war-swept areas of
France At the same time there
have been acute problems at home
in seeing to IT that the covesous
and the careless should not entire
ly denude or burn the home forests.
and in adjusting the rival policies
OF distinct departments of the gov
ernment in their attitudes toward
timber protection, forest control,
and development of the national
parks.
Now Mr.. Graves quits working
for Uncle Sam because the latter
Is stingy. Like SO many other high
grade scientists, he has been starv-
ed out. Whether he will go back
to Yale OF not remains to be seen.
Yale is none too well of in income
producing funds to be allotted to
her teachers; but she knows what
she ought to do and is beginning
to do it
John Barton Payne, of the Ship
ping Board and the Department of
the Interior, is disbursing his COL
lection of works Of art in a dis
eliminating way among the institu-
tions of his native State-Virginia.
His paintings he recently gave to
the state; his etchings - including
works by Whistler. Seymour, Ha-
den. Zorn. Legros. Pennell and Haig
he has given to the McIntire
School of Fine Arts of the Univer-
sity of Virginia. A turning of the
tide of gifts of this kind to some
of the older States. of the South
would do much for national es-
thetic ideals and taste. The North
east, interior and West have had
their wants fairly we'll supplied
Herbert Welsh, of philadelphia
once prominent in Civil Service, mu-
nicipal government and Indian Bu-
reau reform agitation. and for a
time editor of a lively Journal in
the City of Brotheriy Love, has sold
a portrait of Maj. Gen. Henry Dear
born for $4,000 to a Chicago COL
lector. Welsh's father. when in the
Diplomatic Service. bought it for
$500. The Chicago collector. Ar
thur Meeker, is specializing in por-
traits of Americans prominent in
the early days OF the country.
Canada quite early in the world
war recognized the function of the
artist as a delineator OF the SOL
diers' experiences and she gave her
own sons. and also British artists
commissions of Importance. She did
this in such a fashion and on such
! d SCdic thdl neE hdllOndl plCIOTldl
record in some respects will always
excel that of the United States.
Now that the war is over she is
equally wise. She summoned from
England Frank Brangwyn. He will
have in the new Capitol Building
At Ottawa a chance to do a mas
terpiece OF mural decoration telling
of the fighting of the Canadian
troops in and around Ypres.
The former professor of philos-
ophy in the Catholic University al
Brookland. William J. Turner. now
head of the diocese of Buffalo. Is
authorizing the custom in certain
of the churches of singing at high
mass after communion on Sundays
a hymn adapted from the Nine
teenthth Psalm which stresses the
national need for Gods blessing or
it's people and their government
and he is urging its use in all the
churches of the diocese. because II
Is a "eudable custom that may bt
adopted with benefit to the nation
and fhe adif7cation nf the paonIe .