The Washington herald., 1920-04-10
In the Limelight
BY George Perry Morris.

steel czars In Pittsburgh in days
gone by. and there are coke barons
and gas dukes there now; but there
has only been one John A. Brash-
ear, and there will not soon be an
other. He had won an international
reputation for achievements In pure
and applied science. Born in humble
circumstances, in youth q black smit tn
and mill hand, he came in due time
to be the maker OF scientific in
strumeHts of exceptional accuracy
and reliability, an astronomer of
note honored by learned societies at
home and abroad, and the friend of
great men.
Ralph Adams Cram, who is an
architect, a city planner, an ardent
layman in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, member OF the order which
celebrates annually the flartyrdom
of Charles 1 of England, and a
champion of return to medieval
city life with it's guilds, has joined
the Constitutional Liberty League,
and will be active in it's Massachu-
setts branch in fighting for repeal
Of the Eighteenth amendment. Mr..
Cram is the unpredictable human
equation of Boston, his adopted city
Leland Stanford University has a
storm center now on the issue of
abolition of sororities. in which the
president, DIR. Ray Lyman Wilbur, is
leading, backed by the dean of the
woman's college. His charge is that
the system. as now administered.
works against democratic ideals,
creates class distinctions and pro-
duces feminine snobs. The members
of the secret societies intimate that
for the sake of being allowed to
remain they will change their sys-
tenn: give up their separate houses
and take TO a general dormitory
mode OF living.
The effort by a litigant to induce
the Supreme Court of Maine to de-
clare that Gov. Milliken had no
right to use State money in paying
Charles Z. Hughes for his profess
sional services in arguing for the
Eighteenth amendment before the
Federal Supreme Court has failed
Mr.. Hughes is disclosing varied in
terests and gifts today. He has
Just been reelected president of the
Ilalo-American Society, and he is to
be counsel for the United Mine
Workers in their defense against
charges recently filed by a Federal
grand jury. Occasionally his name
also appears as dark horse" who
VIII be nominated by the next Re-
publican national convention. after
the present aspirants have slaueh-
tered each other and the convention
has become deadlocked.
III Mary Roberts Rinehart is
elected delegate to the Chicago
Republican National Convention
from Pennsylvania. she will be re-
warded by one of the ranest chances
to get copy" that ever has come
her way. And she has had many.
Edith Wharton may write stories
better suited for highbrows and
Edna Ferber suit the taste Of the
many. but Mary Roberts r. has the
middle class constituency of readers
tied to her; and it makes no matter
whether she writes about war
abroad. flirting at home or the de-
lights of touring the National
Parks.
Hon. N. w. Rowell. president of
the privy council and a loyal former
Liberal member OF the Borden coalf-
tion ministry, is probably the man
| who will be sent here to be Can
ada's first national representative
When the government at Ottawa
has carried through a bill defining
the status and functions of such a
representative, the nomination will
| follow. AS acting minister OF ex.
| ternal affairs, Mr.. Rowell has a
more intimate knowledge of the in
| ternational relations of the Domin.
| ion than any of his cabinet col
leagues. He has been their spokes.
| man and the nations champion In
defining the national purpose with
respect to the league of nations.
Tho country Is dotted with Eu.
ropeans whose quests are important
but who are not seeking publicity
They are studying problems of many
kinds. some economic. some politi'
cal. and some military. Thus, ur
| and down the Pacific Coast now
goes j. +. r. Regensburg. who ha:
charge of the dredging operation:
of the Dutch government in Bata'
via. When he has done the Pa.
cific Coast yards and studied the
methods nsed there, he will come
East. Later he goes to Buenos
Aires. He Is a high rank engineer
| a graduate Of the technical college
at Delft.