The Washington herald., 1920-07-02
In the Linnel;ght
By George Perry Morris.

~ 10 80 Hucn easier 10 eelect the
rite. chovsc the architect, approve
the plan and make the appeal for
funds than II is to collect the cold
cash.
France has done we'll to send
Viviani to the Argentine Republic
for whatever err9nd he is commits
stoned TO execute. He is a wizard OF
an orator. as fluent and torrential
as Phillips Brccks was in his prime
and also something rore than a
rhetorician. II Jofre. because of
what he was. aided much in induc-
ing the United States to enter high
yeared into the war, so did viviani
because Of what he said. when to-
gcther they toured the Eastern Sec
tion of this country. saw and
heard him erthrall q crowd of 1.5o0
business men. not fifty OF whom
understood the French he was
! speaking. Maybe II was hypnosis
aad then again II may have been
mediocrity's homage to geniu3- But
II was effective beyond words to
describe
Commenting on the retirement of
John Bach McMaster from active
service in the University of Penn
sylvania, an admirer of his also
calls attention to the premature re-
tirement of E. ]. James of the Uni
versity of Illinois, formerly on the
University of Pennsylvania faculty
at a time when McMaster, James
and Patten gave IL a distinction in
the field of the humanities that IL
does not have now. He says tnat
James has had to retire because of
"the nscionable fvssiness OF
American academic life" That Is a
good phrase. Scholars now have to
become statesmen. hewers of wood
and drawers of water. lobbyists
with legislatures and buffers be-
tween commercialized, purse-proud
donors and teachers struggling u
be intellectually free and to live
on sweatshop salaries.
The threatened support of the
Hearst periodicals for his candidacy
as head of third party ticket
must make the Hon. James Reed,
caying OF the 'TaIieyrand of Texas"
SOI. t1OuSC. II any INC !" III SdNc
me from my fool friends will take
care of mine enemies"
To the queries Where is Berg
dolIc" and who killed Elwell?'
must now be added. What have the
Sim Feiners done with Gen. Lucas"
The Celt Is outwitting the Saxon on
every trick of the fine old game of
Clubs is Trumps-
Oh. these women. why will they
be so clever. Sisters Mary Florence
Garner and NJ. Juan of Arc Wilson.
Mercy Hospital. Baltimore, led in
the examinations for registered
pharmacists recently carried on by
the Maryland pharmaceutical au-
lthorities.
Porto Rico's governor, Arthur
Wager. has survived a serious op-
Grafton done at Baltimore by a
Johns Hopkins expert. and is now
lconvalescing. How little we Amer
leans think of the personal fortunes
Cf the men who represent us In our
two dependencies. Ere you read
this. dear reader. could you have
answered offhand the question,
who is Arthur Yager?"
The difficulties that the effort of
ex-Gov. Foss. of Massachusetts,, TO
get elected to the Committee of
Forty-eight's national convention
have presented to the Liberals" of
Massachusetts,, are typical of the
situation which the planners of a
third party movement are facing
He, as an employer with a record
hostile to organized labor could not
be persona grata to some adherents
of the movement notwithstanding
his radicalism on other issues. An
ether case in point is the certain
row to follow, IL, as one of the chief
authorities of the proposed new
party intimates the convention Join
Hearst in making Senator Reed the
candidate of the party. Some of the
best intentioned men and women of
the Committee of Forty-Eight" are
far from being opposed to the Unit
ed States joining the league of ma
tions.
Boston, it will be noted. gets two
of the three American representa-
tivcs on the permanent directorate
of the International Chamber of
Commerce just chosen at the Paris
meet ting.
Naturally they are E. A. Filene
and john II. Fahey. the former a
merchant and the ether n whilom
journalist, who, by their Joint labors
year in and year out. have helped
first to bring into being the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United
States. and more recently the inter-
national body. 1t is somewhat signi-
ficant that neither of these men rep
resents the old Yankee stock of New
England. once so dominating in ma
tional. industrial. commercial and
transportation development Of the
nation and in foreign trade A dis
QUESTION on changing New England
could be hung on this peg, but not
now or here.
property on the Hudson once
owned by Alexander Hamilton, Sem
ator Harding's political hero. has
passed into the hands of Coleman
DUPONT. Thus Is the romance of til
tie to property again illustrated. The
Scotch West Indian made the Con-
stitution conservatively Republican.
Mr.. dupont. of French emigre
family makes munitions, etc.
1.251 for its surface cars. All of
the subways and their elevated ex-
tensions are owned by the city and