The Washington herald., 1920-03-26
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris

BY George Perry Morris.
While Mr.. Frank A. vanderIip
continues to advise his country
men on their duties toward Europe
as upbuilders Of its credit and as
restorers of its economic and moral
health. his wife looms up as a
fighter at Albany for the the $50
cial welfare" bills for which the
women Of the Empire State have
been nghting for several years. She
has now carried the war into Africa
and Is openly arraigning Speaker
Sweet and other prominent law
makers and politicians as stool
pigeons for Interests" arrayed
against any progressive social leg
islation. Mrs. Vanderlip has money.
modern education and outlook,
Democratic preferences and a civic
conscience. She and women like
her are going to give oId-fashioned
politicians some solar plexus blows
in the present campaigns, State
and national.
Would Foch get a heartier well
come today were he to arrive in New
York than Georges Carpenter.
heavyweight pugilist, had on Tues
day, when the idol of France" ster-
"a L.
| his severe critics among persons
who admire his military genius, but
| condemn his postwar influence on
French policy. Carpenter has the
admiration of the masses and of the
sports, and wherever he boxes he
VIII also have some "bloods" and
"intellectuals" in his ring side seats.
For there are literary gents" even
| in this prim country who under
stand why authors of the rank or
I Hazlitt, Meredith and Shaw find moi
only copy" but personal satisfac-
| ton in first seeing and then depict
ing the reversion of man to combat
after the primitive fashion at a time
when weapons had not been devised.
Incidentally, it may be we'll to note
that football hereafter is to be a
prescribed feature Of French army
| training.
Sir Sidney Olivier, to whom Amer
leans will always be indebted for
his study of the life and career of
Alexander Hamilton, as former Off
cial representative of Great Britain
| in America, is recording his protest
against any plan by which the Brit
ish West Indies should be treated rs
coupons to amortize the imperial
debt"-to use his terse phrase. That
is to say, he is against even the
/ thought of the islands being trans
ferred to the United States in return
for which the republic would reduce
| Great Britain's Indebtedness to
America. He gives several reasons
why the plan is unfortunate, and
| among others because in these colo
nies, and especially in Jamaica,
| there have been evolved ''harmoni-
Gus and united communities of white
colored and black folk, liying under
equal laws, in which color diffirrl.
ties and prejudices have been stead
lily and rapidly diminishing 50 INST
appeal to and emphasis of such dis
tinction Is increasingly resented by
healthy public opinion in all
classes"
Candidates for the additional
posts ON the Interstate Commerce
Commission are not lacking, and
for several reasons: First. the in
come to he received; second, the
stability of the tenure: and third.
| the Interests to be protected.
Philadelphia's trade and manufac-
turing bodies are pushing the
oirV1a nf u
of the Wharton School of the Uni.
versity of Pennsylvania, and an
informed and able thinker and
writer on problems of transporta-
tion.
! Former Congressman La Guardia
has temperament" and is versed
in literature. What could have
been more Elective in his philippine
against the landlords of New York
City, uttered in the legislative
halls at Albany, than his opening
words: Il come to bury the land
lord. not to praise him"
There is a man in Pittsburg, w. M.
Davidson. superintendent Of citv
schools, Just unanimously reelected
to that position, who must be read
| ing with interest the proceedings
of Senators, educators and citizens
of Washington. He had his expert
ence with the Washington educa-
| tional system, and came out Of IL
with a clean record. Pittsburg In
paying him $4,000 a year. The
highest sum yet mentioned for
! Washington's superintendent-to to- be
is just half that sum.
The new Secretary of the Inter-
Tor is said to be maintaining the rep
utation for sardonic wit that he
created when he was head of the
Shipping Board. A subordinate, so
1t Is said, recently appeared and be-
! gan a speech which was meant 10
be both impressive and exculpating.
He was swiftly asked for facts, and
In reply made reference to his for
| mer chiefs desires. at the same time
pointing inward to the seat of for
mer power. "Why point there? ?" said
Secretary Payne. "Why not point
| out the Window"
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