The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
In the Lirnelight
By George Perry Morria
Charles Il Courtney.

name to conJure with. Since the
'7o's he has made -crews out Of
corneiIians that have put Lake
cayuga on the map and that have
given Cornell University a popular
fame surprising that provided for
II by scholars an eminent as Andrew
D.. White and James G. Schurman.
Courtney was a great coach and 4
high-toned sport Money had no
attractions for him compared with
loyalty to Cornell, else he would
have left Ithaca to accept offers
from Yale and Harvard, offers that
would have put big money in his
purse. He was a product of up-
country. fresh-wster ideals and
ideas. simple and unsophisticated
and not under the spell of any fads
OF physiology or psychology or
'oomplexes." He knew good human
stun In youth when he saw IL and
took IL and moulded II into win
ners OF more victories in a definite
line OF sport than any other uni
versity could produce.
Gilbert f. Seaman.
Il. AZ
q candidate for the Republican
nomination OF governor in Wiscon-
sin makes five rivals for a post
that to win involves walking on
eggs. so torn up is the State over
issues that were acute during the
war
Memphis during the past week
has been carrying on a fight over
the Issue of divided loyalty of mu-
nicipal employees not unlike the one
In Boston, which gave Calvin Cool
idge his national fame. But Mem
phis has lacked first-class pub
licity.' while Boston got A No.
service. To be sure. Memphis has
had no riot; she nas not been in
the hands of the lawless for a night
as Boston was. But or the ether
hand, she has been running her
fire department with volunteers
drawn from all walks of life; and
the issue has been very sharply
drawn between the rights OF all and
the rights of a group. Mayor Paine
has steadfastly refused to COM
promise or let the issue. OF UNDER
payment be settled prior to that Of
! loyalty to the city by its fremcn.
He will not recognize an imperlum
in imperio. The firemen can take
their choice, obey the city or their
class group. They cannot be al
lowed to serve two masters In
Memphis, as in Boston. the develop
ments have shown that when this
Issue is clearly defined, the average
citizen and taXpayer-call him what
you will in politics or in the So
cialistic "patter" of the day-in-
variably comes to the support ot
the official who declines to act un-
der threat Of class opposition.
George Henry Payne.
Journalists. who have hardly ad-
justed themselves to the fact that
thanks to Mr.. Payne they at least
have an accurate. readable and up
to-date history of journalism in this
country. must now get busy and
watch him as a fighter for Office
Whatever other liberal New York
Republicans may or may not do, he
is out to win the nomination for
United States Senator because he
does not think that Hon. James w.
Wadsworth deserves denomination.
Sample letters in the controversy.
already issued by Mr.. Payne, indi-
cate that he knows how to call a
spade a spade. His appearance in
this role is not unique. New York
Republicanism is seething with a
variety OF divergences of opinion;
and Mr.. Payne is but one of the
many persons with knives un-
sheathed who are out to get the
Wadsworth scalp.
Senator Bourke Cochran.
Under the sponsorship Of the head
of Tammany. former Representative
Bourke Cochran Is to be a candidate
for the United States Senatorship.
From the start he will have the
veiled il not open opposition of
Washington, for reasons both re-
mote and immediate in their origin.
The element of the party which
Lunn. of Schenectady. heads will not
be favorable. Altogether it looks
like pipe dream" candidacy. Were
sheer eloquence of romantic,
imaginative. fiorid type the sine qua
non of Senatorial equipment today
there might be something said for
"a bravo OF eloquence" as Godkin
once described Cochran. The fact
is that never was there a time when
it was less Of an asset to a publicist.