The Washington herald., 1920-03-14
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

DR.. A. A. Stromberg, of the Uni
iyersity of Minnesota, dean of its
IScandinavain department, has his
hands full now in helping students
OF that Institution who wish to go
to Sweden, Denmark and Norway as
holders Of some Of the twenty stu
dent fellowships established by the
rican-Scandinavian Foundation.
Holders of these fellowships will
get $1.200 a year. They will have
an opportunity to study under the
finest of the Swedish and Nor
lwegian physicists. metallurgists and
oceanographers, and they will be
expected to travel and get the cu1-
ture that comes from that mode or
education Wisconsin, Minnesota.
the Dakotas and adjacent states
that have Scandinavian colonies are
going to profit by this arrangement.
Harvard University has done the
! adequate thing by making Lieut..
Col. Arthur Beckett Lamb, Of the
Chemical Warfare Service and chief
of the defense section of its re-
search division, a full professor. 1t
fell to the lot OF this able chemist
to direct the development of chem
masks. and with what success the
| public already knows. More recent
ly he has been in charge of the re-
| search work In nitrates being done
by the ordnance division. Like
| many other men Of eminence in his
calling. he came out of, small COL
lege which had great teachers,
which was the case at Tufts in the
SOS. Prof. Lamb, as he now can
be called, returns to Harvard, with
which he has been connected since
1905, a man with more than a ma
tional reputation.
The War Department has selected
c. c. Bateman to superintend its
school for army chapIains at Camp
Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. He be-
came a chaplain in 1890, way back
in the days of President Harrison,
and has the rank ,of major. Much of
his recent experience has been with
the troops along the Mexican bor-
der. The plan he has to execute
is one born of the army's expert
ence during the war and registers
quite different attitude henceforth
toward the military sky pilots"
sweden mas been most fortunate
in having for her Socialist leader
a man of the sanity and reliability
OF Htalmar Branting, who repeated
ly during the past four years has
kept his fellows from going over
to revolutionary radicalism. He is
an evolutionist, not a revolutionist;
he opposes anarchy, the dictator
ship of a proletarian minority, and
a bastard form of democracy; and
as the reaction against revolution
comes in Europe he will be the
more influential because he kept his
head m time of seeing red"
To have made how much no one
knows, and to have saved more
than a. million dollars out of the
purchase and sale of books for
clients with purses of various
depths. is the unchallenged, as vet.
primacy of the late George ID.
Smith, of New York city, whose
life went out with a snuff, as il
were, he being the lighted candle.
In him Quaritch, of London first
met his rnatch-and more; for the
English dealer had no such clients
as Smith had. Moreover, of Smith
II is said that he never forgot the
GATE of a book. or a point. or a
price. or a name. or a face" In ad-
oItlon' ne was game sport, au-
dacious. brilliant, given to plung-
ing, quick as lightning in his de-
cisions and honorable in his settle
ments.