The Washington herald., 1920-04-14

To pack my. game-bag with Good
In the Linnelight
BY George Perry Morris.
Journalists who used to admire
his technical facility and readers
Of generation that is passing who
read with conscious awareness of
their unveracity but nevertheless
with delight his nature yarns are
all mourning the recent death of
Ed. Mott. the Pike County story
teller. To him the New York Sun
OF Dana's time owed some of it's
charm. Regular in time of publica-
tion and always clever in detail
there used to appear the most mar
vellous tales of the bears, wildcats.
deer and fish of the mountains of
eatsern Pennsylvania along the up
per Delaware. Nothing for sheer
skill In taking" has equaled them
In combined similitude to life and
wizardry Of Imagination. The near
est approach has been the work
of that artist" who used Danbury,
Conn, as the base of operations,
and At intervals sets the faces Of
the knowing grinning.
Richmond. Va. is steadily gain
ing in its wealth of collections of
an esthetic or historical sort.
Which 10 q welcome fact. The city
~ "A af af ~
the country publicly displayed, and
great sons Of the State in the Rev
In its Confederate Museum, as yet
far from adequately housed, the
city Is steadily acquiring material
of much worth. the latest being a
collection Of paintings by a French
his materials where war was going
on. The donor Of this collection is
Mrs. James B. Berth. Then there
Is the fine collection of modern
masters recently given to the city
retary of the Interior.
Dropping scholars Of enemy coun-
tries from the rolls Of universities
10 a game that all academic au'
thorities can play. American and
British institutions OF learning dur
ing the war cut of Germans. The
universities of Germany are imi.
tating their cousins. George Fred.
erick Kunz, the famous mineralo-
gist and gem expert of New York
City. no longer is an alumnus ol
afiliated scholastically with Mar.
burg University. His alleged of.
fense is one committed since the
armistice.
One of the young English liberal.
and authors who came to this coun.
try last winter SO impressed a
wealthy New York woman with hi.
message and with desirability o.
his being put above material want
that she calmly offered him on,
million dollars as o personal en-.
dowment He declined It: said thai
he cared nothing for money q,
such, and that his royalties fur
nished him with ''the needful.'
Finally it was arranged that q
trust fund should be created with
the sum offered. which he is to ad.
minister for the beneft of author.
and men OF talent in any of the
arts who may need temporary aid
Already two OF the best-known OF
the young British men OF letters
who are facing special exigencie.
Of q financial kind, have beer
helped from this fund. One ha,
been enabled to 60 to Italy. the
other to come from London to New
York. I do not mention this self
denying author. who spurned tn,
million. by name, for it woult
bring down upon him innumerabl,
requests for aid. Suffice 1t to sa,
that he Is a novelist Of mixeC
Scotch and English race stocks
and has departed considerably from
the faith and ethics of his fathers
President Pritchett. Of the Car.
negie Foundation for the Advance
ment OF Teaching, is not ovel
popular with the educators Of the
country. for reasons that 1t is moi
necessary to recapitulate now. He
has Investigated and exposed vari'
Gus types of institutions, revealed
their administrative shortcomings s
compelled reforms through the in
fuence of public opinion and the
pressure OF the institution he heads
The latest report. just issued. will
stir another pool to its depths
Anything he says based on the re
port of his Investigators sooner OF
later wins through or It falls dowr
according as II has intrinsic merit
He does not always win; witness
the breakdown Of the original pen
sion system which he established
But q man who has back OF him
resources Of more than $2o,0o0.o0o
who since the organization Of tn,
fund has distributed moro than 81.