The Washington herald., 1920-05-30

chess to be challenged by, s-year.
old. samuel Rzeschewskf al Poland.
who won eighteen out or twenty
games of chess played simultane-
olsly recently with the best PLAYERS
from the Paris Chess Club? He ap-
parently is prodigy of exceptional
ability; but whether he has the
staying power that will enable him
to shine so brilliantly when he is an
adult remains to be seen.
1 often recall now. as ! read OF
the activities of Edward Box, OF
philadelphia, and his service 20 the
community in insuring II continual
ton OF. its best musical assets, now
he and his brother William broke
into Journalism when they were mere
lads resident in Brooklyn, n. 4.
First 1t was local paper. for which
they secured as patrons and con-
Itributors men as eminent as Tai
mage and Beecher Then 1t was a
syndicate" one of the first that
served as distributing agency be-
tween authors and newspaper
william Box being especially assid-
uous and tenacious in getting the
..intcryiews" and articles he went
after. Then Edward entered the EN-
ploy OF Scribners, and "discoVered
by Cyrus H.. X. Curtis. And since
then 1t has been an easy upgrade 10
editorial, pontlficsl power and CON
troll of millions. These thoughts
have been suggested by the iact
that Mr.. Box recently announced 10
Philadelphians that hNe-year lease
on the Academy of Music had been
obtained. and that therefore the tu-
ture of the famous local orchestra
had been assured. The city viii con-
tinuc to have season OF Graha
opera annually. Not all the stor!
belongs to Mr.. BOX and other pHohc
sntrtted. citizens. The Academy own
ers will rent the historic ouiiaihe
for s45, 900 less than they had been
ancrcd by other would-bc tenants,
and the Metropolitan opera Com
many of New York, which is party
TO tho compact. viii lose $4,000 at
edCn. ptIlOI III hhNt' ..
Town and gown" in Cambridge.
Mass, are arrayed against each
other on the Irish Republic recoG :.
milton, issue. President Lowell o!
Harvard. and more than thirty OF
the professors have sent the foilo"-
ing message to Senator Lodge.
To Senator Henry Cabot Lodge'
Washington. d. c:
.In 1863, our Queen Victoria and
Abraham Lincoln Joined to prevent
war between England and America
over the Trent affair. Two countries
look to you TO do the same today oy
preventing passage OF the mason
resolution Preservation OF anglo
Saxon peace best security for llber-
ties and peace of world"
The Cambridge Council. by
unanimous vote. has rebuked Presl-
dent Lowell. Thus do the older
Yankee stock and the present domi-
nant race fperpetuate that racial
Efeud between Saxon and Celt, OF
which you get earlier hints in many
of LowelTs letters to his intimate
friends as he saw the changes going
on in Massachusetts population in
his day 81,
George Fred Williams, member of
Congress from 1891 to 1893. and
Minister to Greece in 19tS1914. rises
to the surface at intervals from the
depths of comparative obscurity.
and usually to remark on Albanian
affairs. He once acted as il he as
pired to be their king. His counsel
now is that they fight against an
Inexation of Southern Albania by
Greece. .
Our people are soon to hear, il
they, will to, Madame Scarborough.
charming VienRese, .who.' by mar
,riage, is an American citizen, and
whose service with The Hoover
Commission in Austria, has proved
an invaluable aid to that organiza-
ton. She has proved to be by far
the most charming proRagandist for
Austrian relief that Europe has
heard, London audiences going into
cxcesses of praise and ample dona-
tfons after having heard her state
the pathetic case of her people.
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Spanish residents of New York
seem. to differ as to their, judgments
of the fairness and good taste of
Blasco Ibanez'sscomments on MeNt-
co which have been published in
the n. Y. Times. His critics charge
superficiality of opinion: severity OF
condemnation based on inadequate
data; in short too much of the car
window" tourist type of estimate.
From the Journalists standpoint,
seldom has a newspaper hit of
situation with a high grade reporter
at more fitting. yet. unpredictable
psychological moment. But 1t VIII
be some time before, Ibanez can ex-
pect to tour Mexico again.
William Wood, of the American
Woplen Company. who has been in
dfcteds b va Federal grand Jury for
proflteering, in manufacture and
sale of woolen clothes, Is the out
standing illustration thus far of the
capacity Of the Portuguese emigrants
to New. England to rise to seats OF
power, financial and social. In his
youth he bore quite a different
name. Few persons outside OF
Massachusetts realize how steadily
and surely certain regions of that
State along its waterfront are be-
ing settled and dscontrolled economi-
cally by the folk who have come
from the land that once had vast
imperi-i domain IN South America
and that is now in the throes of
strife between its republicans:
and radicals MANY of these i'm