The Washington herald., 1920-04-12
A DAILY LINE o. CHEER
By John Kendriek Bangs
PASSING HAPPINESS.
When Happiness draws nigh
Don't pass II idly BY
But seize Il. and anon
Just pass Il ON.
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

The decoration Of Commentator
Of the Order Of the Crown Of Itai,
has been conferred upon James T
Williams. jr., editor Of the Boston
Transcript. These honors from for.
eign countries for services rendered
to the allied cause have fallen to but
few journalists. Not that man,
have not deserved them. but states
and statesmen "use" journalists but
seldom honor them. Mr.. williams 4,
"a outherner who happens to b
editing the most Brahmin of Bostor
journals, which IL not as surprising
as IL may seem; for the Old South
ana Old New England have much II
common nowadays. Besides Bostor
breeds and trains few OF her import
ant journalists She never has had
a major figure In this vocation, such
as Samuel Bowles I'd of the Spring.
field Republican was.
Berea College. Kentucky, has
called to Its presidency Professor
William James Hutchins of Ober.
lin Theological Seminary, oberlin
Ohio, who has taught in this school
of divinity since 1907. He will take
up the reins laid down by william
Goodell Frost, one Of the most re-
markable characters in recen,
American educational history, whose
administration of Berea has 'put
1t on the map" and has called the
attention of the North to the work
1t has been doing for the noun.
tain whites Of the border States
that have SO many Contemporary
ancestors" within their bounds
peoples whose ballads. folk speech
anc customs are like unto those ol
England centuries ago.
Shrewd. agile and a -direc,
action" man in his tactics, formel
Secretary of the Treasury Lesli,
NJ. Shaw and now a bank presi.
dent in New York. has been bus,
of late in Louisiana managing the
State Republican convention fol
interests that he serves. Inciden.
tally he has been expressing hi,
disinclination to see Mr.. Hoover
nominated by the party. and ha.
been ridiculing the direct primar,
law.
The Washington Memories
which Mrs. Larz Anderson is con.
tributing Ito the New York Evenins
Post in daily instaIments are quite
up-to-date. She is in the fashion
for biographers and autobiograph.
ers nowadays do not wait for death
to hallow and justify their dis
closures. as was formerly the case
1t will not be difficult for many
persons now in the swim" to rec
ognize the Mrs. Malaprop of whom
Mrs. Anderson says:
Observing Sir Joshua REYNOLDS
Lady Cockburn and Her Children"
she remarked. Il suppose that is
the Madonna" blandly ignoring the
three infants and the Georgian cos
tune; and then, amid a series of
suppressed chuckles. inquired IL the
portrait of the Duke of Wellington
was not her hosts father. Her
laPses of language were famous.
People never tired of telling how
she went around getting signatures
for a red robin" when she meant
a round one. and how after her re-
turn from California she described
a wonderful trip through the wal
ley of Gethsemane," when she meant
Yosemite. Once she burst in upon
an afternoon tea, announcing with
loud and cheerful vigor, I've been
out in the country for a walk, and,
do you know, ! jumped from rock
to rock just like a shamrock"