The Washington herald., 1920-08-22
A Great Physicisn Lsuded.

CsllfornlanS are justly proud Of q
Los Angeles physician. Henry o.
Oversole, medical director Of the
Siberian commission Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, who is plotting the
$500 Russian children from Siberia
to Russia via the Pacific Ocean. the
United States. the Atlantic Ocean.
and port in Western Europe yet
to be named. The annals Of child
salvage contain few chapters as
romantic and noble as this will
prove TO be when DR.. OverSole
turns over his wards to Red Cross
workers in Europe. The children n
come from homes in and near Petro-
Grsd. and they were first sent to the
Ursl Mountains to get out Of the
way Of the Reds, and then on TO
Nladivostok, where the America n
Red Cross began to succor them.
Dr.. oversole left a fine practice in
1918 to enter on his work in Siberia.
He has become a hero to all the ele-
ments Of the population. The
CZechs love him for what he did for
them on their great trek out to the
Pacific, and the republic counts him
as one OF its many American ss-
viours and is to decorate him. .As
for these Russian children. he is
their godfather in very real
sense. and it will be quite dificUli
to make them or their kinsfolk be
lieve that Americans are what Trot-
sky says that they are.
Master Of Hynnody.
Charles L Hutchins. DID. of Con
cord. Mass, who has just died. was
widely known throughout the Prot
NJ Frfgran=H f~hv-rh
Of the hymnaI that for many years
was commonly used in its churches
He was to that church what Charles
5. Robinson for so many years was
to the Presbyterian. Not withou,
success as a priest and rector in
many parishes, his greatest service
to his church was as a lover Of
music as student Of hymnody
and as an editor OF books Of praise
and worship in which words and
music had relations o fhsrmony and
taste. This phase Of his career be.
gan back in 1870 and continued Un.
/ til a comparatively recent date II
it brought him wealth no one be
ErudEed him it; and much OF il ne
dedicated to Churchly and patriotic
ends.
W. L. George. the English writer
OF fiction most prolific in comment
upon and sympathy with "feminism'
has arrived in the country. To his
credit be it said that he is to spend
six months among US before he
writes about US; and he will spend
most Of the time inland and away
from the more or less EuropesnizeS
cities of the Atlantic seabosrd. He
wants TO see the real America. II
this means that he will rough il as
Stephen Graham did. and keep away
from authors club pink teas and the
talkfests OF the hyper-civilized. he
will be ready to take up his lecture
tour late in the autumn really
knowing something Of a country
that Henry James never understood
or he would not have discarded its
citizenship.
George Grey Barnard in Opposition.
George Grey Barnard. as usual. is
in opposition. He does not approve
of bridge over the North River be-
ing the memorial Of the Gothamites
who died in the war with Germany
You do not want the soldiers TO
feel that they died for a bridge" he
says. Evidently he believes in post
death art judgments. His plea is for
great work of sculpture on the
northern end OF Manhattan Island.
on site foreordsIned to be so used.
and to be had free of cost. Barnard.
like Borglum, is Congenital
crouch, but he also is a great art
ist, far removed from commercial
ism and other than artistic ideals;
and in this controversy. as in others
in which he has engaged, he is
standing resolutely for aesthetic
ideals and against social cOnven-
tions, old or new.