The Washington herald., 1920-11-09
CHURCH CALLS
FORMER HEAD
Rev. C. W. Douglass. Of
New York, to Again FIJI
Pulpit Of St. Johns.
ny GEORGE PERRY noRRrs.,

ny GEORGE PEkhf nohbtt<T 4
For q variety OF reasons NE puk
pit Of 81. Johns Church comms<dr
the attention OF more than s1oe.l
or a Protestant Episcopal Seonstit-
uency. Having allowed the rector.
the Rev. Roland Cotton Smith. TO
dwell temporarily I'm California
that he may recuperate In health.
the church has called back as tenn
porsry supply the Rev. George WILL
lam Douglass. rho was in charge
of the church during the years 1855
1891. Since 1905 he has been senior
canon Of the Cathedral Of St. John
the Divine. New York City. His
service TO the church at large has
given him much experience in a
variety OF activities. educational as
well as administrative. His years
are numerous enough to have given
him wisdom
DIR. Tenney En- Route Home
DR.. Charles d. Tenney has been
to American diplomats in China for
many years what Or. George wash
burn. Of Robert College. for 90 long
was to American and British min
listers and ambassadors to Turkey.
Now Or. Tenney is on his way home
after ''send-on" in Pekin that
spoke the intense admiration Of the
Chinese whose sons he has educat-
ed and prepared for making the
China that is to be. OF the repre-
sentatives Of the various embassies.
and OF the large American colony
OF educators. traders and mission
aries. II. as intimated, he is to
| forego the rest he has earned and
is to come 10 WASHINGTON and here
advise with the Department OF State
as to its wisest course in dealing
with the Far Eastern problem, then
the State Department and the ma
tion is most fortunate. For while
a major part Of his career in China
since he went there in 1856 20 be
/ principal of a college in Tientsin
has been conspicuously that OF an
educator, he always has been in
close touch with the political de-
velopments Of the country. In 1908
he Joined the star OF the Amer
lean Embassy. and from that time
to this his expert knowledge has
been available. when the history
of Americas influence on modern
China's ideals comes to be writ
ten. he will figure impressively In
the narrative
Luks Deserved Reward.
George B. Buks has won the Lo-
gan Medal and $500 in cash Civ
en- by the Chicago Fine Arts Society
at its current exhibition He won
by his portrait OF Otis Skinner in
one OF his best acting roles Luks
has steadily been forging TO the
front and overcoming the earlier
opposition Of the public and OF
judges TO his original, virile prod
uct- Like a considerable number
I Of contemporary artists, he is a
I Pennsylvania, and the excellent
Academy OF Fine Arts in Philsdel-
] phia gave him his start Incident
ally in his career. and yet not with
out its effect upon his ideals and
methods was his service in the
Spanish-American war as q CORE
spondent and artist. A man does
not go through that school and
come out a conventional dauber.
Tsrdy But Deserved Honor.
Some day in the not distant fu-
ture Eugene Field is TO have a mon
ument in his honor erected in Lin
coin Park, Chicago. The funds have
been accommodating for twenty-five
4 years. and now the Art Institute
has made up the amount requisite
for payment OF a sculptor and cree
tion OF the approved design. First
of the "columnists" in point OF time.
7 Field still outclssses all Of them in
a combination Of wit. humor and
literary charm. To the children OF
America he came as near as Robert
Louis Stevenson did: and OF all lat
ter-day "Bohemians" OF Chicago
and the country at large he contriv-
ed to be the best blend Of the Puri-
tan and the HELENE. II Is one n
his imitators, but not his peer. who
/. has said OF him what, after all. Is
the best thing that could be said:
We read your "Odes OF Horace" ana
. we 'reverently glost"
when reading Of 'Modejesky" and
OF "Casey's Table Dote."
Your joke was ever stingless, and
there was sweetness in your
, chaf-
which same cannot be said OF all
the rest who make US laugh.
! I've read your Western lyrics and
your other fanny rhymes
So often IL must totzl-oh, some
several thousand times
But when you sang OF wynken and
Blynken and OF Nod
And Of Boy Blue. you then became
chorister Of God.
Harold Bell Wright on the Move
Harold Bell Wright against
whom there is much girding by
-modernists" as representing the
nadir of our national sentimental
taste in fiction. has been won from
his Indianapolis publishing firm. and
henceforth his books will be issued
in New York and in London by one
Of the oldest OF the New York pub
fishing houses. Why and how this
came to pass we know not: but IL
will lessen Indianapolis output OF
books considerably. In the old days
authors and publishers that had
"won through" to fame and pront
stood by each other in days OF pros
perity as well as adversely. stand
ards have changed in this held OF