The Washington herald., 1920-05-23
In the linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

Columbus. Ohio. has given q
moderator TO the General Assembly
Of the Presbyterian Church. North.
With no opposition and by accls-
nation. Rev. S. p. Palmer. d. D..
Of the Broad Street Church. Of that
city. has been elected to guide the
court and legislature during what
may prove to be a stormy session
He is a graduate OF Wooster Uni
versity and Mccormick TheoIogicaI
Seminary. Previous pastorates in
Sterling. Calf. and Berkeley. Calf.
have contributed TO his reputation
as safe and sane" man.
William Arms Fisher, we'll known
as composer and as an editor Of
the musical compositions published 4
by BostDn's leading house. has been
engaged to supervise the musical
part of the program that is 10 make
the celebration OF the landing Of
the Pilgrims a noteworthy event in
the history OF American pageanTry
Working harmoniousIy with Prof
Geo. p. Baker. OF the dramatic de-
partment OF Harvard University. he
will go with the latter t. Holland
and aid there in preparations fJr
thu event. 1t is planned. among
other features Of TIE celebration
{" render Edgar ShIiman KcIIey's
musical Interpretation Of Bunyan's
Il ilgrim's Progress" Kelley being
4 descendant Of Gov William Brad
ford.
Though not formally acknowledge
ed as such. Simeon Strunsky is now
editor of the y. Y. Evening Post.
filling the place flIed for many
years by Rollo ogden who has gone
to the y. Y. Times. Mr.. Strunsky
is a Russian born American. educat-
ed in the schools of New York City
and at Columbia University. who
has been Americanized after a fash
ion that makes him quite a differ
ent sort OF adviser for contempor-
ary America from many of his fell
low Russians. He has a mellow
humOr as well as penetrating wit.
His social philosophy is evolution
Hol Ile mas tu-
cycIopedic knowledge but also prac-
tical wisdom. Such loyalty TO Jud-
aism and Jewry as he retains is
irenic not polemic. II he once in
heTited hate of the Car he now
equally condemns Lenin. Watch
ing the Peace conference at Paris he
wrote about its results with some
sense Of proportion and with the
difficulties of practical statesman
ship in mind, and not as IL he were
a. sophmoric commentator deputed
TO pillory srchsngels for impish
deflections from heavenly codes.
Washington is now the temporary
abode of +. $. Sadsl. a Southern
gentleman and man Of letters OF the
old school. who first saw the light
in a town in Greenbrier County. Va.
in 1898. Educated at Columbia and
Yale. he entered the diplomatic serV-
ice and served in the American Le-
cation in lS70-1S7l. when Motley
the historian. was our Minister to
Great Britain. The fruits of this
stay in England he embodied in 4
book giving his impressions Of Eng
lish social life. Later books OF es-
says have also disclosed penetra-
tive insight and literary skin. In
1917 he re-emerged from relative
obscurity with a study OF a Nir-
ginian Village" which competent
judges have described as one of the
best documents of its kind eXtant,
and invaluable as a piCtur, Of a
type of social structure that is fast
passing. He returns to Washing
ton a veteran of a bygone day, with
few of his former friends living.
and changes on every side that il
would be fortunate il he could find
time and strength to comment upon.