The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-09
Episcopal Convention
Echoes and Sidelights

Everybody has . few pet aver
sions yellow bow ties. parsnips,
pink-eyed poodles and people who
tell you how they're dieting.
The pet peeve of Robert Erskine
Campbell, Protestant Episcopal
bishop OF Liberia, was a red
beard. He saw no excuse for
full boards i'm general, to say
nothing of auburn chest protec-
tors. Having sandy hair himself,
Bishop Campbell was an excel
lent target for a whimsical fate.
And fate waIIoped him hard.
You may see the bishop at the
Episcopal convention here. wear.
ing a neatly trimmed beard of
the Van Dyke variety. But he'll
have to let it grow before he
gets back to Liberia.
According to friends who I'M
kindly smoker at his plight,
Bishop Campbell went to Liberia
with high hopes of converting
the benighted natives in the
hinterland of the African re.
public.
On his arrival there ne discov-
cred that the Mohammedan mis-
sionaries had beaten him to it.
The natives were willing to listen
to Christians, however, except for
one reason. They had been edu.
Gated to believe that all clergy
men should have boards. The
Mohammedans all wore ample
chin covering.
Smooth-shaven Bishop Campbell
saw that he would either have TO
grow beard or give up the Job
az hopeless. So he swallowed
his aversion and his beard came
out, thick and rudy. He wears
it to this day. but on his visits
to America trims it to reasonable
proportions.
A cousin of Mrs. Woodrow Will
son. delegate to the Episcopal
convention, Is one of the leading
authorities on medical advances
in the Orient.
He is connected directly with
st. Luke's Hospital at Tokyo.
His visits take him az far north
as VladiVostok and as far south
as FOrInosa. His fees bring him
an income of $4,000 a year, which
he turns into the Golfers of the
church. depending only on his
$4,000 salary for subsistence.
He is DR.. Rudolph Boiling
Teusler.
Ten miles north of the Arctic
Circle, DIR. Grafton Burke, direc-
tor of the Hudson Stuck Memorial
Hospital, an Episcopal church
institution, hves alone with his
wife, at Fort Yukon, Alaska.
He Is in Washington for the
big convention. full of stories
of his experiences in the frozen
North.
Overland travel often is impos-
sible for him. So, in recent years,
he uses an airpIane for hurry
calls to mine disasters and the
like. He also keeps in touch
with Alaskan posts by radio, pre-.
scribing medicine and eatment
over the air when circumstances
prevent personal visits.
Another visitor from the Far
North is Peter Trimble Rowe,
Bishop Of Alaska. He, too. uses
an airplane to visit his flock.
Bishop Rowe has been in Alaska
through all the gold rushes. He
knew personally Jack London,
Rex Beach, Tex Richard and other
big figures Of the rushes. He
has ''mushed" thousands of miles
through the icy wastes by dog
sled.
When Bishop Charles Fiske, of
the central New York diocese, at
tended great religious meeting
10 England, the more ceremonious
Of his British brethren wanted to
address him by the customary
term OF my Lord"
But My Lord of Central New
York" sounded slightly ridiculous.
The British were worried, They
wanted 10 do the right tAing by
the bishop. One of themp shoWed