The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-06-10
Ed WARD EVERETT
HALE IS TAKEN
BY DEATH
Venerable Chaplain Of United States
Senate and Foremost Publicist
Succumbs to Heart Failure
at the Age Of 81.
1.-THE Man Without q Country" and
Other Writings Made Him
Famous.

WASHINGTON, juno 1o.-Pres-
Ident Taft sent a message OF
sympathy to the widow Of the late
Rev. Or. Edward Everett Hale, at
Roxbury, Mass, Immediately upon
learning Of the death OF the dis
tlnouished preacher.
BOSTON. June 10.-Rev. DR.. Ed
ward Everett Hale. chaplain OF the
United States senate, and one OF the
foremost men In the public view. died
at his home In Roxbury early this
morning. He became famous through
his book, THE Man Without a Coun'
try" and other noted works.
Heart failure was the cause OF DR..
Hale's death. He had been ailing for
the last two or three weeks and de-
clined gradually until two or three
days ago. when tears really began TO
be entertained. The end came sud
denly this morning.
DR.. Hales sister, Miss Susan Hale.
mis- physician. DR.. Temple, and a num-
Der OF personal friends were at the
bedside when the venerable chaplain
Of the senate breathed his last. The
end came peacefully and there was no
struggle at dissolution. DR.. Hale sim
ply passing as one who falls asleep.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale. preacher,
publicist and man OF letters. was 81
years old Since his appointment as
chaplain OF the senate. DR.. Hale had
spent HIS winters IN Washington, but
his summers he continued to pass
at his home In Roxbury. Despite his
II LII n nd
his mental faculties were seemingly
unimpaired. He was great lover
OF outdoor life and TO this he attribut-
ed In great measure his splendid
health In his old age. In celebration
of DR.. Hale's eighty-flfth birthday and
anniversary the Lend-a Hand society.
which DR. Hale founded. sought to
raise a fund OF $4,000 for the old age
OF its founder. The work was In
charge OF an executive committee Of
which Kidder, Peabody & Co.. the Bos.
ton bankers. were the treasurers-.
Br- Hale was born In Boston, Aprti
g. 1922. He graduHted from Harvard
20 years ago. Dartmouth and Will
Jams conferred honorary degrees upon
him in 1901 and 1904. respectively.
Hale joined the Unitarian ministry
in 1916. his first church being the
Church OF the Unity. in Worcester.
Mass He was married TO Emily Bald
win Perkins in 1852.
No living man mad done more 20
raise the moral standards OF Amer
leans thar had DR.. Hale. He had been
conspicuous figure In all kinds OF
reform and rescue work, both In Bos-
ton and in many ether and distant
cities. From the time he received nis
first license to preach he had been
conspicuous figure In all the most adj
vanced forward movements in charity
and education. DR.. Hale refused to
be called a clergyman. He preferred
TO be designated only as Christian
minister" The title of Professor of,
Americanism" to his generation has
been aptly used In referring to DR..
Hale, and II perhaps best describes
his most conspicuous efforts. His en-
tire career, his hereditary influences
and environment and his natural in
clinations and choice OF friends, all
tended to make him a patriotic Amer
lean citizen, and fitted him to do for
the Americans public what he con-
ceived his Professor Of America" as
doing In a collego-showing men that
there lis such reality as American
thought, that there are certain prin.
ciples which belong to the American
government, that there are certain
feelings which are experienced by
none but an American"
The books on whose title pages ap-
pear the name of Edward Everett
Hale, exceeding 80, are all filed with
the same genial spirit, the same keen
observation. the same whimsical fancy
and the same underlying moral and
spiritual uplift that found voice in the
motto OF Ten Times One is Ten
To look up and not down:
To look forward and not back;
To look out and not In;
And to lend a hand.
The Harry Wadsworth of that book.
the inspiration Of all the "Lend-a-Hand
and Lookup clubs which have sprung
from 1t and OF THE Lend-a-Hand
Magazine" was Frederic William
Greenleaf. who died liz 1852. DR.. Hale