Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-11-11

son and sixteen Of her practitioners.
who, being freeborn American citi-
zens and believing in home rule. are
ready to make declaration of indie
pcndence and sing that grand OLD song
of Yankee Doodle" Both mother
countries and mother churches should
beware of stepping on the freedom of
the American individual.
The trouble between Mrs. Stetson
and Boston goes back to the days
when she was reader in the First
church and her followers were declar-
ing that she would succeed Mrs Eddy
as supreme leader. Evidently there
were persons in Boston who held other
views, for they first made a rule that
prevented Mrs. Stetson from being re-
elected reader and then practically ac-
cused her of hcresy. Virgil O. Strick
Ter. former head Of the publication
committee. was elected reader in her
place. ! used to know Stricker when
he was a young lawyer in Omaha.
Then he had little money. and if he
harborcd any religion to speak of no
body suspected it. Now he is reputed
TO be a millionaire and Is the official
head of the biggest Christian Science
church In the metropolis. 1t is Il
changeabe world. my brethren, that
boosts some of us and hits others on
the head with a pile driver. Well,
am glad to see as good a chap as
Strickler on the climb. even If he is
following what seems to me side
path.
recently had another striking Illus
tration of the way westerners come
into New York and run things While
browsing around ST. Johns cathedral
on Morningside heights l heard of II
Canon Robert T.. Jones. The name
struck mo as familiar and | hunted
mp its owner. only to discover one of
the friends Of my bOyhood. | had
known him as a struggling rector in
Kalamazoo, Mich. and now found him
practically in charge Of the building
of the worlds fourth largest cathedral
Between times he had been a college
president. 1t warns ones heart to see
success even If it is vicarous and en-
jOyed only by our friends.
That is the way with New York. 1t
Is recruited from the whole nation
indeed, from the whole world Lead
ers in many lines of endeavor--the bar.
the press, the pulpit-hail from all cor
ners of the laud. | remember writing
editorials on a New York morning pa
per when every man In the room was
from the west. Two other examples
came under my personal observation.
One day in the subway I ran into a
man that | remembered as chancellor
Of the University Of Nebraska. He
was DR.. James II. Garfield. then Ii
brarian of Columbia university. At
another time | Strayed into the Church
of the Strangers, on Fifty-seventh
street, and was delighted to discover in
the pastor, DR.. ID. A. Blackburn. a for
mer schoolmate at Lebanon, O. And.
by the way. he was the last man in
the school l would have dreamed OF
as minister. Both Garfield and
Blackburn are dead now, the first as
a result of a street car accident and
DR.. Blackburn only a few days ago
from heart disease l mention them
only as examples Of the makeup Of
New York, which reflects in its life CIV
cry state in the Union.
Take the newspapers. for example
The five most prominent proprietors
are Whtelaw Reid of the Tribune
Adolph S. Ochs of the Times. William
X. Hearst of the American and Jour
nal. Joseph Pulitzer Of the World and
James Gordon Bennett Of the Herald
and Telegram. Reid and Ochs were
born in Ohio, Hearst in California and
Pulitzer in Hungary, although he got
his start in st. Louis. Bennett Is the
only one Of the five who was born In
New York, and he inherited the Her
aid from his father. One could run
through other professions with like
result. Those who abuse New York
for being un-American do not know
New York. 1t is not eastern, western
or southern. but all three in one. 1t is
a miniature of the nation. 1t makes
its human levy on every section.
When it comes to strikes. we have
two that reach us where we live.
Street car strikes may be walkoutS in
more senses than one. yet no one really
suffers from doing the Weston act, at
least temporarily. But who is to live
without pie and shirt waists? That is
the double calamity that has New
York in its grip The piemakers have
been out for some time. and now the
waistmakers are on the go. AS a re-
suit we are eating rice pudding and
prunes and making over the waists of
last year
Each waist a thousand peekholes has, you
say.
Yes, but where peeks the waist of yester-
day?
is a question that need be asked no
more. The waist of yesterday is still
in commission. The question that wor-
ries us is, Where are the pies of yes
terday or of tomorrow or of the day