The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-08
EDITORIAL NOTES


 | With wings, so that he might soar as a bird, was probably that of Watson F. Qufnby, a Delaware inventor, who received a United States patent on his invention just .forty-one years ago l today. Previous dyine. machines had 1 been based on the balloon principle, but Quinby's apparatus was entirely | original, and consisted of side and l dorsal Winks constructed in sennt-cir cular form, about twelve feet in diam 1 eter The wings were to be operated with the hands and feet, sttrrups be- ing provided for the latter. The mo- 1 tions were very similar to those used i in swimming. The bat was used as a 1 model by the inventor, which may l have been the origin of the phrase, l He has bats in his be1fry.' The en- 1 tire contrfvance was so logical and | simple that it seemed impossible tha t any person not conGtitutionai1y averse to muscular exertion could fail to fly at the first attempt. Strange to say, however, the wings refused to work, and nobody ever left terra hrIna with their aid.
 Ang1icans throughout the world are profoundly interested in the questions that will come before the forty third trfennta1 convention of the Protestant f Episcopal Church in America, which opens today in the beautiful Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. For years this great ecclesiastical body, the American offshoot of the Church of England, has been engaged in a con troversy over a change in the name of the denomination. Many church men hold that more than this is in- volved and have suggested the possi- biltty of a split between the High and Low Church parties. Many leaders advocate the dropping of the word Protestant, from the title of the church, holding that it reflects the controversial spirit of a, bygone age" The name most favored is "the Amert- can Catholic Church in the United States" Other EpiscopaIians are de- echange and denounce the movement as tending toward the Introducing of monarchiaI plan that might even tually result in 'tan American pa pacy.''
 The deliberations of the convention will b. carried on by a, House of Bish- ops and a House of Clerical and Lay Deputies The church now has six ty eight dioceses and tWenty-three mis- sionaEary bishops in the United States and nine foreign Jurisdictions under the care of bishops using the same liturgy and yielding obedience to the constitutions and canons enacted in the general convention. The church has missionary bishops in Cape Pal mas, Africa; Brazil Shanghai. Han
 
 and Kioto Japan: the Philippine Ts1- ands, and Porto Rico. The present convention will elect half a dozen missionary bishops: One of the new bishops will be for the Panama canal zone and a somewhat larger terri tory which is to be transferred from the Church of England.
 American Episcopacy had it's begin ming in the sixteenth century. The Church of England was early made a Of Virginia and it was also very strong in Maryland In 1893 Trinity parish in New York was instituted, and. two years later Christ Church was found ed in Philadelphia These and oth- CT early churches were under the iIlris- diction of the Bishop of London. Wash ington attended Church of England services, and Mr. -Duche, the first chap lain of Congress- was affiliated with that church. Prior to the revolution the question of episeopaey was a, live issue in the colonies. The Bishop of Llandan, in advocating Church estab- Hshment in America, denounced the co1onists as 'tin1de1s and barbarians,s g who, with their native soil, abandoned their native manners and religion, and ere long were found, in many parts, living without remembrance or nowl- edge of God, without any divine Wor- ship, in dissolute Wickedness and the most brutal prohigacy of manners" These statements gave rise to much resentment, and bitter theological controversy ensued.
 The first Episcopal bishop in the United States was Samuel Seabury, of Connecticut, who was consecrated at Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1784 The first convention of the Protestant Fpisco- pal Church was held in 1785. AnotIl- CT session was held in 1789, when a constitution and laws for the organ fzation and government of the church as "a provincial branch of the Cath oIic church of Christi were adopted. meet the changed political circum- stances of the country, was to be used in all congregations, and the conven- tion declared that '-t1lis church is far Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline or wor- ship, or further than local circum- stances require-''
 Every day the readers of the fnan- told that Judge Gary satd. so-and- so, or Judge Gary refused to discuss the subject or Judge Gary sailed for Europe Judge Gary returned from Europe.'' You gather from this that Judge Gary is a rather important interested in any words of wisdom that the Judge may permit to issue from his mouth The assumption Is correct, for Judge EIbert Henry Gary is chair man of the board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation, the controlling power in the worlds great est industrial combination
 The distinguished capitalist will cell ebrate his stxty-seventh birthday to- day, since he was born in Wheaton, H., Oct. 8, 1846 It was in his native town that he gained the title of Judge, which has stuck to him through all the years, by acting as county judge Of Du Page county for two terms. MT. Gary's parents were well to do but far from wealthy. He was educated at wheaton College and afterward studied law at the Unfver- sity of Chicago. It was in October, 1867, that he hung out his shing1e in Wheaton, where he soon built up