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The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-11
THE EARNING CAMPAIGN.

The high school boys of the town are at present engaged in an learning campaign" " Any legitimate means which they might use to earn money, even for their own personal needs and uses should be supported by the citizens having work to be done, since such a campaign carries with it the lessons of indus try and application as well as teaching those engaged the real value of money.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-11
OUR LOSS OF HISTORICAL. PER-
 SPECTINF
Cincinnati E,nquirer.)

Now and then, in our frantic attempt to follow the swiftly changing panorama of the multitudinous events of the day. there rushes upon Us the painful consciousness that the present is croWdlng the past from our con- clousness in way to excite alarm
 These events themselves, so novel, SO ex- citing, so absorbing because they are SO alive, are far more fascinating than those which are dead or alive in memory only. And besides the effort to follow them and to cor dinate them into a philosophical scheme of thot is too strenuous to permit Us to spend the time and strength required to master the inn mense and complicated web of human expe- rience which constitutes the, history of the race Who of us during the last four or five years has had the energy and taken the time, as we used to do to pick up the lives of Plutarch, the Commentaries of Ceasar, the histories of Herodotlls the Thucy- dides of Gibbon or Macaulay, of Bancroft or Motley, and study the records of the case i'll the ages that are gone? What is happening today crowds out the doings of yesterday so utterly that the whole long past with all its glOres and illuminative deeds has suffered a long eclipse and we have lost to a sad and harmful degree "historcal perspective" We have vague and COndemnlng consciousness that we have let curtain descend upon the previous history of the human race and per mitted 1t to shut from our view whatever had transpired before August 1, 1914.
 For our intellectual enjoyment and our mental comprehension of the spectacle of hu- man life nothing could be more unfortunate. To enjoy we must be familiar with the rich and stored past To comprehend we must possess a reasonable familiarity with causes which have produced effects.
 No more pathetic stories of individual life have ever been told than those of the be- wlderment of men who have suddenly lost memories of their previous lives; to whom the events which have occurred and the people they have known before a certain fateful day have vanished into oblivion.
 Nothing is more pathetic in the life of primitive peoples than their ignorance of the origin and doings of the generation who were their predecessors Such ignorance alone isl enough to account for their backward state.
 We must regain, in some way or other, this historical perspective. The books upon our library shelves must not be neglected for the papers and the magazines still wet with printers ink
 A generation of statesmen as indifferent to the past as we have been for these last few years would wreck the prospects of the great est country in the world.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-11

The nonpartisan league in Montana is op- posing, by referendum petition, a special cleo tion which the legislature has set for Septem- Der to pass on the question of repeating the old primary law and substituting a new one. If the petition gets signatures enough the mat ter will go over to the general election.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-11

Now, if the hop is all right the skip and the jump should be easy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

tender infant on hogs flesh rather
than OH milk, either your own or at
least goats milk, how can YOU expect
1t not to all ??
The mother, as likely as not, would
flare up and answer:
al have not brought up ten infants
for nothing thanking YOU all the
same. Moreover, did you never hear
what befell the louise that took upon
herself to teach the flea how to jump .
(2l.
So for these and other reasons, the
scheme of Peisistratos failed in MANY
cases where success was most needed.
and ne fell into great perplexity how
to deal with the matter
But Gynekosophias, the priest of
Asculapius. hearing Of the perplexity
OF Peisistratos, went to him and said:
Make me a Nepiarch and be-
liave, shall know what to do
so Peisistratos, seeing that, at the
worst, no harm could come of it, made
him Nepiarch.
"Whereupon Gynekosophias took up
his task without delay, and this to such
good effect that within a few months
there was an extraordinary change for
the better among the infants of hither-
TO perverse mothers; SO that from be-
ing unwashed, ill-fed, neglected and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

he should have been elevated to the
bishopric of the most important
diocese in America with such a
brief service in the actual ministry
as these records show.
Understand that the bishop only
few minutes before had received
word of his election. He was labor
ing under the emotions of the mo-
ment. He had not even seen Mrs.
Burch to receive her congratula-
lions. He had been given no op-
portunity to withdraw for private
prayer. AS one question after an
other was asked, the bishop would
hesitate and say, "Well, you'll have
to let me figure that out" Once he
said, Il can't remember just at this
moment when | was ordained. :"
Then he sat for moment or two In
deep thought. "Now I have it," he
SAID, and he proceeded to outline the
whole story of his ministry. He
followed it chronologically to the
years leading to his call to the
Staten Island church. Then he
stopped moment and said "You
see have my dates little confused.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
''one of The most picturesque personalities

II can't outline any distinctive poll
cles except to say that | shall en-
deavor to carry out, as far as in
ME lies, the policies Of my beloved
predecessor, who was my co-laborer
for nine years. If | can even meas
urably reach his position and work
shall be one Of the happiest Of men.
There will be no radical changes.
| am not radical. I shall seek
only to serve the best interests of
the church.
you may say this for me. l
shall be the bishop of the whole
diocese, without respect to or regard
for party lines. shall be the SER
want of the whole diocese"
The bishop was asked about the
great Cathedral of st. John the
Divine, projected by the late Bishop
Potter and completed as far as the
rave and crossing, with some small
chapels, under Bishop Potter's ad
ministration and that of Bishop
Greer.
i am very eager to see that nave
begun and finished. 1t is huge
undertaking, and | will do my best
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

nngainliest forms of any in Helas.
That is as may be, said he
Nevertheless, if you have any regard
for Athens and the coming race, there
is really only one thing to do with
him.
land what is that?' demanded
Drabia, fiercely.
ITO smother him., replied Gyne-
kosophias.
$50 saying, he seized Peisistratos by
the arm and drew him swiftly from the
house before the Infatuated mother
he'd TINE to spring on them.
"'By Heraklesn cried the tyrant. but
II we had remained a moment longer
believe that lioness would have
clawed our eyes out
ut is very likely, o Peisistratos, ,
said the Nepiarch, smiling. These
mothers are very savage when pro-
voked And | had to provoke her to
arouse her maternal instincts. That
IS my method, .ou see. For in DEALING
with a perverse person one has to begin
perversely And, after all. there are
quite number of women like that
If you want to get them to Corinth
the one and only way is to push them
toward Larissa.'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

pnny weaklings, they became as pumr
and sleek as little prize pigs. with
healthy rolls of fat about their necks
and their small bodies as. firm TO toncI
as full wine skins.
"And this was rightly deemed
wonderful achievement Of the Nepiarch
But how he had done it none knew.
"Pelsistratos, therefore, sent for hin,
and inquired OF the matter.
ITO whom Gynakosophias:
40 Peisistratos,' said he, even now
| am on my way to visit certain
mother Drabia, the wife of Ameletes
who lives on the road to Phaleron. And
If you accompany me you NAV learn
somethng'
SO they set out together. And when
they had come to the house and knocked
on the door, it was opened to them by
an unkempt woman of morose aspect.
who demanded of them sourly what
they wanted.
Nothing very particular, to say the
truth, answered Gyn@kosophas. .On.v
being Nepiarch and having TO nass
this way, it occurred to me that |
might as we'll have look at your little
freak of last born-if indeed, he is
at all worth looking at (5,.
"Whereat she, instantly on fire
ORTIZ looking at, DO you say. By
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

Pollux! But would like to see the mar
or woman that should dare tell me
otherwise.
l have heard strange stories Of his
extraordinary ugliness,' said he. But
that may be only the jealoust of the
women who told me. However. if Won
Will let me in this can quickly be
settled
Then she flung the door wide
through which the Nepiarch entered.
followed by Peisistratos. And there in
cradle, on heap of rags, Law Drabia "a
infant sadly neglected and unwashed
so that Its little visage was incrusted
with the CRIME and sickness of severa,
days
i know what you are thinking.' said
Drabla, eying the Nepiarch detiantlv
I on are thinking he would look better
If ! washed his face
on the Gods forbid-poor little
goniin' protested Gyn@kosophias with
great earnestness. For it would he
unklnd indeed to remove the merc;frl
mask of dirt from such a face,
" hereupon the mother in high in
dgnation:
If there is another infants face in
Athens half SO beautiful, NAV I be a
Theban'
lFor the Theban women have the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

I'll have to retrace some Of my
steps" Finally the bishop had
every year Of his life accounted for.
He was in perspiration by this
time and hailed with the glee Of a
boy the announcement of the news
paper men that, having once set
them straight, he would now have
the story of his life put in cold type,
that would be available for all future
biog1 aphers.
The interview took place in the
room occupied by Bishop Greer as
his private Office. Il have never oc-
cupied this room since the death of
Bishop Greer said the new dioce-
san. There was sentimental
reason. | tried to have it arranged
so that the room would not be dis
turbed until a successor had actually
been elected. Only on occasions Of
conferences that could not be ac-
commodated anywhere else has any
one been here
His Policy
The bishop began his statement
with this remark about his policy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Summing in the Days of E2eisisbutos the T2>vunt

TO insure their being properly reared
and tended, but their mothers we're left
10 manage, or msmanage, them at
VIII, SO that many persisted needlesslv
every year. Moreover, Of those that sur.
V'ved not few were 80 puny, stunted
or detormed that there was no hone
OIL their ever growing UP into healthv
citizens.
"Peisistratos, then, observing this,
and foreseeing that, in default of some
remedy, Athens would soon become a
city of weaklings. the prey Of INV
rival, determined to take the matter in
hand without delay %.
ITO that end, after careful thought
he appointed certain officers. both
men and women, whom he named
Neplarchs, to 60 round to the mothers
OF Athens and teach them to rear their
infants In the proper way.
(Which seemed. indeed. wise
scheme and likely to have the best re-
suits. But so perverse were some of
the mothers of Athens that, in thei.
case, the teaching of the Nepiarchs
proved worse than futile.
For If the visitor, being a woman
should address any of these perverse
mothers thus:
'see here! If you will feed that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
"Be Mercitul!''

Remembering his own career, the
bishop consented to make things
easy for the news writer's As soon
as he could, after his election, he
Withdrew to the privacy of the
bishops own Offices and said, "Now
be mcrciful." Then he told the re-
porters to ask all the questions that
came to their MI Is. For an hour
and half he wlthstood their grill
ing. One reporter asked utterly
irrelevant and even impairment
questions. But the bishop answered
every one without show of i'm
patience. In that hour and half
he showed qualities of restraint that
are declared to be most desirable in
a churchman.
Bishop Burch is q man Of unusual
modesty. The formal publications.
like "Who's Who in America" give
tho sketchicst of outlines Of his
career. 1t seemed impossible that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Helping Measles

"It was great work. There were
twelve hundred newsboys, some no
longer active in that work, who were
ministered to by the mission and it's
club. We finally erected large
building for the boys, and it was
splendidly equipped. l forgot to tell
you that years before | had been,
Tor a brief time, at Christ Church
New Brighton; and at St. Johns.
Clifton.
"While was at Grand Rapids. |
received an urgent call to return to
Staten Island. 1t came from ST.
Andrews Church, a delightful old
parish, founded in the reign of
Queen Anne and chartered by her.
In all this time I had not been adj
vanced to priests orders. But still
l was called as rector Of the parish
and it became necessary for me to
be priested. 1t was nearly eighteen
months after | received the call be-
fore | finally returned to Staten
Island.
"And now comes the chapter in
my life that people are saying moves
too quickly. One year after | was
settled as rector on Staten Island
I was made archdeacon. Four wears
later-four years after I had been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

Hopes to Continue the Work
ON St. John the
Divine

to uphold the arms Of the dean and
the trustees who are charged with
the duty of finishing the building
Then the bishop began to answer
questions as to his career in the
ministry. "There seems to have
been some confusion in the minds
Of certain people as to my prepare
ton. 1t has been stated that / am
not qualified for this office because
my term Of service in the actual
ministry has not been of long dura-
ton. l am going to tell you men
the whole story, and to tell it fully,
in the hope that I shall not have
| to do so again.
81 was born in Michigan. Ny
birth in that state was an accident
i mean by that it was an accident
that I was not a New Yorker. Ny
family is a New York state family.
The date Of my BIRTH suppose
you want all the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
June 80, 1866. was graduated
from the University Of Michigan
with the degree Of Bachelor of Arts
in 1876. While at the university I
was college correspondent for a
daily newspaper. This brought me
into the first contact with your own
craft.
after graduation I taught
school for two years in Detroit.
! Then went to Chicago and engaged
in the publishing business. This
business was family affair. Two
Of my brothers were interested, too.
At this time my thoughts began to
turn definitely to the ministry. |
became q postulant for holy orders
| and matriculated at the Western
| Theological Seminary. one of the
! schools of this church.
Cali this time | was actively en-
gagged in work for the church aod
much interested in missions. Where
ever l lived, / made it a point to de-
vote myself to the work of the mis-
sion that most needed my help.
"Then l went to Grand Rapids,
where / worked as manager and
editor of The Evening News from
1897 to 1904, during which time !
was deacon, having been so ordered
in 1895. l worked in two of the
parishes, and, in fact, it was the
prospect of a great work among
newsboys that took me to Grand
Rapids in the first place.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
MOTHER proof of the old
adage, There is nothing
new under the sum-" has

new under the sum-" has
been unearthed recently b,
an English writer, r. NJ. Freeman
Most of us are apt to think that
eugenlc experts, settlement workers
and visiting nurses are modern
twentieth century inventions. Not
by any means. They were known
z,oOO years ago, in the Athens of the
tyrant Peisistratos, who ruled in the
sixth century B. c. This, at least
is the testimony Of a story trans
lated by r. NJ. Freeman from the
Greek of Gasides Alexandrinus. and
published In 1.-The Westminster Ga
zette,' as follows:
"Pesistratos, the tyrant of Athens.
having many vices, was nevertheless
not without virtues, of which one WAS
his solicitude for the welfare of in
iants in the city. But these, until his
lay, had never been considered by the
ruling powers, nor was anything done
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

terests Of the diocese will be con-
served, and we shall go forward to
do grand work"
So Bishop Burch came to be
elected to sit in the chair Of the
prelate at whose feet he had sat as
pupil for more than nine years.
The Man Himself
Now for a study of the person.
atty OF the new bishop Of the
diocese.
He stands more than six feet. He
is big in proportion. His great size
cannot help but impress YOU at the
start. In church professions he
towers above most of his associates.
Except for his manner of dress
there is nothing about him to sug-
gest the ecclesiastic. His face sug-
gests q successful business man.
his manner is thoroughly minis
terial in its urbanity. But there is
an enthusiasm about his greetings.
rare personal note in his dealings.
even with people whom he has seen
only once or twice, that are thor
oughly Rooseveltian. On the day Of
his election he stood on the platform
at Synod Hall and leaned over,
greeting those who felicitated him
In g manner that made even the
newspaper men recall the former
President.
Bishop Burch, in that half hour
or so when he was receiving the
greetings of his constituents. be-
trayed the secret of his success. In
addition to an unusual equipment of
training and education he has that
rare faculty for making friends.
There is something so interested in
his greetings that no one leaves his
presence without feeling that he has
friend in the bishop. All through
the rural parishes Bishop Burch has
gone during the last nine years.
making new friends with every
episcopal visitation, spending a
night with this family of commune
cants, or having dinner with an
other. The cumulative effect of .all
TINS was the united support he re-
celved in the diocesan convention
from the parishes he had ministered
to as bishop. Yet Bishop Burch
never made move for his own cleo
ton. He did not set about his WISH
tatlons with the idea of building m
n political machine. The bishop
looks with the utmost contempt on
ecclesiastical politics. 81 know moth
ing OF 1t. except to disdain it. 7
nave had no part in it and I will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Succeeds Bishop Creer-A For
mer Newspaper
Editor
By Percy T. Edrop

N ISHOP CHARLES SUMNER BURCH, elected
the Right Of
the picturesque personalities the American
the ministry opposed him
for the office diocesan that
the diocese
He years newspaper work
taught him things from
books He scholarly eloquent speech
thoroughly pous a o men,
His election
vnton who had looked mere complimentary
matter account Of the fact that he epscopa
Most that did impossible
Some of them
There
would succeed to the election
the suragan did qualify automatically TO tho
oishopr of the diocese the clergy actually dis
qualified him. They held that his
precedent that would Of nrncna
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
FOLLOWING Bishop Greer


The bishop was asked sbou, .bs
installation services. Il wan. -
tell You about Bishop Greer hs
said. "Whcn he succeeded to the nos,
to which have been elected va.
in England. taking n snccal coursa
at Oxford University Oa the no~.-
ing after his succession. occas.o,es
by the death Of Bishop Potter n
whom he had been coadiuto~. B.sb.
op Greer saw me and Informed ma
of his succession. The announce.
ment to the others Of his clergy
was made in much the same fashion
as it was made 10 me. There was
no formal service. and would pre-
fer to slip into the Office ius, %
quietly. OF course there is a If.
ference in my case. Was no, the
coadjutor. and have lust been
elected. So it may be that there win
be a great service in the cathedral
1t shall be as the diocese wis You
ask me as to the nature Of this
service. 1t is just an institution
some call it an enthronemont hut
that is such pretentous word
4 would ike TO say his. that MY
election at this time vii. mean SEA.
for the diocese in the House Of
Bishops at the important genera.
convention in Detroit mex. month.
Had one of the rcctor-canai ia.es
been elected, there would have been
a vacancy so far as New York is
concerned, because it would have
been impossible to secure the neces-
sary consents and to coasecrate tie
new bishop before the onont : q
the convention. Beinr a'rcalv
bishop, do not have TO he con-
secrated, and the general conven-
ton. as a courtesy. proceeds esrly
to the formal ratification Of cleo
tons so that dioceses may be repre-
scented in the House Of Bishops
Bishop Burch is married and has
a son and daughter. His daughter
is, and has been throughout The
war. in charge of Red Cross unit
IN Serbia. She is Mrs. Grace Burch
"alkup. His son, Albert c. Burch,
IS N business in Detroit.
In addition Mr.. and Mrs. Burch
have an adopted son. who is known
as Lindon c. Burch.
The new Bishops leaning toward
newspaper work and publishing wa.
quite natural HIS fatac1 was
writer of note. HIS name vas law-
renee d. Burch.
Six Institutions of learning have
honored Bishop nurch with doctors
degrees. He has received The de-
gree of Doctor Of DIVINITY from
Columbia University, the University
of the South. Hobart College and
St Johns College, Mar and. lie
holds the degree Of Doctor If laws
from ms alma mater, TIE Gaver-
slty Of Michigan, and the - r,.o 4
Doctor Of Humane Letters frm S..
Stephens College, Annanaan Y.
!. At most of these college he
ro9ohcd the lacca'su~eate mon
N the occasion Of hs bei1e ai-
united TO the honorary degree.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
His Diocese

BY his election a. 4oe.ssa
Bishop Burch becomes r,asl
ruler Of a diocese ha> 9t.uoo
communicates This does rot by
any means represent the n1mher n
persons ministered to. The COM
munlcaHts are those tha. have besn
confirmed and arc eerula,ie ALE
m.ttcd to church membership after
having arrived at the years Of d.-
cret.on.' There are thousands n
the diocese active ia the panoes
parishes that have not been COM
hrmed; and the record dos no.
take INTO any account the ban-izei
children.
Under his immediate jurisdiction
VIII be church properties valued al
more than slo0,O00.00o. Of wh'ch
$50 600 600 is Represented in sin
gle parish. Trinity.
There are 42s clergy directly re-
sponsible TO him.
The diocese embraces SOD
square niles n Manhattan. TAs
Bronx and Richmond boroughs ana:
Dutchess, Orange, Putnam. Vest
chester and Sullivan counties.
AS bishop of the diocese he wi
receive a stipend of SIS, 1000 a year.
raised by parish assessments. lIas
home Will be the bishops residencs
on the Cathedral close.
The bishop. by virtue Of his
office, becomes a trustee of Colum-
bia University and of the General
Theological Seminary and, in the
course Of the next few weeks, will
be elected TO many other posts of
trust.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

priested-I was elected sufFragsn
bishop Of this diocese.
"But 1 leave it to you gentleme,
to say whether have not had a.
long service in the ministry as tia
average man who is .ectea to
bishopric. Practically my whole lfe
has been given to the rrice e -so
church,