The New York herald., 1920-01-09
nation 5 STRENGTH
IN EDUCATION, SAYS.
BISHOP TT. GA|L0R|
Episcopal Council Head Is
Honored by Tennessee Club
on Jackson Day.

Belief that the soundness at heart of
the American people. aided by more
thorough system of proper and compul-
sorry education, will preserve tho country
against all attacks from within or without
was expressed last night by the Right
Rev. Thomas +. Gailor. Bishop Of Tennes-
see and newly chosen president Of the
Council Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in America, in his first public ad-
dress since assuming that high office
The Bishops remarks were made at the
fifteenth annual observance Of jackson
Day by the Tennessee Society in New
York. Nearly four hundred members Of
in a ballroom OF the Hotel Pennsylvania
for dinner and dance. at which tho
Bishop was principal guest
The speech, which for the most part
was a eulogy Of Tennessee's most noted
citizen, was delivered from beneath a
portrait Of the hero at New Orleans,
around which were sprigs Of holly taken
from the grounds of the Hermitage. Jack
sons ancestral home. near Nashville. and
sent north, for the occasion. Officers Of
other Southern State societies in New
York were seated with him at the speak
ers' table.
Traitors to the People.
There are lessons to be learned for US
today from the life Of Andrew Jackson"
declared Bishop Gailor. "Of course. We
know what Jackson felt concerning
ject to man critcising a particular ac-
ton of the government or a particular
resolution, but the man that criticises
the government itself and derides tho
government is a traitor not only to the
government but to the Reople of the
United States.
jackson was the first aggressive cham
pion of that government which Lincoln
described in that immortal phrase. of the
people, by the people, for the people But
at the same time he didn't hesitate to
stand up against the popular view. He
believed that the best friends of democ-
racy were those who sometimes opposed
what the mass dictated, and the people
honored him and followed him as an
honest man.
''The American people in the last two
years have justified Jackson's confidence
in them. / want here to pay a tribute to
those thousands OF men and women,
poorly paid, receiving crown or recogni-
tion from no one, who are teaching the
schools from California to Maine and the
thousands Of men preaching the gospel.
to whom we owe the fact that In the
crisis the American people were found
with intelligence, able to grasp the princi-
Piles of the war. allowing to go forth to
make sacrifices and win the war.
I'm not talking of the people here in
New York, where four-fifths Of them are
foreigners, but Of the people Throughout
the land. Their hearts are sound, and
when they are this way America need
never fear for the future.
I'm not afraid If there be unrest IN the
country. AS Burke once said, half dozen
grasshoppers in an open field Will make
more noise than a herd of -Shorthorns.
Dissatisfaction with things is not deca-
dence. it is a sign of life. The only un-
healthy sign is~a torpid complacence in
things as they are. 1 want there to be un-
satisfaction, dissatisfaction with condi-
tions That means progress, and hope for
the future.
jackson was the most picturesque fig
ure in American history, with the excep-
ton, perhaps, of Abraham Lincoln and
Theodore Roosevelt. He had an iron Will.
He believed deeply. He believed in the
American government and the people IN
whom It rested, and he believed profoundly
in Andrew Jackson. His enemies talked
of Jackscnian vulgarity,' and In the same
breath admitted he was prince
"I believe nine-tenths of the troubles OF
the country would be solved IL We had the
proper kind of universal. compulsory edu-
cation. Our first need therefore. is educa-
ton, universal and compulsory. ia IKE
to see a public school for every hundred
children in the land, and our schools
should be nurseries of patriotism"
DR.. James J. King, president Of the So
ciety, and POSTMASTER, introduced bisnop
Caller as follows:-
"He has been a national figure for
many years because of his ability and YER
satility. In addition to being a great
bishcp his counsel is sought In other oirec-
tions. He is vice president OF the Oniteo
States Chamber of Commerce. To u.s.
who have known him intimately for nany
years, one of his sweetest traits OF char
acter is his personal modesty. Every man.
woman and child OF Tennessee knows ana
loves Bishop Gailor. In his duties as
bishop he has confirmed classes in every
village in Tennessee, and when he came TO
town every church but the one in which
he preached was deserted"
The Tennessee Society will purchase
silver service for the new dreadnought'
the Tennessee, which is to be commits
stoned next month.