The Washington herald., 1920-07-08
In the Limelight
b oeorge Perry Morria.

the wor1ditness OF the ngureS OF
spe sch used by spiritual leaders to-
day IL astonishing. Here is Dean
Charles r. Brown. of the Yale Di-
vinity SCHOOL, telling the attendants
on the International Congregatio
Council that the Interchurch moves
mcnt- now on the rocks, has left
- dark-brown tatte in the mouth
OF Protestant christiGnity in this
country" What does he know
about "A dark-brewn iaste?" It SO
happens that Dean Brown owes
much Of his Professional success to
his knowledge OF the thoughts.
speech ard emotions of ordinary
men. He caa lecture on Lincoln
with q homeliness of speech that
recalls the Great Ems ncipator. His
criticism OF the Men and Religions
Movement," the 'Laymen's Mission
church movement and the Inter
church Movement is Wholesale.
They have contributed to the hurt
and loss OF Protestantirm. because
OF overemphasis on b!gness. machin-
cry and nonspiritusl ends. You can
always count on this divine for
drive at conimerc:alism. He was
one OF those persons who stood with
Washington GisdOen when the lat
ter Was hYhing tainted money"
Choice OF Henry ]. HadIey as as
sociate director of the New York
Philharmonic o. chestra fixes In the
musical center or the country a
composer and director of note who
had his education in New England
and won his FIRST fame as a con-
ductpr in San Francisco. It Is a
case Of rounding the circumference
to finally dive In at the center.
Badcn-Powell never supposed that
when he irst began to train boys
for service tkat he would live t.
see greac International scout
movement assemble its hosts In
London. More than 200 picked lads
from the United States and our de-
pendcncies, all of thtm chosen on
merit tests, Will tharc in the great
assembly OF more than 1900 youths
gathered from thirty-four nations.
Behold how great a fire a little
matter kindleth." Good as well as
evil profits by the working of this
principle OF cause ard effect.
They nave just made public the
terms Of the last will and testament
Of Horace Fletcher. who died in CO.
penhagen in January. 1919. His es-
tate to;aIlcd S12e.s73. p smaller sum
than his friends thought he pos
sessed. But he always had a richer
brother TO fhlI back upon IL II came
to pinch. Harvard, not Yale. is
a resiiuary le2atee. notwithstand-
ing his close Friendships with Profs
Chit.endcn and anderson ard the
support they gave &c his theories
ly their experiments in nutrition
and the nerve virilty of athletes.
Fletcher was a peripatetic teacher
Of his creed. with an itinerary that
was unpredictable: and il seems
from his will and testament that he
had a distinct, formal understand
ing with his wife on the subject.
She gave him liberty to teach vital
economics and the reclamation of
the last waif." Persons who knew
Fletcher loved him. He labored in
his old age in the field Of practical
economics, and among the last or
his fellow men TO profit by his STUDY
of diet were the Belgians. But far
dearer to his hopes was his phil
osophy of living. his metaphysical
creed. disclosed in some OF his
earlier books, but not followed up
after he got immersed in dietetics
and became The Wandering Chew"
Peru seems to have a president
who can rise above the traditions
and conventionalities when occasion
demands. On the Fourth of July
he established a precedent. AS
head of the state he called on Am
basssdor Gonzales, of the United
States. So long as Ambassador
Pezet represents Peru here he will
urge just such acts by the home
administration.
Boston's former mayor, John F.
Fitzgerald, once well known in
Washington as CONGRESSMAN. is
scheduled by his admirers to sing
sweet Adeline" when he dies. A
runaway motor truck recently ran
over him. bruised his thighs and
mussed him up so much that he was
taken of to hospital; but he went
singing sweet Adeline." never
shall forget the expressions on the
faces of Sir Robert Borden and his
wife as they listened to this politI-
clan lyricist and tenor sentimen-
talist warble his favorite ditty dur
ing a dinner OF the Canadian Club
at a time when he was mayor of
Lodgetown. But why should the
former mayor and lswmaker not
sing now? He made 100000, so il
is said. out of shrewd speculations
in stocks in 1914 juts after the war
broke.