The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-10
GOSSIP IS WORST
OF VICE--GRIGGS
Lecturer Says Practice
Is the Outgrowth of
Cowardly Virtue

Gosslp is one of the worst vices
s,ovn 10 humanity. i'm the opinion
n Dr. Edward Howard Griggs. 1t
a. tha nutgrowth of what the emil
nont lecturer and analyst was
rIeased 90 call cowlrdly virtue. that
aitribute Of one who never did any
tbing good because he didn't love
Good enough and never did anything
bad because ne was afraid TO.
ant because he Is afraid 20 do
,.roug himself, ne takes N out in
,aiklng about other people. And
,borein lies the viciousness OF gos-
sin II the Rossiper would do some-
,bing wrong, said Doctor Griggs,
,hsre would be hope that he'd see
the error Of his ways and pull out OF
n but ihe smugness or self-satls-
faction hat marks the gossip makes
him menace TO progress. Gossip
cultlyat,s an inner rottenness that
makes hose who participate in It
dead weight. as Doctor Griggs stated
AZ on the back of the body polite.
IA little leaven, said the lecturer. will
raise the entire piece of dough and
a is upon the shoulders of those
mentally and spiritually equipped TO
he moral leaders that the task OF
belne the leaven for the dough. sym
bollEing the mass OF people who do
not think for themselves but who
are 70 easily led falls. Az you
know. dcclarcd~Doctor Griggs. you
owe; prestige, whether It be social,
financial, political educational or
financial. automatically incurs GER
tain obligations that one cannot, in
Justice and rigbt:~ evade.
IL was with the aim OF awakening
folk 10 q sense OF this need of lead
ershlp and of individual obligation in
bringing about the spiritualIzlng OF
the thought of all people that the
course OF lectures on moral leaders
of the world was given here in Tulsa
aby Doctor Griggs under the auspices
i the Tulsa Shakespeare club.
+ Closing with the sixth and the last
Of the series on Tolstoy Thursday
night. Doctor Griggs chose for his
subject matter leaders Of periods as
widely different in thought as they
we're In time. and against these va
rying backgrounds analysed their
ideals and accomplishment as they
have influenced tho thought of the
world. As the night needs for its
full glory all the stars, so the spir-
ltual armament of the world needs
all Of It's great minds, said Doctor
Griggs, as he pointed out that Toll
aOi made n place for his thought in
this fnmamont by reason of neither
his spirituality nor his intellectually
but because OF his great moral earn
estneSs, the somber- marked sincerity
that characterized the evil years OF
his life scarcely less than those years
OF his spiritual teaching
The analysis OF Tolstov. his rebel
Hon against the combinations oi
faith and superstition in the ortho-
dox Greek church, against the futil'
ity Of the philosophy of the aristoc'
racy, his search for tenets of faith
Upon which he could base his life
his search of the gospels and his
subsequent literal acceptance and
literal practice of what he believed
10 be the teachings OF Jesus. Doctor
Ciriggs made against the background
Of the Russian life of which Tolsto
was at all times typical. Russia
different from any other civilized
country in the world. has a dual per
spnality, Doctor Griggs said. and
upon the triumph of one OF them
will depend the future Of that natior
for the next one hundred years. II
the quick, responsive, almost Celtlt
element in Russian consciousness Il
uppermost solutions of the presen
problems may be expected within
comparatively brief space of time. ]
the stolid, nonresistant side, n side
almost oriental in its tendencies. u
victor, II will be one hundred year.
before there Is readjustment.
Announcement was made las
night that the Shakeseare club ha
arranged with Doctor Griggs 70
another course OF lectures mex
year, the subjects TO be made know
within a short time. Immensell
gratified at the unqualified success
OF the course just closed, tn
Shakespeare club m IN bers ex
pressed their appreciation of the co
| operation Of the public in making.
possible, and OF the generosity of tn
|. Boston Avenue Methodist church
In which the lectures were given, i
giving the use OF the building. Al
OF the lectures have been well at
tended by audiences of men an
women who have been keenly aliv
10 the mental stimuli. the moral up
III and the spiritual significanc
contained in Doctor Griggs' lectures