The Washington times., 1922-08-05
FLAPPERS
ALL RIGHT,
HIS BELIEF
Daniel S. Tuttle, SIS Years in
Episcopate, Warns U. S.
Against Puritanism.

differ greatly from those OF sixty
years ago. Give them your hand {;
give them your heart; and pray
God to bless them.
Go to the graves Of the brave,
honored dead, and learn that the
world constantly grows better.
Prohibition has worked great
good; and the sense and sanity OF
the American people can be de-
pended on to adjust what loss OF
personal liberty it has entailed.
Sunday movies, golf, baseball?
Why not, if their devotees have
first discharged their religious
obligations? Do not let us make
religion repellent. .
"My message to the people OF
the United States? l take it from
Shakespeare: Let all the ends
thou aimest at be thy country's,
thy Gods and truths; then if thou
failest, o Cromwell, thou failest
a blessed martyr"
Optimist at Eighty-five.
Thus spoke the Rt. Rev. Daniel
Sylvester Tuttle, ID. d., oldest active
churchman in the United States, and
still an optimist at eighty-five.
When the gavel falls in Portland,
Ore. next September 6, calling to
order the forty-seventh triennial gen
eral convention of the Episcopal
Church, of which he Is the presiding
bishop. there will be no more pic
turesque and commanding parsonage
in attendance than this venerable
prelate, as up-to-date and progressive
as the youngest bishop In the
church.
Bishop Tuttle, fifty-five years in
the episcopate, has officiated at the
conservation of eighty-seven bishops.
In his seminary days he was noted
alike for his studious ways and his
great physical strength. He had to
lick two men on a New York Terry
boat early in his career, and later
making a stage-coach journey
through the wilds of Idaho, doused
Western bully in a watering trough.
That was the sort OF man the
Episcopal Church elected in 1857 TO
take charge of the newly created mis-
sionary district of Utah, Idaho, and
Montana, in the heart of the Rocky
mountain country. He was only
twenty.nine years old. He was con-
vowed by a troop of United States
cavalry, detailed by General Sher-
man. ultimately arriving in Salt Lake
CITY, pursued by a band of painted
Arapahoes. His own picture OF hlm-
self at that period describes him as
clad in top boots and blue shirt, with
an ammunition belt about his waist
and a gun at his side.
Was Pioneer.
His work al pioneer in the Western
country at an end, Bishop Tuttle. in
1886, was called to the episcopate OF
Missouri, where he Is living out his
life amid universal veneration.
The writer found the bishop In his
ST. Louis home recently. He just had
returned from a five-mile walk He
is still tall and erect, with white
heard, fiery, youthful eyes, and deep,
commanding voice. l asked him Tor
"reminiscences of his fifty-five years
as a bishop.
ut is not my way to look back
ward" he replied promptly. Young
fellows like myself prefer to LOOK
forward to the future"
He was asked how the present gen.
Grafton appeared to him.
Folks say The young people are
going astray; they turn away from
the sober and thoughtful things and
to the pleasures and excitements OF
life as to things worth while
Some do. doubtless. But are you
quite sure that you are right in your
sweeping generalization? Go into
homes and watch. You will find, 1
dare vouch, among the boys, strong
and sound notions toward adventure
for the good, outreachings to DO
something to help on in the strange
Job of human life; and In the girls,
even from the time OF their doliies,
upspringings of motherhood that Is
shut within them, the desire to he OF
use. TO care for some one, to be un-
selfish and helpful.
"The young are not all going
astray. They do not differ greatly
Irom the young of fifty years ago.
Not a few of them are trying to make
the world better for their living In II.
Give them your hand, give them your
heart, give them your help; and pray
God to bless them.
Not n Teetotaler.
And about prohibition. I am not
q teetotaler; never have been. But,
brother American mine, take my arm
and let us walk a bit through the
streets of st. Louis or New York.
Do you see any drunken men? do
any drunken men jostle against us?
Five years ago on such a walk to-
gether our eyes would have been
offended and our persons would
have been jostled on almost every
block. Is not such a change a foun-
dation fact in favor of prohibition?'
He vigorously decried the divorce
evil.
''It breaks up honest" he thun-
dered. 'It hurts children. 1t en-.
bodies in itself a malignant force
we'll fitted not only to ruin their
lives but even to put in danger the
life of the state.
"The motion picture" II was sug-
gested, "is a marked development of
fifty-five years of your bishopric."
"Yes," he interrupted, "a very
powerful educational force. a force of
great potency for good. They should
be made pure and uplifting. and,
Rfter that, God speed them"
Sunday movies?" was asked.
"why not? II they are clean they
will do no harm, and in this connec-
ton I am reminded OF the outcry
against Sunday baseball. We must
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