The Washington times., 1922-08-06
BY RT. REV. ID. S. FUTILE
---- (OIdet ActiUe ChWchman In America) . --.#
World Better Says Bishop who is For Sunday Motion
Pictures Great Power For Good and Does Not Object Their Show
ing Sabba-Young do Not Differ Greatly From Those of Fifty
Wears Apn i.

its to Montana in 1869 q fire
started in Helena which threaten
ed to wipe out the community.
Bishop Dan whipped off his
clerical coat and got into action.
Helena was saved. and the town
records tell today of how three
gangs Of fire-fighters saved the
day under the leadership Of the
bishop. ~
Bishop Tuttie Ted one Of the
gangs himself and the other two,
working under his leadership,
were led respectively by Bitter
Root BILL" Helena's baddest
bad" man." and Gentle WILL"
the leading gambler of the town,
both thereafter the bishops devot.
ed admirers.
His work as 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 univer-
sal veneration.
He was asked to reminisce a
little on his fifty-five years as a
bishop.
"It is not my way to look back.
ward" he replied promptly.
Young fellows like myself pre-
fer to look forward. When / first
met my brethren in the House OF
Bishops in 1868 there were forty
bishops in the house in all. Now
there are 13s. and Of these have
sconsecrated eighty-seven. Then
In every 1,214 Americans one was
communicate Of the Episcopal
Church-now it is one in ninety.
nine"
Bishop Tuttle was asked about
the progress of the world In those
fifty years which have elapsed.
YOUNG PEOPLE GOOD.
Has the world made sood2"
he repeated. "Is 1t a better
world than 1t was? Go to the
graves Of our brave, honored dead
and ask that question.
Folks say. The young people
are going astray; they turn away
from the sober and thoughtfuI
things and to the pleasures and
excitements Of life as to things
worth while Some do, doubt.
less.
But are you quite sure that
you are right in your sweepins
generalization?
Go into homes and watch. Go
into schools and examine. You
will find among the boy.
strong and sound notions toward
adventure for the good and out.
reaching 40 be somebody and to
do something to help on in the
strange job of human life;, and in
the girls. upspringings Of mother.
hood that is shut within them,
the desire to be of use, to care
for some one, to be unselfish and
helpful.
THE young are not all eoh,s
astray. They do not differ Rreatlr
from the young Of fifty years ago
Not a few Of them are trying 20
make the world better for thei,
living in 1t. ......
And about prohibition. I an
not a teetotaler; never have
been. But do you see any intoxi-
Gated men now In the street?
Five years ago our eyes would
have been offended and our Der.
sons would have been jostled on
almost every block.
rs not such q change a founda.
ton fact in favor of prohibition?
Yes. ! note what 1t said about
personal liberty" Bishop Tuttie
continued, but the unwise and
unlawful Interference with home
rights and personal liberty and
the unwholesome and Injurious
restrictions connected with pro
hibition in time and under the
wise care Of the American people
may be done away with. But in
the meantime. there are the
facts"
"The moving picture" it was
suggested, 'as q marked develop.
ment Of the fifty-five, years Of
your bishopric."
Yes" he interrupted. "a very
powerful educational force .
force Of great potency for good"
Sunday movies2" was asked"
why not? II they are clean
they will do no harm; and In this
connection I am reminded of the
outcry against Sunday baseball.
can see absolutely no harm in
clan moving pictures and base
ball on Sunday. providing those
who seek these recreations have
first discharged their religious