Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23

position being impregnalole-he can't be
unSeated, dismissed or diSciplined-he
has been able ever since to do what he
likes, say what he likes, and be what he
likes, and he has taken full advantage
of the privilege.
Enters Journalistic Field.
His stipend is $500 a year, and he
has a gloomy old house of 80 rooms to
live in behind the cathedral. When he
was attacked for intruding into the
journalistic field and taking up space
which professional journalists might
have filled he replied that 1t cost him
$1,000 a year to educate his four chill
dren-and he had to live.
He lives happily, ragged by his chill
dren and companioned by charming
and decorative wife, little woman who
understands him perfectly, discusses
his writings with him, acts as his aide
and liaison officer, lakes responsible
ties off his shoulders, goes ahead and
inspectS the country houses in which
he takes his holidays always working
holidays he worked hard even on his
honeymoon), presides over his parties
in the huge deapery behind its heavy
courtyard wall (they love entertaining(
and sees that he has small change in
his pockets when he goes out, and that
IIC HICSC1lbc q OlllS anu NCh SANSo4ASNA
appearance when he dimes out, which
Is often.
For a reason which is somewhat OBJ
scure (but maybe Mrs. Inge, who is OFF,
cially Lady Inge, gets tired of it, or his
sons find 1t liability the dean doesn't
like his title of GLOOMY" He even
once had himself photographed smiling
(but it looked bit forged, Just to show
the world that he has his lighter
moments.
And he has. He can unbend socially
and dispense old Jokes and new lime
ricks. Here is one of his minor mas
terpieces:
There was a good canon of Durham
Who swallowed a hook and worTum;
Said the dean to the bishop:
7 have brought u good fish up,
But I'm afraid We shall have to in
terrum.'"
Accepted Wine and Cigars.
It is also on record that when he was
dining on one occasion with a brace OF
bishops and some others, the bishops
(their lordships Of London and Win
chester waved away wine and hqueurs.
The dean, however took cham champa gnss
handed around. "No, thank you" said
London. Not for me-" said Winches-
ter. The dean helped himself to a
cigar, and, lighting it placidly. leaned
across to his host, noted bon viveur,
and, indicating his ecclesiastical supe-
riors, observed ceprecatingly: But
they have other vicesP
These are private moments, however.
His public appearances remain lower
ing, ominous, limiting at the wrath to
come. Ten years ago he announced the
impending bankruptcy Of England, and
the sequel, anarchy, reacting to mill
tarism. He saw his country degenerate
ing to a thiniy populated agricultural
nation of no Importance in world poll
tics, The period Of transition: ne re-
marked, win probe bly, be frightful.
England still being on her feet seven
years later, he forecast the destruction
of her industry and commerce and
prophesied that soon 10000, 900 Of her
people would find themselves without
means Of subsistence. So far the num-
Der has only topped the 100000 mark
Sees Asiatic Domination Coming.
Taking q widfr look at things, he
thinks that the result of the Labor
movement In America, Europe and Aus
tralia has been to produce a type Of
working man without survival value
and that, as the conditions in white
countries become more and more I'M
favorable to enterprise, both capital and
business ability will migrate to Asia
which will soon be full of mighty plants
and so rich that 1t will be able to con-
struct and maintain enormous war ma
chimes to protect its own interests and
hold the whites of. The only bright
spot in the outlook is that in the end
the supremacy of the Asiatic Che sees
neither physical nor intellectual infe-
riority In the yellow raceS) win force
upon mankind a general simplifcation
of life which perhaps viii give us So
cial freedom.
England has come to accept him as
It accepts Bernard Shaw, as a man
privileged to say what he likes, how he
likes and when ne likes He may en-
rage it, but he also entertains it hugely
and through what the Archbishop OF
Canterbury once described tactfully as
his Originality and sometimes eccen-
tricity Of thought" it glimpses a large
measure of cold truth and common
sense.
His political ideas appeal to the die
hard Tory. He is the most outspoker
anN-socialist and anti-Labor man in
the island. But he is quoted by M
party, for his ideas, like those OF re-
tired colonies, elderly headmasters, rich
old auntS and crusted civil servants
have something a little odd, a little
drastic about them. And he can be
unexpected. For instance, he preached
a sermon at an international peace con-
gress in which he roundly declared that
all the belligerents in the World Wal
were as bad as one another gem OF
pure reason which enraged those John
Bull Englishmen who, when they read
his articles and addresses on labor anc
the uiddles classes, declare him to bt
the Soundest, sallest man in the country
Rarely Constructive.
He Is rarely constructive. His genius
Is for criticism. Give him half brick
and he can do marvellous things with
1t. It will bowl over a row OF Labor
politicians and go ricocheting away u
make a dent in Uncle Sans debt policy
knock bishops eye out, give the Pope
a bad headache and beat all the WING
out Of civilization as a whole.
When he warns his own church thai
II II insists on its ministers really be-
lieving all the article they have to sub
scribe to on ordination, its pulpits viii
presently be occupied exclusively by
fools, bigots or liars, and adds that "a
man must be "A humbug or a saint tG
preach the Gospel in these days In 6
pure and unalloyed FORM" he is hailed
as the incarnation Of common sense.
When he cuts clean across the orthe
dox religious schools, leaves all the timit
clerics standing pulls the noses OF stand
back bishops (and tells reporter gayl.
that the bishops can't do anything t
him, anyway. and goes on to restat
religion as a search for the nature O
God and Chris tianity as a standard o
values and a way of life necessitatinl
the study of Greek philosophy as well a
of the Bible, he carries immense multi
tudes with him and earns the praise o
the world of statesmen, scientists ant
all educated, broad-minded element
outside the of cial church organization
But when he gets his class bee in hi