Glacier County chief., 1940-10-25

NJ EW YORK.-Rear Adm. Hayne
Ellis, who will command the
new Atlantic navy, now being devel-
oped, is not only one of the country's
SaDoir Fare, as t b,lt tbe s ,a,1
Well as Fighting, piest dresser
Adm. Ellis Dish M lne me n ae .s
and most popular of
naval officers. He has a reputation
for unusual spirit and enterprise and
is credited with a wide and highly
specialized knowledge of foreign
affairs.
Like virtually all the navy
high command, he is a landlub-
Der, hailing from Macon, Ga.
After his graduation from the
Naval academy in 1900, he
served in the Boxer and Philip
pine rebellions and thereafter
commanded many first-lime
ships. He was liaison officer
during the Washington arms
conference, was aide to Secre-
tary of the Navy DENLY and
from 1881 to 1894 was head of
the naval intelligence. II was
he who was picked as naval
aide to the prince Of Wales on
the latter's goodwill tour Of this
country.
Last year he was transferred from
command of the ninth naval district
to the command of the Atlantic
squadron. While the new Atlantic
navy, starting with nucleus of yes
sells now in the Atlantic, will be un-
der his single command, both Pacif-
ic and Atlantic fleets will be under
the supreme command of Adm.
James o. Richardson, commander
in-chief of the United States fleet.
Sea dogs stress the admiraPs
popularity with the jack tars.
A few years ago he was IN
charge Of flock of them On q
visit to the Vatican. The boys
pulled a navy yell, with their
yell-leaders doing back hips. It
might have seemed an unseemly
proceeding, but the admiral had
known II was coming, and had
6oSoSCo SOAlCCUy AAak ~ WO0lo
bring a call for encores-which
it did, from the pope himself.
Admiral Ellis is So years old, tail.
erect and broad-shouldered and,
again, magnifcently tailored. He
attained his present rank in 1888.
A S The Little Church Around the
"a Corner marks its ninety-second
birthday, DR.. Randolph Ray may be
noting with interest that Jupiter and
Stars Slip; Little saturn 1T are
Church Around through a
The Corner Firm triple con
which hasn't happened for some
thing over 300 years. DR.. Ray keeps
track of the stars and thinks it quite
likely that his destiny "inclines"
with theirs. For many years, he
consulted the late Evangeline
Adams, the astrologer. He thinks
it quite reasonable that the affairs
of men should be linked with the
cosmic deeps.
Jupiter and Saturn, it hap
pens, are backsliding, or retro
grading, but DR.. Ray and The
Little Church Around the Corner
are standing firm-largely due
to the tolerance, social tact and
humane understanding Of the
rector. It is said that in his
youth he was impressed by Rob
ert Browning's invocation Of q
degree of humane worldliness
among churchmen. That might
have been Fra Lippo Lippi.
At any rate, DR.. Ray met the
theater more than halfway in max
ing The Little Church the haven for
its people, and also the romantic
shrine of thousands of marriages.
He is no off-hand marrying parson.
He investigates all couples thorough
ly and the rites of his church are
never casually administered.
OF southern birth, he was .
'1eE man" for the Brooklyn
Eagle, and groped around the
edges Of law and medicine BE-
fore he became q minister.
Studies at Columbia university
inclined him to the Episcopal
ministry. After his ordinAtiea,
he consulted Evangeline AAaxAs.
She told him he would 70 Wes1
and meet great success there.
In Bryan, Texas, he became re-.