"Unbelievers"
William Jennings Bryan, the fundamentalist leader who died after a strenuous defence of the Bible on the scene of the Scopes evolution trial at Dayton, left $100,- 000 to various institutions for "promotion of Christian education."
The fact that he was only worth '$600,000 came as a great surprise, for the commoner was supposed to have made great sums in real estate deals in Florida. One third of the total goes to the widow, after one-quarter is to be spent for the Purpose above noted, and the balance divided among relatives and servants. An academy to be established for boys, "preferably under the control of the " Presbyterian Church, boys under Christian lea:
and his Nebraska home has been donated to the Methodist Church for a hospital. To his "congenial comrade and companion and my faithful helpmate for more than forty years, he left his Coconut Grove Estate, in addition to one-third of what he was worth, and it is characteristic of the man that all servants were generously remembered. To his private secret ary and his wife's chauffeur he left '$100 for every year that they had been in his service. The document was written on both sides of the paper in W. J. B.'s own hand, and ended with the words, "In the name of God, Farewell."
The will was probatdéd in the courthouse yard at Miami, Fi in drilling rain. Mrs. Bryan, an invalid, -ungple to get from her 'Tae Motor-car into the office of the Judge, sat in the front seat next to her attorney, while the judge and W. J. Bryan, Jun, stood the rain at the side of' the car as the papers were signed.
Fear a Menace to Americans It is not any common event for wise man from the East to stigmatize industrialism in this country as the greatest obstacle to A higher development. Eve the average European coming the United States for the first time notices how rush ful is the life in the eternal chase for the dollar. Much more so does this strike the esoteric Asiatic. It {is not confined to any particular area of the country, it is common everywhere; neither' does it seem to be confined alone to the commercial classes, but attacks all strata of society, for money-getting is a vital part of modern education in this country of mechanical existence, The Hindu professor is not al-Ways accurate in his definition of Western life, of which he has had no experience. But he often fs, and there is one Hindu professor now in Los Angeles who issues the warning that "mechanical Products will become a Frankenstein monster and destroy the civilization of the West, unless the West realized in time that it must become more spiritual."
Of America, he believes that no doubt exists on the point. his opinion, despite all their material pryspevity, the thief menace of the American people is fear.
"Here in America," he said yesterday, "you are afraid of automobiles, afraid of electricity, afraid of all these gigantic mechanical devices
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