Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1925, Page 40

STRADDLING ISSUES * RAPPED BY DAWES Compares Lincoln’s Stead- fastness With “Pussyfoot- ing of Political Leaders.” By the Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, February Lincoln during the e poverty and at all ot nized no superior on the 13. —Abraham Iy 3 3 ars of his dent-clect, be several 1. Span- ish-American and World Wars and. members of the Illinois Lions Clubs at the Lincoln’s day dinner address- ed by notable ere last night. . Mr. Dawes said this was the piéture of Lincoln which appealed ‘to him Kince he was a young man did not consider any man his inferior.” he said, “but he recognized no su- perlor. There was in that an expla- nation of his great power.of lead- ership. “Could you éver imagine Lincoln pussyfooting or shoddylng as some political leaders do today, straddling the fence, preaching one thing in one section of the country and some- thing else in another to gain a few votes? That's what' this country today country are all something wrc sometimes with their leaders. 1 don't respect any man, whatever his party, who won stand up and fight for the Constitu tion and law enforcement in the United States.” A telegram from tdge was read. “As the passage of the years draws us farther away from the time of Lincoln,” it said, *men and women throughout the world come more and more to realize how greatly the,spirit of the Emancipator has given in- spiration to the ‘finer human senti- ments. Everywhere men are moved by a deeper, a more real, a more urgent sense of their duty to ome another and to the higher interests of the society of which all are mem- bers.” he matter with he people of the he, but there President Cool- RUHALBHURCH NEGLECT DANGEROUS, PASTOR SAYS 30,000 Congregations 10,000 Villages Are Without Ministers, Conference Is Told. in By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 13.— Asserting that there were 30,000 con- gregations in 10,000 villages of. the country without regular ministe Dr. John McDowell of New York ve terday told the national Presbyterian conference there w peril in neglect of the rural church. \ “We must care for the rural dis- tricts, for they are the foundati head of the whole religious stem,” sald Dr. McDowell, who is chairman of the board of national missions. * Dr. McDowell said there were 12,- 000,000 children in the United States without Sunday schools. The Rev. Dr. John A. Marquis, gen- eral secretary of the board of foreign missions, and Drs Josiah H. Penni- man, president of the Universify ‘of Pennsylvania, were the principal speakers at last night's session —o=a W We hope’th’ silver dollar does come back so we kin slap it on th” counter an’ git some service: Ther’s an open season fer th’ walrus, but th’ feller with a droopin’ mustache is as safe durin’ th’ | sons. is roastin’ ear sea- | Zero weather allus brings out | {alot o ole styles. |~ The days "ILsoon be so long we | won’t have t' jump up from th’ upper table t' turn th’ tail light on. % » fer we hain’t heard o’ no romances growin' out o’ radio photergraphs. “He ought t’ be back now, he jest stepped out a moment t’ git a character witness,” said Boot- legger Tke Lark’s wife t’ a caller this motnin’. Movie censorin’ should begin at home. i It’s hard enough t’ stay awake in any.conference, but how any- buddy ki keep from dozin’ off |-at an opjum ‘parley is more’n we L kin tell. | We no sooner git t" wonder- | in” how some folks kin own a i car till we read where they've gone t" Miami. It’s jest leaked out that Mrs. { Art Smiley’ gave her husband | cigarettes fer th’ home instead | of ofy piller Christmus. Th' latest young couple t' split up is Jack and Myrt Pur- viance. She’d allus béen used t’ bein’ petted, but he don’t drink. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) Asks $5,000 Damages. William C. and Franz A. Bergmann, trading as the Bergmann Laundry, wefe sued for $5,000 damages yesterday by Nathan C. Faucett for alleged personal injuriés. Through Attorney George R. Sheriff, the plaintiff says he was strick by an autostruck of | the defendants, October 6, at Ninth and G streets, and thrown to the ground. durin’ th’ oyster months as he | LUDENDGRF QUTS ASPARTY SHEAD Resigns Ardent Nationalist Group Post—Recent Losses Believed Heavy. Iy the Associated Press, BERLIN, February 13.—~Gen. Luden- dorff_has resigned his leadership of the National Soclalist arty, but mains patron of the Anijt-Semetii onalist. organization.~ The National alist party, repre- senting the exireme reactionar: ment In Germany, suffered the, last parliamentary election December. Its losses were particu- larly conspicuous in Bavaria, where purporting to e | cistl, it had monarchistic tion of this dorff-Hitler : 1923, in which armed forces were in an unsuccessful attempt to over- throw the Bavarian government and [install’a military dictatorship over all Germany. nuo |ZIONIST TO ADDRESS Palestine, Will'Speak at Cosmos Club. A public reception to Louis Lipsky. chairman -of the Zionist Organization of Ameriea, recently returned from London and Palestine, will be held under the auspices of the local Zion- ist organization Monday night at o'clock at the Cosmos Club, 13 street northwest. Dr. Louis J. Schwefel, president of the local organization, will preside, and Dr. Lipsky will deliver the ad- dress of the evening. It is announced that no collection for the Zionist movement will be taken at the re- ception, which will be open to the public Mr. Lipsky's association with the Zionist movement dates back to its very inception a quarter of a In the American tion Mr. Lipsky secretary of t deration and sec- ry for organization, and in 1922 at the Philadelphia convention was elected chairman of tha executive committee, the highest position of the lected to position at the Baltimore con- vention in 1923 and at Pittsburgh in 1924, 4% REBEL LEADER SLAIN. Native Chief, Leader of Anti-Ital- ian Group, Shot Down. TRIPOLI, February 13.—The rebel leader, Hibrahim Sciteni; who es- caped from Carsbuadi the day the Italians occupied the Sirte region, has been killed in battle by soldiers of Abdul Lefel Mahar in Fezzan. His death has greatly impressed the na- tives, as he was considered the last important person conhected with the rebellion against Italy throughout Libya. | in DISTRICT AUDIENCE Lo/uis ‘Lipsky, Recently Back From. SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN CLUB HEADS NAMED Organization Designed to Embrace G. 0. P. Members in 17 States Is Formally Started. By the Associated Press, MEMPHIS, Tenn, February 13.— Designed ultimately to embrace in its membership white Republicans in 17 Southern States, extending from the Carolinus to Missouri and south through Texas and Arizona, the Southern States Republican League was formally started on its way yes- with the election of Charles dor, Vicksburg, Miss, as its first president. John Q. Eaton, Mem- s ‘elected secreta Of the 11 yere represented at the ion, Walter CHICHESTER URGED TO SUCCEED SIMS Stafford County Judge Given Many Indorsements for Virginia Supreme Bench. Bpecial Bispately to The Ster. ~ FREDERICKSBURG, Va., February 13—Friends of Judge R. H. L. Chi- chester of Stafford County are urging his candidacy for the scat on the Su- preme Court of Virginia made by the death of Judge F. W of Lou astern Virginians have written to ov. Trinkle, who will make the ap- pointment pending the meetifig of the Legislature. Tie bar of the clrcuit, comprising the counties “of Spotsylvania, ord, King George, Caroline and Hano as well as civic organizations of Freder re for Judge Chichester. e is a nati and a_ mel of a prominent Vir- ginia family. He was educated at the University of Virgini cott, Birmingham, who s vice president for Ala- Sheldon, former elected governor for and H. B. 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