Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1926, Page 21

BY YOUNG STRAWN Son of Fundamentalist Lead- r, Ready, for Ministry, Defles Baptist Body BY BRADIEY W. mm‘r. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, July 17.—Any bright young college man who thinks -the modernists gain all the, recruits at|" graduation- time, and that he knows the Jast word on the Bible's conflict with evolution, can get a regular catch-as-catch-can argunient any day from New York's youngest exponent of Bryanesque fundamentalism. Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, 21, eld- est son of Rev. John Roach,Straton, well known Baptist pastor Who has |’ taken up the banner dropped by the late William Jennings Bryan in the war 'on _modernists, is a fighting fundamentalist. He has a fight on his hands even before he has entered the ministry, and he has flung a ringing defi to the modernists to try to make him wear their -collar. Young Starton has just been gradu- ated from Mercer University at Ma- con, Ga., and will' receive his M. A, degree in August. The coming week he will go before the council of Calvary Baptist Church here, of which his father is pastor, to be ordained as a minister. He will do so in direct de- flance of the Southern New York Bap- tist Association, for he denies its au- thority to take over to itself exclusive charge of the examination of candl- dates for the ministry. This action of the Baptist associa- tion is termed by young Straton as simply another move of the modernist wing of the church under the leader- ship of Dr. Emerson Fosdick and John D. Rockefeller, jr. Straton contends that the local church is su- preme and that the association’s rul- ing violates a time-honored prineiple of individual autonomy in the church, Has Punch in Words. Young Straton is astall, bronzed youth with flashing dark ‘eyes and a punch in his words which rhakes them crackle in spite of his Southern drawl. The writer asked him for a fuller exposition of his views on religion and the educational system, after hearing him give a sermon in Calvary Baptist Church the past week in which he made public his defi to the modernist forces. Young Straton thinks there are plenty of things wrong with the col- leges, although he doesn't quite share his father’s belief that “the world is going straight to hell.” The youth is not convinced that some of the |y world's sins cannot be corrected. ‘What the American.yduth needs in this “jazz age,” young. Straton be- lieves, is a more frequeat and vigdr- ous application of the good old hick- ory stick and more home training. “The educational system today 1is wrong _because it places emphasis in the wrong places,” he declared. “It fails to strengthen character at the most important point—that of faith. We are substituting lopsided theories for living truths. Facts are poured into the student, but little faith.” Shuns: the Theater. Young Straton sald ‘he ‘doubted whether_ “God would have called me to preach if I had been raised on card parties, Mencken and“the pitiful trash that fills most of our modern novels.” He does not dance, smoke, play cards or attend the theater. Inéidentally his father is an inveterate foe of the theater, havii written a book-with the title “Church Vs. Stage” and look- ing upon the theater as qne of the egencies corrupting, nm&wnh of the young. Young Straton would rank the Bi- ble alongside of Shakespearé .in the public schools. The Old Testament, at least, could be placed on the cur- riculum, he believes, and the whole Bible' should be studied in colleges for {ts literary and ethical values. He interprets the Bible literally and cannot, reconcile evolution with it, but admits that students should be per- mitted to accept or reject whatever portions théy choose. “People la when you mention the story of Jonah and the whale,” he said, “but it ‘shows they fail to appreciate the true lesson of the story—that of obedience.. If there were more obedience: tanght ‘in the home, there would bé less wayward- ness among youth and less crime.” Scores Church Body. Regarding the ukase of the South- ern New York Baptist Association on ordination, young Straton said “that it appears to be the first step in\the definite plan of a few men to gain control of the Baptist denomination by controlling the preachers.” “E do not propose to how my knee to this modern Baal,” he declared, I refuse to be stamped with the wrap- ping stamp of the man-made machine system adopted by the association.” Straton has a younger brother who is studying law. The elder brother is named after his mother, who was Miss Georgia Hillyer of Atlanta. Rev. John. Roach Straton was born in Evansville, Ind, He was graduated from Mercer University in 1898 and Jater taught there and at Baylor Uni- versity, Tenn. He held pastorates in Chicago, Baltimore and Norfolk be- fore coming to.New York in 1918, (Copyright. 1926.) EAST PRUSSIA TO SPEAK. Will Present Aims From fin;i;n- burg House to Be Dedicated. BERLIN, July 17 (#).—President von Hindenburg’s eightieth birthday ni 1927 will mark the dedication of & Hindenburg house in Berlin, accord- ing to plans of the Eastern German League. The league is striving to ennghun the rest of Germany on the prol and aims of the province \)f Ealt Prussia which is separated from the| Reich proper by the Polish corridor, It will erect & bullding from which the. propapanda will be earried on. - The building will be named Hindenburg house in view of the fleld marshal’s wictories in East Prussia in the war. ADOLPH KAHN \ President JEWELERS A9th Observation Squadron, Bolling Field, who hlve of the urhl looked after ‘m 8. Jones lJeIt Peter Murray and Lieut Ralph H. Lawter. AIR AND PHOTO RETURN FROM VICTORY IN FIELD Obser.vntion —SectioI.I Carries on Campaigfi Against “Red Army”’ for 15 Days and Wins Commenda- tion for Saving City. Bursting with pride over the praise that has been showered on it by Air Corps officials for the efficient ‘man- ner in which it carried out 15 days of gruéling flying maneuvers of a war- time nature, in the vicinity of Mar- tinsburg, W. Va., the 99th Observation Squadrof of Bolling Field—the only winged war organization in the Dis- trict—has returned to the Humdrum routine of peace-time flying. Numbering 6 officers, 80 men, 11 trucks and 6 airplanes, the 99th, ac< companied by the 3rd Photo Section, left Washington July 2, pitched into the heat of battle the following day and almost without a’'let-up waged a bloodless campaign against the oppos- ng force of 250,000 men until the 8th Division, of which it served as thé “eyes” was replaced after victory. ‘The 99th and the 3rd Photo Section alone did not whip the 250,000 men in. the Army, ‘but they satisfled Y.hemlem that; the 8th Division ‘would e’ spent twice as much-time in the fleld and would have-had to work twice as hard to inflict the pun- 10 of e e E. Skanse, Lieut. Bob E. ishment it did against the imaginary force without their assistance. The 8th Division, by the way, was snugly quartered at Baltimore in reality. The maneuvers were strictly tech- nical and pufely military and conse- quently much of the romance of flying was sacrificed. But the officers and men were delighted in the knowledge that at daybreak the mythical com- mander of the theoretical 8th received from them photographs of all rail- roads, roads and bridges as far as 60 miles in advance of the line of march. That these photographs were sup- plemented by verbal statements as to the condition of the land over which they would travel may be two days hence; that the commander was fur- nished with mosaic photographs of all' ‘enemy earthworks on his front on the evening before and at daybreak of the Blue’s general advance; that at all times the commander knew just ex- actly where his advanced infantry lines were, as the planes flying above them reported their progress by .ra- dio; that the 8th’s artillery. scored a higher percentage of hits because an observer in a plane, equipped with radio, corrected the fire from time to time; that the commander knew when the enemy’s targets were exposed and worth shooting at, and finally, that such information could not be ob- tained from any other source. The 99th and the third photo sec- tion took their work seriously. Based on Shepherd’s Field, 4 miles south of Martinsburg, and entirely self-sustain- ing, they operated from this post in the same manner they would from Bolling Field. A radio mast was erect- ed and the field was in constant touch with the.radio plane at all times, and as far away as 70 miles.. A machine shop truck was on the ground to make repairs to motors and planes, and two photograph trucks, developed at McCook Field, Dayton, served as laboratories of the finest type. Bomb Work Carried Out. At daybreak the planes went out, and at nightfall they returned, after condiwesing one reconnaissance mis- sion after another. On several occa- slons’ they saw strategic points, such as bridges and railroads, that could be destroyed and handicap. the enemy in his retreat from the on-pushing Blue army. Actual Homb# were ' dropped, but not on the points in question, as the State authorities mllht have pro- tested. The fiyers bmugm back with them hundreds of photographs of anything that looked like it might .have the slightest bearing on assisting or re- tarding the advance of the Blue mny. ‘Thousands of words of official ‘radio- grams and messages and writ| lre ports also were offered in evidel an example of the work wcmplllhed. The airmen didn't imagine: they were doing these things, they performed every duty except the actual firing of their machine guns and bombing of strategic points. . On the morning of July 2 Lieut. Samuel C. Skemp, commanding officer of the squadron, received from Maj. H. B. Clagett, commandant of Bolling Feld, a paper setting forth “the gen- eral situation.” ‘The situation was MEMBERS OF AMSTERDAM DIWD ..XCH‘NG' X ofC.cAatinclne. « THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AT DIAMONDS And Other Precmus /Stones anything but pleasant, and all Wash- ington in preparing for the Fourth of ARTHUR'J.-SUNDLUN Treasurer Street rummmn c- e TR SQUADRONS July celebration was unconscious of the danger it was in. The enemy or Red fleet had control of the sea and had bottled up Chesapeake Bay. The Patapsco River and Baltimore Harbor was heavily rhined, The Red army was in occupation of Wheeling, W, Va.: Unicntown, Pa.; Cumberland, Hagerstown, Frederick and Baltimore. ‘Washington was in Blue teritory. The railroad between Point of Rocks and Gaithersburg was destroyed, and all bridges west of Hyattstown were de- molished by the Blue forces before being driven down this far. Started From Alexandria. - The 34 Army Corps was at Rich- mond, the 2d Army Corps at Camp Meade and the 1st Corps, all of the Blue forces, between Laurel and Rock- ville. With the n{tua.llon as described on the paper well in hand, Lieut. Skemp mobilized his squadron and the photo section, and, according to Maj. Clagett, “‘they went out of here the finest mili- tary organization I ever saw in the Air. Corps. The hll! dozen planes, five DH's and one new Douglas O-2 observation, hied down to Alexandria, and then carefully scrutinized the line rurmlng from that city to Paw Paw, W. Vi Lieut. Skemp’s duty was to assist his 8th Division in getting to the front lines of the enemy and to report the latter’s actions. “The squadron moving .by motor truck couldn’t go to Martinsburg by the Frederick-Harpers Ferry or Hi Wn route, because the enemy thdt, So it moved up to Blue- mont, down to Winchester and over to Martinsburg. Then followed days in which the 99th chaperoned the 8th Division over bridges, along rpads, and through fields.. On J\lly 7 the general attack was made. The 99th worked feverishly, directing the In- fantry and Artillery to the best ad- vantage, -They dropped messages, sent back wireless messages, and, within short periods, delivered photo- graphs of what was going on away up in front that the main body ‘could not see or hope to see. “Victim” Jumps 3,500 Feet. And when the “big push” got al- most to the Pennsylvania line, the 8th, which had suffered considerably, was replaced by the 9th, and the air observation squadron attached to that organization carried on the work where the 99th.left off. Lieut. Skemp .had with him Lieut. U. S. Jones as operations officer, Lieut. Peter E. Skance as engineer, Lieut. George L. Murray as assistant engineering officer, Lieut. Bob E. Nowland as adjutant, and command- ing the third photo section, and Lieut. 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POLISH DIET DEBATES DICTATORSHIP ISSUES Predicted Cabinet Will Be Upheld in Profionl to Increase Executive Power. X By the” Associated Press. 3 WARSAW, July 17.»-Amgndmflll of the Constitution to incréase the executive power was debated through- out yesterday's session of the Diet. Although voting will not take pl until next week, it is already freel predicted that the Diet's decision will fully satisfy.the Cabinet. It is considered certain that the Diet will pass two fundamental amendments to the Constitution, pro- viding for presidential right’to dis- solve the houses of Parllament and the right by presidential decree to complete legislative work started in these bodies. 4 The Government does not intend to make immediate use of these powers. It will maintain the present Diet, ordering only a recess until Fall. For the time being, the Diet will grant the Government full powers in con- nection only with current matters, ac- companied by the understanding that if necessary, additional powers will be granted later on. MOTOR LIBRARY SHOWN. Aid to Dissemination of Literature Exhibited at Sesqui. PHILADELPHIA; July 17 (®).—A motorized library, which a score of a. | COmmunities have established for sharing their reading facilities with their rural neighbors, is one of the and one of the greatest needs I by farm women is ‘“mokbe libraries.” ‘Although it originated in 1905 in Washington County, Md., the travei- ing lbrary spread but - slowly. Detroit, ~ Dayton, =Birmingham and Portland, Oreg., are among the larger 2itfes which have ad it, and about a score of smaller cities. o PR AR ‘While the United, States and Great Britain sent more. motor cycles to other countries last year, exports of other Eurppean motor cycle manufac- turing centers declined. Ralph N. Lawter, mess officer. Out- smntung among the enlisted men were Sergt. George Matos, Lieut. Now- land’s < photographer, who shot and developed the hundreds of photo- graphs, and Sergt. Charles F. Lang- hammer, radio observer for long-dis- tance reconnaissance missions, Sergt. Lapghammer, simulating the victim of an enemy pursuit attack, jumped from his plane at 3,500 feet, dropped 1,000 feet before pulling the rip cord of the parachute, and landed on the airdrome at Martinsburg. 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