Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1930, Page 12

A-12 THE SUNDAY D, € . C, AUGUST 10, 1930—PART ONE. STAR, WASHINGTON, e VIRGINIA HONORS JEFFERSON, BYRD Admiral Guest of Honor at Monticello’s Religious and Political Shrine. Special Ditpatch to The Star. UNIVERSITY, Va. August 9. Thomas Jeflerson and Richard E. Byrd shared honors at Monticello this afternoon. It was the day annually set aside in | the midst of the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia to pay tribute to Jefferson, founder of the university. Admiral Byrd was the guest of honor at the white-pillared mansion on the sun-baked mountain top which is being preserved as a shrine of religious liberty and political freedom by the Jefferson | Memorial Foundation. { A noted American is chosen as | “guest of Monticello” each year. The | first chosen last year was Thomas E. | Edison. Today also was the occasion | of a tribute to Byrd on behalf of the | University of Virginia, which the ex- plorer attended for one year. The ceremony was enlivened by an fmpromptu boom for the presidency of Harry Flood Byrd, former Governor of Virginia, which was started by Gov. Max Gardner of North Carolina, who welcomed the guest of honor in behalf of the South. The thermometer on the mountain top stood at 104 and the guests swel- tered on the spacial lawns under the glant linden trees planted by the hands of Jefferson. Admiral Byrd, gazing over the distant hills and the valleys | from which the heat scemed to be ris- ing in waves, regaled the audience with a realistic account of Winter in Little America, where the thermometer sometimes stood at 104 below freez- ing, where his party lived almost com- pletely buried in the snow, where it was impossible to step outside without getting any exposed part of the flesh frozen almost instantly, and where it was possible to hear the breath freezing. Stuart G. Gibbony of New York, ;:esident of the Jefferson Memorial undation, was in charge of the cere- monies. Admiral Byrd was welcomed by President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia in behalf of his alma mater and by Dr. Charles G. Maphis_for the Institute of Public Af- fairs. Byrd received as a souvenir one of the original $1,000 Monticello mortgage bonds recently paid and canceled in his honor. Dr. George J. Ryan, president of the New York City Board of Education, announced that the foundation now has paid off $400,000 of the $500,000 purchase price of Monticello. All the indebtedness that remains is a $100,000 first mortgage, held by the Langhorn estate, of which Lady Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson are joint heirs. Joseph Miller, jr., of New York, chair- man of the National Educational Com- mittee of the foundation, announced a national contest among school children to draw the scroll of honor to be pre- sented to Admiral Byrd. America has departed far from the religious ideals of Jefferson, Dr. Wal- ter A. Maier of the St. Louis Theologi- cal Seminary told the Institute of Pub- lic Affairs in a scathing address to- night. He insisted that the chief concern of the sage of Monticello had been to keep the pulpit out of extraneous af- fairs. The country now is witnessing, he said, “flagrant intrusion by church bodies into the realm of pure politics.” He scored “paid reformers operating under the church sanction and with church salary, the maintenance of po- litical lobbies by religious groups in the National Capital, the defiant utter- ances of churchmen who still main- tain, in spite of all the tragedies to which this principle has given expres- sion, that the church must direct the affairs of the American Nation.” Dr. Maier also attacked as antagonistic to the philosophy of Jefferson “the move- ment to insert the name of Jesus into our national Constitution, which would mean the drafting of the governmental sword for the propagation of Christ’s faith, the un-American tendency to make Bible reading a compulsory part ©of our public school curriculum, and the campaign designed to make the Ameri- can Sunday a replica of the Jewish Sabbath through the passage of dis- mally biue laws.” Jefferson, Dr. Maier said, would have been unalterably opposed to propaganda of the churches in favor of prohibition. He continued: “His voice would be raised against those aggresive interferences in the in- dustrial life of the Nation which, au- thorized by Federal church organi- zations, have gone dar beyond the scope of the church’s province in busying themselves with economic issues, financial problems and purely socio- | logical questions. He would not counte- nance the campaigns to mold popular opinion on such purely political issues as entrance into the League of Nations. He would disavow the outspoken pacifist | tendencies of certain religious groups | and their one-fisted control which some churches yleld in the petty circles of | ward and city politics, the customary procedure of church bodies in passing political resolutions or indorsing politi- cal candidates at their annual conven- tions and the whole unholy relation by | which the spiritual power of the church | is prostitued, its appeal to the soul | materialized and its inner effectiveness | hopelessly paralyzed.” “The whole concept for government has changed in the past 25 years, and the machinery of government must be | changed to fit the pattern.” Gov. Gard- | ner of North Carolina told the institute. The past idea, he said, has been that government was primarily for the sup- pression of anti-social conduct and providing common defense. Even edu- cation, he said, hardly was regarded as a government function and the cost of this branch in his own State has risen twentyfold in a quarter century. The change has come, he said, by the banished isolation and greater inter- dependency brought about by modern sclence, and has made necessary a new type of government official. He proposed ‘“tearing a page from the book of big business establish- ing our States universities’ departments for research in the science of practical government. 1 would make available for high school and college students the | same opportunity to learn government | that they now have to learn chemistry | and physics | D. C. ANGLERS TRIUMPH ZLanding of 3 Sailfish Reported in| Florida by Thayer and Fraser. Lewis M. Thayer. one of the veteran anglers of the National Capital, in a| telegram received yesterday, announces | that in company with Rob-rt L. Fraser of Oak Park, Ill, three large sailfish | had been landed by them at Miami, | Fla., where they went a few days ago | for a two weeks' outing in Southern waters. Mr. Thayer caught two sailfish, the largest one weighing 58% pounds and measing 7 feet 2 inches in length, while Mr. Fraser landed a smaller one. The two smaller specimen weighed approxi- mately 50 pounds each, they reported. PETITIONS AS BANKRUPT Head of Cleaning and Dye Concern in Voluntary Action. Isadore Janet, president and gen- eral manager of the Majestic Cleaning and Dye Works, Inc, 633 H street northeast, has filed a petition in volun- tary bankruptcy. No schedule of assets and liabilities has yet been submitted. He is represented by Attorney Simon Hirshman. | ! i med in by a Red army. Sister Helen Lucas (at left), shown at mission in Kanchow, China, which she and three co-workers succeeded in reaching after fleeing bandits for five days and nights. She is there now with a handful of American missionaries, hem- ] | T HE S % (R T TR i | Sister Helen Lucas Letters from Sister Helen Lucas, 1710 Thirty-seventh street, to her family tell how the gratitude of pagan Chinese natives for the services which she and three Catholic sister missionaries and two priests have rendered them has saved the lives of the little band, re- bandits. Sister Helen, a member of a family prominent in service circles here, is now among the handful of American missionaries in the besieged city of Kanchow, and her friends are anxiously awaiting word from the State Department as to her safety. She left Dt youn has been medical missionary, two priests to establish a branch mis- Li, about 50 miles from Kanchow. Her medical skill and unstinted devotion to the needs of the villagers won her the love of the native Chinese, both Chris- that the white sister had “the gift of miracles.” Recently bandits invaded the town and threatened the mission. Although desiring to stay with her Chinese friends, whom she had learned to love and whom she knew to be dependent upon her, Sister Helen and her three companions, together with two priests at the mission, finally were forced to plan an escape to Kanchow. But the decision to go came almost too late— the town was practically surrounded. Farmers Stood Guard. It was at this juncture that the gratitude of her humble friends re- vealed itself. For several days, when the attack seemed imminent, peasant farmers took their turn at standing guard along the roads leading into the village, always with the safety of their American _ benefactresses in mind. Every night the women were urged to Tetire for their rest with the whispered assurance that “all would be well” with them. ‘When the attack materialized and it became evident that the village was about to fall into the hands of the brigands, coolie clothes were quickly | provided for the missionaries and they | were spirited into the country, there | to hide out until such time as op-| portunity might be found to smuggle them into Kanchow, where the little group of foreigners whosc fate is a | constant source of anxiety to the State | Department has found at least tem- rary safety behind the protecting walls of the city. During the agonizing days that fol- | lowed the flight from the mission, Sis- | ter Helen and her friends knew ‘the | fear of the hunted. According to her| own account of the experience, re- | ceived by her mother, they were rudely awakened repeatedly in the early hours before dawn to be half dragged, half escorted through the rice fields to new hiding places as the enemy scouts roved close to their place of concealment. Meanwhile, as she learned afterward, crowds of villagers milled about the doorway of the besieged mission, beg- ging the soldiers to spare the mis- | slonaries. “Please let them go! They are good people! They give us good medicine. Make us well!” | Rewards Offered for Fugitives. | But the bandits were unrelenting and | rewards of $500 each were offered for | the capture of the fugitives. Such a sum in famine-starved China is a sore temptation, but human loyalties were equal to the occasion. The sisters were hidden in peasant homes, not one of which disclosed their presence, until, at last, they were smuggled safely into Kanchow. In her last letter home, which was | dated June 30, Sister Helen expressed | her increasing love for the common | people of China and her desire to re- | turn to Ta Ho Li and continue the | work she had begun there. But her re- | turn thus far has been prevented by | the State Department. Recent de- velopments in the neighboring province | of Fukien, where an English woman is | being held for high ransom and already | has been mutilated by the desperadoes | into whose hands she has fallen, will remove even farther the possibility of Sister Helen's early return to her lit- tle village mission. Sister Helen'’s companions were Sis- ters Clara, Superioress of the little band, and Sisters Vincent and Eugenia, who are from Emmitsbur St. Joseph’s College, mother the Sisters of Charity in the Eastern province of the United States, is lo- cated. | At the ‘time of the crisis, 5,000 ban- | dits had besieged Kanchow well equipped with rifies and modern ma- | chine guns. It was through this cor- | don that the four women had to be | smuggled to safety. Only one bat-| talion of soldiers, exhausted from the | long fighting and wavering on the point of deserting to the enemy for | food and for pay, which they had not | received from their own side, held the | city. ; Warned by Merchant. | The little party first were warned to flee Ta Ho Li by a merchant wha had just returned from Kanchow and had learned of the bandit depredations and their proximity to the village. The disguiss they wore in making their escape were procured for them by & loyal boy. Notwithstanding the precariousness of their plight and their narrow escape, the young women, made unafraid of | danger by their experiences in a land of turmoil, found time to have a quiet chuckle “at the comic figures we cut” in the men’s clothing. Prayers were said during the trip, in | the homes of the peasants who lodged them, many of whom risked their own | safety to serve their American friends. At one time, the boy who had gotten the clothing returned to the mission and obtained for them several blankets, D. C.Girl Trapped in China Reward on Her Head, Coolie Clothing. cently trapped in a village overrun by | Washington for Kanchow six years ago. | ng the last year Sister Helen, a | working with three other sisters and, sion and hospital at the town of Ta Ho | tian and pagan, and the story spread | Escapes Bandits, With in them, together with a lantern. The women were overjoyed at the hos- pitality of their peasant protectors, Who cramped themselves in order to make room in their homes for their guests. Once the women were forced to stay in a room with three beds, two of which were offered the sisters while the wom- an of the house and her children all | slept in the single one remaining. There | was also a roosting place for several chickens in the room. Once a man came to this house to reassure the sisters and tell them of the safety of the two_priests, who also were being smuggled through the bandit lines. The man cautiously pulled back his vest to reveal a belt full of bullets and indicated that the house was sur- rounded by friends who were ready to give their lives in its defense. Women Locked in Loft. At one of the places where the party | stopped they were locked in a loft, in which wooden horses and a few boards formed the women’s beds and the only furniture in the room. They arrived at night and were kept there, virtually prisoners, for two days, having,little appetite for the food which was brought them by the housewife. They were un- able to speak above a whisper for fear | of betraying their presence to un- friendly ears outside their loft abode. Rain fell to further impede their night journeys, which frequently were | made in total darkness, since it would | not have been safe on these occasions to use the lantern which the boy had obtained for them at Ta Ho Li. Some- times they slipped from the pathway into ditches and puddles. Once in the night they hid in the darkness as a party of men, carrying lanterns, ap- proached them, moving with ominous quiet. They thought their hour had | come. But the men proved to be friends and guided them further on their | journey. | " When the women arrived at a point a few miles from Kanchow, they | learned that a military escort had been sent to bring them safely into the city | The soldiers had missed them, how- | | ever, and they were in doubt whether | g0 on into the city or turn back. to G R O S 1325 -F Store-Wide AUGUS Clear-Away also ... a most & GROSNER O’Coats actually made to sell at $45 — $50 & $55 75 All Sizes . 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Sister Helen, the daughter of a mili- tary leader and granddaughter of a statesman, has the adventurous fighting spirit that expresses itself in tackling difficult tasks and facing danger with undaunted courage. Six years ago she launched her big adventure, when she decided to go to the Orient and enter the Catholic Mission at Kanchow. She declares that she wants to dedicate her entire life to the task of helping her foreign brothers—and the greater the( difficulties involved the more absorbing the adventure. She is content to stay in Kanchow, bandits and all. WORLD DISARMAMENT SOUGHT BY PETITION| Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Declares War Will Exterminate Races. A plea for signers to a petition de- manding complete world disarmament | is now being made by the Women's In- ternational League for Peace and Free- dom. The petitions are being widely circulated with a request that they be signed and returned to the headquar- ters of the league at 8 Jackson place. 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