Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1930, Page 29

CATHOLIC DECRIES WORDS OF HOOVER Message of President to Lutherans Is Claimed Violation of Oath. By the Associated P:ess. The language chosen by President Hoover in a message to American Luth- erans for the anniversary this month of the Protestant Reformation has brought denunciation from a Catohlic source Father John J. Burke, secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, issued a statement last night asserting Mr. Hoover had clearly violated “the spirit, if not the letter, of his oath of office” in a brief greeting the Chief Executive wrote for the American Luth- eran, a churci publication. An immediate answer came from the President’s secretary, George Akerson. Any such suggestion or implication s that made by Father Burke,” he said an injustice both to the President's own sentiments and the complete reli- glous tolerance he has always felt and | has always advocated both publicly and privately.” | | Father Burke said the President had | — insulted millions of Americans, but held it more important that he had congrat- ulated one particular religious body “on the changes it introduced from older conceptions of religion and govern- ment.” The President’s message was: “I send cordial greetings to the Amer- fcans of Lutheran faith who are cele- brating_on October 31 the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and the 400th anniversary of the reading of the Augsburg Confession, from which date 50 many of the changes in point of view from older conceptions both of religion and government, “The effects of these historical events are reflected in our national life and institutions, in religion through the predominant numbers of adherents to Protestant faiths and in government through the principle of separation of church and state. It is fitting that | we should commemorate the persons | and events from which mighty forces have sprung.” | Father Burke said it was entirely | proper for the President to send “a message of congratulation on the civic work done by Americans of the Lutheran faith.” “But,” he added, “in the actual mes- sage which President Hoover sent to them, for the celebration of Reform: tion Sunday, the President clearly vio- lates the spirit, of not the letter, of his oath of office as President of the United States.” | He questioned the historical accuracy of the President's utterance also, assert- ing: Luther was not a champion of the separation of church and state, but a most arbirtrary defender of state ab- solutism.” “It does matter very much,” he con- cluded, “to the whole constitutional structure of our country and its insti- tutions that the President of all the people, who is called by virtue of his office to respect the religious rights of all, congratulates one particular rell- glous body on the changes it introduced | from older conceptions of religion and | government and declares that we as a | Nation should commemorate the Prot- | estant persons and the events from | which ‘these mighty forces shaping our country have sprung.’” Bread cut into slices of any desired | thickness and wrapped in paper by machinery is possible by a new device in London. | Judge Amedeo A. 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