Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1931, Page 4

A—4 wx PASTOR HONGRE BY CONGREGATN | West Coast Orators THE EVENING STAR, WASH GTON, D. €, SAT |t WINNERS ARE CHOSEN TO REPRESENT CALIFORNIA AND OREGON. 2,000 Attend Reception for| Dr. Abernethy on Tenth An- niversary at Church. | An estimated crowd of 2,000 persons | attended an elaborate reception 1n hon- | or. of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Willlam E.: Abbrnethy, held in Calvary Baptist| Church, Eighth =53 ¥ streets, last night | in commemoration of the tenth Armi- versary of his pastorate at Calvary. The occasion was part of a program being held on three days in connection with the tenth anniversary fe]!hrltlon, “md yesterday marked exactly 10 years #rmee £7. Abernethy %me to the church ! tor, May 1, 1921. “'l%l:recephon was held in three large halls of the church building, Woodward | hall, Burrell hall and Vaughan hall, all 'of which were elaborately decorated. The first named was decorated to rep- rent a lawn approach to a residence. i Children Take Part. In keeping with the spirit of the first | day of ‘h’dls. a number of girls and geveral boys from the young people’s and children's departments of the church took part in the program | In Burrell hall was an elaborate throne, with Annabelle Fox as queen. Her attendants were Dorothy Smith, Elolse Fortune, Marian Johnson, Betty Bain, Betty Neyman, Gladys Caswell, Helen Leland, Ruth Miller, June Ryan. Ida June Dagger, Ina Courtney and Bewley. Jugt’her er{s taking pert in the affair wefe Mary Conklin, Frances Rose, Lois Marein Jene Martin and Mary Norman r as fairies, while Ralph Blevins and Jean Lauer were dressed as brownies. Recelved In Woodward Hall. attending the reception first PQ‘.‘m‘fl;flflllh Woodward hall, where md Mrs. Abernethy and others stood in the receiving line. With them in the line were their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Robert T. Abernethy: Prof. and Mrs. D. Bliss, Dr. F. A. Swart- wout, vice chairman of the Board of Deacons, and_Mrs, Swartwout: Frank R. Mitchell, chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Mrs. Mitchell; Dr. J. P. Leake, chairman of the Advisory Com- mittee, and Mrs. Leake; J. Barrett Car- ter, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Mrs. Carter; Rev. Homer J. Councilor, assistant pastor of Cal- vary Baptist Church, and Mrs. Coun- cilor, and Prof. and Mrs. G. A. Ross, the latter president of the Woman's Missionary Society of the church. Passing through Woodward hall, the guests entered Burrell hall and from there went into Vaughan hall, the lat- ter fitted as a lounge, where refresh- ments were served. A varied program of music was ren- dered in each of the three halls. Among those taking part in the musi- cal m were: ‘Miss Bernice Shepherd, violinist: Miss Evelyn Wells, pianist; Mrs. Esther Cutchins Moss and Mrs. Robert T. Ab- ernethy, planists; Miss Virginia Cure- ton, violinist; Andrew Clifford Wilkins, cellist: Mrs. W. B, Thomes, Miss Mar- garet Wilson and Mrs. Glen Edgington, pianists; Phillip C. Wright, cellist: El- len, May Wright, violinist; Mrs. Irene Waldo, who whistled several selections: Miss Josephine and Miss Anna May Stambaugh: the Bernheimer Trio, con- sisting of Clara M. Bernhefmer at the piano, Elizabeth Bernheimer, violinist, and Louise Bernheimer, cellist, and the Vaughan Class Trio. Mrs. Crater Is Chatrman. . Inez Crater was general chair- n_charge of the reception. Mrs. Clair Hambly was in charge of arge 1 J. Bt. decorations and Thomas Moss in of music. orrow morning Rev. Dr. Albert ‘W. Beaven, president of Colgate-Roch- ester Di School and president of the Northern Baptist Convention, is to deliver an address commemorating the tenth anniversary of Dr. Abernethy in Calvary Church. orrow evening at 8 o'clock the various church organiza- tions will depict 10 years of service, the latter program to mark the close of the_celebration. Rev. Dr. Gove G. Johnson, pastor of the National Memorial Baptist Church; Rabbi Abram Simon of the Washington Helrew Congregation, and Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, of the New York Avenue Pres| n_ Church, were speskers Thursday night at the opening anniversary program. R BELLEGARDE REPLIES TO STIMSON ON FORT Butler Incident Believed Closed. Secretary, Silent on Letter, Will Send It to Adams. The Butler-Bellegarde incident proba- bly will be terminated quickly. it was be- lieved in official quarters today follow- ing receipt by Secretary of State Stim'- son of a letter in which Minister Belle- garde of Haiti gave his versior of t affalr With receipt of this letter tary Stimson now has in his all the data necessary for the protest by Maj. Gen. S Butler, U. 5. M. C.. against attributed to the diplomat Mr. Stimson did not indicate what ac- tion he would take, and no disclcsure wag made as to the contents of Min ter Bellegarde's lotter. This was a re- Ply,to & polite note of inquiry addressed 10 Bim by the Secretary of State earller in_the week. ‘The Secretary was not expected to ursue his inquiries further. He proba- Iy will merely refer the correspondence back to Secretary of the Navy Adams, from whom he originally received Gen Butler's letter of protest The Minister was quoted in a_copy- righted story in the Washington Herald as saying a Haitlan fort, for the capture of which Butler was given a_Congres- pal medal, did not exist. The Min- ter later said he had been misquoted. | HART BECOMES HEAD OF NAVAL ACADEMY| Rear Amatzal Takes Up Duties| ‘With 2,000 Middies in Ceremony, . Bucceeding Robison By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 2—As guns | boomed and 2,000 midshipmen stood at | attention, Rear Admiral Thomas C.| Hart became superintendent of the Naval Academy vesterday A native of Michigan, 53 years old. former commander of the submarine | fleet, he succeeds Rear Admiral Samuel | 8. Robison, who retired a month ago. He | is one of the youngest cfficers of his rank in the Navy. Capt. Charles P.| Snyder had been acting fuperintendent. | val of the new superintendent wag the first step toward reorganizing the entire stafl at the Academy, as after the graduation in June a new set of oficers will train the midshipmen. Ex-l—(ldfid Governor Ill. MADRID, May 2 () —Former Gov. Pernando Weyler of Madrid, son of the late Gen. Weyler, is in a grave condition following a recent operation B i Government employes in England verage 39 years of age. Becre- | ssession sposal of dley D marks (3 James Jacobs of Hollywood High resent the State of California in the Pac! Contest in Los Angeles on May 15, and Portiand, Oreg., who will represent her Praise for Architectural Art Found in D. C. Included in Explanation. Writer Says . 'tan Villages | Resist Beauty. but Succumb | to Trade Lures. ' BY H. J. J. SARGINT. By Cable to The Star LONDON, May 3 (NANA)—Gll- bert K. Chesterton wants to make cer. tain that feelings of his friends in the United States were not hurt by certain | remarks he made here Wednesday at a meeting of the Councll for the Preservation of Rural England. { In his address he described American villages as eyesores, and he referred to excessive drinking, which he sald pre- | vailed in the United States. And then, | naturally, the cables rushed his criti- cisms across the Atlantic, where they were promptly read by the very people whose guest Mr. Chesterton so recently had been. Wrong Impression Feared. “I am afraid,” he remarked today, in amplifying and explaining statements in his address, “that the United States | has received & rather wrong impression | from what I said. “In many ways I think family life in the little frame house in the United | States is a more healthy and satisfy- ing thing than many ramilies in Eng. land or on the Continemt can show. But a curious thing is that for some | reason or other England has got a sort of historic expression in its villages. “I sald & lot in my address about the fact that American soclety refiect- | ed the best traditions of Europe. I meant the dignity of the citizen, in the sense of the real republican ideal that all men are brothers. And one was startled when one found that there was such a thing as the art of private architecture running through a whole | community. | “I happen to be one of the few peo- ple left in the world who believed in| democracy and I can see the Republican ideal.” Mr. Chesterton expressed his admir- | ation of Washington, and of its people. Washington Beauty Praised. “Washington not only is a very beau- tiful city,” he observed, “but what is absolutely astounding in the modern world is that its citizens have kept it beautiful. “When one accuses the Americans of mere commercialism one must always | remember that they are the only people in the world who have built a clean white city in the classical manner, who have kept it clean, and who have delib- eratly sacrificed individual enterorise in doing so “My point really would be lost if it were not understood that I sympathize | more than most English people with the | sort of dignity of the old republican cal ideal " | d Mr. Chesterton, passing to let his statement sink in, glanced medita- | tively out of the window. Then he turned to discussion of the English| village, and to a contrast of that with | the small towns he saw in the United States “What strikes me as odd,” he is that England rather especially created a kind of village that look: like a refuge, a home for human be- ings, and I searched the United Sates from one end to the other and never saw anvthing like that. Says South Is Thinking. “Of course. I did nct traverse the whole of America in my recent visit. I began at Montreal. I visited South said, | has Bend. Ind, and altogether 1 was six weeks in the Middle West. Then I went | to New York. Chicago, Baltimore. Phila- delphia and Boston. Baltimore, Phila- delphia, Beston and New York I knew | of o “After that I struck south. I went to Nas) e and I visited St. Louls. My wife became suddenly Il with influ in Chattanooga, 50 I stayed there an extra week or s». It is a regular, jollyl za old town, and it shows how little even factories can do to destroy the great- ness of human history “The people T talked with were full | of the regular old tradition of the South. Even to family feuds. I discussed the new_agricultural theories of the South | in_ Chattanooga, and aitogether I en- | joyed myself very much I saw thit they were thinking in | the South. which is what hardly nn.\'-i body else is doing in the modern world. 1 thought they weren't doing what I think & good many other old cul- tural communities are likely to do just now, and that is stand by and jeer and T told you sc.'’ Baltimore Is Favorite. Turning to New York, Mr. Chesterton isaid he feared that city must be thor- oughly sick of him. considering how often he had given interviews there. “My favorite city in the United States is Baltimore,” he sald. "It has great fascination for me. You feel there, somehow, that there were great men at the end of the eighteenth century H ol gEgegs ! b3 88888383 CHESTERTON FE:\RS CRITICISM OF U. S. IS MISUNDERSTOOD ‘,{;h&lzed. Scheol, Hollywood, Calif., who will rep- | ific zone finals of the National Oratorical Louise Root of Washington High School, State in that competition. ILBERT K. CHESTERTON. with great conceptions. They read the classics.” Mr. Chesterton couldn't get American villages out of his mind. “I don't understand them.,” he em- “When_you go into an Eng- ish village, you have the feeling that, although this may be a dead hole, yet it is something solid that will endure longer than other things “But in the United States you feel that the villages are ephemeral, like ! Gypsy encampments or booths set up at a fair. “In the address I made I was sim- ply using the American villages as an argument to the English peopie for keeping their own particular type of rural beauty. 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But in America the word ‘village' almost connotes Puritan- ism “America is Puritan, not in the sense | wherein England is Puritan, but in the sense where England is English. There- fore the desire to make things beautiful did not possess the minds 6f Americans when they were bullding villages. “The horrible catastrophe of modern times is that upon people who have | been Puritans—and for Puritans I have great respect s0 long as they remain Furitan—there fall the enormous lux- ufllnce'lnd vulgarity of modern adver- beautiful for the *lory of God or the love of woman would make them gaudy, sensual and alluring for the sake of trade. And ‘flu see that look of catas- trophe in the American small town. You might call it the temptation and fall of the Puritan, “What the Puritan would not do for religion and romance he did for trade, and then he plastered the whole this with bright colors. But having forgot ten how to do it, with only ricket: framework, he produced the jarring ef- fect of a frail village overloaded with clamorius signs. Mr. Chesterton took up the ”:uemun | way and another, | have seen a vast amount more if I had really been a roaring alcoholic. Some | people imagine us to be. ple who would not make things| URDAY, MAY 2, 1931 walked into liquor because hospitality gave it to me. I was not a person who ‘went about looking for it. by any means. “A man can do without beer or wine, though I believe he is healthier and happler when he has it. But I could see from people’s conversation that it ‘would be as as sllyt.hh-al to drink yourself to death in any of the Ameri- can cities. Drinking Is Discussed. “Of the villages, I can only testify | that most nice, orderly people brew something of their own. The people I stayed with were respectable in every American sense of the word, Repub- lican in politics. mildly broad-minded Puritans in religion. But at the same time they did not mind going out and hearing a wonderful Hindu lecture. ‘They were good, nice Christians. “‘We brew something in our house to drink,’ they sald, ‘and most peo- I know of the present general situa. tion, “T did see some ty bad drunken- ness, with girls drinking more than they | should. And at one hotel I saw & girl| carried off dead drunk. A young fellow | in one of the hotels, a belll or some- | thing of the sort, and quite delightfully | intelligent, said to me: ‘“They used to say that perhaps there will be a few old | mn ive after prohibition, but the | generation will grow up without iny knowledge of drink. I know for & ct that it's just the other way around. It's perfectly easy for me to get as much ' as I want to drink’.” | Mr. Chesterton brought the interview to a close by saying he hoped his ad- dress had not been misinterpreted. 1 “What I do not want,” he insisted, “is for any one to suppose that I came straight away from America and abused | it. Buch was not the case. { “The Americans have some extraor- | dinarily fine architecture. wonderfully | unlu1‘klt ‘were case like Washington they have really dedicated a place of architecturs like a temple to a god and have cleansed the temple. But it is true that the village, which in England seems the most hu- man, permanent thing, in the United States seems the most unhumen and ephemeral.” (Copyright, 1931. by North American News- Daper Allianee.) One of the Army's largest sircraft purchases in many months was made esterday, when the War Department ordered 64 big bombing plenes at & cost of $1,920,510, including spare parts. 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