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) [24 GO SAOOLBOYS INPATROL HARH Fourth Annual Procession Held on Constitution Avenue. With ideal weather conditions pre- vailing, ¢lmost 6,000 children marched down Constitution avenue yesterday, bringing to a successful conclusion Washington's fourth annual national schoolboy patrol parade. Spectators lined the route and the uniformed boys stepped proudly to their plaudits and the music of 14 bands. In the column also were occa~ sional units of girls. As the marchers passed the review- Ing stand between Fifteenth and Six- teenth streets, Secretary of Commerce Roper appealed over the air for Na- tion-wide co-operation toward greater safety on the highways, emphasizing the message of the parade. “So rapidly is travel on our high- ways increasing and so tragic are the tccidents that result from speed, | carelessness and recklessness, that all of us must be aroused to our duties in better protecting human lives,” he said. Invites Co-operation. “I invite co-operation from all groups and from every citizen in this | educational and patriotic service. Let us find out first the responsible causes for accidents in each community, study those causes and determine that those causes shall be removed or so controlled as to reduce materially the number of accidents during the next 12 months.” The official police count of the parade showed 5,649 persons took part. ‘This total included 1,978 out-of-town marchers and 3,671 Washington marchers. There were 20 floats. One hour and nine minutes was required to pass a given point. Eight States were represented in the parade—Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. Among the marchers were seven crack drill teams which competed after the parade. The Committee of Judges, headed by Brig Gen. Perry L. Miles, and including Capt. Carlton Smith and Lieuts. John Hill and H. E. Smyser, awarded first prize to one of the two Reading, Pa., teams. Sec- ond and third places went to Potts- town, Pa. teams. All three winning | 5 units received silver cups, donated by | the American Automobile Association, | sponsors of the parade, and the team members were presented with distinc- | tive ribbons. Ropers in Reviewing Stand. Besides Secretary and Mrs. Roper, those in the reviewing stand included Senator Duffy of Wisconsin, whose son, a student here, was one of the marchers; Representative Snyder of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Snyder, Col. Dan 1. Sultan, District Commissioner, who was grand marshal of the parade; Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown; Mrs. George Thorp, chairman of the local motor club’s Safety Committee; Mrs. Walter Tuckerman and Mrs. Mark L. Bristol, members of the com mittee; Mrs. George Barnett, widow of the former commandant of the Marine Corps, and Mrs. L. B. Castell, president of the District Congress of Parents and Teachers. ‘The parade started from Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue at 10:15 am. and the last unit cleared the reviewing stand at 11:45. NEGROES ON JURIES CALLED LOCAL ISSUE Georgia Judge Declares Law Puts Burden of Selection on County Commission. By the Assoclated Press. CARROLLTON, Ga., May 18.—The | selecting of Negroes' names for jury | duty in Georgia, a question brought to the fore by the recent Supreme Court decision in the Scottsboro case, Is one for the jury commissioners of the individual counties to decide, Judge W. L. Stallings of Coweta, Ga., said here last night in an address before the annual meeting of the Coweta Circuit Bar Association. The Supreme Court ruled that a prima facie case of denial of equal protection guaranteed by the four- teenth amendment had been made out because names of qualified Negroes had not been added to Alabama jury rolls when a defendant in the Scotts- boro cases was tried. Judge Stallings cited the Georgia law as to jury selection: “‘The jury commissioners shall select from the books of the tax receiver, upright and intelligent men to serve as jurors. They shall select from these a suf- clent number, not exceeding two- fifths of the whole number, of the most experienced, intelligent and up- Tight men to serve as grand jurors.’” DEMOCRACY'A FAILURE, SIR JOSIAH DECLARES Bank of England Head Addresses Seniors at University of California. By the Assoclated Press. BERKELEY, Calif, May 18.—De- mocracy everywhere has “failed to make good its promise,” Sir Josiah Stamp, scholar and executive director of the Bank of England, told the graduating class of the University of California yesterday. The internationally known econo- mist and scientist asserted civiliza- tion itself was in peril unless “per- sistent education of mind and soul” which he also recommended as a safeguard against the “pitfalls of de- mocracy,” comes to its support. Sir Josiah received an honorary degree, the twelfth conferred upon him by British and American uni- versities. —_— REPORTER FILES APPEAL NEW YORK, May 18 (#).—Habeas corpus action to test a 30-day jail sentence and $250 fine imposed on Martin Mooney, a reporter for the New York American, for refusal to answer grand jury interrogation, is scheduled for hearing next Tuesday in Supreme Court. The sentence was reaffirmed yes- terday before Judge Morris Koenig in general sessions, where Mooney as- serted “there is no court in this land which holds me in the contempt in which I hold this grand jury.” He had refused to divulge sources of information for a series of stories on vice published by the American. Judge Koenig said he would have reduced the sentence in yesterday’s appeal to 10 days but ailowed the original sentence to stand so the ha- beas corpus writ could not be voided. Mooney is tentatively free on the writ. ’ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 19, 1935—PART ONE. EVERED as friend and teacher R by thousands in Washington, | who are numbered among his | former pupils, Dr. Willilam Allen Wilbur, provost and for- | mer dean at George Washington Uni- versity, will become a professor emeri- | { tus next month upon the comple-‘ | tion of 40 years of active and out- | standing service on the university | faculty. The retirement of Dean Wilbur— as he is still known affectionately to all George Washington students and life-long friends—will be made the | occasion of a special testimonial fea- turing the annual commencement day exercises on June 5. The official trib- ute to the distinguished 71-year-old | | educator will be delivered by Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, president of the university, |and Dean Wilbur will make a reply. The commencement exercises will be held at 8 pm. in Constitution Hall; and will be attended by approximately | 700 graduates, who will be awarded de- grees and certificates. 1 Looking back over the 40 commensge- | | ment programs which Dean Wilbur | has attended, it is probable that none | has had the genuine interest for| George Washington students and alumni as the forthcoming exercises at which the venerable provost is to be the central and honored figure. Men and women prominent in many walks of life will join in the tribute to him. For Dean Wilbur is that rare combination of teacher, counselor and friend who has left his personal imprint on the character of the uni- versity and has reached long years after graduation into the lives of many of his former students. Leader in Church Work. Aside from his wholesome influence | in educational circles, Dean Wilbur has been for many years one of the leaders in Baptist church affairs of ‘Washington since he took up his resi- dence here in 1895. A former mod- erator of the Columbia Association of Baptist Churches, he has been for many years a Bible school teacher and leading layman of Cavalry Baptist Church. One of his recent literary contributions was a history of that church and its congregations. Four years ago George Washington University conferred upon Dean Wil- bur an honorary degree of doctor of laws. At that time he had given up the deanship of the college, having been made provost of the university in 1928. He first came to George Washing- ton in 1895, when it was known as Columbian College, to become head of the university’s preparatory school. For a number of years after his grad- uation from Brown University in 1888, Dean Wilbur had been teaching in various New England academies, not- ably the Vermont Academy, the Colby Academy at New London, N. H., and the Howard Seminary, West Bridge- water, Mass. Two years later he was transferred from the preparatory school to the college. Since 1897 he has held the chair of English literature at George Washington and for 24 years, from 1904 to 1928, he served as dean of Co- lumbian College, the college of letters and sciences. Had Profound Influence. Although an admirable executive, who years ago visioned the future rapid growth and downtown university, it was probably in the classroom that Dean Wilbur’s natural aptitude as a scholar and teacher was best known and had its best influence on the student body. Dean Wilbur’s classes in English rhetoric, in Shakespeare and In Browning have been attended by num- bers of Washington residents, in addi- tion to university students, who have found there tion and intel- lectual stimulus. He is widely known also as a lecturer on English litera- ture. Brown University made him a doctor of literature in 19]6. It is doubtful if any teacher in schools as has Dean 2 jority of the principais of the -Wash- ington high schools, 1t is said, are among his former pupils. of the |, Dean Wilbur, Retiring at 71, To Be Honored by Thousands DR. WILLIAM ALLEN WILBUR. on literary subjects, and among his best-known works in his English rhet- oric, used for a number of years as a text book in his courses. In Corcoran Hall hangs a portrait of Dean Wilbur by Richard Meryman. He is pictured in academic robes, hold- ing a copy of his rhetoric. In the background is a scene por- traying an incident from the Wilbur family tradition and typifying the 71- year-old dean’s own love of the sea. Dean Wilbur's father, John Palmer Wilbur, was one of the last masters of the famous New England clipper ships. His father's brother also was a clipper captain. Pair Meet in Tempest. As was often the case in those days, they had not seen each other for many years, and prayed that they might meet. Each had a weather eye out for the other’s chance appearance on the seas, and then it was purely by luck that the two clipper masters finally met. The incident was an un- usual one and worthy of mention. One year John Wilbur's vessel was riding a severe storm off Cape Horn. Neither he nor his brother had any idea of the other’s course, when sud- denly, out of the heavy Southern seas, the two ships nearly crossed each other's bows. Boarding either of the vessels was impossible because of the raging winds, but the brothers were able to talk from ship to ship through megaphones. So it was only natural that Dean Wilbur, himself, should have in- herited a love of the sea. He was born in the little fishing town of Mystic, Conn,, August 15, 1864. Lo- cated on a little river or arm of Fishers Island Sound, the boy Wilbur imbued in his spirit the ideals of his clipper sailing father and the ship | owners and builders among whom he lived. Some of the finest sporting yachts and commercial sailing craft were built in those days 2 miles distant, at Noank. Sailed Boat in Races. For many years after he turned into a college professor Dean Wilbur would visit his old home during the Summers, and sailed his -favorite cat- townspeople. He has had many sailing boats since those early days, —— Y COY, Also plete 1 tands arid Sl ATmerican Made Watchn Shop at the moulr stere—. ou're always with & with no tion to by Dean Wilbur has written frequently |* Officials View Parade of School Safety Patrol | reosamssooseerserscs s ceemmsninst stcosimsose oz -3 but they always have borne the name of Sweetheart. A few months ago Dean Wilbur and his wife left Washington for a vacation in Florida, and his asso- ciates on the faculty know full well that he is putting in as much time as | | possible hobby. indulging in his one pet They will return to the city shortly before the commencement. While Dean Wilbur will sever his active ties with the university after June 5, he has no intention of break- ing off the close relationships of 40 years. As adviser and counselor his | services will still be available to Dr. Marvin and the directors of the in- stitution. At 71, Dean Wilbur has lost none of his unfailing interest in young people among whom he has lived and worked so many years. A 1 hard worker, he is quiet by nature and, what is important in a teacher, easily accessible to students, who have never hesitated to take their troubles to him. Wife Shares Interests. Dean Wilbur married Miss Hannah Knapp of New York in 1889. They make their home at 3816 Military road. For many years Mrs. Wilbur has shared her husband's interest in the university and has been particu- larly active among the George Wash- ington woman alumni. They have a son, William Knapp, their daughter Elizabeth having died some time ago. A granddaughter, who Tecently was graduated from George Washington University, helped keep up the Wilbur tradition. Last year she was made an honor- ary member of the graduating class of 1934 and that same year the stu- dent annual, the Cherry Tree, was dedicated to him. Dean Wilbur al- ways presided at the chapel exercises held at the university and seldom failed to attend the functions of the various student organizations. He has been for years a member of the Cosmos Club, the Federal School- men’s Club of Washington, the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Sciences. He is also & member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kapps Fraternities. MAN SAVED FROM MOB Texas Prisoner Charged With| Assault to Murder Two. DALLAS, Tex., May 18 (#)—A col- ored farm hand was from an angry mob of 40 white men on the public square at Richardson today and rushed to the Dallas County jail. ‘The prisoner, Allen Samuel, 32, was reported by Justice of the Peace V. 8. Blewett to have engaged in a fist fight with Jack Holland and later to have attacked W. T. Jones. A crowd gathered quickly, took two | knives from the prisoner and started beating him, Blewett said. Samuel was charged with assault to murder two. 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Only “acts be- yond our control and political stupid- ity” can delay recovery, he added. PUBLISHERS PLEAD RIGHT OF SPEECH Martyred Editor Honored. Spread of Censorship of Press Cited. By the Associated Pross. WATERVILLE, Me., May 18—Two noted publishers pleaded today for unceasing battle against encroach- ments on the freedom of the press at a Colby College convocation com- memorating the death of an editor who was slain because he refused to be muzzled, Col. Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune and Howard Davis, business manager of the New York Herald-Tribune, both intimately iden- tified with the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association’s fight against restrictive code provisions, asserted the threat of Government censorship had not ended. The convocation honored Elijah Lovejoy, militant abolitionist editor of St. Louis, Mo., and Alton, Ill, who was mobbed in the streets and shot to death before the Civil War, when he opposed vigorous attempts to gag his newspaper. Cites Hamilton’s Views. Col. McCormick said that during the debate over press freedom provi- sions in the newspaper code, the N. R. A. Administration quoted from the writings of Alexander Hamilton as its sole argument against the pub- lishers’ contentions. “Hamilton was not a believer in democracy, liberty or the Republican form of government,” said the Chi- cago publisher. “His political ideas were all rejected 150 years ago. It is monstrous that they should be set up as American law today.” Davis called Government control of radio “an extraordinary example and warning” of the threat to free speech. “The present system at Washington is & travesty on the impartial control that should prevail,” he said. Col. McCormick and Davis were granted honorary degrees of doctor of laws. The citations characterized the Chicago publisher as “soldier, lawyer, editor,” and lermed Davis “a distinguished figure in journalism.” Colby Is Toastmaster. At a luncheon after the exercises, Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State in the Wilson administration and a trustee of the college, acted as toast- master. Visiting newspaper men and included several of Pree has been destroyed in virtually all but English-speaking countries since the World War, Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse N. Y. Post-Standard, president of the American Newspaper Publishers’ As- sociation, told the guests. “This,” he said, “was accomplished under the stress of economic and po- litical unrest and was accompanied by dictatorships. The death of free speech generally is accompanied by curtailment of a free press. “Preedom of the press is not a privi- lige for publishers alone, but of all the people, guaranteed them by the Costitution. The publishers are guardians of this trust.” —— ANTI-RADICAL RIOT DEPLORED BY FRANK Univeristy Head Hits Communism and Fascism in Attacking Student Demonstration. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis., May 18.—Presi- dent Glenn Prank, as keynoter last night of a University of Wisconsin convocation deploring a student anti- radical riot of 48 hours earlier, said he would rather see his son dead than living under Fascism or Communism. Leading an array of faculty and student leaders in condemning the disruption of a student radical meet- ing from which a national organizer of the League for Industrial Democ- racy and three other persons were seized by university athletes and tossed into Lake Mendota, Dr. Frank also scored “head-hunting, witch- burning” journalism, which he said was attempting to brand the univer- sity as radical. “Every belief I hold and every sen- timent I fell,” Dr. Frank said, “cries out against both Fascism and Com- munism. I have a son. He is dearer to me than life. But I would frankly rather see him dead than to feel that he would have to live out his life under the iron heel of either a Fascist or a Communist dictatorship. 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