Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1937, Page 3

HOOVER ADDRESS HITS PROPAGANDA Free Speech Held “Very Life Stream of Advanc- ing Liberalism.” B the Associated Press. WATERVILLE, Me, Nov. 8— Terming free speech, free press and free debate the “very life stream of advancing liberalism,” Herbert Hoover today warned the Nation to guard against the “poison” of propaganda. At the same time the former Presi- dent asserted that in the last 15 years “every dictator who has ascended to power has climbed on the ladder of free speech and free press” and then “suppressed all free speech except his own.” To counteract propaganda he pre- scribed “more free speech,” adding “we must incessantly expose intel- lectual dishonesty and the purpose that lies behind it. * * * Half truth can be defeated with the whole truth.” Hoover spoke at Colby College on the 100th anniversary of the death of | Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a graduate of the college and an editor at Alton, 11, who perished defending his right to print what he wished against slav- ery. The address was broadcast on & Nation-wide hookup. Praises Publishers. Hoover was welcomed here at Union | Station by Senator Wallace H. White, Jr., Republican, and breakfasted at the home of Frederick Hale, the State’s #enior United States Senator. | President and Mrs. Franklin W, Johnson of Colby arranged a lunch- | eon in Hoover’s honor prior to the | convocation exercise in the historic First Baptist Church of Waterville, | ‘where Lovejoy’s father was a preacher | more than a century ago. “A free press,” Hoover said, “is far more than a publishers’ privilege. It is a right of the people. But the | publishers are its first lines of de- fense. They deserve the gratitude of | the country for the zeal with which | they have driven back every attempt | at legal restrictions.” Describing propaganda as a ‘“‘sin- ister word meaning half-truth or any | other distortion of truth,” Hoover said 1t “moves by tainting of news, by mak- ing synthetic news and opinions and | canards. It promotes the emotions of hate, fear and dissension, * * * “With still further refinements (since the World War) it has been applied to politics. The great quality | of this improved poison seems to be that it must be artistically done. * * * Conluses the Mind. “If you don’t like an argument on eurrency or the budget or labor rela- tions or what not. you put out slimy | and if possible anonymous propacanda | reflecting upon your opponent’s grand- mother or the fact that his cousin 15 employed in Wall Street or is a com- mnunist or a reactionary “You switch the premise and set up straw men and then attack them with fierce courage.” The only living ex-President. Hoo- | ver, made no mention of the Roose- | velt administration, nor did he refer to the suggestion for a mid-term Re- | publican convention which he has backed and which party leaders dis- cussed in Chicago last week. | “Free speech and free press can- | not survive if they are used deliber- | ately to cultivate untruth or half | truth,” Hoover said. { “In the past 15 years,” he con- | tinued, “the light of free expression and free criticism has been put out | in more than half the so-called civil- ized earth. * * * “The revolutions since ‘War were the result of implanted | ideas. Magic formulas were spun. ** + Propaganda confused the minds and soiled the spirits of men. The news was colored and facts distorted. Potent catch phrases and slogans were summoned as labels for the cure of every social and economic evil. Half- | truths, quarter-truths were amassed to prove the failure of established insti- tutions. * * * | Enslaved by Lies. } “Men were led to their own enslave- ment by lies and fraud from polluted speech and press. Liberty died by the waters of her own well—free speech | and free press poisoned by untruth.| D) “But there is a problem of free speech and free press in America wider | than sporadic attempts to control it. ‘The durability of free speech and free | press rests on the simple concept that ! it search for the truth and tell the | truth, * * = “Progress is indeed the degree to | ‘which we discover truth—and here free press and free speech become the most. powerful of human forces. * * * “Free expression will not survive 4 it be used to stir malice in the | minds of men. It will not survive if 1t be used to exploit hate. Nor will it survive if it be used to implant that fear which is the blood brother of hate.” Then after taking up the subject of propaganda, Hoover said: “I am meking no suggestions of law or extension of government over free speech and free press in order to sup- press this improved form of corrup- tion. Men can use brickbats for mur- der, but that is no reason for sup- pressing brick houses. But we can turn some free speech on the throwers of brickbats. “So far as it reaches the press our editors maintain hourly battle against it. They have the job of discriminat- lnl between propaganda and real news, between untruth and truth. Theirs is & hard job. Considering their difficul- ties, they do it pretty well. They would be assisted if the news service rigidly adhered to the rule that when opinion is news they refuse to quote anony- mously. That would be a hard blow to the hate makers.” the Great Cabot’s Shingle Stains Cabot’s Collopakes 922 N. Y. Ave. NAtional 8610 SPECIAL WINE GRAPES CALIFORNIA MALAGAS Fine Quality 25 wcrateG(g 1310 5th St. N.E. LINCOLN 7240 | Bishop Freeman said, in part: The Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, who dedicated the new St. Francis Xavier’s Church, at 2800 Pennsylvania avenue S.E., yesterday, is shown blessmo the walls of the ed1fce THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1937. New St. Francis Xavier’s Church Dedicated A portton of the several hundred persons attending the impressive dedication ceremonies are shown here before the mew church, which was erected and furnished at a cost of $142,000. Buckley is pastor The Rev. Joseph V. Comtructlon of the new building was begun in 1924 BISHOP FREEMAN EULOGIZES PAYNE Speaks at St. John’s Serv- ices Honoring Late Chair- man of Red Cross. Friends of Judge John Barton | Payne, late chairman of the American | Red Cross, assembled at St. Johns‘ Eplscnpal Church yesterday for serv- | | ices in his memory, heard the Right wRe\ James E. Freeman, Bishop of | Washington, praise him as “a hign | type of citizen who did not seek place | or emolument nor ask the favor or| praise of men, but gave what he had | | to give as the freewill offering of one whose conception of civic duty was measured only by his capacities ard | gifts.” The bishop's address was part of a | program of dedication for a stained- lass window in Judge Payne's re- membrance. He had been a member | of St. John’s for many years and was | known to have provided the funds for | remodeling the edifice about two decades ago. “Mr. Payne exalted the ideals of citizenship and gave to his country and to his | generation an example of unselfish service that entitles him to high place | among his contemporaries * * * “Our life is steadied and strength- | ened by cne who in all the multi- farious interests of life makes duty to God, the state and his fellows a primary and paramount concern. Such was he whom we affectionately | | remember. * * * “He exemplified his religious con- | victions more in deeds than in words. | His creed was translated in terms of | service. He gave abundant demon- | stration of his trust in God by seeking | to make the world in which he lived | a better and more wholesome abiding place for his less fortunate fellow travelers.” Judge Payne was Secretary of me, Interior during President Wilson's | administration. He headed the Red | Cross from 1921 until his death on | January 24, 1935. Among those attending the services yesterday was Rear Admiral Cary T.| Grayson, who succeeded the late chairman in the direction of the Red | Cross orgsmzalion | ANDERSON HITES TODAY Funeral services for James E. An- derson, 46, secretary and assistant treasurer of the Sanitary Grocery Co., | Inc., are being held today at his late residence, 7511 Thirteenth street N.W., | where he died Friday. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. A native of Ohio, Mr. Anderson came to this city 18 years ago. Four years later he began with the grocery com- pany as office manager of its head- quarters office here. Retreat League to Meet. The November meeting of the Wash- ington Retreat League will be held tomorrow at the Washington Retreat House, 400 Harewood road N.E., at 8:15 p.m. The Rev. John S Spence, spiritual director of the league, will speak on “A Photograph of Christ— 2 Picture No Artist Could Paint” —_— QUALrTY RHYMEMR[ASI]N% i There’s Dapper Dan, the business man Who knows a thing or three But one thing tho’ doesn’t know That's hard for him to see. ke Dapper Dan can have new TROUSERS MATCHED for ::' little $3.95 EISEMAN'S F Street at Seventh Largest Selection of ‘Evidence Incas Once Roamed Pennsylvania Reported Found By the Assoctated Press. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8—G. 8. Fisher, chief of the Pennsylvania His- | torical Survey of the State Historical | Commission, today declared he had] uncovered evidence that ancient Inca Indians once roamed Pennsylvania and | said the discovery doubtless \\mlld‘ cause revision of history text books. | Fisher described the discovery as a | symbolical effigy of a “thunderbird” or spread eagle, carved in clay, and | bits of pottery known to be solely the | handiwork of the Incas. Only the Incas, he asserted, wor- | | shiped the “thunderbird." The sacred symbol, measuring 14| feet from wingtip to wingtip and 6 feet in length, was discovered under a bed | of mound-earth 2 feet deep on the farm of William Metzger in Union | Township, Washington County. | Fisher said that, although it prob- | ably was the work of an artisan of | 8,000 years ago, it was in a good state of preservation. “To the Incas,” he explained, “the thunderbird was the intermediary be- tween the sun and the great spirit they worshiped. Its worship was con- fined solely to the Incas. Part of their ceremony consisted of burning sacred fires in the earthen groove represent- ing the bird's head and distributing the ashes to the other grooves amidst tribal incantation.” The bits of pottery were distinguish- able as Inca work by their quill-like incising, a peculiarity of that tribe, Fisher said. “The evidence that the Incas were once here is indisputable,” he said, adding, “whence they came and where they went remains to be learned.” Excavations were started about four weeks ago. Fisher described the finds as exceptionally rich in historical value and Indian lore. UNION PLANS FIGHT ON CLASS HATRED Army and Navy to Plead for Leg- | islation in Meetings Through- out U. S. Legislation designed to curb or- | ganized class and creed hatred in this | country will be urged by the Army | and Navy Union at a series of meet- | ings throughout the Nation. | The series, to be known as 'lhe‘ American rally,” will open with a| meeting at the Rialto Theater hPre1 at 8 pm. next Monday, the first day | of the «peclal session of Congress. The union is sponsoring legislation | making it a felony for native-born | citizens to advocate, or affiliate with | | any organization that urges principles | of government “based in whole or in part upon opposition to or discrimina- tion against individuals because of their race or creed.” Another pro- | posed act would expel aliens and | cancel the citizenship of naturalized citizens who advocate such racial or religious discrimination. The Washington meeting is under | the direction of a committee consist- ing of L. Sylvester Wilcher, national welfare chairman of the Army and | Navy Union; John J. Crim, national | - legislative chairman; Robert B. Elli- son and Ben Barnett. Burglar's Home Burgled. BALTIMORE, Nov. 8 (#).—The week's best crime oddity: Police here unraveled a case wherein one burglar burgled another burglar’s home. ‘The burgled burglar reported some one had entered his home and stolen his overcoat. Police said they would pursue the matter, then held him on a charge of robbing a tavern. Auto Painting HALEYS thncoRrRPORATED 2020 M STREET n. W. MEMORIAL RITES HELD [ IN ST. THOMAS CHURCH | Special Service Honors Hembars‘ Who Have Died More | Recently. | A special service honoring tho.w‘ members who have passed away was‘ conducted at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Eighteenth street near Du- pont Circle N.W. by the rector, lhe[ Rev. Dr. H. W. Wllkmson yesterday at the 11 o'clock service, when holy communion was celebrated. Dr. Wil- kinson's sermon theme was “Saints in Heaven and Saints on Earth.” Pres- ident and Mrs. Roosevelt, who are members of the church, were not in attendance. An elaborate musical program was | conducted by Loyal B. Aldrick, choir director. The choir mng much of | the famous “Requiem,” composed by Giuseppe Verdi in memory of the Ppoet Manzoni. The church was elaborately deco- rated with white flowers. Turkey has just purchased two monoplanes especially designed for | training parachute jumpers. LAWYEIIS’ BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRIRTING ADVERTISING SERVICE BYIIOH S. ADAMS SRANDNEW 1937 PACKARDS -$200 OFF I’RY MOTOR Let Haley’s Do It Right! 26 TO HAVE HEARINGS AFTER NARCOTIC RAIDS None of “Higher-ups” Believed Directing Trade Here Are Among Those Accused. Twenty-six persons, all colored, who were arrested in seven narcotics raids Friday and Saturday nights, are to before United States Needham C. Turnage According to Detective Sergt. Dan Jones, head of the narootics squad, only $25 worth of drugs, mostly hero- in and marijuana, was confiscated in Commissioner politan police and Treasury agents to stamp out the drug traffic in Wash- ington. None of the “higher ups,” directing the illicit business here, is among those to appear before Com- missioner Turnage were formally charged. ESTABLISHED 1865 POSTPONEMENT Is Always Expensive Today's neglected comes next week's Making small repairs in your ° home before winter weather comes will make unnecessary ? big repairs later. Get Barker - low prices now . .. and SAVE! ’ 'GEO. M. BARKER . ® COMPANY o LUMBER and MILLWORK 7t 649-651 N. Y. Ave. N.W. 9« 1523 Tth St. N.W. & Nat. 1348, “The Lumber Number’ 811 E St. N.W. No Mamy Down 4 Months to Pay! ‘The coat that gives you a “‘dressed-up” appearance at all times. Well tailored and fashioned in s manner of classic simplicity. Whitney'’s black novelty cloth coat, satin-lined with touches of Jelvet on its coliar and pock- Misses’ sives—14 to 20. Alm Fyr Trimmed Coats. um uj Trousers in Washington p to $19.50 have preliminary hearings tomorrow |- the drive by picked squads of Metro- | believed | Only five of those taken in custody | Archbishop Curley Presides at Sefrvices for New St. Francis Xavier’s. Erected to acoommodate & member- ship that has grown from 120 to 1,800 since 1924, the neW St. Francis Xavier's Catholic Church at 2800 Pennsylvania avenue SE. was for- mally dedicated yesterday in an im- pressive ceremony by the most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Bal- timore. The formal dedication services came after the new building had been used during the summer under special per- mission. It first was occupied on May 29. The Rev. Joseph V. Buckley had worked for completion of the new structure since 1924, when he became pastor of the church, which had for its meeting place the “Hut Church,” 2700 Pennsylvania avenue S.E., which was used as a Knights of Columbus hut in the World War. Archbishop Curley, in & brief ad- dress, praised the work of Father Buckley; his assistant, the Rev. Peter P. Rakowski, and leaders of the parish in the rem-rknbxe development of the church. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. James A. Smyth of Baltimore. Others taking part in the services vesterday included the Rev. Charles R. O'Hara of Holy Comforter, cele- brant; the Rev. Henry Graebenstein, St. Cyprian’s Church, deacon; the Rev. John K. Ryan, Catholic Univer- sity, subdeacon; the Very Rev. Msgr. Harry A. Quinn, Baltimore, master of cerémonies, and the Rev. Edward P. :“cAdams, St. Joseph's, and the Rev. Patrick A. Conroy, St. Anthony's, chaplains. Archbishop Curley was escorted to the church by a procession of 300 parishoners. 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