New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1928, Page 3

PRAISES LUTHER . FOR REFORMATION Ber. Dr. Ablquist Says He Gave Liberty to World America today owes its civil and religious liberty to Martin Luther aud the Reformation, according to Rey. Abel A. Ahlquist, Ph. D., who addressed Everyman's Bible class | yesterday morning at Trinity M. E. church. Dr. Ahlquist, who is pastor of the First Lutheran church, took as his subje: “What the World Owes Luther. He began with Luther’s birth, the &on of a humble miner, in the town of Eisleben, Germany, in 1483. He classified Luther among the *'spirit- val discoverers” who have ventured into untried rcalms and brought to light things which hitherto have been hidden, frequently at the cost of much personal peril and even martydom.” REV DR. A. A. AHLQUIST. He said hequestioned whether the world was imdebted to any of the &piritual disegverers, more than it was to Lutherj He pictured Luther's groping for, sdlvation, . and finally the heads of the church told him that to be saved he must do good works. Following. this’ advice he became a monk. He entered the monastery at Efurt and took the three-fold vow of poverty, chastity and obedience. 8o faithful was he that he was held up to the other monks as a model of holiness, ac- cording to Dr. Ahlquist. The speaker Went on to explain Luther's progress in his search for salvation and finally his embracing the theory that eternal salvation wes not due to any act of his own but was due to the mercy of God. Called Discoverer of Bible, “In the second place,” the minis- ter stated, “Luther discovered the world’ greatest pook—the Bible.” He suid the Bible was practically lost “in the time of Luther. Calling at- tention to the fact that many people befieve the Bible had not been trans. lated into any other tongue before Luther's time, he said there haa Leen no less than 14 translations into German before that period. “It {s 1ot the fault of the Catholic church that thes> Bibles were 80 expensive in that day that only the wealthy could afford them. We must not {blame the Catholic church for that. “Luther laid hold of the profound i fact that the fine arts can be the hand maiden of religion. It {5 too bad that Protestantism has deprived its churches of the products of the fine arts.. This world was not made merely for utility, History shows that art was born of religion. Gre- clan sculpture arese from making atatues of the gods; architecture has its noblest expression in the rock temples of India. Luther protested against the false attitude of hostility to sacred art. “Protestants often wonder how it { ia that the Catholic church has such a hold upon her people, that they are so0 faithful to their obligations. The secret is largely found in their | application of the psychology of sacred art in thelr worship. While ithe Romanistic service lacks the | vitality and direct interest of the Protestant, yet every feature of the | virons symbolizes religion; reverence | 15 voiced by their appeal to esr and in the house of prayer as we bow | before the Holy of Holles. Especlal- |1y does this symbolism make its last- ing appeal in ‘*he period of youth. This is & leason that Protestantism must learn it we would hold the ris- ing generation. Let us restore the products of aacred art to our churches. “To vealize what the world owes what the world was before his time and what it has been and is aince the time of Luther. One of the doc- trines of that day that Luther con- tested with all the force of his per- sonality was, of course, the infall- bility of the Pope, The Pope in- terpreted the scriptures. There was {no linguistic, teat by the study of Hebrew and Greek and Latin. Tt is no wonder that the age just before Luther was termed ‘the dark age. “Today the Bible is translated into hundreds of languages; it is circu- lated in coples numbering millions like the leaves of the forest. We have the Reformation to thank for this. “Luther fought the infamous practice of granting {indulgences. countries of Europe. A man could write the name of some sin on & strip of paper and pay a price in money to a monk and his sin was | torgiven. Luther fought it with | the force of his being. Did Not Leave the Church. “We must remember that Luther ver ::znded 10 separate from the | Catholicehurch. He wanted only to | right tie wrong that had arisen in the church. He was forced out. He never wanted the church to bear his name; but it was given his name jand has retained it to the present day. “The blessings of a free state and of civil and religious liberty are a: other heritags that the world owes to Luther and the Reformation; the blessings of a free state and of civil | and religious liberty. You remem- ber how you read in history that Henry the Fourth of Germany stood bare-headed in the cold at the door of the castle where Pops Gregory the Seventh was. The emperor stood thera for three days pleading that his forfeitzd crown might be restor- ed. In boldest terms Luther chal- lenged the clalms of the Pope to dominate the state. We have Luther to thank for our modern free’ architecture of the altar and theen- | cye, and we feel that we are verily | Luther wo have only to compare | historical or eritical Q Thesa monks travelled about in tho | “The same- 8 true . of rcligious liberty. - The pages of history are crimson with the blood shed for consclence sake. Now there is no burning of saints. Then think of the change that has been wrought in public worship. The people were not permitted to open their mouths even to sing. Now it is our glori- ous privilege to stand and sing the praises of God in our glorious carols and hymns. Preaching was given a place in worship; but let us be careful that we do not make.the sermon- a menace—that we do not come to ¢hurch merely to hear the sermon, but that we come to wor- mary motive for coming to church. “Then think of the beautiful hymns and carols trat Luther wrote. Think of that great -battle hymn o the Reformation—‘'A Mighty For- tress is Our God.' “Luther gave up the ideal of the Christian home. He set the example of a charming and happy family life. Wa'live'in a new world today, nen, and we should raise our hearts to God in gratitude for the privileges that are ours. Froedon: to Investigate. “We have absolute freedom «f in- vestigation. We are not told ‘this you must not tnvestigate’ or ‘that rou must {nvestigate.’ ran immense impulse the Reforma- | tion gave to science. Do you believe that if it 'had not been for the Re- { formation we would have gone for- ! ward in scientitic development as we | have done? T do mot. | tical outcome of Luther's principles respecting the church and state we ace right here in America, The Puri tans came because th were per- secuted-beyond the sea. They came to this new land, but they had rot been here very long hefore they themselves began ers and Sthers. “Down on the Delaware river there was a colony of Swedes sent over hy the great King Gustavus i Adolphus, He said to them, ‘When |yon meet with the Indians over there in America you must treat them in the most humane manner possible. You .nuat not take the land away from them, buy it from |them: pay for evervthing you get | from the Indians.’ “America owes her price of civil liberty to Martin Luther. Only six- | teen years after the Puritans land- ed on the shores of Magsachusetts a Swedish Lutheran church was dedi- cated in Tinicum, Pa. “Thank God for the great heroes lof the faith who have blazed their vay through history, and may we follow in their steps and go on and on toward greater and more inten- sive work for the Kingdom of God.” [8 BOATS FOUND ~ INTUTS TowB Were to Carry Him to Heaven, Carter Says Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 6 (AP)—Eigh- teen boats intended to carry King Tut-Ankh-Amen to heaven have been found in his tomb. A Thesc and. other finds in the third and fourth chambers are described in a report, just made public, of Howard atate, Tune Out the old set—tune in the new one. If you want to sell your old radio and buy a new one, you can get a fair price for it by advertising it in the Radio for Sale Ads in The Herald Classi- fied Section—and the money will make the down payment on the new set. Telephone your Ad to 925 Carter in charge of the work of ex- ploring the tomb. The flotilla is a reminder of the an- cient custom of providing the dead with means of transport to the other world, thus making them independent of the services of Charon. (Charon in Greek mythology was a morose old man whose duty it was to ferry the souls of the deceased over the Sty: The Enclyclopedia Britannica says “As ferryman of the dead he is not mentioned in Homer or Hesiod and in this character is probably of Egyptian origin”.) Another discovery in the third chamber, where the boats were, was a number of beautifully carved figures of human beings, these were to serve as substitutes for King Tut-Ankh- Amen in case Osiris, ruler of the dead, should impose tasks of peni- tence upon his new subject would not be befitting to the dignity of one who was a king upon the earth, The report also describes the ca- nopic jar of carved alabaster contain- ing the Egyptian ruler’s viscera, and an elaborate canopic chest enclosiny the jar. The chest, also of alabaster, is guarded at each corner by a lifclike statuete of the Tutelary goddess. Inside the chest, four receptacles, cach containing a reproduction of the f"“ gold coffin of the king, werc ound. The king’s head, finely sculp- tured in alabaster, was on each cover. What were supposed to be the heir- looms were in another nest of cof- fins. One of them contained a gold statuete of Amenhotep, a predeces- sor of King Tut-Ankh-Amen, and a lock of hair of Queen Tyl. The fourth chamber was found in extreme disorder by Carter. It was cvidentkr done by _robbers secking gold. - Apparently intended for the storage ot oils, wines and foodstuffs for the use of the king in the lands beyond the grave, it also contained an overflow of funeral paraphenalia. The contents of this chamber are stifl to be thoroughly examined. In | the meantime work on the tomb has been suspended and it is now open to the public. Will Try to Collect . Chicago, Feb. 6 (AP)—Fecderal gov- ernment action to collect income taxes from unlawful incomes of Chicago gamblers, racketeers and others with mysteriously augmented salaries, has been promised by George E. Q. John- son, United States district attorney, recently returned from Washington. Two special revenue agents have been working: quietly in Chicago for some time, atcording to word from the district attorney’s office, checking bank accounts of some of the city's best known racketeers, Collection of ‘taxes is expected to start with a formal demand for taxes, accompanied l:ay i‘.‘g““s on the in- comes_ involved. Failure to pay, it was understood, would bring govern- mental action. - Poisoned by Exhaust From Automobile Bus Philadelphia, Feb. 6 (AP)—Edwin F. Yesger and-his_wife were under |8 physician’s care today suffering ship God; that should be our pri- | And h, what | “The best illustration of the prac- | to persecute the | which | § Gamblers’ Income Tax | irom the effects of carbon monoxide iumes inhaled in an inter-state bus in which they were returning home irom | Atlantic City, a broken exhaust car- ried the fumes into the bus and the pair had to be revived several times during the trip. They collapsed again { upon their arrival home last night and were said to be in a scrious condition | today. POLISH ANERICAN REPUBLIGANS MEET 1 Club Re-clects Officers and Dis- | | cusses Permanent Headquarters | | Hundreds of members of the | | Polish-American Hepublican club ifilled the Falcons' hall last night at |their annual meeting to elect of- | ficers. All officers werc . reclected. | | Candidates who were chosen by | the nominating committee to run old officers resigned one | by one i vor of the old office- {bolders, leaving an unobstructed (field to victory for them. The | elected officers are: Joseph Kloskow- 1ski president; B, A. Grzybowski, vi resident; J. Smolak, secretary nley Karpinski, financial secre Joseph Miynarski, treasurer; | . Twardus and E. Roman, auditors. | President Koskowski upon taking | | s old position, thanked the mem- {bers for their confidence in the of- ficers and assured them that he iwould work untiringly for the good {of the club as well as for the good |of his rellow ecitizens. *Your solid- | ity, and sticktoitivencss have been ol throughout the past i <aid. “It is my wish and desire that you continue your good | work in helping us to grow and ex- nd.r | Among the more important mat- | Iters brought up was the reading of | the new constitution, which was ac- | copted as 1. A trend to change | {the clause concerning paying of in- | surance to beneficiaries, to a sick | nefit fund, was finally voted down tcr a prolonged discussion. Vice-President Grzybowski made a | suggestion, changing it later to a | niotion, that no one shall be accept- | !¢d as an active member of the club, | | being 50 years of age or more. They | could be »pted as honorary mem- | bers, paying a reduced monthly fee. |"The motion was disapproved. | The financial committee’s report | !showed that the treasury balance | ! has tripled during the past year. It is expected that in view of the | growth of the club, permanent club- | rooms will be established within the | Inext few months, therchy giving the | members opportunity to congregate |oftener to discuss current matters. 1t_was decided to hold the annual | bill on February 20 in Rialto Hall, | Broad strect. The committer con- | siets of Messrs. Grzybowski, Miynar- ski, Gacek, Roman, Twardus, Ko- koszka and Gill. to Fight for Delegates Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 6 (AP)—The first formal step in behalf of Secre- : Herbert Hoover's candidacy for the republicay presidential nomina- tion has been taken by his Ohio sup- porters. At the same time they hav drawn the battle lincs against efforts of Senator Frank B. Willis to obtain s delegation to the national con- vention, Thad H. Brown, former secretary of state of Ohio, and Robert A. Taft, former majority leader of the Ohio house of representatives, called a meeting of Hoover’s Ohio friends to- day for the purpose of preparing an address urging him to enter the state primaries as a candidate for pres ent. p The_mecting, besides marking the first formal step in behalf of Mr. Hoover's candidacy, has added signi- ficance because the sccretary of com- merce has not formally announced his intention to seck the nomination. K | He is reported at Washington to have assured his friends he will enter the Ohio lists at once if an address is made to him, backed by a “considerr |able showing of public sentiment,” land he must formally announce his | candidacy if he is to seek delegates from Ohio pledged to vote for him at the national convention. The meeting today, it is thought, will bring the conflict between Hoov- cr and Senator Willis into the open at once. That there would be such a [ conflict has grown more obvious cach day since last Friday when the re- publican state central committee en- ed Senator Willis” candidacy by a votc of 19 to 1, while at the same time Congressman Theodore E. Bur- ton of Cleveland asscrted in Wash- | ington that “the sentiment in Ohio is, for Hoover.” Answering reports from Washing- ton last night that he is to manage the Hoover pre-convention campaign, | Mr. Brown declared: “It has not been | discussed. Mr. Hoover has never an- nounced that he is a candidate for president; therefore he has no need for a campaign manager.” | Mr. Brown declined to reveal the| names of those who would attend the | conferenge. At the time of Brown's announce- | ment Mr. Taft was enroute .to New | York, Mr. Taft's support of the Hoover | causc is in line with Hamilton county republican organization policy in op- posing the candidacy of Senator Wil- lis, designated by ‘the statc central | committec as “Ohio’s favorite son.” The sole vote against endorsement of Senator Willis in Friday’s mecting was cast by P. Lincoln Mitchell, Hamilton county. READ "li\LD CLASSIFIED ADS | pecial Notice Dricklayers' and plasterers’ meet- | ary |to discuss important matters for the ! working on the theory that a delib- | through a big, stained glass window DISCUSS ATTACK HOOVER-HILLISTO BATILE IN 0HID Friends of Secretary and Senator 'THREE WOMEN ARE SEARCH FOR GUNMAN Police Scour New Jersey City for | Person Who Fired Revolver Shot at | Pastor Through Church Window. Newark, N. J,, Feb. 6 (AP)—Still insisting that he had no enemies who would want to take his life, the Rev. Dr. Clarence Bleakney, pastor of the Roseville Baptist church, continued taday in the belici that the bullet which pierced a window and showered him with glass as he delivered his vesper sermon last night was acci- dental. Police, however. who last night made known the fact that they were erate attempt had been made on the pastor’s life, had not abandoned the idea, Dr. Bleakney had just started his sermon when the crack of a revolver was heard, and a bullet crashed behind him and embedded itseli in the rear balcony. With blood flowing from several minor glass cuts on his head, Dr.| Bleakney had the congregation which | had become panic stricken, join in the | singing of a hymn and this prevented a possible stampede to the door, BY EIGHT NATIONS Latin-American Republics Re- sent Right of ntervention Havana, Feb, 6 (AP)—The attack of cight Latin American republics on | the right of ong nation to intervenc | in the affairs of another dominated | the atmosphere of the Pan-American | conference today. Preliminary conversations among chiefs of delegations were held to ! determine the attitudes they would assume in the special sub-committec appointed to pass upon this subject of the fundamental rights and duties oi | states, The attack me suddenly Saturday aiter Charles ns Hughes, chief of the United States delegation, had | mised the report of Dr, ~ Victor | aurtua of Peru the full and uncon- ! ditional support of the American go: ernment. Dr. Maurtua's report ¢ pounded the principle that the ind pendence of countries is correlated | with their duty not to “interfere with | or violate the rights of other states.” | This was attacked as too vague. The Rio Janeiro juri report saying “no te may intervence in the internal airs o another” was urged in its | stead. ! I'he attack on the Maurtua report | was led by Argentina and_Mexice, Guatemwala, Salvador, Santo Domingo, Honduras, Colombia and Urugu: joined in assailing it. The United States delegation was optimistic that a final agreement would be reached, but other delegates were wary in predicting what the final outcome of the sub-committee's work would be. This committee probably will not meet for several days since a plenary session is scheduled for to- morrow and the arrival of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh here on Wey is expected to cut short the ork of the congress that day., ! _ The committee on the Pan-Amer- | ican union at its meeting today had before it the last remaining article of | the new convention for the union. | This .defined the formalities under which a country could withdraw from the union. The reporter suggested | that two years’ riotice should he made necessary. DROWNEDINSEDAN Automobile Goes Through 4 Inch Ice Into 18 Feet of Water Oakland, Me, Feb. 6 (AP)—Of four persons who essayed a short cut across Lake Messalonskee near here, three were drowned, all of them | women, and the fourth, Brett Morse, 35, of Waterville, driver of the en- closed car in which all were riding, | was saved. Morse, the only one of the four who was able to escape from the ma- | chine as it sank into 18 feet of water, was pulled out by Harry Ware, 3 husband of one of the women who | perished. The other two victims were Mrs. | 40, and Miss N 4 ere from Wa ville. Ware was riding in a machinc which was following that which Morse was driving. ‘The party was on its way to a sum- mer camp for Sunday dinner. At the | spot where the accident occurred a sand bar juts into the lake and a spring keeps the water open throuch much of the winter. The ice was only four inches thick vesterday. g A hastily recruited force of several hundred snen attached ropes to the submerged car and finally managed to pull it near enough to the surface to | allow a hole to be chopped through | the roof and the bodies recovered. During the operations the_entirc | party was several times put in peril | when the ice sagged and threatencd | to give way. No attempt was made | to retrieve the automobile. LONDON PAPER COMMENTS ON KELLOGE'S PROPOSAL Say Abolition of Submarines “Hope- J‘ less” as It Has Become “Weapon of | Poorer Nations” Replacing Cruisers London, Feb. 6 (AP)—The London | Times commenting editorially on Sccretary Kellogg's proposal to abol- ish the submarine takes the view that it is a very attractive proposition, but that under present circumstances, | quite hopeless. . Not only, the paper says, do France and Italy -still regard submarines as | {ing will be called Tuesday. Febru- | indispensable, but also the smaller | 7, at Union hall, Main street, | maritime nations are incrcasing their | submarine strength since “they rely | year. A T ETMtMURRAY, #écretary. on submarines to do the work for which richer countrics build cruisers.” [ rained heavily Saturday night *“The submarine in fact has becom the weapon of the poorer countries,” the paper says. The Times thinks un der present circumstances both the United States and Great would gain by the abolition of the submarine but regrets there is no sign that the smaller nations, irom toward it. DEAD MAN YET T0 BE IDENTIFIED | Police Trying to Discover Who Murdered Individual Was Somerville, N. I, Feb. 6 (AP)—The identity of the body of a man, who | with ten feet of sash cord wrapped | about his neck, was found in a ficll { in Basking Ridge, puzzled police to- day. Police said they also were without clues as to the slayer or a motive for | the erime, The body, fully clothed with part of a pajamas suit underncath the outer garments, was discovered by Elmer A. Cranc, a Bernardsville “schoolboy who was inspecting some traps. County Physician George L. Mack said that in his opinion, death had been caused by the blow in the face with a lead pipe. Dr. Mack also stated that he he- licved the man had been killed at some place other than where the body was found. because although it and carly Sunday morning, the clothes were not wet, The victim was about 40 years old, vell-dressed, and about five feet five iches. He wore a bu€ chinchilla overcoat and a black suit. . It was first belicved the victim had Britain | been a member of a gang with whom | search, there has been not a ad had some dealings, but the rprints of the man did not coin- in a de- police | % { whom the proposal would come most | pression in the ficld, a 10-foot length | hopetully, are likely to make a move | of sash cord knotted tightly about the neck. There was a large the right ch INVENTOR PLANS -~ TOSEARCH RIVER 'Hunt $till Goes On for Frances §t. John Smith Feb, 6 (AP)— th. h college ca ain the b Smith, bruise on | | mpton, Mass,, ably certain {pond on Sw 1ot cor pus does »ody of Miss France: missing freshman, " Weis, Indianapolis inventor | of an underwater searchlight who has [ spent the t two days probing the depths of the pool, prepared today to turn his attention to the nearby Connecticut rive Weis explored the entire pond bot- tom with the exception of a few spots where a second laver of ice made a complete examination impossible. He declared, however, that he did not be- licve the body could have heen con- ccaled in these places because of cur- rentforces, His survey of the probably will be concentrated in the vicinity of the Hadley bridge. Per- sistent rumors that the girls hody had been found flooded college en day, but the day passed as Paradise | Connecticut | | without positive development -of ajy ! sort, | Miss Smith dropped out of sight on January 13 and despite a nation-wide authentic clue to indicate that i ever seen after leaving her | room. Rewards for her di ap- | proximate $15,000 of which $ has {been offered by her parents, Mr. and { Mrs. St. John Smith oi New York | New Red Cross seator Life Saving of the Week. e New Red Cross senior life saving course starts tonight which is open to any individual in New Britain. The course of lessons 18 free and class will continue for eight weeks. The “Y" wrestling squad will probably wrestle in Waterbury this week. A new recruit for the aquad weighing 200 pounds will be added to the team. The senior and intermediate phy- sical training corps will meet on Thursday night in preparation for the gym cus and exhibition tour. Wednesday the junior swimming team will prepare for the statc swimming meet in Waterbury. D HERALD CLASSIFIED ADf My wife, Bertha Blankenberg having deserted me without jus cause, 1 will pay no bills of her con- tracting. Nvw Britain, Conn., Feb 3. 1928, Herman Blankenberg. Public Auction TONIGHT from 7 to 10 o’clock and every night this week of Garber Brothers entire New Britain stock of fine furniture in Railroad Arcade building. FURNITURE at your own prices. —Store open for in- spection all day! If dollars mean any- thing to you do not fail to attend this auction. Garber Brothers will deliver anywhere with- in this county. ALBERT SIMONS, Auctioneq;j