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The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
Sermons Heard in Washington Churches Yesterday
Prohteers Scored and Lux
urious Habits of Ameri-
can People Denounced In
Stirring Words by Rev.
DR.. Henry H. Ranck at
Grace Reformed Church.

Americas menace is her mean
ness. her selnshness, her sim" de-
clared the Rev. DR.. Henry H. Ranck
at Grace Reformed Church yester-
day morning.
DIR. Ranck said. in part: Sin is
a reproach to any people, and our
iniquity and self-seeking as a na-
tion for a year or more has been
towering. growing - sickeninG,
disheartening spectacle. The al
truistic ideals for which we fougnS
the war have gone aglimmering,
and the domineering selhshness
which in Germany We condemned
and crushed-lo, it is in rampant
evidence amongst US.
Bishop Gore, of oxford, said
some time ago: I never felt such
anxiety as now. The temper of the
nations has degraded since the ar
mistice to a degree almost terrify-
ing The bishop had Europe in
mind, but what he says applies
equally well 10 US.
And why should il not be so?
War is hell'-a definition which
cannot be improved on. When ma
tions concentrate all ability and re-
source on slaughtering men to the
point of exhaustion, let us not look
for a paradise on earth as the ISSUE
We are suffering from the back
wash of the war, and there is a
resurgence of selfishness in almost
every quarter.
I'VE have all been pinched by tho
profteer. A milk dealer in WASH
ington. I understand, has been
shown by Congressional investiga-
tionto have made 80 per cent profit.
In New York a milk dealer makes
so per cent, a clothier 100 per cent
Shoe dealers make immense profits.
Workers and mechanics must be
paid more. They demand big wages.
The vicious spiral mounts. Charge.
demand all you can. Get while the
getting's good
Some day these profteers win
be classed with Jesse James, Capt.
Kidd, and the robber dons. They
are playing the same game-hold-
ing up the public. A similar spirit
prevails in partisan politics. and
may be seen among churchmeu-
Oh, no; we cannot help starving
Europe or stricken Armenia. while
we spend $4,000. 600, 900 a year on,
luxuries, according to a government
expert. Can God ever forgive usf
THE menace OF America Is her
own evil-doing; her salvation the
virtue Of her people. filled with a
passion of righteousness. The true
citizen and patriot will work and
pray. think and endure, for every
principle and agency which makes
for Righteousness. Many are doing
this. and the victory Of right ulti-
mately is sure.
Every true man will say: In a
world of liars, I'll be true: though
many cheat, / will not steal; wrong
may be rampant, I'm for the right;
self-seeking abounds. but j VIII
serve Let US grow men like that.
and under God we'n transform
America and the world. 1t must
be done-it will be done"
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05

0sh may hope In spite OF .ne
~ metaphorists. to avoid the
breath Of the deadly upas
tree; one may, by great good
fortune, succeed in blacking the
eye of the basiiisk; one might
even dodge the attentions of Ger
bsrus and Argus. but no man.
alive or dead, can escape the
gaze of the Rubbsrsr.
New York is the Caoutchouc
City. There are many of course,
who go their ways, making mon
ey. without turning to the right
or the left. but there is tribe
abroad wonderfully composed.
like the Martians, solely of eyes
and means of locomotion.
These devotees of curiosity
swarm. like flies. in a moment In
a struggling, breathless circle
about the scene of an unusual
occurrence. IL a workman opens
a manhole, IL a street car runs
over a man from North Tarry-
town. IL a little boy drops an egg
on his way home from the groc-
cry, IL a casual house or two
drops into the subway, IL a lady
loses a nickel through a hole IN
the isle thread. il the police drag
a telephone and a racing chart
forth from an Ibsen Society
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05

himself and q photograph OF
Laura Jane Libbey for his wife.
Yea, Cupid was In the air
And outside the church, on. my
brothers. surged and heaved the
rank and file of the tribe of Rum
berers. In two bodies they were.
with the grosgrain carpet and
cops with clubs between. They
crowded like cattle, they fought
they pressed and surged ana
swayed and trampled one another
to see bit OF a girl in a white
Veil acquire license to go through
q mans pockets while he sleeps.
But the hour for the wedding
came and went and the bride and
bridegroom came not And inn
patience gave way to alarm and
alarm brought about search, ana
they were not found. And then
two big policemen took a hand
and dragged out Of the furious
mob OF onIookers a crushed ana
trampled thing. with q wedding
ring In its vest pocket and a
shredded and hysterical woman
beating her way to the carpets
edge, ragged, bruised and OBJ
streperous.
William Pry and Violet Sey-
mour, creatures of habit, had
Joined in the seething game Of
the spectators, unable to resist
the overwhelming desire to gafe
upon themselves entering. as bride
and bridegroom, the rose-decked
church.
Rubber will out.
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The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
washinGton Herald-Cross Atlantic
seryice. SpeefsI Cable Dispafch.l

(washington Herald-Cross Atlantic
Service. Special Cable DispatchJ
London, July 4. - Independence
Day greetings are extended to
America by the leading editors and
publishers Of London. Lord Burn
ham. editor and proprietor of the
Daily Telegraph says:
Does the celebration OF .Inde-
pendence Day mark an advance or
setback in the onward march OF
men? Historians still discuss the
problem and differ on it; but those
OF US who try to realize the essen
tial things are content to leave them
TO their doubts.
Proud Of America.
I'VE see with infinite pride and
comfort. the great nation across the
Atlantic. Instinct with our tradi-
tions of freedom and justice and
true to these traditions, not only in
word but in deed, as all the world
saw in the great war. And that is
what matters. Nothing else.
The immediate future is big with
fate, and 1 believe firmly that what
ever may be its call, you will re-
spond in your ~wn way. but shar-
ing the task of guarding the world's
civilization and peace, and contrib
uting to II in your own time those
great moral influences and material
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05

She looked up at him shyly. yet
with unmistakabis love transhEur-
ing her countenance.
And you have saved II for me O.
she asks. trembling with the frst
dim ecstasy OF q woman beloved.
Together they hurried to the
bootblack's stand. An hour they
spent there casing At the mall
formed youth.
"A window-clea fell from the
fifth story to the sidewalk beside
4. them. As the ambulance came
Changing UP William pressed her
had ioyousiy. "Four ribs at least
and q compound fracture" he
whispered. swiftly. You are not
sorry that you met me-. are you.
dearsst7"' -,
"Mer' said Violet, returning the
pressure. "Sure not. could
stand all day rubbering with you"
The climax of the romance oc-
Cured a few days later. Perhaps
the reader will remember the in
tense exciter1ent into which the
city was thrown when Eliza Jane,
a colored woman. was served with
q subpoena. The Rubber Tribe
encamped on the spot. With his
own. hands william Pry placed a
board upon two beer kegs In the
street opposite Eliza James resi-
dence, He and Violet sat there
for three days and nights. Then
II occurred to q detective to open
the door and. serve the subpoena.
He, sent for . kinetoscope and
did so.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
Security Of Private Prop
erty forms Basis of Civil
ization, Declares Rev.
Herbert Randolph in
Anti-Socialist July 4 Ser
mon at Foundry M. E.

A wave of lawlessness is sweep
ing the country, declared the Rev.
Herbert Randolph yesterday in a
sermon on THE Friends and Foes
of Freedom" at the Foundry Meth
odist Episcopal Church.
Secrity of property, the basis of
progress, he said. is being destroy
ed. Karl Marks theories are now
being pitted, against those OF Wash
ington and Hamilton.
DR.. Randolph quoted Lincoln's
words, mo State is safe that does
not insure security to the property
of citizens" He said: Witness the
riots in great industrial centers.
Consider how not even New Eng
land has escaped the presence OF
vandals and Huns. Think OF the
stores being wrecked hard by Fan
euil Hall, the cradle of American
liberty.
Gov. Coolidge proved to be a
staunch friend of freedom through
rigorous treatment of rioters, and
thereby is acclaimed as an Ameri-
can of the real type.
The founders of this republic
were very different men from the
type OF Lenine and Trotsky. Men
like Washington, Franklin and
Hamilton were not only giants of
physical strength and endurance.
but giants Of intellect and moral
character. 1t is the teachings OF
such men that we must pit against
Karl Marks denial of private own
ership and his teaching of common
ownership, which is sowing the
seeds of Socialistic revolution in all
parts fthe world. Property must
be kept safe for civilization to
thrive.
IF the tongue of the agitator
could be silenced and all the people
return to work, and. instead of
shortening hours lengthen them
the American people would enter
upon an era Of prosperity unheard
Of in the history of the race"
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
DIAMOND TRADE
'BREAKSRECORD
Maiden Lane Jewellers Say
Demand for Precious
Stones Unabated. !

New York. July 4.-More dia-
monds are being sold in New York
City than ever before, according to
many retailers of the Maiden Lane
district. Gold and silver as we'll as
platinum jewelry. although sold IN
considerable amount, does not be-
gin to have the same attraction for
the public as precious stones, they
said.
Not only are higher prices being
paid for stones. but larger and bet
ter gems are demanded. II has be-
come a common occurrence for
young men in the early twentIes to
pay 500 or $500 for an engagement
ring. the manager Of a downtown
jewclry shop. catering to the tran
sient trade, said.
Has diamond buying stoppede
Don't you believe il. They're eet-
ting married just the same as they
always did. The demand fog half
karat stones is greater than ever:
and we do a rushing business n
the more expensive one karat
stones.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
Hoot o the OUl
Out,
NoKeyForDoor

"Curfew shall never ring at the
Hoot O. the Owl Coffee House, de-
clares Mrs. William Atherton du
Puy, president of the League of
American Penwomen. What is
more. II is assured that the Owl
positively boots tomorrow night at
O'Clock Last Tuesday his feath-
ers were all preened but the newly
painted chairs just wouldn't dry and
The poor bird caught cold, so he
couldn't hoot and the opening had
TO be postponed.
But everything is now ready for
the grand opening kaffeklatch to-
morrow night at the leagues head
quarters, 1722 H street northwest.
The decorations are hung, the Gar
rick Stock Company will come, and
guests are promised the best cup
Of Java this side of the island itself.
The new coffee house is expected
to take q prominent place In the
literary and social life of Wash
inston. affording the Wits of the
town Q gathering place such as Ad-
iison and his cronies enjoyed in the
soffee houses of London in the days
,f good Queen Anne.
{ The fragrant urn will bubble as
safly as IL o'clock every morning,
sundays included. and as far as
closing time Is concerned-"welI,
Fe never shall put anyone out--that
q why we have called 1t the Hoot o.
- ogL" says Mrs Du Puy.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
Eyes of Whole World Are
Turned Toward United
States as Savior of Hu-
manity, Says DR.. Earle
Whitley at Vermont Ave
nue. Christian Church.

Our Country's Exaltation" was
the subject OF the Rev. DR.. Earle
Whitley at the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church yesterday morning
DR.. Wilfey said in part: This,
the birthday of our nation, is highly
significant. Occupying the place we
do in the thought and life of the
world. 1t would be difficult to state
the Importance OF our country to
the well-being of mankind.
When this nation was born those
who had to do with its coming into
the world could never have dreamed
OF such growth and development
within this short period of years:
Within the memories of some who
are present here today this country
was comparatively insignificant in
the eyes of the world. Other ma
tions, hoary with age and fettered
by tradition, looked upon us as a
country OF experiments, an unstable
nation of money-makers and anna
teurs in statecraft, without ouinion
or national spirit. lacking in domi-
mating patriotic impulse.
But the last three years have
opened the eyes of the whole world
and IL Is not too much to say that
the eyes OF humankind are turned
toward this country as savior.
In fact, the most thoughtful and
discriminating leaders of the nations
OF the Old World have given def
mite expression to the fact that we
are regarded in the light OF a big
brother to the nations. This fact,
instead of arousing unseemly pride
or the spirit of boasting, should
cause us to exhibit real humility
and the spirit of one who serves.
II our country is to experience the
exaltation that satisfies and endures.
it will not be because of our i'm
mense wealth. inexhaustible re-
sources. and tremendous achieve
ments, but because OF the fine and
noble spirit OF brotherhood that we
exhibit toward the distressed and
appealing nations of the world. We
must be right and we must also be
kind.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
Fourth of July Should be
National Sabbath for
True Americans, Says DR..
Wallace Radcliffe In Pa
triotic Sermon at New
York Avenue Church.

The Fourth of July is our ma
tional Sabbath" declared the Rev
DR.. Wallace Radcliffe in New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church yes
terday morning.
He said. in part: Independence
Day is a feast of trumpets. 1t is
good thing to blow the trumpets. il
recalls traditions, 1t emphasizes
duty. it quickens loyalty. 1t chal-
lenges neglect and indifference, II
summons to service.
July is the month OF liberty. II
is the month which records the
Siege of Dorry, the Battle of the
Boyne. Gettysburg and the Ameri-
can Declaration.
Fourth of July should always
mean a holY convocation. Holy
means separate America is sep
arate nation. We have been set
apart as distinctly as was Israel OF
cd. We carry the modern ark of
the covenant. We have been made
priests unto the nations.
THE North American Indian was
in no true sense an American.
America came to this continent in
the Mayflewer. A true American
may be born in China, If when here
he is loyal to our traditions and
ideals.
1T is still true that We must re-
member our sabbath nationally as
we as personally; they carry peace
and life.
This national Sabbath must mean
worship. The necessary element IN
American history is the idea God.
II we forget Him, He will forget us.
The ark of the covenant must re-
tain within it the tables of the law;
and this temple must shine with the
glory of Jehovah.
The national Sabbath must mean
resurrection. The old orders
change. Permanence is by char
acter, and character is a growth.
and growth Is by new and spiritual
life. This national Sabbath means
rest. We are a distinct nation and
the best patriotism asserts that
separateness for our safety and
highest influence. No league can
supplant nationality"
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
CHURCH
VAN SCHAICK
War Work and School
Board Administration
Praised.

Extolling the character and work
OF the Rev DIR. John Van Schaick,
Jr, the congregation OF the Church
OF Our Father yesterday morning
adopted the following expression OF
thanks and appreciation upon the
occasion of his voluntary retirement
from the presidency of the District
school board.
With the voluntary retirement of
DR.. John Van Schaick, jr.. from the
position of president of the school
board of the District of Columbia,
the members of the Church of Our
Father extend to him their sincere
and heartfelt thanks for his years
of faithful, disinterested and intelli-
gent service for the cause of pub
lie education in this community.
With only one ambition. that of
raising the standard and increasing
the usefulness of the public schools
and making them the best in the ma
tion, he has worked to secure the
realization of that ambition.
In that work, he has at times
been met with unjust criticism and
bitter opposition. With an abiding
faith in the final victory of every
good cause, he has met aspersion of
character and misstatement of mo-
tives as he had previously met and
overcome the greater difficulties of
successfully ministering to the war
stricken in Europe. His work In
Belgium, France and in Washington.
was truly a fight of faith, a faith
in an Overruling Justice and Right
and a faith in the people whom he
loved and for whom he bore burdens
as a good soldier.
In Washington, as in Europe, he
strove for victory with malice to-
ward none but with charity and
goodwill for all. He ever bore him
self as an honorable Christian gen.
tleman such as we have for twenty
one years known him to be and well
coined to our homes and hearts. For
thus keeping himself unspotted from
the world, we thank and honor him
even more than for what he has
achieved for humanity in Europe and
for our schools in Washington. Thus
thanking and honoring him, in this
spirit. we pledge ourselves as indi-
viduals and as a church to work in
all practical ways to upbuild and
maintain our Washington schools in
the highest state of efficiency"
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
YELLOW FEVER
PLAGUE GROWS
Believe Scores in Vera
Cruz Have Disease in
Early Stages.

Vera Crus. July i.-Despite efforts
or sanitary authorities, several new
cases Of yellow fever developed to-
day following announcement that
there was no further danger from
bubonic plague. Three deaths from
yellow fever were reported. officials
declared every effort was being
made TO prevent spread OF the NAL
ady.
IT was believed scores OF persons
had contracted the fever but that IT
had not yet reached the stage where
II was necessary to summon physi-
clans. owing to the fact that ii re-
quires considerable time for the
fever germs TO incubate. Sanitation
measures instituted to combat the
spread Of the bubonic plague will
be continued against the fever.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
CELEBRATED WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY WHILE
ATTENDING CONVENTION.

Mrs. James NJ. Thompson. daugh-
ter OF former Speaker and Mrs
Champ Clark. entertained at a re-
ceptlon at the Palace Hotel, San
francisco, last Wednesday evening,
the hfth anniversary of her mar
rage In honor of the women dele
gates to the Democratic national
convention and the Missouri, Louis
lana and West Virginia DELEGATIONS
After the convention Mr.. and Mrs.
thompson and Mrs. Thompson's
brother. Col. Bennett c. Clark, will
go to the Clark home at Bowling
Green, Mo, for short stay.
Mrs. Richard Gibson. who has been
spending several weeks with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs A. T. Coumbe,
mas left Washington to join Mr..
Gibson in Lancaster, Ohio.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
CHARLOTTE M. MAGHEE
OF VIRGINIA, DEAD

Richmond, Va, July AIRS. Char
lotte Meade Maghee, for many
years a resident of Petersburg, died
here today, aged 81. She was born
in Amelia County, Virginia. Febru-
ary 16. 1923. and was the daughter
of DR.. John Stockdell, who served
as a surgeon in the war of 1912 with
the Petersburg Crusaders.
Mrs. Maghee was the grandmother
of Hugh Stockdell Bird, of Washing
ton, an off1cial of the American Red
Cross. who is now in Europe An
other grandson, DIR. r Montgomery
Bird, is a professor at the Univer-
sity OF Virginia
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
ENGLISH HEAR
US. BISHOP
Rev. DR.. Rhinelander, of
Philadelphia, Speaks
AT St. Paul's.
(wasington Herald Public Ledger
Service. Special Cable Dispatch.)


London, July 4,-Bishop Rhine
lander. of Philadelphia, was the
preacher today in st. Paufs
Cathedral.
AN American bishop" he said in
his sermon. speaking on this day
and in this cathedral and at a time
so critical in our common history,
cannot but be moved by strong
emotion. Liberty has been the
dominant ideal of our race. of both
our nations. We may have had in
adequate ideas of 1t, We may not
always have been true to the ideals
we had. but at least we have thrilled
at it's name and recognized its call.
so much we may claim quite
honestly and with historic truth.
You on your side are probably ready
to admit, as we on ours will be alert
to claim, that in breaking from you
in 1876, We did truly English
thing and were moved by a truly
English motive. We were putting
into practice lessons learned in the
nursery of the mother of free
nations. We were in reality prov
ing our birthright.
America in War.
e Il may so interpret the American
iay of independence with entire
confidence to an English congrega-
tion for in the great war just over
10 found the indisputable truth of it..
We may have been late in coming
in, we may have seemed inexplicably
slow in taking the place at your
side which properly belonged to US.
hF,f in Of Ia af Nd
too late and we came as a unit with
our whole strength. A heterogeneous,
multi -colored mass Of US came in,
made up of pigments of nearly every
race, color and creed which the earth
knows. The nation as a whole re-
sponded when the call came. Quite
clear and unmistakable, America
ran true to form.
This proves, does IT not. that
with US as with you, though there
may be stagnation and distraction.
though corrupt politics may poison
public life and greedy ambitions
dull mems consciences, the soul of
the people Is still set on liberty.
is still ready to defend IL at all
costs, still recognizes II as the cor
nerstSne ot-true prosperity and
rightNus peace and this common
faithfulness OF our two nations to
the ideal of liberty is much more
than a distinctive mark of our past
history: 1t is our common burden Of
responsibility for days to come.
..EngIish. Must stand Together.
1T is difficult to see how secure
guarantees of freedom are to be
given smaller, weaker nations un-
less we together give them. The
league of nations can hardly be
more than a paper plan, a vIsIonar,
dream of reconstruction, unless the
British Empire and the United
States together shape it. secure it
through to practical effectiveness.
God help US to do it; and the doing
Of 10 will be no easy task. There are
not lacking signs that the present.
day democracy is losing hold Of that
idealism which alone can keep it
safe from mob rule on the one hand
and corrupting influences on the
other. May the pressure of the
worlds need and our sense of the
worlds dependence upon us, bind
US together even more closely to
perpetuate our common heritage
than the threat of the great war
brought us together to defend it,"
Copyright. 1920. by Public Ledger Col
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
London Editors Send Independence
Day Greetings, Declaring Firm Faith
In Purpose and Future of America

resources with which you are sc
richly endowed"
J. L. Garvon. editor of the Sunday
Observer declares:
THE hopes of the whole world
depend upon the continued and in
creasing concord of America and
Britain, in spite Of every infiuence
that seeks to rive them asunder.
Il shall never rest content until
there is memorial to George
Washington in Westminster Abbey.
Copyright, 1890. Cross-Atlsntie Nevspapei
Service, Incl
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
Lightning Kills Farmer.

Fredericksburg, Va. July 4. -
During an electrical storm yester-
day afternoon. william Gray, q col
ored farmer living at Chilesbure.
Caroline County. and horse which
he was driving, were both struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
Gray had been in a field on his farm
plowine, and was returning to his
home on account Of the storm
The Washington herald., 1920-07-05
EUROPEAN ASSIGNMENT
HAsTENS PLANS FOR Wedding,

The marriage of Miss Abigail
Holman Harvey. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick l.. Harvey, and
Capt. Eugene Villardet, whose en-
gagement was announced yester-
day. Will take place July II in St.
Margarets Church at $40 o'clock,
the Rev. Herbert Scott Smith of,
ficiating. The arrangements will
include five girl attendants for the
bride, most. IL not all. of whom
made their debut with Miss Harvey
in 1917.
Plans for the marriage have been
fastened owing to the appointment
OF Capt. Villardet as assistant mill
tary attache of the United States
Embassy in Paris. Miss Harvey is
a granddaughter of the late Will
lam s. Holman. for thirty-fve years
member of Congress from Indi-