The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-26
Will Tell of Disarmament Con-
ference Sunday Morning.
Peace Endorsement Resolutions
Presented to President.
BEFORE WASHBURN STUDENTS
to President Harding
Is Easy, He Says.
Document Presented Views of
26,OOO,OOO Americans.

DR.. Charles M. Sheldon. former pas
tor of the Central Congregational
church and author of world wide
fame. returned to Topeka this morn
ing, after attending the disarmament
| conference at Washington, D. c.. He
| will speak on his views and the ac-
| tons of the conference at IL O'Clock
Sunday morning at the Central Con-
| gregationa1 church. He will make a
| similar address at 1880 o'clock Sunday
| evening at the First Presbyterian
| church. At 10 o'clock Monday morn
| ing he will deliver an address at the
| convocation of the students of Wash
| burn college at MacVicar chapel.
He Publishes His Views.
| In this weeks issue of the Chris
tan Herald, Doctor Sheldon says:
Your editor-in-chief has had diff
ficulty in getting interviews with
crowned heads, and with English edi-
tors. The red tape that is wound
around the approaches to a throne and
a foreign newspaper is really so long
and so full of knots, that it is almost
useless for the average citizen to do
much more than unwind a few miles
of the tape and wonder if the crowned
head or the editor ever had any visi-
tors anyway.
Approach to President Is Easy.
But the approach to the president of
the United States is so simple that it
is astonishingl There was only one
quiet individual in an anteroom to
whom we had to go with the simple
statement that we had an appointment
to see the president at 12:45. He in
stantIy consulted a little slip on his
small desk, nodded af1irmatiVely and
motioned us to go into a waiting room
where the presidents secretary sat.
There were only three or four persons
in the re ON, but there was an air of
quiet leisure and an absence of all
hurry, or any hint that this might be
the presidents busy day.
Evidently he was interested in the
calls that preceded our appointment
for it was 1:15 when the secretary
quietly motioned us into the presi-
dents room. I could not help think
ing it was more than some of my bust
ness friends would have done, when
the president said to US as we came
in, Il am sorry to keep you waiting"
Having never before had a presi-
dent of the United States apologize to
me, I was somewhat embarrassed, but
as soon as recovered myself, pro-
ceeded to present the resolutions sent
in so numerously by the churches,
and to tell the president that the large
collection of names could without
doubt be duplicated by the Protestant
churches in America. I pointed out
that this was no formed ecclesiastical
document we We're presenting, but the
members, pleading for an end of war,
and also assuring him that the pray
ers of all the Christian people of this
and every Other land were going up as
never in all the worlds history, that
the conference he had called might
under God, result in the beginning of
the end of Mars reign among men.
President Harding Was Interested.
President Harding stood during the
interview, with a deeply interested
and serious look on his face, and
when the presentation was over he
said:
There is no question in my mind
that what you say about the desire of
the Protestant church members for
worldwide peace is true; and it is
also true that the Greek church and
the Catholic and every religious body
desires the same thing. I am con-
fident of this, but 1 am glad to have
this visible token of the fact"
Then, after pause, he added, with
even growing seriousness:
what you say about the praying
of Christian people for peace. and for
this conference, that the result prayed
for may come, means very much to
me-"
With these words in our mind, we
were tremendously impressed with his |
evident heart conviction.
The president, is to my mind, very i
handsome man in the best use of a |
word that has sometimes been abused |
He stood up with a straightforward |
look in his eyes that was exceedingly !
attractive. I found myself wishing
that L could have a game of horse /
shoes with him; but at the same time |
1 had a sort of suspicion in my mind I
that he would perhaps beat me at it.