Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
WORLD ON UPGRADE
!. BISHOP DECLARES
Press Also ON Highest Level,
I Right Rev. J. {. Freeman
Tells The Star Club.

Bishop James E. Freeman in an ad-
dress last night at an informal get
together dinner Of The Evening Star
Club at the Raleigh Hotel took
sharp issue with those who have
branded this "decadent age" and
declared that it was plainly evident
that we are on higher levels morally
and spiritually today than the world
has ever known"
More than zoo gathered for the
Thanksgiving eve festivities, presided
over by the club president. C. Fred
Cook, who not only introduced the
entertainers and speakers of the
evening, but on behalf of the club
and THE Star Family extended thanks
70 The Evening Star Newspaper Com
pany for it's many beneficences.
Frank B. Moves, president of the COM
pany, responded on behalf of the COM
pany.
Bishop Freeman, in his optimistic
address, added:
ITO any one who knows compare
tive history it is plainly evident that
we are on higher levels"
Dealing With Human Nature.
Pointing out what he said was a
'close connection" between the min
tstry and Journalism, as I'VE are both
dealing with human nature" Bishop
freeman said both were in position
to discover it's virtues and vices"
He believes this not only the best
age of history. but that America is
the best spot in the world
Il hope it be true" he added, re-
ferring to the press, that the men
who are our opinion making men
are men who have the hopeful out
look. There never has been a time
when this country needed it like to-
day
Quoting Robert Louis Stevenson. the
speaker said he believed fervently in
This expression of that genius: Il be-
lieve in an ultimate decency of things,
and if l awoke in hell l should still
believe in it,
Bishop Freeman, admitting that
there are spots of corruption" and
that he did not say the age is with
out SIM declared the man has got
his age dead wrong who holds it in
contempt, or speaks of il disparaging-
ly l believe profoundly that
no man can gain high place in pub
lie life ard hold it today unless his
life be controlled, by high moral and
spiritual ideals"
journalism Trend Upward.
journalism, the speaker said, was
an enterprise in many respects Sec
ond to none" and a mighty factor
in shaping the life and destiny of the
Republic" In spite of much evidence
to the contrary, Bishop Freeman said
1t was his opinion that the press was
on higher plane today than it was
SO years. ago. ~
you are the Interpreters. of life
he told tho club; you are the mirror,
held up ITO human life I" You
penetrate beneath the surface of things,
a nd you see them. not as they appear,
but you know them as they are"
Bishop Freeman praised Woodrow
WILSON for his FIDELITY to an ultimate
IDEAL He pointed: to the religion of
Calvin Coolidge as one of the secrets
of the Presidents hold on the Ameri-
can people, and carrying forward his
theme and optimism, hailed the su-
prene spirit OF optimism in the
worlds master man. Jesus Christ
as ono Of the causes for his trans
cendent. place in the life of the
world. -.s
Col. Cooke. for the club. presented
special turkey souvenirs of the eve
ming to those at the head table: Frank
3. Noyes, BfshopSFreemari, Theodore w
Moves, DR.. John Crayke Simpson and
Victor kauffmann, and also to Cliff.
ford, K. Bergman, cartoonist for
The. Star Each IN member received an
appropriate Thanksgiving souvenir.
Meyer. Goldman and his orchestra
entertained delightfully."- during the
evening, the. club joining in the
chorus of popular songs. John FrM
Bowie, tenor, accompanied by George
Wilson,, and George II. -OConnor, bari
tone, interrupted" on the piano by
Matt Horne, proved prime favorites.
Col Cook headed the committee in
charge OF the dinner. ~