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Evening star., 1928-11-03
Andrew Wilson to Speak.

Andrew Wilson OF the Anti-Saloon
League will speak to the mems class Of
the Columbia Heights Christian Church
tomorrow at 10 am. on Citizenship and
Prohibition" The pastor, Rev. Harvey
Baker Smith, invites the men OF the city
to attend.
Evening star., 1928-11-03
SPECIAL EXERCISES.
Albright Memorial Evangelical
Church Has First Birthday.

Albright Memorial Evangelical Church
will observe its first anniversary of dedi-
cation tomorrow with special exercises,
under the direction of Rev. George E.
Schnabel, the pastor
DR.. Warren Floyd Teel, president of
Schuylkill College, Reading, Pa, will be
the special preacher. Services will be
held at IL am. and pm.
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SERMON OF BISHOP
TO BE BROADCAST
DR.. Freeman to Be Special Preach
er in Bethlehem Chapel
of Cathedral.

Right Rev. James E. Freeman. Bishop
of Washington, will be the special
preacher in the Bethlehem Chapel of
Washington Cathedral tomorrow at the
peoples evensong at 4 pm. This serv-
ice will be broadcast over WRC.
At the IL am. service of holy COM
munion and sermon in Bethlehem
Chapel tomorrow the preacher will be
DR.. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of
Washington Cathedral.
The full list of services tomorrow in
Bethlehem Chapel is as follows: AT
7:30 am, holy communion 10 am,
morning prayer and litany; IL am,
holy communion and sermon; pm,
peoples evensong and sermon.
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PREACHERS JOIN RESERVE
Army Chief of Chaplans Says 1888
on Corps Roll.

The chief of chaplains of the Army
reports a steady increase in the mem
bership of the Chaplains' Reserve Corp
each year since 1921, when sos clergy
men held commissions in the Chaplains'
Reserve Corps On the last day Of the
fiscal year 1928 the number had grown
to 1888, of whom 314 undertook tours
Of active duty training during the year.
He also reports that the total num-
ber of religious services conducted on
military reservations during the fiscal
year which ended on June 80, 1928,
was 1880, at which there were 1,777,-
Ol8 worshipers. Division by the average
strength of the Regular Army during
the same period indicates an average
attendance at IS services during the
year by each member Of the Regular
Army.
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SPIRITUALIST

Pennsylvania has 106O9 Sunday
schools.
Evening star., 1928-11-03
OPEN NEW POST MISSION
Volunteers of America Plan Serv.
ice With Special Exercises.

The new post mission of the Volun-
teers of America, Inc, will be opened
tomorrow at 8 pm. at 1903 Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast with special ex-
ercises.
Col. Christopher C. Heron, regimen
tai commander. will make the principal
address. Weekday services will be held
Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 8
o'clock. Gen. Ballington Booth and
Maud B. Booth are the commanders.
Princeton now has a Catholic chap
lain.
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Bible Glass to Meet.

The Harrison Bible Glass of Congress
Street Methodist Protestant Church,
1888 Thirty-first street, will meet to-
morrow morning at Gas o'clock in the
auditorium of the church. DR.. H. A.
Kester, the pastor of the church, will
address the class. His subject will be
1.-The World Temperance Sunday"
Prof H. w. Draper will have charge of
the lesson and give short talk on it.
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DRAMA AND PAGEANTRY
MASS MEETING PLANNED
Assembly Will Be Heard at First
Congregational Church Nov. 8.
DR.. w. r. Andrews to Speak.

A mass meeting in the interest of
Christian drama and pageantry will be
held at the First Congregational
Church, Tenth and G streets, Novem-
ber 8 at o'clock, under the auspices
of the committee on drama and pag
eantry of the Washington Federation of
Churches, of which Miss Bess d.
Schriner is chairman.
The principal address will be deliv-
cred by DR.. George Reid Andrews of
New York City, who founded the
Church and the Drama Association.
Evening star., 1928-11-03
METROPOLITAN CHURCH
SERMON TOPICS GIVEN
Official Board Will Meet Monday
Night-Epworth League
Plans Session.

At the Metropolitan Methodist
Church tomorrow morning the pastor.
DR.. James Shera Montgomery. will
preach on THE Tragedy Of the
Tower" and in the evening The Guest
in the Lowest Room"
The official board of this church
will meet Monday evening at 8 o'clock
Important business will be transacted.
The Metropolitan Epworth League
will meet in business session Saturday
evening at 8 o'clock in the vestry of
the church.
Evening star., 1928-11-03
CHURCH GIVES PROGRAM.
Rev. B. Braskamp Will Preach on
"The Cross Triumphant"

Rev. Bernard Braskamp, pastor of
the Gunton- n-Temple Memorial Pres
byterian Church, will speak tomorrow
morning on THE Cross Triumphant"
A cross, the gift of Samuel Redmond in
memory of his mother, has been placed
in the chancel of the church.
At the o'clock evening service the
pastor will have as his subject Drift
ing" Great activity is being shown
among the young people. Last week a
Junior C. E. Society was organized.
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Revival Starts Tomorrow.

At the Third Baptist Church. Fifth
and @ streets, a revival starts tomorrow
DR.. Bullock will do the preaching. His
topic tomorrow at IL am. is Gods
Reserved Corps" There will be a
special program at night. The I. C. E.
Society will meet at pm. The
Junior G. E. Society will meet at pmN
The Senior G. E. Society will meet
at 6 pm.
Evening star., 1928-11-03
RECTOR breaches SERIES
Continues Sermons on "High
Lights of General Convention.

Rev. Clarence Prentice Parker, rector
of st. Johns Church, Wisconsin avenue
and Bradley lane. Bethesda, will con-
tinue his sermons on High Lights of
the General Convention" at the IL
O'Clock service tomorrow. Holy COM
munion will be celebrated at 1880 and
IL o'clock. The church school meets at
$50 am The G. F. S. are continuing
meetings Fridays at $3.50 pm.
This church has entered the contest
which will be held by the dramatic Sec
tiion of the education committee of
the diocese November 10 and 20, at
Trinity Diocesan Chapel, Washington
The Gulld-Auxiliary are planning a
bazar and supper for November 16
Afternoon tea table will be presided
over by Mrs. Parker and Mrs Cunning
ham. Rev. Calvart E. Buck will be the
speaker at the monthly meeting of the
Guild wednesday at $50. Vestry meet
ing Monday at pm,
Evening star., 1928-11-03
REVIVAL ENDS MONDAY.
Services at Fifth Baptist Church
Near Conclusion.

Revival meetings close at Fifth Bap-
tist Church Monday night, when DR..
John E. Briggs will preach and admin
lister the ordinance of baptism.
DR.. Briggs will preach Sunday morn
ing on Prom the Communion Table to
Perjury and Back Again." and at night
on From the Fathers House to the
Swine Trough and Back Again"
Sunday morning is family day, when
all the families of the church are re-
quested to attend and sit together in
the family pew.
Evening star., 1928-11-03
FOUNDRY PASTORS TEXT.
Will Preach Tomorrow Morning on
"House of Prayer"

DR.. Frederick B. Harris. pastor of
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church,
will preach tomorrow morning on the
theme "a House of Prayer" and in the
evening his subject will be "The Drift"
The sacrament of the Lords supper will
be administered at the morning service.
The Bolgiano class. with families and
friends, will hold its annual Fall dinner
Wednesday evening. The guest speaker
will be Leslie c. Garnett, formerly an
Assistant Attorney General.
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turesuue confusion. Along fagstone
walks which have felt the student steps
of three Presidents of the United States
short-skirted goods, swinging tennis
racouets. roam In laughing groups
Upon the door of q building wherein
Thomas Jefferson blundered through
Livv Is scrawled In chalk: Harvard. 0:
w. a. NJ. IL. Under messy tree
whose branches may have sheltered the
recumbent form of the youthful James
Monroe as he chuckied over Congreve
comedy specialized schoolmistresS.
here for the Summer term. Is reading
an orange-covered novel with shocked
incredulity on her face. She slips the
book under her cloak with evident en-
harrassment as the observer approaches,
of those questionable tales of Virginia
college life received unfavorably In most
Sabbath schools by Charles Werten-
becker, apostle OF bell-bottomed pants
and the new poetry.
Scattered over the ancient campus
are the co-eds In pink and white dresses
and the boys wearing yellow sweaters
but men with grave faces walk fnvisibly
among them. Probably no other COL
iege In the United States--not even
its students the in
spiration of such intimate contact with
the illustrious dead. Jefferson. Mon
roe. John Tyler, Patrick Henry. John
Marshall. Benjamin Harrison, James
Madison, Winfield Scott. Peyton Ran
dolph-the list Of names known to
every schoolboy might be continued AL
most indefinitely. The college bulletin
lists among the graduates OF this insti
tuition three Presidents, four justices OF
the Supreme Court, four signers Of the
Declaration of Independence, the presi-
dent and IA members of the Continen-
tai Congress. IL cabinet members, IS
foreign ministers. 30 United States SEN
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10 emerge triumphant. For more than
two centuries IT. has been torch OF
learning and culture. The light never
has gone out, although at times there
has been only the merest flicker In the
darkness.
Some provision for higher education
ana for cultural center In The wilder
ness where British traditions OF learn
ing might be kept alive was IN the
: ilds OF the earliest Virginia coionists.
i.l2 Jamestown settlers first sought 10
establish the University Of Henricopoiis
near that settlement. Lands for the
purpose were granted by the James,
town Co and an agent George Thorpe,
came from England TO take charge OF
nenn. This project came 10 naight be-
cause OF the Indian massacre OF 1922,
when Thorpe and many others inter-
ested IN the college were killed, IL was
not revived until 1860. when the Middle
Plantations settlement. now Williams
burg. had been established, The Rev
DR. James Blair, cominissary In Vir.
ginia of the Bishop OF London, went To
England In 1914 10 secure friends and
funds for the proposed college.
Rev. Or. Blair WAS received most
kindly by King William and Queen
Mag. who donated 10 the new institu-
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Ananth MwN
of Amrca-Fi Avnhb in Surround fInttrnn

come again. and In 1888 the state of
Virginia entered into cooperation by
establishing normal college under an
arrangement by which one-han of the
board of visitors was appointed by the
governor. the college being guaranteed
limited support from the State. I'm
der this arrangement, the progress was
still slow, until 1906, when the control
of the college. with certain rights of
the ancient charter reserved. passed en-
tirely to the State. In 1918 the insti-
tuition was made co-educational and re-
Gently Summer school has been estab-
liShed.
The college does not confine itself to
intramural activities. 1t IS reaching
out to the nearby cities, with extension
classes In Richmond, Norfolk, Newport
News. Hampton and Petersburg. It Is
forging to the front among Virginia
colleges In athletics.
But 1t remains fundamentally an in
tellectual center-a place of research.
free discussion and experiment. In l776
was established at william and Mary
the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. the
honor scholarship society. which now
has branches in nearly all American
colleges. and whose key Is the accepted
symbol of scholarship everywhere. Per-
haps this Is the most notable step ever
taken at the old school-both in prac-
teal results and In promises for the
future.
Two years ago the i50th anniversary
of the establishment of this fraternity
was celebrated at the college. Among
the delegates was John d. Rockefeller.
ir. It was during the convention thas
he became interested In the restoration
of old Williamsburg, the cause which
he now has endowed so generously
Besides this. the fraternity Is building
memorial hall. 10 cost 100000.
Their Majesties' Royal College of
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atorg. SO members OF the House OF Rep
resentativeg. three speakers OF the
House, IA governors Of other States. Is
governors OF Virginia and ri judges Of
the State Court of Appeals
All Of these have walked. books under
their arms, along these same fiagstone
walks. Many Of them have cracked
college boy Jokes at the one~arned
statue Of Lord B0tetourt with his
cracked nose, which stands In front OF
the Sir Christopher Wren Building.
And II ghosts come back, drawn by
tender memories 10 the spots they loved
on earth, surely these statesmen, juTists
and scholars wander still under the
campus trees on Summer evenings.
-
THE College Of William and Mary,
with a student enrolment of nearly
200. today Ia entering It's golden age
Of material prosperity. Within the past
few years nearly a million dollars has
been expended for new buildings and
other Improvements and the program
calls for still further expansion
Few other institutions Of learning In
tbe world have survived such vicissir
tudes Through poverty. fire and battle
1t hes ciung tenacioHely 10 life finally
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william and Mary. with its rap
idly increasing student body and mag
nificent new brick buildings in appro-
pirate colonial style, faces the future
confident of an asset for education
possessed I'm like degree by no other tn
stitution In America, and the value OF
which Is just beginning to be appreci-
ated by educational psychologists, II
promises To become world center for
the study of Americana. 1t Is equip
ped 10 teach history objectively--gen-
to teach anything. Its faculty can
work through the emotional insptra-
ton of objects. Amid such surround
ings. the past can be made real. In q
fashion impossible even with the most
colorful lectures and the most enthuSi-
aStic professors and students in any
other institution.
objects retain the aura of their past
II Is Impossible for impressionate youth
To study In the same room where Lord
CORVALLIS slept without being inspired
to learn more Of the commander OF the
British armies In the South, and hence
to get far more vivid picture of that
chapter of the American Revolution.
Who was CORVALLIS. anyway A
British general who surrendered to
washington az yorktown, and so, for
some reason or other. brought an end
10 the war for independence That Is
about all most students carry away
with them from their studies of Ameri-
can history, But with the inspiration
OF asSociating with the same objects
with which he associated, and a reason-
ably good library for independent read
inc, the average student will learn all
about CORVALLIS without prodding, and
win follow many leads into other by
paths OF history
The College OF w. d, and Mary Il
itself text book OF history---the best,
nioSt authentic and most interesting OF
text books One can't step ON its cam
pus without absorbing history. All
around moves the pageant of the past
the Old Dominion planters and semitic
men. the wigged preiatea of the seven.
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and after they we're seated the doors
were locked. They shifted uneasily on
the hard seats during the long, dry
sermons. Some of them amused them
selves by carving their initials on the
chairs. The fat ones slept. Among the
boys locked into the church on flower
scented May morninga was q brilliant,
restless young red-head named Thomas
jefferson, who may then and there have
formulated some of his advanced ideas
on religious liberty.
BY 1929 the college had a full faculty.
consisting of president. six professors,
an usher and a writing master. II was
equipped to give to Its students all the
learning OF the day. Gentlemen of the
colony had no further excuse for send
ing their sons to England to be edu-
Gated. The social life of Williamsburg
centering about the governors palace
with Its ornate balls and court cere-
monies, was open to the students 1t
was an era of gentility and prosperity
for the Virginia planters.
~ rs
THE College of william and Mary
l. barely missed having George Wash
ington as its most distinguished alum
nus. II now generally is agreed that
the first President never actually was
a student there. but he was launched
upon his career as a surveyor by
certificate given him by the college
faculty In tao. Forty years later he
was made chancellor his last public
office.
Among the sincere friends OF the coll
lege among the royal governors was
Norborne Berkeley. Lord Botetourt who
In ITO instituted two gold medals to he
awarded to the best students In phi
losophy and the classics. His statue
was set up In the House Of Burgesses.
at the other end of the town. There
during one of the riots which preceded
the Revolution 1t was thrown from It's
pedestal. One arm was broken of and
the nose cracked. Kind friends picked
1t up and took 1t TO the college campus,
where Il has stood ever since--~the figure
of pathetic little gentleman embodi-
ment OF eighteenth century English
culture, sch down amid the eosmic forces
which were at work In the little back
woods capital shaping the new freedom
forces which he never appreciated or
understood.
This era OF culture In powdered wigs
and silk breeches ended with the OUT
break of the Revolution, II had been
q leisurely, comfortable culture Dark
days for the College of William and
Mary came with the outbreak OF hos
Utilities with the mother country, The
income from the Boyle estate was cut
of. Uniformed soldiers tramped over
the campus. Lord CORVALLIS was quar-
tered for n few days In the house of
the president. The Continental troops
moved In just before the battle of
Yorktown. After that historic engage
ment. the college was taken over as
hospital by the French army Ofiicers
were quartered IN the houses Of faculty
members The Wren building was oc-
cupled by the wounded In the course
of this occupation the beautiful old
structure was burned~~one OF those ac-
cidents which seem inevitable during
military occupation The stout outer
walls, however, withstood the flames.
King Louis XVI OF France furnished
funds from his private purse to restore
the building
Learning revived after the Revou-
ton. The College Of William and
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Mary, year after year graduated its
classes OF young men destined to play
notable parts in the history of the new
nation. This continued until the Civil
War, when the institution suffered what
was almost a death blow. 1t was oc-
cupied by Federal troops. One night
the main building was set on fire and
destroyed-~hut the thick walls once
more remained standing.
II am satisfied ON examination of the
facts In the case" said Gen, Meade.
that the destruction of the building
at William and Mary College by our
troops was not only unnecessary and
unauthorized. but was one of those de-
plorahle acts OF useless destruction
which occur In all wars"
Grant, Sheridan and Mcclellan en-
pressed their disapproval Of the act
In 1893. Congress after an eloquent APP
peal from Senator George r. Hoar of
Massachusetts,, partially reimbursed the
college.
The ancient institution OF learning
came out OF the Civil War without Il
faculty and without student body
Only some of the old buildings re-
NAMED The boys who had fllieo It's
nlassrooms ftve years before were sleep
tlefields There was no money to con.
tinue operations,
Nevertheless, 1t reopened In 1855.
Gen. Benjamin Y, Ewell, distinguished
Civil War leader, was appointed to the
presidency. with no students. It was
an empty honor. On october of
that year den, Eweli came to start
the term, He hitched his horse 10
the broken -down fence, climbed to the
tower of the Wren building, and rang
the bell, The college was officially Ia
operation for the year
On each October for Is years Gen.
Eweli repeated this eeremony~~pathetic
symbol OF culture refusing to die,
Just at sunrise the old man would climb
10 the deserted tower~.-hy this act pre-.
serving the charter OF the Institution.
During the eos. students began TO
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BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

w WILLIAMSBURG. pre-Revolu-
n tionary capital Of Virginia.
wv is to be restored as labora-
tory and a shrine Of Ameri-
r1r ,9efnrx-
Evening star., 1928-05-15
ATHEIST GUILTY
/ IN STRkTON ROW
association Head Faces g.
Year Term for Annoying
New York Pastor.
~ she Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May Is,--An effort tc
convert Rev. DR.. John Roach Straton
to atheism resulted yesterday in the
conviction of Charles Lee Smith. presi-
ident of the Association for the Ad.
.vancement of Atheism. for sending an
.noying letters and literature to the
IF 4ndamentalist pastor of Calvary Bap-
Nist Church. Smith win be sentenced
May 81.
After DR.. Straton and A. H. Utley,
Gather of Uldine Utley, girl evangelist.
mad testified. Smith. who acted as his
own counsel. told three justices in
special sessions he had hoped only to
convert the pastor to atheism and
sex sanity" Smith said the prose-
cutton grew out OF his remarks against
Uldine Utley
The Justices, however, ordered Smith
continued In $500 bail pending sem
tence while his career is investigated
by probationary officers
Smith was tried on a complaint
sworn out last Fall by DR.. Straton, who
said he had been sent copies of maga-
zines and literature setting forth the
views of atheists. The charge was dis
eAaArOSA Ata A%ONNhANNA NY &sbQAt
Justice Grain. who ruled the sending
OF silly" literature to the pastor was
not crime. The appellate division of
fhte Supreme Court. however. reversed
pustice Grains order and Smith was
kearreSted.
In statement before the trial. DR..
6traton said the literature was "bias-
phemous, sensuous and even seditious."
hnd today described it as revolving
knd disgusting" The latter description
was ordered stricken from the record.
Btley testified he was present last
October at what was to have been a
peace conference between Smith and
Or. Straton, but Smith kind of
9aughed" when the pastor insisted the
literature being sent him must be
stopped.
The maximum sentence Smith may
receive is three years in State prison.
Evening star., 1928-05-15

Mfr. Davis said the mixed boundary
commission was working without dis
cord and the outlook was favorable for
o settlement which would be mutually
satisfactory. The fact that the dis
pzte, which originally affected an area
Of 1000 square miles, had simmered
down TO difference Of opinion regard
ing the rfghtful ownership Of approx
mately 1000 square miles was also indi-
Gated 10 be favorable for the outlook.
In regard to charges printed in the
Honduran press that the United Fruit
Co. had been exercising influence IN
favor Of Guatemala because OF certain
land concessions acquired in the dis
puted territory, Mr. Davis said, you
may quote me as saying no fruit COM
pafiies are influencing the commission
IN any way whatever"
Evening star., 1928-05-15
UNIVERSITY HEAD
HELD "EXPENSIvE"
Oeposed Dean Criticizes President
at Louisville Institution and At
tacks Board Of Trustees.
s1ss Associated Presa.

D&-she Associated PFesn
LOUISVILLE, KY. May I5.--Charg-
fn& that President George colyin OF the
University Of Louisville is the most ex-
petFKgye college executive in the United
EtkE4s." Warwick M Anderson, deposed
dekM OF the School Of Liberal Arts, yes
teEday attacked the board OF trustees
and the president IN a public statement
Flaming the failure of recent en-
sMokDaent campaign for $1,000 900 on
Prtx3dent Colvin, Dean Anderson said
that the institution was known as an
example Of bad management" His
statement was In reply 10 one by the
board setting forth It's reasons for va
kidiis administrative changes.
TAe university is one Of the oldest
mnntcipaI colleges in the United States.
bit, with the exception Of its Medical
school and other specialized depart
xnantS. has never been developed as has
the University Of Kentucky or other
tnek1lby institutions founded years after
me one at Louisville. Mr.. colvin has
keefg president for two years, His sup
aoFaers contend that he has put new
Fife into the school and laid the founda-
ton for definite expansion.
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