New Britain herald., 1928-05-28

faith that race distinctions do not
 count here! We are not true Amer- l |icans, unless We believe and live
 as though we believed, that men
 and women from anywhere and
 from any race have it in them to
 qualify for American citizenship!
 Always providing of course. that
 they are loyal and honorable men
 and women!
 "The true American spirit utterly
 casts out race prejudice as q demon
 of the worst sort! Yet. 1t is 8
 serious fact. that there are news
 papers and organizations in this
 free land of ours committed to de-
 finite policies of prejudice against
 the Mexicans, the Japanese and
 even the British! It is ! distress l ing fact also. that race riots have sprung up, right along with the movement for 'Americanism'. l Oh, my friends. let us remember,
 that we do not exalt America.
 when we depreciate other nations!
 No gentleman abuses his neighbors
 since by his own yardstick he is
 measured himself!
 The Real Cause Of Trouble Let me tell you, who are today doing most to cultivate class antag-
 onism here in America. They are
 not the agents of Soviet Russia, nor yet the radical leaders of our social
 thinking, nor even the "Parlor Bol- sheviki" of our great cities. Far more serious is the influence of those
 who f1aunt their wealth and social standing-as tokens of class distinc- |1ion. I have seen Manhattan
 "Dowager Empress" alight from her great limousine and cross the side walk of Fifth Avenue with such a manifest air of conscious disdain for all mankind that the very sight of her would make a revolutionist of me, unless I remembered to exercise my God given sense of humor at the moment. Sometimes men and | women speak to their servants in a way to cause the blood Of true American patriot to boil! No! The sort of thing which we describe as the unconscious insolence of con- scious wealth has no place in Anne rica today or any day. And if | we can rid our country's temple Of this class-conscious menace by put ting in its place a spirit worthy Of our American ideals. we shall have proved true patriots indeed
 Churches Should Be Good, Also
 There is right and wrong way | to show loyalty and learn patriotism in certain social organizations out side the home-the church, for example. Every good citizen should belong to and support a church: But. he need never be a, blind de- nominationalist. One of our pre- cious boasts in America is the fact that we will not and do not permit any one established church. There ia no room in America for denom- national rivalry. Ande yet alas we find it in our very midst At the close of the last war. two of different denominations brought together with their congre- gations by the necessities of coal and light and the exigencies of the wartime decided in 1919 to break up company. And one minister said to the other: Now that the war is over, I think that you and your people had better go back to God in your way. while my people and I will go back to worshipping Him in His way".
 That would be funny. if it were not so serious! Let me say in all that as the sons of Pilgrim Fathers. who established ideals of religious free dom, we cannot be Americans and true churchmen in this intolerant and bisoted fashion. Churches may and do draw men together and make them feel themselves a part of the nation and the world. Our I churches generated loyalty in the war. Let them generate no less. put even more exalted loyalty in lays Of peace.
 Finally, loyalty 10 political party likewise has its place in our American life. Practical men will ell you that. 1dealists will admit 1t. %. But, remember. parties were 'ormed in the beginning to serve he peoples will. A man may learn l oyalty by working for a party But, ny friends. he is neither good iemocrat nor good republican un- ess all the time his chief loyalty 10 America. American p;r