Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24
Bishop Freeman, in Ceremo-
NAL, Says LaWIess Nation
Cannot Endure.
FLAGS OF 48 STATES
WAVE IN PROFESSIONAL
Unworthy Type of Loyalty Scored
by Speaker-Society's Functions
Are Pointed Out.

Asserting "a nation that is laWlesS
cannot endure" the Right Rev. James
E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of Wash
ington. made an appeal for law obser-
vance yesterday at services marking
conservation of Constitutional Hall, the
new auditorium and library of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
at Eighteenth and C streets.
An air of pomp and pagentry was
added to the exercises by coIorful
procession in which the 48 State flags
we're carried to the front by the State
regents. The line of march also in
cluded the following honorary presidents
general, Mrs. Alfred j. BroSseau of
Greenwich, Conn; Mrs. William Cum
ming Story of New York City, and Mrs.
George Thatcher Guernsey of indie
pendence, Kans.
Cheap Patriotism Hit.
"There is kind of cheap patriotism
that is loyal to national ideals only in
SO far as that loyalty serves national
interests and the satisfaction of per-
sonal ambitions" Bishop Freeman de-
clared. There is spurious and I'M
worthy type of patriotism that is valu-
able in days of piping peace" he added.
but Secretively and ominouSly silent
when personal sacrifices of means and
life are demanded in a great crisis.
There is low grade and all two wide
spread brand of patriotism that on pub
lie occasion shows conspicuous respect
and reverence for flag and loudly de-
tends laws that lay no toll upon, per-
sonal convenience or personal privilege
and yet wantonly evadeS and covertly
disobeys those that are designed to
serve the high ends of our moral and
physical well being.
Loyalty to Laws.
"An express loyalty that will not yield
obedience to what is the fundamental
law of the land, even though that law
may cut directly across private interests
and concerns, is loyalty that makes no
contributions to the ultimate veal and
wealth of the State.
After all, when we reduce our
greatest problem to its simplest terms,
our capacity to endure is fixed ana
determined by our moral and spiritual
ideals, and moral and spiritual ideals
are not fashioned and formed in halls
of legislation, but in the lone. When
the great marshal of France had
lowered the morale of the homes of
are addressing our reform movements
too largely to corporate society and to
little to the individual We are think
ing too much in the terms of mass pro-
duction. Mass production may give us
cheap and sometimes a cheapened
article, but the things that mold
character, the ideals of the people, are
not thus fashioned.
Wholesome Virtues.
"Your society. represents in a large
way the wholesome virtues of domestic
and social life. 1t is related to wife,
hood and motherhood, it has to do
with those homely essential virtues that
preserve to us clean thinking and clean
living. Yours is a love of country ex-
pressed in terms that are practical and
that have currency in the everyday,
commonplace experiences of life. What
you and your sisters throughout the re-
public determine and represent must
affect for good or evil our destiny
What you stand for and inculcate
must prove useful or useless, valuable
or ValuelesS to the generations that lie
ahead. Only in so far as you maintain
in domestic and social life and practice
wholesome ideals and principles shall
we achieve true and lasting great
ness"
DecldTlnB the deQlcatl0n OF the nall
had a deep significance, Bishop Free
man urged that the members consider
the ideals 'for which this building
stands and of which it is a symbol"
Basic Law of Land.
Proudly we affirm that the basic law
of the land is the Constitution" he de-
clared I'VE look unto it as unto the
rock whence we are hewn. BY it we
measure our privileges and weigh our
obligations. 1t is the polar star by
which the ship of state determines its
course"
Bishop Freeman's immediate au-
diepce of some 5000 persons was en-
HANGED by the radio, his speech being
broadcast over station WRC in order
that nearly 100000 women, in all parts
of the country who contributed to the
funds with which the edif1ce was con-
Structed, might listen in.
The program was marked by the
playing for the first time of a beau
ttful concert organ contributed by Mrs.
William N. Reynolds of Winston-Salem,
N. G. Mrs. Thomas Kite, an honorary
vice president general from Cincinnati,
played patriotic prologue. Miss Doro-
thy Jeane Silversteen of Brevard, N. c.,
played Largo" from the New World
Symphony" by Dvorak.