Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-23
BARLEY ATTACKS
i. S. D|SLOYALTY
Movement Poisoning Youth,
Oldest Inhabitants Are
Told by Senator.
Warning that there was movement

Warning that there was movement
pouring poison of disloyalty to law
into the youth of the country" Sena-
tor Barley of Kentucky yesterday told
the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of
the District of Columbia, that 1--WE
should set our faces like flint against
every movement that seeks to destroy
the dignity. power and influence OF this
great Nation"
Speaking at Washington birthday
ceremonies of the association at the
First Congregational Church, Senator
Barley said he had voted to build the
new cruisers, but that in reality he
feared no foreign foe. 1t would be just
as well, however. he said, to see that
this Nation be not caught like the fool
ish virgins of Scripture with lamps and
no oil.
But" he declared, "if ever this Ma
ton finds itself among the wrecks of
nations. along the shores of human en-
deavor, it will be by the enemy inside
our gates, and not by the enemy out
side"
1t was "unthinkable, he thought to at
the United States and Great Britain
should ever engage in war. Neither
was he afraid of conflict with Japan.
Va VA ObAASA NOAA ROWGAos
Obedience to Law Urged.
But he warned that the movement
was growing among American people to
get youth 10 feel they had the ''r..tht
to arrogate to themselves any law they
should obey or diSobey." This was a
dangerous tendency, he thought, as all
laws should be obeyed, and none
Haunted, violated or ignored"
The Senator sketched Washington's
lie from the human viewpoint of the
difficulties he had encountered, and
speculated as to what might have been
the future of the world had George
Washington at the age of "A gone ahead
to complete his enlistment in the Brit
ish navy instead of needing his
mothers tears, and Withdrawing.
In 140 years, the United States, Sem
ator Barley said, had grown from s.
100000 to l2o,000,000 people, had
changed from a borrower of money to
the money lender of the world" and
had given IS per cent of the inventions
which have transformed life around
the world"
Farewell Address Read.
Henry l.. Bryan, vice president of the
N>'CNAs+VAOAA, az lIlG IlEeJIIl2,
Washington's farewell address was read
by Walter d. Davidge, John Clagett
Proctor read an original poem on Wash
ington and there were musical selec-
lions by William T. Pierson and Mrs.
Selma Selinger Klein and group sing
ing. The invocation was pronounced
by Rev. Irving w. Ketchum pastor of
Peck Memorial Presbyterian Church.
New members were elected as follows:
William Lloyd Wright, Thomas Patrick
Baldwin, Alexander S. Clark, Leonard
Nachman and Lewis T. Bridewell.
There were IL new applications for
membership
A letter was read from George r. A.
Wiley and his sisters, presenting
through J. Eliot Wright, recording sec
rotary of the association, pictures Of the
old and new Bank of Washington.
The Smithsonian Institution through
communication asked the association
for loan of the surveyors chain used
by Andrew Ellicott, who surveyed the
National Capital
Luncheon was served at the conclu-
sion of the program The entertain
ment committee in charge of the pro-
gram consisted of Washington Tophanl,
Henry L.. Bryan, Fred A. Emery, Percy
B. Israel, John Clagett Proctor, Ben
Jamin w. Sunny and j. Eliot Wright.