The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-18
1.-THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM."

Many people held up hands in pretended hol horror when Judge Ritchie in testimony before committee of the Senate, declared that the middl name of Dr. Clarence True Wilson was a misnome that his name ought to be Clarence Liar Wilson Now comes distinguished authority to back u Judge Ritchie Dr. Henry Van Dyke, aged Pres byterian minister, than whom American citize has higher standing, says Dr. Wilson's middle nam is a mistake" And, further, the truth is not i him"
 The controversy is told in a Washington dis patch to the New York Times follows:
 PRINCETON N. J., May 30-Dr. Henry Van Dyke author and Professor Emeritus of English Literature of Princeton Univer- sity, took issue today with statements in the report of Dr. Clarence True Wilson which read before the Senate Lobby Committee relative to the shifting of Pro- hbition enforcement from the Treasury De- partment to the Department of Justice. Dr. Wilson, who is Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance Prohibition and Pub lie Morals, attacked Dr. Van Dyke on his stand in the 1928 Presidential campaign and also attacked pr. Van Dykes father.
 Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton also denounced Dr. Wilson for his attack on pr. Van Dyke
 q hesitate to characterize the attack made upon Dr. Van Dyke through insults offered to the memory of his father, his
 
 service to Church and State" said the Dean. T it will be received 1t de- There are some statements which only condemn him who makes them. Dr. Wilson's is clearly in this class AS an Am erican citizen I ashamed for and of Dr. Clarence True Wilson"
 The report of Dr. Wilson which was read before the Senate Committee dwelt at length the work of the Protestant Church, pie tured as aligned against many malevoent forces in the 1928 campaign, which wished to bow the preacher out of politics. Dr. Will son attacked Dr. Van Dyke for his support of Alfred E. Smiths program and said he not "so much surprised at this, for I have distinct recollection that his father was Presbyterian preacher of the stripe" Dr. Wilson discussed at length Dr. Van Dykes position, asserting that he bit terly denounced the clergy of the Methodist Church and especially the Government for permitting Mrs. Mabel Wlebrandt to take the stump.
 Dr. Van Dyke scored Dr. Wilson, not for attacks his own insignificant person. ality" but for the attacks on his father.
 "Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Metho- dist Board of something or other has made public attack upon me which is of no consequence because it is evidently false" Dr. Van Dyke said His middle name is a mistake
 T have never advocated the election of any President, except Woodrow Wilson, but I have protested and still protest, and will protest as long as live, against the tyran- ny of an inquisitional church in American politics That is reasonable. I am Pro- testant.
 But when Dr. Clarence Blank Wilson goes beyond my insignificant personality to attack my beloved father in his grave it is impossible for a man of honor to keep silence. Dr. Wilson says that my father denounced the Government of the United States, cannonaded Lincoln, and advocated the extension of slavery All three of these statements false and their tone is malignant.
 My father firmly believed that the church, Protestant and Catholic ought to keep out of politics. As private citizen he voted according to his conscience and resented any kind of dictation
 Can it be that Dr. Wilson really represents the great Methodist Church? It seems incredible. He has no scruples and the truth is not in him."