Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-30
MINISTERS ELECT
DR. R. Y. NICHOLSON
Methodist Pastor Chosen
| president at Annual
BaIIoting Here.

DR. r. Y. Nicholson, pastor OF the
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Protes-
tant Church, was chosen president OF
the Ministerial Union of Washington
at the annual election of officers held
today at the New York Avenue Presby-
terrain Church.
other officers elected for the ensuing
year are Rev William E. LaRue Of the
TakomA Park Baptist Church, vice
president; Rev. Harold E. Beatty of
the Georgetown Lutheran Church, sec
rotary, and Rev. j. @. Copenhaver Of
the Epworth Methodist Episcopal
Church South. as treasurer. These new
officers, with Rev. J. H. Durham of the
Western Presbyterian Church and Rev.
H. B. Smith of the Columbia Heights
Christian Church, will compose the
Executive Committee.
Following the election, the Ministerial
Council. which Is composed Of the pas
tors of the various Protestant denomina-
tons of the city, heard brief messages
from Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing
editor of The Evening Star; John M.
Gibbs, organizer of States, cities and
towns for the George Washington BIZ
centennial Commission, and DR.. S. j.
Porter, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, who concluded with message
appropriate to Holy week. Rev. B. H.
uni0h, presided and introduced his sue
cessor in that Office.
Press Helps Churches.
Mr.. Kuhn, who spoke on the topic,
sThe Church and the Press" declared
that the press is anxious to cooperate
with the clluches in combating those
things which are tending to undermine
American citizenship, and in turn seeks
"a
reporting events of church activity out
side the realm OF purely doctrinal ques-
tionS.
Through such cooperation, he said,
the press can do more to meet the prob
lens confronting the church and to help
convince the public that the church is
o strong, vital force that must be rec
ognized.
THE average newspaper is reflection
of daily life, Mr.. Kuhn pointed out, and
is as good and as bad as the public
is good and bad.
Mr.. Kuhn deplored the tendency of
the sensational press to play UP" crime
news, emphasizing the paper that goes
into the home should have an honest
belief that the average man is clean
and decent.
Asks Bicentennial Aid.
Althoush the average newspaper cam
not devote much space to purely doc
trinal matters of the church, he de-
clared that The Star last Saturday
printed 10 columns of church news and
a little more than three columns of
crime news, scattered from all over the
world.
Yet, he pointed out, editors often en-
counter indifference on the part of pas
tors, who do not always keep the papers
informed Of church happenings.
Mr.. Gibbs, in telling how the
churches can cooperate in the great
1892 Bicentennial Celebration, asserted
that there are $4,000 churches in the
United States, each of which can take
part In the cooperative movement
which Is under way. The Bicentennial
Commission, he declared, naturally looks
upon the churches for assistance as the
leading instrumentalities in their COM
munities.
Churches and Sunday schools every
group meetings for the next celebration
of Washington'S birthday, he said and
should be a tremendous moral factor
In connection with the worldwide cele-
bration.
Miss Hope Elizabeth Haupt, who for
many years has interested herself in the
affairs Of the American Indians, praised
the work accomplished for the Indian
wards Of the Government by the Hoover
administration. The church has been
too interested IN foreign missions to
bother much about the Indians, with
the result that a great majority of
Indians are heathens, she said.