Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-04
OLD INHABITANTS
HEAR CLERIC PLEA
FOR REIGN OF LAW
Or. Montgomery Calls on
Citizens to Fight Crime,
In Address.
INSPIRED DEVOTION
TO COUNTRY NEEDED
National Menace Held to Be
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hoover's
Debt Relief Action.

Declaring the home and freside must
be protected by a reign OF law" DR.
James Shera Montgomery, chaplain OF
the House of Representatives, today
called on good citizenship to bear cour-
ageously the yoke of public service" Sc
that "our cities shall no longer be
stepped with the vicious vices and muir
ders of the underworld"
In his address, delivered at the 1nde-
pendence day services of the Associa-
ton Of Oldest Inhabitants Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, at Western Presby-.
terrain Church, the House chaplain said
"our menace Is not the muck-raker,
but the matchmaker"
Asking for the reign of law" DR..
Montgomery said devotion and al
legiance to country should be inSpira-
tional rather than mechanical
1.-The laws of all the States fill 1888
volumes" he continued. The average
metropolitan policeman should know
about Is 900 laws.
! Must Enforce Law.
I I'VE must have law enforcement so
nong as man fails in diScharging his
responsibility to society and state; the
home and fireside must be protected.
After all, our safety is in public con-
SCIENCE public made up OF our best
citizens-the men who are not trying
TO see how much they can get out OF
bur country, but how much they can
put into our home life, our church life
and our school life.
THE men who thrust themselves into
politics and sacrifice time and business
and professional opportunities for the
sake of the state-herein lies our as
surance of a mighty and wonderful
people.
politics never hurts character, but
sometimes it Is the lack of character
that hurts politics. Our menace Is not
the muck-raker; but the matchmaker.
All hail the hour when more of our
choicest offerings among our citizen
ship shall be cast at the affairs OF civic
and national devotion.
May we make the appeal today that
the good of our land be saved the peril
Of animosities, party rivalries, by poll
tics inf1amed, or by the arrogance OF re-
ligious bigotry.
Praises Hoover.
1.-THE pressure of the hour is calling
us away from these poisonous scrofulas
and compelling us to hear and heed the
demand which is not to build our coun-
try into ourselves, but to build ourselves
into our country"
Referring indirectly to the Hoover
House chaplain said:
"Justifable as martial prowess may
have been in the past. yet our country
should be foremost to recognize
the obligation of making national pros
perity and good will coeXtensive with
the peoples throughout the earth. In
this hour she is seeking to stretch her
power and influence for humanity
across the oceans and the seas. GOD
abide with His wisdom and might with
Herbert Hoover"
Glory Not in War.
"The glory Of our country is not in
1.-THE glory Of our country is in the
open door of the cottage, the open door
of the school and the open door OF the
church"
The Society of Natives joined with
the Association of Oldest Inhabitants
in its patriotic celebration through an
official committee and by invitation
from the association.
Prior to the regular exercises at noon
there was a business meeting of the
association at 1890 o'clock.
Music for the patriotic exercises in
cluded solos by Mrs. Thelma Selinger
Klein and community singing of
America" and Aud Lang Syne" The
Americans Greed was recited by the
assemblage, and the Declaration of In
dependence was read by Judge Robert
E. Mattingly.
John Clagett Proctor, presented an
original poem. The invocation was by
Rev. j. Harvey Durham, pastor of
Western Presbyterian Church.
The Entertainment Committee in
charge of the program included WASH
tngton Topham, chairman; Henry L.
Bryan, Frank w. Bowling, Fred A.
Emery, Percy B. Israel, John Clagett
Proctor and j. Eliot Wright
The Official Committee from the
Society of Natives at the meeting in
cluded former President John Glagett
Proctor, Judge Mattingly, Rev. j. Har-
vey Durham, pastor of the Western
Presbyterian Church: Rudolph Bishop,
Mrs. Johann C. Kondrup, C. Eliot
Wright and Mrs. Lewis j. Battle. There
were other members of the Natives
present.