Evening star., 1933-12-06
PRESIDENT IGNORES
CRITICS IN Church
ADDRESS TONIGHT
Radio Hook-ups to Carry
Speech Before Federal
Council Session.
DELEGATES REPRESENT
rs NATIONAL GROUPS
Secretary Wallace and President
Beaven on Program-Dr. Palmer
Pleads New Reality.

President Roosevelt will speak tonight
to the twenty-fifth anniversary meeting
of the Federal Council Of Churches of
Christ In America. This will be the first
address since his return from a Warm
Springs, Ga, vacation.
Previously it had been thought the
President might take this occasion to
answer the critics of his monetary poll
icies, but 1t was reliably reported today
that he will not touch upon this subject.
The speech will be delivered at Consti.
tuition Hall and will be broadcast over
Nationwide radio hook-ups. beginning
at 1890 pm. All other sessions of the
tWo-day convention will be in the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Tne meeting, attended by delegates
from Is national communions. opened
this afternoon with a speech by Presi-
dent Albert w. Palmer of the Chicago
Theological Seminary, who asked the
question: How can we move forward
into planned economy and still pre-
serve the heritages of liberty, free speech
and independent thought?"
NeW SenSe OF heAllty.
DR.. Palmer predicted that "a new
sense of the reality and contempo-
raneousness of God is Just about to
burst upon the world" He said the
prophets Of this modern spiritual re-
covery are the philosophers and SCI
entists, whose findings it has been
which have thrown the common people
out OF joint with religion. Godlessness
Is the greatest peril of the present hour.
he asserted. and too many people have
no sense OF accountability to anything
beyond themselves.
Switzerland, a bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, said Hitler has
turned the current that was sweeping
Germany into the chaos of Goddess
communism" He said that the new
Germany is a revolt of youth. and as
serted that Hitler has put a new
spirit into millions of hopeless, aim
less, almost respondent, young men
and women"
Germany was seen by the speaker as
profitable source of study for the
United States. because, he said, spir-
itual problems being worked out there
are the same this country has to face.
Advancing With Christ"
The theme Of the convention Is "Ad-
vancing With Christ" During its
course concerted measures for spiritual
recovery will be considered. After dis
cussion OF such international and ma
t.onal problems as world peace, race re-
lations, German Professionalism, labor.
liquor and the economic crisis, it is
planned to prepare and send mes
sage to the churches
In addition to those named. the
speakers are to include Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace, President William,
Green OF the American Federation of
Labor; DR.. Daniel A. Polling. president
OF the World Society of Christian En-
deavor: Fred B. Smith, chairman of
the World Alliance for International
friendship Through the Churches
Bishop John A. Gregg of the African
M. e. Church. Kansas City: DR.. Adolph
Keller OF Geneva. Switzerland: Rev
Albert Edward Day of Baltimore: Right
Rev T. Albert Moore, moderator of the
United Church of Canada, and Presi-
cent Albert w. Beaven of Colgate
Eochester Theological Seminary, presi-
Gent OF the cocncil.