Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-27
BISHOP FREEMAN
H|TSDEMAGOGUES
Scores Those Promoting
Class Strife in Speech
at CoIorS Rites.

The colors of war were maSsed IN
the interests Of peace yesterday AFTER
noon as more than 100 military ana
patriotic organizations Joined in the
eighth annual massing of the colors
service in the open-air amphitheater
at Mount st. Alban. About 10000 per-
sons witnessed the ceremony, held IN
memory of those who have died in
Americas wars.
First paying tribute to those in
whose memory the service was held,
Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop
of Washington, and principal speaker
of the day, then struck out vigorously
at those peddlers of public cure-als
who are now so numerous in the pollt-
zeal life of the day.
Hits Class Strife.
1.-THE danger of them resides in an
undiscriminating evaluatlon OF the
nostrums they PROFOUND" he said,
land in the unWarranted rewards they
propose to fascinate and allure those
who fall the ready victims OF Sucn
cheap propaganda. Any voice that
creates cleavages or that engenders
bitter hatreds and promotes class
strife, whether it be the voice of the
privileged or unprivileged, of the pos
SCISSORS of wealth or the victims OF
poverty, menaces our security and
renders impotent the unselfish service
of those who. with wisdom and true
patriotism, are seeking to effect equity
and consistency of advantage.
Vain and uneconomic programs or
systems for relieving distress and for
easing burdens create false hopes and
issue in tragic disappointments and
increasing unrest. Beyond this, they
produce conditions that retard and
hinder the progress of recovery and
the sincere efforts of those who, with
intelligent zeal, are attempting to
right wrongs, correct abuses ana
effect reforms that shall insure 10
the benefit of all our people. 1t is
easy for the demagogue and the
charlatan to get a hearing from those
who are experiencing privation, or
whose lives are broken on the wheel
of fortune The sick and afflicted
will try many cures and many phySi-
clans. Every epidemic has its healerS
and its cheap and fantastic remedies.
The tragedy of such a situation IS
found in the broken hopes and eX-
pectations of those who fall ready
victims to its seductive lures and un-
secured promises. To trust in our
tested and proven defenses and to
disregard and disparage the noisy,
blatant purveyors of strange and
bizarre doctrines is our WiseSt and
Sanest course in these critical days"
Gen. Russell Speaks.
Mai. Gen. John H. Russell, COM
mandant of Marines. spoke briefly in
memory of the war dead and then
hailed as the outstanding gift Of the
American people to the world our
passionate national desire for peace
and our solicitude for the avoidance,
by all honorable means, of resort to
war as a method of settling interna-
tional disputes"
The service was preceded by a
concert by the United States Marine
Band, directed by Capt. Taylor Bran
son. Col. A. ]. Breasted, chief of
United States Army chaplains; Canon
r. l.. Wolven, Chaplain A. c. Nc
Callum of the Military Order of the
World War, joint sponsor with the
Washington Cathedral of the service,
and Chaplain o. j. Hart assisted
Bishop Freeman.
Maj. Walter w. Burns, District of
Columbia National Guard, led the
color parade and Boy Scouts and
members of the Cathedral Guild
served as ushers.
Those having places on the plat
form near the open-air pulpit in
Guided:
The Assistant Secretary of War
and Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, Sen
ator j. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and
Mrs. Lewis, Col and Mrs. Marvin H.
Mcintyre, Representative and Mrs.
George Burnham, Representative and
Mrs. Scott w. Lucas, Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. Arthur w. Brown, Maj Gen.
and Mrs. Amos A. Fries, Maj Gen.
and Mrs. John F. Preston, Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Louis McC Little, Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Hugh Matthews, Brig. Gen.
P. L. Miles, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Rich
ard Peters Williams, Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Ernest J. King, Rear Ad
miral and Mrs. J. K. Taussig, Col. and
Mrs. Alexander T. Cooper, Col. and
Mrs. Emile P Moses and Mrs. William
A. Becker, president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton.