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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-12-24
Beg Pardon.

Z
We made the statement, inadvertent
III, THAI the Catholic religion is pre-
JUDGED OF course we did not mean
that. We do not feel that the tenets
Of any religion are prejudiced; it is
the persons who profess the religion
who show prejudice in their actions.
As an Illustration, the Constitution
Of the United States is perhaps the
fairest guarantee Of the rights OF
people as experts IN the world to-
day, but in the administration Of the
Constitution, grievances arise. We
are sorry for this technical error,
but we wish to state that we feel all
who read the article in its entirety,
and with an unbiased mind, could
see that our charge was not against
the Catholic religion, but against
some (even many) who profess it.
| On chat we still stand.
Something Done"
In the current Talladegan, issued
from Talladega college, Alabama, we
una an article, Something is Being
Done About IT," BY J. w. Nicholson,
/ which strikes 4 new note III the at
titude Of soutae n Negro leaders. p
! wa d its environment. The a. ice
! begins n an eilsagingll frank man
I ner: 1T Is not much f4n 70 be
Negro in most soath i commani-
ties. Prose i sIega ems,
determinations on evs sfg hand take
much Of the joy and zest out Of
life. Ordinarily. such LAIN speaking
and truthfully speaking, is not found
| m the more conservative 4 publications
Of the South. Butt here we have an
gan, issued BY great institution
Of liberal culture, which no longer
| winks at conditions at its very door.
j The assicle goes on: Tor example,
i Talladega Is in many respects quite
\ typical Of most small southern COM
/ Alunities Of it's size. Negroes live in
shacks and very few representative
louses. The streets in their neigh
borhoods are not paved, even with
/ gravel The people who have jobs
! get relatively low wages, and yet
rents are high for their incomes.
! There are but few health and sanitary
conve fences; children play in the
street because there are practically
/ 30 Fairgrounds. So far as community
gsouls are concerned they lack
vivid leadership and imagination.
with one public school for Negro
/ children in the whole town it may
| be pointed out that some children
must walk over two miles across
| town to get to it. The result is that
many children miss a large part of
the school term. Young men parti--
| cularly find themselves thwarted I,
The burden Of the article is that
Talladega is leading the college
world in doing something about inn
proving the local community. 1t is
! admitting the community public to
4 all campus athletic and cultural pro-.
grams free; and its library carries
| books devoted to the needs Of The
town people, with advantages of good
/ art exhibits, and lectures.
i OF course what Talladaga is doing
I, about it'' IL good; but what Talla-
dega mas co1lrsae aesarisslY exposed is
even better, for many Of on educa-
tors are prone TO minimize social
conditions III southern communities,
for fear of offending some of the
supporters of their proaras.as
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Year Ends

lear EFIdS
AS the year draws ID a close, stock
taking and evaluation are III order.
As individuals, VIC find many things
to be grateful for, and some to be
sorry for. In the broad field of racial
activity, we find, TOO, acts and events
to commend, and some to lament.
We wish to commend and congratu
late:
President William Jennings Hale
on the twenty fifth anniversary Of
Tennessee Agricultural and Indus
trial State college, which he has
guided from a o,000 to a $4,000
900 institution: Bishop r. r. Wright,
Jr., on his remarkable activity in the
a. M. Z. church III South Africa,
where he travelled over 10000 miles
ministering to the people; Past Pres
ident Walter Spurgeon Hornsby of
! the National Negro Insurance asso-
ciation, for tho constructive recon-
mendations he made to the ergalli ]
zation at the close Of his admins
tration; George X. Hu4lton, ecresary
| Of the Catholic Interraeial Council
, of New York and editor Of the In
terracial Review, for his brilliant
campaign within his church to bring
greater recognition and appreciation
Of the NEGRO; Edgar G. Brown for
| his stragetic leadership of the
| United Government Employees IN
getting a 100000 annual wage IN
crease for low-paid Government
workers from the congress; DR.. M.
w. Dogan and Dr.. IL. L. McCrorey,
who continue active college heads
after al and 80 years Of service,
respectively; Jones Brothers Of Chi
cage, for opening the Ben Franklin
store; Dr.. G. c. Spaulding, for de-
veIoping such fine banking and in
surance personnel that he can give
I more and more time to racial affairs;
Hon. J. G.. Napier and Major r. +.
Wright, ST., bankers, who are still
active at % and 50, respectively
John ID Rockefeller, Jr.. for main-
tanning an all-eolored staff at the
Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments
throughout his ten-year ownership,
ettirg the pace for large private and
Federal housing projects; the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
company, for launching a Good
WilP advertising campaign; Seere-
tary Of Agriculture. Henry A. WAL
lace for inviting Negro editors to !
conference on farm problems; Iora
Neale Hurston and Dir. james Weldon
Johnson, as speakers at the New
York National Book Fair; National
Association Of Teachers in Colored
Schools for changing its name to the
American Teachers association,
Governor Lehman of New York fol
appointing Elmer A, Carter to
fhe Unemployment Insurance Boare
Of Appeals at salary of $500 pei
year: the New York Legislature, On
creating q Commission to probe pre-
iudice against Negroes; American
Press, on including colored papers il
Half Century club; Max Yergan on
teaching at the College Of the City
Of New York; Charles E. Hall on
being promoted to highest ranking
colored official in the Department q
Commerce; Xavier university on
erecting beautiful new library.
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/ it is not hard To understand
why the NAIVE and falnt-heart--
ed grow discouraged. The
voice Of the cynic is heard in
the land. Two thousand years
Of Christianity he cries.
And bigger and bloodier
wars! Christianity has failed.
Humanity is going To the dogs,
but the dogs don I want us.
Only the credulous are i'm
pressed. The faithful know the
cynic is eXaggerating the OBJ
vious and missing the truth.
The warrior goes forth with
Haunting banners and a blare
Of trumpets. The scientist
works quietly in his laboratory.
The poet cogitates in solitude.
The saint retires To his cell for
silent prayer The forces Of
destruction make i big noise.
The makers Of beauty and
they who seek truth work in
silence.
We often forget that before
the Crusades or the war to
abolish American slav ~ could
hapr en- Il spirit Of idealism had
beer working toward the de-
sired ends. Warriors achieved
by violence what ideaiists
wan ed to achieve BY parsua-
sion. The idealsts were in
spir d by t h e Jesus who
prea ehed the Sermon on the
| Mount. The warriors We're IN
| spircd by the Jesus who whip
| red he money changers from
| tho Temple. The gentle Jesus
and Jesus in righteous wrath.
The cynics cannot see and
/ they Of little faith do not un-
/ derstand that even the unrest
in the world offers strong
/ proof that the light Of l5ethle-
/ hem still shines bright Few
men are willing to fight and
| die for what they believe is al
| ignoble cause. Men take arms
to defend things they hole
| sacred.
| But the noblest followers o1
/ the Star are not men OF arms
They are men who work il
quiet and burn inaudible mid
nieht oil. They are scientists
scholars, artists, thinkers AM
inventors-men who sweat t
give their fellows 4 mor'
abundant life. They are th'
prime movers Of progress, mel
who know II is more blessed t
give than to receive. They ar
trying to show their way bacI
to the Manger where the spiri
Of neace and abundance wa
born.
In a Welter Of materialism, j
is good to make a big show o
idealism at least once a year
1t is good to vaunt the pleasur.
of generosity and Joy and for
giving When multitudes carr,
packages wrapped in red pa
per under their arms, when
Wreaths are hung IN counties,
windows, when gay lights burr
and stars are fixed to the TOP
most tWigs of Christmas tree
these things show that .
mite Of the light Of Bethlehem
Is glowing in millions of hearts
Giving small gifts to friend
and children, as the men from
the East presented treasures t,
the Mother Of the Saviour, W.
make a new approach to TIL,
Spirit Of the Manger.
THEoPHILus LEWIS,
q lin TIE Inserraciaa Reviewa
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she days OF King Herod, behold,
there came wise men from the
East to Jerusalem.
Saying .. we have seen his
star in the East, and are come
10 adore him E. And, behold,
the star went before them,
until ii came and stood over
where the child was.
From the Gospel Of 81. Matthew
The Journey OF the men from
the East was one Of the inn
portant incidents Of the first
Christmas. They saw a Won
drous new star in the sky and
followed its beams to the
cradle in Bethlehem. The
Bible narrative with its pre-
else economy Of language,
makes their pilgrimage appear
as easy as the preceding sen
tenee.
/ sometimes wonder il there
was not story behind the
story Of the quest Of the Man
ger. A story Of hardship, de-
tours and dangers, before the
travellers reached their jour
ney's end. Matthew says the
men from the East followed
the star. He does not say the
star led them straight to their
goal.
We know the rewards Of the
spirit come as compcnsatlons
for earnest effort. II is not
likely that the privilege Of be-
ing present at the most slgnl-
ficant event IN history was
given to curious men who came
by a safe and easy route.
Before the men from the East
saw the Madonna and her IN
fant they encountered the de-
ception Of Herod Perhaps
that was only the last Of their
Il n ples along the way.
There was order in the Rom
an world, where the legions
and. mercenaries of the en-
pire could march swiftly along
the ubiquitous military roads
But these men came from the
distant East. 1t is possible that
they came to Herod's palace
only after avoiding numerous
hazards.
The star shone bright above
The roads below probably lee
to imnassable obstacles o.
ways filled with peril, A deser
not indicated on the map,
section where pestilence wa
raging, a country where no.
mads preyed upon stranger
with treasure. Forced g
change their course, to turl
aside or go around, the pil-
griras would not turn back
They followed the star to tn
end and became actors IN tn
first scene Of an lamorta
drama.
They played their parts, II
+onad their lines. and went on
into the dark. The scene ha
changed since then, man,
times. Other actors appearet
under the proscenlum calle'
the sky. Some in heroic roles
others cast in small parts. Al
carrying the story forward.
In the present scene you an
/ and our contemporaries ar
performing on the stage "
know al life. We recite on
lines or stand DUMB in tn
ranks Of the supers. In a litti
while all of us, leading actor
and snpers too, will shuttle OF
into the silent wings
The play goes on. The me-
from the East who appeared !
the first scene announced tn
theme and fixed the mood q
the drama. They searched TO
the Manger. We are seekin
for the truth. The star Of Beth
lehem still points the way.
There are times when som
of us, confused by the turnaoi
OF the world, begin to Wonde
If the light of Bethlehem ha
mot failed. Til a world seethint
sspftla wars, national jeaIousies
ace clashes and class Friction
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The Quest Of the
Manger

When Jesus therefore was
born in Bethlehem of Judea in
the days of King Herod, behold,
there came wise men from the
East to Jerusalem.
Saying we have seen his
altar in the East, and are come
To adore him And, behold,
the star went before them,
until ii came and stood over
where the child was.
From the Gospel Of ST. Matthew
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am particularly happy to Be privileged at this
seaaon Of the year to extend my Sincere
Greetings to many friends, especially the read
ers Of The Dayton Forum and Wish them all
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Accept also, NY Very Best Wishes for your
Happiesf NeU Year
DANIEL 6. BRoWER
Republican Executive Committee
Chairman Montgomery County
s:s -. 80 60
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Evening star., 1937-03-16
THORNTON RITENOUR
FUNERAL TOMORROW

Special Dispat tch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, March l6.-Funeral
services for Thornton Ritenour, 81,
who died at the home Of his son-in-
law, County Commissioner of the
Revenue James U. Kincheloe. Sunday
evening. will be held tomorrow after
noon at l O'Clock at Valley Pike
Brethren Church, Maurertown. Shen-
andoah County. Rev. B. M F'lory of
the Brethren Church at Oakton and
Rev. C. M. Driver, formerly at the
church, will of1ciate.
The deceased was born October 8,
1849, at Fort Valley, Shenandoah
County, and was prominent farmer
in the county until 1918, when he
came to Fairfax to live with his
daughter and son-in-laW He was a
member of the Shenandoah County
Board of Supervisors for several years.
Surviving the deceased are three
daughters, Mrs. James U. Kincheloe
OF Fairfax, Mrs Seraphine R. Cleek
Of Warm Spring, Va, and Mrs Edna
R. Hanka of San Diego, Calf, and
three sons, Ira T. Ritenour of Pend
roy, Mont; Emory w. Ritenour of
Conrad, Mont, and Dr. Carl A. Rite
nour of Pomona, Calf.
Evening star., 1937-03-16

patched from the crack Nanking
army.
In the light of this latest develop
ment, 1t was considered significant
that not q man or gun had been re-
moved from the Suiyuan bases, al
though the danger from Chahar ap-
parently collapsed four months ago
Adding to the obscurity of the stu
alton we,e contrasting reports the de-
feated Mongol forces had been scat
tered in disorganization throughout
the province.
Observers here said that only time
would tell what had actually happened
north Of Kalgan pass where Chinese
authority stops.
According to recent arrivals from
Northern Chahar all vestige OF Chinese
influence has been removed and only
Japanese and Mongol flags could be
seen flying.
japanese Withdrawing.
Large numbers Of the japanese who
acted as advisers to Teh have been
reported withdrawing from Chahar In
the past few weeks. What connec-
ton that might have with the estab-
lishment OF Mongokuo could not be
determined here.
One version was that they had as
sisted in the preliminary work OF set
ting up the new government and then
left before news OF it's establishment
was reported.
Informed sources here considered It
unlikely, however, that the Japanese
were withdrawing entirely from
Chahar and advanced the opinion it
was more likely a transfer of equip
ment, such as tanks, airplanes, trucks
Evening star., 1937-03-16
LEONARD STRAIGHT,
PAY CLERK, is DEAD
Member Of Marine Corps Leaves
Wife and Son in Wash

lngton.
Leonard Joseph Straight, 55, chief
pay clerk Of the Marine Corps, died
last Friday in the Naval Hospital at
Mare Island, Calf, after a short
illness, according to word received
here. Recently he had returned from
duty with Infantry guard at Peiping
China.
His widow. formerly Madge Haw-
thorne Smith. whom he married in
Washington in 1905, and son, John
Straight, live in the Broadmoor
Apartments. He also leaves a daugh-
ter Miss Margaret Straight, of Bryn
Mawr, Pa; brother, Harry Straight,
Brentwood, Md, and two sisters, Mrs.
Walter Florence, Denver, and Mrs
Claire Willoughby, Eugene, Greg.
Mr.. Straight. who had served on
several tours Of duty here, last was
stationed in Washington in 1934-35
He was a member of Osiris Masonic
Lodge and the District Chapter of
the Sons of the Revolution.
A native of Oxford, Idaho, he spent
his youth in Oregon and attended
the University of Oregon before COM
ing to Washington in l9( He en-
tered the Marine Corps at the out
break Of the World War and served
with it in France. He later served
as deputy paymaster in Cuba, Haiti
and the Philippines.
Funeral services will be held in
Fort Myer Chapel, the time to be an
nounced later. Burial will be in
Arlington National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-03-16

memoration of the second anniversary
of Adolf Hitler's reintroduction Of
conscription, in remuneration of the
treaty of Versailles, March l6, 1895.
Contribution to Peace.
Coincident with impressive exercises
in the air ministry's honor court, Gen.
Goering, who is the air minister, ex-
tolled armament as the Reich's great
est contribution to peace.
The whole Reich heard the radio
broadcast.
He not only warned Germany's for
eign foes that they would find her
prepared, but he shouted: WOE to
any one at home who tries to UNDER
mine this State!"
Said the bemedaled Goering:
"Germanys greatest contribution
to peace was her armarlent
Il am convinced that no law of the
Nazi government was more decisive
than that by which we told the world
our impotence was ended
When a nation gives up defense,
1t is only short step to giving up
honor, also.
"Germanys armed force is welded
Evening star., 1937-03-16
DRIVE ON NAz|S
|NU.S.LAQNCHED
German-AmeriCan League
Head Plans to Ask Ar
rest of Kuhn.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Mayor F. H. La Gudrdia, NeW
York's fiery Mayor, a teU days ago
precipttated an international in
cident By calling Adolf Hitler, Ger
man chancellor, a "Bro,Dn -shirted
Jd1,attc." He reiterated his state
raent last night, Dhen he made an
nnscheduled appearance at an anti
Nna mass meeting. Called to the :
speakers platform, he told his
hearers to pay no heed to 1Dhdt Hit
Ter said, because in the opinion of
the Uorld he is not personally
sdtistaktionStahig." This aDdS inter
preted to mean Hitler 1UdS not
toorth meeting on the field OF honor.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 16.-Propelled
by an explosive public outburst against
Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany
and his political PHILOSOPHERS, a drive
against Nazis in America was crys-
talized today in an attempt to obtain
the arrest of one of their leaders.
Maj. Julius Hochfelder, in behalf of
the German-American League of Gull
ture, announced his determination to
seek a warrant for the arrest of Fritz
Kuhn of Detroit, whom he described
as the head of IAN alien military Or
ganization,' 'on charge of violating
New York's penal laws.
Hochfelder was scheduled to go into
court in Yorkville, New York's Ger
man community, today to ask the ar
rest of Kuhn and two of his aides on
the charge they had failed to file with
the Secretary of State a certificate
disclosing the purposes of their So
ciety, the Amerika-D a-Deutscher VolkS-
bund
Hochfelder asserted the Volksbund
was IAN alien military organization,
an agency of the Hitler government" 3"
Kuhn has denied the organization
is affiliated with the German govern
ment and asserted its aim is the op-
position of communism.
Former counsel of American Jewish
War Veterans, Hochfelder has ap-
pealed to President Roosevelt and the
War Department in an effort to out
law Nazi organizations in this coun-
try and if possible, obtain deporta-
ton of their members.
A rally of critics of naziism last
night which filled Madison Square
Garden-it seats approximately 25,-
000-brought from Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia the assertion he would re-
Feat his Characterization of Hitler as
a "brown-shirted fanatic as often
as the occasion demanded.
La Guardia's recent proposal be-
fore a group Of Jewish women that
the Ger nan dictator be depicted in
a chamber of horrors" at New York's
World Fair in 1889 precipitated pro-
tests by the Berlin and Washington
governments as to the mayors re-
marks and subsequent replies in the
German press.
John L. Lewis, head of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization;
Hugh Johnson, former N. R. A ad-
ministrator, and other speakers at
the rally called for boycott of Ger
man goods. The meeting was spon-
sored by Jewish leaders.
AS police sWarmed about entrances
to the Garden to prevent hostile
demonstrations, Lewis shouted that
Germany had reverted to the Mid
Evening star., 1937-03-16
P. R. G. SJOSTROM DIES

MIAMI, Fla, March Is R.-P.
ROBERT G. Sjostrom, n, public ac-
countant and wartime deputy collector
OF internal revenue at Jacksonville
died in a hospital yesterday after a
long illness.
AFTER the World War, Sjostrom or
ganlzed the Jacksonville Audit Co.
he moved here in 1922, and at the
time OF his death was senior partner
IN the legal and accounting firm of
Sjostrom l. Arner.
Before 1917, Sjostrom had been a
director of the Atlantic National Bank
OF Providence, r. l.; president Of the
Hungarian-American Bank OF New
York, and secretary-t treasurer Of the
United States Worsted Co. Of New
York
Evening star., 1937-03-16

May 3 to give Lewis a chance, 1t was
hinted, to move into another home.
Last week Lewis filed deed to the
r. F. Downham home at 429 North
Washington street and again the
Rector's Aid Society of st. Paups
Church, on which tour Mrs. Hollands
home was to be shown, was thrown
into furore. The new home, 1t de-
veloped, was the grand prize show
place Of all.
The Rector's Aid Society is COM
posed principally of older residents
in the historic city, while the Alex
andria Association is considered more
of New DeaP' group, most Of the
members and sponsors having come In
with the Roosevelt tide.
The Lewis residence will be one of
is on the associations tour of old
homes.
Mrs. Holland Is in Florida and the
Rector's Aid Society is planning to
issue the list Of old homes to be
shown, but no comment on possible
loss of the Lewis home was forth
coming from any member of the
society.
Evening star., 1937-03-16
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100 assistants charged with the duty
OF perfecting the administrative or
ganization OF the government.
The unverified reports said a tariff
schedule already had been prepared
and printed and that collection OF GUS
toms was under way.
Duties were being levied against all
merchandise entering the territory, the
reports said.
The reported boundaries of Mongo-
kuo places the new nation directly on
the border Of Suiyuan province.
Suiyuans Eastern defenses now
stretch for 100 miles along the re-
ported border of the new nation.
manned by some 100000 first-line
troops, reported to include 40 1000 dis
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Mongols

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Evening star., 1937-03-16

together in love and fidelity to our
Fuehrer. No matter what happens,
we possess q great German leader.
I'VE must be prepared to 60 wher-
ever Der Fuehrer decides. We shall
stand like = wall Of stone and steel.
wherever he orders our banner planted.
Much will be demanded Of our
defense force in peace as well as in
extreme times.
THE world must understand we
form block Of material stronger than
any ever made.
IF attacked, we would strike back
powerfully"
Evening star., 1937-03-16

die Ages" and that its workers had
been degraded almost to serfdom"
johnson, deleting from the prepared
text Of his speech a number of caus-
tic references to Josef Stain and his
regime in Russia. said: Adolf Hitler
and his immediate staff of Nazi
pathics have become a sort of mon
ster, threatening the peace of the
world"