Evening star., 1939-05-31
Or. Buchanan to Speak Sunday
AT Moral Reurn1ument Rally
Roosevelt May Attend;
5 Cabinet Members
Among Sponsors
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
DR.. Frank Buchanan, founder of
the Oxford Group Movement, will
be one of long list of speakers at
the national meeting for moral re-
armament to be held at Constitu-
ton Hall Sunday evening at $50
o'clock.
This was announced from head
quarters at the Mayflower Hotel
yesterday. Further details of plans
for the assembly are to be disclosed
tomorrow and Saturday.
Five members of President RooSe-
velt's cabinet are included among
the sponsors for the occasion. They
are Secretary of War Harry H.
Woodring, Secretary of the Navy
Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the
Interior Harold L. Ickes, Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins and Post
master General James A. Farley.
! The approval of Secretary of State
Cordell Hull has been expressed in
a message to DR.. Buchanan reading:
Here in the postwar period there
. has been a general lowering of
standards of conduct-moral, po-
litical, social and economic Inter
national morality has seldom been
at lower ebb. The time is ripe and
the need is urgent for renewal and
restoration of the former high
standard of conduct of both indi-
viduals and governments"
Murphy Indicates Interest.
Attorney General Frank Murphy
also has indicated his interest in
the meeting. LAS a practical Cath
Ollie he wrote, Il believe that our
hope lies in rebirth of the old in
tegritieS and a new sense of moral
values. This tragic Goth century,
when faith seems in eclipse, may yet
prove the most glorious in history,
because out of the weakness of our
broken hopes is rising the strong
tide Of spiritual awakening. Moral
rearmament is safeguarding the
great traditions of our past and
will provide the sineWs of our might
4OI lIle 1UluIe.
Whether or not President Roose-
welt will attend the gathering re-
mains to be decided by his physi-
clans. He is understood to have
said that he would like to be pres
ent.
1t likewise is possible that for
me1 President Herbert Hoover may
iaccept an invitation. The world"
he has said, has come 'out of con-
fusion before because some men
and women stood solid. They held
safety for the world, not because
they knew the solutions to all these
ConfuSionS, not because they even
had the power to find solutions
They stood firm and they held the
light of civilization until the furies
passed because they individually
held to certain principles of life, of
morals and spiritual values. These
are the simple concepts of truth,
justice, tolerance, mercy and respect
for the dignity of the common man.
To hold and life these banners in
the world will go far to solve its
ConfusionS. What the world needs
today is to return to sanity and to
moral and spiritual ideals. At the
present time nothing so concerns
athe progress of mankind"
Other NotabIes Invited.
Other distinguished guests in
vited to come to Washington for
the meeting are Henry Ford, John
D. Rockefeller, jr,; Dr. Alexis Car
rel, Prof Albert Einstein and Alfred
E. Smith.
The committee of sponsors in
cludes Senators w. Warren Barbour,
James M. Mead, Morris Sheppard,
Claude Pepper, Key Pittman,
Charles L. McNary. Bennett Champ
Clark, Harry S. Truman, Arthur
Lucas, Harry F. Byrd, William H.
Borah, Robert F. Wagner, Alben w.
Barkley Josiah W. Bailey, Scott w.
Lucas, Harry F. Burd, William H.
King, Theodore F. Green and Ed
ward R. Burke; Representative
John G.. Alexander, H. Carl Ander-
sen, Chester c. Bolton, Ralph o.
Brewster, Charles A Eaton, Ham
ilton Fish, Jack Nichols, Carl E.
Mapes, Joseph w. Martin, jr.; Sam
NRayburn, Dave E. Satterfeld, jr;