Evening star., 1939-12-06
Bishop Freeman
Urges Nation 10 Take
Time fof Reflection
Variety Liked So Much
Periods Of Thought Are
Irksome, He Says

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec 6-The Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal
Bishop of Washington, said today
Americans boast about, but Cherish
lightly" freedom of speech, press, as
sembly and worship.
Addressing the 44th Congress OF
American Industry, sponsored by the
National Association of Manufac-
turers, he urged resistance to the
new ideologies" of government and
economic organization.
The times are too critical, life is
too difficult and its course too un-
certain for us to drift along the
ways of loose thinking" he con-
tinued.
What is civil and religious liberty
without the ideals and moral worth
of the people who strive to enjoy it?
We can hardly have this kind of lib
erty unless we are fit to have it
Those who gave us the Bill of Rights
were men who reckoned with the
cost of such rights and they were
willing to pay the price. They be-
longed to the horse and buggy age
We belong to the sWift-moving. auto
mobile and flying age. They took
time to reflect and they had the
mental capacity to do it; we move
with such haste and are so enamored
OF change and variety that we are
irked by periods of sustained thought
and reflection.
Urges Time for Consideration.
The hardest thing to accomplish
in America" asserted the bishop
lis to stand still long enough to get
a deep understanding of the mean
ing OF events and to soberly calculate
and plot our future course Chang
ing temperatures affect our judg-
ments, and an impassioned voice
even If 1t deals in fallacies, COM
mands out attention and ready re-
sponse."
Bishop Freeman pointed out to
his audience that, in his opinion,
moral and spiritual standards have
sustained marked decline here in
America, and indeed throughout the
world" He appealed to those In
authority to hold to the chosen
ways of the Republic, and despite
head winds and tempestuous seas
TO keep to tested channels that
long experience has proved safe
and secure"
Americas industrial leaders were
assembled here to crystalline busi-
ness sentiment for keeping the Ma
ton out of war and for analysis Of
lndustry's troubles.
With their factories and mills op-
Grating at the highest levels in q
decade as result of the war-stim-
ulated upsWing in recent months
some three thousand top men OF
business were here for the opening
of the congress.
Main Channels of Thought.
AS directors and group heads pom
dered in executive sessions questions
arising out of the war and business
conditions, officials in close touch
with the proceedings said the main
channels of thought among the in
dustrialists were:
% Growing belief the Nation
should avoid ENHANCEMENT in Eu-
ropes conflict and redouble its ef-
forts to solve domestic problems.
70 Realization the United States
may have to strengthen its own de-
fenses in the fast-changing world
situation.
49, A firm conviction the United
States should preserve its own liber-
ties against inroads of European
'isms."
a. A feeling business may MAIN
tain in coming months the greater
part of its recent gains because ac-
tual war orders have been a second
ary influence in the recovery.
Important Choice Seen.
William L. Bait of Philadelphia
president of ski Industries, Inc,
said the United States was on the
threshold of a fundamental and very
far-reaching determination a
choice between a free, competitive
system or system of government
ownership and control"
"If we are to remain free. we must
rededicate ourselves to its preserva-
ton"
Walter Lippmann. publicist, said
Earl Browder, head of the Com
munist party in the United States,
and Fritz Kuhn, former German
American bund leader. directed
ism groups which seek to settle
the conflict between Americanism
and totalitarianism by firing
squads and concentration camps. -
If Mr.. Browder runs for Presi-
dent and is beaten" he observed,
"he can run again next time and
the time after. But If Mr. Browder
won the election, or even got enough
votes to be strong enough to seize
power by force, then in his theology
there will be no more elections, and
no more free speech and no more
civil liberties"
The climax of the program will
come Friday night in dinner
speeches by Senator Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana and Wendell
L. Willkie, president of Common
wealth & Southern Corp, touching
on the note of freedom.
Boys Club Elects
Blake Hall has been named nres.