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Undismayed were National Guardsmen throughout the land last week when a six-foot Baptist clergyman eased his big frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...
...subsequent protests was made to the Vestry of St. Matthew's Church by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An open letter said: "If this statement has the sanction of the Vestry of St. Matthew's, it condemns the brand of Christianity, the clergyman, and the congregation from which it issues. . . . For them [Negro communicants] to be publicly and insultingly expelled for no other reason than their color, is not only contrary to the teachings and precepts of the founder of Christianity but is a gross violation of ordinary justice and common decency and courtesy...
Sudden arrest, a fine of 1,000 rupees and a jail sentence of three months was the punishment, last week, of an Indian publisher and an Indian printer who dared to put forth at Calcutta last year a chunky, controversial book by a snowy-haired, upstanding Poughkeepsie clergyman. Publisher Ramananda Chatterjee and Printer Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield...
Uncle Sham. Dr. Sunderland adds an appendix chapter roundly flaying, firmly negating Katherine Mayo's popular U. S. handbook of Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba...
Boston University Frederick Neal Dow, banker LL.D. Harry Emerson Fosdick, clergyman (Baptist) LL.D. Francis John McConnell, bishop (Methodist Episcopal) LL.D. Albert Enoch Pillsbury, lawyer LL.D. Jacobo Varela, Uruguayan Ambassador LL.D. Frank Alexander Home, banker LL.D...