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...last Saturday's issue of the New York Herald-Tribune, Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, protested that he had been misquoted in reports of his address delivered at the Union recently. It was charged by Dr. Straton that some newspapers had quoted him as saying that, "He (a man to whom he was referring) had some elements of human decency about him, even if he was a Jewish Judge", while in truth he had said, "Though the judge was a Jew and not a Christian, and though he had in the case to deal with matters...
...Straton, in making this statement was wrong, as all who heard him at the Union will agree. He did say what the newspapers quoted him as saying, or at least said words that implied that thought. Whether the laughter in the audience caused by this statement was a sign of approbation and approval, or of admiration for the man who would dare to say, such a thing in such a place, is hard to determine, but that he said it and that it raised considerable furore at the time is certain...
...Straton still doubts the veracity of newspaper reports on the subject, let him consider that he gave his address orally and did not read it. The newspaper men took it verbatim as he delivered it. Does Mr. Straton think his memory more accurate than these notes...
...tongue in the check variety Perhaps he is a great humorist, and there is a suspicion that he possesses certain good natured give-and-take virtues which would have delighted a Harvard audience had he been invite and accepted a request to speak in Cambridge. The John Roach Straton tradition is becoming slightly worn...
Following Dr. Straton in the forensic struggle, Professor Givler pointed out that society is not a stable institution, but one that is ever changing, and contended there fore, that any change in the existing state of affairs might be condemned as undermining the social structure of the country. "It is our habits, circumstances; personal fixations acquired in childhood that motivate us in any particular crisis in this world," he said, "not religion or anything related...