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...Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist. He included in this propaganda birth control literature and nude pictures. Dr. Straton asked Atheist Smith to stop mailing him such things. When Mr. Smith failed to do so, Dr. Straton haled him into court. Once before the judges, Atheist Smith sought to make it appear that he had been trying to interest Preacher Straton in atheism, because he "wanted to convert the leader of the opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman...
...converts when the old are falling before the Amazon-like assault? It seems as if the master-believer would be forced to return to defend his hard-won following. Once in Zion City, the clash of the two forces will eclipse any struggle of such intensity as Straton versus Darwin. The McPherson-Voliva fray promises well to be the true battle of the century...
...intelligent undergraduate, too, believes that he is "fundamentally sound". But without being a Dr. Straton, he is not sanguine in the opinion of one school of adult commentators, that his contemporaries, with all their frankness and freedom, are still as strongly supporting the moral conventions. They are not, even if they have no spokesman to admit it. The precocious Miss Benson has discussed the subject in Vanity Fair, but she really is too young. Without being accused of ventriloquism, Judge Ben Lindsay has drawn startling statements from young Cleveland malefactors, and wielded them for his purpose. But the educated youth...
...large to such onslaughts. Usually when a pastor sees a menacing umbrella, he attempts to wrest it from the hands of the brandisher, and break it against future attacks. And in his failure to do so, he betrays the weakness of his body. Such was the case of Dr. Straton who recently lost in court his case against a militant atheist whose propaganda was hardly worthy of such attention...
...next visited the headquarters of the Communist party where they heard Harry W. Wicks, an editor of The Daily Worker making a speech. First he assailed preachers for their failure to take an active interest in labor problems; then he began to speak about famed clergyman John Roach Straton: "He is the most palpable ignoramus in the U. S.!" said H. W. Wycks. Then he added, "Fortunately, there are not many like him." The 40 ministers said, "Thank God for that...