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1 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIT, 4. 1931. Men and Women Figuring in the News of the Day 1. Mrs. D.

Leigh Colvin, State ness. 2. The Rev. W. A.

Kerwin, and for whom the parishoners will Government Division of Terrestrial condition. 4. Inez Norton, whose Dr. John H. Melish Conducts Passion Service at Trinity Urges Restraint in Use of Man's Power -Hits Materialistic Faith The passion service was held at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Montague and Clinton yesterday.

The Rev. Dr. John Howard Melish, pastor of the church, preached the seven sermons. Dr. Melish urged that people employ their power with the restraint of God.

"God's restraint is not the restraint of a despot who at one will crush his people to the moment, restrains our inclination to use our knowledge to harm "The man with the gift of speech uses it to talk the other man downthe stronger mother uses her strength to dominate her daughter and crush her individuality." Reduce Significance In stressing God's interest in each individual, he said: "Knowledge of humanity has reduced the individual to almost insignificance. There are so many of us this earth and we know there have been so many before us. How. therefore, can we feel that God could have any interest in our personal sorrows or joys? "God, ourself and the neighbor are inextricably bound up together. We cannot find the God of Jesus Christ who cares for each one of us, until we realize that these three are bound together.

"God's kingdom is a community. We have come out of an era of individualism that has given its contribution to the world, but had its limitations in that it made it so hard to realize this idea. The Jews understood better than we this need for nationalism. We are all peoples in the making. It is the part that is being molded today that may need the apology before God.

If all the world was composed of people like you and me would the world be better or worse than it is today? Acid Test "The acid test of our religious belief comes when we are in sorrow or pain. Then we begin asking searching questions about the wisdom of God and try to interpret the meaning or all this pain. "The solution does not lie in rebellion or submission but in trying to get the best out of the situation." Dr. Melish declared that the cross should be the great symbol our of lives. "The cross is a part Jesus Christ himself." he said.

The pastor scored materialism as a religion, "It is easier to believe in Christ than it is to believe in electrons. The Christian faith is much more plausible." LEASE JAMAICA STORE Brunswick Praver Nassof, of Jamaica as brokers, this week leased to the Adler Shoe Company the premises at 162-04 Jamaica Ave. for Michaels Brothers, owners. The property measures 16x94 feet and calls for a rental of $150,000 during the 12-year term. The Jamaica Ave.

store constitutes the 28th link in the Adler chain. Rabbi Braun Refutes Charge Jews Have No Sense of Beauty Are Jews cultured? "They are," says Rabbi Frederick Braun, and so contradicts Charles Gray Shaw's book, "The Road to Culture." Rabbi Braun discussed the book last night in a Passover sermon at the Temple Ahavath Sholom, Avenue and E. 16th St. "Jews have never been able to worship anything with a sense of beauty," Rabbi Braun quotes the author as saying. Refuting the statement, Rabbi Braun pointed to the Passover observation Jews.

He said that it was the Jews' sense of beauty which prompted their breaking away from M1 3 Will Idea Absurd, Says Clarence Darrow Heredity and Environment Are Main Factors in Shaping Our Course of Conduct, Lawyer Tells Overflow Audience at Union Temple Maybe you think you scheme of living, exercising conduct. Such an opinion is clared in an address here last genus as a creature of circum-4 stance. A great deal depends on birth in which you exert no choice at all, he pointed out. Your color, sex, social standing. vealth, intelligence and potential strength are all determined then.

he said, by the mere re fact that your parents were who they were. Shapers of Destiny Nor do you in later life show any marked evidence being master of your fate, he claimed. Environment and social factors, spiritual and economic, are the things that shape your destiny. Yet prison and hell, the penalties of man and God for evil, are based upon this "most foolish cruel theory that was ever invented," the theory of free will, he found. Blind Hatred "It is blind hatred.

Thousands of men a are in prison who had nothing to do with the 'crime' that brought them there. Soon we shall see that they are no more at fault than the insane or the sick." We no longer punish the insane for being mentally defective nor the sick for being physically so, he reminded. Soon we shall find an analytical remedy for that analogous ill, crime, which is a moral defect, he predicted. "Churches have to have the free will theory to justify themselves and keep their congregations. Only thus can they sentence man to hell for his own actions, for otherwise he would not be to blame.

In playing upon this theologic fear, religious organizations have grown sleek." Not "Captain of His Soul" As Mr. Darrow told it, there is little in a life history to make a man believe he is "captain of his soul." Crossing a street a man met a girl whom he later married. It is simple as that. But if either had been a minute late. there may have been no meeting, no wedding.

"Where was the free will when you wanted to be a prize fighter or a football player? You could not even have been a man unless fate had made you so. You may have wanted to be President because you were told that any one can be President. After looking at some you might believe that any one can be Fresident but still it does not show that every one has the chance." on Location' "If you had been born in Constantinople, you would probably be following Mohammedanism with the same zeal--and as much investigation-as you pursue your own creed now. You would probably have four wives all at once, which is forbidden in America, where you must have them one at a time. "Even your religion and your political views are largely your heritage at birth and have made very little change in them.

If you are a dwarf at birth, how can you become a giant, or if an idiot, how become a genius? Aid Imagination "There can be free will." Darrow concluded. "If so, where is It? Doctors search and find other of human anatomy. Just beparts cause will not exist, people easier believe in it. free, does, It gives greater play to their imagination." The guilding factors in life, Darrow said, are heredity and environment. "We can have nothing to do with the former and, with the latalmost nothing until it is too ter, he said.

the World' "Science is remoulding the world slowly and surely, without creeds or dogmas. It realizing that the universe works with a certain consistency in which the human being is just a part, having nothing to do with itself. "We must find the needs and the capabilities of men. adant them to this world and make it a real one," he said. "But there can be no place in it for such crass ignorance as the theory of free will." Many Turned Away Darrow drew an attendance of almost 2,000 persons who crowded Union Temple at 17 Eastern Parkway and many were turned away.

was introduced by the Rev. Dr. He Sidney S. Tedesche, rabbi of the Temple, who looked to his opinions for "freedom from superstition on this festival of freedom, the Passover Sabbath." L. I.

Kiwanis Clubs Plan Stag April 23 Members of the Brooklyn Kiwanis Club will attend a stag dinner and entertainment given by the clubs of the Long Island district. Their guests will be the Kiwanis clubs of Manhattan, Westchester and Richmond, at the Leverich Towers, on April 23. Charles A. Wheeler, chairman of the dinner, expects 500 representatives. Among the prominent guests and speakers to be present are: New York District Governor Frank C.

Huntington of Oneonta. N. Y. Past Governor Dr. Christian P.

of Manhattan. Past International Vice President William Alexander. Lieut. Gov. Paul Magly.

Farmer De Bragga, chairman of the New York State district interclub relations committee. Samuel Toback, chairman of the Long Island interclub committee. HEADS HONOR LIST Hackettstown, N. Apr.1 4-Miss Sylvia Saydan of 567 48th Brooklyn, today was placed at the head of the honor list at Centenary Junior College, here, where she is a sophomore. Saydan is active in athletics and dramatics on the campus.

Clansmen Honor Miller at Dinner As A mark of appreciation 0. his six years work as chairman of the joint committees of the United Scottish Clans of Greater New York and New Jersey, David Miller, Past Chief of Clan MacDonald. 33. Order of Scottish Clans, was the guest of honor last night at a dinner held at the Elks Club, Livingston St. and Boerum Place.

More than 120 members attended. Speeches lauding the guest of honor were delivered by Duncan MacInnes, Royal Chief. Order of Scottish Clans and chief accountant on the staft of City Controller Charles W. Berry; MacDonald Johnston and Frank Falconer. Henry Kern Dies At Age of 88: One Of Oldest Masons Fraternal Services Will be Held Tomorrow Night at Lake Home Henry Kern, one of Brooklyn's oldest Masons, died yesterday, aged 88.

at his late home, 158 Berkeley Place For 63 years he had been affiliated with Masonic ereles and a member of Cosmopolitan Lodge, 585, at his death. Born in Darmstadt. Germany. Mr. Kern had lived 80 of his vears in Brooklyn.

and conducted a meat, business here for almost halt a century until his retirement 15 years ago. Last, October he celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary, which was also the 20th anniversary of his daughter's marriage to Henry A. Oetjen, restaurateur. He is survived by his Mary; one son, Otto and widow. daughters.

Mrs. Oetjen and Mrs. Carl Bardes. Masonic services will be held Sunday night, and interment will be in Lutheran Cen.etery on Monday afternoon. SAILED TODAY SAILED TODAY Mrs.

J. Elliot Kennedy of Lenox Road and Mrs. Anna Rader of Jersey City, N. left today on the Bermuda to spend the Easter holidays in Bermuda. Wants City Air Police to Hunt Smoke Evil Robert B.

Lea Thinks Their Use Would Help to Abate Nuisance have something to say in the your free will in the course of "absurd," Clarence Darrow denight which analyzed the human Arab Aristocracy Obstacle to Jew in Palestine-Samuel Five Percent of Arab Population Owns 75 Percent of Land, Writer Says The great obstacle in the way of the Jews acquiring a homeland in Palestine is the Arab aristocracy, according to Maurice Samuel, writer and traveler. He spoke last night at the Friday evening service of Temple Sinai, Bradford St. and Arlington Ave. "There are 750.000 Arabs and 000 Jews in P'alestine." said Mr. Samuel.

"Five percent of the Arab population own 75 percent of the lands." He said they live in luxury beyond the highest standards of the West. Their fear of losing, that heritage impels them every effort against democracy in Palestine, the writer stated. He described living conditions among the lower classes as the "most horribly impoverished in the world." Mr. Samuel contended that if the rest of the world turned its back on Palestine and became disinterested mentally and financially, the country would still go on. "The three or four million dollars a year sent to Palestine is ludicrous.

Without it, Palestine would not grow as fast. It would progress slower. But it would go on." Mr. Samuel answered the contention that the Jews need not settle specifically in Palestine. "They could settle in the Argentine, in China, anywhere.

But they would do that in body. Palestine represents the Jewish soul." Talks were made by Rabbi Morris M. Rose and Jacob H. Cohen. Cantor Ephraim Spivack officiated at the service.

Describe Crucifixion At Baptist Temple The crucifixion of Christ was impressively illustrated by pictures, music and the spoken word last night at the Bantist, Temple. 3d near Flatbush of which the Rev. Russell Morse Brougher is pastor. Several selections from "Crucifixion," by Stainer, were given by temple choir of 90 voices under the leadership of Cornelius Van Rees. Coincident with the the the the of stereoptican slides of the death showing, and resurrection of the Saviour, the Rev.

Mr. Brougher read the scripture describing these events. The pastor delivered a Good Friday message and then held a munion service for the he congregation. More than 500 attended Outlines History Of Passion Play An illustrated lecture on the 1930 Passion Play of Oberammergau was given yesterday afternoon by Dr. Henry R.

Rose, and author. under the lecturer, Dramatic Art Department of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, at the Academy of Music. It was the first in a series of four illustrated lectures on great religious dramas to be given at the Academy by Dr. He outlined the history ct Oberammergau, and told of the religious nature of the people who presented the play. How Couples Hold Hands in Dancing A London Mail writer recently compared the different ways in which the men held the right hand of their partners while dancing.

Investigation proved that practically no two held them similarly. The most elegant, undobutedly, was the method adopted by a spectacled young man, who only alowed the thumb of his left hand to rest against the thumb of his partner's right. holding it on a level with his hip. The regular dance-professional held the four fingers of his partner's hand between his thumb and fouth finger--on a level with his shoulder. Others held their hands palm to palm, others fingertip to fingertip, while some held their fingers interlocked.

A president of who has give a Magnetism claim to MOOSE Edward the W. C. T. who declares been returned as rector of welcome home banquet April and Seismology, who $20,000 insurance on life DIRECTOR Vogel Edward Vogel Is Elected Dictator Of Moose Lodge Other Officers Named by Brooklyn Lodge, 14 Installation April 29 Edward Vogel, attorney of 26 Court was unanimously elected dictator of Brooklyn Lodge, 14, Loyal Order of Moose, at the meeting in the clubhouse at 482 Franklin Ave. last night.

Mr. Vogel has been active in fraternal and political circles for several years. He is past president of the Harry Wolkof Association and the W. Caro Lodge. I.

O. B. and is member of the United Regular Democratic organization of the 16th A. D. Brooklyn Lodge has a membership of 2,500 and is one of the most active lodges in the metropolitan area.

Installation April 29 Magistrate George M. Curtis Jr and Dr. Louis D. Gross will induct the officers at ceremonies to be held in the clubhouse April 29. Other officers elected are: Magistrate George M.

Curtis senior past dictator. Reuben B. Smith, junior past dictator. Homer I. Harris, vice dictator.

Robert MacLean. prelate. I. Peikes, trustee. Dr.

Joseph D. Stephens, treasurer. Joseph I. Schweinfest. secretary.

Reuben B. Smith, delebate to the preme convention. George M. Curtis Jr. alternate.

Joseph I. Schweinfest, delegate to the State convention. Isilore Jackson, alterntte. FUNNY FELLOW Adit Phillip Goldman is shown above as Jury, the comedy lead in "Lucille." musical version of "A Tale of Two Cities." which the St. John's College Stagers will tonight and tomorrow At the Brooklyn Little Theawer.

The aid of the city's aerial police in reporting flagrant violations of the smoke code was suggested today by Robert B. Lea. Mr. Lea is chairman of the smoke abatement committee of the Brooklyn Heights Association. Pointing out advantage these pilots have of daily viewing smoke conditions while on their regular rounds, Mr.

Lea declared such aid would require little if any departure or interference from their regular work and might do much toward eliminating the evil. "Frequent violators cauthe be reported on completion police flights and the health department could follow up these leads," Mr. Lea said. Commends The Eagle Mr. Lea commended The Eagle in aiding the campaign for smoke elimination being carried on by the Heights Association, declaring a definite change has occurred since its co-operation in the form of articles on air pollution and smoke abatement.

"The Eagle has helped very definitely to arouse the public to what can be eliminating the smoke nuisance." he said. "The situation has improved noticeably in the past few months. We have noticed increased interest and co-operation in the problem among residents. and that, of course. Is the important thing.

are now smoke conscious where before they were indifferent and prevented accomplishment of results. In one sense, this is half of the battle. "The situation cannot be cleared over night nor in a few weeks, however, but requires continual insistent co over A long period. "Other sections of the city should be aroused now to the problem. This would be another big step toward the goal of cleaning up the, metropolitan area." publicity sought by wets Our Lady of Solace R.

C. 15. 3. Capt. Nicholas has started to California of Arnold Rothstein reached English Seeking To Put End to Bogus Mediums Leading Organization of Spiritualists Will Try 10 Eliminate Them Bogus mediums have fallen on bad times in England and are now few and far between, according to F.

W. Hawker, secretary of the Marylebone Spiritualist Association. the largest Spiritualist organization in the United Kingdom. "By bogus mediums." he said to the London Daily Mail, "people usually mean physical mediums who profess to produce voices, materializations, the removal of objects and so on. "There are not at present more than a dozen persons in the whole country professing to produce such phenomena.

Of these we believe the majority to be genuine, after searching tests. 'Not a Paying Job' "A Spiritualist central council has just been formed, one of whose functions will be to expose bogus mediums. We have written to a woman medium asking her to submit to a test. If she refuses the test we shall publish her refusal. If she accepts and is proved a fraud, we shall publish the exposure.

"The number of 'mental' mediums is much greater. We have 30 attached to this association and there are probably about 100 in London. "They do not profess to produce physical phenomena and the public can test them for themselves. If a medium professes to describe A A man's dead mother and the description is nothing like her, he knows what to think of the medium. "Perhaps the chief reason for the decline in the number of bogus mediums is the fact that it is hardly a paying job.

"A medium whom we believe to be genuine came to London some months ago and gave marvelous demonstrations of physical mediumship, bringing objects into a room where he had been searched and bound and watched. But he could not make even the humblest living out of it and had to return SENATOR LOVE TO LECTURE Senator William Lathrop Love will give an illustrated lecture on "Honolulu, the Paradise of the Pacific." at the Brooklyn Museum, Washington Ave. and Eastern Parkway, at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Senator Love toured Honolulu on a visit to his brother Col.

Robert Love, stationed at Fort Chapter, in that city. Obituaries EDWARD J. McCORMICK of 224 Baltic died yesterday at his home. He was born in the 6th Ward and was formerly active in Democratic affairs in the 3d A. D.

He was a district ceptain for many years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Josephine Reilly McCormick: A son. Edward and a daughter. Mrs.

T. A. Hogan. The funeral will be held Tuesday morning at 9:30 o'clock with 8 solemn requiem mass in St. Paul's R.

C. Church, Court and Congress Sts. H. BELKNAP of 2217 Ditmas CHARLES1 a real estate broker. died yesterday after a short illness of heart trouble.

He was 62 years old and was A member of Lexington Lodge, F. A. M. He Is survived by his Mrs. Katherine Ingraham Belknap, and three daughters.

Services will be held privately on Sunday. WALTER J. GEOGHEGAN, a retired member of the New York Police Department, died Friday in St. Peter's Hospital after a few days' illness of pneumonia. He was connected with the Butler St.

police station during the time he was in the POlice Department. He lived at 1933 52d St. and was a member of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and the Police Department Veterans' Association. He is survived by a brother, John Geoghegan, and a sister. Mrs.

Mary Moran. The funeral will be held Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. with a solemn requiem mass in St. Peter's R. C.

Church at 10 a.m. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mrs. HATTIE EMMA REEDER, wife of Harry M. Reeder of Willets Point Road, Whitestone, L.

died at her home on Thursday. Besides her husband Mrs. Reeder is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Florence M. Latterman.

The funeral services will he held at the home on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock and the interment will be made A in Cypress Hills, Cemetery. shows up their weakChurch at Coney Island H. Heck, chief of the to survey earthquake the Court of Appeals Fearsome Animal Act Features This Season's Circus With Chair and Gun Young Trainer Makes Big Cats Perform-Here May 11 By JO RANSON Conjure a vision of more than 30 fierce lions and tigers housed in a cage with only a slender young man. You have a fair picture of Clyde Beatty doing his act in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey circus, which opened yesterday at Madison Square Garden. Beatty's act will make your hair stand up.

It will leave you with moist hands and a quivering heart. Those lions and tigers with which Beatty plays are no toys. They strike out bitterly at their trainer and claw one another with gigantic paws. With Revolver and Chair The tigers and lions are driven into the center cage. Beatty enters with only chair in one hand and a pistol loaded with blank cartridges and 3 whip in the other.

Blanks when fired off are supposed to keep the animals on good behavior. First, the lions refuse to move and a shot is fired. They trudge to their proper places and Beatty orders a tiger to move. It refuses. It snarls and lifts a paw, roars and is ready to jump.

Beatty glares into its eyes. The tiger glares back and slowly the cruel feline crawls on the floor to the place designated bv the trainer. The entire act is a fascinating, harrowing event. It gives you the shivers and makes you marvel at the audacity of this young man. Colleano Nets Bravos Then, too, the old familiar faces are back on the circus lot with their ever reliable, entertaining and amazing stunts.

The great Con Colleano with these acrobatics on the wire is thrilling again this year. Colleano's front and reverse somersaults last night brought bravos. And the Wallendas, those sensational high -wire individuals, had every one on edge. act has always gone over big because the Wallendas work quickly and smoothly. Hugo Zacchini is again shot from a cannon and apparently enjoys himself every time he is hurled through the air.

Aerialist Applauded Lucita Leers. an aerialist of fame in Europe, doss a solo at the Garden on the trapeze which last night brought considerable applause. Of the wire dancers on the bill. Maximo and Don Francisco occupy the limelight. The Rentell Brothers, the Cyrillo Brothers and the Mitzirose Sisters arenthe Mme.

equestrian Bradna in leaders the in center the ring offered her "Act Beautiful" which consisted of fantastically colored birds being liberated from a little house. Harry Rittley's "Toppling Tables" is also back to amuse us as are all the high perch performers the Karoli Brothers, the Olivera Broth- ers, the Arleys and the Jahns. Freaks Have Share Many of the freaks who paraded around the arena last night were formerly observed in the various side shows of Coney Island's Surf Ave. The giant, the blue man and the Cuban who blows smoke through his ears were familiar sights last season in the island. Dexter Fellows, word manipulater, announced last night that Alfredo Codons, the trapeze artist and husband of the late Lillian Leitzel, will make his appearance in the circus today.

Mr. Fellows in a whisper also announced that the circus would come to Brooklyn on May 11. Declares Complete Freedom Is Myth Rr. Abraham Holtzberg, rabbi of Temple Har Sinai, Trenton, N. was exchange preacher at the Temple Beth Elohim, Garfield Place and 8th last night, Discoursing on "Why Be Free Men?" Dr.

Holtzberg said absolute freedom in society does not exist. Freedom is doing all that the law permits, he said. "Be free, so that you may serve God by serving humanity well," Dr. Holtzberg advised. Special Pierce-Arrow Offering: Pierce-Arrow offers a few new cars of an earlier series of very recent production at greatly reduced prices.

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Y. the "wooden" culture of the Assyrians, Egyptians Babylonians. "Wood, marble and metal imagery were worshipped by the Greeks and Romans, who lacked insight into the beauty behind their art." Rabbi Braun stated. "'The Jews' migrations from Egypt, Babylon and other countries were in the main due to their rebellion to the culture of these countries," he declared. "To me the Passover story carries all the earmarks of an attempt on the part of Jews to establish real culture in the world." In other respects Rabbi Braun believes the book is one which should hold a place among classics.

He urged members of the congregation to read it. A cite.