Abstract

It Seems to Heywood Broun

The article focuses on the relation between U.S. President Herbert C. Hoover and Protestant lobbyists. Friends of the President may point out that Mabek Walker Willebrandt rallied the clergy of the Central States to the President's side and that James Cannon, the odd-lot bishop of Virginia, broke the Solid South for the Republicans by spreading the report that the Pope had purchased a one-way ticket to Washington. There is room for debate upon the matter of a wholly religious Sabbath. Hoover is not willing to admit that there may be two sides to the question. Recently he received a delegation of clergymen who wished to !state the case for blue laws, but when the advocates of the other side asked for an equal amount of time to explain their position the President refused them an appointment.