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by permitting .them to remain in such surroundings."
Miss Loeb: "I say to you that this committee, if it takes such an attitude as that, is one hundred years behind the times."
Mr. Cunnion: "Anything agains,t purity is immoral."
Miss Loeb: "What has that to do with the question of purity? Was the mother of Christ pure ?"
Mr. Cunnion: "Certainly."
Miss Loeb: "He had no name!"
Mr. Cunnion : "You can't bring that in here. We believe he was conceived without sin."
Mr. Menehan (to Miss Loeb) : "That is very ivrong to make that statement." Cited in letter of complaint to Mayor Hylan.
"The intimate relation of church and s,tate in the great non-sectarian United States of America received direct demonstration on August 12 (1913), when a deputy sergeant-atarms of the Senate was hurriedly sent out to get a preacher of any old denomination to open the Senate with prayer. The session opening an hour earlier than usual, the regular chaplain was not at hand, but with still two minutes to spare the deputy returned in an automobile, hurried to the Vice President's office and introduced the Rev. Dr. C. Albert Homas, of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, to Mr. Marshall just in time for the Vice President to lead the way into the Senate chamber to open the session at 11 o'clock, and once again the Union was saved. We shudder to think what might have happened if no preacher had been captured in time to open the session with prayer!" Jewish editorial.
"President Wilson in his inaugural address said: 'The firm basis of the Government is justice, not pity.' This is sound Jewish doctrine as laid down by Moses and the Prophets in con-
