Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-17 | Page 15 | Protest Against Naming School for Edison Arouses N. Y. Town

Protest k S Against Naming School For Tor Edison Arouses N N. Y Town EL N N. 1 y t Oct 17 AP- AP P by thi the the- Rev Irnest L fc liar liar- VO vey b Heights Heigh ts l Episcopal rector against As naming tho high school of oC thAt suburb after utter Thomas A A. A Edison hag aroused local admirers ad admirers ad ad- of Mr Edison Mr Harvey declared from froni the tIle pulpit that I Edison's Idison's paine name should not hot be e given t to a n because of or the inventors inventor's purported disbelief In tho the existence of God Goa and In a n. life liCe hereafter Mr Edison th the rector said saltI Js ia a a. great scientist and tho the world Is Indebted to him for r many Inventions that haye ha benefited mankind but to tomy tomy my mind he lie IK in not the man who I should l be selected above c all ull others for tor our boys bos and girls to follow Or course our public schools have been heen thoroughly secularized but hut to toso toso so ao honor an a avowed owed unbeliever whoso whose Influence because of or his I prominence In the tho public eye oyo 1 Is all Die lc ter cems to 1 b. b carrying carryIng secularization almOst bl too loo Admirers ot of Edl Edio on erO 1 lck ck to r reply ply W. W lames of oC the tho High bight editor j chool pa tr a letter let Jet ter to tho rD Star Ossette J z tl eft dared tho nt were ere proud roud to attend n. n school bearing Edsons Edson's name and that the world would be bel better cr oft off u if one third ot of the people lIv lived d u Ul o their belles beliefs a as A. A EdIson Others now v O come meto to- to the front S with the aSsertiOn that positIon sas not s sert ert cor c by th the a rc rector tor nn an that In nn an ix fn A the Forum In NOv 19 G the said liard I Would t WoUldn not deny denya a sU Supreme n ven forbId th that t. t 1 should diminish h by a a. shade r f one degree let alone de tro destroy iV t the l faith or hope o ot fany an any man or woman ChrIstianity i 1 think Is the most beautiful of t all gil i tt human