Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

LEWIS;O99 II:1:50
Mr. Roosevelt done a lot of ham to this country that we'll
never recover from. And this man here we got now, no dis-
respect to him, hers a fine gentleman he's entitled to his ideas,
but he's made enemies all over the world. We got thrawed out of
everyplace, the Phillfpines, we set them up as a democracy
- now it's dictatorship. They told us we could get our
troops out of there, we can use that airfield. But our
troops have got to leave and we paying them twenty million
dollars a year rent for that airfield. Same way in Panama.
Harvey: Let's get it back to Hampden. I wonder if that
tension with the Catholics you were describing up until
World War I . . .
Lewis: Who was?
Harvey: You were saying . . .
Lewis: Well, the tension was between the people. I mean,
in other words, in them days the religious issues were fired
on. Those days people went to church. In other words,
these churches around here in them days had people - they
weren't empty like they are now. They all had big congregat-
ions. And you went to church children from the children up.
You take in them days it wasn" a question of whether you
were going to Sunday School ar not. If you was too sick to
go to Sunday School, you were too sick to go out. The kids
knew that. You went to Sunday School. f went to Sunday
School - started out in little teeny chairs and because
everybody was the same way. Everybody went to church.
Harvey: How did the tension with the Catholics come up ill
politf cs?