(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
“Mention of race and religion” concerning the naming of a mountain peak after the sons of Louis Marshall was “entirely gratuitous and irrelevant” according to a resolution acopted by the Board of Governors at a meeting prior to the main session of the Adirondack Mountain Club which met at the Hotel Utica Saturday afternoon.
At the request of the Board of Governors. Theodore Van Wyck Anthony, lawyer and member of the club, who had written a circular letter to members of the club opposing the naming of the peak Moum Marshall by Russell M. L. Carson in his book “Peaks and People of the Adirondacks.” formally in writing withdrew the concluding paragraph of his letter in which he had said he had no religious prejudice, and then continued: “I do, however, admit a pro-Gentile leaning on all points in controversy, and if that be religious prejudice, make the most of it.”
At the main meeting, the Board of Governors submitted the special report in which they recommended the appointment of a committee on nomenclature, and reaffirmed the purposes of the club “which can be subserved only by broadcast appreciation and recognition of individual worth, independent of any considerations f race and religion.” The report added: ‘Any challenge of a member on account f such extraneous circumstances and any eference to them are hereby repudiated no condemned.”
No action on the matter of naming Mount Marshall was taken, but Walter Adams Johnson, publisher of the Mounain Magazine, said in an interview he understood the club was back of Carson in his naming the peak Mount Marshall. His magazine favored the name, he added.
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