Jim Kershner’s This Day in History

From our archives, 100 years ago

Spokane’s Polish Society gathered to hear Mrs. Helena Stas, a Polish novelist, talk about the plight of the home country.

“Poland, dismembered and divided between three warring powers of Europe, Austria, Germany and Russia, though no way involved in the present war, is one of the greatest sufferers,” she said. “Its men drafted into the armies of nations, under whose government they are controlled, are fighting brother against brother. Their homes are desolated, their farms destroyed, their cities razed, and women and children in thousands are starving.”

She appealed for donations to the Polish Relief Committee, based in Chicago.

From the religion beat

As Easter approached, the Very Rev. William C. Hicks lashed out at “liberal preachers.”

“It would almost seem that their idea of a liberal preacher is that he is one who holds a minimum of belief; who attacks the fundamentals of the Christian religion and the word of God; who makes light of the Christian church, and has only a few negations to offer as the sum and substance of his creed.”

Also on this date

(From the Associated Press)

1956: The soap operas “As the World Turns” and “The Edge of Night” premiered on CBS-TV.