The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, September 17, 1924 ‘HERESY TRIAL - AN EYE-OPENER’ ~BISHOP BROWN Heretic Takes Stand with Communists “My sympathies are all with the Communist movement,” Bishop William Montgomery Brown told the DAILY WORK- ER in an interview, during which Bishop Brown denounced “Mobilization Day” and de- tlared for the abolition of class tule thru the principles of Com- munism. Bishop Brown declared his — against the charge of eresy is a fight against the “supernaturalistic representa- tions of the Bible, and a fight to free the Church from the handi- tap of uncertain literalism.” Talks of Heresy Trial. He declared that the heresy trial fm Cleveland, where he was found larg of heresy by an ecclesiastical urt of the Protestant Episcopal Church last May, “Opened the eyes f many to the fact that the church jas no revelation from God thru Moses nd Paul that she can and dares to boron to the revelation of nature to 6 same end thru, say Darwin and larx.” “Russia is the hope of the world,” Bishop Brown declared. He com- arc the Soviet government for eir liberal religion under the sway bt the new church set up after the Workers’ revolution. When asked to discuss politics, Bishop Brown indicated his prefer- fnce for the Communist ticket. When Qsked whether or not he thought a rominent member of the socialist arty ih Ohio would ever progress in- Communism, he answered: “Well, hardly think so, he is a lawyer, you now.” Bishop Brown gave the DAILY WORKER his definition of religion ind told how religion is related to ieee “Religion is the desire and etermination to make the most out bf life,” said Brown. “Politics is the ffort to find the way to realize that esire. But the trouble is the poli- ficians and preachers of our day do lot help us to do this. “Truth is a fact so interpreted, with Jegard to conduct, as to help us make Ihe most out of life, and a fact is jomething which nature does. The ‘nly facts which exist are found in lature. Hails Abolition of Classes. “It is deplorable that under the present system capital grinds down the struggling worker and makes him tive as he does not want to live. As ong as there are classes of society lighting each other you will have suffering. Under Communism classes Will be abolished and the spirit of to-operation will rule.” His own controversy, Bishop Brown jaid is: “A fight to keep the church loors open to the sons and daughters ‘f this new age of science.” The Bishop pleaded his case as a Ytruggle for “The cause of liberty to arn, live and teach the truth ac- tording to one’s own conviction, and jo assist the new, urging movements r bring the church down to our day nd understandings, and open its portals to all folks everywhere.” Fight His Book. The attempt to persecute him for being the author of “Christianism and Communism,” Bishop Brown declared, was an “attempt to doall that could be jone towards shutting the doors of the fhurch in the face of every true son tnd daughter of this age of science.” He stated that “Mobilization Day” ls just like any other defense day Which attempts to prepare the world for unjust and capitalistic wars. “My trial will not be concluded xcept along thy lines laid down by e defense,” he continued. “Which means the subordination of every jogma to the progressive revelations f science. Bars the Supernatural. “In the realm of biology we are fino by, natural laws, so in the ealm of sociology it is the same. ‘here is no room for the superna- jural in this age. We must come within the realm of the natural in all lepartments of life.” Balvation Army _ lies Cheap bor to Farmers (Special to The Daily Worker) BRANDON, Manitoba, Sept. 16— ‘he Salvation Army has imported 200 inglish boy-orphans, who were sent Manitoba. Each boy was adpoted a farmer. The Salvation Army will import an- ‘ther 1,000 boy-orphans from England tnd will send them to Canada to be tdopted by farmers. The Canadian Farmer Trust Co. last ear asked the British Salvation Army r youths to be exploited in this way ‘nd the Salvation Army did the job! Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. , 7 THE DAILY WORKER SPECIAL DAILY WORKER DRIVE IN NEW YORK SPEEDING UP AS NEWS OF SILK BANNER REWARD SPREADS The Red Silk Banner, which will be presented to the branch making the best record in the New York DAILY WORKER Sub- scription Campaign by Comrade William Z. Foster, our presi- dential candidate, at his meeting in New York Oct. 19, is being made by Branch No. 1 of the Lithuanian Women’s Progressive Alliance of Brooklyn, and will be donated by them to the DAILY WORKER. ; These Lithuanian women comrades have long been noted for their vital interest in the+ revolutionary movement. Altho PATERSON SILK STRIKERS ARE WINNING FIGHT 107 Plants Settle With Union; 1,500 Back Page Three | RAILROADS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF UNEMPLOYMENT TO SLASH WAGES; PROFITS ARE ON THE INCREASE By LELAND OLDS : (Federated Press Industrial Editor) The ruthless way in which railroad managements have been slashing payrolls to produce more profits for stockholders during the depression is indicated by the June wage statistics of the interstate commerce commission, by lay-offs and reductions in working time the carriers are getting their train miles and ton miles at a lower wage cost this year than they did during the tremendous traffic boom of 1923. What The commission shows that | many of them are not yet mem- bers of the Workers Party, they all recognize the necessity of a working class daily paper to fight for their interests. They were a great help in the campaign to start the DAILY WORKER, and they are very glad now to perform this service to help make it a success. A Thing of Beauty. The embroidery will be ‘in charge of Comrade Antonette Zablackas, and those who know her experience in this line say that this assures that the banner will be a real work of art. The branch that wins this banner will therefore secure something that will be appreciated not only because of what it symbolizes, but also be- cause it has intrinsic value and be- cause it is a thing of beauty. This asures a still greater interest on the part of the branches in the DAILY WORKER campaign. tainly there is not a member of any branch but would be proud to seesuch a banner hanging in the branch head- quarters as evidence of work well done, and inspiration for future achievement. Surely there is not a branch but would be proud to see such right to carry this inspiring emblem in parades and display it at mass meetings. It is too early to say that any branch has an advantage in the con- test, The list today shows that none of them have any more than begun, so that there is still a splendid chance for the other branches that have not yet started. On Sept. 10, fourteen oftheseventy Workers Party branches in New York had entered the lists. Of the twenty-eight Young Workers League branches, five had made a start, and the Juniors were in the game with one branch, that of Brownsville. A total of 115 subscrip- tions, amounting to $137.00 were se- cured by 34 comrades from these vari- ous branches. Within a week or so we expect to be able to report every branch as taking part in this cam- paign, and to show the records of those that are mobilizing their forces in earnest. Here’s the List. The follwing list shows only sub- scriptions that passed thru the New York agency, and does not yet in- clude the subscriptions sent direct to the DAILY WORKER by subscribers and agents. It appears therefore as tho the mark of 500 additional sub- scribers will be passed long before the date of the Foster meeting. New York is buckling down to its task, and the achievement of New York news- stand cireulation for the DAILY WORKER seems assured. The record shows the following number of subs secured by branch- es September 10th: Sec. 1. English, D. T., 6; English, W. S., 2; Jewish, No. 1, 5; Jewish No. 2, 2; Russian, No. 2, 8. Sec. 2. Harlem English, 12; Czeho- despite the large number of cases. Slovak, 1; Harlem Jewish, 17; Scan- dinavian, 2. / Sec. 3. English, Lower Bronx, 1, Sec. 4. English, Williamsburg, 7. Sec. 5. English, Brownsville, 6, Sec. 6. Boro Park, English, German, 1. Y. W. L. Bronx, No. 1, 5; Branch No. 2, 1; Harlem Jewish, No. 10, 13; Branch No. 12, 13; Russian, No. 28, 2. Juniors, Brownville, 4. HELP MAKE THIS LIST GROW! % Business Whoops It Up in Parade for Defense Day (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 16.—De- fense Day parade here was first class as a circus, but an onion from a military viewpoint. A fag, tag and bob-tail crowd of two hundred or so with lots of flags marking them as the “110 Engineers” were followed by the Ameri Legion, the sterilized (Burns is oat pow) Department of In- justice, Pin’ ns and other scab units. Them came the Bloomered Boobs of the Shrine, the Hlks, Moose, Eagles and the rest of the menagerie. ‘The museum section attracted much notice—elderly relics, male and female related to guys-who had fought in 1776, 1812 and points east. The bulk of the parade was the ad- vertising section—Loose-Wiles, Merit Bread, Scab Taxi, City Ice—and so on, Let us not forget the Draft Boards— 47 autos full of old buzzards yearning to send the kids out again to be maimed and gutted. New Paraly: Epidemic. » CLINTON, al, Sept. 16. — City schools here closed toduy for a week under orders of health authorities who are attempting to check an ept- demic of infantile paralysis. Dr. Rose- now, ¢ the May foundation, discover- er of the serum treatment fof the dis- ease, has been called here to aid in the work. No deaths have resulted | Cer- | LEAGUE COUNCIL TALKING PEACE; MEANS NOTHING Big Powers Refuse to Park Their Weapons GENEVA, Sept. 16.—The council of the League of Nations is still babbling away about peace while the armies of its members are busy making war |without even dropping the league a {postal card to inform it how the bat- tle is going. England, France and oe have troops in China, but the ague will say nothing, because these powers control it. | The main task of the league is os- \tensibly to secure peace. In order to |keep this view of its function before the public, a committee is in more or less constant session, trying to devise ways and means of bringing about Deace. The members of the committee are not showing signs of breaking under the strain of their labors. Their sal- aries come regularly and their hours of labor are not long. The big powers agree on everything except on the parking of their guns. England is quite willing that France should disband her army but thinks it impossible to consider the reduction of naval forces, particularly on the part of England. The little nations feel themselves very much like poor relations, Des- mond Fitzgerald, foreign minister of the Irish Free State declared the representatives of the small powers were only observers, Henry Morgen- thau, former U. S. ambassador to Turkey, pleaded fer a loan of $14,500,000 to Greece. The council de- cided that Germany could join the League of Nations, with a permanent seat, . ** Crisis in Berlin. BERLIN, Sept. 16. — Chancellor Marx's backdown in sending a tele- gram to-the other powers disavowing the admission of German’s war guilt has caused a new crisis in the German cabinet. The sending of such a tele- gram was part of the agreement with the extreme nationalists which enable the government to secure the neces- Sary two-thirds majority for putting across the Dawes Plan. When the telegram was ready to be sent, pressure was brot to bear on Chancellor Marx by American bank- ers and diplomatic officials. It was Pointed out that such action mingt in- terfere with the task of floating a German loan in connection with the Dawes plan. GITLOW SPEAKS 10 STRIKING PATERSON SILK WORKERS’ MEET PATERSON, N. J., Sept, 16.—Benja- min Gitlow, Workers party candidate for vice president, was the principal speaker at a mass meeting of Paterson silk strikers in Turn hall. Gitlow de- clared steps must be taken to bring the support of the entire labor movement behind the struggle of the Paterson workers. Gitlow was preceded by H. M. Wicks and Rev. C. B®. Scudder, pastor First Methodist Episcopal church of Paterson. Scud- der declared his smpathy with the strikers and said their fight for better living conditions was an evidence of real Americanism. jis gain for the absentee owners + By ART SHIELDS \of stocks and bonds’ is loss to (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) | fli rai jthe families dependent on rail- PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 16. road wages. : —In spite of injunctions against Employment among train and en- picketing and the arrest of more gine-service employes has fallen to than a hundred strikers the the lowest point since August 1922, Associated Silk Workers’ Union| Approximately 6,700 in these classes hs terminated the strike in 107|Wwere laid off between May and June RADEK TAKES A HEFTY SWAT AT broadsilk plants, obtaining agreements binding the employ- ers to the two-loom system and an increase in wages. Fifteen hundred weavers are now working under union con- ditions and contributing to the relief of the 7,000 still on strike. A Mysterious Bunch, More employers are settling daily. The success of the union to date may be attributed to the fact that the workers are better organized than| their opponents. Silk production is| on @ competitive basis and employers | find difficulty in getting together, even in a strike. A mysterious “Broadsilk Manufacturers’ Associa-| tion” purports to speak for the em- ployers but the writer's investigation makes it highly doubtful whether this is other than a fictitious name used) to mask the propaganda of certain die-hard bosses. | Newspaper statements by the as- sociation carry the names of no offi- cers and no headquarters’ address. The association is not listed in tele- phone and gity directories as is the! workers’ organization. At the offices| of the Paterson Chamber of Com-| merce the girls at the information| desk were able to find no trace of the. association until after much telephon-! ing when the writer was advised: to} go to No. 1 Broadway. At Last. At No. 1 Broadway there was only the silk factory building of Otto A. |Haeniche, one of the five employers jwho has obtained an injunction against the Associated Silk Workers. His factory was closed and the door locked, Finally after much knocking Mr. Haeniche—a stout, elderly man— appeared. He declared that he was speaking for the association but re- fused to name its officers or say what employers were behind it, One thing the. manufacturer was eloquent on, however, was the As- sociated Silk Workers. He declared the union’s two loom demand was ruin- ing the silk industry of Paterson, He insisted that the three and four loom system existed in Pennsylvania and that the Pennsylvania employers worked children in their mills. Oh, My, Yes! “It is a fine thing for the children in those mining towns to be able to get work in the mills,” added the manufacturer. A long statement by the “Broadsilk Manufacturers’ Association assailed the strikers as foreign born. ‘Fo this speakers at strikers’ meetings replied that foreign birth is not the issue but the two-loom system, “Anchor” Is Dropped. Policeman Conrad Jagnuson, one of the giants of the Chicago police force and nationally known as the anchor of Chicago's tug-of-war teams, is dead today at his home. He succumbed to an injury received two years ago \suffered most. CHARLIE DAWES Even Albanians Think Durn Little of Him reducing the number 33,522 below June 19’3 and 37,139 below the high level of August 1923. Layoffs during June were reported} from every department of railroad| service. The shop employes as usual (Special to The Daily Worker) Their numbers were} yIENNA, Sept. 16.—A tornado of reduced 10,802 compared with May,/ criticism against the Dawes repara- bringing the jobs in this department} pian and the storekeeper-general him- 83,193 below June a year ago and 87,- ILLINOIS J0BS IN MINE FIELD FALL HEAVILY Permanent Drop F vom 90t050Thousand « (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) HERRIN, Ill, Sept. 16—Jobs in the Illinois mines have been permanently reduced from 90,000 to 50,000, according to State Senator William Sneed, who lately made a_ political dicker whereby Sneed-withdrew from the race for district presi- dent, in return for the bribe of an appointive position from Far- rington, “What effect will the three- year contract have on Illinois?” 216 below August 1923. Purchasing Power Falls. The total monthly purchasing power of families depéfident upon railroad) employment has fallen by about $30,- 000,000 since June a year ago and by $40,000,000 compared with the peak of wage payments in August, 1923. The average wage paid in the indus- try in June this year was $130 com- pared with $134 in June, 1923. The reduction in monthly pay in the case of shop employes amounted to $10. Changes from last year in the wages paid in the various departments are shown in the table: June, June, 1924 Monthly Wages Professional, clerical, et: Maintenance of way . Maintenance of equipmen' Dispatchers, telegraphers, station employes, ete.. ws Yardmasters, switchtenders, hostlers ... Train and engine gervic oe Bosses Gaining. The extent to which the railroads are actually gaining by payroll reduc- tions exceeding the decrease in traf- fic offered is shown in the report of the interstate commerce commission on unit costs, This report shows that in June the railroads spent 41.6c on lo- comotive repairs per freight train mile as compared with 25.6¢ in June, 1923. a reduction of more than 19 per cent. Similarly the cost per freight train mile of enginemen was 23.9¢ this year as compared with 26.6c in June, 1923. The cost per freight train mile of trainmen’s wages fell from 29.2c to 28.5. Taking the cost per 1,000 gross ton miles as the basis of comparison the result is equally striking. The cost has been reduced from 33.1¢ in June, 1923 to 26.1c this June. In the same period the wage cost of train engine- men has-been reduced from 16.3¢ to léc and of trainmen from 18.6¢ to 17.8¢. This means that with thousands of railroad workers out of a job those remaining are producing more train miles and ton miles per hour of work than a year ago. At tlie rate of sav- ing to the railroads shown in June this will’mean several hundred mil- lions in profits to the railroad inves- tor, [PRINCE OF WALES PAYS A VISIT TO while exerting his great strength to lift a motor out of a police boat. May Use Gasoline Engines. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept, 16.— The possibility of wide-spread use of gasoline motor trains by railroad com- panies was seen here today by officials KING J, P, MORGAN NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—The Prince of Wales paid a social call at the Long Island home of J. Pierpont Morgan and attended a party atthe home of Mrs. William K. Vander- bilt, 2nd, all in the same day. He will hardly find time for a visit to of the Big Four railroad who replaced two steam-drawn trains, No, 2 and No. 3, Indianapolis to St. Louis, with the new equipment. the mining camps of W. Virginia where workingmen's families are being evicted from their homes un- der the blue republican sky. NOT FAILURE, BUT FIGHT E know a lot of people who fall into despair every time a little opposition is met. Even in the labor movement, in that part of it where one must have that sort of sustained courage which lasts for years and for decades, we find those who are utter- ly unable to see the point of peren- nial persistence. They do not use in an ideological struggle for social power, the same sensible tactics they would surely use in a physical fight with an individual antagonist. For instance, if a young worker in @ shop was on strike with his mates, and if, in front of them, a scab would pick a fight and mix it up with fists and probably brass knucks, would he quit the minute the scab landed on his nose and run down the alley squalling that he wanted no more strike and that, according to Tolstoi, Christ and Norman Thomas, the clasa struggle shouldn't be conducted by force, anyhow? Such “fighters for revolution” would be laughed out of countance by the triking workers, No real rebel would have a different kind of a struggle, a struggle to change the whole com- plexion, direction and control of the labor unions, This sort of a struggle requires more than a mere physical courage to stand punches on the nose. It may require that, too, but it de- mands far more than that. It de- mands patience and lasting courage and audacity. If you haven't got some of those things in your make-up, then you'd better wait until after those who do, make the revolution, before you become a revolutionjst. One is reminded of this situation by the article in the September LABOR HERALD by William Z, Foster. This article will become historic in the American labor movement. It sets the stage for a new kind of struggle for the left wing of the trade union movement. Those who have been hit on the nose and want to stop fighting within the unions, should read this article by Comrade Foster and take the new task seriously to heart, The Trade Union Educational League has been highly successful, Foster shows, k of doing this. But suppose we jin popularizing within the vnions, its chief revolutionary slogans, Now, it does not follow that because the officials have stopped the union membership from effective expression on the issues advanced by the T. U. H. L., that everything is over and the Communists should quit the struggle. No! It simply means that the Com- munists and left wingers have the job of persuading the reactionary officials to quit the struggle, “The era of passing resolutions to have them thrown into the waste bas- ket by sneering and stupid officials is past; the era for action is at hand,” says Comrade Foster. On with the fight to break the back of official re- sistance in the unions. “The T. U. EB. L. must rouse the fighting spirit,” says Foster, “in the masses.” These masses of union members which have already understood and approved of left wing slogans must be led into ac- ‘tion to make those slogans good. Let cowards and cripples step out of the ranks. Buy the LABOR HPRALD for September and see what Foster says must be done In “The New Task ot the Left Wing.” \ self is whirling violently thru the|the new Farrington henchman countries of Europe. asks. “The number of mines The insignificant Albanian delegate, will be reduced about one-third of locomotive repairs on this basis} jat the league of nations assembly in |Geneva does not fear to describe the |plan as a “tortuous complicated dia | bolical infernal concoction of bubbles. That “General” Stuff. Karl Radek, the chief Russian jour- nalist, characterizes Dawes as a get rich quick mountebank, ‘The only genuine military thing about Gen. Dawes is his epaulettes,” Radek writes “Gen. Dawes is a provinical American or more,” he admits, ‘‘but it will take at least a year to accom- plish that because of the fact that only a few companies are under pressure of short term financial obligations, and many a property will be handed around from owner to owner three or four times before col- lapse. This condition is now going on. attorney who, in guarding the inter- ests of small gas companies, wriggled his way into banks financing these en-} terprises, and finally penetrated into their administration. Since God re-| wards the pure in heart, Mr. Dawes/| feathered his nest and entered into the large family of poor mililonaires. | As a poor devil with a few millions | he became an agerft of Morgan. | “When America entered the war he procured for himself the rank of gen- eral and fought bravely in the commis. sary of Gen. Pershing. Having returned to America he hung his sword and |laurels on the wall and devoted him- |sef to the old profitable work. When) Morgan decided to include Germany and the rest of Europe in his system of enterprises Gen. Dawes, in order to cut a more brilliant figure, furbighed |up his old uniform and headed the ex- |perts commission. Up to that moment \the gallant Gen. Dawes had only been {known to America as a pleader at the courts, as one who smoked a pipe with the bowl upside down and |played the violin with considerable skill. Columbus Honest But— “The general now has every chance | of kidding himself that as with Colum- | bus, so with him, a new era in the his- | |tory of mankind is being ushered in |—the epoch of the discovery of Eu- rope by America, Columbus as is known was an honest mans but up to the present his adventure had resulted in having the feudal and capitalist rob- bers of Europe skin the peaceful popu- lation of America. “We do not wish to say anything uncharitable regarding the heart and conscience of that artistic pipe-smoker and violin virtuoso, Gen. Dawes, but Columbus in that he goes to Europe with a definite scheme in his pocket for plundering her, The Dawes plan is a most refined instrument for the exploitation of Germany.” In Sweeden the capitalist economist Gustav Kassel brands the Dawes plan as “the most perfect and successful plan for systematically sucking the life-blood from a nation living under | \;jj, the conditions of modern culture.” Fergusgn to Argue Ruthenberg Appeal in Michigan Court Ea For the hearing of the C, B, Ruthen- | berg appeal, which takes place before the Michigan Supreme Court next month, the Labor Defense Council has been able to secure the services of Attorney I. B. Ferguson, who will make the argument. Mr. Ferguson is highly expert at this phase of legal practice. It is thought that this addition to the de- fense in the Ruthenberg case will greatly strengthen the chances for a favorable verdict, Mr. Ferguson has, for some time, been acting as auxiliary counsel in the Michigan cases, and has been on the Farrel! cases from the beginning. He is now preparing a brief for the Kovacavich hearings on a motion for a new trial which will be heard in October, Bakers in Spokane See Fight. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 16.—Spe- cial assessments of $3 a month on all working journeymen bakers in Spok- ane are being levied by Local 74, Bak ery and Confectionary Workers Inter- national union, to fight unfair and hostile employers. Nonunion bakeries have been working some of their men 16 hours a day. Many of them pay less than the union seale for a work: ing day of 9 to 12 hours, not exceed. ing nights. Many union men are un- able to find full employment in fair shops, we must admit that he differs from! Try to Cut Coal Cost. “The state will see an intense ef fort of engineering and management to cut the cost of producing coal. Twa or three tremendous new mines will turn out a great valume at the low costs which usuaNy prevail in new; operations whose haulage is short. Il- linois will-go on selling 60,000,000 tons a year with fewer miners than for any 60,000,000 tons it ever produced before.” { There are 363 shipping mines in the state, according to the reactionary Sneed, of which less than 300 are now producing. Sneed had intended to run jagainst Farrington for president of the Illinois mine workers, he an- nounced. Progressives however, see in Sneeds’ withdrawal a put up job, which was an attempt to get the progressive candidate, John Hind- marsh, to take his name off tho ballot. Sneed was then to withdraw, the progressives say,and Farrington wo! run unopposed. This plan was not te, ‘ cessful, for altho Sneed has thrown his following to the class collaboration camp of Farrington, the progressives saw thru his militant pose, and their candidate, Hindmarsh, is still on the ballot. : % New York and New Jersey Campaign _ Fund Now $1,800, The first report of income received up to and including Sept. 10th, by the Campaign Fund of New York and New Jersey, follows. Receipts listed in- clude all funds turned in for subscrip- tion lists, campaign fund stamps, pay= ments on pledges, etc, So far campaign expense has been « couple of jumps ahead of campaign income. Our expense increases as the! exmpaign develops. Comrades and sympathizers are strongly urged to do what they can to swell the fund. ( Contributions are as follows: Workmen's Circle, Braneh ae lyn and Queens German gitation Committee Downtown Freiheit Club, English D. T. “zecho-Sloraks Finnish, Harlem , German, Yorkville German Nightwor! Spanish English 1, Bronx.. Jewish No. 1,’ Bronx English, Williamsburg .. Jewish No, 2, Brot Finnish, Brooklyn German, So. Broo! Jewish, Boro Par! English, Coney Island. English, Yonkers Young Workers No, 12 Street Co Section Section Section Section Section Section Unaccounted for $1,891.78 Deductions from Gitlow meeting collections as credited to branches ...... ~ 70,00 $1,821.78 Helluva Lot of Skypilots, MIDDLEBURY, Ind. Sept. 16.— More than 200 delegates were here to- day to attend the meeting of the Michigan Synod of the United Luth- eran church, comprising all the churches of Michigan and Indiana, which opened a week's session here today. The delegation includes clergymen, and laymen, it Gi AOE SPR RT ETON re ao. ea