Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1923, Page 15

“GARDEN OF EDEN" STORY PUNCTURED Dr. Grant Sees “Adam, Ap- ple and Eve” Bible Nar- rative as “Fable.” PREACHES ON FETISHES Declares There Is Need of New Religion and Urges Churches to “Clean House.” NEW YORK. biblical version of tiden and the story apple and poor Eve" is a fable, Dr.| Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the| Protestant Lplscopal- Church of the ! Ascension, told hls congregation ves- ! rerday. He made a plea for thorough | housecleaning by the churches. | “There is need of a new religion, if the church will not clean house of all ts fetishes” he said. “The funda- ntalists in religlon belleve that| ey will attain happiness in the{ world to come through the belief in rhe miraculous conception of Christ, His death und ascension into heaven. unworthy of mod arn intelligence as would be the f today in theories of the Egyp- tian priests of the past. All “Fables” Refected. “We cannot adhere to tables in re- | ltgton any longer, for the young peo- | nle of today are not going to belt e\e[ February 26.—The the Garden of of “Adam, the what their grandparents did. The mind must contribute something to religion.” l Dr. Grant, who re center of a storm beca presslons denying the deity of Christ, arrayed himsel! today on the sxde otl ~volution. He declared he had “r s the e“ “r be on the upgrade with the 4..[ scendants of the ape than on th downgrade with Adam as renresznl-' ing the degenerate son of God.” He ! 4 that the Old Testament verston | “God of vengeance" Christlanity, but system.” Sunday Theater Plays Favored. Dr. Grant defended Sunday motion picture and theater performances, "Are people to sit all day in 4 tene- | ment house on their one day of res 2nd jJust think?" he asked. “No. Thi want to be moved by the passions of life and travel far in their {magina- clons to other lands portrayed on the stage and screen.’ UTAH CITIZENS PROTEST ANTI-CIGARETTE LAW Whistles in Salt Lake City Shrill Anger at Unpopular Statute. By the Asociated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Feoruary Standing room was at a premium at the downtown theater mass meeting of the Freeman's League of Utah [0 protest the anti-cigarette law. Several thousand persons, it is es- timated, cheered remarks of speakers that the cigarette statute was not in ~onformity = with the will of the majority of the people of the state and that it should be repealed. Promptly at noon there was a loud sounding of steam whistles in_con- ley with & request of the Free- man's !nl‘ue that they be blown as & protest. REFUSES KLAN EVIDENCE. Under Oath Not to Give Names, Says Kansas Organizer. TOPEKA, Kan, Februar 26~L. H. Ritohen, who olalms to be an organizer for the Ku Klan refuses o testify at the hearing Of the states ouster suit egainst the klan. He de- clared that he was under oath not to dlvu.ln tho names of the applicants to xruy General C. B. Griffith this oon npplled to the supreme court opinion as to the power of a o:,er "F'i.‘"':fm" it to hear punis| esses Who re- fuse to tomity. Reaump!lon of the hear- ing was set FAVORS BRITISH DEFENSE. ADELAIDE, South Australia, Feb- roary 26.—Capt. M.~ Bruce, the oW’ fedoral Dremier, told an audience et the Commonwealth Club that notwithstanding the Washington armament conference and the grow- 1ng influence of the league of nations, Australia belleved an empire naval defense scheme was an imperative neocessity. Was notv “part of a pagan | Richard Wagner's Widow In Poverty and Distress FRAU COSIMA WAGNER. When Richard Wagner, world-fa- mous COmMpo! 883, 1o his widow an ncome of about $300,000 depreciation of the mark havoe with Cont; financial affairs, according to mews from Berlin. S| % been forced to sell family curios to buy food. Thene curios consist chiefly of valuable gi ‘Wagner received from the mona: of Europe and from private mdivid- uals of great wealth. PRESDENTS LETTER IN CHURCH DISPUTE| Given Erroneous Impremon. De- clares Foes of Proposed Evan- gelical Merger. By the Associated Press ALLENTOWN, Pa., Februwry 6.— A letter written by President Hard- ing to the Rev. J. D. Kistler of Allen- town and read at the East Pennsyl- vanla.l nited Conference of the Evan- i at Mount Carmel, Pa., congratulating those who brought about the merger of the Evangelical Association and the TUnited Evan- gelical Church, came up for discus- slon in the Kast Pennsylvania Confer- ence of the United Evangelical Church in this city, which has not jolned in the reunion of the two denominations. A resolution was adopted stating that a letter of the Rev. Mr. mllhr to the President probably did not forth the fact that this “alle cd merger” {s not in reality a reunion with the Evangelical Assoclation, but 2 partial disruption of the United Evangelical Church, and accomplished by the determined ‘effort of those In control to enforce a union in disre- gard of the church membership. The resolution further stated that the conference regretted the fact that a former minister of the conference would secure letters from the Presi- dent of the United States and the Governor of Pennsylvania through “what we believe {s Information im- parted to those public officials giving the partisan and erroneous impres- sion and placing them in a position to be under a misapprehension of the situation.” Merger of the United Evangelical Church and the Evangelical Associa- tion was effected at general confer- encul held last October at Barrington, and Detroit, under the title of Evlnlellcll Church. ROSSLYN | ducted by SCOUT TROOPS QUALIFY IN RED FELT STAR TEST Fifteen Boy Organisations in Line for Award Designating “Standard” Status. Abused in Ruhr By French, Say:. American Woman By the Associated Prees, NEW YORK, Febtuary 26.—Mrs. Louise Gefssel of Pittsburgh are rived from Bremen on the steamer Seydlitz, declaring her determinas tion to go at once to Washington with a protest against treatmant ao- Fifteen local Boy Scout troops have| corded her by French asoldlers in qualified for the award of the red felt star, which will mark the scouts belonging to “standard” tpoops. The insignia will be awarded Immediate- 1y instead of holding until after in- spection, according to a decision made recently by the deputy commis- sloners. Trougl to qul\\!y are !, 10, 20, 33, 52, 73, 1, 100, 101 and l!i Standard Troop Conmtest. Deputy commissioners have de- cided to award immediately, instead of holding until after the next in- spection. the red felt star that will mark the scouts who are *standard” members. ! Inspection covered troop uctivities for a four-month perfod and included | troop organization, records, accom- plishments and personal inspection of uniform, insignia and general ap- pearance. In order to be entitled to the award troops were required to make 75 per cent. The Star trophy cup will be award- | ed to the troop that makes the high- est percentage In the two inspections, | the second of which will be held dur- ing April and May. San Diege Scout Visits D. C. Scout Stanley Newcomb of San Diego, Calif., has been spending a week In Washington as the guest of the National Highways Assoclation He was the winner of first place in| a country-wide essay contest con- this assoclation last mn compelling her to alight ain en route from Dort- mund to Bremen. Her baggage was thrown from a window, and one of her trunks was smashed, she said, adding that the soldiers paid no attention to her protests that she was an American. —_— Sixty-Year Service Just Ended, Train Pilot Kills Two. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, February 26. —Richard Shane, engineer, who has just completed sixty years' service with the IErie raliroad, was held in 000 bond here on a charge of | manslaughter after his train had | plowed into a funeral procession at a grade crossing here, killing two women and injuring a woman and three men. Three other railroad em- ployes were held in $1,000 bail as material witnesses. They are John fireman; John Willis, towe ud Peter Spear, ground watch- a ENGINEER HELD IN CRASH. ~|PAN REGETON FOR PERCE BUTLR 525 Minnesota Society to Honor First From State to Get on Su- preme Bench. in honor of Justice Pierce Butler of the Bupreme Court, the Minnesota State Soclety, will give s reception at the Washin trtan Club, Frldl.y night. Justice Butler is the first Minne- sotan to be appointed to the Supreme bench, and is & regent of the Uni- versity of Minnesota, the alumni of which are co-operating in arrange- officers of the soclety are: president; J. F. Miss Rose L. Representative d Miss Agnes Pet- ersen. The president has appointed the !fllowln‘ committees for the recep- tion: General reception committee: Sen: tor Frank B. Kellogs, Representat! Sidney Anderson, Dr. E. E. Bi Ter: A —The scout cruiser Hartman, Miss Ethel N. Campbell, Gll:lnv:n A, Trenham and Miss Honors Finsnce committees J, ¥, O'Brien, ohairman: %, . A, Holt, "Ga Carl Bordsen Gie Harold W. Phill m‘- Markham an Auth M committee: Dr. Geo! mumu-lp e “Music committee: Mrs. W. N l(w- rell, Miss Rose Gulnn, homas D, Bchall and Miss Laurs Vomud. Hostesy committes: Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg. CASWELL WINS DECREE. Cleveland Heir to Half Milllon Ar- ranges Alilmony Out of Court. CLEVELAND, Ohlo, February 26.— Dan Caswell of Cleveland, heir to an estate of half a million dollars, was granted a divorce yesterday from Jessle Reed Caswell, New York actress, by Common Pleas Judge Maurice Bernon. An alimany settlement was made out of ocourt, according to Mrs. Caswell's ntorn . Caswell's grounds for divoroe of gross neglect of duty. ‘amwells were married at PAwtuCR n November, 192; OMAHA IN COMMISSION. BREMERTON, Wash., February 26. Omaha, bullt at Tacoma, was placed in commission at the Puget sound navy yard here yes- terday. Capt David Hanrahn will be first commanding officer. The Omaha will have & complement of 300 men. by _an automobile, Dr. W ! ld . un.r: was fifty years ol from Austria ten years ago, he renounced his h.rmu:y, 4 became Clfan T ATTnenen o Rigaly eiied physician, h:h!.?o:‘flll.fl‘m.wotk in this country to NOTED CHEMIST DEAD. Dr. Woegerer Was ¥Friend of Fa- mous .flm Lorens. NUW YORK, February 26.—Dr. Carl V. 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