Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1924, Page 18

METHODISTS DODGE FREE SPEECH STAND| Vote Editor, Who Defended Com- munists, Beyond Conference Jurisdiction. AVOID PARTISAN ACTION Delegate Who Upholds Liberty of Expression Cheered. By the Associated Press, SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 14.—A arge that the Methodist Church had been brought into 1l repute as a supporter of communism and the third internationale threw the Meth- odist Episcopal General Conference into an uproar today. It was finally voted that Harry F. Ward, chairman of the Civil Liberties Union and edi- »f the Methodist Federation for 1 Service, was beyond the juris- diction of the conference. Circulation by the Civil Liberties Union of bulletins of the federation in regard to the arrest of a group of communists in Berrien .County, Mich., about two years ago, was the basis of a report by a standing committee, adopted as the confer- ction, h ought to take action, said John C. Willlts of the Michigan delegation he church has been | brought into great reproach in Ber- rien County. We ask a deliverance whereby the people of that county will know that the church does not S!nm! fur communism and the com- munists that seek the overthrow of the United States government.” Used ax Smoke Sereen, “Ward's chairmanship of the Civil Liberties Union has been used as a smoke the delegate tinued. G. Bromley Oxram of California re- ceived an ovation when he said that the matter of free speech was at is- sue in Michigan and that the sending out of the bulletins was in defense of the federal Constitution. Unity was the Keynote at the start of the business day of the| Methodist Episcopal General Confer- | ence. The §50 delegates adopted com- mittee reports recommending interde- nominational co-operation for better negrn education In the south and in- dorsing interchurch programs for “making the church a power in the land.” screen,” con- Education of Negroes. The great advance In negro edu- cation made possible by the centenary fund brings great encouragement, the committee on the board of edu tion for negroes reported. “Thou- sands of hoys and girls now are re- celving training In secondary and higher schools It is a fact, however, that the ne- groes in the south now receive from the states less than one-ninth of state appropriations for education of the white population, while negroes com- prise one-quarter of the population of seventeen southern states, includ- District of Columbia. This pansion Methodist educa pro- committee’s report proposed that a provision be inserted in the Methodist discipline for co-operation of the board of education for negroes With the schools of other denomina- tions or those under independent con- trol. The Trend Is to Unity. The committee on federation in its report noted with gratification the trend toward unity in the Methodist and other churches. Indorsing the work of the Federal Council of Churches, the report urged co-opera- tion with other churches, provided that the freedom and autonomy of individual denominations be pre- served. An amendment passed by the con- ference called for the appointment of ‘a special committee, two of mem- bers to be bishops, to suggest meth- ods of co-operation, particularly in the smaller communit Reaffirmation of the church law governing the remarriage of divorced persons and assurance Lo ministers’ dependents of prompt payment of benefits upon the death of ministers were among the positive acts of the conference yesterday. The 5 rejected decisively a propose: in the rules to forbid the conference delegates in more one standing committee. Education of Clergy. Only 20 per cent of Methodist min- tsters have had college and seminary training, and one-quarter of them have not been beyond high school, it was declared in a report of the spe- cial commission on courses of study, filed with the secretary of the con- ference today, by the chairman, Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of Malden. The report recommended a modern curriculum for all entrants into the ministry. The committee on education voted to recommend to the general confer- ence that Methodist colleges, here- tofore dependent upon their own ef- forts for raising funds, should re- ceive appropriations from the board of education, as is now the case with secondary schools. Publication of Hymnal. The publication of & Methodist hymnal in Spanish for use in Cen- tral and South American countries was approved by the standing com- mittee on the Methodist Book Con- cern, subject to final action by the general . conference. The committee Voted non-concurrence in @ memorial for ald from the book concern in the printing of a hymn book for the joint use of all evangelical FProtes- tant denominations. The latter project, it was said, was in the hands of the Federal Council of Churches. Members of the com- mittee who disapproved of it de- clared that many of the favorite old hymns of Methodism might be de- prived of a place in an interdenom- inational hymnal. Progress in India. The rise of India from the caste system to the equality of Christian brotherhuod was described by Bishop Frederick B. Fisher of Calcutta at the anniversary meeting of the board | of forelgn missions. Bishop Herbert Welch of Korea de- clared that the Methodist Church in the foreign field has earned the right to independence and self-as- sertion. BILLY SUNDAY ON WAY TO ROCHESTER CLINIC “Have Driven Old Machine Hard for Thirty Years and Need Repairs,” He Says. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 14.—William A. (Bllly) Sunday, evangelist, who in his own words ‘has been driving the old machine hard for thirty years, and I guess some of the bearings are hot,” is on his way today to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, “to have some repair wurk done.” Mr. Sunday accompanied by his ‘wife, “Ma" Sunday; his physiclan, Dr. A. L. Sanders, who ascribed the evangelist's iliness to Impaired func- tioning of the kidneys, and others, left here last night. Worry over his wife’s injury, when she was struck by an automobila over a week ago, contributed to his illness. ‘With his engagements for the im- mediate future canceled, the evange- list realised when he left for Chicago nd Rochester that continuation of his career depended upon the course of his present iliness. g He will have a few hours' rest in Chicago today before proceeding to Rochester, g z g oting of than BiLL SEEKS SALARY BOOST FOR JUDGES Chairman Graham of House Judi- ciary Committee Sponsors and Introduces Proposal. $20,600 FOR CEIEF JUSTICE Special Schedule Suggested for Dis- trict Juris! Increased salaries for judges in the District of Columbia is provided for in a bill introduced today by Chairman Graham of the judiclary committee. It provides a salary schedule as follows: To the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the sum of $20,600 per year, and to each of the assoclate justices of the Supreme Court $20,000 per year. To the chief justice of the court of claims, $13.500 per year, and to each of the other judges of this ocurt, $13,000 per year. To the chief justice of the court of appeals of the District of Columbla, $15,500 per year, and to each of the assoclate justices of the court of appeals, $15,000. To the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbla, $13,600 per year, and to each of the associate justices, $13,000. To each of the judges of the Court of Customs Appeals, $15,000 per year. To each of the circuit judges in the second circuit, $15,000. To each of the circuit judges in the third, seventh, eighth and ninth cir- cuits, $14,000. $13,000 for Cireuit Judges. To each of the circuit judges in the first, fourth, fifth and sixth circuits, $13,000. To each of the district judges, $10,- 000 a vear, provided that where the population of any district is now or hereafter shall be in excess of 2,000,000 the salary of the district Judge in that district shall be increased $500 for each 100,000 excess of population over 2,000,000, but that in no case shall the salary of any district judge be increased a~sum greater than §1,000 less than the salary of the circuit judges for the circuit in which the district is situated. The determination of the salary of the district judges in pursuance of provisions of this act would be by orders of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the nUited States. 10,000 QUARTS LIQUOR T0 BE DESTROYED Court Asked for Order to Dispose of Two Years’' Stock Seized in Raids. United States Attorney Gordon and Assistant United States Attorney West today asked the District Su- preme Court to order the *destruction of 10,000 quarts of intoxicants seized by the police and prohibition officers in Volstead act raids during the past two yvears. The “wet goods” have accumulated in the government ware- house. Justice Hoehling issued a rule on any and all persons claiming to be interested in the stock of liquors to show cause, May 26, why the liquor should not be destroved. ock, including paraphernalia. ich the government wishes to be rid includes: Red liquor, bottled bitters, cans of corn liquor, one pack- age of fake labels, brandy extract, denatured alcohol formulas, cognac flavor, wine peach oll of juniper, labels, caps. corks, funnels and stamps, glass jars and other articles falling within the provisions of the national aw. Many Named in Statement. prohibition Those named in the statement sub- mitted to the court and whose liquor Company and Central Radio, District Chemical Company, Cornelius Lyons, Duke Rogers, George Minor, Charles Ehlers, Moy Ehlers, Tony Nebo, John J. Keller, Allen Moss, Rose Hall, Mitchell Dorsey, Hattie Fleming, Paul Clements, Joseph Freeman, Louls Friedman, Henry Washington, Ber- tha ‘Washington, Carl Alexan- der, John Brooks, Lester G. Smithson, Standard Drug Company. Consolidated Drug Company, Fred Bruger, Joseph Samuels, unknown seized gt Union Station from pas- senger %a(n from vannah, Ga.; un- known, Seized from Studebaker tour- ing car; Wilson T. Stokely, unknown, seized from Cadallac car on Queen Chapel road; Solomon Nathanson, P. J. McDonald, James J. Sheahin, Dora Cohen, Morris Cohen, Charles Contee, Leo B. Curry, Willilam Coleman, Minnie Boykin, Annibello Astore, Maria As- tore, Lilly Arrington, Roscoe Proctor, Francis Franklin Burke, Jack Jess- man, B. Pete Shore, Francis M. John- son, Thomas L. Copeland, Samuel Schulman, Julius Ruddman, Joseph D. Reagan, James Kenney, Rosetta Al- len, Thomas Payne, William Waters, Willlam Butler, George Carter, Pom- eroy Brown, Fred Moore, William Taylor. CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE. Three Burned to Death After Lamp Explodes in Home. " BEMIDJI, Minn, May 14.—Three children of Mr. and Mrs Enevild Stangeland of Nymore, a suburb of Bemidji, were burned to death when fire caused by an exploding lamp destroyed their home today. Other members of the family also were seriously burned. HOTEL LOGAN 13th St. at Iowa Circle N. Lowest Firstolass Hotel Rates in the city. Rooms with and without private bath. Specisl summer weekly and monthly rates now in effect, ALEXANDRA CATTO, Prop. SELECTIONS for your choicel! Daily LUNCHEON 11:30to 3 Including Dessert and Beverage BELLEVUE FARMS Restaurant 1332-34-36 G Street “Products from Farm . to You" was seized include Philadelphia Radio | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 218 THE ’ : C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 192 For more than thirty years before coming to Congress Representative Frank C. Sites of Harrisburg, Pa, worked at his trade as a watchmaker and jeweler—three years as an ap- prentice and 27% years as a journey- man. He is a practical mechanic as well as salesman and manager. Representative Sites defeated for the seat in Congress Representative S. Kreider, one of the best known shoe manufacturers in the United States, formerly president and treas- urer of the national organization of boot and shoe manufacturers. At the age of twelve Sites was a newsboy. At the age of eighteen he started in to be a watch and clock maker. Ever since he has been with C. Ross Boas, “the oldest and most re- liable jewelry firm in the city of Har- risburg.” He was born with a natural in- clination for mechanics. As & boy he did work in wood and his earliest am- bition was to be a pattern maker, Owing to the limited number of places where he could learn to be a pattern maker, and in desperate eagerness to get employment at some- thing where he could learn a trade. he answered an advertisement in the local newspaper offering an oppor- tunity to learn the watchmaking and jewelry business. Up tg that time he had never thought of that trade. The first week's work showed him it was in line with his natural de- velopment. He learned to love it. and he says that to this day he loves his trade better than any other line of work he ever engaged in. That In- cludes nine vears as director on the Harrisburg *school board and eight and a half vears as postmaster of Harrisburg, during whi he was sec- retary-treasurer of the National As- soclation of Postmasters, and leader- ship in the sale of war savings stamps and liberty bonds. ‘When he went to learn the trade of watchmaker in 1883, Mr. Sites re- ceived $1 a week for the first six months. Thereafter he got an in- crease of 50 cents a week every six months of his apprenticeship. When he was twenty-one he recalls that he “was getting the magnificent sum of 33 a week.” His first week’'s pay as a journey- man was $8, and he looked upon that as a very, very large sum, out of which he paid his mother $3 a week and had 35 left for clothes and all else. Of course, salaries in those days were far different from now, and the last pay he received out of the jew. elry business after thirty and one- half years' experience and wide quaintance with customers was $37.50 a week. Representative Sites found every day that he worked at his trade he was close to life and a constant pano- rama of human interest and romantic incidents was unreeled before him. In the early days of the trade almost all women wore earrings. They were not then fastened to the lobe of the ear with a little clamp, as general- 1y nowadays, but the women had their ears “bored” so that the earring could be hooked in. It was the cus- tom for the jeweler to punch the ear when he sold & pair of earrings. Rep- resentative Sites pierced more than 500 women's ears. “That was quite an experience and I was considered an expert,” he says. There was a prevalent saying in those days that it was good for weak eyes to have the ears plerced in this way, and as a progressive salesman EN’S Correct Dress them STEIN-BLOCH CLOTHES - Mr. Sites recommended such an aid to vision and vanity to hundreds of woman acquaintances and customers. During his experience in the jew- elry business Representative Sites never had a serious robbery and only very little pilfering. His work was principally that of watch and clock repairman. He put in place the gold clock that is now in the Senate gallery of the Pennsylvania state capitol, when that magnificent building was erected. He also placed a great many me- morial- tablets in various churches in the city of Harrisburg. When he was learning his trade Mr. Sites used to sell a great many large elghteen size open-face watches, and during his experience in the trade he has been interested to note the great improvement, especially in the size of watches. It was largely on account of im- paired eyesight that Representative Sites gave up work at his trade. As the watches grew smaller in size with finer parts he couldn't work as well, but even today on the large old-fash- foned watches and on any kind of a clock he can fix up the works as well as he ever could. Every once in a while, when some colleague starts to “cuss” because his watch is out of order, Representative Sites quietly borrows It for a short time and returns it in excellent work- ing condition. Whenever he goes vis- iting and finds a clook stopped or any- thing the matter with it. he indulges in a pleasant evening's indoor sport getting it to tick rhythmically again. {HOUSE DELAYS MOVE | IN CASE OF LANGLEY Will Await Report of Committee Following Conviction of Kentucky Member. The House probably will await the recommendations of the special com- mittee headed by Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohlo before tak- ing any action regarding Representa- | tive John W. Langley, Republican, of Centucky, as a result of his conviction or_violation of the prohibition law: This is the attitude of the leaders gen | erally. | The committee authorized to investi- gate the charges against him, as well |as those against Representative Zihi- i man, Republican, Maryland, discussed | the Langley conviction at a meeting vesterday, but reached no decision as to procedure. Thus far the committee has devoted itself entirely to the Zihl- man phase of the inquiry, and expects to make public Its findings in this respect. in a_day or_so. MAJOR H. ROBB OPTICIAN 1633 H STREET N.W. TRANSPORTATION BLDG. PHONE MAIN 7626 $5,000 Life Insurance for $46.90 At sge 3i—send date of birth for particu- lars and idustration. Company founded 1863. Assets ow r $300,000,000. M. LeRoy Goff, 610 Woodward Bldg. 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The bill originated in the Senate and will go to the House for action. The legislation is designed to amend the present law, which was enacted long ago us 1892 and which w. egarded as Insufficient to properly safeguard the dental pro- feasion and the people generally. The bill was sponsored by the two den- tal assoclations of the District and was drafted In order to bring the practice of the profession in the Dis- trict up to the modern standard of similar laws In progressive states. The bill provides that any person desiring to practice dentistry here shall flle with the board of dental examiners satisfactory proof that he is & graduate of a dental college ap- proved by the board. The applicant is also required to pass a satisfactory examination con- sisting of practical demonstrations and written or oral test or both. It is provided that the board of examiners may waive the theoretical examination in the case of an appli- cant who furnishes proof that he is a graduate of a reputable dental college of a state or territory, ap- proved by the board, and holds a license from a rimilar dental board with requirements equal to those of the Distriot of Columbia and who for five consecutive years has been in the lawful and reputable practice of dentistry in the state from which he applied. This is designed as a reciprocity clause. Capital, $250,000.00 911 F a PAY DAY—start a few ience, we'll be Our Savings Dept. Pays the home she lives in. har gussts lacks Becker Paint Co., D. H. Graham Wm. G. ‘Washington, D. C. Ifl The Columbia National Bank g There’s No 8-Hour Day —for the dollar working in a Savings Account. Il 1t's “on the job,” drawing compound interest, U twenty-four hours a day, thirty days per month. { The calendar has brought now in Our Savings Dept. Open Until 5 P.M. Tomorrow and Friday 3% [o]——Jol—= ol |o|——|a[——] ACATION tite. .. home coming :..the sharpeyed little stranger ..bow many a daughter finds her social standing strengthened or im- peired by her guest’s impression of ‘Washington, D. C. SHERRILL DEPLORES PARK CONDITIONS Lack of Funds for Expenditure Due to Indifference of FPeople, He Says. Inadequate funds for expenditure on the parks of the District and in- difference on the part of the resi- dents here toward obtaining more funds were emphasized as the out- standing reasons for the lack of park development and improvement by Lieut. Col. C. O. Bherrill, officer in charge of public bulldings and grounds, In an address before the public _utilities committee of the ‘Women's City Club at the club yes- terday. “Citizen clvic bodies fight for appropriations for schools and other matters and remain indifferent to park develop- ment,” he asserted. Estimates bare- ly sufficient to maintain the park sys- tem were cut to $598,000 by the budget bureau and then the appro- priations eommittee cut off another '$60,000, he said. Cites Lack of Parks. “It seems little short of criminal to see the National Capital grow up to be a great city of more than half a_ million inhabitants, with large areas entirely unprovided with wood- ed and grass-covered areas such as Franklin® Square, Lafayette Square and other gections of the city, he said. Col. Sherrill spoke strongly in fa- vor of the proposed bill providing for a National Capital park commis- sion and containing other provisions for park development in the Distriet. Following his address, the commit- tee passed a resolution indorsing the budget estimate for parks as recom- mended by the officer In _charge of public buildings and grounds. 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