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2 * THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 1, 1925—PART 1. JUDGE DENOUNCES ALLEY HOMES PROBLEM MAKING BI_AEKMA"_ El]n-[]R What to Do if Eviction Law Is Upheld Worries = Commissioners—-Other Cities Trying Less Bitterly Assails Brevities Drastic Course to Lessen Euvil. Policy—Gives Clow Six : % The question facing the District|a negligible number, situated on al- Years in Prison. Commissioners regarding the allev-|leys which have no sewer or water closing law, which is shortly to be |main A new law should be enacted S considered in the courts, is not so providing a practicable method for B 11s Asscciatba Press. much whether the law is constitu- |the conversion of alleys, capable of T W Y ORK January 31— Few | 1onal oF whether the Interpretations | such conversion, into streets and for S menner than to threaten | 0f Corporation Counsel Stephens car- | the gradual vacation of dwellings in ‘“"-‘ are me "" . n ta e T¥ out the intent of Congress, but|other alleys.” publicly to blast thediser o “‘f', what their course shall be if the There is now in existence in Wash- s D St | (oUrts rule that the alley law should | Ington a skeleton organization which or mo Peahrsl Tudgn: e be placed into effect. They would|has considered steps toward allevia- declared tod befor. o, Srowded | simply he confronted with the thank- | tion of the conditions sure to arise '.”ur."" B thiert buro et ¢ '\"!‘h’l“ less task of throwing out of doors' with the wholesale eviction of thou- G. Clow ublisher of Broadway fo Y- |s¢veral thousand alley dwellers—with- | #ands of alley dwellers. This is the ities, and sentenced him “y‘ SIX yearsiout providing them wigh other | Wasnington Housing Coun s vet and a “’_“ Penitentlary, | ghelter. only an organization on paper, which plus a $6,000 fin consplracy to It is interesting, in discussing the | has never held an organization meet- use the mails to defr m'l“ alley question, to look into how the | Ing, but which is prepared to go ahead Clow’s advertising solicitor, An-| problem of hou: & those who can-| with its projected work If funds can drew B. rown, was sente .|'u\ At- | not more than the cheapest of | be found to carry on such work. This lanta for two yea Nat Kunnes |rentals has been met in other com- |organization had its beginning in the anothe plicitor, who comyp od V'vlmlml(v.»\ for at some time or an-| Washington Council of Social Agencies trio as convi 1 yesterday,j other W ashington will find itself facc | and analogous bodies doing sociologi- was or bac \];'v 1 to await) to face with this problem. | eal work, and Mr. Ihlder is its chair- A adaltional’ fne. ce. 11000 weai] Few Available Places. S = fmposed upon the Broadway Brevities T Conversion Into Streets. n th a3 Carrying out the law will throw Corporation. Clow then was released| qiightly more than 9,000 persons out| At the time of its tentative or- dn 315,000 (batl and: Brown ons$7is00 | Sio0 1y more [Ehan 9I000 messonsiont P INS, e BE VI8 SRS 8 to await the res { an appsal for | cording to figures presented to Con- |Proposed that a’study be made of a new 1 on nine indictments Which | grogg within the last few days, has|8lleys which could be converted into charge, At representatives of the|rejatively fow houses fit for habita- | Satisfactory minor streets, so allow- | publication « cd_thousands of | {jon 2% the low rentals dweliers in the|ing the continuance of dwellings nt persons upon t to expose | , Where in or near Washington | The outline of work also contemplat- their pr ctivities | groups of homes bullt by the Gov- [€d & study of existing street houses Clow, who a ed on the stan it or during the war to meet war- | 4vailable or capable of being made he was a habitual user of hypodermical- { time industrial necds, such as there |available for alley dwellers, impres- | ls-administered paraldehyde, during the fare in various cities throughout the |Sion at the time of the projected | trial, sat tight lipped throughout Judge | Bast, where the war machine called |SUTVey being that there were no Mack's denuciatior for thousands ple In a hurry | Vacancies in habitable street houses | Hears Leniency Plea. who had to be housed and who today | Which come within the means of | e it i | are buving or have bought the homes | alley dwellers. This impression still @ publisher heard his attornevs|.,i up'(o house them during the war. | €Xists. plead for le ney on t ground that Various suggestions ave been There are, however, many vacant | he was broken in health and penniless. He heard prosecutors tell the court that the circulation of Broadway Brevitles, published through the trial period, was increasing enormous| He heard Judge periodical barred from the mails and he heard his attorney promise that public tion would be suspended if C! permitted bail while awaiting action on Mack order the made to solve the problem of where the tenants of alley dwellings will go If evicted. One proposal has been made that a certain portion of the al homes should be closed each year, a progressive system of closing that would give the alley home occu- pants more time to find homes. In most cities the process of eliml- S ety nating alley homes has been far less appeal for a new tria o drastic and slower than the proposed Then, as Brown and Kunnes Were|,,,in,q here, according to Dr. John ginciling over & pags of colored comics, |y ‘srias) (ohiat ot iihs ‘division of Clow heard Judge Mack say 1o |ROINE Of the Department of Com- I haven't a shadow of doubt over the | 1\ e-0a, 5 man thoroughly conversant correctness of the jury in finding you | iy housing developments here and T ort e erie e Tieation but that|edewhers over many years of ex- re disreputable in every respect than | P<Fionce: crime {nvolving taking money from poor people. . Denounces Actic “I have no feeling of mercy for | men w a business of such | business. Their con was beyond the pale of any man’s con- ception of the dema mercy ! “It is more disrep e to threat- | en to publish things that are untrue. Clow’s threats to publish articles about men and women, to disclose se- erets in their lives which they wished to conceal—even granting that those things were true—were not to pro- tect society or punish those whom he threatened, but merely to extort money The Government's difficulty in ob- taining witnesses to testify against Clow, because of their fear of ven- seance, was appesant throughout the trial Maxwell S. mattuck, assistant Tnited States altorney, who prose- cuted the came, announced tonight that evidence coliected during the in- vestigation of fhis had been turned over to the postal authoritie: and that an inquiry is being conduct- ed which may result in the presenta- tion case to the Federal grand jury of evidence against other publications. Other Moves Planned. “The Brevities case,” Mr. Mattuck said, “is the entering wedgs for an attack on all similar publications. The evidence collected during this in- vestigation has been turned over to the postal authorities and an inquiry is going on which may disclose evi- dence which will be presented to the grand jury. Any person who ha been approached by any one using the same methods that the Brevities used can safely go to the postal au- thorities with his grievances, because the court in this case ruled agalinst the admissibility of any evidence re- lating to the personal or private life of the witness “The Brevities case has established a precedent and the public owes a debt of gratitude to Postal Inspectors Daniel Quinn and James Pierson, who | worked up the case against Clow and his convicted associates.” SENATE BILL ALLOWS INAUGURAL STANDS Passes Without Objection Measure Permitting Construction on Line of March. Authority is granted the committee to erect stands along the line of march of the inaugural parade resoluti introduced by tis of Kansas, which was | it opposition by the Sen- | This is the af e vester rno Llems Other Cities' Expertences. “I know of no city, save Washing- ton.” Dr. Gries said yesterday, “which has attempted to have all, or even a major part of such houses vacated at | once or ordered to be torn down. Tn most citles the process has been less drastic and slower, the local board of health condemning the worst houses. Dr. Gries sald alleys were pro- vided for in the original plan or lay- out of many American ci to serve as means of entrance cr egress to the rear of houses and to stabl He added that the alley dwellings in Washington “are largely a hang over from the days when the family living in the house facing the street pro- vided shelter for its employes per- forming personal services, on the rear of the lot or on alley The alley problem in Washington, he said, is in most respects unlike that of other cities, although it does resem- ble in many ways the problem found in some of the larger Southern cities dwellers. The department of public works or street cleaning department in some cities, such as Detroit, has taken up the alley problem rather vigorously, devoting attention largely to the paving and lighting of alleys. Many other cities have taken up their own pecullar problems and made some headway The Washing- ton situation, being exceptional, re- quires local study, followed by action depending on the facts disclosed. Ideas and methods may be secured through a study of proceedings in other citles, but in the main the problem here must be made a sub- ject of special study and treatment. “Those attempting to improve Wash- ington conditions might secure formatfon of value in a study of attempts made to solve similar prob- in some of as well ag European cities. “Liverpool, England, and Dublin, Ireland, have demolished huge areas In later years new houses have been built before the old houses were de- molished. Fail e to bulld in advance greatly increased the crowding and later many returned to the old houses The division of housing of the Indiana State Department of Health is pro- ceeding to condemn me of the worst houses, probably a few of these being alley dwellings. adunt Vacating Pla A committee of the American Civic Association recently made an inves- tigation into the alley situation in resolution held up temporarily by ob- jaction on the part of Senator Smoot of Utah, Friday, when unanimous con- sent was sought to consider it | he resolution gives authority also | for the special illumination of the| streets at | iration tim a for the loaning by the War and Navy | Departments of flags, tents, ambu- lances, etc.. which may be required. | The resolution now goes to the House ! MOUNTAIN OF WORK SHADOWS 26 DAYS | LEFT TO CONGRESS (Continued from First Page.) ‘ | lative program by the Republican | steer mmittee of the Senate. The World Court, which has been set for consideration in the enate foreign relations committee for the last two weeks, is still waiting. But it is promised supporters of Ameri- can adhes to the World Court protocol that it will be taken up fin committee We esday As a matte; of fact, one World Court resolution, the Pepper resolution, is on the Senate | calendar, and could be considered at | any time there were votes enough to take it up 1t the ultural legislation recommended by the President and nis conference can be put through the demand for a special session of the new Congress after March 4 will to a very 1 extent vanfsh. If it is not put through, then the demand will continue, even though it be not strong enough slon. Senator: ture have in to compel such a ses- interested in agricul- sted that legislation is possible at the present session and that there is no dfsposition on their part to delay it. On the other hand, some of them do not think that the recommendations of the committee go far enough. Germany now ranks first among the Washington. This investigation was mado by a committee headed by John Ihlder of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and its report gested that a new law should ted providing a practicable meth- for the conversion of alleys ca- pable of such conversion into streets, and for the gradual and progressive vacation of dwellings in other alleys. »r many years public-spirited re idents of the District have sought to secure the vacation of alley dwell- ings,” the report said. “They have made measurable progress through sccuring the enactment by Congress of laws prohibiting the erection of new alley dwellings and the demoli- tion of such existing dwellings as have become unfit for human habita- tion. By these means the number of all n gradually re- duced. 1912 an investigation dis- closed 3,337 houses in 275 alleys, in- habited by approximately 16,000 per- sons. A police canvass in April, 1920, gave an estimate of 9,485 alley dwell- ers. Alley dwellings now standing are usuully the most substantially constructed, so they will continue to be inhabited for a generation to come unless additional means are found to secure their vacation. Bill Hastily Passed. ena od sy dwellers has be In “A committee of citizens, repre- sentative of leading civic organiza- tions, drafted and in 1914 sccured the introduction into Congress of a bill designed to secure the vacation of all remaining alley dwellings within 10 vears, one-tenth each year. This bill provided for converting the wider al- leys into streets and for a method of assessing benefits which would be equitable. Congress considered this bill hastily, as the result of an appeal from the deathbed of Mrs. Ellen Woodrow Wilson, and passed it in the form of mere mandate that all al- ley dwellings should be vacated on a certaln date. “In this form it was impossible of execution in view of the housing countries exporting to Esthonia, with England sccond and the United States third. ‘ shortage. The matter was taken into court and the law so interpreted that it affects only those alley dwellings, in- | the Northern cities | be | houses in disrepalr the council found from a survey, and concluded that it is possible an appreciable number of these can be made habitable. The council also had in consideration a study of the possibilities of rehousing a conslderable proportion of the alley dwellors in suburban communities, elther within the District or across the District line In Maryland and Virginia, and had under consideration {a study of the possibility of construct- ing new houses near thelr present dwellings, either for the alley dwellers or for those just above them in the economic scale who by ing their present dwellings leave space avallable for dwellers. In several cfti tions interested in their employes have would alley the welfare undertaken and of homes for their workers, according to Dr. Gries and Mr. Ihlder Municipalities have not undertaken to finance such construction work to any extent, Dr. Gries sald, but a xample of the financing of home construction by business organi tions is furnished in Troy, N. Y., where the business men of the city got together when the poorly-paid workers of the city faced eviction from their homes and constructed homes for them to be either rented or bought. The homes were sold virtually at cost Paralleled in South. Gries and Mr the conditions existing in ton are not paralleled in Northern | cities, although conditions in some | Southern cities are analagous to th Ihlder satd Washing- Both Dr. | $100,000,000 building permanent but vacat- | successfully financed the construction | notable | | | | | emall homes for the Government em- | he m portion of these have be jor homes | ating the housing situation’ in industrial communities in which they The were built houses were con- structed to rent for $3 a room and ranged from the small three-room ntious Housing Corporation has gaged now for five years in a liquidation, during which z found | ent for small |or a moderate purchase price. ready the liquidation program has resuited in turning back to the Treas- | ury $55,000,000 lars was pent by the corporation in | construction and equipment of Government hotels here | single rooms now for |GREEK-TURK DISPUTE j MAY INVOLVE ALLIES, ‘ OFFICIALS BELIEVE 50.50 a month (Continued from First | that the government will refer the | expulsion to the Hagne tribunal and | that, if Turkey ignores the tribunal's | bY | verdict, 1t will recall the Greek diplo- matic representative at Angora. | Parllament Adjourned. | Parliament adjourned tonight 48 hours 1 sold to the employes who | tional rented them during the war, allevi- | member of the the | De eight-room | pressing need appar- | Pennsylvanta, homes at small rentals | The memorial is to be the gift to the Al- | people of the United States of Mrs 4 | { regular District | united business organiza- | ot D. C. BILLS IN HOUSE HOLD STAGE 7 DAYS {Measure for New Buildings of Government Here on List Tomorrow. District legislation will engross the attention of the House for the next seven legislative days. Tomorrow the § ,000,000 public building bill, with one-third of that amount to be allocated for Federal buildings to house Government activ- ities in this city, will be called up by C rman Elliott of the public build- ings committee under the suspension of the rules. Speaker Gillett has agreed to recognize Chairman Elliott for that purpose about 1 o'clock Fuesday the House will start work on tne District of Columbia $31,000 000 appropriation bill, with the hope that a decislon can be reached on the proposal to continue year the lump-sum contribution $9,000,000 as the Federal Gov ment's share in the cost of the M tion’s Capltal in substitution for the definite proportion of 60 per cent ‘om the Federal Treasury and 40 per cent from taxes paid by District resi- dents. for another of n- Memorlal Bridge. Wednesday the $14 zation for erection of Memorial Bridge across 1 Lincoln Memorial to Arlington National Cemotery Is likely to com when the committ ldings and grounds has the call The rest of the week will probably he taken up with consideration of the District appropriation bill The following Monday day important measures have 50.000 authori- the Arlington the Potomac will be Already the four been put on {the program for consideration—pure milk bill, public welfare, hydro-elec- trio development of cat Falls, and elimination of the dangerous grade crossing at Lamond. Two other major measures considered In joint conferences between the Senate and House will probably be added to this program after t District commit- tee Wednesday—a new traflic code and the five-year school building program. To Expedite Action. Every effort is now being made by the House District committee to ex- pedite action on legislation affecting the National Capital by securing action in the committee and gentlemen's agreements not to en- gage in dilatory tactics. Sl DISTR!C; SHARES [ IN 137 BILLS PASSED IN SENATE RUSH (Continued from First Page.) uty recorder of deeds vear, to be made out the office of the recorder. A bill to amend and revise sub- chapter 3, section 546,547, of the Code of the Law of the District, relating to recording deeds and chattels, was also passed by the Senate. These sections relate to the recording of chattel trusts and conditional sales, the chief object being to dispense with the present requirement that in- at $2,000 a of the fees of is ments shall be copied. -In lleu of Dr. Gries regards the alley problem | In Washington. There was no record, [..‘.(r\‘\‘m::"me ?r\w“m ped G lian of of Washington as so different (roynlh‘r“fl\vr of municipal activity in th uulvn-d o e e AR G R S the problems of the same character|South with regard to finanging of | i\ .;onte and to permit the inspec- «-:ufronngf most of our large cities "";“““ for poor persons in Soutbern |, ., of the original instruments in- that a scussion of solutions at-|© = : | stead of copies. These bills all go to tempted and agencies through which | ’ .\umb‘lfl d\\‘r;:k “‘nls)dt‘\\nnrh’\' |:w~ :.:\»': | e Boude 'f'“r iton :.:elu:f”k e e e R e e et el st At bart Wi To Accept Donations for White Houne. Kieoialistaty Aaisedl) | the lzrr:fl war machine when \\nrt[lmr | A joint rr-!nlu\h»n’ Ir{{t]roduce‘d 1h; = 2 = production was at its peak. This | Senator Spencer of Missourl ani “Boston and Cambridge, Mass, have | Activity, however, was backed by two | passed vesterday directs the officer condemned some of the worst struc-|#ppropriations, totaling $108,000,000, | in charge of public buildings and tures,” he said. “Troy, N. Y. made|and out of it there was buflt a total | grounds, with the approval of the a survey under the direction of the|of 6,000 houses in 28 communities. | President, to accept donations of fur- local chamber of commerce which re- | The United States Housing Corpora- |niture and furnishings for use in the sulted in some improvements, the|tion, an agency created by the Coun- | White House and authorizes that offi- business organizations of Troy build- [Cil ©f National Denfense during the | cer to appoint a temporary committee ing new homes for many of the alley | WAT. spent about $40,000.000 of the | to pass upon the articles donated and to recommend acceptance. This com- mittee would be composed of a rep- resentallve of the American Federa- tion of Arts, a member of the Na- Commission of Fine Arts, a ational Academy of fgn, a member of the American Institute of Architects, and five mem- bers representing the public at large. Authority to erect a memorial to those who died in the Aviation Serv- ice of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps during the World War s contained in a joint resolu- tion introduced by Senator Pepper of which was passed. Louis Bennett, in memory of her son, Lieut. Louls Bennett, who was shot Three million dol- | down in actlon August 24, 1918, after | destroying the | which rent "rhi«-f of Engineers of the Army, after two German balloons. The design must be approved by the procuring the advice of the Com- mission of Fine Ar It is to be erected on public ground in the Dis- trict of Columbia, the site being se lected with the approval of the jolut committee on Library of Congress. Amend Society's Charter. A House bill amending section 4 of the act incorporating the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution was passed. As amended the secion will read “That the property and affairs of sald corporation shall be managed not less than 40 trustees, who i shall be elected annually at such time as shall be fixed by the by- laws, and at least one trustee shall be elected annually from a list of for | nominecs to be made by each of the or more, to allow the zov-|State socleties and submitted in this| | ernment to deal with the situation. | cociety at least 30 days before the | the gravity of which was not dis-|annual meeting, in accordance with guised by the premier in talks with|the general provisions regulating diplomatic visitors today. such nominations as may be adopted The national assembly has sent |y this soci protest to the parliaments of the| “Che bill now goes to the President world against the expulsion, while | zor approval the archbishop of Athens will make| Among other measures put through an appeal to all Christian churches. |of general interest one was a House Describing the expulsion of the|bill to make valid and enforceable | patriarch as a brutal act of violence | written provisions of agreements for nd effrontery to the civilized |arbitration of disputes arising out of worid. the newspapers publish in-|contracts, maritime transactions or digant protests ome of them do |commerce among the States or Terri- not conceal their anxiety regarding |tories or with foreign nations. | the consequences of the incident. | Other measures passed included one The Ethnicl Phoni, organ_ of the|for the retirement of Army and Nav. minister of interior, Gen. Kondilis, |nurses and another authorizing two says: “Turkey will only decide to be- come reasonable when the nations she oppresses rise against her. We favor |based on | treaties.” respect for night that the Greek government has decided to keep under the colors con- scripts of the 1923 class, whose dis- bandment had already been ordered. DISCUSS SUNDAY LAW. The Anacostia Citizens' Association and Board of Trade, meeting in Ma sonic Hall, Fourteenth and U streets southeast, last night debated the question of Sunday observance in the District, but concluded not to indorse a pending bill on the subject, which had been referred to the association by the Federation of Citizens' Asso- ciations. Speakers Indicated that they were in sympathy with certain features of the bill, but that they regarded the measure as a whole to be too drastic. Several new members were elected. sided, » existing | It was learned authoritatively to- | additional circuit judges in the ghth Federal circuit in the South- stern States. Both of these now go v peace, but it must be a just peace,|to the House. SPEAKS ON EUROPE. Capt. Gordon-Smith Lectures to Washington Study. The safety and peace of Europe depends upon the little entente, which is committed to the maintenance of the status quo of the present parti- tion of Europe, Capt. Gordon Gordon- Smith declared in an address before Washington Study yesterday. The little entente, he said, gave the first proof of its political and military strength when it defeated the atfempt of King Charles to re- turn to Hungary, and forced the Magyar authorities to arrest him. Dr. James Brown Scott will ad- dress the Study Saturday on “Pan- American Conferences, Political and Scientific.” Dr. Henry Campbell Black will speak Thursday morning on “Safeguards of the Constitution. George C. Havenner,. president, pre- | Washington study, meets at 1734 N street, |-\1Mh'| | | themaelves into a national church of | their villages. Today the HOME DOMINATION OF MISSIONS 1S HIT Speakers Favor Co-Opera- tion, Holding Native Devel- opment Is Needed. Like an undercurrent beneath words of speakers before the forelgn missions convention yesterday, came | « strong plea for the church at home gradually to eliminate all tendency toward domination over the missions abroad, and to foster the steady and increasing development of a com- radely co-operation. This dominant note, sounded by speakers since the start of the con- vention, found distinctly powerful ut- terances yesterday. lishop L. $t. George Tucker, re- cently of the diocese of Toklo, cau- tioned against leaning too far toward placing entire administration of na tive church affairs in the hands of native Christlans, but at the me time warned against domination by the home church “It should be co-operation, not domination in the church, charged Bishop Tucker. “The {ndependent leadership of the natlve church should be maintained.” | And in one of the climax speeches of the convention last night, Dr. Harris . Kirk, pastor of the Frank- lin Street Church of Baltimore, refer- Ting to the establishment of native churches in the Orient on their own responsibilities said Sees Work Justified. “When we throw these great people | on their own resources, we may vet | vee the breaking out on our distracted | and industrial Western world that | splendor of God which shall not only Justify all mission work in the East, but enable us of the West to possess ourselves of those deeper and more durable blessings of the kingdom of God." “Leadership, partnership, comrade- &hip,” describe the evolution of rela- tione between the home church of North America and the mission churches of Latin America, accord- ing to Rev. J. H. McLean of Chile, who spoke last night The first staga, that of leadership is passed, he sald. At present the re- lation of the church which sent the missionaries and the church which has taken root the result of the Wwork of the missionaries, is that of partnership. The future, he said, might be looked to hopefully as holding the possibility of comrade- 8hip between the mother church and the offspring. Appeals for Latins. He appealed on behalf of the churches in Latin America for a larger participation in the distribu- tion of forces and the expenditures of funds for church work, pointing to the fact that 3,000 sons and daughters of the La American church were now dedicating their lives to church activities as pastors, teachers nurses, evangelists and social service work- ers Biishop Tucker then painted his plcture of conditions and require. ments of the church in the Far East. he aim of missionary work,” he sald, “is the Christianization of the nation. The mnative church is the agency through which alone this aim can be realized. The first stage of missionary work is the effort to establish the native chureh; to fit it for its work, und to help create con- | ditions favorable for that work. In| the Far East, generally speaking, | that stage has heen passed alreads. T speak with special reference fto Japan, but the pr ¢ r iples hold good for China. The missionary task of the present stage of our work is co-operation with the native church in the evangelization of the nation. Co-operation In Needed. _ “Such a church, while well fied for leadership in Christian is not adequate to carry forward the Co-operation is necessary for its own | healthy growth, and still more so for the full utilization of the oppor- tunities to carry forward the evan- gelization of the nation.” “The Imprisoned Splendor of the qualis work Orient” was the topic of the add by Dr. Kirk G “The mission movement of the Orient has now reached a point where | it is ceasing to be the impartatfon of something foreign and external to the native life, and has begun to develop the latent element in the | Oriental soul. The imprisoned splen- | dor of the Orient s beginning to es. cape. That is why there is a Justi- flable belief among missionary lead. ers that a native church, controlled by native peoples rather than a com- p:ex fif mission activities under for. eign rection, ¥s tha le, 1 of all wise endeavor.” e Indian Churchman Speaks. From India, through Rev. Bhasker P. Hivale of Bombay, came the mes- | sage last nigHt that denomination | lines are being wiped out by Chris- tians in that country, with the result that denominations are merging India. He gave five reasons for his belier in the future of the Christian church in India. lof De Pauw JAPAN’S NEED FOR MISSIONARIES SOON TO END, CONVENTION HEARS Remarkable Progress of Christianity in 60 Years Forecasts Ability of Natives to Handle Work in 20 More. So rapidly and deeply has Chris- tianity rooted itseif in Japan during the past 60 years that within 20 years there will be no need for mis- slonaries of the type who open the route in non-Christian fields, and the su, th ch a short ti e Christian churches are manned by Japanese pastors, the schools are taught by Japan bulk of the church work will be on| cators, the Christian institutions are back to find a chapter where Chris- tlanity has so firmly rooted itself in| And today o as in Japan. there s edu- ‘SEES WALL STREET IN MISSION WORK Briton Says Practices Are Effective in Christian- izing World. Wall strest and Throckmorton street, London, hold the largest bands the shoulders of native churchmen.|headed by Japanese leaders and Of Missionaries in the world and ths Furthermore, it is & matter of dec- | pratted bo h'fln_” workers, and |90Ctrines they spread may be bens ades only before the entire Chris-|Christian FEndeavor work is vir-|fclal or detrimental, according te tian church of Japan will be an en-| tually entirely in the hands of the|Whether they are using Christianized tirely separate and distinct entity,| Japanese.” methods or the opposite kind in busi- Btrong enough to support itself and to do its own missionary work. This {4 the word brought to Wash- Ington by Rev. Dr. Willlam Axling. much of what follows he presented be- These people of Nippon, he added, are attacking their They are no longer tak the missionaries who come there, but | are stepping into the situations con- own problems. ng cues from ness, industry and commerce, Kenneth Maclennan of London, secretary of the British Missionary Soclety, toid local members of the lalty yesterfiay at a luncheon tendered in hopor of fore the forelgn missions conven- | pr> & s ana | forelgn missfon conference visitors in tion i his capacity as an authority | fanting them with the intention and| 1o Willard Hotel. on Oriental misslonary work, and | SUOfRVPeHON 10, B0.VE (S Hlently | The world, Mr. Maclennan satd, 1s some of it was tendered to The Star | gy (00 € g (SRR TS, g pIlnt of [made up of Interdependent nations in an interview on conditions there. | ¢°% ®7e COVHOPIOE & O ead toeven You can’t go through a day with- Cites Stattstios, greater benefits for the Christian re-|9u? Somathing the people fn far lands Rev. Dr. Axling cited statistics to | ligion. o g holsald. CALitHs back his claim and give strength to| The mistake must not be made, how- for¥ L e chicame from his prediction. ever, he warned, of casting all the re- . :i iy K Lo momo other Already the City of Tokio alone|eponsibility for Christianity in Japan “h across the sea. The glassware has 200 churches, he said. manned|on the shoulders of the Japaneee until | BSFRaDs, came from some other clime. entirely by Jananese pastors; 250/ they are strong enough to assume it. (‘f\" 7 n packtles from Japan, pos- Sunday schools, with more than|That time will come gradually. Ao i husitigles. Theipeople 25,000 children studying Christianity one nation today are interdepend- R theBible: Tranulktons of Havey To Take Up Task in 20 Yen ent upon thoss of other nations.” Emerson Fosdick’s books and Pa-| From thie point on, he declared, Ja- R E. Speer Speaks. pini’s “Lift of Christ” have had an|pan was ready to assume more and | p ... e s e unprecedented sale in Japan { more responsibility for the Christian re- | S0t B Spocr, prosiding, sum years is a short time, in-|ligion, and fewer and fewer trafl-blazing | . © 0" L Gk i deed.” he told those attending the | missionaries will be sent until {n about | (1O 1 Bis obening remarks. as be special Japanese mission meeting, | 20 years the only connection between | UK [0 1Y edually an men like ou but during that time has come an | this countrs’s mission boards and Japan | #1VeS the responsibility for carrying indigenous leadership in pulpit and | will be in the persons of highly trained, | foTward the move S pew. There are evangelists, pastors, |superior advisers and counselors, who (T, " ‘!- =t S = editors, educators, Christian Jjurists| will act ag pilots In steering the ehip | ‘here s need for us back home and a supreme court justice who is/of religion‘in the isle until the Japaness '0 live rea h"'fl‘a"» lives, for it a Christian. There are captains of | have evolved even substitutes for them. | i ""I.l-\:f_ “h{:: fre used asthe Industry and writers; thers are those| A let-up in financial support of the | sxamples by mhich the other peoplo who sponsor movements to protect|Christian missions in Japan would be the wayward boy and the fallen woman.” i “In all the history of Christianity, he continued, “it is hard to find a parallel to thi though Japan is disastrous, however, he sald, for al- | gradually assuming more and more financial responsibility, | the perfod has not One must turn far | church there s self-supporting. et come when the anity J. H. Grundy of Toronto warned of the forces which were working in opposition to those of Christianized and civilized nations. Ha pointed to the efforts made in Winnipeg and on the Pacific coast by Co <t agents il oo . . . to sweep Into power in this countrs Missionary Convention Sidelights || er o oo vona' i jagents into the foreign non-Christian | 1ands with hristian propaganda Joseph H. Oldham, who spoke on |Trafl” captivated the readers of the | \ahfs with ant-Christian propagands, Christs Message to Nations and|Atlantic Monthly a year or two ago| CTKinE In cxactly the opposite line. Races,” early in the big convention, | With sprightly accounts of her ex-[ip fhe TS @naries There comes from lLondon where he is edi- |periences and adventures in the m nationalism tor of the International Review of |sionary flslds of Africa. Her plat- |P{RAUSR o = Missions. He was secretary of the [form messages are equaliy bright and | The If loveuty necded and unts great ecumenical conference held in|entertaining. e e LA DBk o author of — £ ito. conBat NG ekl ™ oot the® Gespel” and | Bishop B. T. Badiey has been in|mcnt t pac sthudcknindlx the ority and the Race Problem. | Indla since 1300 and is the author of [ 8aid. o H b e Christianity an 2 7 oo BHGHBIES bt O Tnetas A mRa’r{a: on Bostzelaer, member ¢ —— i son o s o rllament of 1 - E. Wooley has been president | “Hindustan’s Horizon Hs'1s niow [ithe Tlonse of / ariament S or 0 e 1900 | in charge of the work of the Metho- | Netherlands, aio sddreased the mect and is considered to be one of the|dist Episcopal Church in India business men in his nation were dis most_brilliant woman educators In| ge. by James I Barton is one of | DIAYIng in the missionary movemen America. She I & e wWomd Al |the best known missionaries in the[and how the Netherlands government board of directors of “The World Al | Near East and is acting chalrman of | supported Ger missj colon liance for Promoting International | p. axecutive committes of the Near | al possessions, which were faced with Friendship Through the Churches | East Relief. He went t as| closing during the war = cConnell of the|® Missionary in 1885 intimate | Samuel M. Zwemer concluded the Uianop Reancld @ ook o bt | knowledge of conditions in a Mo |list of speakers with a general de- A e o e an whe | Nammedan country especially fitted | scription of work foreign fleld existing conditions in the steel mills fn the Pittsburgh district before the | coming of the eight-hour day. He is| an eloquent preacher, was at the head | University when elected John I Islam.’ Bishop Charles H. Brent wasa m sionary in the Philippines when Gen Pershing was stationed there during his early career in the United kept his pen constantly e of best know mission literatur of moderator a lecturer, ha in action, is contributors and is a former a bishop. and is the author of “Demo- | States Army. They have always been | Présbyterian Church cratic Christianity” and “The Preach-|warm friends. Bishop Brent is an-| piooo 0 b oo er of the People.” other one of the authors at the con- |, IG0oR 2 b CUPPInEer, Teprosents = vention, his best known book being| .onve S hias foratly RRAAE Rev. Dr. William Axling has been | The Mind of Christ." | convention. He was f erly pre a missionary of the Baptist Foreign o Pui ;denl of Otterbein University in Ohio. Migsionary "Society in Japan since| Rev. Frank Rawlinson. editor of the | p.. Dr. Henry Cobb is president 1917. He Is author of “Japan on the | Chinese Recorder, has been stationed | of tne Roard ot Forein Miviomotnt Upward Trail,” a book which has|in China since 1902. He is author of | {pa'Reformed Church in America and aroused great interest among mis- | “The Life of Christ” written in the |y pastor of the Collegiate Chureh in sionary workers, both here and|Chinese language. N Y ork Gty Bo S KbzoRa n Rev. T. Kagawa, whose stories on | of Tarsish ¥ 2 R Jean Kenyon MacKenzie, author of Rev. Charles Bonsack is a delegate “Black and “An African Sheep” | his experience in slum work in Tokio |and Kobe so fascinated the conver | tion, is a graduate of Princeton The o Gene Mission Board of the Brethren from the chure = —————————==—=———————" |ogical Seminary and Is the author of | Bishop Michael B “Paychology of Poverty” and “Across | |And 18 & leader in the Chur, sees how impotent are merely diplo- | o 'feain®y, o0 FOeRtY and "Across| L g “formerly taught in T matic and similar efforts to end world | ¢olnders of the Japanese Labor Fed. | e8¢ and was stationed strife, it s obvious that the greatest | (foTFS 7y 1S JEPAnese Tabor Africa for several y need of the hour Is for some large | Sree. dhe wew isual te fats manifestation in every part of the| Dr Thomas Jesme Jones, author of | teeming with authors, many of the world of the spirit which dwells in|Negro Education in the United|best known writers on missions and inspires the misslonary move-|States” and “Education in Africa,” | travel and worid conditions being at ment.” is chairman of educational commis- | the convention. Those who have read Misstonary Faces Dangers. sions to West, South and Equatorial | their books have had the rare privi- “The missionary has faced every|Africa He If also one of tho edu-|le€e of secing and meeting the au- ssible type of difficulty and danger|cational directors of the large|thors in person S P %Be. oatrying on of his work—| Phelps-Stokes fund s There Is a remarkable exhibition e N . riots, mar- = of literature on the lower leval of the S N ets of ot x| Bew. Do Boveit Fosgun, eva ot tie auditorium, to which the delegates land and sea.. Wherever he has gone |OVerseas delcgates, is convener of the | f before and after every mession. churches have sprung up, hospitals |foTelgn missions committee of the|It comprises all the latest vuhl‘har have been built, &chools have been | United Free Church of Scotiand. Ha | tions relating to surveys descriptions opened und new and worthier life |is llkewist a member of the Interna-|and missionary endeavor in every has come Into existence. The etory | tional (‘l)}un"n The Scotch “‘dominie” | part of the \\'u':‘flv The exhibition is of missionary achievement consti- |i8 one of the outstanding figures of [ epen to the public. e tutes, without gainsaying, one of the|the convention L e n‘:‘ la\“\:y:y-“;i x“r“ q:f‘,;‘ e e Chriatinn reliaton s inteinsically |, ROPert A. Doan is one of the best| ail their lives In the mission fields and unchangeably a missionary re- | KNOWNR business men at the conven-| Their personal cxperiencqs are mos Y oses ta e mis. |tion. He & a manufacturer from Co- | fascinating and their enthusiasm re et ; o he Christian. |lumbus, Ohlo, and has recently re-|garding the future is unbounded m;""\r"'n“ Stawart Winfeld Herman, | turned from ‘a tour of the mission | They are very modest regarding what pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Har- | f¢lds. He made a very strong pre-| tney have accoms ished, hut give ur risburg, Pa speaking yesterday sentation of the laymen's responsi- | gtinted credit to others. One clerg charged that the average .congroga-"’”"y toward foreign mission. man said y" i ¢ '(L'r:"!" tion is scarcely 10 per cent eMclent| james M. Speers, president of James | MM in_ Japa : 1 1C8 TR lOnaly DIORTAD o eslal e MOCHtohaGRI&ICE! of Newi¥otic Oty | S S lhy than 5 Zach congregation in America, he 4 - | six montha tha declared, should Nave is repressnta-| o, AROLLeE 1ayman who has taken & | jiish in 60 years 5 | very prominent part in advancing the | o tive at work in the foreign field. cause of forcign missions. He IS vice | The entire fi of misstonary en Cites Survey Resultw. rresident of the Presbyterian Board | deavor has changed in point of policy “In the early history of the| “A recent survey of congregations,” |of Foreign Missions and is treasurer | Twenty-five years ago it was one church,” he =ald, “the misslonary had | he sald, “indicated that the average e} the International Missionary | ¢ expansion: today it <:uv- ;. -‘OnV io Eoanss for a}l the converts to live | congregation was approximately 50|Council r‘An(Ir:H\!\n W 'l‘rr.v'(wrnv“;\ the lona ogether away from the other com- |per cent loyal In attendance upon the z - g e O o, dinie munities, partly because he was| various services. About 80 per cent [ Re¥. Julius Rich@r, professor in | piains or penetrated Into deepest afraid of the un-Christian influence {of the church members felt their re- Tt e e O thor g | forests, today groups are gathered $nd partly because the Hindus re-|sponsibility enough to recelve the | LT Sersity of Befiin, i author of|int well organized centers and mis; fused to have anvthing to do with|holy comniunion at least once a vear| The FUStOIY of Misuions in Andia”ision plants highly equippe S the converts. The result was that|and that about 16 per cent contrib- | Sfnd of & history of Protestant mis- | cmejently manned supply the the Indian Christian community be-|uted systematically to the various dattor of & i tasltnaie magazine pub- | 'S for the outlying ter T came Qemationalised Toddy, how-|currentiand benevolent furids of thel|1Gn0s Gn " German: It wes o aveat] R & ever, the missionary encourages and |church. We would not be regarded P S e o Rl e The un_»\:\ SORE ; e leuan Gblan demauds par- |6 betas everstikvimant ugwn thel (EECEES TAt" Gie Vileiraiy af| D8 DOW VRO iaciive, con ticipation in the national life. basis of such percentages to say that | erlin had a department devoted | sietent well planned for such gathe Faiths Are Compared, the average congregation is scarcely | (Juin (80, & OF e O Ay plsaaéd 11T Second, he said: “The Hindu reii-|10 per cent efficient upon what we - " the Bmplifier system. Every speake glons were studied some time ago to| WOuld consider as an adequate for-| John R. Mott, whom the late Prest- | e “PII0GE S0FE, B 0 preqtast discuss the weak points and show |¢!En missionary program for a con-|dent Wilson termed “one of the most [ NAS Dooh (Tl o o en ahoss the superiority of the Christian fajth, | ETé&ation. useful citizens in the world,” is| (o800 TECECE o iy strong. The Today efforts are being made to ap- We can think of no better objec- | known from continent to continent | 50 "R % B0 L0 ditorium has as preciate the good points of non-|tIve of the congregation than %0 to|on account of his work with voung |y " Vo every delegate on his first Christian religions and Christ is pre. | 46Velop its work that in all parts of | men. Since 1915 Dr. Mott has been [ {27 15nC0 TVEIS DO sented as the crown and fulfiller of |the world there shall be representa- | general secretary of the National i aspirations of other religions. tives, 8o that the Christian work of [ Council of Young Men's Christian As- | mhere are 51 different denon & that congregation shall be carrled on fsociations, and s also chairman of | yjons represented at the conventl “Next, Indians became Methodists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians etc., because missionaries of those denominations happenéd to go to denomina- tions have begun to merge Into a National Church of India. n the early days the missionary was a father and the converts were treated as children. Today Indians are given more share in the Christian work. Indian churches have started Indian national missionary societies financed by Indian money. Misunderstandings Grow. “In these days of the mingling of the nations of the world, many mis- understandings have arisen. The Indian Christian is in good position to explain the East to the West and the West to the East. “The Christian Church in India has great possibilities. It is your privilege and mine to strengthen it.” ““Wherever _Christianity has been honestly tried, it has worked—just as triumphantly in the heart of Asia and Africa as in America,” declared Rev. Dr. James Endicott of Torento, Canada, speaking during the after- noon session vesterday. “Many of the noblest Christians of the world today,” he continued, “are found among the peoples of the sc- without Interruption throughout the 24 hours of each day of the 365 days of each year—a congregation upon whose work and workers for the Christ, the sun never sets.” hausted. has_its own particular problem. will be individually acknowledged. called non-Christian world. When one notes the sinister influences which still operate on a powerful, scale to produce international sus- plcion, hatred, unrest and war, and a host of has traveled all over the countr. To meet th Contril (Signed) MILTON E. AILES, the general committee, World's Stu- | dent Christian Federation. Dr. Robert E. Speer has been greet- | personal friends. MIDWINTER APPEAL The work of the Associated Charities and Citizens’ Relief Association is now at its peak. The eight neighborhood officers of these family welfare societies, so located as to be within easy reach of the different sections of the city, are the scenes daily of many confessions of human suffering and need, told in confidence. Now it is the story of a cripple anxions to do something better than sell pencils on the street. Now the plight of an aged woman, too old to work, but with wealthy relatives who should be induced to come to her assistance in her old age. suddenly thrown on her own resources by the cowardly desertion of the father of her children. Here again the story is of a father too ill to work, several young children and the mother expecting another—a family too proud to ask aid until savings are ex- Or a wife These are actual experiences, a few among many from the daily record of the Associated Charities. Each family in distress ese needs, the societies must have the good will and financial support of the generous-hearted people of Washington. the Joint Finance Committee, 1022 Eleventh street northwest, butions sent to Chairman. the In addition to delegates from United States and Capada are repre sentatives from England, Scotlands He| Germany, Holland, Belgium, thy as | Rhineland, Sweden, France, Japan and ldnia. President Coolidge’s opening ad- dress has been frequently referred tc and praised during the conventior The delegates and other mission workers were greatly pleased to ses the President as well as to hear him speak. They realize there is only one city in the country where the Presi- dent of the United States has time to attend the opening of a great con- vention. LABOR OBTAINS MINES. Acts as Employer and Employe in Enterprise. BY BJORN BUNKHOLDT. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, OSLO, January 31—An interesting experiment is being conducted by or- ganized labor, which is taking over the extensive copper mines of Lyn- gen, the northernmost point of Nor- way, and acting in a double capacity of employers and workers. The mines are very rich, but they have not been exploited in recent years (Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) a (