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SHIFT DUEMANY | VIRGINIA PASTORS Methodist Conference Chart; Calls for Change in Half of Pulpits. Special Dispatch to The Star Richmond, Va., October 2. One- Ralf of the ministers In the Virginia Methodist Conference are to change their locations at the coming session of that body, provided Bishop Collins Denny, who will preside, follows the ancient chart of the church requiring that the ministers serve no more than four yvears in any one charge. For the first time in the history of the conference there are pastors enough to be placed in charge of all the es- tablished churches, including the cir- cuits, The conference is to meat in worth Church, Norfolk, beginning Tuesday morning, October 13, and will last at least a week The unification matter, which occu- pled a good deal of the time of the {ast session and was passed by at the mession of the general conference of the Methodist Church (hoth North and South), will not be brought up. No Sunday Law Change. The proposed repeal of the Sunday laws—allowing hase ball, dances, aters and such other features ing discussed. The position Methodists, it is sald, will be the same as on the issue of prohibi- tion repeal. The church will demand and insist on a rigld enforcement of the laws and for the faithfy s charge of the duties of the o every case. The conference practically unanimoasly oppose any steps that looks to the “broadening” of the laws. The care of superannuated minis- ters, the sick and the disabled in every way is one of the matters that wiil engage the attention of the confer- enc Virginia this season will have an apple _crop of about 500,000 bushels, according to J. H. Meeks, the dircctor of the State division of markets. He says there are now 35 inspeators atl work in the State, and_reports are that not only the State a very large crop, double that of last year, but the quality is far superior to any preceding year. Calls Commission Meeting. Judge Robert R. Prentis. chairman of the commission to study, prepare and suggest amendments to the con- stitution, has fssued a formal notice to the people of the State at large to attend the initial meeting of the bers, n the hall of the house of dele- gates October 12. He asks that every person concernad in the matter either attend in person or submit sug- gestions to the commission that they may be considered. This applies to every section of the constitution. This commission was created by act of the legislature, to make a careful study of the constitution, and em- body In its report to the governor such changes and amendments as may seem proper. The legislature has re- celved many amendments, some of which have been accopted by the people after being fubmitted. At this time the constitution framed 25 years ago is a patchwork, it is said, and other amendments are pending. The commission hearings will be WELLER GETS AID OF HILL FACTION Maryland G. 0. P. Harmonized at State Convention, With Rosy Outlook. Bpecial Trspatch to The Star BALTIMORE, October 2.—The Re- publican State convention this week proved to be a very harmonious affair, and with one or two exceptlons, prac- all the leaders of the Hill fac- tion, which waged a bitter fight against Senator O. 1. Weller, were ni attendance, promising active support to the tickel The convention showed eonclusively that the split between Senator Weller and Representative John Philip Hill has been forgotten for the purposes of the present campaign. When the convention vote showed Weller had received 93 votes to Hill's 54 for the senatorial nomination, Hill arose and asked that the vote for Weller be made unanimous. Marion A. Hum- phrevs, Hill's candidate for governor, aid the same when Addison E. Mulli- kin was nominated One of Biggest Sessions. The convention one of the largest in recent ve wsting a bright campalgn year 1 the greet ing given former Gov. Phillips Lee Goldsborough, who presided, showed | that although he has not receutly been active in politics, he still has a strong hold on the party. The only rift was brought about by the efforts of Representative Hill to have a “we plank inserted in the platform. This was defeated and the plank finally adopted pledged the gubernatorial candidate to law enforcement. The | convention condemned Gov. Ritchie’s attitude on this subject. Tn adopting a plank condemning the granting of a charter to an outside corporation for the Conowingo Dam project, the Republicans, leaders have placed the Ritchie administr on the defensive and will make this and alleged extravagances of the State administration the chief issues of the campaign. Explanation Ts Offered. That Gov. Ritchie realizes this was clearly demonstrated by the fact ehat in his opening speech of the campaign Wednesday at Frederick. the day be- fore the Republican platform was adopted, he devoted most of his speech | to an explanation of why the charter was granted and invited the Repub- licans to “appoint a commission to conduct an investigation into circum- stances surrounding the approval of permits for the development of the Conowingo hydro-electric project.” Mr. Mullikin in his first speech of the campaign vesterday declared that “the rights of the people of Maryland to enjoy the benefits of the potential power supply of Conowingo had been sacrificed in the contract allowed by & public service commission made up of Gov. Ritchie's personal appointees and men politically under his control.” Yn leaving the question of prohibi- tion up to the individual candidates, the Republicans made a strong bid for the country vote, which, as shown by the primary, remains “dry” and at the same time leaves a loophole for candi- dates with “wet"” leanings to go after the city vote. Nearly 300 women attended the ses- sion and were paid tributes by the speakers. Mrs. Eva C. Chase of Prince Georges County, eandidate for clerk of the Circuit Court of Appeals, was lauded by Chairman Goldsbor- ough, among others, and women twere given several appointments by the convention. was AT telephone lines in Japan are to o Dlad 43 UndassIouagLoondaltsy Strained and bewildered faces of 3 of the 43 miners rescued from the Pabst mine at Ironwood, Mich. The brought to the surface after days u? icture was made just as the men were imprisonment and suffering. At Community Centers Of the Public Schools. Winter activities of the Community Center Department, which began Oc- tober 1 at a number of the centers, will be in fuil swing by the middle of the month, it was announced yester- day by Miss Sibyl Ba ker, director of the department. Registrations made within the past few days point to greater interest than ever before in the extension work offered by the centers, with athletics, dramat- jcs and music well in thé lead of sub- chosen for cla: work by men and women, | Las well s by boy: and girl Central High Community Cen- will open offi- cially October 13 with hedule of and dramatic groups meeting every Wed- nesday during the ses , Mrs. Edith H. Hunter. number of important athletic events are scheduled for this month in the stadium. The 4th Division, District of Columbia Council, Boy Scouts of America, will hold scout and athletic games there Suturday afternocon, Oc- tober 9, from 1 to 5, and George Washington University has foot ball games scheduled for October 16 and November 6 with Blue Ridge College and Ursinus College, respectively. For a numb of years the Washington Society of Fine Arts has held its se- ries of lectures in the auditorium of Central High center, and this season five lectures on literature and five on the fine arts are scheduled by this society, beginning early in November. The Washington College of Music will likew! usual, present two concerts there ovember and February 10 Bast Washington Center, 3 Scott, in s, will be open regularly every Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturd: nights of the season, tober 5, at 30 o'clock shington Boys' Independ- ent Band;the National Capital Playe Miss Sibyl Baker. M E. | general directed by E. Arthur Griffith; c in dressmaking, with Mi Townshend as teacher: millinery, with Mrs. Charles Wise teacher, and basketry, and at 8$:30 p.m. with com- munity dancing. Athletic groups will meet every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights during the season, s Rachel Willson as director nd Gordon Rath as director ivery Saturday night a community program of motion pi tures will be given in the auditorium of East Washington Center in the Eastern High School, and c rhythmic dancing and dramatics will be held At Columbia Heights Center, in the Wilson Normal School, Mrs. I E. Kebler announces registration for all activities during this week. She will be the center Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and F -venings from 7 to 9 o'clock for org and for conference. d work the Boy Scouts will begin tomor- . to continue during the season, | ¥ fourth Satur in the 1 be held the court of honor review by the Scouts of the 3d Divi- headed by Col. Mattice. The " classes will begin the week of October 11, as will the spectal athletic groups. Regular activitles + about October 15. This cen- h al October 21 and 2 hedule for Thomson A. C. Driscoll, secretary, ation of all classes to- with French, choral hm for children, physical ning for adults, auction bridge, | dramatics (to be directed by Miss Pau- line Oak) and china painting. Mrs. fott will meet and organize the china painting class at 8 p.m., and all those who are interested are in- vited to attend. Tuesday and Thurs- | day nights the regular weekly rehears- als of the Washington Opera Co. will be held at Thomson Southeast Center, Mrs. M. W Davis, secretary, will open officially Tuesday night with a meeting of the advisory committee in the conference room of the Southeast Public Library, owing to the rebuilding now at Hine Junior High School, where all s sions are held. The first meeting of the children's rhythm classes, directed by Miss Evelyn Davis, will be on Oc-. tober 8, at 7 p.m., In the gymnasium. | The children’s dramatic classes, also under the leadership of Miss Davis, will meet the same evening at 8:30 in | the auditorium. The first meeting of | the athletic groups, to be organized | under the leadership of Odell B. Por- | ter, will be held October 13 at 7 p.m. The Forrest Players will begin their Winter rehearsals next week, under Mrs. Marle Moore Forrest's direction. An invitation is extended to all those in Southeast Washington to join this group who are interested in commu- nity drama. Plans are under way for the organization within the next few | weeks of the Southeast Public Speak- ing Club, a girls’ soclal club and sev- eral athletic groups. Park View Center, directed by Miss Maud Burklin, community secretary, announces a full schedule of activities for Wednesday evenings during the season, commencing October 6, as fol- lows: At 7:30 p.m., Dennison paper class, young people’s dramatics and Athletio Club business meeting:; at | er: | open_tomorrow night, for | but little. | really 7:45 p.m., adults’ dramatics and Bridge Clab class, and;at & pany the Cltizens’ Association and the Park View Wom- en's Club, the two last organizations holding monthly meetings at this center. Petworth Center will have Friday as its regular community night for the meeting of all activities, including those of Boy and Girl Scouts. The center opened Friday and will continue registration on Friday of the present week. The development of vocal and instrumental music is to be a feature of the present year at all centers in divisions 10-13, under the immediate supervision of Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham, secretary of the community center department. Pupils desiring piano and violin lessons are asked to register at any center in these divi- sions between the hours of 3 and 4 p.m. during the present week. Those interested in choral singing may reg- ister at all centers for membership in the community choruses, which will co- operate this season with the Federa- tion of Colored Church Choirs in pre- senting a number of special programs, of which the first will be glven at Christmas. Dunbar High Center will open October 17 for registration for classes in interpretative dancing for prospec- tive teachers and interpretative danc- ing for children, also for the advanced dramatic class at 8 p.m. Thursday will be community night throughout the season at Dunbar, and beginning early in November the “Yale Chroni- cles of America,” will be shown each week free to the public, Mrs. Knox in charge. Lovejoy Center will have Thursday and Saturday nights open all through the season, the hours being from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Registrations may be made all this week for basketry, dra- matics, chorus, handwork and ath- letics. 'Mrs. Gray is community secre- tary West Washington Center will be open Tuesday and Friday nights, be- ginning this week, with registration for all activities. Mrs. Florence Neal is community secretary. Cleveland Center is open during this week for registration for classes in Dasketry, beadwork, French embroid- lace making, tapestry work, ocheting, cross stitch, raffla embroid- | lamp shades, millinery, first aid home nursing, ht reading and chorus work. Regular activities will | meet on the usual nights as last year. Miss Etta Johnson is community sec- retary. Garfield Center will open October 13, with the second and fourth Wednes- days in_each month as commuhity nights, the activities including motion pictures, for which a machine has been installed by the Garfield Citizens’ Association, and the Home and School Assoclation. There will also be a chorus, industrial work and upholstery at this center. Mrs. C. J. Knox is secretary. Birney Center will be registration for all activities, with Miss Etta John- son and Mrs. Blanche Parks in charge. Randall Center will hold its registra- tion Tuesday night, for chorus work, also for dramatics and industrial art The center will be open each Tuesday from 7 .30 to 10:30 p.m., with Mrs. Pel- ham in charge. Community Oh, Fickle “Perfect 36!" From the Delineator Magazine. of fat is not due merely to excess of calories taken into the body over the amount used in work. Every cne knows that there are persons in- ordinately thin who eat tremendous amounts of food and who exercise There are, likewise, fat people who eat lightly and exercise much but continue fat. It would be foolish to deny to any woman that she can starve herself thin, or to tell the thin one that she cannot increase her welght by taking an excess of food. Nevertheless, twe persons of equal height, fed equal amounts of similar food, may difter enormously, due to internal conditions associated with the disturbances of the glands of internal secretion, with the results of disease or with other undefinable factors. In such instances, attempts to decrease the body weight by star- vation, by exercise, by manipulation, by drugs or by any other well known methods are futile. The argument has been advanced that the modern boyish figure is more beautiful than the curves of an earlier da; Yet it is easy to remember when curves were considered most beautiful. Beauty is in no sense of the word an actual quality of any- thing, but is wholly of the mind. It is a purely suggestive phenomenon, as is realized when one considers the beautiful according to various racial and national standards. After all, the beautiful is that which is healthful and efficient, or that which most closely approximates the work of nature. Yet the present craze for thinness Is an attempt to modify the processes of nature in a manner against which nature itself seems to revolt. It is high time that modern medicine should lend its aid to the de- termination of the optimum welght for health of American womanhood. Clock and watch manufacturers of the Black Forest of Germany, famous for its timepieces, are worried over the growth of the clock and watch indus- try in the United States, which they consider is their greatest T”flwh STAR, WASHINGTON, MEXICO T0 GET NEW CHURCH PLEA Catholics to Present Petition Reported Signed by More Than Million. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 2.—The Catholic episcopate announced today that Mexican Catholics will persevere, although without much hope of suc- cess, in efforts to secure congressional repeal or modification of the religions clauses of the constitution. Another petition, signed by betwen 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 Catholic laymen in all parts of the republic will be presented to Congress Monday. The Episcopate describes this petition as the reply of Catholics to the cham- ber's recent rejection of the Episco- pate’s petition on the ground that its signers, archbishops and bishops, had lost their rights of citizenship and therefore the right of petition by virtue of their clerical positions. Similar to First Petition. The new petition is precisely the same as the previous, only signed by laymen in every section of the coun- try, instead of prelates, It will be presented by a committee of laymen. Catholic leaders say that there would have been thousands of additional signers but for the fact that a large part of the populace are unable to read or write, and hence could not sign the petition. Those well informed, including the Catholic leaders, think there is slight prospect of Congress granting the petition, but the episcopate an- nounces its intention to exhaust this possibility and then continue waiting and working for whatever length of time Is necassary, even years or centuries, “for realization by legal means of the objective religious liberty. Ask for Plebiscite. In a lengthy statement today the episcopate refuses to accept the chamber’s declaration that the prel- ates have lost their citizenship and right of appeal. Neverthless, it adds, for the purpose of demonstrating the sincerity of Catholics’ endeavor to secure a peaceful, legal solution of the religious situation, the petition D. C, OCTOBER 3, 1926—PART 1. FORD POUNDING WAR VESSELS INTO AUTOMOBILE MATERIAL Portion of Government's Merchant Fleet Being Transformed at Detroit Into Industrial Needs. By the Associated Prees DETROIT, Mich., October 2.—A 1926 version of the business of turn- ing swords into ploughshares was dis- closed in information made public to- day by the Henry,Ford interests here explaining how the nucleus of the wartime merchant marine fleet {s rapidly being fed into the maw of the Ford industry. Wartime ships are literally being transformed into auto- mobiles, tractors and implements for use in the organization's various en- terprises. A crew of 500 men, working at especially-designed dismantling docks erected by this glgantic industrial concern which taboos waste, every other day wrecks one of the 199 steel ships which the Ford interests pur- chased of the 800 originally built as the United States Shipping Board's merchant fleet. Thirty-five already have been dismantled and as the pro- cess is completed another crew of 300 men move the parts to allotted places where they meet a varlety of needs. All Parts Are USed. Steel and metals are used to make automobile parts. Heavy booms and spars go to the lumber mills to be- come wheels and automobile bodies. Serap wood and cork are ground for packing purposes. Piping faucets and plumbing fixtures are stored away for future need. Stacks and alr pipes are installed in various plants. Wooden deck materials are made into crates and boxes. Evep nails are melted into pegs. The ship's engines are sent to drive sawmills and generat> power in the plants, while one of tlem was sent to —eeeeee wiil be sent to Congress signed by laymen whose citizenship is unques- tioned. The statement exhorts Mexican Catholics not to become disheart- ened and urges Congress to reverse its position. It asks that a plebiscite be held in which all Mexicans would be permitted to vote freely on the religlous question. a Ford factory in France. Search- lights are sent to light Ford aviation flelds, and ship ice plants find a use in_experimental laboratories. A place for every part and parcel of these cne-time ocean-going vessels is found some place in the Ford or- ganization. Wrecking Plant Mile Long. The wrecking plant at Fordson is a mile-long wharf, constructed along the bank of a river which runs through the company’s grounds. After the tedious process of towing the ships from some seaboard port, where they rested before they were destined for junk, is accomplished, the boat is towed into position No. 1. There portable cranes, operat- ing from three sets of railroad tracks, take off stacks, booms, spars and up- per deck equipment. The boat is then advanced to position No. 2, where further deck material is taken off, and so progresses untll it reaches po- sition No. 12, where nothing but a gaping hulk remains. Acetylene torches burn out the hulk into huge slabs of metal which is loaded for the foundry or open- hearth steel for melting and the ship is no more. The process is con- tinuous and as fast as one ship passes position No. 1 another takes its place. 5 Venture is Experiment. Whether the Ford organization will realize a financial gain on the project is still problematical, but representatives of the company in an interview with the Associated Press pointed out that the venture was undertaken more in the nature of an experiment than with the idea of realizing financial gain. The greatest gain, however, which will be derived. they said, will be the development of a_ shipbuilding and dismantling organization which will be able to care for needs of the Ford freight shipping service, which, it was indicated, may be extended. The men engaged in the task are receiving a working knowledge of shipbuilding and dismantling which probably could be equalled in no other manner, and when their present work is completed they will be put to work maintaining the Ford fleets now operating on the Great Lakes and At- lantic Ocean. It was not indicated whether the company plans eventu- ally to build its own ships. Cost $13 Per Ton. These ships, which range in tonnage from 3,200 to 5,500 tons each, were bought by the company for scrap for $4.57 a ton. The cost of towing them to the dismantling wharf increased the cost $8 a ton, while the estimated dis- mantling cost of §5 a ton makes a to- tal cost of $13 a ton. The average market price for scrap is §11 a ton. ‘The company's problem in order to at least break even on the investment, is to realize the difference between the cost of the merchant vessels and the price for which scrap iron could be purchased, by putting to practical use every article taken from the disman- tled ships. It is an axiom of the Ford industry, officials sald, that nothing ever wears out. The manner in which the Gov- ernment merchant marine, thought to be worthless for purposes other than scrapping, is being put to practical use is pointed to as bearing out Henry Ford’s belief in that axiom. e Origin of Two Bits. ‘om the Adventure Magazine. “Two-bits"! Whence came that name or expre: sion, which we hear so frequently in every-day life? Not very many people know, and as it should naturally be of interest to all those who have used or heard of the term, the explanation is given as follow. At the corner of Broad and Church streets, Charleston, S. C., there stands today a building which was during the elghteenth century used as a tav. ern—known as Shepherd's Thatched Roof. In 1737 a certain coterle of gentle- men met once a week in this tavern and each donated a sum bout two bits—to charity. These men were not organized, but nevertheless tere soon christened with the euphonious title of the Two Bits Club. The expression, two bits, meaning a quarter of a doilar, comes from the early use of th: Spanish real as a coin. The real, having the value of one-eighth of a dollar, was called the ew York shilling. In the Southern tates these coins, on account of their small value, were called bits and it took two of them to make a quarter. And in this old building which still stands strong and sturdy in spite of its great age, was coined the ex pression which we still hear many times dafly— i wo-bits.” REBUILT FLORIDA PLEDGED TOURISTS Red Cross Director Says State Will Be Ready for Winter Visitors. By The Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla., October 2. —Frverv: Florida city struck by the recent hurricane will be as well prepared to recelve Winter visitors when the tourist season opens as it would have * been had there not been a storm, Henry M. Baker. national director of disaster rellef for the American Red" Cross, sald here today. Mr. Baker said this assurance was given after careful study of the devastated areas and with an intimate knowledge the progress being made toward restoration. “You may say, on authority of the American Red Cross, that nobodV need fear coming to Florida this Win ter,” he satd. *“Debris will be cleared away, essentlal repairs made and proper sanitary safeguards provided: ¢ Tourdsts can come by thousands upon _ thousands with every assurance of safety and ample accommodations. “However, this does not mean that the stricken citles are not in need of help. No authentio story of loss or damage in the Miami and Moore Haven districts has been exaggerated. Hotel facilities in the lower East Coast cities have not been impaired- serfously and possibly will be at or about normal when the tourist sea- son begins, but thousands of residents of that region are not only homeless but improved and dependent on the American people. “The Red Cross has spent about- $1,000,000 for rellef of acute distress in Florida, but Florida needs not less than §4,000,000 for rehabflitation. ‘Therefore, unless contributions reach: a total of $5,000,000 or more, our work will be hampered and we shall be obliged to reduce our awards to needy families. There is no danger that too much money will be given for relief work, however brilliant the coming season may be from the tourist stand- point.” bEE g::zmmzmxmzmmm:mzmzz:::z:zzz;z:::z:zz::zz:::x:z:::1zz:z::z:xmmuwnzzzzzzmmmnm:zg ' 3 : 33333 32882328888888838383888383888883888383 can work. . 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