ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI LIVE CHRIST »YS mm to high SCHOOL MIMS Mightiest Thing One Can Do Is to Live Christ, Says Rev. M. R. Gibson in Baccalaureate Sermon SUCH LIVING IS BIGGEST NEED Music by Reid Craven, Miss Sarah Simpson and Junior Class Enjoyed by Large Congregation. I Rev. M. K. Gibson, past ir of the 1 Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, was heard by a Targe congre gation yesterday morning at the high school when lie delivered the baccal aureate sermon to the graduates of the school. Services in many of the Churches of the city were omitted so members could attend the high school service and the congregation was so lurge that chairs had to be placed in the aisles. Mr. Gibson chose for his text the 2(lth,verse of the 16th chapter of Acts: "But rise and stand upon thy feet for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose to make thee a Minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and those things in which I will appear unto thee.’* Before the sermon Rev. M. F. Han sel. of the Second Presbyterian Church, conducted the prayer and the scripture lesson was read by Rev. C. Herman Trueblood, pnstor of the First Baptist Church. A violin solo by Reid Craven, and a vocal solo by Miss Sarah Simpson, were musical numbers enjoyed before the sermon. Prior to the benediction the Junior Class chorus sang "The Lost Chord." Mr. Hibson's sermon follows: Life throughout is divided into many stages or turning points. Today you have come to the completion of one of those stages in your life, and it may be said you are beginning a new oue.i The past is forever gone. The future is yours. Every man who has accomplished great things in this would can almost always designate the turn ing point] in life v here in some start s' Ung-wajfhc won Vimifhf v T«rd RTface ’ with the seriousness of apply'ug his talent and lime in a worthwhile way. The text calls your attention to such a time in the life of the great Apostle. Paul’s journey of J6O miles to Da mascus haij ended. The Heavenly light has broken upon his vision. He has heard his name called from Heav en in his own Hebrew tongue. He has asked the two most momentous ques tions that can come from human life. Loofc’ng upward and beyond, he asks; ‘AVho art thou Lord?" Looking along life's pathway he inquires: “What shall I do Lord?" The words of the text give the answer of God. They clothe the Apostle with a mission from Heaven. The emphasis of the Heavenly vis ion is lnid first upon the revealing the personality of God and upon the duty of witnessing for the person made known. In his memories and in his outlook for the future his thoughts Were to bo fixed on Jesus. He was to see Christ behind him and Christ be fore him. His faith would grow strong by his retrospection, and his life would be enlarged as the coming days made their revelation to him. He is to live and work under the inspir ation of an unfolding view. The sky line of duty will ever beckon him on ward. I have appeared unto thee to make thee a witnessing minister of Christ, as revealed or yet to be re veoled. This is the attitude which God asked Paul to maintain as he en tered upon the new life—the Christ life. i, If we are allowed just here to stop and tnke a review of some things that have taken place in the last few years we would discover that we too, like Paul, have a skyline of vision and duty. It is the line where Heaven and earth seem to come together, where the human amj the Divine blend; where God and man meet, where the things that are seem to reveal the presence nnd power of Jesus Christ. Looking back over the period of your grammar school and high school years you have seen the coronation of American womanhood. True she has been the heart of the home; she has been the pillar in the church. Now she is clothed with the power of a Sovereign for the guid ance of the American Nation. And in our vision of the past we see a line of battle drawn in America against the forces of strong drink. One of the heaven-born attacks was made some 55 years ago in front of the saloon. The soldiers were women and they were upon their knees. The skyl’ne of the few years gone shows a point where the hand of God opened the fortress of the Constitution, and ever since the forces of strong drink have been on the retreat. Mnny lives through these endeavors have been led upward into a moment of spiritual benediction. Many a day )n the closing four years should awaken in your hearts an anthem of praise for places and times, whether of tears or of laughter, where opportunities have come to you for eqn'pplng for life’s work. And re member in these years Jeeus Christ has appeared lndened with blessings known oiily to Him, and to the recip ient in the quiet solitude of his life. And, too, these revelations of Christ (Continued on Page Two) ft. The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily mcmmoT I PUCEAKf OBSTACLE I MS LiTIM i The American Delegate to , Geneva Says This Coun i try Will Do All Possible i to Limit Armaments. i GIVES AMERICAN i ATTITUDE TODAY , Americans Will Not Be I Able to Participate in Discussions, But Will Not Stand in ithe Way. Genevn. May 24. — (A I ) —Asserting tiiat the United States wished to do everything possible to promote the movement for the limitation of arma ments, Hugh Gibson, American dele gate, today told the preparatory com mission on disarmanent that his dele gation did not wish to present any ob stacles to a discussion of disarmament problems which might have League of Nations aspects. Mr. Gibson said that the Americans of course would not be able to par ticipate in such discussions, blit would not stand in .-their way. His statement was made in the course of a debate over the desira bility of exercising some sort of con trol over the armaments of nations participating in the conference, once reductions have been agreed upon. France was in favor of a regular form of control, to which Italy, however, interposed objections. Viscount Cecil, the English dele gate, expressed the opinion that any dispute as to whether the disarma ment accords were being oiyaiiy car ried out normally would come under the 11th article of the covenant of the Lengue of Nations. This article provides that any dispute between members of the League is a mntter which concerns all members, and may be brought to the attention of the League council. This brought an ob jection from one delegate, who re marked that the discussions on the covenant might embarass non-league members. It was then that Mr. Gibson presented the American atti tude of not placing obstacles in the way of anything that might help to hung abaaUtyg jitnlt^iys. DR. OSCAR HAYWOOD IN LEGISLATIVE RACE Picturesque Preacher From Mount Gilead. It Is Said, Has Fair Chance to Win. Raleigh, May 23. —Montgomery county will send Rev. Dr. Oscar Hay wood to Raleigh if Editor B. S. Hur ley, of Troy, knows politics, and when the picturesque preacher, who is president of. the North Carolina Anti-Capital Punishment Association, gets here he is expected to help out the prison folks. Dr. Haywood had no oposition when the last train came in and he is expected to have none. Mr. Hurley represented the county at the last sitting and got enough. Dr. Haywood is a big farmer of Mount Gilead and he has hankered slightly for this place before. He has more than an even change for election despite the fact thnt the county is close. The Montgomerians declare that the minister is no longer connected with the Ku Klttx Klnn, for which he lec tured quite a while. That is inter esting only ns it relates to a possible religious war in the general assembly. I>r. Haywood has opposed all his life any sort of ecclesiastical legislation by state. He would hardly sit quietly and allow the introduction and pas sage of a measure fashioned after the Poole bill in the late general as sembly. Postmasters Causing Trouble With Auto License Tags. Raleigh, May 24.—(A*)— The State 1 department of revenue is having trou ’ bles all its own. in connection with the automobile license rush, which will actually begin on June Ist, for blit which preparations are already ! underway. North Carolina post -1 masters are the latest ones to un | wittingly create additional work for the automobile license bureau. : The bureau has already begun mail -1 mg out the automobile license appii -1 eations, whir'll are sent in by the ap • plicant together with his check. ■ These are sent out in So-called open ‘ envelopes — that is, the name on the ! application appears at the opening, eliminating the addressing of the en | velope. ; Hundreds are being returned by the ! post offices, where automobile own ] ere have changed their addresses. In ■ returning, the postmasters are, in • most instances, the department says, stamping the “returned to sender’’’ • directly over the card, thus spoiling ] the card, and making it necessary for ' the department to make out a new r card—an arduous task, when these ruined cards run into the hundreds. • __________ ! Prims In Canned Vegetables. 1 (By International News Service) West Palm Bench, Fla.. May 24 r Boxes of candied pop-corn, circus 1 venders win tell you, always contain » * prise worth many times more than 1 the price of the package, but grocers r of West Palm Beach are going them ‘ one better by putting prises in can -1 ned vegetables. 8 Mrs. B. A. Everingham, of Kenne " dy's Dock, was surprised to find a '■ solid gold wedding ring in a can of 1 spinach when she was preparing it for the table. [SUITE OF TOE : ffWTIOO CITIES OF 30.000100 OB ' Estimates Based 'on As sumption of Annual In !j crease Since 1920 Same J as Average at That Time WINSTON-SALEM STILL LARGEST It’s /Estimated Population j Is Given as 71,800. —j Charlotte Is Next in the! State, With 54,600. Washington. May 24. — UP) —Esti- mates of the population of 229 cities having 30,000 or more inhabitants were announced today by the depart ment of commerce. The estimates prepared by the cen sus bureau and carrying figures up to July Ist this year are based in most eases upon the assumption thnt the annual increase since 1020 has been the same ns the average between 1910 nnd 1020. For cities in states which took a Rtate census in 1925 tile estimates are based on the 1920 to 1925 average, and annual increase. Estimates were not given for twelve cities where the last census showed a decrease in pop ulation. nor in ten cities where ex ceptional conditions of growth which would cause estimates to be far from correct are believed to prevail. Al lowance is made for annexation and detachments of territory. The big four, the country's only cities having a million or more popu lation, show no ehange in rank. New York leads with 5,924.000 against 5,- 620,048 in 1920. Chicago passed the 3.000,000 mark for the first time with 3.048,000 against 2,701,705 in 1920. Philadelphia, crossing the 2,000,000 mnrk retained third place, with 2,- 008.000 against 1,823.779. Detroit continued fourth with 1,- 290,000 against 903,674. The estimates for North Carolina cities: Charlotte. 54,600 against 46.- 338; Durham, 43,000 against 42.258; Greensboro, 48,7000 against 43525; Wilmington 37,700 against 33,372; Winston-Salem, 71.890 against 48,, Ten cities comprise* the half tnrf -1 ion to a million class. Estimates in this class were; Cleve land. 960,000 against 750.841; St. Louis 830.000 against 772.897; Bal timore, 808,000 against 733.826; Bos ton 878,000 against 748,060; Pitts burgh 037,000 against 594,277 I > Los Angeles, not estimated, had 576,673 in 1920; San Francisco 567,- 076; Buffalo 544.000 against 506,775 ; Washington 528,000 against 437,571; and Wilwaukee 517,000 agninst 457,- 147. HOP OFF ON FIRST LEG OF LONG FLIGHT Left Slated Island Today For Char , leston, Beginning 6,060 Trip. New York, May 24. —OP)—Bernar- do Duggan, wealthy Argentine sports man, and two companions hopped off in a flying boat from Milled Field on Staten Island at 7:04 a. in. Eastern standard time, today, for Charleston, S. C., on the first leg of a 6,100 mile flight to Buenos Aires. With Our Advertisers. The Parkx-Belk Co. is receiving new goods from New York every day. Just now they are making a special offering of printed and plain crepe dresses at $9.75 and $9.95. Special prices on a big lot of rugs—from $1.50 to $2.75. New lingerie fabrics in pretty cheeks and stripes, 19 to 59 cents a yard at J. C. Penney Co.’s. High school class play “Valeda Chooses" Wednesday evening at 8:15 at high school auditorium. Admission 25 and 50 cents. All seats reserved. Tickets on sale at Gibson Drug Store. Buck’s Blue Flame Oil Range saves time and money. See ad. of Con cord Furniture Co. Everything for outing and sport wear at HooverV Polish your floors by electricity, using Johnson’R wax electric floor pol isher. Ask Ritchie Hardware Store for a demonstration. Y’ou can rent it for $2 a day. See ad. Pretty dresses are kept pretty by dry cleaning. Bob's will clean them ' for you. Every uew millinery detail and ev ery new color combination at Robin son’s millinery department. • Wilkinson’s Funeral Home is open ■ day and night. Phone 9. Ambulance i service. i • Gurney refrigerators have proven „ their efficiency in all kinds of tests. " )At H. B. Wilkinson’s. ; ' This is Broiler Week May 24 to 29. ■ You can get an Oriole gas range for r this week only from the Concord and ; Kannapolis Gas Co. for SBS. Terms, SI.OO down and $5 a month. Read all about it in ad. today. Get a Jantaen Swimming Suit, “the suit that changed bathing to awim - mlng." For sale by R'tchie Hardware i Co. i i Women Win Victory. * Pensncola, Fla., May 24. — (Ast — i Women of the Presbyterian Church - in the United States won a sweeping victory in the general assembly here - today when the church court by a i vote that was almost unanimous, f greatly broadened opportunities for r participation by women in church af fairs. , CONCORD, N. C., CONDAY, MAY 24, 1925 SEVENTEEN INJURED ■ j 1 Seventeen persons were severely injured when a pssenger train on the ('Tiicngo & -\orth Western Kauroad plowed into the rear end of a freight train at Wilmette. 111. Most of tile injured were of the crews of the trains. MINISTERS DECLINE TO TAKE DEFINITE STAND Charlotte Association Dees Not Act On Anti-Evolution Campaign. Charlotte. May 24.— (A>) —The Min isterial Association of Charlotte call ed a special session today, and de clined to take definite stand regard ing the anti-evolution campaign being conducted in North Carolina by "out side organizations.’' The meeting was called to consider the advisability of recommending any action by the city commission on the request of Dr. T. T. Martin, field sec retary of the Anti-Evolution I.eaguc of America, for permission to use the city auditorium for holding an "athe ist-fundamentalist” debate. The commission has already declined to allow use of the auditorium for the debate. Dr. Martin declares the debate will be held somewhere in the city May 31st. The Ministerial Association’s v':cwr were declared in a resolution adopted after prolonged debate, which holds that tlie Association properly should not assume the responsibility of ad vising Mnyor Abernethy regarding privileges of the auditorium. Confi dence was expressed in the competency of the Mayor in allowing use of the building. The Association was in closed ses three hours, barring even repro sentatives of the press. A resolution tending to endorse the stand of the city commission in de clining to allow tlie debate at the au ditorium was voted down. FEWER DEATHS BUT MORE PERSONS KILLED BY AUTO Florida Replaces North Carolina at the Head of Killed and Injured Col- . umns. (A 3 )—A decrease of two deaths and an increase of 53 persons injured in accidents during the past week as compared with the preceding seven days was shown in a survey of traffic conditions iu eleven Southern states conducted by tlie Associated Press. The totals gave 37 persons killed and 278 injured last week; and 39 killed nnd 225 injured tlie week previous. Florida replaced North Carolina at the head of tlie killed and injured col umn with eight persons dead and 45 injured. The Tar Heel State tied her in the list of fatalities, but had only eight injured. Georgia was in the lend position in the number of persons injured with 51. Alabama and Mississippi had only one fatality each, while South Caro lina and Virginia ranked next with two each. Arkansas reported only 33 persons injured. PLANS HEARING FOR CHARLOTTE “CHILD BRIDE” Mrs. Nellie Freeman Held for Slay ing Her Husband Saturday Night. Charlotte, May 24. — (A 3)—Alternat ing between grief and satisfaction. Mrs. Nellie Freeman, “child bride", { was today in jail and Coroner Frank Hovis was preparing to ask for a preliminary hearing for the woman, charged with the slaying of her hus band, Alton Freeman. Saturday night. Mrs. Freeman told officers she slashed her husband’s throat with a raxor when he told her he was desert ing her. He died within a few min utes. The slaying occarrred at the home of Freeman's parents, where the couple lived. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE RADITCH IS FRUSTRATED Young Nationalist Arrested Just as He Was About to Throw a Bomb. Belgrade, Jugo-Slavia, May 24.—(A 3 ) — An attempt to assassinate Stefan Raditcb. Croat peasant party leader and minister of education, was frus trated at Starnpnzova today. A young nationalist. Slavko Milch, was arrest ed just as he was about to throw a bomb at the minister during a meet ing at Raditch. Will Investigate Boyles Charges. Mobile, Ala., May 24.— (Aft— Fed eral Judge Robert P. Ervin today in structed the grand jury to invest!- j gate charges of violating the federal law by District Attorney Aubrey | Boyles. j > The court appointed Joseph John.} : special prosecutor, to investigate the: i charges against Boyles. j i John was dismissed last week by , the department of justice as assist t ant district attorney. • . Boyles’ second appointment was re jected by the Senate Friday. AIR SURVEY OF CROP CONDITIONS IN STATE A Systematic Air Survey Planned by Department of Agriculture. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, May 24.—A systematic photographic air survey of crop con ditions in North Carolina is being planned by the state department of agriculture nnd tlie necessary ma chinery in Washington has been set in motion to secure the assignment of a photographic plane from Lang ey Field for the use of the state ag ricultural department here, it was an nounced today. It is planned to mnke the first sur vey about June 15th nnd to follow with two more similar surveys on July 15th and August 15th over the same territory, thus obtaining a pho tographic record of crop growth in the various agricultural sections of the state during these Five air photographs, that later will be worked into a mosaic-composite pho tographic map, will be taken at 25 different points within an area ap proximately 300 miles. The route of the survey will ex tend through approximately twenty counties in the heart of the state's agricultural section, so thnt the pho tographic record will show as wide a variety of crops as possible. Tlie centers of the cotton, tobacco, peanut, corn, oats and trucking centers will be traversed. The photographic plane will start from Langely Field, and entering North Carolina over Gates county, the series of photograps will be started, taken with one of the large airplane cameras used by the war department, which is equipped with a telephoto lense. From Gates county the route will extend south-eastward through Hert ford, Bertie nnd a corner of Halifax counties, on into Edgecombe, Wilson, Johnson and Cumberland counties, down to Fort Bragg. Then the re turn circuit will be started back through Cumberland and Hoke coun ties, and over Harnett, Lee, a cor ner of Chatham county, and on over Wake, Franklin, Vance, Warren, a corner of Halifax county nnd across Northampton. From Northampton county the plane will cross back into Virginia and land at Langley Field. The entire circuit and survey will require less than a day’s time and a photographic record, the most accu rate thnt can be obtained, will have been made that would have taken weeks to obtain without the aid of an airplane. Tlie manner in which these pho tographs are taken is both simple, yet complicated, according to Frank Parker, state statisticians of the de partment of agriculture, under whose direction the survey is to be made. Mr. Parker made an experimental survey last year,’ which proved so successful that it is to be taken on a larger scale this year. The big camera, which holds ,a roll of film containing 125 negatives, fits j into the floor of • the cockpit of the plane. There is a large range finder on the camera that shows the opera tor all that is within range of the camera lense, and in the same size as it will appear on the negative. When a mosaic picture of the terrain below is desired, a number of exposures are made in quick succession, so that the pictures will overlap slightly, when these are developed and trimmed, a large picture several feet across each way in area, results, and from pic tures of this sort the necessary data as to crops are obtained. Since the camera has a tela-photo lense, details are recorded, even at a heights of two Or three thousand feet, that cannot be seen with the naked eye. From looking st one of these large composite photographic maps, it is possible to distinguish corn from cotton and tobacco from truck, as each has its own characteristics when viewed from the air. Poorly fer tilized “spots” are easily located and grass allowed to grow between rows where the Cultivation has been poorly done, shows up plainly. The department of agriculture ex pects these surveys to prove of re markable value in studying eondi : tions of crops and in finding reme dies for these conditions, where un | favorable. i Government Captains Blueflelds. 'j Managua, Nicaragua, May 24. — UP) | —The city of Blueflelds which has been held by the revolutionists, was eaptared this morning without fight ing, the government announces. This is regarded here as the end of the 1 revolutionary movement. ■ I INVESTIGATION OF CHAIN GANG SYSTEM IN ALABAMA The Most Sensational Developments. Come to Light. (By International News Service) Birmingham, Ala., May 24.—0 n the heels of one of the most sensation al developments in the whole convict, leasing investigation by the grand ju ry, rumors were current here that Cecil Houston, pictured as the "kill er" at tlie Flat Top convict mines, has confessed to his alleged part in the (lentil of James Knox. Solicitor Jim Davis announced that Houston, the life-term trusty, will be State's witness in tile forth coming trial of Charles R. Davis, for mer warden who is charged with first degree murder n connection with the death of Knox. While the Solicitor refused to add to this statement, reports immediate ly became current that Houston had confessed. Such a confession was mnde by Homer Anderson, negro hos pital steward at Fiat Top, who now admits that he pumped poison into Knox's body to simulate suicide after Knox had died from alleged abuse. Houston, a check-runner, or under ground "straw-boss" of a convict gang, is alleged to have flogged Knox for his refusal to work. He is also charged with participation in the sub sequent ducking of Knox in a laun dry vat. fvhere he died. The week beginning June 14 has been set for the trials of Chief War den Davis and five others charged with first degree murder in connec tion with atrocities at the mine. ' W. A. Bates, former deputy ward en at Flat Top. will be the first of the six men under indictment to face a jury. He is charged with having clubbed to death Frank Harper, a ne gro convict. Bates is at liberty under $25,000 bond. Warden Davis is scheduled to go on trial immediately after Bates' trial is concluded. Tiie warden is charged with the death of Knox. He is also under bond of $25,000. Cecil Houston, a "straw-boss” un der Warden Davis, and Elbert Lewis. H. Joe Bayne and Homer Anderson, trusties, will go on trial after a jury decides Bates' fate. They are charg ed with having had part in the death of Knox. The State's ease against the six de fendants is yet incomplete, Solicitor Davis said. THE COTTON MARKET Appeared to Be But Very Little Buy ing Power After the Covering Late Last Week. New York. May 24.— (A P)—A more fnvorable view of Southern -weather conditions seemed responsible for an opening j damages for losses sustained, it was ■ ! decided today by Judge Marton of the 1 circuit court of appeals. OUR INTENDED AT PRESENT Ff- CALIFORNIA flit I Assistant Secretary An-1 | drews Makes Statement ) Regarding State Officials Acting as Federal Agents i WAS BOMBARDED j BY CRITICISMS | He Defended the Order as Entirely Constitutional. May Be Revoked at Any Time, He Says. Washington, May 24.—(/P)—Bom barded by criticism from both wets and dry*. Assistant Secretary An drews today assured the country he laid no intention of authorizing state and local officials generally through out the country to act as prohibition agents. The government prohibition chief reiterated that President Coolidge's executive order making possible the | performance of such a function by state, county and city officials, was intended for the present at least for California only. He defended the Presidential order, however, as entirely constitutional, blit conceded that it involved some as pects which might be "very danger ous." The Federal commission to be giv en the local officials, he added, would be issued with the understanding that they are revocable at any time. General Andrews expressed •‘sur prise" at the reception given the or der which has been assailed by the wet* as an invasion of states rights, and criticised by some drys as resting on doubtful constitutional basis. "Giving authority to a man over whom you have not got 100 per cent, control is very dangerous,’’ he said, “and I will be very loath to do it. The Executive order was asked for merely to meet the situation in California where some deputy sheriffs have vol unteered to police rural precincts in co-operation with the Federal forces. I have no intention, and had none, of extending this plan throughout the country. “However, I think the order is perfectly legal and constitutionally sound." i ROCKINGHAM WOMAN FATALLY SHOOTS SELF , Mrs. Anna Thomas Lea Had Suffered Breakdown While in United States Employ Rockingham, May 23. —This com munity was shocked this morning by the death of Mrs. Anna Thomas Lea, which occurred at 11:30, following self-inflicted wounds sustained two hours earlier. Mrs. tea had been in poor health for some weeks, having suffered -a nervous breakdown in Washington where she was in gov ernment employ. She came home two months ago and spent a month in the Hamlet Hospital in the hope of rebuilding her nervous condition. Last night she attended a Chautauqua play with some friends, and at break fast with her father this morning gave no indication of the impending act. She did the small chores in the home this morning before breakfast, and showed her solicitude for her father’s comfort by asking if she might pre pare his bath. Immediately after breakfast she went into one of the rear bedrooms, and at once there rang out two pistol shots in rapid succes sion. She was found with a bullet in her temple, and her life blood fast ebbing away. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the resi dence. Mrs. Lea, who was 33 years old, was the widow of Major Robert Em mett Lea, who died at Camp Pike several years ago. Photographers Meeting in Charlotte. Charlotte, May 24.— P)—Hold ing it has no jurisdiction, the Supreme Court today refused to pass on a test case involving the right of .property owners in the capital to enforce an agreement barring negroes from own ing houses in certain residential sec tions. The consumption of ice cream in i the United States has increased • from 1.04 gallons a yehr per penum in 1910 to 2.8 gallons in 1025. THE TRIBUNE PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAtJ NO. 12Q COMMENCEMENTS ■ .ouiiT PLEASEHT ; ATTRACTING l|J The Program Opened Witl§ i Class Day Mont Amoena Seminary I at 6p. m. Saturday. ! SERMON HEARD M BY BIG CROWD Dr. Bell Preached to GfijjS; gregation That Packed Church—The Class PKjf Will Be Given TonigHtT BY \V. M. SHERRILL '][ Mt. Pleasant. May 24.—The com mencement program for Mont Amoena Seminary and Mt. Pleasant CoßtwSßPi Institute, the two Lutheran siffowjl here, is in full swing today witil scores of former students and frieii&l of the two institutions present. Tiie program began Saturday evft , niug when members of the senior • class at’the seminary held their iMHyi day exercises. The exercise attfp^B| ; a large crowd and proved one of Iflf • most interesting in the history of tH school. Yesterday the first feature of the joint program was held when Dr. E K. Bell, of the Theological at Columbia. S. C„ preached the Bac calaureate sermon. Many weri? fin able to get into the Lutheran Ohui-i* where Dr. Bell delivered his the congregation being the larfeag i perhaps, in the history of the sfitgMHj Tiie streets of this town are er»M|| ed with visitors today, and there is o holiday spirit in evidence. The auto has done as much as any other fiie ; tor, to increase attendance at the commencement exercises, for whereas it formerly took all day to driye in with the horse and buggy, the toym is only a short distance from all of the outlying districts now that motor, has taken its place with other necessities on the farm. The people here are stii, talking about the very able address delivered last night by Rev. Oscar Blackwel der, one of the most successful grad uates of the institute. Mr. Blackwel der spoke before the Luther League of the Seminary and the Y. M. C. A. of the institute, giving the young wom en and young men -a masterful ad dress on some of the essentials in life. Mr. Blackwelder is often called to Mt. Plea want at commencement time for by all former students and patrons of tlTe school he is held in peculiarly high esteem. V Ktl* The program this morning attract ed an audience that packed the audi torium. the occasion being the annual declaimers’ contest for a gold medal. The contest this year brought out six speakers of unusual ability and their subjects were heard with keen inter est. P. H. Lipe, whose subject was “How the La Rue Stakes Were Lost,’’ was awarded the medal and honorable mention was won by H. H. Sloop, who spoke on “The Unknown Rider.” Judges for the contest were Dr. C. K. Bell. L. E. Blackwelder and Rev. W. C. Lyerly. Other speakers in ad dition to the winners were: E. B. Bolick on “The Ruins of Time,” W. t ; E. Hendrix, on “True Nobility,” A. ! H. Johnson, J: 1 .. on “Burgoyne’s Sur render," and H. C. McAllister on 1 "Lest We Forget.” While the institute is noted for the thoroughness with which it conducts ; its work its most enviable reputation 1 iierhaps, has been attained through the excellence of the speakers who have gone out from it. The ulttMual training the students receive was. re flected in the fine manner in which the young men spoke til’s morning Many alumni of the school gather ed at noon for their annual meeting, ’ being served dinner as the guests of ’ the school. ? The crowd was looking forward with interest to the address to be de livered to the alumni this afternoon M 3 :30 by C. O. P. Trexler, of the class | of ’ls. Tonight the annual play wiU be J given and tomorrow many features arc offered. The literary address wiU be delivered at 10:30 by Dr. Charles ' H. Smith, president of Roanoke Col lege and in the afternoon the annual contest in debate will be held. The 1 students of the seminary will give their musical recital tomorrow eve ning in the chajiel of the school. *: The program will be concluded with the graduating exercises Wednesday morning. The baccalaureate sermon was de ’ livered at 11 o’clock Sunday morning [ by the Rey. Charles K. Bell., D. D., ~ professor of Practical Theology at the 1 Lutheran Theological Seminary, Co lumbia, S. C. 1 Dr. Bell took his text from ag-’ Luke 5:3, “And He entered into on* 1 of the boats which was Simon’s, and 5 asked him to put out a little from land. And He sat down and taught ' the multitude from the boat.” '* . In his discourse Dr. Bell stressed the thought that man is honored by a request from God. The opportunity for active service is one which permits, a man to definitely align himself with God. or to remain on the side that ,1s against Him. The request that came to Sim on was for a favor—God asking a favor (Continued on Page Five) THE WEATHER Generally fair and somewhat aiillM* er ton’ght and Tuesday. Gentle to moderate variable winds.