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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1945
1UP O’ 1UIS MUKM.Xj
There is nothing which hinders, chokes
the channel of prayer and ties God’s
hands like malice, unforgiveness and bit
terness locked up in the hearts of God’s
professed Christians.
—J. H. Hames.
First Chest Call
Although the general solicitation of the Com
munity War Chest is not scheduled to start
in Wilmington until October 10 (one week from
»day) two special units are now in the field
inviting their classifications to make their
gifts now. One is the special gifts committee,
ihe other the professional division. They hope
to complete their work before the general
campaign opens.
As this is the final solicitation for war funds,
it is reasonable and fair to expect that gifts
from groups now being visited will be liberal.
Local institutions and charites which depend
upon the Community Chest for their support
are entitled to expect equal liberality. Their
work goes on from year to year, and the work
if all participating units is essential to the
welfare and development of the community.
The fact that there will be but the one gen
eral solicitation, with the exception of the Red
Cross, instead of the many as in the years
before the Chest was established, relieves res
idents of frequent requests for money. It is
easier on donors as well as solicitors.
Both the groups now being visited and the
general public which will have opportunity to
contribute next week are urged to be ready
to sign on the dotted line at the time of the
iirst solicitation. They, as well as the worker,
will be saved time and annoyance involved
in the second call.
Care First For Veterans
John W. Snyder, director of reconversion,
has submitted another report (his fourth) to
President Truman in which he forecasts eight
million persons will be without employment
by spring. This estimate is from four to five
million above the average unemployment
level. There are from three to four million,
persons out of work in ordinary times, in
cluding unemployable*, invalids and chronic
idlers. The eight million forecast therefore
does not represent the economic crisis it
seems to be on first reading.
Nevertheless it is disheartening to antici
pate such an increase in unemployment
especially as a part of it will be veterans dis
charged from the armed services.
There seem to be two ways to take care of
them, at least. One is to offer them the jobs
deserted by strikers. The other is to keep
them in uniform until the spreading 1 a bor
troubles have been disposed of. In the first
, case, the strikers would still be idle, but they
deserve no consideration. In the second, the
uniformed men, already restive, would resent
being kept longer in the services, despite the
fact they were sheltered and fed and paid.
The government’s part is not to provide
strikers or other persons capable of doing a
day’s work, but voluntarily idle, with money,
as proposed under the administration’s unem
ployment bill, but let them shift for them
•elves as best they can and concentrate on
Offering jobs to veterans, who deserve the best
the country and the government can do for
them.
Up To Big Three
The foreign Ministers were lingering in
London When this was written, but there is
no reason to think they will do anything ol
consequence. If the program for peace is to
be-launched at all it seems probably that the
Big Three will have to tackle the job. At this
writing that is what they are expected to do.
It is generally believed that Stalin, Truman
and Attlee will meet again, and because they
are all a bit more diplomatic though Tru
man and Attlee are new at the game, they
i may be able to reach some sort of decision
that will clear the way for the treaties the
London Conference has failed to draft or even
frame.
It is not wholly clear why Mr. Molotov, the
Russian delegate to t h e London conference
should be so averse to granting China and
France representation while treaties for the
Balkan countries are under consideration, bul
that is the reason for the London parley fail
ure. There may be some excuse for excluding
■ China, as the Chinese had no part in achieving
victory in Europe and have no interests a
stake in the peace to be offered Germany’s
satillite countries. But France has interests
1 ’
in the Balkan area and would appear to have
a just right to participate in any discussion
concerning ulitmate peace there - if the Bal
kans can ever be at peace, which is improb
able.
Maybe the Big Three can find the solution
to the problem that has the Foreign Ministers
buffoloed.
As Stalin has heretofore failed to get far from
home in any previous conference, and as he
needs a broader view if he is ever to over
come his innate suspicion of all things not
Russian, it is only fair that he come either
to Washington or go to London, if another
Big Three meeting is to be held.
Fight For Power
Yesterday the United Press declared the
Oil Workers International Union of the CIO
was extending its refinery strike from coast
to coaJt in an effort to “force the petroleum
industry to meet demands for a 30 per cent
wage increase.’’
That is the obvious side of the strikes. The
side that is not apparent on casual considera
tion is that the union is engaging in a fight to
g-in control of the industry, and once that is
accomplished, to extend control to other basic
industries upon which the economic structure
of the nation is built.
This is the studied view of Samuel B. Pet
tengill who for six years was a member of a
house sub-committee which dealt with the
petroleum industry.
A statement issued by him on the subject
has been received by the Star through the
agency of the America’s Future Syndicate. In
part, he says:
“Do you want another John L. Lewis to
have total control of all the men who work
in the petroleum industry of the country as
the first Lewis has in the coal industry?
“This is the goal of the strike leaders in
the oil refineries. Under the guise of a dispute
over wages the real struggle is one for power.
The power will be called industry-wide bar
gaining. If it is secured, that concentrated
power will be used to take the whole nation
by th?'throat whenever it is decided to shake
more dollars loose. That happened twice in
time of wax in the coal industry and may
happen again in that industry. Twice John
Lewis, with his hand on the j.ever of industry
vdde bargaining compelled even the govern
ment of his country to knuckle to his will.
“Industry-wide bargaining puts the econom
ic jugular vein of 138,000,000 people in the
grasp of one man or a small group of men.
For when refineries close, oil in the pipelines
ceases to flow, the producing wells close, and
the nation must gasp like a stranded fish on
the beach for its vital supplies of gasoline
and fuel oil.
Anyone who fails to see parallels between
the situation developing here and the way a
small group of men became the masters of
Russia a quarter century ago is blind to his
tory.
For the moment I pass by the question of
wages. It may be that the petroleum industry
should make some agreement on that score in
the light of the advance in the cost of living,
although petroleum wages have doubled since
1926.
“But wage scales have never overturned
governments. Concentrated power has.
‘‘If the CIO can extend its control over
the whole petroleum industry, then the pattern
is set for its march to power over automobile
production, farm machinery, the food indus
tries, electricity( housing, transportation and
every segment of American life. Then nothing
but a nationwide strike such as England had
in 1926, or the use of troops, will determine
who is master.
The present struggle presents issues con
trary to the whole concept of free government
with its checks and balances, with its pow
ers widely distributed to the nation, states,
counties, cities, towns and the people them
selves. The Wise men who laid the foundations
of our liberty said:
“Absolute power belongs nowhere in a re
public.’’ Their wisdom should be apparent now
to the Italians, Germans, and Japanese. It
should be plain to Americans also.”
Tankers In Port
Before the war Wilmington was an impor
tant transfer point for petroleum products and
gasoline—among the most important on the
Atlantic seaboard. Word that three tankers
were in port Monday and another expected
to arrive within twenty-four hours, with a
combined cargo of 12,190,000 gallons of gas,
is big news in Wilmington’s postwar develop
ment and prosperity. It taxes no imagination
to foresee the day when the Port of Wilming
ton will be in active operation, with ships ar
riving and departing in greater numbers than
was ever believed possible.
Tne contacts established during the closing
period of the war by steamships delivering
cargoes from Wilmington to foreign destina
tions will be of inestimable value when the port
is reinforced with needed terminals and ware
houses for the accommodation of all types of
cargo that can be made available for load
ing here and for imports which, if the indus
trial possibilities of the area are realized, will
be unloading raw materials for manufacture.
Throughout the war there was no com
merce. When ships began to load here cen
sorship prohibited reference to it. Now that
censorship is removed we foresee announce
ment of an increasing number of ships in
P°rti and recognition of the party played in
port prosperity by the old reliable petroleum
products and gasoline business.
CURE FOR TRUANCY.
Selective service says boys entering high
school before they’re 18 may graduate before
being inducted if they don’t quit school or get
low marks. Watch for an outburst of home
work and attendance.—New York World Tele
gram.
Fair Enough
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, 1945, by King Features Syndicate)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 2—A Senate doc
ument, hitherto apparently overlooked, re
veals Elliott Roosevelt in the role of lobbyist
for a private electric power corporation in
Texas whose interests were threatened by the
Rural Electrification Administration.
Elliott addressed an appeal, in behalf of the
Texas Power and Light Company, to some one
in the White House whom he addressed as
“Steve,” apparently Steve Earl.y, then his
father’s ^principal secretary and a man of
great power of influence and decision.
The letter, written on the stationary of El
liott’s Texas state network, his radio chain,
was dated Fort Worth, March 1, 1941.
It was placed on record on Feb. 14, 1944,
by Carroll L. Beedy, counsel to a sub-com
mittee of the Senate Committee on Agricul
ture which was investigating the administra
tion of the R. E. A. with particular interest
in misfeasance, malfeasance and maladminis
♦ra'tinn
The witness was Claude Wickard, Secretary
of Agriculture and director and supervisor of
the R. E. A. by Roosevelt’s Appointment.
Beedy asked Wickard if he had toW the
late Senator Norris, of Nebraska, “the story
of alleged maladministration that had occurred
under Secretary Wallace, before you came in,
that had been reported to you.”
Wickard couldn’t remember, and his mem
ory failed him as to several more questions.
Then Beedy asked him, “did you have any
ideas at the time about what you were going
to do about it?”
“Yes,” Wickard said, “but I don’t think it
would be in the public interest to discuss these
at the present time.”
“We (the committee) are trying to find out
what has been done by you to remedy al
leged maladministration, to investigate charges
of wrong-doing,” Beedy continued.
As a public servant, Wickard insisted, nev
ertheless, that the public had no right to an
answer.
Now Beedy came to the Brazos transmis
sion line in Texas. The Texas Power and Light
Company, a private concern, “didn’t want this
R. E. A. project to be built,” he said. Mr.
Wickard did condescend to say that he had
discussed this case ‘‘with some people down
in Texas,” but to a direct question he refused
to name these people.
Q. “Did you discuss it with Elliott Roose
velt?”
A. "IMO, Sir."
Beedy then presented Elliott’s letter to
“Steve." It was three pages long and a plea
to “Steve” on behalf of Texas Power and Light.
The letter granted that it was a good idea
to extend electric service in west and central
Texas but said there was “no excuse what
ever” to establish ‘‘experimental plants” or
“yardsticks” in the eastern area.
I am genuinely and personally interested
in this thing.” Elliott wrote ‘‘Steve." “I know
that it involves a major policy but a policy
which has not so far received the sanction of
the President. It is new and untried. It might,
if unsuccessful from the standpoint of pro
viding adequate and continuous service, do
more harm to the rural electrification program
than good. I know these people down here and
I know they will do anything necessary to a
full cooperation with any federal agency and
still stay in business.”
Some of the people down there previously
had softened a ‘hot oil” criminal case by the
social approach to the White House, as a
measure of their “full cooperation” with the
government. Of this, more particulars in a
later instalment of the exploitation of the pres
idency.
‘‘If you need any facts,” Elliott wrote, ‘‘call
me and I will get them or tell you who to
get in touch with. Please do everything you
can to see to it that nothing is decided until
I can se you in Washington—probably next
Wednesday evening if you’re available.”
Mr. Beedy seemed to think this intervention
by the President’s son through the White House
in a matter affecting big private capital in
terests was pertinent to his own interest in
irregularities in the R. E. A.
"I refer to it,” he said, “because I have
been questioning the Secretary (Wickard
about what he did to investigate any charges
with reference to malfeasance or misfeasance
in the administration of the R. E. A., either
within or without it.”
Ihese matters, be it remembered, Wickard
believed to be none of the public’s business
Beedy said he was informed that the power
line eventually was built with R. E. A. money
and a colloquy developed the clear fact that
there was a rivalry in which Elliott’s friends,
the private interests, wanted the power for
sale for profit.
The nature of Elliott’s own ‘“genuine” and
“personal’’ interest, as to whether he might
gain money, was not brought out. There was
no statement as to whether his friends paid
him a fee for by-passing the appropriate au
thorities to appeal straight to his father’s chief
secretary and occasional vicar.
It is not amiss to say that professional lob
byists get fees in proportion to their connec
tions and the values at stake and that, like
doctors, who are paid though the patient dies,
the political fixer or lobbyist may collect
though his efforts fail.
Editorial Comment
PIGEONS ON THE GRASS
"I am worried as they are worried and
they are worried as I am worried,” says
Gertrude Etein in Paris concerning herself
and the servicemen. Well, the world is some
thing to worry about these days, and we
don’t see how anybody can contemplate it
without a degree of anxiety. And the things
we used to worry about seem s'o remote from
the things we have to worry about now. For
example there was this from Miss Stein’s
‘‘Four Saints in Three Acts:
Pigeons on the grass alas,
Pigeons on the grass alas,
Short longer grass short longer shorter yel
low grass.
Pigeons large pigeons on the shorter longer
grass.
Alas pigeons on the grass. ^
If they are not pigeons, what are they?
Once upon a time in the strange interlude be
tween .the wars, we used to worry about the
answer to that one. But we find that other
worries have now crowded out that worry. If
those are not pigeons, we don’t care what
they are. And if they are pigeons, we don’t
care either.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
OCCUPATION DUTY
How about all the boys who were deferred
in supposedly essential jobs? How about draft
ing those guys for occupation duty? I know
quite a few who would never have thought of
going to work in a ship yard if it hadn’t been
for the deferments.—George Jolliffe, India, in
a letter to the Baltimore Evening Sun.
SEPTEMBER MORN _|
Beggars Go To Town In Shanghai
On Highly Organize Business Basis
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BY RICHARD CUSHING
(Substituting For Kenneth Dixon)
SHANGHAI, Oct. 2 —(JF)— No
where in the world is begging such
a highly organized and flourishing
racket as in Shanghai, and Ameri
cans are slowly becoming harden
ed to beggars’ moans and ges
tures encountered everywhere.
Begging is done with bloodcurd
ling wails, the display of stubs of
amputated legs and arms, and the
merciless sacrifice of children to
extract alms from passersby.
Many cities have their beggars
but in Shanghia its a cold, cal
culated business, actually operat
ed under a half-dozen beggar
"guilds,” all said to be under the
eye of a fagin-like beggar king,
reputedly one of the wealthiest
men in China.
The common belief is that these
guilds are so well-fixed financi
ally that they hold stock in the
Shanghai Exchange and operate
much as any other business con
cern.
They take care of their mem
bers, providing transportation for
the legless to designated street
corners in the early morning, and
distribute containers of rice
throughout the city at noon.
Should a beggar die, the guild
spends a good sum on an elabor
ate funeral because that's a beg
gar’s aim in life—bowing out in
fitvlA
Beggars are seen everywhere—in
front of the luxurious hotels and
in the filthiest slums—and are a
constant source of amazement to
American sailors and soldiers
who at first were filled with com
passion at their artful ways to
gain a few pennies.
On many blocks, day or night,
the pedestrian is confronted by at
least a half-dozen grovelling beg
gars who lie quivering, wailing,
rolling their eyeballs in agonized
hands for alms,
rsihel dohou He a-ca oM
A withered or severed arm or
leg is naturally n asset in the
profession, and there are tales of
some beggars who actually had a
member amputated so as to in
crease their "take.”
Most heartrending, however, is
the use of children. A deformed
child contributes to the beggar’s
curbside setting of abject misery,
while many normal ones are de
liberately underfed for the same
purpose. Not infrequently a wo
man may be seen sitting beside
the body of a dead child and
wailing a plea for money.
Some children are taught to
quiver and moan constantly from
early infancy.
A more straightforward shake
down technique is that of jam
ming the entrances to churches,
hotels or residences during wed
dings, parties or other social
events and howling until a pay
off is made.
One frequent racket is worked
this way:
A beggar with a nonstop wail
parks at the gate of some promin
ent household, disturbing the resi
dents all day. The next day another
beggar goes on duty, and the next
another, until finally the houseboy
is informed that this nuisance can
be stopped with the gift of a little
money, but that otherwise it will
continue indefinitely.
If by chance a beggar fails to
get his fancy funeral when he dies,
others make money on the body
by carrying it to a doorstep and
stating the price required for re
moving it. The houseboy rarely
will undertake to do so, because
of the custom that requires burial
by the last person touching a body.
Besides, he may be party to the
racket.
The body lies beside the door un
til a payoff is made, and even
then the victim cannot be sure it
will not be returned surreptitious
ly the next night.
Strange to say, Shanghai actu
ally has some legitimate, hungry
beggars. They usually can be iden
tified by their long stringy hair,
because the organized beggars get
haircuts now and then.
Unless they join the fraternity,
however, the independent die off
rapidly.
The Literary Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
CASS TIMBERLANE, A Novel
of Husbands and Wives, by Sin
clair Lewis (Random House; $2.75)
Judge Timberlane, divorced, en
counters Jinny Marshland when
she comes to testify at a trial in
Grand Republict Minnesota, man
ages boldly to secure an introduct
ion, courts and weds her.
He knows the best people;
Drover, Havock, Pennloss, Prutt,
Criley, Margate . . . names as
good as Gantry and Babbit . . . .
but Jinny, daughter of a druggist,
stands only on the threshold of
high society. He takes her inside,
and she is accepted.
He takes us inside, too. The time
is the 1940s. The subject is the
most perplexing and persistent of
all social conflicts, not race o r
labor or religion but the relations
of men and women. They are un
satisfactory, Lewis concludes.
There’s nothing new about that.
Despite promises to love and obey,
husbands and wives quarrel, hate,
sneak out to hunt consolation or
excitement or merely change. It
happens not only in Grand Repub
lie but also in Grand Rapids,
Bangor, Rouge and a score of oth
er places catalouged by the author.
Lewis gives it a new, fresh treat
ment, however. There are mo
ments, if it is true, when I wish he
would stop preparing to tell his
story and tell it; moments, when
his inserted, spicy vignettes of as
sorted husbands and wives are con
fusing; and moments when con
versation intended to carry out the
plot gets a little implausible.
On the whole, however, this is
a novel worthy of the author of
“Main Street” and “Babbit.” Char
acters spring to life in a vivid(
brilliant word or phrase. The tone
shifts from sarcastic to scathing to
savage. The writing is masculine,
and entertaining. If at times you
don’t seem to be getting anywhere,
Lewis generally makes you com
fortable while you wait.
Marriages by the dozens are held
HP to ridicule; it’s dirty linen; it’s
family skeletons on parade. But
marriage as an institution, if we
may judge by the ending, is right.
Lewis doubts whether we can suc
ceed at it, but wishes we’d keep
on trying. His appeal in its behalf
is even emotional—a rare trait in
this author.
Daily Prayer
FOR ALL BEHIND THE FRONT
Night and day, our unvocal
hearts cry out to Thee, O Infinite
God, in behalf of our fighting men
and our Country. Now today we
pray espec.ally for all those who
cannot fight; whose hearts are on
the battle front, but who must
serve at home. Grant them the
warrior’s joy and the warrior’s
peace. Teach them how vital is
their task and how sacred; and
grant them real unity in the Cause
with the fighting forces at the
front, who lean for life upon their
labors. In mill and factory and
shipyard and on the farm may our
great army of the service of sup
plies glow with the ardor and de
votion of those in the heat of con
flict. For the craven one’s whose
bodies shrink from danger we
pray that Thy virile Spirit ’ may
descend upon them and save the r
souls before it is too late. So may
none of us shame Thee or one an
other in the great day oftvictory
Amen—W.T.E.
A barge canal west of the Red
River from Shreveport, La., to a
connecting point with the river
below Marksville, La., is being con
sidered by the U. S. Army Engi
Fifty-three volunteers who work
YOUR G1 RIGHTS j
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. —Here
are some general auestoons from
veterans and their relatives:
Q. My husband was 24 years old
when he went into the Army in
1941. Now he is 28 and still has
two more years of college before
he can get his degree. That will
make h'm 30 or 31 years old be
fore he can start looking for s
job. Is there any provision for
speeding up his education or get
ting a shorter course for him?
A. It is possible that some of
the training he had while in the
Army would give him additional
credit toward graduation. Many
colleges are now considering a
speeded up set of courses for vet
erans.
Q. Would it be possible for me
to go to school for a year before
claiming my reinstatement rights
to the job I had before I was draft
ed?
A. No. You have to apply for
reinstatement within 90 days of
your discharge from the service
Q. Is it true that the government
will give an American flag to the
family of a dead veteran, for drap
ing over his casket?
A. Yes. Application must be
made to postmasters at any county
seat post office or any other post
office designated by the Veterans
Administration, or any field- office
of the Veterans Administration.
The flag shall be given to the next
of kin after burial.
Q. How much money does a vet
eran get from the government
while he is getting vocational re
habilitation?
A. During the training period
and for two months after employ
ability is determined, a single per
son receives pension at the rate of
£80 a month, a married person $90
a month with $5 a month for each
dependent child and an additional
allowance of $10 a month for each
dependent parent.
The Doctor Says—
HUMAN ARTERIES
HARDEN WITH AGE
By WILLIAM A. O’BRIEN, M. 1).
The elastic tissue in the arterieg
which wears out as we grow older
is replaced by scar tissue, lime
and other non-elastic materials.
The vessel wall thickens and be
comes more brittle, which may
cause it to plug or rupture. Al
though hardening of the arteries
occurs in all of us as we grow old
er, the change does not start at
the same age or develop at the
same rate in everyone.
Slight aging changes are seen in
the arteries of babies and through
out childhood. As soon as we stop
growing, aging changes in the ar
teries become more marked until
they are found in most blood ves
sels in persons of advanced years.
Hardened arteries may carry as
much blood as ever, in some in
stances actually more because
they are stretched and longer, but
the vessel wall lacks elastic recoil
and this interferes with the flexi
bility of circulation.
The chief accident which occurs
in hardening of the arteries is rup.
ture. Most vital spot in the body
for rupture to occur is the brain,
where the contition is known as
apoplexy. A celebral “accident"
occurs when a small or large ves
sel in the brain is blocked or torn,
with the result apparently more
serious in the beginning than it
will be later on. If the hemorrh
age is large or if a vital spot is
affected, paralysis of the face, arm
and leg occurs. Most of us suffer
many small strokes as we grow
older without real paralysis devel
oping.
Hardening of the arteries results
in interference with the circulation
by narrowing the passage way.
Favorite spots for this change to
develop are the coronary arteries
of the heart, and the arteries of
the legs and feet. The circulation
tends to be less efficient in the
heart and the lower extremities as
we grow older and we should not
tax our reserve by over-exertion.
Injuries of the feet, even those
which are superficial, have less of
a tendency to heal promptly in
older persons because of insuffi
cient circulation.
Difficulty in high blood pressure
occurs in the smallest arteries ot
the body which are composed chief
ly of muscle. In the beginning
stages of high blood pressure,
these small arteries develop
spasm, while in the later stages
permanent hardening occurs. Pur
pose of these small arteries is to
distribute blood flow where need
ed. They operate like faucets, shut
ting off or turning on the blood. In
high blood pressure there is a ten
dency for the arterioles to be set
for a smaller stream. The heart,
to overcome the difficulty and de
liver the necessary blood to vari
ous parts of the body, must in
crease the force of contractions,
and this raises the pressure in the
system.
JANE C. GIBBONS
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When the S. S. Whistler is
launched Saturday morning at
10:30 by the North Carolina Ship
building Co., 12-year-old Jane Carl
Gibbons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. D. Gibbons, of New York, will
do the honors of christening the
third of ten similar vessels being
built here for the United States
Lines.
Her father is Treasurer of the
United States Lines, purchaser of
the S. S. Whistler. Coming to Wil
mington with Miss Gibbons, in ad
dition to her parents, will be her
brother John D. Gibbons.
The S. S. Whistler is a Mari
time commission type C2-S-AJ5
vessel with two between decks
insulated for refrigerated cargo
and accommodation for six pas
sengers.
The vessel is named for a clip
per ship Whistler bulit by Georg*
W. Jackson, Jr., at Newburyport,
Mass.,in 1853. Owned by Bush and
Wildes of Boston, the 820-ton
square-rigger left Boston for San
Francisco and China, made two
voyages and on her third ran
aground in Bass Straits in Sou'h
Australia to become a total loss.
The new S. S. Whistler is the
230th vessel built by the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company.
Primary Grade Bible
Manual Explained At
Ministerial Meeting
Miss Maude Webber, Bible
teacher in Wilmington schools,
was introduced and her new
manuscript for teaching the Bible
was explained at the Wilmington
Ministerial association meeting
yesterday morning at the YMCA.
H. M. Roland, superintendent
of schools, gave a brief history of
Biblical instruction i n public
schools and outlined Miss Web
ber’s prepared manual for pri
mary school children.
The Rev. H. J. Wilson, incoming
president of the association, pre
sided, announcing a special meet
ing of the group to be held on Mon
day, Oct. 15. Constitution and by
laws of the association will be
drawn up at that time. The Novem
ber meeting will be in the form of
a dinner, it was decided.
Adam Smith, director of physical
education at the Y .M. C. A., gave
a talk urging the support of the
ministers for the Sunday school
basketball league, now being form
ed for the coming season, and their
cooperation in observing National
Y. M. C. A. Health Week next
February.