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good will toward men.
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"CHURCHES FIGHT
( OVERDIVINITY
JlHunt'npton Ministerial As-
Butiacion ixpeis iwo
Members.
SAD PLIGHT OF
RUSSIANTARTAR
No Food in the Soviet Re
public of the Far East;
Typical Case.
By ROBT. STARR THORNBUK'J.
International Jiewm Staff Correspondent.
Huntington, V. Va.. Dec. 23.
Huntington, the bluest blue-law town
m America outside of Zion City has
been plunged into a'; theological war
over the question of the divinity of
Jesus Christ. Two Congregationalist
ministers have been expelled and pub
licly rebuked by the Ministerial Asso
ciation, bitter sermons have been
preached in many of the churches and
pro and con resolutions adonted hv
religious organizations.
The Rev. Fred W. Hagan, graduate
cf Yale Uniiversity, is the central fig
ure in the religious storm. Has;an
stands for prog-csslve religion which
will harmonize with modern sciientific
teaching. He believes Jesus: Christ was
a man not a God; that the Bibl is a
l ook prepared by men, in which were
written prejudices and idr-als of the
past and that Biblical miracles were
no more miracles than those of tho
wireless and airplane- of to-day.
the Ministerial Association, headed
by Dr. Join S. Jenkins. Southern
Methodist, adopted a ivsolutiicn char
acterizing the Rev. Hasan's state-
ments and his rermons as offensive.
Tf':h Kafjan and his assistant, the
Rev. H. N. Dukes, were dismissed
from the ministers' society without a
Hearing.
"I have no apology to make." Hagan
declared after the meeting. "I believe
a liberal Gospel is the hope of the
Church. If the Church will put its
teachings on a reasonable basis men
everywhere will accept religion."
t r , , .
nagan suggested tnat there are
many ministers in Huntington who
belive in a liberal Gospel, but are
afraid if trey teach it they will be
thrown out of their churches.
The Congregationalist minister,
while a student at Yale and after his
graduation, preached in seventy-three
different churches in New England.
"I found in New England, in the
West and on the battlefields of France
in the World War, men would not. ac-
I cept the teachings of the Church be
cause they could not reconcile them to
common sense and scinece," he said-
baptists, Presbyterians, Southern
and Northern Methodists and Conere-
. rationalists are alike in this belief."
The minister describes Jesus Christ
as a great personality, but he refuses
to belive His birth was the result of a
divine conception.
The Rev. J. Layton Mauze, pastor
of the aristocratic First Presbyterian
Church, led tiie attack again.?c the
Rev.. Hagan and the Rev. Dukes. He
propscd the resolution which dis
missed them without a trial. His reso
lution alleges Higan was untruthful,
offensive and that his teachings are
harmful to the Church.
A still more bitter arraignment of
the Rev. Hagan was made by the Rev.
M. L. Wood, pastor of a Baptist
church.
"If we accept the natural birth
theory of the Christ we will have to
I elieve that Jesus was an illegitimate
child that Mary, proclaimed in the
Scriptures as highly favored of God
and blessed among women, was really
a fallen Jewish girl and that Joseph
was a dupe and a fool," declared the
Rev. Wood from his pulpit.
The Congregational Church, with a
big and wealthy membership adopted
resolutions backing the Rev. Hagagn.
The resolutions exepressed belief in
their preacher, in spite of the vigorous
attacks of the other ministers of the
city. The. former Congregationalist
preacher was an organizer of the Min
isterial Association, the constitution of
yhich provides that none but those
believing in the divinity and deity of
Jesus Christ i3 eligible ' for member
ship. Huntington is said to have the
largest church attendance of any city
o its size in the eontry. From fifteen
to twenty thousand persons are regu
lar church attenders.
Ludogovka, Tartar Republic, Dec.
24. The fourth anniversary of the es
tablishment of the Soviet Republic in
Russia found this peasant village of
600 people in no mood for celebrating.
Foodloss and cheerless, the starving
population could have no heart for any
sort of jubilation, even if it knew what
the political maneuvers at Moscow
mean. Like most Russian peasants,
the unhappy folks of Ludogovka have
neither the learning nor the will to
study politics. Bread, wood and warm
Ned Gelute has licked his spouse
and kicked her madly from the house.
"And you would kiek your wife out,
too,," he cried, as he wiped off his
shoe, if she should want a different
hat and gown to wear to this and
that. The world is in a hectic mess
about a varied kind of drees.
If my wife, Jane, went to the
clothing are their three desires. They show Oie wore a dress .of indigo
COLLEGE GIRL WILL
HELP SOCIETY OUT
Chicago, Dec. 00. Through the
Influence of the college girl a change
for the better will be brought about in
the character of society, in the opin
ion of President Henry Noble Mac
Cracken of Vasrar, who has been nd
dressing alumnae meetings in Chi
cago. The college girl, according to
Dr. MacCrackcn will not be content
with perpetual frivoiiy.
"Too much frivolty bores the col
lege girl," said Dr. MacCracken. "She
will not tolerate the unwholesome
things in sociey life. And because she
has been trained to be a leader the
will do away with them."
Dr. MacCracken said the college girl
will substitute pleasure and culture
for frivolity and speed.
"If girls must be happy," he de
clared, "they must have something
:nore to think about than style."
haven't enough of any of these
Winter has laid its first heavy coat
ing of snow on the flat prairies, and
the peasants have started, grhn-faced,
on their endurance test to see how
many can survive the six months of
cold and privation. Many of the
younger children have been deemed so
completely underfed by the doctors in
the employ of the American Relief Ad
ministration that they will be given
one good hot meal a day.
Ludogovka is a typical peasant vil
lage of the poorer class. It is 60
miles from Kazan and many miles
from the Volga and railway commu
nication. Unpainted log houses are
scattered along a main stret. The
houses generally have two rooms.
Some have three. Frequently the ani
mal sheds are built against the houses
for warmth. Many of the stables are
at the back end of long vegetable gar
dens which yielded few potatoes and
cabbats this year because of the
drought. The stables are chiefly de
serted. There is no forage, no grain
for the animals which have survived
up to this time on the dry stubble
which will soon be under several feet
of snow.
Russian doesn't have blizzards such
as are known in America. In late Oc
tober or early November the snows be
gin and continue gently nearly every
day until the earth is covered to a
depth cf three or four feet.
This Winter will not bring its cus
tomary round of Winter sports and
recreations. There are no horses to
draw he troikac; and jingle the bells
which ordinarily enliven Russian high
ways through the hor1 days and long
nights of frost.
The home ol Ivan Ivanovich Petroff
is typical of the most poverty-stricken
houses visited by .the correspondent.
Petroff is a farmer, as practically all
the villagers are. He has the use of
several dissiattrics of land, more than
he was able to cultivate because of lack
of animals and seed He had once
been a sturdy giant, over six feet tall.
But his ragged trousers show his legs
have shrunken to mere bones and his i
scraggly beard cannot conceal the!
emaciation and sallowness of his face. J
His wife is lying-, ill, above a large
masonry stove. A gangling, hollow
eyed boy of 16 stands listlessly and
gapes at the strangers. A little girl
of eignt. who is getting the American
meals and two others, slightly older,
who were not designated for the for
eign food, stand near their mother.
The furnishings of the room are al
most nil. It has the smell of poverty
and neglect. In good seasons Russian
peasant houses-- are seldom clean. They
are never ventilated. But the smell of
cabbage soup and tea make them less
offensive in normal years.
When asked , what the family had to
eat Petroff pointed to two loaves of
green bread which lay on the stove
and said there had been nothing else
for his family in ten days. He threw
open an adjoining room and pointed
to a pile of the improvised "flour" out
of which the bread was made. It was
nothing but ground up grass, leaves,
sunflower seed and other trash of a
similar character.
The visitors offered him money. He
took it unwillingly and asked: "But
what shall I do with it? There is noth
ing to buy in this village and I can't
go in search of food. Neither can my
family."
One of the American relief workers
thereupon offered to buy some flour in
a village many miles away. Through
out the remote villages of the Tartar
Republic and tne Samara Government
American workers have found the
same lack of food.
She bought a gown like gray sea foam
to wear at night around the home.
Whenever she went for a ride she
wore a black frock on her hide. My
bank account las suffered shocks from
indoor skirts and outdoor frocks. Each
morning that my wife cavie down she
wore a different breakfast gown. She
then put on some other duds to diddle
in the posie buds. A little later in
the day she went out in a new array,
saying that that special garb was made
for mingling with the mob. When in
the pantry making pies she wore a
kind of kitchen guise and every time
she wrote a note she donned a dainty
writing coat. Her harness often
changed at noon to one of crepe de
chine maroon. A golfing frock and
walking dress, a suit for bridge and
one for chess, and every kind of sport
ing gown she bought from merchants
in the town. Had not I kicked her
out, methinks she'd soon have one for
tiddle-dee-winks."
One can't blame poor Ned Gelute.
Where are the days when one good
suit would last a maid throughout the
day at home, outdoors, at work or
play? Ned did right in licking Jane.
The modern styles are quite insane.
Copyright, 1931, by Notts Publishing Co.
CHICAGO LlQtTOR RING
EXPOSED BY OFFICERS
Chicago, Dec. 24. Exposure of on9
of the most thoroughly organized liquor
rings ever operated in Chicago was ac
complished here yesterday, according
to Federal prohibition agents follow
ing the arrest of three men and the
confiscation offil barrels of whiskey.
The ring was exposed, according to
Federal agents, after attempts had
been made to bribe prohibition agents
with a view to flooding Chicago with
whiskey during the holidays.
The. men under arrest are Dr. I. Val
Freedman, Samuel D. Freedman, his
brother, and David Brumfleld, all of
Chicago. According to Edwin L. Weisl
assistaaf district attorney, warrants
are being prepared for the arrest of
several other persons, including a
number of prominent politicians.
The liquor ring was brought to light,
according to Federal authorities when
an attempt was made to bribe Col. A.
C. Earnshaw, chief of the intelligence
unit of the Revenue Department. A
fund of $100,000 had been raised for
bribery purposes and $300,000 for the
purchase of the entire product of three
distille-ies in Kentucky. Colonel Earn
shaw said he was told. He said he
was offered $65,000 'to allow the plan
to proceed. When arraigned charged
with violation of the Federal prohibi
tion law yesterday. Dr. Freedman and
Blumfield were released in bonus ot
$5,000 each and Samuel Freedman's
bonds were fixed at 52,000.
WHY GIRLS
LEAVE HOME
AT YOUR DRUGGIST
AaU for WY W.AME ONlV.avcid CulHtu.l
AN IRISH PERMIT
IS HARD TO OBTAIN
London, Dec. 24. Newspapers pub
lish the following as an official an
nouncement by Austin Stack, Sinn
Fein Home Affairs Secretary:
"Permits to emigrate cannot be is
sued to persons who have left Ireland
without them.
:NOT AFFECTED BY
THE HIGH ALTITUDES
GOVERNOR COOPER
GRANTS 31 PARDONS
Columbia, S. C,. Dec. 24. Governor
Robert A. Cooper today granted . 31
pardons and paroles to prisoners In the
penitentiary and on the chaingangs of
the- State. Some of the pardons were
persons who have been previously
paroled, given at this time to restore
citizenship. In addition several tem
porary paroles were granted to perrjiit.
prisoners to spend Christmas Day at
their homes. The Governor has not
yet acted on the recommendation of
the pardon board that Dan Murphy be
given a full pardon, although this
prisoner, who has served 30 years of
a life sentence, says he does not wish
to leave the prison.
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$5,000,000.09
North Carolina School
Bonds
On Friday. December 30, 1921, at 12
M., at the office of the State Treasuiev,
Raleigh. N. C, I will open bids for
$5,000 000.00 serial bonds of the Stats
of North Carolina, dated January 1,
1022, and maturing $250,000.00 on Jan
uary 1. 1927. and $250,000.00 on each
succeeding January for twenty years.
Rates of interest not exceeding o.
If bids are higher than 4Vs, only
$2,500,000.00 will be sold.
Bidders requested to file bids for
bonds at the lowest rate of interest at
par. Check for 2 must accompany
bid.
B. R. LACY,
State Treasurer.
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Alarm Clocks
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Air Rifles
London, Dec. 24. Many of the na
tives fo Peru it is stated, are much
less.- affected by the rarified air at high
altitudes than are ordinary men of
other races who are accustomed to
hard labor. It is declared that at an
altitude of 16,000 feet they can carry
loads of 150 pounds up a steep in
cline where the ordinary -person would
find it all he could do to drag his
OAvn boots up. V
The Royal Society is going to try
to find out what is the secret that
enables them to perform such feats of
physical strength under conditions
that would fender . the task an impos
sible one for the average man. Three
scientists have just gone to Peru to
investigate the phenomenon. They were
Frofessor Meakins, J. I. Barfcroft
and J. H. Doggart, the two latter of
Cambridge University.
Five other scientists from Canada
and Canada and New York will join
them in Peru. Mr. Barcroft told an in
terviewer that the purpose of the ex
pedition is to test the strain to which
the heart and lungs are subjected by
carrying heavy ' loads at such great
height, and to endeavor to discover
how the natives can stand it.
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ur many years of experi
ence in selling precious stoni3
is your warranty against mis
takes in judging quality in
value. See our showings ot
gift suggestions in gems.
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ADVERTISEMENT
CITY OF CHARLOTTE
To General Contractors
The Board of School Commissioners
of the City of Charlotte invite' sealed
proposals to erect and complete thj
Central High School, on corner of
Cecil Street and Elizabeth Avenue,
Charlotte, N. C, construction bond
of a surety company therefor in the
sum of 60 of the entire contract.
Only proposals obtained at the office
of Lockwood, Greene & Co., signed
by the bidder and left before 12 o'clock
noon, Thursday. January 5, 1922, at
the office of the Secretary of the
Board of School Commissioners, Mr.
H. P. Harding, together with a ' cer
tified check for , $7,500.00 payable to
J. L. Wolfe, Chairman of the Finance
Committee of the Board of School
Commissioners if the proposal i3 net
carried out, will then and there be
considered. The bid must be made in
duplicate, to be sent as above. The
Board of School Commissioners reserve
the right to reject any or all proupoala.
A deposit of $25.00 will be required
for a complete set of plans and
specifications, said sum to be refunded
on return of drawings and specifi
cations. A deposit of $15.00 will be
required for a set of heating and
ventilating or electric plans with speci
fications. Mutilation of the plans or specifi
cations will be deemed sufficient cause
for the forfeiture of said deposit.
Address Lockwood, Greene & Co., Engi
neers, 422 Piedmont Building, Char
lotte. N. C. Dec.24,25,28,29;Jan.:U
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