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VOL. XLIII. NO. 118.
MS
AZETTE
US REFUSESTHE HAGUE
lilMION IF SUCHJIn
MEAOEGOGfllllON OF
THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT
Reported in Washington That
Lloyd George Has SenUAn
other Invitation With Fuller
Explanation of Plan No
Comment From State De
partment. (By Tlie Associated Tress.)
WANJUNOTOX, May IS. Interest
in tint Washington end of the situation
regarding tlie Hague coiiforoii-e i 'an
centered largely today in tlie report
from Paris yesterday that it was under
Htood Premier Lloyd George had sent
iiuother message to tin Tinted States
government giving a fuller explanation
of the l'hui fir the adjourned meeting
of an international commission there to
further examine the liussi.-in problem.
No additional message had been re
ceived early today. State Department
officials said, ami in the absence of of
ficial advices they declined to comment
on the report that such a message had
lieen despatched.
Close observers
American official
of the attitude ot
toward tiir lius-inii
were convinced that
ouestioa. howcvci
II..' American liovernment s declination
of the invitation to join in the work of
The Hague commission was based on a
lixed approach toward rerognitin.i of
the Soviet Government and from which
there was no disposition ti recede. It
was re-cmphasized today that the Tint
cd States stands ready to join with the
other powers in any purely scientitie ;n
vestigation of conditions in Kussia with
a view to recommending steps necessary
for that country's economic rdiabilita
tioli, but that it brieves such restora
tion could not be hoped for under the
terms outlined in the liiissiaii memoran
dum of May II at Genoa.
The attitude indicated in that mem
oranduiii, fron which The Hague com
mission plan appeared to be an otT
nliiM.it, it was said, stands as an " im
possible bearere to the establishment of
any relations with Kussia." The I'ni
ted States, it was stated authoritatively,
could not be induced to enter a discus
shin resting in any way on the Itussian
attitude that political phases must be
considered as they affect the economic.
NON-AGGRESSION PACT ADOPTED.
(By The Associated Press.)
GKNOA, May IS. The mm aggres
sion pact was adopted unanimously at a
plenary meeting of the political sub coin
mission of the Genoa conference today.
The pact was not signed, but was adopted
ill the form fo a resolution, each state
pledging itself to respect it.
U. S. RESERVES DECISION.
(.By The Associated Press.;
GKNOA. May Is. Keuter's today
slates that a reply has been reu iu' l,
from the I'uited States, with referemej
to participation iu the projected com- j
mission at The Hague on Itussian affair-,!
saying the Viiifed States reserves its do-
cision, pending a further investigation j
: and until the itimtion becomes clearer, j
TEXT OF PACT.
(By The Associated Press.)
GKNOA, May is. - The agieement
for a truce, or temporary pact of non
aggression, decided upon by the political
sub commission of the Genoa conference,
subject to filial ratification by the full
conference, contains six clauses, fam
iliarized as follows :
Clause 1 Provide. for the appoint
incut of a commission by the powcis to
examine again the divergencies existing
between the soviet government and other
governments and with a view to inciting
a Russian commission having the sane
mandate.
Clause 2. Not later than .lime 2o the
names of the powers represented on the
non-Russia ii enmmissioTr and the name
of the members of this commission will
be transmitted to the Soviet Govern
ment, and reciprocally, the names of the
niemU'rs of the Russian commission "ill
be communicated to the other Govern
meats.
Clause .'!. - The question to be treated
by these commissions will comprise debts,
private properties and credits.
Clause 4. The members of the two
commissions must be at the Hague on
June 26.
Clause o. The two commissions w;i!
strive to reach joint resolutions on the
question mentioned in Clause
Clause 6. To permit the commissions
to work peacefully, and also to re-establish
mutual confiddence, the Soviet Gov
ernment and its allied republics, on the
one side, and the other Governments, on
the other, pledge themselves to abstain
from any act of aggression and mibeer
sive propaganda. ,The pledge, for ab
staining from any'act of aggression will
be based uikhi the present status quo.
and will remain in force for a period of
four months after the conclusion of the
work of the commissions.
The pledge concerning propaganda will
oblige the Governments not to interfere
in any way in the internal affairs of
other fctates, and not to assist financially
or ley any other means, political organiza
tion in other countries, and will oblige
tbem to suppress ill the their territory
"any attempt to commit acts of vio'em-e
in other States or aiming to disturb the
territorial or political status quo."
GENOA, May 1. Sir Edward
Grijrjf announced on behalf of the British
delegation this afternoon that further ad
vices had been received from the United
State irovernnieiiiit and that it did not
seem likely fhp United R'af-s wonl.I tar
tirijate i, Tiie Hhkio nic-tiit,', :. ,.:
Until the u pp of the meeting w; better
understood. . . ; -, . . . . .
Baptists Have
Schools
(Bv Th a Associated iressj
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., May 18.
Women were admitted to membership on
this executive committee and the various
boards of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion here today.
The change in the constitution was a
ilopted after a spirited expression of dis
approval from Dr. J. W. I'orter, of Louis
ville, Ky., who quoted the "npost'e.
I'aul's abjuration of women speaking in
the church."
"We have strated on the downgrade,"
he continued, "and the time will come
when a woman will preside over this con
vention. "
Dr. I'orter deprecated the "feminist
movement" and declared many leaders
workers of the women's missionary union
are opposed to women taking part in the
convention.
Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, of Greenville, S.
'., Dr. A. J. Barton, of Alexandria, La.,
ami others spoke for tlie change, saying
women already having 'ix-cn admitted to
the convention ami to its routine com
mittees, should be placed on its impor
tant boards and committees. The Apostle
Paul, Dr. Barton declared, said nothing
against women taking part in the practi
cal affairs of the churches.
The change in the constitution does not
provide for any specific number of
women on the executive committee and
boards, as had ben aseked in a memorial
from the women's missionary union,
hut. leaves the number to be determined
from ve, 'ir to year.
JACKSONVILLE FLA., May l.H.
.Southern Baptists have n larger invest
ment in educational institutions than
any other denomination in the South, ac
cording to the annual report of the edu
cational board made public in connec
tion with today's sessions of the South
ern Baptist Convention.
Growth also was shown in the conven
tion's foreign mission work and in the
women's missionary union, although the
1, "")!. 47s received for foreign mis
sions from the 7.1 niiu.OiMl campaign in
the last twelve months was less than in
the previous year. The work of the
foreign mission and education boards
was the chief topic before today's ses--ioi
s.
'i he educ ational board of which Dr. W.
C. .lames, of Birmingham, is corres
I muling secretary, announced that 11!)
i ist it it utioiis with a total enrollment of
l.stiil women and l.'l,0!'7 men are being
operated ill sixteen states. The proper
ty valaue or' the institutions was esti
muted at L'G. 1 s 1 ,4i and their total en
don meat 1 l,:!2:i,7i::.
The linancial depression since the las'
annual convention was the cause of the
decreased receipts for foreign missions,
said I'r. .1. F. Love, Richmond, secre
tary of the foreign mission board. "In
every other respect," he ad'tcil, "thej
last year has been by far the most sue
ccsfnl of the seventh seven in which the
Siia'heru Baptists have carried Ojii fui
ign mission work."
'htirches iu foreign ticMds emit rihtit
Km,2."-" to religious work during the
'a.-t year or bo per cent more than in any
previous year, he pointed out, and the
total membership was (il,2."il. In addi
tion to older fields the ISonlhern Baptists
have entered Spain, .Tugo Slnvia, llim
,:ir.v, Kuiiiunin.-i, the 1'kraine, a to I other
portions of Southern Itus-sia, Palestine,
Syria and Siberia withn the last twelve
HO'llt (S.
32,000 STUDENTS ENROLLED
IN BAPTISTS INSTITUTIONS
(l!y The Associated Press.)
.1 KH).VII.LK, FLA.. May 1 s. -Nearly
thirty-two thousand students, of
whom more than thirteen thousand were
nu n. were enrolled during the past year
in lie- educational institutions of the
Southern Haptist church according to the
annual report of Dr. W. C. James, secre-t.-ny
of the Kdiication Hoard to the
Southern Haptist Convention here today.
Included in the enrollments were
Pill miuisttf rial students and 1MI7 others
preparing themselves for missionary work
or other such service.
Or. .lames gave the property valua
tion of the schools at -(. 1 si ,411 1 and the
endowment as : 11, .'!!':!, 79.",.
The s.l Is are distributed among the
states of the southern Haptist (inven
tion as follaws: Alabama X, Arkansas
.1. Florida 1. Oeorgia lti, Illinois, Ken
tnrkv 11; Louisiana Mississippi ,",
Missouri 7, New Mexico I. North Carolina
Is, Oklahoma 1. South Carolina In, Ten-ee-see
pi, Texas L", and Virginia i.
Iu addition to the s'adents enrolled in
the Haptist schools the report showed
that there tire a total of !,4ti:i Baptist
students in the various state schools of
the South out of a total enrollment in
those institutions of to.t'.'l.
COTTON MARKET
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET
(By The Awoeiatea ITew.)
NKW YOUK, May lv Cotton fu
tures closed steadv.
Mav iM.liS; Jlllv I'll..",!!; October J'M'O;
IVcmlsr L'U.HJ; January 1!)..; March
19.84 ; Spot 21.T.
TODAY'S COTTON MARKET
Strict to Good Middling.
Cotton Seed
. . .20c
...ooc
THE WEATHER
Ncrth CsroliM, uneU'ed with local
thunderthowerf tonifht or Fr.day. 'ift,e
rhaiijre in temperature
l
Big Investment
And Colleges
BAPTISTS BREAK ALL
PREVIOUS RECORDS IN
FOREIGN MISSION FIELD
According to Report of Dr. J.
F. Love, Secretary of For
eign Mission Board.
(By The Associated Press.)
JACKSON VI LLK, FLA., May 18.
All previous records on the foreign mis-
sion fields were broken during tlie mm
year by the agencies of the Southern Bap
tist convention, Dr. J. F. Love, secre
tary of the Foreign Mission Board at
Richmond, reported to the) convention to
day. There, was a gain of l.")4 in the
number of foreign missionaries on the
fields, Mil local churches, H.liiKI members,
l.'t.j timidity schools with an enrollment
jof l:t,ti!)l and LIU native assistants, the
report shows, while the increase for the
ivear in the contributions of the native
(churches was 1 1 .7.o, the total contri
j butions of the churches being $454,2;.t..H5.
(it her items in the report show a gain
jof H2 mission schools with an increase of
I ;i,ti41 pupils enrolle I.
' The summary of results covers 1 he
work of the fields in China. Japan, Afri
ca, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Chjle, Argentina
jand I'ruguay the older fields occiipiisl by
J the board, as the work in the new fields
I of Spain, Jugo slavia, Hungary, llounia-
nia. Southern Russia. Palestine, Syria
land Siberia is conlined largely to re-en-i
forcemeiit of the native workers and in
stitutions. On the older fields the denoi.'l
; ination reports 02 '3 churches with a mem
bership of 1)4,2.11 ; P71 Sunday schools
with a membership of .Vi.litH ; 4."!l for
eign missionaries, 11.17 native assistants,
2:1 foreign foreign physicians and !
foreign nurses, with 14 native physicians
and 56 native nurses, 14 hospitals, 16
dispensaries and 1 fiii.fi.'ti treatments be-
i ing administered during last year.
In addition to its regular missionary I
work the board, through, its Kuropean j
commissioner, Or. J. 11. Ilushbrooke, hast
i been nabled to si cure religious liberty j
I for the Baptists of Roiiinanui, and has i
made a large contribution to the relief
'of the suffering in liussia. Iu addition J
to cash and food sent by the denomina-
j t ton the Baptist women of the South
'sent seventy tons of clothing to liussia.
Considerable relief work was done in
j China a . so during the year,
j Secretary Love's report shows that out
of ev.'i v dollar contributed to foreign
! missions only J.71 cents is required in
I defraying the total cost of ndministra
t'on, leaving Pfi.l'I'i cents tli.it goes into
tuat miMSion work on the foreign holds.
NEGRO PRISONERS MAKE
SPECTACOLAR GETAWAY
Jump From Automobile Go
ing at 25 Miles an Hour and
Escape One an Escaped
Convict from Greenville,
C.
Two .
known at
gnu
the
whose names are un
i' local police department,
taeular get away Wednes
i when thev jumped from
made a sp
dav at'tenn
an automobile at the intersection of
Franklin avenue and (Tiurdi si reel
while the car was going at a speed of
li mites an hour. The car was in
charge of Chief of Folice Thompson
and Deputy K. .1. (iowau, of Mount
Holly, who were bringing the men to
tlie i . ninty jail here. The negnu s were
occupying the rear seat and were hand
cuffed together. In some manner, how
ever, they managed to free thenisi Ives
from he handcuff's. They hit a lively
gait and m far are still at liberty.
One of the negioes was an escaped
convict from ' reen v.! le, S. C. The
other was wanted tor shoplifting at
Mount Holly. Hot It were arrested at
the Mountain Island power plant, where
they were working. Local officers ale
looking for the men and hope to ai
rest them today.
DR. CURRY DECLARES THAT
MISSIONS CONSTITUTE MAIN
TASK OF THE CHURCH
(Ry The Associated Fr. -s
CIIAIH.KSTON. W. A.., M .
Missions were declared to coi s ;'
, church's principal task by lev.
! H. Curry of Memphis. 'IVihi..
i sermon here todav as retiring no
i-
tne
A. !
his '
tor
,der.-
tof the General Assembly "'' t1"' l'reby
! terian llmrch in the I'nited States
i (fsouthern Presbyterian i , at tie- opening
jof the sixty-second General Ass-inlde
j "The church's efforts." ho "'
("should not center on itself, tmt on a l"-t
wor.d. The church is not tin end. but t! e
'means. Saving a lost world. .
j God's kingdom on earth i ti
I church is Christ's instrument
; plishing this end. The chore
' here, faiU everywhere,
j "The leadership in mission
1 Jesus Christ. But where will
i church to follow Him.' Int..
.tuina, out On the plains. ..
'aid
tiling
end
com
fail- '
ejs to
. I the
noun
1 1 1
tie'
(."' of the eitie, among te m g""
i Indians and foreigners, and ;. r. ss n
seas, 'unto the uttermost par-- '
earth.'
'All that is needed is a ,-oa-i.rit.'
church that will follow his lea.i'l-l.l
jwith rourage and faith.''
1 rr- Curry said he had thought it ' f
propriate to bring a messsigo
-rordaiu'e with the la-t As"ii
i res-ed desire that t!,i ; ss
an evangelistie.und tMi- v
i ,iiVt,v T
,lv '-
IAKEFP FIGHT WILL rjt
BITTERLY CONTESTED
Notice Is Served by Both Sen
ators Lodge and Underwood
That the Bill Will Be in the
Senate a Long Time Hard
to Get Quorum.
(By The, Associated Dress.)
WASHINGTON. May Is. Senate
Republicans and Democrats were iu ac
cord today on at least one point with
regard to the administration tariff bill
that it will be cfobre the Senate for
a long time.
'ormal notice was given by Senator
Lodire. the majority leader, that it was
tin- intention ot those in charge of the
legislation to keep it under considera
tion practically continuously until itwas
passed irresiK'ct lve of the time requir
ed .
Announcement was nun
Underwood, the minority
it was the purpose of the
debate the bill for weeks,
for the purpose of delav.
bv
Senator
leader, that
democrats to
not, lie said,
but to let the
country know what was iu
These announcements we
it .
re forthcom-
ing in the course of a stonnv session
of
the Senate last night wlioh wound up
with a fiery speech by hairman Me
Cumber, of the Finance Committee, in
charge of the tariff bill, who invited
Republican senators absenting them
selves on roll call either to -ta.v on the
job or resign.
Senator MeCuinber said he could not
expect the Democrats who did not be
lieve ' in the bill to furnish a quorum,
but that he did expect the lo-publicans
who believed ill the bill and could
attend the sessions to remain on the
job.
The Senate had difficulty during the
early hours in keeping a ipionun for
Inst night's session, the tilth that had
been held after sundown for considera
tion 6f the tariff measure. There were
re veil roll calls netore a sustained at
tendance of a bale majoijty could In
had and meantime the sergeant at arms.
had been directed to "request" tin
presseiice of the absentees.
1. 0.0. F. GRAND LODGE
SELECTS GOLDSBORO AS
MEETING PLACE FOR 1923
Rev. R. Copped ge, of Rock
ingham, Elected Grand Mas
ter, and A. E. Woltz, of Gas
tonia, Deputy Grand Mas
ter Mrs. Eunice P. Dolley,
of Gastonia, Elected Presi
dent of Rebekah State As
sembly.
WINSTON eUl.KM. May 17. The
grand lodge of North Carolina, I. O.
(. F.. and the hvbeknh state assembly
will meet next year at liohls'boro, accord
to a decision reached this morirng.
A most urgent
invitation came 1 1
on
lie Wavne count
tv city tiiroiign v .
. V.
.Vestmoreland, of Nouse bulge.
No. ;.
tile Odd
ce. lb'
ho is a young man reared in
ellows oipnamige ai inai pin
I made a'l earnest appeal to 1 lie graiei
lodge to come to the oipbauage fo,- the
next meeting, stating that arrangements
would be made for the entertainment of
all visitors on the grounds of the institu
t ion.
The grand lodge this morning elected
liev. W. li. Coppedge, of lio. kingliain. . -grand
master for the ensuing year. A.
K. Wolt7, of (tnstonia, is deputy gran. I
master: S. li. urrin. ot Greetivilte, grand
iville,
,f lia
warden ; John D. Kerr;.
I grand secretary; M. I.
lialeigh, grand treasurer
W.
I the retiring grand muster, was
j grand representative for two vea
II. Tiliet, of Andrews, holds for :
, year as grand representative. I ir
McKrayer of .sanatorium. -is re
a member of the board of trusties
orphanage for a term of tiw year'".
Rebekahs Elect Mrs. Dollcv.
,-ted
D
etc,!
t he
Mrs. Kunice I'. I Mile;
; was chonen by the liebe
president. The election
close of the morning s
body. Mrs. 1'. I'. Thm;
I was elected ice presi. I
t Atkins, of (iastouia. we
tie K. Heck of Winston
I and Mrs. Hattie H. Whit
.! las-oiiia.
.-. - 1 1 I 1 . I .IS
- Ind I at t he
'..i: of this
of li'.M-lini-'i,
Mrs. L. I',
i: Mis I'at
in secretary,
r. of Hi nder
I sonville, treasurer,
i The Endowment Fund,
j The grand lodge exoe. s to ia
(ing the coming year the -on. (
, lei" as an endowment f ! i tor
jilmnnge. eomnnttie a: n
morning to plan for a leiaien
i :s
committee is compose I e' I . W. Moore,
chairman; Charles Deiv .-. M L. ;s!rn
man. Dr. L. K. MeKra.v. r. ' nares Smith
and C. 8. Williams. The institution al
ready has an endowment of f"i". mil,
HARRISON TELLS STORY
OF MURDER OF ARNETTE.
. fBv The Associated Press. )
COLUMBIA, H. C . Mav Is Ira
Harrison, took the stand toi v in the
trial of himself and 1'. M. Jeffords
and Glenn Troeco, for
.1 . C. Arnette, and ia
with the courtroom hush
he rein ted the details (
nnir ler of
1 calmness,
in death,
rime, eon-
the
fessing that he struck th
i that felled Arnette, tin
blows from an automol.ne
I e.i by Jeffords.
He told also of his ,;e
which took Arnette 's body
ly suburb road, win-re .a
were poshed over an onion
e first hlow
foliowed by
axle, wield-
"'n' the car
to the lone
r ml body
nkment. He
told of the fijil) iiisurain-e on the life
I of Arnette. which the men hoixnl to
get. and of their plan to get the busi-
ness. He implicated both Jeffords and
i Trers-e in the killing.
Mi. Ar.ietV vn, ;i bio'her in-Inw of
Mr Waiter S. lld-in u Kings
I V o" .it b
FRANK VANDERLIP GIVES HIS
VIEWS ON GENOA CONFERENCEDEBATE
(Bx T Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. May 18. Most
central banks in KurojH are today "in
varying degrees of insolvency," Frank
A. Vanderlip. n York banker, de
clared iu a cabled review of the Genoa
conference sent
of the Chamb
Unite. I States,
ference at I. on
fore promised
hi' added, and
tiou in the so
rial diff o ult ie
realize ' ' .
' the
nf
anuiiat convention
Commerce of the
plan for a eon
The
II of
such banks there
h"'e immediate result,
their proposed co opera
ition of Kuropc's tinau
v. mid I difficult to
Describing
"clinic" wlii
the Genua conference as a
eh was cireii'nsi rilied in
'diseases'' which it might
.i.ide: iip recommended
el States entered the pro
linancial meeting but on
understanding that "our
the type of '
discuss, Mr.
that the Unit
posed London
ly with an
Federal reserve system .e kept frc
from alien commitments.'' r com
mended the Washington government for
the attitude it has maintained toward
Furope and said the chamber should re
frain flom embarrassing it by sagge
t ions .
"Officially the conference .:,s not
permitted e.eu to examine tin1 more se
lions iliseasi s, " Mr. Vnnderiip i-nid.
" Never! iu less unofficially their nature
iiai come !o be more ideally under
stood .
"The diseases of fantastically exce--ive
reparation claims, of excessive mil
itary expenditures causing inevitable un
balanced budgets; of boundary lines
that outrage economic and ethical priu
ciplcs; of interest ami governmental
debits so nst as to destroy the hope
of solvency --t hese diseases could not
be officially sMidied and diagnosed.
The disease of the economic isolation of
J liussia Inning a population equalling
nearly one tenth of the world, has been
ehanstielv studied onlv to be rcier
:J OFFICERS GET STILL ON
UHHI5 AN I HUNT PLAUtfl
Fifteen Barrels of Beer Burie
Under Ground Was Di
covered Last Night Re
turned Today to Destroy
Beer.
Another
1.
till w
captured last
Officers I 'oh-.
! night iu (
ton ci
t v
b
i Terrell, Faint
st i 1 1 w :is luea 1
, An! iiony on t i
! a bnut two in i !i
and I i;i nieriin .
on tin' farm o!
I a I las I 'herry vill
from ( herrvviile
The !
Chri - :
road,
.' !"' i
night
oper
dark
how
officers came inioii the still last
while it as in full blast, but the
a tors made their get away in the
ness. 'J'ic.ir identity is known,
I ever.
Mot,
than I" barrels of
beer
The
this
. ruing
w ere
off i
last for
found buried ill t lie ground .
ers w ei e una ble to desl roy
night and returned this no
I 'in' pnrpo e .
The still which .was eeptun
I
and
brougli' to Oas'oiiiu last
of I l.e la igest lakea la c i
lion w here it was i a pt in
night wa
OIO
ti . The he
ed is notorious
Twn or three
e been captlir
the past few
it-; whiskey traffic.
moonshine outfits h;
iu this loca lit v w i I h
log
I'll
I: was
on the o
light, say
tact that
of pities
almost im
b!e
t.
sup up
n day
of the
I bunch
fields,
be had
a suf-
ier.it nrs ot' this
the officers, on a
it is lo, ated in ;
surrounded I'
ll a clear vie a
'. epen
could
iisar i ng
f loin
w hie
in eeiv direction, thus
tbi at warning to 1 lie it i
I' is believed that I'll
tents will approach in
-I and opt rations t ' e
ed plant of I '!, i'i M L
built under the ground
. ella r a rra ng men! .
Officers who went to '
st ill today w en- ,L -i -A.
It. Hord. Ciaig
le.!, It .
.til
i -
still and con- j
m.'iguit ude of ,
.loll remember
in. is which iv.-is
iu a sort of
of the
Terrell,
Adder
. I ole
I hie
ELECTIONS HOLD BOARDS
AT GENERAL CONFERENCE
More Than a Dozen Secreta
ries of Boards to Be Named
Much Business Transact
ed in Past Two or Three
Days.
HOT M
i'K'l.Ni.
In-!. I tii
. i ; K
May IS.
Klecton.
gain to.
Metho.li
the dele
." lit interest a
n; . i.ee of t lie
a . Ninth, and
: . choose sccrc
..iiids nnnder the
mi I reiice. More
retaries remained
. waited for tin;
ba1 ots transaction
i iik eedd and of
'inion thut wii n
was retiched a
e -"s of the .session
'.li.
i-'i
it.
t'.r.o.,- of !
supervision
More than
t .. be name
While tl
tellers to c:
of ciilernla
ficials vveri
eveninjr a e
large part
will have b
The bod
transnetiiig
and this n
irtaiit ma
niaining Ui
tions of e
ha-
Lipid prngn
e last two i
two or three
out from the
i iu
ays
fle
were tne ones
with the Northern
nd of merging tie
with those of the
branch
sSout her
church
and as
m; in -.
tion i."
er A
M
,f ti
1
ed
Brethren in Christ
ministers shall re-
t hi
station within the discre
, , ,,is i, ;i and the presiding eld
leaiority committee report on
ndar would leave the present
jl'lan
port
yar
'the
,.
I.
on, handed while one minority re-
while one minority re-i
W I
1 sh any limit and another '
'" il l ret ire the four
-'. " i't-l mii il iha-iged ! v
,1 . i leceneo pt Xtiniit.-. f 10 r
S-
red to further tudy by The Hague
commission .
"Owing to tin
cussing more imp
immediate ecouoiiiii
sia has bis'ii absui
piohibition of dis
riant mibjects, thei
significance of Dus-
Iv emphasized . Un- I
dor the
ceivabh
most favorable agreement con !
with Russia that country would I
; not be able to make any important con
I tribiition to Furope for several years.
An agreement with liussia when ob
tained will for a long time only furnish
an opportunity to send goods on cred
it. Little or no Itussian production can
be returned in exchange for several
years.
"The financial resolutions adopted
are sound but for the present unneees
sarily ineffective. The declare the sta
bility of currency value a requisite for
economic reconstruction. That is im
possible of accomplishment while budg
et deficit persist . Balanced budgets
must await reduced military expendi
tures. Disarmament could not be dis
cussed here, but must be beforo budgets
can be balanced. Therefore reduced
military expenditures are a pre roqui.s
te to stabilizing currency.
"American paHiclpn'iuu in the I. on
don conference is highly desirable but
it is important, however, that we should
not involve the custody of our bank re
serve in commitments to stabilize Kuro
pean currencies. I believe that Ameri
ca should study a plan for segregating
some of its gold stock to help Kurope
stahili.c her currencies after budgets
are balanced. The American gold re
serve is so large that it will othcrwis1
invite dangerous inflation. Our Fed
eral reserve Hystein, however, should be
kept free from entangling commit
iiients. We must organize a parallel
institution to uioperate with the cen
tral banks of Kurope and thus avoid
any unfortunate commit incut of the
Federal reserve svstein.''
0EFIED OFFICERS WITH
Mill UUN ANU NMUl
ill McAllister Was Terroriz-j
ing the Groves Mill Commu
nity Wednesday Morning-
Shot at His Wife Now
Jail.
Harricading himself in his store at the
d w
K
I
(ii oves Mill, east of the city Wednesday nient as to what constitutes evolution,
morning Will McAllister, a white man Dr. Riley's reading of the six profes
i who does a small general mercantile bnsi- sors' reply to the hiinliastini; of the Rev.
ness in that community, stood off Speci'il ! Jasper C. Massee, reached for him , R
. Ollicer Adam Hord ami Deputy Sheriff J. conclusion that these neieiiflsts know not
W. Cole for half an hour with a shot gun the alphabet of eiolufiou. For that rea-.-i
nd a pistol. Dofving the olliceis, he at son he sought a query which wouhl
templed scleral tiiins to shoot them, make the collegians assert ii harmony of
though fortunately bis shot gun, when Hibilienl statement and evolutionary
snapped, tailed to (in-, hi an effort to f' aching. They refused to take him up.
subdue him the offices shot into the store j Hut they readily met hill) on the postu
several times, hoping to frighten him. i late that evolution is ji demonstrated
None of the shots struck him. Catch ! fact. Dr. I'i'c.v 's contention is that there
ing him off his guard Officer Mor i made a
I rush an I disarmed him.
A phone message to police he.i'hpiar
tors stated that McAllister had shot at
his wife yesterday morning and was
threatening to shout up the community.
It was stnted that lie had been drinking
heavily for the past several days. Of
ficers state that McAllister has pulled off
a Miniinr stunt on two or three previous
occasions. He was locked up in t he
county jail to await trial at the next
term of superior Court.
POLICE GET CONFESSION
1 DRIVER OF
Indictment of at Least Four
More Persons Will Be Ask
ed Today No Trial For
"Big Three" Labor Leaders.
(Ky The Associated
CHICAGO, May ls.
made public a confession
to have been obtaine I Ir
l'ress.)
I'oliee today
said by them
an John Mil
lor, alleged driver of
which shots were h,.d.
cago policemen. Mo I',
t he on r from
killing two Chi- '
in the ho called
labor
in th
were
in. k "
i ugs
Im I
Sous,
w a r .
car.
Cha l ie
two men with Miller
ing to his confession, j
fanskis, alias ' ' Fed- ;
tor-' Stanley. Hear
were started today.
least four more per
, will be asked of tin-
a in
the
elli
lelll
on.- a worn
I jury tod
"ili.e Illlli'
si',' are i
gran
l;. in connection with
for "Terrorists" who
operating in protest a
lis' wage award to set
between contractors and
hicago building trades
the .
police
gain-t
the l.an
tie differences
members of (
COIlllel.
Miner's confession was obtained, po
lice -a;., when he was confronted wi'h
ow.loieo connecting him with the slav
ing of Torrance Lyons and Thomas
('lark, patrolmen, on guard over a
1. 1. tiding being erected under the Lan
lis ' a ward .
Knkham Scanhm. chief justice of
the criminal, court, has practically re
fused to grant an immediate trial to
the "big three," Fred Mader, "Big
Tun" Murphy and "i'mi" Shea. Hear
ing on their application was postponed
until Monday.
SOUTHERN ISSUES BONDS
FOR NEW ROLLING STOCK
(By The Associated Tress.)
WASHINGTON. May 1. The.
Southern Railway was granted permis
sion today to guarantee payment of the
interest and principal of 9,.tOO,UOO in
equipment trust certificates. The seeur'i. '
ties ni'l be sold by fl l'lii!ait!phia 1
tu.-n, ial insjitutiim nn trustee, ut the ,
f ii uds w i 1 1 ifd to t he rail road f or t .") xmr- i
THE
OF
Scientist Propounds Four
Queries and Theologian
Hurls Back His Answers
Theologian Tells Scientist
That He Is Welcome to Sim
ian Kinsfolk But Warns
Metcalf Not to Claim Kin
With Him.
HALKIOII, May 17. I'rof. 7.. T.
Metcalf, Christian evolutionist of the A.
and M. college, and liev. lit. W. B. Riley,
Mosaic Revolutionist, ()f Minneapolis,
Minn., fought four rounds to a no-decision
this afternoon in the intellectual
stadium of Mr. Metcalf 's institution.
When the men stripped for action
tiny presented a strange contrast of
forms and figures. The teacher is a fair
i welterweight uho might have tipped tlio
! scales at 117; the preacher a full heavy
Villi a reach cipml to Jim (,'orljett's or
! Hob Fit .siininons '. The teacher look
led the rise of :;. but still not old enough
to hook up with a heavy tjeconj Comer
an. I Fundamentalist; the preacher seerim
to be full .i; or more and certainly wiser
than he really is. Keferee II. L. McMil
lan culled the men to the center of ths
ring and the time-keepers gave the signal
for t he gong.
Word of Caution.
l.i st some
Coiner read
'uudaineiitalist and Second
the accounts of tho fleht with
the same
marks the
unintelligent literalism that
perusal of Moses anil th
Prophets, it will be
in order to say tlio
men did not actuallv
fight with bare fists
ami skulls, Loudon
prize rinar rules or
Marquis of Qiieensberry with gloves.
I hey made a good many of their hearers
feel disoosd to do the same thing tliB
sum total of the stupid ami frivolous
piece of business. The debate was cleun,
clever nat ore I and serious. The comba
tants showed sin li a tine spirit as to set
ninny of their unlettered listeners un ex
cellent, lesson in good manners. As tho
public will recall this was u debute ju
I evolution.
The two went together without agrec-
I is not a scintilla of evidence supporting
i scientifically the theory of evolution.
I Metcalf Shuns Long Words.
In opening the debate Mr. Metcalf
I walked away from the trap of the theolo
gian who sought to hold the controversy
jt i the dictionary terms. The teacher took
! the composite view, the essence of all tho
Big Ikes in science. He could havft
I found in hi dictionary Spencer's "evo
j hit ion is an integration of matter and
iconeouiitant dissipation of motion, lur
ing which the mat ter .pusses from (ill ill
jdelinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a
; definite, coherent heterogeneity, and dur
ing which the retained motion under
goes n parallel transformation," bu Mr.
I Metcalf avoided these words. Yet all
jthat one needs to do is to look in the
; dictionary and see the meaning of the
words, then he shall know as much about
'evolution as the follow who invented-the
j tiling and got a patent on the process.
. When the little professor rose with
manuscript the rooter of the collegtl
community gave lilni a mighty seniloff.
but iu a proboscis match the preacher
had the edge.
Eighteen hundred people were ill Pul
len hall when Mr. Metcalf concluded hi
first sentence made up of about 4U
ologies which comprise the sciences.
The crowd liked him when he said ho
stood for truth which he did not purpom
shutting out in 'he name of religion. Hi
rooters sspieah.l mighty approbation
when he declared that the watery,
freckled and wa idling argument of Mr.
Brvan wa- I is own invention, not that of
air. ropatab'e scientist iu tlie whol
w.r'.-l. A- idi.s'ra'ing the principle Of
di .o! .jom-nt te- .le.-lared that un used
eg. .lis mi man disappear, some of them
are new pi -i:i. y dangerous. One in
i..w r forms they were an they now are
highly Useful. To iii in they suggCsrteil
the whip socket ti the first automobile, a
'hing at which the crowd laughed.
Hits At Religious Bigotry.
His best thr
try which seek
Thus tla o'ogy
niciis. ag;i;nst
others. But '
Mind his eyes
is to ask that
shouted, ' an,
What he rea
men. Ion, tiring
four q.iesi ions
i-t was at religious bigo
to block development.
thundered against Coper
llaivey, against many
to ask that a student;
i. the evidence about him
he lie to himself," he
that
I in
v. a --
no:
is not Christian."
1! minutes of tre
well summed tip in
at the iireaehfr.
First, he .
" Why
theiilsciu s
series. or
.ought :
io living
organisms present
ill such
a marvelous graift
to.oan to
man, bacterium to
dandeiion '
"iSthii I, why do the higher living or
ganisins have uon useful structures knowu
as vestiges f
"Third, why should individual organ
isms in their development go through lbr
wasrenn process o. rornvnjr : amvrrai
structure mere'y to have them iltsapMr
:'ef re the orgntr sin is f ul! jtr iwn J
' ' 1 i; T' wy- mon t
v.i-t
t -,