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TnE MORNING OKEGOXIAS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. 191G.
UNITED
METHODISM
15 STEP NEARER
General Conference Delegates
Vote to Join Southern and
v Protestant Churches.
BISHOP WEEPS JOYFULLY
Obstacles to Vilification Relieved
Overcome Perfection of Com-
' inc is Expected to Be Realized
f ' at Meeting in 1020.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS N. Y. May 16.
i The unification ot American Meth
odism was advanced another step
toward consummation today when by
a vote that virtually was unanimous
the 880 delegates to the general con
ference of the Methodist episcopal
Church adopted, the report of the spe
cial committee on unification, paving
the way to an amalgamation with the
Metholist Kpiscopal Church, South, and
the Methodist Kpiscopal Protestant
Church.
The -adoption of the report, which
was the most important and far-reaching
legislation that has been enacted
by a Methodist general conference in
many years, was attended by a tremen
dous demonstration of enthusiasm. The
great auditorium rang; with cheers and
applause as the aged bishop. Earl
Cranston, who presided while the
action was taken and Bishop E.. R.
liendrix. senior member of the board
of bishops of the Southern Church,
clasped hands on the platform and
wept with emotion.
Applaune Im Terrific.
"This is the supre'me moment of my
life," cried Bishop Cranston.
"A marvelous result has been
achieved," Bishop Hendrix said. "I pray
that the whole Methodist body through
out the world may, more and more, see
eye to eye, and JBishop Cranston and
myself may live to stand jointly over
the united general conference of United
.Methodism in America.
A terrific outburst of applause quick
ly gave way to song as the delegates
Joined in the hymn "Praise God. From
"Whom All Blessings Flow," and then
took up the strains of "Blest Be the
Tie That Binds."
On the platfdrm with Bishop Crans
ton and Bishop liendrix was one Eng
lishman who attended the historic gen
eral conference in 1844 in New York
the last in whiph the Southern church
"was represented before Methodism was
split over the question of slavery. He
is Dr. Thompson H. Landon, of Bor
dentown, N. J.
Negotiations Are Continued.
Today's action does not unite the two
Branches of the Methodist denomina
tions, but continues the negotiations
for a reunion.
"The points of agreement are many
the points of disagreement are few,'
Bishop Hendrix said.
It is generally believed that the ob
stacles in the way of unification have
been overcome and that two years
hence the general conference of the
Methodist Church. South will accept the
plan for reunion, which the Northern
Church hopes to bring to final fulfill
ment at its general conference in 1920.
WILSON FRANK IN VIEWS
(Continurd From First Page.)
fciantially. lie said, among other
things:
"One of the greatest points of strain
upon me, if 1 may be permitted to
point it out, was this:
"There are two reasons why the chief
wish of Americans is for peace. One
Is that they love peace and have noth
ing to do with the present quarrel, and
the other is that they believe the pres
ent quarrel has carried those engaged
in it so far that they cannot be held
to ordinary standards of responsibil
ity and that therefore as some men
have expressed it to me, since the rest
of the world is mad. why should we not
simply refuse to have anything to do
with the rest of the world? Why. not
let the storm pass, and then, when it
is all over, have the reckonings?
"Knowing that from both these two
points of view the passion of America
was for peace, I was. nevertheless,
aware that America is not only one of
the nations of the world but one of the
chief nations of the world a nation
that grows more and more powerful
almost In spite of herself: .that grows
morally more and more influential even
when, she is not aware of it. It is
necessary that she should act more o?
less from the point of view of the rest
of the world. If I cannot retain my
moral influence over a man except by
occasionally knocking him down, if
that is the only basis upon which he
will respect me, then for the sake of
his soul, I have got occasionally to
knock him down.
Souls Saved by Fists.
"Yon know how we have read in
Isn't it Ralph Connor's stories of life
in Canada? that all his skypilots are
ready for a fracas at any time: and
how the ultimate salvation of the souls
of their parishioners depends on their
using their fists occasionally. If
man will not listen to you quietly
in a seat, sit on his neck and make
him listen, just as 1 have always main
tained, particularly in view of certain
experiences of mine, that the shortest
road to a boy s moral sense is through
his cuticle. There is a direct and, if
I may be permitted the pun, a fun
damental connection between the sur
fare of his skin and his moral con
science. You arrest his attention first
in that way and then get the moral
lesson conveyed to him in milder ways
that, if he were grown up. would b
the only ways you would use.
"So I say'that I have been aware
that in order to do the very thing that
we are proudest of the ability to do.
there might come a time - when we
would have to do it in a way that we
would prefer not to do it; and the
great burden on my spirits, gentlemen,
hag been tnat it has been up to me to
choose when that time came.
"Writers of Rumor Warned.
"In domestic matters I think I can
in most cases come pretty near a guess
where the thought of America is going,
but in foreign affairs the chief element
is where action is going on in other
quarters of the world and not where
thought is feoing in the United Btatea
Therefore. I have several times taken
the liberty of urging upon you gentle
men not yourselves to know more than
the State Department knows about for
eign affairs. Some of you have shown
a singular range of omniscience, and
certain things have beeji reported as
understood in administrative circles'
which I never heard of until I read the
newspapers. X am constantly taken by
surprise in regard to decisions which
are said to be my own,'
"Now, that is pretty dangerous, gen
tleman, because it happens that re
marks start fireR. There is tinder lying
everywhere, and a man that spreads
sparks may be responsible for some
thing a great deal worse than burning
a town on the Mexican border.
Thoughts may be bandits. Thoughts
may De raiders. Thoughts may
be invaders. Thoughts mav bs dis
turbers of international neace: and
when you reflect upon the importance
of this country keeping out of the
present war you will know what tre
mendous elements we are all dealing
with. I tell you. gentlemen, the onlv
thing that saves the world Is the little
handful of disinterested men that are
in it.
"You may recall that I said on a pre
vious occasion that I felt constantly a
personal detachment from the Presi
dency; that one thing that I resented
when I was not performing the duties
of the office was being reminded that
I was the President of . the United
States. I felt toward It as a man feels
toward a great function which, in
working hours, he is obliged to per
form, but which, out of working hours,
he is glad to get away from. I am
constantly reminded as I go about, as
I Wo sometimes at the week-end. of the
personal inconvenience of being Presi
dent of the United States. If I want
to know how many people live in a
small town,- all I have to do is to go
there, and they at once line up to be
counted. I might, in a census-taking
year, save the censustakers a great
deal of trouble by asking them to ac
company me and count the people on
the spot.
Effective Dlaculse Longed For.
"Sometimes when I am most beset 1
seriously think of renting a pair of
whiskers or of doing something else
that will furnish me with an adequate
disguise, because I am sorry to find
that-the cut. of my jib is unmistakable
and unust sail under false colors if I
am going to sail incognito.
"When the fortunes of your own
country are, so to say, subject to the
incalculable winds of passion that axe
blowing through other parts of the
world then the strain is of a singular
and unprecedented kind, because you
do not know by what turn of the
wheel of fortune the control of things
is going 10 De taKen out of your hands;
it makes no difference how deerj the
passion of the nation lies, that passion
may oe so overborne by the rush of
fortune "in circumstances like those
which now exist that you feel the sort
of I had almost said resentment that
a man feels when his own affairs are
not within his own hands. You can
(imagine the strain upon the feelinar of
any man who is' trying to interpret the
spirit of his country when he feels that
spirit cannot have its own way beyond
a certain point.
Sheer Character Is In Demand.
"Now, 1 have found a fe'w disinter
ested men. I wish I had found more. I
can name two or three men with whom
I have conferred again and again and
again, and I have never caught them
by any inadvertence thinking about
tnemseives for their own interests, and
I tie to those men as you would tie to
an anchor. I tie to them as you would
tie to the voices of conscience, if you
could be sure that you always heard
them. Men who have no axes to grind
Men who love America so that thev
would give their lives for it and never
care whether anybody heard that they
had given their lives for it; willing to
die In obscurity If only they might
serve! Those are the men, and nations
like those men are the nations that are
going to serve the world and save it.
There never was a time in the history
of the world when character. Just sheer
character, all by itself, told more than
it does now.
a iriena or mine says that every
man who takes office In Washington
eitner grows or swells, .and when
give a man an office I watch him care
fully to see whether he is swelling or
growing, me miscniet of It Is that
when they swell they do not swell
enough to burst. If they would only
swell to the point where you might in
sert a pin and let out the gas it would
be a great delight. I do not know any
pastime that would be more diverting.
ine men who grow are the balance
wheel of the whole thing. They are
the ballast that enables the craft to
carry sail and make port in the long
run, no matter what the weather is.
diaries M. Carey
Candidate for
Delegate at Large
to the
Republican National Convention
(N. B. At the primaries, May 19, there are four delegates from the stato
at large to be elected to attend the Chiiago Convention, besides two from each
Congressional District.)
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Their hearts are right, their instinct
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tion, and will take the right leadership
if tney believe mat ine icsuo co-
man who thinks first 01 America.
HONE RATE ORDER VOID
Court "Reverses Public Service Body
in Wood burn Case.
SALEM. Or.. Mav 16. (Special.) An
order of the Public Service Commission
ncreasing the rates of the western
Telephone Company, of -Woodburn, was
pronounced invalid today by Circuit
Judge Galloway, who held that a fran
chise between a municipality and a
public utility could not be changed ex-
ept by consent or both parties.
Following a merger of tne wetiern
Telephone Company with another com
pany, the Public Service commission
raised rates, holding that thoce- fixed
bv the franchise were Insufficient.
Under the terms of the franchise the
maximum rate was l.a0 a month.
The citv of "Woodburn instituted suit
to vacate the Commission's order.
The Gomiog Bsby!
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WOMEN ROPE CONGRESS IN
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that the Anthony amendment be passed.
Mrs. Elizabeth tleberdlne and Mrs. Wal
lace Williams, of Washington. Mrs.
Frances Haire, of Montana, and Miss
Alice Reynolds, of Utah, spoke along
the same line, and then Mrs. Florence
Bayard Hllles. of Delaware, and Miss
Ann Martin, of Montana, told the Con
gressmen that their aid was expectea.
'It is most necessary tnat you j-'emu-
crats remain in power," .Mrs. .nines
said. "But it is also necessary that you
recognize the paramount Issue lacing
you in the enfranchisement of women.
As a Democrat, 1 appeal not oniy iu
Democrats, but every man who stands
for a republican form of government."
Miss Martin said tne sunragists
honed to be "friendly and that they
would not have to oppose any political
unrtv "
An iced cake weigning no puunus
wa brought back from the West by
the envoys as a present lor l'resiaem
Wilson.
Greshnm to Discuss Candidates.
GRESHAM. Or.. May 16. (Special.)
Meetings will be held In the lecture-
room of the public library here tomor
row at 2 o'clock and at 7:30 for dis
cussion of the merits of the candidates.
No candidates will be admitted.
Read The .Oregonian classified ads.
Contempt Felt for Certain Men.
'I have come through the fire since
I talked to you last. Whether the
metal is purer than it was God only
Knows; out tne rtre has been there,
If I may believe my own thoughts
have less partisan feeling, more lm
patience of party maneuvers, more en
thusiasm for the right thing, no matte
whom it hurts, than I ever had before
in my life. And I have something tha
it is no doubt dangerous to have, bu
that I cannot help having. I have
profound Intellectual contempt for men
who cannot see the signs of the times.
I have to deal with some men wh
know no more of the modern processes
of politics than if they were living
in tne 18th century, and for them
have r. profound and comprehensiv
intellectual contempt. They are blind
and the worst of It is I have to spend
nours or my time talking to them when
I know before I start as much as if
had finished that it is absolutely use
less to talk to them. I am talking in
vacuo.
"You will remember the red Queen in
'Alice in Wonderland,' or 'Alice Through-
the Looking Glass' I forget which, it
has been so long since I read them
who takes Alice by the hand and they
rush along at a great pace, and then
when they stop Alice looks around and
says 'But we are just where we were
when we started.' 'Yes,' says the red
Queen, 'you have to run twice as fast
as that to get anywhere else.'
Fast Running Neeessnry.
"That is also true, gentlemen, of the
world and of affairs. You have got to
run fast merely to stay where you are,
and in order to get anywhere you have
got to run twice as fast as that. That
is what people do not realize. That is
the mischief of these hopeless dams
against the stream known as reaction
aries and standpatters and other words
of obloquy. They are sinking further
back in what will sometime com
fortably close over their heads as the
black waters of oblivion. I sometimes
imagine that I see their heads going
down, and I am not Inclined even to
throw them 'a life-preserver. The
sooner they disappear, the better.
"We need their places for people who
are awake and we particularly need
now, gentlemen, men who will divest
themselves of party passion and of per
sonal preference and will try to think
in the terms of America. II a man de
scribes himself to me now In any other
terms than those terms I am not sure
of him, and 1 love the fellows that
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A BUSINESS MAV TOK A
EUSINESS POSITION
C. W. HODSON
CANDIDATE FOP.
State Senator
No. 65
ON" THE
OFFICIAL
BALLOT.
.Paid Advertisement.)
all IM frii fa...'ii5. 1
THOMAS J. CLEET0N
Candidate for Re-election as
County and Juvenile Judge.
Judge' Cleeton has served as County
and Probate Judge for six years; has
had the Juvenile Court work since May,
1913.
Has reduced the Juvenile Court ex
penses 20 per cent, and saved the tax
payers J i 000.
Has organized child home-finding department.-
placing in family homes 187
dependent and delinquent children.
lieducr.d the number or cnuaren in
the Frazer Home from a maximum of
0 In May to five in March.
Has investigated over 1800 dependent
and delinquent cases, and has entered
Judgments of delinquency In less than
5 per cent, restoring a per cent to
parents without records of delinquency.
Has Vield the parents responsible and
by work outside the court, through pro
bation orricers and other agencies, pre
vented delinquency in a number of
other cases.
Has taken no child awav from its
parents without their consent, unless
by reason of some moral delinquency
in the parent, or tne home environ
ment was destructive to the welfare
of the child. ,
In placing children in religious in
stitutions has recognized the right of
parents to direct without suggestion
from the court.
If this record anneals to you. Judge
Cleeton would be plensed to have your
support on tne ivin any or May.
(Paid Advertisement.)
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W. H. CHAT TEN
Rfmihliran Candidate for Joint Rep
resentative Clackamas and Multnomah
Counties.
tPaid Adertleuient. ' '
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W. B. STEELE
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
VOTE X 123
Mr. Steele was elected County Commit
lon.-r of Multnomah County in by 1-
mot a unanimous vote of all the voter of
the ounty. During the litiu- he held office
he conducted lnmvlf in auch a manner as
lO receive the confident'' nf the nn hi In anH
demonstrated thorounhlv hia abilitv to nrnn-
criy Baminuior tne a u tit-a or county cora-
mi?nioner.
M r. .eea friend a, knowing his quali
fication, have induced him to become a
candidate in thia election. The people ef
Multnomah County will bn extremely for
tunate It' he la elected and hia eervices se
cured, for the reason that It la difficult t-
get able, aucccar-ful men of Mr. Steele a
lyp4 to consent to run for or rice.
Mr. gteclf has been a resident and tax
payer of Multnomah County for more than
.'JO years, and la married and has a fanillv I
of nine children, all residing In Multnomah
County.
M r. Steel has exnert know led ae of road
build In a; and road cunet ruction, and. as will
be remembered by many, whs one of th
pioneers in the pood roads movement of this
county and state. In fact. Mr. "Mecle built
the first hard -surface macadamized road
in Multnomah County.
4l"aM Ad-rfUemeiit.
Protect YOUR Home
Protect YOUR City
Protect YOUR State
Protect YOUR Country
There's But Que
Right Way to Vote
46 X LITTLEFIELD, E. V. KF
' land and Orecon at
OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY the Xationa, apitol.
REPUBLICAN
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foruana, ur.i
Re-Elect
W. L. Lightner
County Commissioner
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Vole fcr Ko. S6 on. the ballot.
Hamilton F. Corbett
Hepubllc&n CaAdidale for
REPRESENTATIVE
Reduction In taxation with economy and
efficiency in administration.
(Paid Advertisement.)
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Fred A. Jacobs
. Republican Candidate for
DELEUATK
National Convention
Chicago. III.. June 7, 1916
Third C'oniEreaalonal Dlatrlet
(Paid advertisement)
Hood roads and economical business
administration. i
If re-elected will continue economi
cal policy, on the job six days, morn
ing and afternoon, every week.
(This Adv. Paid by John K. Wilson.)
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RODERICK L. MACLEAY
Republican Candidate for
Legislature
BALLOT NUMBER 99
Stands for Business and
Industrial Development.
(Paid Advertisement by O. Voorhles. 406
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VOTE (BALLOT NO. 117) FOR
John C. Mc Cue
REPUBLICAN FOR
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
and rid the District Attorney's office of extravagance, inefficiency
and machine politics.
John C. McCue is backed by no special interest. He is aligned Trith
no political combination.
John C. McCue stands for "strict law enforcement and impartial
and economical administration."
(Paid advertisement by Mr. It. Kleppcr. lTiCt Yeon Bldg.).
Mc Cormick
Cauaty School Saperlatrndeat ,
VOTE 131
Paid Adv. Hural TeacheiV Club.
VOTE No. 96 X
O. LAURGAARD
for
REPRESENTATIVE
The Only Civil Knorinrrr Candidate la
the Male for the l.rgiKlatare.
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