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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923
Entered at Portland (Oreg-on)
Poatoffice wa Second-claya Matter.
BULLDOG HOLDS FORT CHIEF TURNS 'WOMAN'
BISHOP
DEFENDS
FAIRBANKS POPULACE
IN WAR ON CARIBOU
READING CURSES
WETS ID DRYS
LTD BATTLE TODAY
FOSSIL SHARK TOOTH
FOUND NEAR ALBANY
WEST'S BEAUTIES
CAPTURE CHICAGO
Last Lap of Trip to Atlan
v. tic City Begun.
IN BATTLE FOR AUTO
POLICEMEN, OWNER AND BIG
CROWD AT BAY ONE HOUR.
AND CATCHES KISSER
"LADY" PROTESTS WALLOPS
MASHER ON JAW.
FLAPPER
WILD GAME ABOUT TO MAKE
" JUXGLE OF TOWN.
RELIC DECLARED TO BE
MILLIONS OF TEARS OLD.
ED
MODERN
FOES II
V
V
Big Votejs Expected in
Wisconsin Primary.
WOMEN MAY DECIDE ISSUE
Interest Is Centered in Re
publican Party.
TWO SLATES OFFERED
Real, Party Ticket Is Headed
y by William A. Ganfield as
Candidate for Senator.
(By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 4. Fair
weather and a tremendous vote are
on the cards for Wisconsin's great
primary tomorrow. With the reg
istration up around the 165,000
' mark, a new mark will probably be
established 'for heavy balloting of
an off-year election. If the race la
-close the women may decide the pri
mary and bie: plans have been made
to bring out the maximum women's I
vote. Interest centers in the repub
lican party because it is in the re
publican party that the real fighting
will take place.
The majority party represents two
complete tickets, the "real republi
can" ticket, headed by the origina
tor of the "praying colonels," William
A. Ganfield, candidate for senator,
and William J. Morgan, candidate
for governor, and the "radical" slate
headed by Robert M. Lafollette, can
didate for senator, and John J.
Blaine, candidate for governor.
It is a straight-away race for all
places except the governorship,
which is a three-cornered contest
between Morgan, Blaine and A. C.
McHenry.
McHenry is a wet candidate and
his vote will go far to determine
the full strength of sentiment favor
able to beer and wines. LaFollette
and Blaine have played for wet
votes but It appears that the so
called liberals will swing . toward
McHenry, as he Is the only candidate
who has taken a positive stand for
beer and wines. Lafollette and
Blaine have remained mum on that
subject. Mrs. Jessie Jack Hooper,
democratic candidate for United
States senator, has no opposition in
Ser party. Socialists have no con
tests. VPETS AND DRYS SCAN VOTE
. V
Keturns to Be Eagerly Watched
by Rival Factions.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 4. (By the
Associated Press.) Returns of to
morrow's primary election in Wis
consin will be eagerly scanned by
"wet" and "dry" organizations of
the state, since candidates repre
senting these forces are seeking
nominations for legislative offices.
The anti-saloon league has made
St Vigorous campaign for candidates
pledged to carry on its work, while
an organization opposed to the pro
hTbltion amendment would prefer to
Bee candidates nominated whn
would favor an amendment to the
Volstead act permitting light wines
and beer.
The Wisconsin anti-saloon league
is advocating the nomination of
W. A. Ganfield for United States
senator over Senator R. M. La Fol
lette, and indorsement of Attorney
General William J. Morgan over
Governor John J. Blaine for the
gubernatorial honors.
While the platform of Senator
La Follette and Governor Blaine
made no mention of prohibition,
these candidates are receiving the
support of the association opposed
to prohibition.
XEW YORK INTEREST LOW
Restoration of State Convention
Detracts From Primary.
By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 4. State pri
mary day, two weeks from tomor
row, will have little local Interest
this year due to the restoration of
the state convention. Even the local
fights are- few and far between,
compared to previous years.
For a time it was thought the
fight between William Randolph
Hearst and former Governor Alfred
E. Smith for the democratic nomina
tion for governor would result in
primary fights for the delegates.
But the Hearst plans did not ma
terialize. The result is there are
primary contests for Hearst dele
gates in only two counties in the
etate Erie and Albany. Even in
Erie the fight on the surface is for
Louis FiVhrmann, ex-mayor. It is
an attempt on the part of William
J. Connors to overthrow the demo
cratic leadership-of William E. Fitz
patrick. TEXAS CONVENTION TODAY
En Klux Plans to Contest Plan
of Democratic Committee.
SAN ANTONIO. Sept. 4. The pro
gramme of the democratic state
committee will be contested by sup
porters of the Ku Klux Klan when
the state convention opens tomor
(Concluded an Fag 3, Column 4.)
I
Scientist Makes Interesting Dis
covery Where Road-Builders
Cut Across Hill.
ALBANY, Or., Sept. 4. (Special.)
The tooth of a prehistoric shark
has been found In Linn county on
Knox Butte, four miles east of Al
bany, by W. D. Porter, who is in
vestigating fossil remains in this
vicinity. The ancient relic was dis
covered on the southwestern slope
of the butte in Miocene strata that
were exposed where road - builder,
have made a cut across the face of
the hill.
The shark tooth has been classi
fied by J. J. Crawford, Albany scien
tist,,. &3 belonging to a specimen of
lamina elegans. The rock in which
it was embedded1 when classified
gives an idea of the age of the
tooth. The Miocene period is de
scribed by geologists as being in the
time of the Cenozoic, or mammalian
era and tertiary age, many million
years ago when the present Wll
lamette valley was not in existence
and a sea covered this part of the
globe.
Research work on Peterson butte
and Haight butte has been carried
on by Mr. Porter. Both of these
show evidence, he states, of the
glacial period when ice swept over
them.
Professor O. P. Hay of the Na
tional museum at Washington, D. C,
has requested additional photo
graphs of mammoth, mastodon and
other fossil teeth owned and mainr
tained here in the notable collection
of Mr. Crawford.
BANDITS GET RING, $120
Cigar Store Held Up Victim
Gives Chase; Gun Won't Work.
T. R. Terez, proprietor of a ci
gar store and confectionery at HO
Russell street, was held up late last
night by two bandits, one of whom
flashed a revolver in Terez' face
while the other looted the till of
the cah register of $120. A ring
was also snatched from off a finger
of Terez hand. After admonishing
Terez to stay where he was and
keep quiet, they left. Rather than
do as he was ordered, Terez seized
an old revolver and started In pur
suit. On reaching the street he
tried to fire the weapon, but it re
fused to function and the bandits
escaped in peace.
So quietly had the holdup been
staged that Terez' partner, who was
in a back room, was unaware of
what had transpired.
JAPANESE PARK OPPOSED
Proposed Lease on San Pedro
Harbor to Be Combatted.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 4. A
proposed lease of 10 acres at White
Point, near Fort MacArthur, on
San Pedro harbor, to Japanese for
33 years as a pleasure park, will be
halted by injunction, if possible,
according to announcement today
by Thomas Lee Woolwine, district
attorney.
Efforts to prevent completion of
the lease through appeals to the
war and state departments at Wash
ington and to Senator Shortridge
have also been made, according to
the Los Angeles Times.
JAPAN'S- TROOPS LEAVE
Military Evacuation in Siberia Is
Started by Nipponese.
VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. 5. (By the
Associated Press.) Japanese mili
tary evacuation of Siberia started
yesterday. The transport Kuma
moto took the first contingent of
troops to Japan. The second trans
port was scheduled to sail today.
Movement of troops from Siberja
will be .in four phases, evacuating
the country zones, according
previous announcements of the Jap
anese war ministry.
BOXER STRIKES AND DIES
Sudden Death of Fighter Laid to
Over-Exertion.
EASTON, Pa., Sept. 4. Five
minutes after he knocked . down
Elmer Cross, his sparring partner,
in' a training bout today, Louis
Barrese, a boxer, dropped dead.
Over-exertion was given as the
cause' of his death, but Cross was
held by the police pending a
coroner's verdict.
LEGION MEN HONOR DEAD
Wreaths Laid on 450 Graves in
Cemetery Near London.
LONDON, Sept. 4. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The delegation of
American Legion members now
touring England held memorial
services in BYookwood cemetery
near London today.
Wreaths were laid on the graves
of 450 American victims of the war
burled here.
NEW MEXICO GETS JOLT
Two Distinct Earth Shocks Re
ported; No Damage Done.
LAS VEGAS. N. M.. Sent. 4.Twa
distinct earth shocks were felt here
this, afternoon.
The first shock was severe pnmiph
to rattle doors and windows. No
damage was reported.
FETING LASTS FOR 24 HOURS
Smoky City Turns Spotlight
on Pretty Girls.
ONE IS ASKED TO WED
Miss San Francisco Tells Suitor
He Has No Chance; Name
of Man Is Withheld.
(By-Chicago Tribune leased Wire.)
CHICAGO, Sept. 4. After a hectic
24 hours of feteing and photograph
ing in Chicago the four Pacific
coast beauties, Miss Tanssia Zara
of San Francisco, Miss Katherirte
Grant of Los Angeles, Miss Virginia
Edwards of Portland and Miss
Evelyn Atkinson of Seattle started
tonight on the last lap of their long
journey to Atlantic City.
They were Joined by Miss Georgia
Hale, as Miss Chicago, and the
beauty queens from Denver and
Kansas City who arrived Just in
time to catch the special carrying
the party from Chicago to Atlantic
City.
The spotlight, literally and fig
uratively speaking, was turned
upon the pretty western visitors
during their Chicago sojourn. At
the Marigold gardens, where the
girls were guests of honor at a
dinner party Sunday night, the
orchestra burst into the strains of
"California I Love You" as Miss
San Francisco entered and the spot
light was turned upon her winsome
person.
Visitors Are Introduced.
Several thousand people clapped
and cheered her and her pretty
rivals, who shared in the tribute
arranged especially for her. Again
today at the terrace gardens the
pretty visitors from the coast were
introduced to a Chicago audience
and were received with great
applause.
The girls and their chaperons will
reach Atlantic City tomorrow after
noon. An elaborate programme of
welcome has been arranged in their
honor by Mayor Bader of Atlantic
City. The pageant in wbich all will
contest for the honor of becoming
Miss America will open September 6
and continue i for three days.
Miss San Francisco Wooed.
Miss San Francisco received her
first proposal of marriage at the.
close of her long journey from San
Francisco to Chicago. Won by her
dark Carmen-like Spanish beauty,
one lovelorn admirer among her
fellow' passengers remained over in
Chicago to offer his heart and hand
to the astonished beauty. Miss Zara
was said to have informed him that
his suit was hopeless.
"It is really not a matter for dis-
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Canine In Possession of Machine
Monnts Guard on Front Seat
and Wages Vicious War.
A determined bulldog battled for
nearly an hour yesterday against a
couple of policemen, an irate auto
mobile owner, and a crowd of
pedestrians who Joined in the ex
citement. ' .
The dog a vicious appearing
canine took possession of an au
tomobile belonging to Fred G. Miller
while it was parked near Fourth
and Morrison streets. The dog ap
parently thought the car belonged
to its master, for when Mr. Miller
went to get his machine the dog
declined to give up possession.
Mr. Miller, withthe assistance of
a group of pedestrians, tried for
some time to coax the dog from the
front seat of the machine, but their
efforts were futile. Then they
called for police, and the arrival of
motorcycle patrolmen 'only served
to increase the excitement.
It was not until one of the patrol
men went into a nearby store and
procured a long pole, and thus
clubbed the dog out of the car, that
Mr. Miller regained possession.
After it was all over the bulldog
ambled up the street as though
nothing had happened.
BOYS MAKE GOOD TIME
Youngsters Cover 1S Miles in
Two Hours 5 0 Minutes.
Six boys of the young men's
division of the Y. M. C. A. made
good time yesterday when they
hiked 13 miles from Wahtum lake
in two hours and 50 minutes. Each
carried a 20-pound pack. The boys
were Bellvin Vincent, Earle Rodgers,
Alton Dahlin, Joe Misovetz, Marvel
Williams and Clarence Lidberg.
Others of the 16 who made the
hike to the lake and back wera
John Stark, Arthur Haulman, Ver
non Morris, Floyd Meeker, Harold
Allensworth, Harry Junor, Lewis
Payne, Mark Gill, Frank Webster
and Amos Esteban.
$25,000 PRIZE DECREED
Annual Award to Be Made by
Chemical Society.'
PITTSBURG, Sept. 4. Announce
ment was made at the opening
meeting of the council' of the
American Chemical society here
late today that a prize of $25,000
will be given every year to the
American who makes the most
rotable contribution to chemical
science.
The award will become operative
next year.
AMMONIA DRAFT FATAL
Brother of Walt Mason, Poet,
Succumbs at Pendleton.
PENDLETON, Or., Sept. 4. (Spe
cial.) Fred Mason, brother of Walt
Mason, the renowned verse maker,
died early today from the effects of
a drink of ammonia taken by mis
take. He was a dyer at the Pen
dleton woolen mills. His widow and
a large family survive.
Funeral arrangements have not
yet been made.
THE MARTYR.
Soldier Who Accosted Girls Takes
Officer for Flapper and
Gets Real Jolt. ;
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By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
HIGHLAND FALLS, N. Y., Sept. 4."
Chief of Police Chrlstoff of High
land Falla is not 1n thajhablt of
wearing women's clothing, but he
decided it was the only way to catch
an elusive soldier flirt with cave
man tactics who had been the sub
ject of many complaints made by
girls and women of this little sum
mer resort , near West Point. The
women declared that some man In
uniform repeatedly followed them
when they were alone and seized,
hugged and kissed them, dashing
away when they screamed 'for aid.
In silk shirtwaist, sport skirt
and silk stockings, with high-heeled
shoes and a veil covering his manly
features. Chief Christoff tripped
alone about the shadiest lanes in
Hig-hland Falls yesterday. , Present
ly he was grabbed about the waist
by a burly arm clad in khaki, and
hot kisses were pressed upon his
veiled and reluctant Hps.
The chief at first protested in.
ladylike voice that, he was a mar
ried woman, but this only aggra
vated the soldier's affection. Then
the chief hauled off and walloped
the masher on the jaw, laying low
the hugger and kisser, who proved
to be Corporal Albert Hoff of West
Point,- a regular-army man.
It was the greatest surprise in
Hoff's soldier career when he found
he had picked Chief Christoff for a
flapper. Today Judge Nelson held
Hoff in $1000 bail on .the double
charge of disorderly conduct and
annoying women. The military au
thorities will deal with Hoff later.
The chief got back into his own uni
form as soon as he had locked up
the kissing corporal.
RUMOR STARTLES BERLIN
Report Current That ex-Crown
Prince Is Dead.
(Copyright, 122, by the New York
Times.)
(By Chicago Tribune Leaded Wire.)
BERLIN, Sept. 4. (Special Cable.)
Report ran like wild-fire through
nationalistic circles here late to
night that the former crown prince
had died in Holland. .
If the report be true it will not
make any material difference.
There would be genuine sorrow
among the "hard-boiled" monarch
ists, but among the practical re
actionaries there would be a great
feeling of relief that the problem
of a future monarchy in Germany
had been simplified, since no com
mon sense monarchist in Germany
considers either the ex-kaiser or the
ex-crown prince as a possible candi
date for a new empire.
LONG FLIGHT IS BEGUN
Army Aviator Leaves. Neptune,
Fla., for San Diego, Cal.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 4.
Lieutenant James H. Doolittle, army
aviator, hopped off from the beach
at Neptune at 10:03 o'clock tonight
for a flight by airplane to San
Diego, Cal., which he hopes to reach
in time for dinner tomorrow night.
He planned only one stop at Kelly
field, San Antonio, Tex., for fuel.
Patriarch, of Episcopal
Church Greets West.
RT. REV. MR. TUTTLE HERE
Prelate Says Soldier Dead
Assure Better World.
PROHIBITION IS UPHELD
Sunday Movies, Golf and Baseball
Approved With Warning Not to
Make Religion Repellent.
BISHOP TUTTI-E'S VIEWS ON
FLAPPERS AND OTHER
MODERN FEATURES.
"The young women of today
do not differ greatly from
those of 60 years ago. Give
them your hand, give them
your heart and pray God to
bless them."
' "Go to the graves of the
brave, honored dead and learn
that the world constantly
grows better."
"Prohibition has worked
great good, and the sense and
sanity of the American peo
ple can be depended upon to
adjust what loss of personal
libertv it has entailed."
"Sunday movies, golf, base
ball? Why not, if their
devotees have first discharged
their religious obligations? Do
not let us make religion re
pellent." "My message to the people
of the United States? I take
it from Shakespeare: 'Let all
the ends thou aim'st at be
thy -country's, thy God's and
truth's, then if thou fall'st, O
Cromwell, thou fall'st a blessed
martyr.' "
Right Rev. Daniel Sylvester
Tuttle, bishop of Missouri and pre
siding bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal church, arrived In Port
land last night to attend sessions
of the 47th triennial convention of
his church.
Bishop Tuttle got here at 8:15
o'clock from Bellingham, Wash.,
where he had stopped for a few days
en route from his summer home in
Wequotonslng, Mich., to visit rela
tives. He gave out a message of
Christian harmony and extended
greetings to the- west, wherein he
labored 65 years ago as a mission
ary bishop.
At the union station to welcome
Bishop Tuttle were more than 200
people, headed by leaders of the
.local executive committee on con
vention arrangements. These in
cluded the Rt. Rev. Walter T.
Sumner, honorary president; Dean
Vincent, general chairman, and
John W. Lethaby, executive secre
tary. Scores of the interested
churchmen crowded forward and
enjoyed the privilege of shaking
hands with Bishop Tuttle.
Sister Accompanies Bishop.
""Accompanying Bishop Tuttle were
his sister, Mrs. Sarah K. White, and
his chaplain, the Rev. Frederick
Gratiot. They were driven to the
Multnomah hotel, where rooms had
been reserved for them by the Port
land churchmen, whose guests they
will be. There was no formal wel
come at the hotel. After the bishop
had greeted a number of friends and
delegates he retired to his room for
the night.
The venerated presiding bishop,
octogenarian and with snowy white
beard and hair, is still about as'
spry as a man half his age. His
shoulders droop a bit under the
weight of years' but his eye is keen
and the grip of his hand firm. Hi.
one infirmity is a growing deafness.
In appearance and action he imme
diately calls to mind that other
patriarch of olden days in western
mountains and plains Ezra Meeker.
Stage Coach Arrival Recalled.
He said last night it was between
30 and 35 yearssince he had been
in Portland. On that other visit he
came by stage coach over the Blue
mountains, he said.
Bishop Tuttle's statement on his
arrival was as follows:
"Great' good comes to our church
from its general convention, be
cause or the companionship and co
operation and brotherliness that
the meeting engenders and pro
motes. Statutes for the regulation
and restriction of government of
the church are not the all in all
of importance. Of greater value is
the spirit of allowance making and
of fair play in which men of dif
ferent views and of different schools
of thought meet each other and talk
and work' together. The sweet
savor j of that spirit will have its
pervasive influence and we need
not fear disintegrations of the
prayer book or fracturings of Chris
tian harmony.
"We need not expect that a gen
eral convention will right all
wrongs or work signal reformations
in the affairs of the world; but we
(Concluded -on Face 3. Column 1.)
Men, Women and Children, In
Autos and Horse-Drawn Ve
hicles, Shoot Animals.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 4.
Though the population of Fairbanks
is greater now than previously in
14 years, every hotel being full and
residences too few, hardly anybody
was in town today. All except the
force of the daily paper and those
too young or too old were out hunt
ing caribou, rabbits, geese and bear,
which threaten to reclaim the town
as if it were a jungle.
Evelyn Houcke, assistant post
master, hunting grouse in her auto
mobile, was peeved by a caribou
that stood in her way. To string
the caribou she fired at it with her
.22-caliber rifle. This maddened
the caribou and he charged. With
only one cartridge remaining in her
little rifle the assistant postmaster
hit him in a vital spot and he fell
dead against her car.
Two hundred automobiles and all
the horse-drawn vehicles in town
carried hunters and huntresses. And
the movie men were out shooting
caribou. Even two Chechaco pro
fessors of the new agricultural col
lege of Alaska, which is to open
September 12, got a caribou apiece.
School children killed several each.
George Edward Lewis and Cap
tain A. E. Lathrop, the movie mag
nate of Alaska, went out with a
truck and automobiles to film the
caribou herds. Peter Steel, govern
ment- photographer at Anchorage
and Dick Thome were present with
their movie camera. But every time
the experts got close somebody let
go with, blunderbuss and the
caribou moved too fast ' for the
movies.
Old timers say that the invasion
of the wild is caused by the weather,
All the first part of the summer it
rained and the last of August came
a blizzard, ruining crops in the
Tanana valley.
THEODORE BELL KILLED
Well-Known California Politician
Dies in Auto Crash.
SAN RAFAEL. Cal., Sept. 4
Theodore A. Bell, prominent San
Francisco attorney and a widely-
known California politician, was
killed in an automobile' accident
near here tonight.
Mr. Bell, it was learned, had been
spending the day at the Lagunltas
Rod and Gun club in the hills north
of the town of Ross. The accident
happened while Lucio Mintzer,
San Francisco broker, and Bell's
host, was bringing Bell to Ross
to catch a train for the city.
Coming down a mountain road
Mr. Mintzer turned his car out to
let an approaching automobile pass
and went over a high embankment.
TRESTLE FIRE REPORTED
Mile Span Between Fort Smith
and Dallas Is Ablaze.
FORT SMITH, Ark., Sept. 4. Ac
cording to reports received here by
St. Louis & San Francisco railway
officials, one of the largest trestles
on the Central division, near Bengal,
Okla., between Fort Smith and
Dallas, 51 miles south of this city
was on fire tonight.
The trestle, of wood, is a mile in
length.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperatu
68 degrees; minimum. 50 decree..
TODAY'S Probably shower.; wind.
mostly southerly.
Foreign.
United States protests to league of na
tions against British seizure of phos
phate in Pacific. .Page 4.
National.
Tariff on wool full of dynamite. Fane 2
Justice Clarke of U. S. supreme court
sends resignation to president. Pxg e .
Federal agents check on lubor speech-..
Page a
Domestic.
West's beauties capture Chicago. Page I
Police chief dresses like woman and
catches kissing soldier. Page 1.
46 entombed miners believed alive and
signaling rescuers. Page ft.
Miss Hudnut stays home to help Valen
tino. Page 3.
Wets and dry battle in Wisconsin today.
Page 1.
Fairbanks populace In war on caribou.
Pago 1.
Sound pictures solve old secret, rage 3.
Northwest.
Prehistoric shark tooth found ner Al
bany. Page 1,
Sports.
St. Louis takes double bill from Cleve
land. Page 15.
Youngsters of Eastmoreland win inter
club match. Page 14.
Pacific coast league results: At San
Francisco 4-1. Portland 2-4; at Sac
ramento 1-S. Vernon 3-6; at Oakland
3-2, Salt Lake 0-8; at Lo. Angeles
3-a. Seattle 1-0. Page 13.
Amateur play sensational In spite of
water-logged coarse. Page 14.
Joe Lynch make. Pal Moore klsa canvas.
Page 14.
Classic trapshoot Is an event of Septem
ber. Page 16.
American league has big opportunity to
win world s series. .Page 10.
Commercial and Marine.
National bank resources .how large In
crease. Page 23.
Portland cargoes show great Inorease
during eight-month period of 1922.
Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
Episcopalians may hear no more curse.
read on foes. Page 1.
Murder leaves family of prohibition
agent destitute. Pa-ge 7.
Bulldog keeps possession of auto In
vicious battle lasting an hour. Page 1.
Portland schools open today. Page 9.
Hall expected to run for governor as In
dependent. Page ll.
Right Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, pa
triarch of Episcopal church, arrive,
for general convention. Page 1.
Labor day draws throng from city.
Page 17.
Sellwood bridge at ferry revived. Page 17.
One-way traffic to be considered. Paga
17.
Weather report, data and forecast.
Page 23. -
Changes in Episcopal
Psalter Outlined.
SOME MAY BE DROPPED
Leaving Others to Ministers'
Discretion Proposed.
ONE TASK IS SENSITIVE
Revisions Concerning1 Office of
Holy Communion and Mar
riage Also Undertaken.
PHK.COSVKXTIO BVF.XT"
fiCHEDll.KD FOR TODtV.
8 A. M. to 8 T. M. Regis
tration house of bishops and
house of deputies, basement
auditorium.
10 A. M. to P. M Regis
tration of delegates to wom
en's auxiliary hall "A," audi
torium. 10 A. M. Executive eHlon
house of hixhops. the audi
torium. 2 P. M. Meeting of the dep
uties from the synod of the
eighth province, business ses
sion, at St. Stephen's Pro
Cathedral. 3 to- 5 P. M. Registration
of delegates to conference of
Church School Service league
and school of methods, lobby
of the auditorium.
4 P. M. Preparatory quiet
hour service for women's aux
iliary members. St. David's
church. The Rt. Rev. Arthur
Seldon Lloyd, bishop of New
York, In charge. J
6 p. M. pinner for dele-
gates to the eighth provincial t
synod at Seward hotel.
t:6 P. M. Final rehearsal I
of combined vested choir, au-
ditorlum.
Tomorrow. 4
First sessions of the con- J
vention will he held.
If members of the -ommlslon on
prayer book revision have their
views accepted. Episcopalians will
no longer have reaa to them from
the psalter scriptural passages that
are imprecatory in nature that call
for dire vengeance or a curse upon
enemies of the righteous.
This was indicated yesterday in
statements, made by Dr. Charles 1.
Slattery. rector of Grace church.
New tork. Dr. Slattery knows very
thoroughly the nature of the pro
posed prayer hook revisions, his Im
portance on the commission belnn
indicated by the fact that he hm
been selected to present its rep rt
to the house of deputies.
rilbr statement Made.
Dr. Slattery gave an extremely
pithy statement of the purpose and
aim of prayer book revision as un
dertaken by the commission.
"The whole attempt of the com
mission." he said, "is that of bring
ing the prayer book Into accord
with the best truth and reality w
know."
Not in all cases of psalter re
vision will the psalmist's plrai for
punishment for adversaries ho
eliminated. In some instance, the
objectionable portions are merely to
be set off by spaces so they may he
omitted "at the discretion of the
minister."
Typical Venn t'Ued.
Typical verses of the p&alte
which the revisionists think may
well be neglected In the present day
and age are such as these:
"Let their eyes be blinded, thai
they fee not; and ever bow down
their backs."
"Pour out thine indignation upon
them" and "let them fall from one
wickedness to another."
"The most sensitive revisions un
dertaken," said Dr. Slattery. "are
those concerned with the offjee or
holy communion. Here are Includ
ed the ten commandments which we
are accused of 'blue penciling.' and
the marriage ceremony In which
changes are recommended. I think
most everyone understands the rea
sons for .suggesting omission of the
obey' and 'I thee endow with ail
my worldly goods.' It Is sugcesttd
also that the word 'lawful' as In tht
expression 'lawful wedded wife" h
changed. What the laws of differ
ent states regard as lawful In this
connection is not always regarded
as lawful by the church.
Correction Also W anted.
"From the psalter we would have-
omitted every Imprecatory erpre.i
slon as out of keeping with our
more advanced religious views of
today. There are certain mistrans
lations that we wish corrected als".
"In the prayers and collects, par
ticularly In prayers for the lck. It
is felt that a more advanced attftud
may be taken. This view may be
Illustrated in connection with pravar
for recovery of the sick. It Is pro
posed to cut off everything af'er
the 'or else." The objectionable x
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