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THE MORNING "OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1923 BEDS 51 CHINESE, PHOTOGRAPH OF GREAT FIRE WHICH DESTROYED HAMMOND MILL COMPANY'S PLANT AT ASTORIA. SAYS BISHOP ROOT an artist a picture Far East Begins to Question . Tradition, Is Warning. ma ORIENT HELD CHANGING When an artist sits down to make a picture he asks himself two questions: Prelate From Hankow Speaks at Mass Meeting In Connection , With Episcopal Sessions. Hfhat is the thing1 I want to show?" G w hen kes The Russian-Chinese border is more than 2000 miles Ions, no po litical line of demarcation can shut out propaganda, and as a result, bol shevlsm is the most active influence in Chinese life today. So warned the Right Rev. Logan H. Roots, bishop of Hankow, China, at a missionary mass meeting held last night in connection with the Episcopal general convention at the municipal auditorium. As a result of these doctrines from red Russia, a large question mark is the standard of modern China. The laws are Questioned, the cus toms questioned, the doctrines that have stood for thousands of years are in peril. The home life and the family, the basis of all Chinese life are in the balance; young China, filled with bolshevist doctrines, is even questioning the worth of the doctrine of filial piety, the highest of all oriental virtues, he declared. East Declare Ckangiag. "The unchanging east is the chang ing east," Bishop Root explained to an audience of 2000 who assembled to hear a series of addresses on the work of the church, in mission ary fieWs. "China, and for that matter Ja nan and India, are undergoing a tre mendous process of the transforma tion of their national life. Bolsheviki propaganda is the most active in fluence in Chinese life today. We Americans must be aware of that fact. ' "The Industrial life of the orient ?s changing. Just before I sailed to attend this convention I met an American friend in Hankow who boasted that he had just sold a million dollars' worth of American cotton spinning machinery to a new mill which is being erected in that city. That mill is going to affect the very lives and existences of hun dreds of thousands of people. Unless we Americans instill a Christian conscience and public opinion in China that will prevent these thou sands of workers from being ex ploited, our accomplishment . will mean nothing. Women in Orient Awakening. "There is a women's movement in the orient. The women of China, Japan and India are awakening. In i'hina the move is just as signifi cant as in the United States. We must safeguard the lives pf those ;eople by providing them with a Christian character to protect them j in the new order. "Even the language of China is changing. With the thousands of young Chinese being educated in our American colleges Tale, Har vard, Michigan, California and Co lumbia they are taking back to the orient a new intelligence and a new literature. "The classical old Chinese tongue :s disappearing. In its place is sub stituted vernacular. The old Chinese scholar of a generation ago could rot read the present language, and if he did, he would be struck with 'lorror by the thoughts which are being uttered." Bishop Roots, who has been nomi . nated as head of the Federated Christian council of all Christian forces in the orient, and whose po sition as such now rests with the house of bishops, pleaded for more unification among Christians and declared that he could see no dif ference in the work being done by the various religious bodies in the I'ar east. Home Work Important. "And if you want to be able to teach Christianity to these peoples the place to begin is at home, to :.reat your' black, red and yellow brothers here as brothers," he said. If you cannot, you had better re call your missionaries." Christianity, he explained, is be ing adopted by the ancient native religions of the orient, the Buddhists and Confucianists accepting the doc trine of the universal brotherhood of man. Four other missionary bishops, Thurston of Oklahoma, Colmore of Porto Rico, LaMothe of Honolulu nd Touret of Idaho, also spoke on the work in their particular dis tricts. - ,0 V ' " 1 ' msm " y ,-y.- .... ' - -v "feWfe' I I'j j VIEW OF COIVPUAGRATIOIV. -Photo by Woodfield, Astoria. BURNED MILL INSURED LOSS AT ASTORIA ESTIMATED AT $750,000 TO $1,000,000. METHODIST SESSION DUE CHURCH CONFERENCE BE GINS IN VANCOUVER TODAY. J50 Western Washington Minis ters Expected to Attend From Four Districts. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 12. (Special.) The annual session of the Puget Sound conference of the Methodist church will begin here tomorrow and continue until some time next Monday, with three daily sessions. Bishop Charles Wesley Burna. of Helena, Mont, will pre- s'de. There will be 250 ministers present from western Washington many being accompanied by their wives. Four districts, Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver dis tricts, will be represented. A movement has been inaugurated to raise a fund of $500,000 which will be invested and the income from this will be used for the bene fit of retired, ministers. Rev. W. H. Baker, field agent for conference claimants, who has been working oil raising this fund for the past year, will have a. very satisfactory report to make. It is understood that quite a considerable portion has already been obtained. The committee on examining the applicants for the ministry met to &y. Tonight the anniversary of the board of conference, claimants met in the Methodist church, where most of the sessions will be held. 'Rev. Thomas W. Lane presided. The use of the First Presbyterian church has been tendered by Rev. Charles E. Baskerville, for overflow meet ings. The actual conference will begin at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning in the Methodist church with the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, fol lowed by a memorial service for the members of the conference who have died since the last conference. The conference will then organ ize, committees will be appointed, and the secretary and treaeurer se lected. , Fire at Hammond Lumber Com pany's Plant Put Out After Long and Hard Fight. ASTORIA," Or., Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) The fire at the Hammond Lumber company's mill just east of this city was extinguished at an early hour this morning after de stroying property variously esti mated at between S750.000 and $1,000,000. Definite figures will not be obtainable until J. A. Rankin, superintendent of the Plant, and George B. McLeod, norhwest man ager of the company, . return from California. It is understood, how ever, the plant was insured for a large amount. It is estimated that approximately . 7,000,000 feet of lumber was destroyed while the buildings burned included th main mill, two dry kilns, electric power house, planing mill, machine shops and filing rooms. " Several million feet of lumber stored on the outer wharf was saved, as were the office buildings, store, hotel and numerous resi dences belonging to the company. To prevent the flames reaching the latter, portions of the wharf at the rear of the mill were dynamited. No one was seriously injured during the blaze, although there were number of narrow escapes. Roy Kizer, assistant foreman at- the mill, end ten assistants while fighting the fire were caught In the second floor of the drying sheds and : were forced to run about 250 feet through the seething flames to the north end of the structure and to abandon about 1000 feet of fire hose. The huge steel and concrete consumer, although warpedj and twisted by the intense ' heat, still stands. MILL OFFICIALS ARE AWAY Rebuilding of Plant at Astoria Not Definitely Known. Oving to the absence of G. B. McCloud, vice-president and man ager for Oregon of the Hammond Lumber company, it could not be ltfarned here yesterday whether that concern plans on the immedi ate rebuilding of the plant at As toria destroyed by fire Monday. A large number of the officials of that company were in confer ence at Eureka, Cal., at the time of the fire. Mr. McCioud was at that gathering and he plans to go to San Francisco before returning here. It is considered likely that when he returns he will be able to announce definitely what the com pany plans, . It was said yesterday at the Portland office of the company that the mill at Astoria was practically covered by insurance so; that the loss to the company will be small. STATE BODY WILL MEET Parent-Teacher Association to Convene Next Month. EUGENE, Or., Sept. 12, (Special.) The annual convention of the Ore gon State Parent-Teacher associa tion will be held in Eugene October 25-2S, these dates having been se lected by Mrs. J. F. Hill of Portland, president of the state body. Mrs. Hill will be in Eugene October 1 to confer with local officials con cerning the programme, according to word received from her today. It Is expected that 100 delegates will be her for the meetings, in addi tion to prominent educators of the state. An extensive schedule of discus sions and addresses, bearing on va rious aspects of school problems, and co-operation between parents and teachers, is being prepared ' for the session. BISHOP PADDOCK QUITS (Continutd From First Fge.) proved by both houses at the con vention of 1925. Merriment was occasioned when Bishop Charles M. Beckwith of Ala bama, immediately alter me result was announced, rose and facetiously suggested that a commission should now devise some law whereby women married under the old serv ice may be relieved of the obedience requirement. "The women nave done that for themselves," sang out Bishop Fred- trick F. Reese- o Georgia, ia a re tort that convulsed bishops, as well as visitors in the house. The resignation of Bishop Pad dock was accepted in the secret council session, which lasted much longer than the time that had been allotted for its consideration. It was accepted "because of disabil ity," it was subsequently reported, this having been the phrase used by Bishop Paddock in submitting his resignation. Accompanying the vote accepting the resignation will be filed the re port of the special committee which recommended its acceptance -in a brief statement containing .these sentences: "As Bishop Paddock's medical spe- 'cialists have agreed that 'an invalid's chair or worse' will be ahead for him If he continues, his work in eastern Oregon, there is no course open to this house but to accept his resig nation. - Resignation la Regretted. "Tour committee knows, however that Bishop Paddock's resignation will be received with profound re gret. We shall lose from the mis sionary field a leader whose work has been of a peculiarly apostolic character. His life in the episcopate has been conspicuous for its self denial and saintlinesb. The whole church has been watching with the deepest interest an experiment in self-support unique in the mission ary history of the American church. It is a cause of sorrow to us all that Bishop Paddock is not able to go on with Tiis attempt, which has produced results beneficial to this church. , "We pray that his recovery may be speedy and that he soon may be able to continue his work for the church." It is taken for granted that the house of deputies will concur in ac eeptance of the resignation. Such action leaves him a bishop in the church, but on the "resigned" ros ter.- He will still be entitled to a seat and vote in -the house of bishops. After the house of bishops had dissolved its council session it took up consideration of prayer book changes. Proposed changes in the order of confirmation were quickly disposed of and then followed con sideration or the marriage cere mony changes. A second important revision here proposed was that of dropping the pledge of the bride groom "and . with all my worldly goods I thee endow.1 " This proposed omission brought more lively and clashing debate. In the end It was discovered tht most of the bishops were in favor of, the spirit of the phrase seeking to make the man promise to support hie wife and family, but not with the present phraseology. It was accordingly voted to recommit this matter to the committee.- It is expected that when the house this morning takes up the matter of revision at this point a new and eultably phrased promise by the bridegroom may be offered. "Bhe question of the status of legislation urging the vote for suffragan bishops. has become a sore spot in this house, with some mem bers critical of the attitude of William C. Brown, chairman, in his interpretation, made yesterday, that the whole matter has been killed. Following reconsideration of the matter and adoption of amendments granting the vote to suffragans by the house of bishops came the dis closure that the house of deputies had indetinltely postponed action on the same amendments. By some bishops it is held that tire deputies violated a rule of prac tice in neither concurring -nor de clining to concur with the upper house. On this ground they hold that the whole subject may be reopened. Chairman Brown ruled against this view with a show of asperity. It is possible that a bitter contro versy may rise over' the muddle. Sacramental Wine Is Issne. At the morning session of bishops petition calling for authorization of the use' of unfermented wine in the church sacraments was present ed. This came in the form of a me morial from the diocese of Los An gles and was referred to the prel ates by Bishop J. H. Johnson of this diocese. The petitlo'n was aB follows: . We, -the undersigned clergy and laity of the diocese of Los Angeles, Cal do ask your honorable body to consider the use of unfermented fruit of the vine' at the holy sac rament and to grant a change there to, or at least give permission to use the same to those priests and persons to whom this subject has become a question of conscience." The petition wa referred to the committee on memorials, and peti tions. THa-Tion waul Mathews of h ( n cese of New Jersey offered a resolu tlon which would effect a measure of affiliation with the Hungarian Reformed church. This affiliation, he said, is a matter that "bristles with difficulties and abounds in op portunities." The resolution was referred to a special committee. WOMEN'S CAUSE UTS PLACE IN CHURCH DEPUTIES APPROVED IN REPORT. had approved loan applications ag gregating $6,955,900. Loan claims actually paid number 1313 and total $3,283,900. Convention Bodies Delay Con , sideration of Proposal ; Oppo sition. Is Expected. The. radical departure of admit ting women to membership in the house of deputies of the Episcopal church is given approval in the re port of the joint commission on woman's work In the church, which was,' made public yesterday. In recommending that the lower hotise be opened to women the re port says cognizance was taken of the equality given women in the new testament and to the fact that the nation has granted the political franchise to her. The report states that the committee acted adversely on the suggestion that a third house, to be composed of women only, be created. ' The report recites that in response tp a questionnaire "thoroughly cir culated" among church leaders it obtained expressions favoring ad mission of women to councils of the ' church on equal terms with laymen. On this proposal, for instance, it states that 36 bishops of the church voted approval and 29 opposed. Thirty-two diocesan officers favor ed admission of women and but 12 opposed it. The commission presents the reso lution through which it seeks to have the change effected. In gen eral it proposes that where the term layman is used there shall be substituted the phrase "lay commu nicants." Neither house of the convention has yet taken up consideration of this proposal. Ther is a strong belief, especially, among women at the convention, that they will win the Tight to seats" in the lower nouses This is not to be taken for granted, however, as there will be something of a fight over the reso lution proposed by tne commission. The report was signed by Right Rev. William Ford Nichols, bishop of California, as chairman, and Herbert II. Powell, of San Fran cisco, as secretary. BISHOP TALKS TO CLUB Kiwanians Entertain Episcopal Visitors at Luncheon. ' 'The regular meeting of the Ki wanis club yesterday at luncheon was held in honor of about 25 mem bers of various Kiwanis clubs throughout the country who are in the city as delegates to the trien nial convention of, the Episcopal church. The principal speaker of the day was Bishop Harold S. Longley of Iowa, who spoke on the subject, "The One Thing the World Needs." He emphasized the necessity of busi ness men, laboring men, and whole nations of men "getting next to God." The secondary speaker was B. Randolph Bias of West Virginia, who ,spok& on the close relation be tween West Virginia and Oregon in a historical sense, mentioning Lewis and Clarke as hailing originally from his state. Miss Lola Kernan sang several soprano numbers, ac companied by Mrs. Winifred Wor rell. The chairman for the. day was Rev. Walter Nugent of the Central Presbyterian church. ' LIM SEEKS SHUT LECTURER TO OPEN SPECIAL COURSE IS CONSIDERED. of Choice Lies Between Editor Manchester Gnardian and Hendrik Van Loon. Who will be the celebrity to open the library's special lecture course, on November 24, was a topic for discussion at the monthly "meeting of the board of directors last night. Among those mentioned, and who will be available, were S. K. Ratcliff, editor of the Manchester Guardian; Hamlin Garlana and Hendrik Van Loon. Sentiment was for the se lection of either Mr. Radcliff or Mr. Van Loon, or both, if their datings will permit consecutive appear ances. Despite the fact that August is a dull month- in all public libraries, the past August broke all records in contrast with the same month in other years. Miss Mulherron, head librarian, reported to the board the appoint ment of pew assistants, as follows: Miss Mary K Murphy, who nas succeeded Miss Edith Will as libra rian of the Rose City Park library, comes to Portland directly ..from Boston. . Miss Dorothy Watson, new assist ant In the catalog department, was on the Portland staff some yeas ago. , Miss Lenore Casford, assistant In the school department, comes from Janesville, 111. Miss Helen Hogeland, assistant in the East Portland library, has had college work in the University of Southern California. MINISTERS ACCEPT BID Religious Films of Episcopal Church Are to Be Viewed. Announcement was made yester day that the Portland Ministerial association has accepted an invita tion to view the motion pictures of the social service department of the Episcopal general convention Wednesday and Thursday nights of nextSTtveek. The pictures will be shown in the main hall of the mu nicipal auditorium, starting at 8 o'clock. Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, execu tive secretary of the department of social service, extended the invita tion to the ministerial association and yesterday received favorable response. He said that his depart ment's entire collection of pictures dealing with religious education and" social service will be shown to the ministers and people of Portland who care to view them on these evenings. 'What is the best way of showing it?" be one reason why pictures sometimes tell more than words do. A good picture of the thing yoi rouse the imagination of the reader, self owning this thing and using it. That may. can have to sell He can see him He feels a desire to possess it. He considers buying it. A good picture can do these things. But a good picture demands good printing, and good printing requires good paper. . Printers understand this. A careful printer will, if his customer lets him, select a paper for a job of print ing that will print pictures the way they jshould be printed. 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Up until tonight the commission had paid 18,707 cash claims amounting to $1,243,962, and Harrison Almiron Bailey. SALEM, Or., Sept. 12. (Special! Funeral services for Harrison Al miron Bailey, who was killed by be ing run down by a Southern Pacific train near Los Angeles, September 5, will be held here tomorrow. Mr. Bailey was 34 years old and is sur vived by Ms parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Bailey; his widow, and sev eral brothers and sisters, , all of Salem. The body arrived here to day. Mr. Bailey lived in Salem prior to locating In California a few years ago. Mrs. Marie Lubbens. OREGON CITT, Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Dubbens, wife of Bernard Lubbens of Aurora, were held Tues day afternoon at the Lutheran church, with Rev. W. R. Kraxberger of Oregon City officiating! Mrs. Lubbens was a pioneer resident of the Macksburg community, having moved recently to Aurora. She was 53 years old. An only son was drowned two years ago, and the husband is the only survivor. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Scadding. Word was received here yesterday of the death of, Mrs. Eliaabeth Winder Scadding in Toronto, Can ada, at the age of 85. Mrs. Scad ding, a former resident of Portland, was the widow of the late Bishop Henry Simcoe Scadding of the Epis copal church and mother of the late Right Rev. Charles Scadding, bishop of Oregon, predecessor to Bishop Sumner. The Scaddings originally came from Toronto and made a host of acquaintances in this city. H. Crawford Scadding of Toronto is a surviving son of Mrs. Scadding. Miss Ruth Snyder. Funeral services for Miss Ruth Snyder, who died after a short ill ness at Emanuel hospital last Mon day afternoon, will be held at the Woodstock Methodist Episcopal church this morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. Walton Sklpworth and Rev. L. C. Foot w'ill officiate. Interment will be at Rose City Park cemetery. Miss Snyder was well known at Franklin high school and in Wood stock, where she lived. Previous to entering Franklin she attended Woodstock grammar echool. She was also an active member and worker of the Methodist Episcopal church and the P'pworth league. She was born at Colorado Springs, Colo., andcame to Portland in early childhood. She Is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Snyder of this city, and her brother and sister, Lawrence and Edith Snyder. AV. J. Hewitt. STAYTOM, Or., Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) W. J. Hewitt, of Stayton dropped dead yesterday while at work at the C3ardnT Bro.' flour mill, where he had been employed several years. He had been a mif fcrer from heart trouble nd it in thought the excecxive beat hrouwlil on the attack wht;h proved fatal Ills widow and two sons xurvivc him. ltulh Griffin. FOSSIL, Or., Hept. 12. (Special 1 Funeral services for Ituth (Srlffin. aged 5, who was accidentally run over and killed by her father, were held Sunday, September ID. lit I lie Christian church. Rev. C. A. Si:iis having charge of the service. Inter ment was made in the Masonic cemetery. She was the only claim li ter of Mr. and Mrs. (leoriie Grlliin. Kdlefden n can deliver now. Adv. Seventh Annual Clearance Sale Cuticixra Soap The Healthy Shaving Soap ffetfettrsSoapih&TOTwtthotftmtRK, Eft ywhegegc. No. 291 259 240 295 299 189 293 225 249 234 A Sale of Big Values for Ten Days Only LOOK-Here Are a Few-LOOK "Elgin Touring, runs fair; needs some work Maxwell Touring, a real good buy Crow-EIkhart Chummy, wire wheels; good condition.. Chevrolet FB Touring, looks good, runs fine Oldsmobile 7-passenger; a good late model car Essex Touring, looks and runs like new Oldsmobile Touring, rebuilt, new paint, cord tires. Oldsmobile Coupe; a lot of car for the money. ...... A classy 8-cylinder Sport Roadster; don't miss this.. Was Sale Prli e $225 $175 300 185 300 185 325 250 550 450 850 750 850 725 850 725 875 750 925 825 985 885 350 250 550 450 850 650 1000 800 u 8 Master 2 V2 -ton Truck, the best buy in the city. Every Car Guaranteed as Represented Open Evenings and Sundays Oldsmobile Company of Oregon , Broadway and Couch Streets