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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1919)
10 i . TOE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 12, 1919. ' . , . , . . - .... " i &.S5 r- im.-m. . r '' T " 7" Mt HUOIblb HI s-HS mSsaB' nipni n i mnrlwr nnk" dp the 1,mportant ommer- lf " ' . - jyp " rjr 4 "'CVV j nfj FVFRY II A N R F I .SSrSJSSj k& In Garments of Russet : m . ' -S5v r-.(y v Even Billy Sunday Opposes Lifting the Ban. BIG CAMP MEETING HELD Lieutenant Smjth Tells Dancing Masters That Rale Is Keeping Many Ont of Church. I NEW TORK. A new-PPrman vis- J Ited Ocean Grove. the mecca of Methodists from all over the country. I to teat sentiment regarding the reso ; lution passed Friday by the American National Association. Masters of t I'anclng. which asked the Methodist church to remove the ban on dancing Z from Ha discipline book. He could find only one prominent Methodist who did not think that dancing la still ! a Satanic exercise. Billy Sunday, who Is the star at the SOth annual campmeetlng. told the re , I porter that he Is opposed to any kind of dancing, proper or Improper. 1 "1 am the uncompromising foe of ; the dance." said Hilly.. "Seventy-five per cent of the gtrla who go down to t rutn slide there over the smooth, glis- '" tening. wax floor of the dance halls. Of course, there Is both moral and im- moral dinrlnt, but I am opposed to both kinds." loleat Oppoalttoa Predicted. The Rev. James William Marshall. I vlce-presnlent of the Ocean Grove J t'ampmeeting association, said: "If a resolution Is offered at the general Z conference asking that the ban- on J dancing- be lifted, it will be violently opposed." Frank B. Smith, general manager of Ocean Grove, aaid: "I have danced i only once In my life, and I shall never do it again. If the dancing masters a were here now. I would take them to J hear Billy Sunday, so that he could convert them. . The only optimistic statement; so far as the dancing masters are Con . cerned. came from former Justice Isaac Franklin Russell of New York, who said: ! "I think the Methodist church I likely to raiae the ban on dancing. Z The prohibition has long been a dead J letter. The young people demand its repeal. The Indecent dances of these X later daya have delayed such action. . The new rules of the dancing masters I safeguarding modesty is a step in the I right direction. Dr. A. K. Ballard. president of the Camp Meeting asso- elation. Is the author of the rule against dancing. It Is a compara J tively recent thing in Methodism. It never was Intended to do more than I to forbid promiscuous public dancing. With the cabaret abolished and 11 . quor a thing of the past, the worst associations of the dance have gone forever." J Dr. Ballard was too 111 to be In f terviewed. It was said there was I little likelihood that the appeal of the dancing masters would be for ! tnally discussed at the camp meet' ing. Leading Methodists disclaimed ' knowledge of the reported Methodist J objection to the circulation of hotel i advertisements depicitlng presons i dancing. ' Some years ago dancing " was prohibited at the Ocean Grove hotels, but it is now permitted. ! Evll Has Bees Removed." ! The dancing masters held their final session at the Hotel Astor yesterday ' and unanimously adopted the resolu- tion previously adopted by their ex ecutive committee. The resolution ends with this paragraph: "We be lieve that with prohibition an ac complished fact the greatest evil to good dancing has been removed. A requisite for membership in our so i ciety has always been absolutely sep !' aration from the liquor traffic" Lieutenant J. Henry Smythe Jr Red Cross, who has pust returned from France, addressed the conven tion yesterday. He is the son of the Rev. J. Henry Smythe of Philadelphia, a prominent Methodist. According to a statement issued by a dancing master. Lieutenant Smythe is lead ing the agitation within the Methodist church for hepeal of the dancing pro hibition law. "Let all Methodists start a cam paign now. if they wish the amuse ment paragraph altered in our book of discipline." said Lieutenant Smythe. "I hope tbey will co-operate with the dancing profession and other effective agencies for such revision. Unless fellow-Methodists organize at once the necessary religious propaganda, next year nothing may be done to abolish this unwise amusement rule." Baa Slade Hypocrites of Maay. "The general conference of the Methodists everywhere will sea that Des Moines. I trust that progressive Methodists everywhere will see that only instructed delegates attend this qnadrennlal session. Most reforms are effected by campaigns, usually aided by publicity, whether prohibition woman suffrage or what not. This ban has kept or driven hundreds of thousands of young people from our Methodist membership lists. It ha: made almost hypocrites of us Meth odists who do dance, play cards and go to the theater and also participate as church leaders. "World war has brought nations. denominations and creeds closer to gether. Most Protestant bodies are standing shoulder to shoulder and hndd in hand. In this forward move ment should Methodism assume a 'holier than thou' attitude? The reso lution as drafted by me and sponsored by your influential society expresses my own feelings in this important Biatter. Continue to br the move ment for the good of the church even more than for your profession. I call upon an ltoerat juemoaisis to pear reached by the railway Is the small city of Pltangul. In the state of Minus Geraes, about 200 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro. The Central Rail way links up the Important commer cial and Industrial centers of south ern Brasil at present, while other roads and branches form a network of communications along the Brazil Ian seaboard, but northern and cen tral Brazil, wherein lies the country's greatest potential resources, so vast as to be practically Incalculable, has never been opened by transportation lines. The main line of the extension will find its terminus at Para, the north ern Brazilian port at the mouth of the Amazon. It will probably traverse the states of Minss Geraes. Bahia. Goyaz or Plauhy, or both Maranhao and Para. A straight line, drawn north by the west from Pltangul to Para, measure's approximately 1100 geo graphical miles, and it is certain that more than 1500 miles of railway must be laid in the construction of the main line.' It is no secret that British, French and German interests are anxious to deal with the Brazilian government in this project. Representatives of American steel and railway equip ment organizations, however, are also in the field now. and Brasil will bene fit from the competition resulting. While an effort is expected from Ger many. It Is generally recognized that she has little chance to win. It is logical to assume thatt hec ountry from which the bulk of the material and supplies come also will finance the building of the road, and In both these departments the United States is In a position to bid with favorable outlook for success. Probably the first, and one of the most important, effects of the exten sion will be an Influx of much-needed Immigration to Brasil. Simultaneous ly, foreign capitals will be attracted by the enormous possibilities and the main line of.the railway will become the vertebrae of a maze of branch toads, threading up Into the Amazon valley, and straightaway westward to the great Brazilian plains, which some day may take pre-eminence as the world's foremost cotton-producing re gion. It has been proven that the climate of central Brasil Is Ideal for growing cotton. This possibility recalls Presi dent Epltaclo Pessoa'a Interest In the methods of raising and ginning cot ton In the United States. Whether Brasil is to become a manufacturing power depends upon her railway extension. With her vast deposits of manganese ore and pos sibly of much coal and iron, connec tions by rail, and a sufficiency of labor are the main factors awaited to employ these resources in the com ing activity that will presage the eco nomlc metamorphosis of the country If cotton is produced on the scale that is being discussed, it Is safe to pre diet that the manufacture of cotton goods will become one of the biggest industries of Brazil. With iron and coal in sufficient quantities, and their existence Is suspected. Brazi will become a steel-producing nation. The extension of the railway will accelerate the Inauguration of the proposed big irrigation projects, par ticularly in the state of Goyaz, where periodical droughts have for years been depleting the population and causing untold .suffering and great property losses. One of the effects sure to result from the extension of the railway system is an appreciable increase in the world's meat supply. Millions o acres of cattle land will be brought closer to the market centers, and the north will probably supplant the south of Brasil as. the great cattle territory of the country. In Garments of Russet and Gold They Greet the Autumn AT this wonderful home we have built above the placid river, the trees and clinging vines ap proach their winter's slumber in garments of russet and gold, fr IT IS their farewell after months of spreading happiness among men and surrounding, with their beauties, those who re pose in niche and marble vault protected by everlasting walls. BUT the habiliments of drab winter will not follow their leave tak ing. Here, where there is ten der care, flowers lend their radiant colors throughout the round of years. It is, incom parably, the better way. Come and see. ' C- ARCTIC ICE IS UNUSUAL Frozen Pack Extends Farther Sooth Than for Many Years. NOME!. Alaska. Ice conditions In the Arctic this year have been the most unusual in years, according to reports brought here by the United States coast guard cutter Bear. The Ice pack, the Bear reported, was found to extend further south than at any time since the vessel began Its patrol or far northern waters, the pack, heavy and solid, extending to about loo miles north of Point Lay. or JO miles south of Wainrlght. Along the lower edge of the pack thousands of walrus were encountered by the cutter, the Ice being literally black with the huge mammals. This. officers of the vessel said, was an other evidence that the Ice was solid for a great distance to the north as the walrus stay close to open water. The J ear, because of the Ice condl tions. was unable to reach Point Bar row and Wainright. and its officers expressed the belief that passage to ne Mackenzie river section this year may ne prevented. - - their share". .! U. S.TO GET BRJIZ1LTRADE j BIG EXPANSION OF KAIL LIVES t SEEMS NEAR. South American Country May Take Pre-Emlnence as World's Cotton Producer. J RIO DE JANEIRO. American In- terests in the fight to capture their share of the world's trade have evinced a determination to play a major part In the development of the ast stretch of unexploited and unex- plored Brazilian territory. Z Accordingly, it is expected that they will figure prominently In the great project soon to be undertaken. J known as the extension of the Cen- tral Railway of Brazil. This work Z when completed, will undoubtedly bring Brazil to the fore os one of the I world's greatest commercial, if not Industrial powers, and it will have the effect of multiplying Brazil's trade T balance in foreign markets. At present the northernmost point "DEATH" HAS PROFITEERS French Incensed at Expense of Ex huming Fellow Soldiers. PARIS. There Is bitter feeling throughout France owing to the ex orbitant prices demanded by some of the inhabitants of the war zone for the exhumation of the bodies of sol diers who have fallen on the battle fields of northern Frnce and their transportation to the nearest railway station. "The profiteers of death," they are called. Besides exacting stupendous prices the self-appointed undertakers show little consideration for the precious burdens which they convey. & Sc H. greei stamps for cash, Eol man Fuei company. Main 153, A 3353. Blockwood, 4 ft. or short slabwood, Utah and Rock Springs coal; sawdust. AdT. v Vr If", s - "2 " f-,. p rtlaiidfreniaroriiiml Multnomah Hotel Where Home Comforts AbooBd Portland, Oregon - Elegance and comfort combine to make enjoyable your stay at the Multnomah. COO cozy rooms, beautiful mezzanine floor and lobby, and superior service at reasonable rates. Garage In connection. Eric V. Hauser. President .. A. B. Campbell. Manager mi - A. B. Campbell. Manager jjjj The Palace Beautiful g . JflPf T IS 3IETHODISTS IX FIXLAD RE PORT COMPLETE PAYMENT. Status in Scandinavian, Finnish, Baltic and German Countries to Be Examined. BERLIN. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) It Is announced that the indebteoness of the Metho dist churches in Finland has been paid by Dr. Lemuel H. Murlln. presi dent of Boston university and mem ber of the war emergency reconstruc tion comhission of the American Methodist church. Dr. Murlln is in Europe1 to Investigate the status oi the church in Scandinavian, Finnish, Baltic and German countries. His action is attributed to the favorable rates of exchange he obtained in pur chasing the debts. He mar take similar action to Germany where the debt of the Metho dist churches at normal exchange rates would amount to 1750,000, but bow could be paid for about $100,000. The commission is expected to re port the results of its inquiry to the Methodist conference in the united States in 1920, with recommendations for the care of Methodists in Europe. Few Northern Mosquitoes Bad. KETCHIKAN. Alaska. (By Mail.) But one species of malaria-carry ing mosquitoes was found In Alaska by Dr. Harrison G. Dyar, of the United States national museum, he tated after his recent studies In the north. None of the other species, he said, could be classified as disease carrying. Dr. Dyar took back to the states with him several hundred specimens of the Alaska mosquito. DIVORCE PROBLEM GRAVE United Kingdom Reports Increase at Rapid Rate. LONDON. Divorce is Increasing throughout the United kingdom at an alarming rate, according to a white paper. The total for 189S was 650. For 1917 it was 1705, with tne great est Increase recorded In the years be tween 1914-17. Another development which the government views with alarm is the number of actions brought by hus bands. Where once the petitioner was usually a woman, the past few years have so changed the situation that In 1917 the number of husbands seeking separations was 1067 as compared with 63S wives. Important news to lovers of wholesome, healthful Red Rock cottage cheese: Hereafter you can buy Red Rock Cottage Cheese - nine hours earlier than heretofore. It will reach you through your dealer with all of its delicious freshness, just as it comes from the dairy. A determination to give our friends, the public, the best product of its kind, together with the perfected facilities afforded by fine new buildings and equipment, enables us to make this pleasing innovation in our service. Ask for Red Rock Cottage Cheese a Palatable Food Red Rock Dairy ... MANSION IS REMODELED Home . Prepared for Philippine Governor-General and Bride. MANILA. Malacanan palace, the governor's mansion, was almost com pletely remodeled in preparation for 1 1 fcr-' ( j t-; fgfffdfp CMC fuktifl A nrS3 MA Here's a chance to play even with the high cost o' living. Two big features for the price of one! "The Floorwalker" is a brand new print of Charlie Chaplin's most famous comedy. It is a re-issue; has all the old laughs and a lot of new ones. "Bare-Fisted Gallagher" is one of these grip-your-seat William Desmond pictures. You'll say that it is a knock-out! 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