; 'i THE W RATI IKK
Occasional rain; warmer except
' near the coast.
The State! man receives the
leased wire report of the As
sociated Press,- the greatest
and most reliable press as
soclatioal the world. -
' liWTV-MXTH YEAK
H.1LKM,- ORKCiOX, THUKSDAY AlOKXlXU, OCTOBKlt s;T;ieiO.
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
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si
RD
REDS BEAT
WHITE SOX;
SCORE 9-1
Walther Reuther, Cincinnati
Pitcher, Is New Idol of Dia
mond in Eyes of 30,511
Who Attend Series Game
CHICAGO GETS 6 HITS:
T FpURTH IS FATAL FRAME
Waire of Runs by Victors Ends
Tension of High Strung
. Crowds
1 CTNC1NNAT. Oct." 1. Cinclrma!
! vnn(th( ooenine fame of the
world's aeres from the Chicago Am-f
erica ns by a score of 9 to 1. Every
reries develops a new Idol for the
fans, and Walter Unather, who
pitched the Reds to victory wan the
Bnaninious choice tonight. He not
only held the White gox to six scat
tered hits and really deserved a shut
cut. but rolled up a batting average
cf 1.000 for himself.
If there was anvthrng in the game
that was better than his hurling it
as work with the stick. Two
of his three hits were mighty triples
He df'Te In two runs.-scored one
himself and war the Instigator of the
mad romping of red lers around the
bases In the fatal fourth.
y I ' Rot In up to the-Fourth
The Sox; were In th flghfcup to
that, time, I. but when he propelled
that ball into "no man's" land" In
left center and rombed around fo
third while two scored ft head or him
the heart seemad to go out of the
American leaguers. It was a sad day
for Eddie Cicotte, leading pitcher of
the Junior league. Never .before wan
so decisive a beating administered to
the Michigan wonder. He
Was '
simply pounded -out of the-hox. Five
ruar were : recorded against him in
the fourth before Manager Gleason
gate him tba sign' to retire. His
tearif'mateS gathered around him am'
patted him encouragingly en the
back, but he walked from the dia
mond with his head-hanging.
!. Xtr Thick With Hits
Roy Wilkinson succeeded., him op
the mound, while the ; last inninp
was pitched bV Loudeymilk but It
made' little difference to the nation
1. league champions. , They kept the
air fairly clogged with ifugitive hits
while the Sox fielders rkn lleir legs
off after terrific flies. I
After the rame.'Garipr Herrmann
towaer of ihe Reds who ame pantin?
Bp the-runway of the grand stand
c rtoipped long enough to remark to
friends: . . ,:
I TThose dopesters that were figur
jlng Cincinnati second didn't figure
03 our ibatting rd iers. We have
jirot two more like Ruether. Thevj
have all been batting around .300
all season. , y I
(-..;. , .Sll Se-Gaine ','
The, ,day 'was . clear and hot and
50,511 enthusiasts witnessed the
coatest." Cincinnati -has always Been
Inown as a thorough going baseball
town, supporting the home' team in
food seasons and bad,- but nerves
were on edge today with' the import
ance of the struggle in store. This
Tiimade evident by the abrupt ter
mtaafoB of wares' of cheering until
inundation of, runs in tlie fourth re
lieved the tetsI?rJand-he cheering
became wild andr prolonged.
'Cincinnati made the' first score In
the firt, but as Chicago immediate
ly afterward tied the score, it was
till regarded as anybody's game.
1 Cicotte Starts Trouble
Cicotte startedthe trouble for
himself bj pegging , Rath about the
boulders and he looked a little wor
ried as the Red second baseman, a!
lofmer Sox castoff; enjoyed bis un
tamed increraenft on first base. The
vialtlng twlrler put one In the grove
for Daubert.! who singled cleanly,
tending Rath to third. The latter
cored on Grohs sacrifice fjy to left,
Rising the" Reds the first run of the
erieg. .' : ' - ,
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SIDELIGHTS ON THE
i William Stewart Cordon, for
DierlT pastor of th t ciio rth.
list church,; and a poet of wide
"pute, is here for the conference.
Tn poetical; work of Rey. -Mr.
wrdon Is well.kno wn throughout t
"gon and' his Contributions to
rKon literature! are of a high
quality. , j
'J- Stanford Moore,, a former
Willamette! student, now of Port
jal. is expecting tot be returned
( to work In the conference after a
Period of war work. He resigned
"I pastorate to go into the army
chaplain but was refused. He
"en tried to get Into the T. M.
C. A. for work overseas but failed
to make connections, and went to
orkin the Oregon shipyards In-
stead. , : ' ..'
Announcement was made yes
IDONT SWEAR SAYS JUDGE
; ''
HEAVY FINES PROMISED
PORTLAND GROWS MORAL
PORTLAND. Oct. 1 Persons
who are arrested and brought be
fore Municipal Judge George Ross
man Tor using profanity hereafter
will be dealt with severely, ac
cording to announcement made by
the judge today when he fined Ed
wajd; Hobbs and E. S. Trumbler
$2 each for that offense.
"It has come to that state of af
fairs where a woman can no't wall
down the street without baving-to
listen to profane language , from
the mouths or young inenH said.
Judge Rossman.
POLK COUNTY
MODEL FARM
SOON TO SELL
Chairman of State Land Set
tlement Commission Tells
I Board's Plans
HOOD WHEAT CROP SOLD
' 7 I
Official Visit This Week to
, Determine Whether Plant
is Satisfactory
Finishing touches are being placed
on the model farm ofilhe state land
settlement commission near Indepen
dence, Polk county, W'bitney, L.
Boise, chairman of the commission,
said yesterday, and the latter part
of this week the commission will' go
to the farm to see if buildings 'have
been completed and painting done.-,
"As soon as the farm is completed
It will be placed on isale," said Mr.
Boise. "Several applications already
have been received, i The price at
which it will be helid by the com
mission will not be determined until
everything Is complete and the cost
of establishing the farm and build
ings has been estimated accurately.
It is the commission's plan to sell
the farm at a profit of from 10 to 15
per . cent.
t'om miss ion Farms Tract
. "i
"During the last year the commis
sion itself farmed, the land. We pro
duced 1250 bushels of, wheat on 50
of Ihe 60 acres in the farm, and this
will bring'in about $2 a bushel. ' -
"In placing buildings onvthe farm
we found it is practicable to use mill
made buildings, those that are built
in sections ready for setting up when
the parts are received..! . : V
"B.etter farms, better living cbndi-
tions, better earning capacity and an
increase in the taxable wealth of the
county where farms are established
are the things the - commission Is
working for."
The commission has about-$50,000
at Its disposal from the legislative;
appropriation accompanying the, act'
which created the commission, i Had
the reconstruction program been
adopted by , the people at the special
election of June 3 last the commis
sion would have had several hundred
thousand dollars, to use injthe estab
lishment of fajn3Ja--dlTferent parts
of the state:
Revolving Fund Created
( The proceeds' from the sale of
crops and other operations on the
farms go into a revolving fund for
the commission's use according to a
provision of the act which says that
the proceeds of all! operations shall
be paid into the general fund of the
state to be apportioned to the land
settlement fund which" shall be used
as a revolving fund as far as possible
after allowing for necessary adminis
trative expenses. .
While the land settlement commis
sion was created primarily for the
(Continued on page 2.)
MANDWHEEWIIIBECdLOR
OF AUTOMOBILE LTCENSrrTAGS
NEXT GIVEN OREGON MOTORISTS
Motd"r vehicle license tags for
1920 Hill b? 'a background of red
with-numbers In white. Application
blanks for the 1920 liuenses will
be mailed out from the secretary of
METHODIST. CONFERENCE
terday that the granddaughter of
A. F. Waller, one ofthe founders
of Willamette university, was bur
ied several weeks ago in Portland.
She was born when the Oregon;
conference was eight years old and
belonged to the nobility of Oregon.
Frank James, minister at Sheri
dan, Or., has been, returned to the
ministry after serving, with Uncle
Sam as a chaplain. He wajr with
the 16 2nd Depot battalion and was
stationedat Camp Pike. He was
just rearin' to get across and was
ready to go when the armistice
stopped all activities forward."
George II. Parkinson, temporar
ily located at Bend, has returned
to civilian life after being with the
.army as a chaplain. He was sta
tioned at Camp Lewis.
60,000 MEN v
JOIN STRIKE
I
List Includes Shipyard Work
i ers, Iron Tradesmen, Tail
ors, Stevedores, Taxicah
Drivers, Clerks, Carmen
J
PORTLAND NUMBER OUT
IS REDUCED TO 2500
Situation in Los Angeles is
Declared Lockout by
Both Sides
SAX FRANCISCO Oct. 1 Involv
ing approximately ..GO.OOO men, in
cluding both skilled land unskilled
labor, San Francisco, , Oakland and
Alameda today were in the grin of
industrial' disturbances which, have
greatly hampered industry in the en
tire San Francisco Bay, district. Ship
yard and Iron trades workers, tail
ors, stevedores, taxicab drivers
clerks, street 'railway employes. Ke-
Route system ferry 1 boat employes
and river steamboat men are affect
ed. - .
," .".", OOO Out In Day
The ost serious development in
the labor situation came today when
25.000 hip yard and iron trades
workers in Oakland and Alameda
and 30.000 in San Francisco struck
The 6hip yards' and iron trades work
ers went out ;in effort to force the
payment of a wage increaseioY eigut
cents an hour. Union officials say
the tie-un, of the ship yards is com
plete. No statement was forthcom
ing.'" ,i -
XOIBKR OUT IN lORTFAXD.
RFnrCED TO 2,500 3IF.N
PORTLAND, Oct. 1. Demands of
Ftriklng workmen in the Smith-Wat
son Iron works and the South Port
land repair shop were granted at
coriferen.ee late today between unlan
officials andXha employers, nd the
men will return . to .work tomorrow
according to C F. K,endrigan, secre
tary of th Metal Trades council.
This consummation, Kendrigan
said, reduced jthextotal number ofj
men inyl ved in theXshipyard strike
here to! 2 500, most ofwho were cm
ploye,i In two wooden shipyards.
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SITUATION IV IS AXfiELKS
IS DECIiARFJJ liOCK'OUT
LOS ANGFLES. Oct. 1. Settle
ment of th;? strike of approximately
3. 000 ship yard workers emplbyedby
the Ions: Beach and Southwestern
shipbuilding companies at Long
Beach ,f nd Los Angeles harbor, which
became effective todayis declared a
lockout, strike leaders and company
officials stated tonight.
Benjamin Sutter, Veteran
of Civil War Passes Away
Tuesday
i Benjamin Sutter died
night lats after a sheft llriess, at
the age of 75 years. He made his
home with his son. C. V. Sutter
near" " Brooks. The family Slaving
moved to Oregon abotrt a year ago
from Tabor, Iowa. He was a vet
eran of the Civil war. .
, He is survived by two sons, CfTW
, A Brooks and H. Mr of Kethi, Kas. Thp
body will be sent todary by the Rlg
don company to the former home in
Tabor, Iowa, where the funeral ser-
I vices and burial will take place.
state's office on November 1 with
return envelopes and instructions.
and registrations will begin Xovem
ber 11. Chaungey D. Butler, super.
rintenacnt of the aitonobile regis
tration department says that hjts.de-.
partment has envelopes already
stamped and addressed to every. mo
tor vehicle owner in tho state.
Tags fcr the corning year will
'.le slightly different in form fronu
those now used. Ori the-letf of the
tag will to the nuriiber and at the
:ieht side in parallel lines will be
the Ftate abbreviation and the date.
1920. Prior to this the name of
the state a'nd the date have been
stencilled horizontally on the tag.
Motor vt-hicle tags already have
been received from the factory,
instructions to automobile own
ers request that they not ask for
any certain number, as under no
circumstances : can i plates be. set
aside or rfse:-ved. i Number plates
will i be issued as usual strictly in
the. order ibwhich applications are
received: xhmbers bgin at 1 and
run consecutively throughout the
year.
'All applications received prior to
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BAY cm
Small Daughter of Frank B.
Kelton is Called by fleath
Jyelyn Lenore Kelton,-only daugh-
teMj Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Kelton.
died: yesterday morning at the fam
ily home at 15,42 Bellevue street
She was 10 months and. 14 days old
Mr. and Mrs. Kelton have been resi
dents of Salem, only a short time
The funeral services will b held
Friday afternoon at $ o'clock from
the Rigdon chapel, and burial will
be in City View cemetery.
SALEM HERO
7H0M&A&IN
NEW YORK, Oct. 3. Four
years ago Ferinan MeAtloo, 14-year-ohl
-son of a Salem, Or news
paper publishes, went to war with
the Canadian overseas forces; To'
day he is on his way home, with
11 wounds, and wearing Jthe Brit
ish distinguished conduct medal
for bravery. The' steamer Iioyal
George brought Ferman, into this
port this afternoon, along ivith 300
other repatriated Americans r who
fought with British armiesbroad.
Heroic Work Commended 1
Ferman; McAdoo Is the son ot Mr.
and Mrs. I. V. McAdoo and is well
known here. He enlisted in 1917
and while stationed at Halifax, N. B.
during the explosion and resultant
fire in that city in December of that
year, he was commended for heroic
work. He recently i underwent an
operation for acute- appendicitis
while in England . on his "way , home
from, France. I i
s Mr. McAdoo is now publisher of
the Lai ir Bender in Bend and was
formerly in the composing roqsmtf
The Statesman.' - . .
SHRINE SPECIAL
Band Concert and Parade to
be Staged in Salem by Fez
. - Wearers
'A
On a pilgrimage to iMarshfield
where they wilt Conduct a classof
novitiates across the scorching sdhds
more than .250 Shriners ot-EI Kader
temple will arrive on a special train
from Portland at 12:45 pi mJ tomor
row and will parade -the streets' of
Salem for an hoyor more.'' The
processioitrsittfitfiead by ; the
Arab patrol band along Slate and
Court streets winding up at . the
court house where a band concert
and drill will be given. 1
Leaving Salem the caravan wilt
be joined by Zadoc Riggs.. Hal
Patton, C E. Wilson, O. J. Schei and
several other Salem Shriners. Notice
has Jbeen sent out to the 125 mem
bers ifTThe-Sh rime who live' in Sa
I ,em and vicinity to attend - the fes
4Il?Jti .,, .,
ncanug luc let i - j
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FRUIT I
ARE STUDIED
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Three Australian Soldiers in
Salem to Observe Indus-
inai icuyiiy
E. P. Vaughn andR, A. Clayton
of Tasmania, Australia, and P. V.
Kerr of Victoria, Australia, members
of atparty of Australian troops who
fought the Germans in France, but
who arenow assigned by the repat
riation department of thetlr native
country to study horticnltural meth
ods in the United States, are com
pletlng an observation 'it f ''veral
days in ' this section. They wiH
epend three months in Xregon .and
go -from here to ,Hooo!Jlirer, and
laterNswill go into he: Yakima and
Wenatchea districts of aWfistngton-
The part of luO has its base at
University farm. Davis City, Calif..'
near Sacramento, and is working
under the direction of the University
of California. American Irrigation
and general agricultural and horti
cultural rnethods arr? being studied
In Oregon, thethree men who have
been assigned to this state, are not
ing growing methods and the man
ner of handling and marketing the
products In particular. While her
they inspected the dehydration plant
of thet Salem King's Products com
pany. The Phez company plants and
discussed co-operative handling of
fruits with Robert C. Paulus and
Professor C- 'I- Lwis of : the Oregon
Growers Co-operative association
They expect to be in Salem again In
July or Augu'-. when the loganberrr
harvest is In progress. They vf
Oregon rilmate is very similar to
that which they ara. ad nstomed in
AustraBa. All three men wear the
Australian uniform.,
The leave Salem today.
1MEAR-0LD
TO COME FRIDAY
IETHODS
s
2 WHITES, 7
NEGROES DIE
IN UPRISING
Deputy Returning With Boot
legger Fired Upon. From
Ambush, Starting General
Race VVar in Arkansas Town
C0L0RED TRUSTY GIVES
ALARM TO SHERIFF
Posses Retire; for
Reinforce-
ments to Battle
Organ-
ized Blacks
HELENA, Atk.
Oct.
Two white
met." Clinton Leej and
II.- A. Tappen
of Helena -and peven
negroes are
known- to be
dead at
Elaine near
heriei as a result, of clashes today be
tween a posse searching for, the per
son.", whof. last night from ambush
Ilred upon and -killed W. D. Adkins,
railroad, special agent, according to
reports reaching here tonight. A third
wntte man, ira Proctor1 and a nam
bef . rof : negroes are known to have
been wounded.
Iee is' said to have been shot ac
cidentally while Tappan and Proctor
were wounded during the fighting.
Charles Pratt.; deputy 'sheriff, who
was jwith4 Adkins when the latter was
killed last nlght. was wounded In, the
knee. Lee, Tappa n , and Proctor are
members 'of the! local post of the
AmeY'can Legion arid were deputized
by Sheriff Kitchens with p. number of
other; civilians when he received word
thatthe situation- at Elaine was get
ting put of controL j
' j 1. "5 Prisoners Taken. , 1 -
Atlvlcea here said the trouble had
Its beginning : when the posse was
flred upon by a crpwd ,of men, said I
i nave uet n negroes, aiciame. me
fifta was returned; it was said, and In
a few minutes firing became general
in Ithe streets.; i I
Late today , a jtelephpne message
wa received fromi Elaln stating that
the: : posse had taken Iff 5 prisoners
apillwas tringing them to Helena
j' i ne, autonomies; oi teiena eviaenx
ly fearing the trouble at Elaine Would
Krtad to t ni3 city ordered all motion
picture houses and stores to close at
fi Vc-lock torilght.1 Helena has a pop-
m- 1 .
uiatiua oi lUftVyu, a large pruporiion
of which are negroes.
i lhu k Uprising; Plotted.
' 'A man namedCIem, alleged boot
legger, had been Reported "on a ram
pa.i;e" in a message to the sheriff
Xrotn Blaine authorities. Clem, It
wasN asserted, had threatened "to kill
his1 .wife arid other members1 of the
family, including W. H. Clem, for
merly a contractor of this city. The
message requested that deputies be
sent to arrest members of the family
to prevent further disturbances.
The automobile, in which Pratt,
Adkins and! the j negrotrusty were
riding, it is ; relatedEs stopped be-
fore the Spur church to repairLUon. Dr. Wilson, said he expected
a puncljare and while working on the
car the party was fired. upon from
tlwSKchurch by unidentified persons.
Adkins dropped dead and Pratt'was
wounded.
I Trusty Gives Word.
"The trusty, who escaped unwound
ed. j made ! his w ay to a nearby ran
road station and telephoned a report
of jthe incident to the sheriff. Pratt
rnalde his jwajr to Helena this morn
ing, and despite bis shattered knee.
was taken immediately to the hos
pital.. The accounts of , the deputy
and' the pegro trusty indicated the
attack on the three men had been
made br an organized band of rie
4
'(Continued on page 2.)
CLUB DIRECTORS F AVOR BUILDING
AND; LOAN ASSOCIATION AS WAY;
OUT OF HOUSESH
-i
dirextors. discussed the acute sltua-
tion from ajll angles and were unarii -
moqs In the opinion that tne pur
chase of stock in the association by
large tiumt ers of Salem residents is
the only way out of the problem.
-!' j i A4vanta!W Cited .
It. was brought out at. the meet
ing, that nipst investors prefer, pat-
i-Uinr
riyrWr,?!
inr their money Into the roapy oth
er i;in!?s of investment avauaiue in
this vicinity rattier than Into build
ing; hou?es , for rent because" of the
greater and quicker return.
To the investor of. small means
hold' the directors, the association of
fers: opportunity for tho advantag
eons placing , of small sums and I-a
eouallv attractive for the large in
vestments; , ;
f j .MeetlJT Flel
The club will open the fall series
ofuslBe?s men lnncheon'-s on Mon
day, octooer t ;wun a iuncnm
the; club roomaj for which a fixed
price of 50 cents will be charged-
Heretofore the Juncheons have been
held at the Marlon hotel.
The regular membership meetlhr
willi b held Wednesday OctJber S
in the club auditorium.
BOAT DASHED TO BITS
TWO MEN BELIEVED LOST
'rim (. ; "-
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TILLAMOOK
HEAD SCENE
ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 1. A sail
ffihing boat;1 j operating under
Washington state license No. 5310
was dashed to pieces on the rocks
near Tillamook head today.
Two men who were in the boat
were not seen afterwards. . j
The loss of the boat . resulted
from an effort-by-the crew to salf
out of a cove where they had lain
since yesterdaynhrough the break
ers. " ;
SEGEANTYORK
MAY TAKE STUMP
FORNINSTFAGS
Dr. Wilson Tells About Ambi
tion of America's Great
est War Hero
UQU0R FIGHT REVIEWED
Dramatic, Moments , in Con
gressional Halls Described
by Speaker
That Alvin jr. York. America's
greatest war hero the-man who put
eight machine gun nests out of com
mission and captured 136 Germans
single handed as part of one day's
work, may stump the United States
In behajf iof the anti-cigarette cam
paign that (s going to be waged in
the near future, was a " statement
made last night In the First Metho
dist churci by Dr. Clarence True Wil
son, noted prohibition leader and anti-saloon
stump-speaker and worker.
who gave an address at the annlver-J
sarymeeting of the board of temper-
ance, prohibition and 'public morals '
of the! Methodist conference.
Dr. Wilson stated ' that while 'he
was in the east recently he had a
talk with Sergeant York, spoke to
him of stumping the country against
the use of . cigarettes, and said that
the sergeant favored that proposition
more than any of the offers that had
ye? been made to him, and that It
would! please him to do that kind of
work.!-, j " . ..-iti--: ! . '- ' , .
- Tempfrnnce Steadies Can.
Tsf. Wilion said Sergeant York
told bird: hie never used any French
wine and hver smoked any cigarettes
while he was- on foreign service and
that as a result he never, missed a
shot. Consequently, he was much in
favor of doing something to show the
young menJ bf the-United States the
harm' that! cigarette smoking -does
them. Ever since he returned to the
United States from France as Amer
ica's greatest war hero. Sergeant
York hasi been beset by offers to go
on i the lecturie platform and td go
into audeville. but so far he has de
clined all offers; and if he can be se
cured byfthe antlrcigarette workers
they believe they will have scored a
great initial victory as he-undoubtedly
would be a great drawing card
and his voice carry undoubted corivic-
soon to receive a favorable answer
from Sergeant York. i . i
The speaker told also of his efforts
to prevent jthe bill giving cigarettes
to the" soldiers abroad from passing.
He told of .his fight to give the sol
diers an alternative between cigar
ettes or chocolate but he said Secre
tary of War Baker Insisted that not
a line of the request as sent in by
General Pershing'be changed and the
bill giving the boys cigarettes went
through. He told how the tobacco
manufactures maintained a strong
lobby atWashington and sold to the
government millions of ' dollars of
tobacco 'at a much higher price than
(Continued on page 2.)
ORTAGE PROBLEM
V : .;.,.T;:.-
Theliberal patronage of the local
1 building and loan association' as the
only practicable means of solving the
housing shortage question received
the official sanction oL-the board of
directors of the Salem Commercial
club at -its meelinn last night. ;The
SENATOR EGGED FROM ! STAGE IN OKLAHOMA
ANTI-TREATY I SPEECH IS HALTED BY CROWD
. . . ?. f
WOME FINALLY CALM DERISIVE AUDIENCE
. A U DM ORE, Okla.. Oct. 1.
United States Senator J. A. Reed
was' egged from the stage at Con
ventkm Hall here tonight as he
was being introduced by the iitajror
In preparation for his speech
against the treaty and the league
of nations.
Crowd Goes . Wild.
The ' crowd, more .than 6.000
-sTrongr-wenX.wild as Reed came on
the. stage, and all light wires to"
the building were cut. . Pandemo
nium broke loose and cries of de
C A lC CflITT C
JrlVli OVULO
IS SLOGAN
Bishop Matthew Simpson
Hughes Inaugurates Metho
dist Conference With Ring
ing Message to Ministers .
STATISTICS REVEAL
FORCES CUT BY WAR
Pastors Are Told Mobilization
Is Now Under Way Jor
-; i Greatest Campaign
PROGRAM IXR TODAY.
8:30 a. m. Message. "The
Gospel of Sesus ChriFt. the Son
of Godir
D. D. I
Joshua Stansfield,
X
9:00 a. ni.
Btifless' - session
10:30 a
m. I'.isnops nour.
"The
ism."
methods of . Evangel-
2:30 p. tn. Anniversary of
the Woman's Foreign. Mission
ary sccietyi Mrs. D. C. Be
von, presiding. "
'AddressM-W. F. Ineson: D.'
D.
-5:00 p. rn.- Seminary Men's
banquet, Leslie church. Se
cure tickets from Dr. Edwin
Sherwood, j .
,7:30 p.j m, Seventy-fifth
anniversary of the founding of
Willamette university. Dr. B.
L, Steer es, presiding..
Address "A Voice Crying
ht the Wilderness. ;- Justice
Henry I Benson, ;
Address "The Place5 of the
Christian College." President
Carl O. Doney.
a ; muu.vou uiajiuji .nail,- , a.
I ; Hughes.
. "A million souls for God.'" v ,
That is the slogan forthe eran"
gelistic work of Methodism for the
coming jrear, as announced in ring
ing and stirring sentences by Bish
op Matthew Simpson Hughes at the
official opening of the sixty-seventh
annual session of the'Oreg'on con
ference yteterdar morning at the
First Meihodist' church.
"A million souls for, God.
Bishop Hughes came to the cli-.
max. of his . address with a vitals
punch that sent a thrill through the
assembled ministers, and as "the sig
nificance of his utterance was real
ized. It seemed as If his voice was
a call from the enthusiastic apostles
of the early church to go out into
tmh-syorld and evangelize It.
shor Fxhort Ministers
Terrible as has been the ra vases
of war oil the ho man and material
side of lifk it had taken its toll in
the welfareof the churches of men.
.1 l. 1 . . . .
iue uvtj naccs.ui reiuge ior unris-
tianity . and cIylizatio"n. So now the
bishop, even asthe blshop;,of old.
exhortei .the -hjiniters toi forego
many extraneous Mhlngs pertaining
to the material welfare of the church
and "to so out Ino the world and
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"For every hundred members of
the church now. mlnistej-a arT-
oected ra brine in 25 mbre." th
bishop stated. "Is that todraricfcr'
h aslrMl. ' Ana th mlnlvtrm .- r.
plied. "No." : X
&q that is the great crusade of the
ministers. cf: Methodism for liie
next year, and the call sent a' thrill
not only through ' them bu also
through the laymen, present. .
. The work of the centenary drive
was a great sunccess. when $168.
000,000 was raised for reconstruc
tion and re-enforcement, but the
bishop pointedly asked:'
.' "That does not profit the Methodist
church to 'gain million of dollars
if it loses the. f souls of its mem
bers! ' So when the ministers leave
fhld pnfr.nifl It "will ha' f n fr. mtt
on a great soul-saving crusade, de-tei-mined
to make it as great a suc
cess as ..was the centenary -drive., , ...
- Year One of Distraction.
. "My message today. said the
bishop In" openta-; Uis address, "is
a prayer for the coining year. The
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rision howled him down while the
audience sorged upon the -tage.
Reed attempted to hold the floor"
ior a iew minutes dui was lorcea
-to make hi exit without begin-
nlng his speech.
f" Wtnnen Qaiet Hoot--.
After several minutes of th dem
oastratlon a number of women
climbed upon the stage and quieted'
the rrocil.
iReed
"1reTetonigbX3)ut it was announced
that he would make no attempt
to deliver his address. " '
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