THE GAZETTE-TDfES, HEPPJOER, OREGON, THFESD Y. MAY 22. lf)IO.
$50.00 Liberty Bond
Offered Essasiests.
'A $50 Liberty bond will be
awarded by the Joint Centenary
committee of the Methodist Episco
pal church to the"1 best essay written
by any grade, high school or Sunday
school pupil in the northwest on
"The Methodist . Centenary What
It Is and What It Will Do." Age will
b taken into consideration.
The contest ends June 1 and all
essays should be mailed prior to that
date to the Joint Centenary Com
mittee, 409 Piatt Building, Portland,
Oregon.
;The Methodist Centenary is the
manner in which Methodism is cele
brating the 100th anniversary of the
establishment of Christian missions
iii America. As part of the centen
ary plans, there Is being raised a
campaign fund of $105,00it,000,
which will bo spent on a gigantic
progiarame of rebuilding the world.
Of this sum $40,000,000 will be
Kpint on educating and C'hristlari
idcg foreign lands, $40,000,000 on
the home misi.lon field, consisting of
a jcommon-seure programme of city
and country community churches,
and $25,000,000 on direct war re
construction work." Of this latter
sum, $3,000,000 has already been
expended by the dispatch of a mis
sionary ship to Europe, loaded with
plows and tractors, seeds and tools
for cultivation, portable houses and
motion picture machines and los of
other things not usually thought
part of missionary paraphernalia.
Information concerning the Meth
odist centenary end - the essay
campaign may be obtained from the
superintendent of the nearest Meth
odist Sunday school, to whom would
be essayists are urged to apply for
information.
-"The Methodist centenary is such
a remarkable demonstration of 20th
century religious enterprise that I
.think it is something that every
home should be acquainted with,"
said Dr. Charles A. Bowen, ex
ecutive secretary for the northwest
for the centenary movement.
. It. P. Davidson, extensive farmer
and stockman of lone was in Hepp
Ler -the first of the week, attending
court. Mr. Davidson had an appeal
case up before the circuit court from
the commissioners court, wherein he
was claiming damages from the
county on account of a road passing
through his place in the Gooseberry
section. The jury hearing the ca3e
awarded Mr Davidson the sum of
$1400.
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EDUuATlOil DEPARTMENT
IS H 01 CONGRESS
Towner Has Hill to Promote Ameri
canization of Aliens and Obliter
ation of Illiteracy.
Washington, May 20. The foj
uatlon of a new department of
ducat ion and a seat for the head of
'. in the President's cabinet is pro
Wed for in a bill which- will be in
'roduced In the House immediately
after the opening of the special'ses-
slon by Representative Horace Town
er, of Iowa, a member of the com
mittee on education.
' It is the aim of Towner and many
t his Republican colleagues to co-
.dinute all of the educational worlri
now done by other bureaus of the
'vernment in various executive de-
artiucnts into the one central agency
for giving a new'impetus to the edu
cation of all the people. One of the
most important parts of his plan
which has been urged by the Ameri
can Federation of Labor and the
American . Educational Association
would be that for the- removal of
illiteracy-: Such instruction, the bill
provides, shall deal with the common
school branches and the duties of
citizenship, and when advisable shall
prepare for some definite Occupation.
In order to encourage the States in
promotion .and suppirt of education
an appropriation Is made of $100,
000,000 for the fiscal year- ending
June 30, 1921. Thfee-fortieths of
this is given the States for the in
struction of illiterates of ten years
of age and over. The latter sum
will be appropriated to the States In
the proportions which their respec
tive illiterate populations bear to
the total illiterate populations of
the United States, not Including out
lying possessions. .-
Three-fortieths cf the total sum is
to be used to teach immigrants ten
years of age and over to speak and
read the English language and to un
derst.and and appreciate the spirit
and purpose of the American govern
ment ond the duties of citizenship u
a frea country. This sum also will
be appropriated to the States in the
proportions which their respective
foreigri-born populations bear to the
total foreign-born population of the
United States."
In order to encourage the States to
equalize educational Opportunities
! $50,000,000 will be used for public,
' elementary and secondary schools
I for the partial payment of teachers'
salaries, for providing better instruc
tion and extending school terms,
; especially in rural schools and
schools in sparsely settled localities,
land for the extension and adaptation
I of public libraries for educational
purposes. This sum will be appro
priated to the several States in pro
portion to the number of children
between the ages of 6 and 21 bear
to the total and in proportion to the
number of school teachers to the
total throughout the country.
COUNTRY TO GET
$11,080,000 FROM
U. LCENTEMY
Methodists. Contemplate Big
Programme World Over.
$105,000,000 TO BE RAISED
Denomination Get New Conception of
Church Services Farm Experts to
Be Preachers in Every Rural Center
In Country.
Saving children from infantile pa
ralysis, hogs from ' hog cholera and
crops from insect pests are "church
services."
So the new church, the regenerated
chvrch of the reconstruction period,
understands "service" in the rural
districts of America. j
The old-time "country parson" is j
passing. ' j
In his stead comes the man who j
knows what to do not only with a
Bitle and a hymn book, but with a
potato bug, a family quarrel, a bad
road and a shortage of seed corn.
The church as a factor in the social,
political and economic life of the rural
district; religion as practical as well
as spiritual service, are not experi
ments. The new church and the new
pantor have proved themselves and
found themselves at the same time.
Pastor Finds Hog Cholera.
Take the story of Lakeville, Holmes
county, Ohio. ' .
Fresh from his theological studies,
Charles M. McConnell went to Lake
ville five years-ago as pastor cf the
Methodist church there.
McConnell was sent to Lakeville
because the Methodist board of Sun
ay schools chose it as the least prom
ising "charge" they could find. And
the board wanted to experiment.
' The new pastor found a moribund
church and an epidemic of hog chol
era. McConnell preached dynamic
sermons. But he did ot neglect to
send to the State University for chol
era serum, v
Movies Shown In Church.
Two members of the church met
some days later, and conversation
veered to the pastor. One was du
bious about his theology.
"I don't know about his theology,"
said the other, "but I do know that
he saved my hogs. I'm for him."
. An old church building was for sale
at Killbuck, 22 miles away. McCon
nell bought it In at auction for $448,
hauled it to Lakeville, and in Decem
ber it was dedicated as the Lakeville
Memorial Hall, to the boys who went
Bert Bleakman, of Hard man. was
down to Heppner Saturday. Calling
at this office, Mr. Bleakman - re
quested that the G.-T, come to his
home for the ensuing year, and he
made deposit of the necessary
amount to enjoy this privilege.
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METHODIST CENTENARY
. RURAL CHURCH PROGRAM
Expenditure of $11,000,000.
Establishment of effective
training schools for rural church
leadership,
A nation-wide educational cam
paign to increase the efficiency
of the ministry now in service.
This is how the Methodist
church proposes to rehabilitate
rural churches in this gigantic
five-year Centenary program.
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into service. This was the first rural
memorial hall dedicated anywhere m
the United States.
In the hall is a standard motion pic
ture outfit. McConneil and two of h's
members bought it, projector, seats
and all, for $1,100, on their own re
sponsibility. Pictures are shown every
Saturday night.
$11,000,000 on Country.
The farmers were losing money
through lgnoranc of modern agri
cultural methods. McConnell arranged
with the State University for a series
of farmers' institutes.
The institutes were held in the
church. , Better orchards, better cat
tle, better crops were the result.
Through the 'country are the ruins
of abandoned rural churches. The
Lakeville church flourishes. But rural
churches can not retain McConnells at
existing rural church salaries. That is
the Gordian knot which the Centenary
program for American rural communi
ties is planned to cut.
In the next five years nearly 111,
000,000 of the 1105,000,000 funds pro
vided for in the world reconstruction
program of the Methodist Centenary
will be' spent to put such a man in
every rural center in the country. In
the Portland area of the Methodist
Missionary Centenary (western Ore
gon, Washington and northern Idaho)
$1,324,000 will be spent by the Cen
tenary out of the total of $2,600,000
asked by the Centenary for its world
reconstruction programme.
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GRIFFITH TO PRODUCE
METHODIST PHOTO-PLAY
David Wark Griffith, the world-famous
motion picture director who pro
duced "The Birth of a Nation," "Intol
erance," and "Hearts of the World,"
and the man who trained Mary Pick
ford, Dorothy and Lillian Gish,
Blanche Sweet and many another star
of the screen, la to make a picture
play for the Methodist Centenary.
As a tribute to the memory of his
mother, who was a Methodist, Mr.
Griffith will direct and take a full
Bet of motion pictures of the celebra
tion next July of the $105,000,000
Methodist Centenary at Columbus,
Ohio. These pictures he will preset
to Methodism,
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