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Show Methodist Church Women Battle For Places on . GoverningBoard Kansas Militant Declares Practise of Only Men In Administrative Affairs Is Leftover Relic of Paganism BPRINGFlKLaU. Maaa Hay Movamant waa under way today to iv woman aquaJ rifhta In man aramant of Mathodlat affaire ba-fora ba-fora tha commlttva of temporal aoonomy of tha -naral Mathodlat confaranra hara. Miaa Madallna Southard, militant Kft,.ht iha.ii-aua iha.ii-aua Into Lha opan by prasMnllnc a resolution which would empower women to aerva on admlnlatratlva boarda of tha chureh. i Mlaa Southard was tha sarond woman to be flvan tha privilege of tha floor ainca tha conference opened May 1. "Tha present practise of having only men on tha administrative boarda ta a leftover from Paean lam. aha declared. She irtaisted that woman, are far i in advance of tha man la ranerai 'work of tha church. I It was voted to empower tha judiciary ju-diciary committee to deal with eha question of whether in in tat era ahouldbe expelled from the church for causes other than adultery and ftr contract ina; aecond marriage. A resolution of thia sort waa presented at the conference by the California delegation and was stoutly championed by Judge Henry Wade Rogers of New York. Biahop charlee L. Mead of pen ver defended the doctrine of the Virgin birth and the Incarnation of Jesua Christ. |