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Show niiihf rwniifli r Laymen Not Doing Their Full Duty in the Work of the Church C. PALMER, By Jt$ a Privilege to Live In Secretary Brotherhood of St. Andrew. undevd- laymen of the church today constitute our greatest takes oped resources. They are not working as they should. It 111 Episcopalians a whole year to bring one person into the church if latest statistics are correct. Ninety per cent of the Our ro.J eh u rih work is done as a rule by 10 per cent of the members. noin-- i and problem is employing the unemployed, getting idle Christians members to accept personal responsibility for definite Christian ii.i T K service. Thousands of Christians today have a merely negative religion, a futile piety. They are good, hut good for nothing. They are nonentiWe join in ties so far as definite service to the church is concerned. Onward, Christian Soldiers, singing the great martial hymns, Soldiers of the Cross, etc., but too often it i not a church army going iorth to battle but like a hospital with a large number of patients and a few overworked nurses. Many rectors are kept so busy nursing the dt k Christians that they have no time left for going out into the and hedges to constrain others to come in. Our churchmen are inclined to ay, Let George do it, George bewe have ing the rector. We have looked upen our dergv as men whom 2 1 Largest Old Glory carried by soldiers and marWa to cayitol In Washington for annual flag service. we employ employed and pay to do our religious work for us, just as Seaplune on which three Swedish aviators started flight from Stockholm to New York, being forced to land In Icea stenographer or file clerk, a policeman or janitor. land. 3 Air view of the Broadmoor hotel, Colorado Springs, where President Hoovers oil conservation congress convened. The church is not growing as it should. This applies to practically of fhe Latest statistics show that nearly all Christian bodies. a brief time. But Senator Watson, had been cautioned for more than a bodies Protestant reported parishes and congregations of the four largest the belief year against reckless use of firearms, REVIEW OF mnjorlty lender,billexpiessed is today conversion the last a not Evangelism Lay single year. during could not be finally and that he did not see what more that the tariff could be done to prevent killings the greatest need of the church as a solution for this situation. acted upon until just before the reghLh-wa- y one-thir- NEWS GURRENTEVEHTS ular December session. of the Young plan for German reparations payments by the seven Interested nations Is having speedy result In the way of settling C Ramsay MacDonald Coming to Washington for World Peace Conference. W. PICKARD Macdonald, new prime of Great Britain, Is planning to come to the United States By EDWARD Ramsay to confer with President Hoover, in regard to naval armament reduction and enforcing the Kellogg pact outlawing war by Joint action of In the English speaking peoples. Washington the news of this plan was well received, and It was learned at the White nouse that Mr. Hoover would be glad to meet Mr. MacDonald l and discuss with him questions of interest to their two countries. American Ambassador Dawes, on his .way to England, was apprised of this development by radio and almost Immediately after bis arrival In London he went to Scotland for a conference with the prime minister who wns taking a ten days vacation at Ills home In Lossiemouth. Mr. Dawes wns expected to deliver to Mr. MacDonald an Invitation to visit Washington and hold there a conference with President Hoover and Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada. The best guess In London was that the trip would be made about the end of July after the session of parliament adjourns. to London corespondAccording ents, Mr. MacDonald said: "If President Hoover Invites me to Washington I am going to answer I will go. I shall hope to settle this question of relations once and for all. It wns asserted he hopes to carry the discussion much further than navul subjects. He believes the world la entering on an era of great combines and financial Industrial whose boundaries will cut across all national frontiers, and he Is desirous of a discussion on economic t comand avoidance of petition In foreign markets. Mr. MacDonald, as a Socialist, welcomes the welding of Industry Into trusts and Bees no objection to the spread of trusts In the international field under proper governmental control. mu-tura- Anglo-America- n It appeared that the relief bill as doctored up by the house and senate conferees nnd approved by the President had clear sailing, the senate messed things all op by rejecting the conference report by a vote of 43 to 40 because the export debenture feature had been eliminated. In this step the Democrats were Joined by 13 Republicans, all listed as radicals excent Couzens of The debenture advocates Michigan. not only stood by their scheme, but they were especially determined to force the house to go on record on this feature of the measure. President Hoover Immediately called leaders of the house and senate to the White House and a program was agreed upon. This was to send the bill back to conference as the senate asked, and to have the conferees agree on their original report, after which It was expected the house would reject the debenture plan by a comfortable margin nnd accept the conference report. There appeared to be no doubt that the senate also would adopt the report of the conference after the house had rejected the debenture by a vote of 250 to 113. The most Interesting feature of the afTalr was the outspoken threat of Senator P.rookhnrt of Iown that a third or "progressive" party would enter Into the congressional campaign text year and the Presidential campaign of 1932 If the debenture were pot Included In either the farm bill or the new tariff bill. He asserted the President rather than the senate was to blame for delays In obtaining farm legislation. Tariff hearings were begun by the senate finance committee, and Senator Wesley Jones told the senate this work should be speeded up with a view to completing the enactment of the legislation early In the fall, and therefore congress should recess for only JUST when 1GNATURE other post-wa- r problems. The council of the League of Nations met In Madrid, and the Germans carried out their plan of bringing before It the mutter of early evacuation of the Rhineland. Aristide Brland, French foreign minister, proposed that an International conference be held this summer for the handling of all outstanding questions left over from the war, and this was agreed to by Dr. Gustav Stresemann, German minister of foreign affairs. Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain already bad Intimated that he was willing to participate In such a meeting. It was generally believed that the conference would be held In July, probably In London or The Hague. It had been supposed that the council at this Madrid session would tnke tip the vexatious question of national minorities, but Stresemann insisted It should he referred to the World Court at The Hague. This wns strongly opposed by Brland and the representatives of the secession states, and n compromise was reached by which the matter was held over for the September session of the League assembly. French Socialists In convention at Nancy declared In favor of the Young reparations plan, evacuation of the Rhineland and Immediate ratification r of the accord for the payment of the French debt to the United States. Certain of the United States senators led by Howell of Nebraska have attacked the Young plan as "another move by the allies and the International bankers to cancel not only the war debts but also the Interest on the allied obligations to America. Administration leaders and State department officials asserted nothing In the Young settlement would affect the war debts owed the United States. J. P. Morgan, one of the American experts, declared on arrival in New York that the bank for International settlements, to be established undet the Young plan, would be the greatest Instrument for the preservation of world peace yet devised. Mellon-Rerange- HOOVER, because he secretary of commerce, was especially Interested In the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the magnificent new Department of Commerce building. Surrounded by many other high government officials, he wielded the trowel that was used by President Washington In laying the cornerstone of the Capitol 130 years ago, nnd In his address he said the event marked the emergence of the Commerce department Into full maturity and service. The building will be the largest single public structure In Washington and In Its actual floor space will be the largest office building in the world. It Is to be the most Important structure In the government's $113,000,000 program for public buildings In the city of Washington. PRESIDENT day the NEARLY every enforcers of quick prohibition furnish more ammunition for the foes of Volsteadism. Last week they killed an apparently Innocent citizen at International Falls, Minn., and a young man at Detroit whose companions admit he und they had been trying to run a bontlond of liquor from Canada. Drys In congress took the opportunity to denounce the activities of prohibition officers and Representative Clancy of Michigan demanded an Investigation of the Detroit case, bnt nfter a trip to that city he said the shooting was Justified. Representative Florence Kahn of California Introduced a bill In the house directing the treasury to pay $23,000 to the dependents of every person wantonly or negligently killed by any prohibition officer not acting In self defense. Other congressmen urged that the treasury forbid the use of firearms by dry agents, but Seymour Lowman, assistant secretary of the treasury In charge of all prohibition enforcement agencies, said this could not be done. He declared that agents without crippling enforcement Two officers of Hopkinsville, Ky.. who were convicted for killing a man In a prohibition raid were denied a new trial by Federal Judge Lawson In Louisville. In Silver City, N. M., n dry agent induced a bootlegger to sell him liquor and the latter was shot by other agents us he was making the delivery. Angered by the dry raid at Ripon, Wis., during the celebration of the Republican partys seventy-fifth birthday, Assemblyman of Ashland county Introduced a resolution asking the federal government to desist from attempting to enforce the Eighteenth amendment In the Badger state. About the same time dry agents raided the favorite drug store of Wisconsin's wet legislators In Madison. Mr. Lowuian has ordered heavy reinforcements for the dry enforcers cf the Detroit area, In the way of both men and boats. In response to this the big rum runners of the Great Lakes met In Ecorse and laid plans to operate in unison. They adopted a shuttle system whereby traffic will be diverted to Lake Erie or Lake Huron when the enforcers are concentrated on the Detroit river, nnd they also have devised an elab orate Intelligence system and began buying larger and better boats. These are just a few of the wet and dry developments that take up vast space in the columns of the metropolitan dailies. I TNLESS all Indications are wrong, peace between Mexicos government and the Roman Catholic church will be declared In the near future. Archbishop Ruiz of Michoacan and Bishop Iascual Diaz of Tabasco held conferences with President Fortes Gil in Chnpultepec castle as the climax of long negotiations, nnd there was food reason to believe they arrived at an understanding which would need only the approval of the Tope. In well informed quarters In Mexico City It was asserted the basis of the agreement was mutual consent for a broad interpretation of the countrys religious laws, both sides making United States district sitting en banc in Chicago found the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and fifty-on- e associated concerns guilty of violating the Sherman antitrust act by pooling their "oil cracking" processes. The decision which granted the government a permanent Injunction restraining the defendant companies from further violations of the law, came after more than four years litigation. In the original suit, filed In 1925 the government claimed the defendants conspired to restrain trade and create a monopoly by refusing Independent concerns the right to use their Burton "cracking process, used to extract gasoline from crude oil. In defense the Standard of Indiana held that tlie process had been of vast benefit to consumers and had materially lowered the price of gasoline. THREE aviators started to THREE Swedish Stockholm to New York, but a broken gas feed pipe forced them to land on the coast of Iceland. They got their plane to Reykjavik and last week made three attempts to fly from there to Greenland but were driven back each time The aviators, by rough weather. Ahrenburg, Floden and Ljunglund, are trying to establish a new air trade route between Europe and America. GALVESTON'S International came to an end with the awarding of the title "Miss Universe to Frauteln Llsl. of Vienna, Austria, the young governess being adjudged the most beautiful of all the contestants. Miss Irene Ahlberg of New York was named Miss United States. The affair did not come off without a small Bcandal, for Theda Delre.v, "Miss Tulsa," who was selected for ninth prize, was accused of being really the Miss Houston" of two years ago and therefore Ineligible as a former Gold-arbelt- Country Must Be Aroused to Cope With the Menace of Organized Crime By JUDGE GILBERT, Ceorgia Supreme Court. biggest business in America, and costs the more than enough to pay back the country annually $10,000,000,000 money America lent European nations during the World war. There may he cited the mot familiar instances of crime in high places national oil scandals, impeachment of governors and the conviction of governors for criminal practices, and embezzlement, graft and fraud among the municipal authorities in several of the countrys largest cities. Democracy itself is on fire and remains to prove that it can live as a means of government. This condition is the Augean stables of modern American life, to be purified only by public opinion enlightened by Organized crime is the facts. There is lack of respect for authority in the home and in court', and the automobile, a necessity in modern life, is the most powerful aid There to lawlessness, since it afiV'rds the criminal a quit k getaway. be identified and properly conshould be a system whereby drivers may trolled. Some of the efforts necessary to cheek crime include study of all workable methods of prevention bv removal of cause and opportunity: apprehension of criminals, especially through establishment of a bureau of criminal identification; practical application of doctrine of with agencies for reclamation and reform of speedy trials; aid through laymen, in the church and out, bv giving the general public realization of the terrible menace now existing. Stressing Need of External Things Draws Soul Near to Danger Line By DR. HALVORD E. LUCCOCK, Yale Divinity School. The chief trouble with America today is not so much commercialism and materialism, despite the remarks of foreign lecturers and writers, but externalism the habit of thinking too much of the outside world and not enough of the spirit. It is this current American feeling of reverence for external bigness that is our biggest fault. The first lesson of Jesus in the curriculum of life is to keep from being smothered in a multitude of external things. Do Dot let the spirit be crowded out by on the life about us. become a parade down a vast street of brilliantly Life, it seems, has filled with thousands of articles, each crying out lighted their necessity to our happiness, and ready to spring at us. Ilow can we even approximate what used to he called the simple life when apparently there is such an increase in the number of things we must have to get along? How can we maintain an inner light in this constant parade? We are not only urged to buv, hut our pride and vanity is appealed to and our envy is aroused in the modern advertisements which urge m to get ahead of our fellows, to own something better than our neighbors Pride nnd envy and all things that are in deadly opposition to the spiril of Jesus seem to he the basis of it all. There is a danger to our souls in putting too muih stress on the clutter of outside things. Fortify yourself against an inner emptiness vi'ith an outer fullness. Have something inside yourself to show to God. , over-emphas- is show-windo- Fads in Medicine and Billboard Advertising Call for Condemnation By DR. RIDGE, News Notes : t President Missouri State Medical Society. Physicians must present a united front against fads and the presentation in the press of stories of incomplete and unverified medical discoveries. Medical students should spend two summers during their school work assisting rural practitioners. Nominal wages would be paid the students. School credit, the equivalent f that given an interne for a year's work in a hospital, would be granted. The lay press is anxious to print anything of a sensational nature Charlatans will twist anything to thei own ends. There are the cash register uplift movements, that try to pain indorsement of medical societies. Often it is given and a heavy expense of salaried organizers is foisted on the public. In spite of the many millions spenf. by the Society for the Con trol of Tuberculosis in posting billboard:- all over the countrv, warnin'' against the disease, in making examina ions, and in giving talks, the last report showed no decrease in the denjth rate, hut rather an increase If all this money had been put into a fund for treatment and care A tubercular patients, many would have been saved and the diath rate would have been lowered. j vvido'l' fund There should be a among organized med The average doctor's widow q cs not know where to ii al men. get thi money to pay Ids funeral expensfs. j : of CITY The number HEBER on Utah farms and lambs ami sheen 1929, Is estiranches on January 1, mated at 2,866,000, compared with one year before, aud 2,650,000 on January 1, 1927. Shipment of the SumCOALVILLE wool clip was mit countv farm bureau total with week, this completed amounting to 200,000 pounds. sold for 34 The pool this year was paid for the highest cents a pound, The clip this locality. in wool any was shipped to Boston. Marked improvement in UTAH range conditions occurred in ship-ment- 2 Utah f and livestock May, the monthly range Frank Anby recently issued report drews, federal agricultural statistician declares. Lamb crop and wool clips are both short and heavy losses are noticeable among sheep and lambs, the report says. Normal morality prevails among cattle, while calf crop prospects are good. Word was received reGUNNISON L. I. Henrie, leader of the cently by Smith Hughes project work in GunBison valley, from the Holstein association official test of America that he had been awarded a cash prize on his cow for taking sixth place in . Della the official test given for 1928-93 years old, 2 to Homestead Lass, tested 402.59 pounds of butterfat in 258 days with an average test of 3.83. WOODS CROSS The first carload cf early mixed vegetables from the state was shipped from Woods Cross recently. This car was loaded with asparagus, carrots, beets, turnips, onions, radishes and peas, and was shipped to Montana. The shipper expects to send many cars Into Montana, and thus to relieve the congested conditions on the Salt Lake markets, according to District Agricultural Inspector H. P. Mathews. COALVILLE Graveling of the relocated Lincoln highway around the Echo reservoir has been started by the Sumsion Construction company. The gravel for this surfacing is coming from Echo canyon, about a m le east of here. The same company has a contract for gravel surfacing the stretch from Echo to Baskin, about 6ix miles, and also is engaged on this work. It is expected that the new Lincoln highway road will be open to traffic about July 4. The executive comKAYSVILLE mittee of the Davis county farm bureau held a meeting with the central committee and set the date for the Davis county farm bureau day and fair for August 28. The place has not been decided. Other years it has been held at Lagoon resort. Various committees were appointed. It was decided the exhibition will largely be made up of the usual flower show, womens department, club work and fruits and vegetables. LOGAN The May report of the Richmond-LewistoDairy Herd Improvement association just filed with County Agent Robert L. Wrigley, by Le Roy Nelson, tester, shows average milk production per cow was 946.8 pounds, compared with 894.9 pounds for April. The average butterfat production jier cow was 33.6 pounds as compared with 30.97 pounds for the previous month. One hundred aml twenty-tw40 animals produced pounds of butterfat or more. PROVO With the volume of production greatly increasing, the shipments from the local poultry j lant are greater than the average for this Dmo of the year, according to local poultry plant officers. During the last three weeks an average of 25,000 sacks of feed and 1100 cases of eggs have been Bhipped each week, while two carljads of cockerels also have been shipped In this period. Three more carloads of cockrels will be shipped the coming i week. HELPER Excavation work has started on the site for the tipple of the new Peerless mine, f mile above Rolapp. Work on the rock tunnel for the mine has been progressing steadily and the water liners are within two hundred feet of the coal vein. Nineteen hundred feet of tunnel has been drilled. The tipple wi.l be a modern steel structure, and will be located where the present Kolapp-Nolahighway project traverses the canyon. PLEASANT GROVE Crowds estimated to exceed 18,000 viewed the parade and participated In the entertainment at the eighth annual Utah Strawberry day celebration. As a lart of the program, George L. Smith, president of the chamber of commerce in the morning presented the city with a plot of ground adjoining the c ty park on the north, purchased by the the chamber of commerce to augment the city park. It was accepted by Mayor Frank B. Newman. one-hal- n HI Hogs on Utah farms were estimated, on January 1, 1929, as numbering 98,000, compared with 73.000 In 192S and 60,000 in 1927. FILLMORE Total farm receipts less total farm expenses on 22 farms In eastern Millard county during 192s. a erased just $700, according to the find'nss of an economic survey of tbs county made under the direction of the extension service of the Utah Agricultural college. Thp report of the survey as to the eastern end of the county has recently been made ubl ' . from the office of Morgan P. 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