Show DISCUSSES CONDITIONS IN BIG LUMBER CAMPS Presbyterian Home Mission Secretary Says Efforts Made Toward Improvements Many trany of ot the men at the lumber camps of this country are down do and outers who formerly were vere men of ot good fam family tam tam- ily 11 and ond wealth declared Dr W W. H. H Kearns of Minneapolis s. s Minn nn secretary secretary secre secre- tary tory of the Presbyterian home mission board who Is a speaker at ot the Intermountain Intermountain Inter Inter- mountain Bible institute meeting in Salt Lake Dr Kearns says S that a lar largo large e number number num nurn- ber of them are college graduates who through h drink or bad company or both havo have drifted Into dissolute ways They are often paid at nl night ht b by bythe bythe the companies s said Dr Kearns and andas as a natural result to men without any religious restraint thoy they would lock flock Into the town nearest to tho the camp and spend their money In the saloons and resorts retorts gambling gl arid and the tho like But our ml missionaries seek to rem rem- e edy y these theae and other evils e For In Instance Instance In- In In-I- In stance the companies never provided pro the men with reading rooms or baths and conditions at the various camps camp I were deplorable However through our missionaries wo we 0 have sought to i persuade them to give gl the men such I comforts aa s those which tend to mako malo I I tho the life lite in the tho camps more congenial j jand I and keep the employees from throwing their money away In dissipation In Inthe 1 the nearby towns I My predecessor In this work work work-l I have charge of ot the lumber camp work I I Ifor for the Presbyterian denomination in inthe inthe I the United States vas States Late was the Rev Frank Fank I E. E HIs Higgins He Ho was known as the tho sk sky pilot of the lumber camps camps camps' He died led last year ear from cancer produced the doctors said b by the tho pressure on his back of the great Icat pack which he carried with him on his Journeys from camp to camp Sanitary methods at the camps have ha been ed ved and our missionaries have o boen been working with the lumber I companies compI to effect these reforms Personal Per- Per sonni religious work is done dona ono In the camps by the missionaries meetings i iare are held tho the men are helped when In I town and if they ther wish any spiritual j i help the they are given It b by our S es e n e S. S 1 The principal locations of ot tho the big lumber camps In the United are aN Minnesota Montana Idaho northern I I California Oregon Ores and Washington j I Dr Kearns when ho he Is Js In iii the west makes his headquarters II at Salt Lake |