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Show METHODISTS TO AID ITALY IN HER TASK American CoramiBsion Promises Itti Help in the Great Work of Reconstruction. TtOMT3. lirch 5. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) An American Methodist commission has recently returned re-turned to Rome after an extensive trip throughout I Inly to study social and economic conditions here eo that American Amer-ican Methodists may know how best to aid Italy in her great task of reconstruction. reconstruc-tion. Tho commission conpiFtsi of Dr. Frank Mason North of New York. Theodore i. Henderson of Petroit. Bishop William W. A ndertion of Tnrinnii ti and Dr. rt. M. TIpph-, hend of tho Methodist .episcopal church hero. "Our Journey throutrh the redeemed ro-plonf ro-plonf was a f-nd revelation to us." sjid Pr, Tipple. "We have, prtped through hundreds of dev:iMuted citiea and vil-loe'-'S of the northern provinces. City af'r city, village after - ge is nti rrly and completely v rpckf d. Tens of thousands of homs have been ntir'dy d'-stroyeo. ICven where a houe Is h-fi standing noth-v.c noth-v.c remains but (he bare walls a.nd all th1 furniture his Leen removed. "Hro and t nr re wr paed groups of rfurninc refugees. Thr-y looked -nl.J pt. forlorn, yrt fpd not oomplpin. I'm; -At; Fiw it with our own cys we did nor. h;-gin h;-gin to appm-lato thf m.-LgnitunV r.f th" oifflouHte Thi--h Italy has overrono and the rno:!nous tai ri'iTS she made to v;n the iar in the Alpr." |