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Show SHOULD GOVERNMENT SUPPORT MINISTERS? NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Whether the United States government should tax the. general pubjjc for tho, Bupport of superannuated minjstors of the. .Methodist .Meth-odist churoh, was In effect the question ques-tion raised by Justice Hughes of the supreme court of the United 'States, as head of the commlsbion which; to-, to-, day -heard representatives- of-ruiblish. ing house protest against tho proposed pro-posed Increnso of postal rates E. R. Graham, who appeared for the Methodls.t book .concern argued that tho Increase would nccesslate tho bus-ponslon bus-ponslon of many church publications, tho- profits ot which -go to superan nuated ministers and their vid0w3 and children. "Well," suggested Chairman J Hughes, "do you think that the superannuated super-annuated ministry of the Methodist cnurcn snouiu uo suriponea by tuo United States?" Mr Graham, reflecting none of the humor of the Justice, replied: "It would not ho a bad idea to do so, it would help some." |