| Show CLERGYMEN CAN NOW BE GRANTED TED RAILROAD PASSES Any clergyman may be granted a pass on any railroad hereafter accord accordIng Ing lag to a ruling of or tile the Interstate Com Join Commerce Commerce merce commission The Tho following let letter letter letter ter has been issued by br that body bod Tl o commission takes this lila occasion to state that tho the position taken by bythe bythe the transcontinental clergy bureau is 1 far in advance of anything an required 1 by b the law or tho ho rulings of or tho the com corn commission mission Reasonably Interpreted the ruling to which is made by bytho bytho bythe tho the transcontinental clergy bureau can cannot cannot not rot possibly necessitate tho the drastic action which it has taken For information Information mation matlon of or carriers and funi the general public we take this opportunity to ex Ox express express press our views in tonus terms that It is hop hoped hoped ed cd will not bo be susceptible of miscon misconstruction A clergyman does not lose his min ministerial mm standing by reason of tho ho tact that he leaves the tho pastorate for some somo other Held field of or religious activity A min rain minister minIster ister who becomes editor of a church paper instructor in a n theological iem mary luary Inar financial fin agent for a church or other religious institution or who en on D DengeS gages engeS In other work which may fairly Cairl be regarded as religious in character and who does doe not nol abandon his Ills minis ministerial tonal work may legally be bo accorded special transportation privileges The courts have been consistently liberal in Giving Givins construction to tho tile words charitable and eleemosynary ary and we wo see no reason for being be In unduly narrow in Ia Interpreting theoe thene words an as found in the act A chant charit charitable able institution is one which Is admin administered adminIstered administered In the tho public interest and in which the tho element of or private gain IB is wanting This definition is 15 broad en enough enough enough ough to Include hospitals almshouses orphanages asylums uy and missionary societies This enumeration Is not intended to be bo exclusive it is 15 only representative Jt ft ia la Important to note that such an Institution does docs not necessarily lose loso Its charitable charac character ter tel by b reason of ot tho the fact that it Is la launder Isun under un or tho the management of a particular denomination or soot sect or because a n charge chargo Is II collected from some or all cit J those who enjoy Its privileges Jt it in I Ionly only necessary that It bo be conducted In iii Inthe Inthe the public Interest rest rind and not for private gain gal a Tho Tue commission entertains no doubt that carriers subject t o l the tho net n t may legally grant free froc or reduced rate rato transportation to Gomo persons who IiO may ma be in Included in any class compre comprehended hc dod by rules D fi 10 H ii 12 i 1 and 11 ot the transcontinental clergy bureau We 0 can not undertake to pass upon in individual Individual individual casts cass It Is IB behaved tInt that no carrier following the principles out outlined lined Ihl d here hl need have any in determining who may ma Inn bo be given conces concessions concessions in tho the matter of transportation |
