| Show bicz the announcement that tile the railroads throughout tile the country will continue during next year to grant halt half rates to clergymen has been received with unfeigned satisfaction by a majority of the members of the cloth but not by all A prominent and respected preacher commenting upon the matter sald said to the philadelphia record ecord Il 1 I had hoped that the railroads were finally about to wipe out the semi deadhead privilege extended to the clergy it la 13 a relic of tile the times when pre preach achim lna meant poverty and under the chan changed ej Condit conditions IOUS it is not dot only unfair to the tha ra and the general traveling aig public but it is destructive of the re of its beneficiaries the railroads have bare boon been chafing under the clerical halt balf fare system tor for a I 1 long time and tor for several years some of them have been trying to do away with it times have changed since the church was poor and preachers underpaid and the railroad people are quite ot of the fact |
