The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-09
METHODIST CHURCH on
VARIOUS Live TOPICS
Problem of Americanizing the
Millions of Foreigners Who
Come to This Country.

Minneapolis, Mimi, May THE
A~mericanizing and Christianizing OK
the millions who are coming to this
country from various parts Of the
world is one of the great problems OF
the church today, according to the re-
port Of the board of home missions and
church extension made to the general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, in session here today. The to-
tai appropriation for work among nom
English speaking people in the United
States, according to the report, is $685.
76S.
THE immigration problem Is a fact
that is fast involving all national prob
lens" says the report. "One-half OF
n people of the United States are for
eign born or of foreign ~parentage. The
80 largest cities of the union are more
foreign h a American.
THE question of immigration has
grown until it includes most of our 9TH
er problems. 1t means tenements where
people are herded like cattle and in
surroundings more unsanitary. New
York has more rooms without windows
than any city in the ~world-360, 600
largely peopled by foreigners. This
means disease, h sweat shops and the
slums."
In connection with the church extern
sion, the report says that an average OF
one church a day has been aided for a
generation of time, n that the total
net receipts from 1865 to October, 81,
1911, including home missions, is $14,-
6 2,754.63.
Employment Of Children.
Nineteen thousand ministers will in
stitute a vigorous warfare against the
employment Of children under 16 years
of age in the factories n textile mills
OF the United States. The employment
Of children was termed "a parody on
civilization and lone Of the greatest
Of modern evils"
To investigate charges that 'in the
textile mills alone 100 baby hands are
yearly lost as a sacrifice to the greed
for wealth." and to formulate an appeal
to all churches to fight for national leg
islatiOn against child labor, a commits
sion of Is ministers was ordered APP
pointed.
A resolution introduced by Henry j..
Coker, of Denver, stated that OF the So
900 children in the textile mills, 20,00O
are under II years Of age, and In those
mills yearly about 100 baby hands are
cut off by machinery. In the glass fac
tories there are $500 children; in saw
mills, 5000, and In cigar factories $4,000
children handle cigars at he rate or 3
cents per !, 900.
Edgar O.. richardson, or Brlstoi,
Conn, thought the mere passing of a
resolution was not sufficient. His call
for the appointment Of a commission to
suggest that all ministers In the church
pledge themselves to fight child abor
was passed amid prolonged applause.
Retirement of Bishops.
Henry Wade Rogers, of New Haven,
Conn.,, had referred a resolution which
provides an age limit for bishops and
for their retirement from active service
when they have reached the g of 10.
The resolution also provides that the
bishops may be relieved from travel"
when they reach the age OF 70 If the
board of bishops so desires. In either
case they are permitted to choose their
w place of residence after retire.
ment.
The statement of the bishops that
ministers should discourage a growing
tendency to go where the salaries were
highest, rather than to where their
services were most needed" was sched-
uled to bring out discussion as to the
difference between the cost of living
and h salaries paid in many parts OF
the country. The bishops In their mes
sage to the conference described bar
gaining FOR salaries a form OF CONNER
cialism inconsistent with Methodism.'