The Washington herald., 1913-03-08

NEWS AND COMMENT.

NEWO AMI SOVlNlEINl
And now it's Billy Sunday for Pitts
burgi The contract has just been closed
and work will begin the last week of 1913.
to last two months. II the famous
''Pittsburg Survey threw that city into
convulsions, pray, what will happen when
Billy Sunday gets there?
For the second time in fifteen years
Congress has overridden Presidential
veto. The Webb bill, prohibiting ship
ment of intoxicating liquors into dry
territory. for which the temperance peo-
pie of the country have striven so hard,
has become a law. Following its pas
sage by Congress the President vetoed
II. basing his dsapprOval upon an opinion
by Attorney General Wickersham, that
the law was unconstitutional. The At
tOrncy General and the President agreed
that the measure would have the effect
of permitting certain States practically
to exercise illegal interference with in
terstate commerce. The Senate passed
the bill over the Presidents veto by a
vote of SiNty-thrCe to twenty-one. The
House follow cd with similar action, the
vote being two hundred and forty-four
to ninety-ffve.
Chicago has a Filipino Club composed
Of Filipino students and natives OF the
islands who are engaged in commercial
and business pursuits. The club meets
in a room in the West Side Y. NJ. c. A.
Forty bills. all aimed at certain in
Guiries OF the liquor traffic. were intro
duced into the Missouri Legislature In .
single hour the other day
The reading citizens Of Kansas City
drew $4,000 books from their public Ii
hrary last year Nearly a third. or
10000. were on sociological subjects.
The shcriTs of Minnesota. recently as
senbled in annual conference, reaftirmed
their opposition to capital punishment
and their belief in the results of its
abolition in the State.
The English Baptists lost by death
during the past year thirty-nine minis
ters, among them Rev. :. A. Tipple, who
for fifty-four years at Central Hill. Nor
wood. exercised a notable ministry, at
tracing men like John Ruskin to his
ivy-Clad church: and Rev. Decinius
Dolamore. who in lS50 went to New Zca-
land. where he founded the first Baptist
Church in that colony.
The King Of Sweden has given gold
medals to two English Baptist mission !
aries in China, Rev. J. {. keyte and !
Rev. II. J. fairburn, as "a mark of his |
appreciation of their courageous and
high-hearted conduct in organizing the |
rescue Of Swedish missionaries during the |
revolution in North Shcnsi.
The two years search for chief rabbi of !
the British Empire to succeed the late |
DIR. Hermann Adler, who in turn sue
Ceeded his own father in that Office some
thirty years ago. has ended in the choice |
Of Or. Joseph II. Hertz, OF New York. |
More than hundred delegates from all
over the empire were present at the Lon
don meeting at which the election took
place. The session lasted six hours Lord |
Rothschlld presiding DR.. Hertz is a ma !
tive Of hungary, but came TO America |
when only twelve years old. He was
educated in the New York schools and !
at Columbia University. and was the first |
graduate of the Jewish Theological Sem |
mary in New York. After four years in |
charge Of congregation in Syracuse,
y. Y, he was called 10 johannesburg,
South Africa, where he remained for thlr-
teen years. or until expelled from the |
TransvaaI by the Boer government. For
the past two years he has been rabbi of !
n prominent New York synagogue. His !
and the office carries with it great pres
tige. although legally its status seems to |
be somwhat complex.
Rev. Charles F. Aked, the English Bap-
tist minister who was pastor of Fifth |
Avenue Baptist Church. New York, for
a time. and who later turned Congrega-
tionalIst and became u San Francisco
pastor, is to be asked next to turn Dutch |
Reformed, and to become pastor of n
big church that is to be created by the
consolidation OF two downtown churches
and the creation Of one great preaching
plant and place on the upper West Side |
Of Manhattan.
DR.. Aked is said to belong to the lib
rral wing of all bodies; liberal in praC-
tice, If not in theology. As Baptist he
WAS open communion and willing TO
sprinkle, If immersion was objected to
by the candidate. Hence, 1t is said that
Credal shifts will not stand in the way.
If the New York church plan goes
through. about s1ooo.ooO will be available
for the finacial side.
At a recent rally nFting of 800 'ttho-
lies at Sioux City, Iowa, Bishop Then, !
of the diocese of Lincoln, gave the ad
dress. in which he said: I'VE want to
look at things from a utilitarian stand
point instead of raising the religious
fcrvor and religious faith There arc
100000 Catholic men, women. and chill
dren in the United States. We are a
power, but We arc not accomplishing
what we should. In the words of our
enemy, the Socialists. We lack class con-
sciousncss. We are the brains and
hrawn of the country. We should be a
newer. I don't mean a political power,
hut a power, socially, morally, and re-
llgiously. We are not the moral force
we ought to be. We can gain this by
organization