The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-14
People More Open to Consid-
Grafton of Serious Mat
tiers Than in Years
THE WAR HAS HAD A
PERNICIOUS EFFECT
To Tell American Women About the
Women of Europe-Judaism Is
Stirred Up-Lutherans Cele-
brate Anniversary

New York, December 1s.-(Special)
Half a dozen of the larger Protestant
bodies. and some of the smaller ones.
plan evangelistic campaigns to start
Immediately after the first of the year.
Their argument Is that the war has
SO changed the temper of people as to
make them open to the consideration
of serious matters as they have not
been open in years. Their logic is
also that the war In Europe has dem
onstrated the fact that civilization Is
not on the safe basis good many peo-
pie thought it to be. The challenge
to Christianity to stop the war or admit
its failure has furthermore stirred
leaders to action.
The plans proposed for these 1919
revivals are the mass ones. Barring
plan, whole bodies of Christians in Of
ficial form, are getting up teams COM
posed of speakers with different quail
fications and signers both male and
female. In some cases home mission
airy societies have the matter in charge
In others special commissions have
been named. The teams are several
in number and hold forth in different
cities at the same time Careful local
preparation Is made in advance of the
team arrival, some of the Billy Sun
day methods being adopted lndica-
tons now are that the biggest evange
tempted.
Baptists, south, have just invaded
Louisville with mass team Twenty
or more meetings in as many ccnters
are held daily. Newspaper publicity Is
employed. Disciples of Christ have put
their plans under their home mission
AIRY agency Methodists, north, have a
commission, and Presbyterians. north,
have the same. Episcopalians are in
the plan with what they call preach
ing campaign. Some of their best men
are to leave their pulpits to take part,
and like the others, the whole coun-
try is covered by plans. Some of these
plans cover the year 1915, and some
eliminate at the Panama exposition.
To Tell of European Women
An International Council Equal Suf-
frage association. with women OF Eng
land. France, Germany. Austria-l1un-
gary and Switzerland in 1t, has sent to
the United States Mrs. Rosika Schwim-
mer. an able leader with a wide knowl-
edge of conditions In Europe and a
fair command of the English language
Her purpose is not merely to propa-
gate suffrage ideas but to tell Amer
lean women about women of Europe
at this time because of the war. She
declares that Americans have, at their
distance, no adequate conception OF the
horrors and the devastation, and that
unless the war ends soon Europe will
be little more than a page of history.
This leader affirms that women of
these warning countries are not filled
with hatred; that is confined TO the
men. They are helping each other. At
the same time 1t Is the women who are
the chief sufferers by the war. She re-
ports, upon personal knowledge, that
women by the tens of thousands are
committing suicide, and going insane
in Poland, northern Hungary, Eastern
Prussia, Belgium and northern France.
The cause is the censorship of news.
Vienna, Breslau, Cracow, Lemberg
Warsaw, Metz, Strasburg and Brussels
papers are not printing war news as
are American papers. Women know
bands brothers, sons, and while there
is a plan of letter exchange without
addresses 1t fails. The silence mad
dens and drives to suicide.
Mrs. Schwimmer. who has just ar
rived in this country. points ont the
terrible winter conditions of northern
Europe and states that in the line of
the battles, hundreds of miles, old men
and old women, boys and girls. are
homeless and starving by the hundreds
OF thousands. The picture she paints
is appalling In details. She has prom
ises. she says, that equal suffrage is
to come after the war. but she asks
what's the good? There will be moth
ing left worth having unless the war
ceases soon. She charges religion W. TIL
simply adding to the bitterness
Too Orthodox, Declare Rabbis
Judaism in America Is confronted
with the same efficiency demand that
is being put UP to operations of other
religious bodies. Leaders in this de-
mand are formed into the Eastern
council. In 1t are Rabbi Hirsch OF Chi
cago. Rabbi Cries of Cleveland. Rabbi
u Doh nd Dol