The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-17
NEWSPAPER OF
FUTURE TO HAVE
CLEAN COLUMNS
-DR. BoswoRTH.
Oberlin Professor Declares All
Detrimental Advertising Will
Be Excluded
HARVARD THEOLOGIAN is
HEAD OF AMERICAN BOARD
Next Session Will be Held in
New Haven, Conn; New
Missionaries Ordained

That the powerful, successful and
universally respected newspaper Of
the future will be the one which will
advocate nothing. and advertise moth.
| ing which shall be detrimental to
the people OF the world, was declared
by DR.. Edward l.. Bosworth, Of ODER
lin college, in his address on The
Christians present opportunity" 10
the delegates at the, Friday morning
session OF the American Board OF
Commissioners for Foreign Missions
In First Congregational church
The Christian editors opportunity
Is the opportunity to run a paper
which will not support and not adj
yertise any policy or article which
Is not what the people need and which
Is In any way menace to the i'm
terests OF the men, women and chill
dren who constitute the public" said
DR.. Bosworth.
IF this brings degree of profes-
sional failure and financial loss, the
Christian editor, the pioneer OF clean
Journalism takes II as part OF the
fun OF the fight" he continued. "Pi
oneers In new movements expect diff
ficulties and hardships. Their re-
ward lies In the vision Of the better
future for which II is their honor to
prepare the way"
Regarding Christian opportunity N
professional life, Dr. Bosworth said
that the great lawyer OF the future
would be the lawyer who always prac-
ticed his profession with the view OF
the interests OF all the people first
in his mind regardless OF the loss OF
big fees. The same he held to be
true OF the great physician of the
future. and he said that the noted
society woman OF the years to come
would be the woman who accom-.
plished reforms and identified herself
actively with movements that tended
to uplift all humanity.
An address on the progress Of mis-
sionary work In China and the indie
pendent Chinese churches was made
to the delegates by the Rev. George
ID. Wilder, Pekin. That the indepen-
dent spirit was rapidly spreading
among the Chinese and that they
were already founding and support
ing separate Chinese churches was
stated by the Rev. Mr.. Wilder
The new church In China will be
free. independent and Chinese" said
he, but II will be founded on the old
church which the missionaries have
established there and continuous with
IT, bringing the strong power of his
torical connection to bear upon the
religious life of China"
Four young missionaries, recently
graduated from Oberlin college, Mr.
and Mrs. A. r. Mather, and Mr.. and
Mrs. r. L. Abraham, were commits
stoned for service In Central Africa.
Prayer was said In their behalf and
words OF instruction given them.
They will go to Africa In a very few
weeks.
Farewell addresses we're made by
the Rev. Mac II. Wallace and Vice
President K. ID. Eaton, the conference
closing at noon. Its next meeting
will be held in New Haven, Conn, as
decided at Thursdays session.
The Rev. Edward G. Moore, pro-
lessor OF theology at Harvard univer.
sity, was elected president of the
board at the election of officers
Thursday afternoon. DR.. Moore sue
ceeds the late President Samuel ..
Capen. who died In China last year.
The following are the other officers
elected by the board:
vice-president, Edward d. Eaton,
of Beloit, Wis; recording secretary,
Henry A. Stimson, New York city;
assistant recording secretary, Edward
IN. Packard, Connecticut; auditors,
Edwin II. Baker, Of Connecticut; VIII
liam b. Plunkett. Massachusetts; Her
bert J. Wells, Rhode Island; CORES
ponding secretaries, James L. Barton
and Cornelius II. Patton, OF Boston:
Edward Lincoln Smith, New York
city; treasurer, Fred III, Wiggin, Bos-
ton; editorial secretary, William e.
Strong, Boston; associate secretaries,
Rev. Enoch +. Bell. ID. Brewer Eddy,
Boston; members Of the prudential
committee for three years, Harry p.
Kendall. Walpole, Mass, and Herbert
A. Wilder, Newton. Mass, new men,
bers. and Rev Willard L. Sperry,
Boston, and Lucius III. Thayer, Ports
mouth, N. H., reelected; member OF
the prudential committee for two
years. Rev. Edward M. Noys, OF New
ton Center. Mass, to succeed DR..
Moore, elected president.