New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Rev. Paul Jones, Deposed in
Utah for Pacifsm, Asks
Protestant EpiscopaIs to
Espouse Real Democracy
Asks Voice for Women
Optional Use of Prayer Book
and Rejection of Endow-
ments Among Suggestions

The Rev. Paul Jones. who was com
PEELED to resign as Bishop Of the
protestant Episcopal jurisdiction IN
Otan because of formal protest
sgalnst mis- paclflsm, has addressed an
open letter to the church DEMANDING
revolutionary changes in policy. His
letter was sent from Brownsville June
MON, Me, where he has been laborine
bag rural missionary. It WAS pub
lished IN the columns Of "Tho Church
man
Bishop Jcnes's case will be aired at
she general convention in Detroit next
month and an effort Will be made TO
restore to him his Episcopal functions.
lie was an avoWed Socialist, IS was
his predecessor in the Utah missionary
jurisdiction, the late Bishop Spauldinr
SIS friends argue that his activities
N the Socialist cause were responsible
Tor MS resignation, and that his atti-
Yude toward the war was but 8 circum-
stance. Bishop Jones, although OPP
posed to the selective draft. main
tanned his thorough Americanism, and
ii private letter from Maine has told
come Of his friends that he was re-
Gently chosen to address group of
returning soldiers.
Defines His Democracy
His letter to The Churchman" fol-
lows:
Iy, be.r 80
Tho leaders of the Church during the
last year, there has been continued
reference to the democratic ideal.
Democracy, reconstruction, the new
order and similar expressions crop out
with great frequency in the annual adj
dresses of the bishops and in the
Church papers, not to mention the pro-
nouncements Of the Joint Commission
on Social Service, the National Coun-
ell of the Brotherhood Of St Andrew
and the radical organizations of the
Church.
"There would seem TO be no question
but that the leaders of the Church are
concerned about fuller application
Of the principles of democracy in the
world and in the bordering of the
life of the nation so AS TO give Il more
within it.
"The big question which stands out
NJ present is whether the rank and file
OF tho membership Of the Church iM-
oorscs these hopes which have been
expressed and really desires more
democratic order. II the clergy and
iaity want such democratic expressions
20 stand as tho mind and aim OF the
church. very searching test must be
7,la Nvh no -
meets IN Detroit next October.
such Il test will not lie in the reso-
buttons that may be passed approving
rhis or that or condemning the other.
They are at the best mere scraps of
paper, Tor no one expects the Church
10 change the world order over night
by means Of resolutions.
Real Test Coming
"But-and here is where the real test
romesif we really indorse the talk
OF the leaders about democracy and re
construction. we should demonstrate
II st Detroit by naugurating steps to
bring cur own life as an organization
INTO harmony with those democratic
ideals. A critical scrutiny of the laws
and methods of the Church reveals
the point OF view Of any sort of de-
mocracy. We should. then. enter upon
such housekeeping at home that our
words in regard to the large problems
may ring true and command respect.
prominent among those things
which arc needed TO bring our prac-
sical life as an organization into &C
cord with principles Of democracy,
would be the following:
proportional Representation $780, At
present diocescs having from 10000
TO 100, 900 communicates have no
more representatives in the House
of Deputies than those with less
than 1000. The communicates %
the TWENTY-FIVE smallest dioceses
added. together do not even equal in
numbers those of the Diocese of New