The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-11-18
CHURCH REFORM
CREED PRESENTED.
Benevolent Board of MethodistS
Meets at Boston.
ASKS WAR ON ALIEN TONGUES
Also Urges Crusade Against Cigar
cites, Gambling, Prize-Fightlng
and titution-AdVocates
Reverence for Law.

Boston, Nov. 16--A "reformer's
creed" was offered to the council of
the boards of henevolence of the Meth
odist Episcopal church at the latter's
meeting here by Rev. Clarence True
Wilson, corresponding secretary of the
.church's board of temperance and
morals.
The first article advocated English
as the exclusive basis for American
education in the grade schools and as
the medium of communication through
every American published newspapers.
1--WE must eliminate little reign Ian
guage groups segregated from the rest
of our people said the creed
Discussing next, THE divine right of
democracy" the creed reiterated the
sovereign right of the people" to elect
their own governing officers and I'D
vocated continuance of the direct pri-
mary system and extension of the
initiative, referendum and recall.
Urges Cigarette Crusade.
Reverence for law, extension of pro-
Inhibition, crusades against gambling,
prize-fighting and prostitution, and n
national censorship of moving pic
lures were further articles in the
creed.
Another article said: 81 believe in
an educational and moral suasOn cam
paign against the personal use Of the
'dOped cigarettes which the tobacco
trust foisted upon the country in war
times"
Bible teaching in the public schools
was advocated and also Sabbath OBJ
iseryance "as it stood before the Ger
man-American alliance trampled it in
the mire of our American cities, to
establish on its ruins their cOntinen-
tai Sunday, adapted to a beer garden
civilization and bolstering the type Of
German Imperialism that went to
crash"
Low salaries for ministers have re-
.duced their number to an inefficient
minimum, according to report sub
United by Or. Joseph b, IIingeley,
chairman Of the board of conference
claimants, the organization which has
had charge of raising the pension
funds of the church.
Inadequate salaries and the result
ant hardShipS have caused among min
listers physical disability and mental
poverty. forced clergymen to take up
aside line" in order to make Il live
,lihoOd or else driven competent men
from the profession and have kept
from the work the best equipped and
,most intelligent youth" according to
the report
Reports on Schools.
Reporting on the work of the board
of education, Abram w. Harris, for
mer president of the Northwestern uni
iverSity, and corresponding secretary of
the board, told the chuprch council
that 100 educational institutions are
sponsored by the board. OF this num-
Der 43 are colleges or universities, 30
are professional and graduate schools,
SO are secondary schools for whites
and 10 are schools for negroes
He said the property of the schools
is valued at more than S39,0O0,OOO. and
that their productive endowment is in
excess of $34,374,00O. Students total
about $1,000 and the alumni number
.119,S34.
Expansion of the home mission
work of the Methodist Episcopal
church in industrial centers univer-
.sities and colleges, among negroes in
the North and at army and marine
bases, was described by Rev. David II.
Forsyth, corresponding secretary of the
church's board of home missions and
church extension.
Cheeks sent out for maintenance in
the first quarter of 1920 were three
times as large as the first quarter in
1919" said the report.
"GOB" RANKS WITH OFFICERS