Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-11-15
REPORTS ON WORK
OF METHODIST CHURCH
Are Made To Council At Boston
Along Various Lines of De-
Nominations Activities
(By Associated Press)

minimum, according to a report sub
mitted today to the Council of the
Boards of Benevolence of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. The report
came from DR.. Joseph B. Hingeley,
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
ministers physical disability and men
tai poverty, forced clergymen to take
up "side lines in order to make g
livelihood or else driven competent
men from the profession and have
kept from the work "the best equip
ped and most intellectual YOUTH" ac-
cording to the report.
The report gave a comparative list
of average salaries paid by various
denominations, but said the figures
were misleading because the '1arge,
salaries make the average maximum
amount for most of them" According
to these figures the Protestant Epis-
copal church pays an average OF
81 PAP; the Presbyterian (North)
SLIT; the United Presbyterian, ST.
096; the Dutch Reformed church, ST.
ITO; the Methodist Episcopal (North)
S1,176; the Congregational, S1,042;
and the Baptist (Northeln) $3.50.
Educational Work
Reporting on the work of the board
of education of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, Abram w. Harris, for
mer president of Northwestern Uni
versity and corresponding secretary
of the board, told the church council
that 130 educational institutions are
sponsored by the board. Of this num-
Der 43 are colleges y universities, %
are professional and graduate
schools, 36 are secondary schools for
whites and IL were schools for ne
groes.
He said the property of the schools
was valued at $39,o00,000 and that
their productive endowment is in ex-
cess of $34,374.OOO. Students total
about $1,000 and the alumni number
1884.
DR.. Harris said the board has re-
| lations with Is schools for white peo-
pie in the southern highlands and
! that because of funds raised by the
church's centenary movement new
buildings are being erected at John
II. Snead Seminary, Boaz, Ala; Muir
ply College,, Sevierville, Tenn, and
Baxter Seminary, Baxter, Tenn.
"Reformer's Greed" Offered
| A "reformer's creed'' was offered to
the council of the boards of benevo-
lence of the Methodist Episcopal
church at latter's meeting here today
by the Rev. Clarnece True Wilson
corresponding secretary of the
church's board of temperance and
morals. The first article had to do
with Americanization which it defin- |
ed as "that achievement of national
unity as an equipment for world ser
vice which the nation found it need
ed at the outbreak of the war and
which need was just as imperative
before we found it out"
The article advocated English as
cation in the grade schools and as
the medium of communication thru
every American published newspaper.
eve must eliminate little foreign J
language groups segregated from the
the rest of our people," said the
creed.
Discussing the "Divine Right of
Democracy" the creed reiterated the
Sovereign right of the people" to
elect their own governing officers and
advocated continuance of the direct
primary system and extension of
the initiative, referendum and recall.
Reverence for law, extension of
prohibition, crusades against gam
bling, prize fighting and prostitution
and national censorship of moving
pictures were further articles in the
creed. Another article said: 'I be-
lieve in an educational and moral
suasion campaign against the person
al use of the doped cigarettes which
the tobacco trust foisted upon the
country in war times"
Bible teaching in the public schools
was also advocated and also Sabbath
observance Gas it stood before the
German-American alliance trampled
it in the mire of our American cities,
to establish on it's ruins their conti
mental Sunday, adapted to beer gar
den civilization and bolstering the
type of German imperialism that
went to crash"
Methodist Home Mission Work
Expansion of the home mission
work of the Methodist Episcopalt
church in industrial centers, univer-l