Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-05-19

Baptists Meet in Chattanooga
One Day Later.
Washington, May 15.-Date of the
1921 meeting was changed from
Wednesday, May H. Thursday,
May 12, by the Southern Baptist Con
vention late today upon the sugges-
tion of DR.. w. J. McGlothlin, presi-
dent of Furman University, Green
vile, S. c., in order that messengers
coming from a distance to attend the
convention will not be- compelled to
travel on Sunday. Otherwise the re-
port of the committee on arrange
ments which chose Chattanooga,
Tenn, as the meeting place, was un-
changed.
.Disapproval by the convention of
the statement made by Vice-Presi-
dent Marshall to the Virginia Bar as
sociation, that had the prohibition
amendment been considered by the
senate behind closed doors it would
not have received 20 votes, was
voiced by the adoption of a resolu-
tion presented by DR.. H. W. Battle,
of Charlottesville, Va.
eve keenly deplore the vice pres
ident's poor opinion, if correctly
quoted, of the august body over
which he presides," the resolu-
tion recites, adding that if the vice
president was correct in his assertion
4'we would regard that fact the dark
est sign of national decadence and
coming disaster"
The Southern Baptist Convention
can not concur in the imputation
placed by Mr.. Marshall, if correctly
reported, upon, the senator's of the
United States in their recent enact
ment of prohibition legislation" the
resolution said.
h ak OF DlScoufteSy.
Vice president Marshall delivered
the address of welcome to the con-
vention when it opened on Wednes-
day and adoption of the resolution
was opposed by prominent messen-
igers on the ground of discourtesy. At
the suggestion of DR.. A. j. Barton
of Alexandria, La, action on the res
olution was deferred until the con-
vention had listened to an address by
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
of the Anti-Saloon League, when it
was passed with but scattering of
negative votes.
Both Mr.. Wheeler and Federal
Prohibition Commissioner Kramer,
who followed him, were received
with acclaim, the convention rising
to it's feet to applaud them when they
advanced to the speakers platform.
Mr.. Wheeler declared he would
stand by the senate against the vice
president who, he added, did not add
anything to the confidence of the peo
pie of the country by his statement.
He scored those he termed as wine
and beer candidates, characterizing
their position as one of defiance of
the law"
The government needs more men
to enforce prohibition, Mr.. Kramer
declared, and asked the help Of the
Southern Baptists in upholding the
18th amendment to the constitution.
Prohibition of the drug and liquor
traffic in India was endorsed by the
convention in a resolution calling up
on the governor of India to prohibit
the import, manufacture and sale in
India of alcoholic liquors and drugs,
particularly prohibition of the culti-
walton of poppy and the manufacture
and sale[of opium for other than me-
.dicinal purposes"
Charging that the British govern
ment supports the opium trade Inv
India by lending money free OF IN
terest to the poppy growers, Tarak-
matthias, of India, Christian Hin
du, pleaded with the messengers to
help remove the drug curse from his
country.
Hall Not Adequate.
Displeasure at the convention ia
cilities afforded by Washington was
recorded by the messengers in the
passage of a resolution asking con-
gress and the commissioners OF the
district to provide ga convention hall
in our capital city adequate in size
and design to the needs of such
building"