Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-16
BAPTISTS CE:N|ISlyRE WICK: PRESIDENT FOR
 PROHIBITION VIEWS
Other Protests and Criticisms Made in Resolu-
 tiOns

l Washington, May 15.-The date O the 1921 meeting of the Southern Bap tist convention was advanced iron Wednesday, May Il, to Thursday, Ma, 12, late today by the convention i, session here upon the suggestion O Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, president O.
 Furman university, Greenville, S. c.
 in order that messengers coming iron
 a distance will not De compelled te
 travel on Sunday. Otherwise the re.
 port of the committee on arrange.
 ments which chose Chattanooga, Ten.
 nessee, as the meeting place, was un- changed.
 Disapproval by the convention of the statement made by Vice. President
 Marshall to the Virginia Bar associa
 tion that had the prohibition amend
 ment been considered by the senate
 behind closed doors it would not have received twenty votes, was voiced by the adoption of resolution present. ed by Dr. II. W. Battle of Charlottes vile, Va.
 Prohibition of the drug and louor traffic in India was endorsed by the convention in resolution calling up- on the, Governor of India to ''pro- hibit the import. manufacture and sale in India of alcoholic liquors and drugs, particularly prohibition of the cultivation of poppy and the manu- facture and sale of opium for other than medical purposes.
 Charging that the British govern- ment supports the opium trade in India by lending money. free of in terest. to the poppy growers, Tara kath Das, of India, christian Hindu, pleaded with the messengers to help remove the drug curse from his coun- try.
 Displeasure at the convention fa- cilities afforded by Washington was recorded by the messengers in the passage of a resolution asking con- gress and the commissioners of the District of Columbia to provide "a convention hall in our capital city adeouate in size and design to the needs of such a building"
 Registration of messengers today reached 8.255 and great disappoint- ment has been expressed by those who have been unable to get into the hall at the various meetings. Numerous overflow meetings have been neces- sarv to accommodate the messengers and the crowd of visitors estimated by convention officials to number an- other 5000.
 Additions to the permanent $75,- 000,000 fund commission were an- nounced late today, the convention naming J. P. Henderson of Knoxville, Tenn.,; O. T.. Hailey of Nashville, Tenn; J. A. Anderson, Knoxville, Tenn; and Geo. E. Hays of Louisi- ana.
 Reading of the report on chaplains provoked lively discussion this af- ternoon as to the propriety of Bap- tist minister receiving pay from the government as chaplain in the army or navy. Arguments were advanced that accepting pay from the govern ment was contrary to the Baptist principle of the absolute separation of the church and state but the re- port which provides for the entrance of Baptist preachers into the service was approved.
 Dedicatory services on the site of church to be erected here, as a na- tional Baptist memorial to religious liberty were attended by the messen- gers this afternoon. Secretary of the Navy Daniels headed the list of speakers which included Dr. Gam brell, president of the convention and Dr. McGlothlin.