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Evening star., 1924-12-06
FINDS HARVARD MEN
WEAK ON SCRIPTURE
Few Students Able to Tell John
Roach Stratton They Have
Read Bible.
Rv the Assncinted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass, December g.
The Rev. John Roach Stratton of New
York City, who spoke here last night
before 800 Harvard students on 1.-The
Fakes and Fancies of Evolution dis
covered that only five of his listeners
had prayed and that only six had read
the Bible in the course of the day,
while only Is We're able to admit that
they had read the Bible through.
About one-quarter of the assemblage
said that they believed in a living
God and even less than that We're
willing to admit the Divinity of
OF Jesus Christ.
Mr.. Stratton turned upon his hear
ers to question them while they were
interrogating him during the question
period that followed his talk.
Commenting upon the small per-
centage who claimed to have read the
Bible, Mr.. Stratton remarked, Most
of you have been criticizing the Bible
when you have not even read it."
Mr.. Stratton caught the assemblage
unprepared when he said that he had
read of vice conditions among college
students in BoSton's Back Bay dis
trict and asked for a census of those
present on their personal conduct.
There was silence for a moment and
then a roar as every man raised his
hand in token of his good character.
Mr. Stra ton expressed pleasure that
Harvard men We're not concerned in
the reports of vice and depravity said
to exist there"
He regretted that the students had
"given to the Bible less attention than
to Shakespeare or Spinoza."
Evening star., 1924-12-06
REPORT BLAIR ROAD
IN BAD CONDITION
Citizens Urge Thoroughfare
Be Made Wider and Prop
erIy Lighted.

Proposing to eliminate the danger
Gus condition of Blair road, due to its
narrow width, the Chillum Heights
Citizens Association, meeting in the
Woodburn School, Blair and Riggs
roads, last night instructed it's high
way committee to make efforts to
have the Commissioners widen this
thoroughfare and to place proper
lighting facilities thereon.
Opening up of New Hampshire ave-
nue. through to the District line is
also sought. 1t was said that the
property owners were assessed for
this Improvement 10 or IL years ago
and no effort has ever been made to
do the work.
Committees Appointed. .
President Charles A. Langley an
nounced the following committee ap-
potntments:
Executive-Mr. Langley, chairman;
F. D. Morris. George P. Grove, 7. W.
Joy, Mrs. ]. C. Brown and Mrs. F. D.
Morris.
Membership - John B. Hopkins,
chairman; B. F. Joy, jr.; John Meikle-
john, L. B. Mcintyre, Mrs. F. f.
oyster, Mrs. ]. Meiklejohn, w. 1. King
and Lewis T. Miller.
c. Gleason, P. B. Collier, Mrs. Mar
garet Sisson, John Froelich, Mrs. D.
A. Binkert and Mrs. J. c. Grove.
Public schools-Mrs. ]. c. Brown
chairman; Mrs. II. A. Chaney, Mr.
Collier, ]. B. Hopkins, r. L. Wyche
Mrs. C. ]. Unger, Mrs. James Naugh-
ton, Mrs A. w. Beall and Mrs. George
P. Grove.
Sewer, water and public health
Mr.. Grove. chairman; DR.. d. A
Binkert, J. A. Meyer. Mr.. Mcintyre
Charles w. Sincel, Mrs. Morris and
Henry LeiZear.
Fire and Police Committee.
Fire and police protection-Lewis T
Miller, chairman; James Naughton
Mrs. Sisson. Brent Wilson; Mr.. Glea-
son, B. f. Joy, jr.; Mrs. w. j. Hoover
and Mr.. King.
Public utilities and parks-E. r
Dick, chairman: III. J. Overman, Mrs
Sisson, b. F. Joy, sr.; Mr.. Meyer
Herman Hitz, w. j. Hoover, Miss
Bette Gilpin and the Misses Thomp-
son.
Publicity-Mr. Overman, chairman
Mr.. Collier, Mr.. Joy, Mr.. Dick, Mr.
Unger and Mrs. Binkert.
Streets and sidewalks-Mr. Meikle.
john. chairman; Mr.. Grove, T. B. Mills
Mrs. Binkert, Mr.. Overman, Mr.
Morris, Mr.. King, Mr.. Unger, Mr.
Meyer and Mr.. Collier.
The entertainment committee Il
composed of all of the ladies of the
association.
Evening star., 1924-12-06
SAYS i. s. |DEADS
INSPIRED BY BIBLE
M. E. Temperance Board
Speaker Urges Return of
Scriptures to Schools.

Declaring that the probable inspira-
ZION for the American form of Gov
ernment was first found in the Bible
DIR. Clarence True Wilson of the
Board of Temperance of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, told the
Churchmen's Club, at it's regular
luncheon in the City Club yesterday.
that an insistent demand should be
made for the return of the Bible into
every public school in the country
From Holland to ancient Rome Dr.
Wilson said many of the older gov
ernments Of Europe have some time
or another claimed to have been the
inspiration for the American Repub-
lie. 1t was from the Holy Bible. the
speaker said, that the founders of
this country took their ideal and he
cited a remarkable parallel between
tho Constitution of the United States
and the constitution Of ancient Israel.
written on the banks of the River
Jordan, as proof of his contention
For $50 years." the speaker said,
Israel had no king. The ancient
Hebrew constitution and the Consti-
tuition of the United States were the
only documents of their kind ever
submitted to the people for ratifica-
tion. Rome never knew the time
when there was even q semblance of
equality in its government.
~vhen the Hebrews cried for a
King their leaders told them that
cod was their King. And when a
committee of colonists from Balti-
more, Philadelphia and New York
went to Washington, at Mount Yer
non, and told him the country was
breaking up like a rope of sand, that
he must come forward and be the
King, he picked up the Holy Bible
and recited those very words to the
delegation
1T is a national shame" the
speaker continued, that the Book
from which the forefathers took their
5nspiration of true republic-the
Government that is now America
should b9 crowded out of the
schools"
Evening star., 1924-12-06

President Coolidge's trip to Chica-
go on a regular passenger coach
without many of the customary safe
guards attending a Presidents rail-
road journey, has served to bring to
light the elaborate system of pro-
lection usually afforded the presi-
Dental train by the railroad COM
panies.
1t was learned today from an au-
fhorltive source that the bigger roads
maintain a special secret service"
system of their own, which blazes
the way for the presidential train all
along the route. laying down, Virtu-
ally, a carpet of safety over whlch
the special train may pass.
Not a cross-road, not a switch, not
a tunnel, not a watering tower. even,
escape the scrutiny of the railroads s
detectives just prior to the approach
of the special Every foot of track
age along the way has been care
fully scanned and pronounced secure
by special operatives when the Ex-
ecutive's train reaches it.
Mechanics Ready to Act.
This is the system used by one Of
the large roads when it has carried
the President on previous trips:
To the special train, listed officially
as carrying "125 fares" is hooked
a combination baggage car and coach.
In the passenger compartment OF TINS
car sit, in addition to several rail-
road detectives, an expert all-around
repairman with a complete assort-
ment of repair parts and tools, ready
I to hop out at the slightest sign or
engine trouble or other disturbance
and make instant repairs. Regard
less of what may go wrong, this me-
chanic can fix it. providing, of course.
the job is not of a drastic nature, re-
quiring a wrecking crew.
Beside the repairman sits tele-
graph expert, also with complete re-
pair apparatus and tapping-in equip
ment. In the event of a breakdown
or wreck he can Immediately tap in
on the telegraph wires paralleling
the tracks and notify the nearest
railroad relief point.
Every Precaution Taken.
The railroad secret operatives In the
same compartment do not spend their
time playing cards or telling stories.
They must keep sharp eyes on the
right t-of-way ahead and to both sides,
with a. view to noting any unusual
appearance of the track or adjacent
territory. Their work is purely pre-
cautionary, for here is what other
railroad operatives have done short
while previous:
Examined every stretch of trackage
within their blocks or Jurisdiction
and assured themselves that spikes
were in place, rails !bolted and sound,
ties intact and the pathway clear.
Inspected every viaduct. tunnel,
grade crossing, railroad junction, sig
Evening star., 1924-12-06
RAIL SECRET SERVICE
GUARDS PRESIDENT ON JOURNEYS
Euery Foot of Track, S,Uitch, Stations, Tunnel and
Water To,cer Inspected Before Executives
....... Train Passes By.

nal system and other vital points of
the road.
Cleared from every station platform
and other railroad property suspicious
looking strangers.
Tested block signals and other cleo
trical systems used in directing and
controlling the flow of traffic.
That is not all.
Pilot Train Goes Ahead.
AS supreme and final precaution,
all at its own expense, pilot train
is sent just ahead of the special
train, perhaps a couple of blocks in
the van, to act as a trail blazer aud
buffer If, in spite of all the pains
taken by the company to avoid an
accident, faulty rail or a deliberate
plot against the Government should
develop, this pilot train would be the
one to suffer the effects, and the
presidential train would be able to
halt before a collision could take
place.
This method of insuring safety to
the Nations head on a railroad
journey has been followed for many
years and through many admins
trations. 1t is all done quietly and
the public never knows of it,
Various impromptu Stunts" de-
signed to protect the President and
his party are carried out as the ex-
igencies of the occasion permit. For
example, when President Wilson was
being rushed back to Washington
after his breakdown in the West, it
was essential that the sick man have
absolute quiet and freedom from
denominations. Instead of bringing
him back to the White House over
line ordinarily expected to serve
him on the route selected, a differ
ent road was used. it was learned to-
day. Even then the train made use
of certain sections of freight track
age and switches, and instead of
stopping to take on water at Gus
tomary water towers, stopped at un-
frequented towers used by freights.
Evening star., 1924-12-06
CHURCHMAN RAPS
SECRET SOCIETIES
Confess Christian Purposes.
Methods UnchriStian,
Council Is Told.
By the Associated Press.

tue Associated PreSS.
ATLANTA, Ga, December 6.-The
growth of secret organizations con-
Tossing Christian purposes and seek
ing to effect them by un-Christian
methods and so defeating the very
purpose they seek. is a nemesis upon
the free churches of America for their
failure to work together. Dr. Rock
well H. Potter of Hartford. Conn. to
day told delegates of the Federal
Council of Churches meeting here.
DR.. Potter, who is moderator of the
National Council of CONSIDERATIONS
Churches, was on the same program
with DIR. Thornton Whaling of Louis
vile, Ky; Carl L. Milliken, former
Governor of Maine and now presi-
dent of the Northern Baptist Conven-
tlon; DR.. Z. Y. Mullins, president OF
the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, at Louisville. and others.
The committee on the policy OF the
council asserted in its report that the
greatest of all problems before tho
churches today is how 1--WE may pre-
sent Christ more compellingly to the
mind and heart of our day, so that
He will become Lord OF mems con-
sciences and master of their lives"
The doctrfnal discussions which
have shaken some denominations and
which have attracted wide general
dlscuSSion, have, had, in the judg-
fnent of some, the unexpected effect
of drawing the churches together, theI
committee also stated.
Unity Recommended.
Numerous recommended tions for thd
development of the councils world
during the next four years wereA
offered by the committee. ThI
divisive and sectarian spirit that eX
presses itself in competitive rivalries
has too long been the scandal oil
declared. 1--WE must become consciouA
of our fellowship in the heritage Oh
faith, and the Federal council mus
help us gain this consciousness and
then become the means of the ex
preston of it to ourselves and tW
the world"
Views and suggestions of Cyrus i
Woods. former United States Ambs
sador to Japan, on the Japanese ed
clusion act were before the commits
sion on International justice and goo
will, which is expected to submit 81
recommendations Monday. In a led
ter read to the delegates last nigh
by DIR. Robert e. Speer. retiring pres
ident Of the council, the former Am
bassadS' termed the exclusion act ''a
International disaster of the mrs
magnitude, disaster to America
diplomacy in the Far East, and dis
aster to religion and effective worM
of our American churches In Japan,
Evening star., 1924-12-06
II. S. Forces Cut
By 1000 in Year;
NOaU at 544,671

The number of civil service en-
ployes in the Government service
decreased 1000 during the last fis-
cal year, the Civil Service Com
mission reported to Congress yes
terday
There were 544,671 persons on
the rolls on June 80, 1924, of which
296, ,4S1 were in the postal service.
The figures were compared with
Armistice day, 1918, when 917,76O
civil service employees were car
ried.
The report declared the salaries
for the personnel of the commits
sion were inadequate, half of the
employees receiving about the min
imum salary of their grade. 1t
urged that an additional $4,000 be
appropriated to bring the salaries
up to average.
Evening star., 1924-12-06
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR
INJURED In CRASH
Small's Car Overturned in Acct
dent-Son, Driver, Breaks
Collarbone.
By the Associated Press.

KANKAKEE, ILL.,, December Gov
Len Small was injured; his son, Leslie
Small, suffered a broken collarbone
and other injuries, and two other mem
bers of the governors party were re-
ported slightly injured when the auto
mobile in which they were returning to
the governors home here turned over
at Pontiac, Ill.
Gov. Small suffered severe cuts and
bruises about theA head, including a
badly lacerated ear. He also sustained
a bruised hip. Despite his injuries and
those of his son. the governors party
proceeded to Kankakee after their hurts
had been attended.
Others in the party were Mrs. Eng
lesh, the governors daughter, and Al
Bothfuhr of the State Highways Depart
ment. They were not seriously hurt.
Leslie Small was driving the gov
ernor's automobile, a sedan, when
another automobile, occupied by a man
and a woman, came out of a side road
and skidded on the slippery pavement
into the governors car. Gov. Small S
car skidded to one side of the road
and overturned on its side, while the
second machine turned over on the op-
posite side of the highway.
Evening star., 1924-12-06

Audiences at a mystery play in
Richmond, England, are requested to
sing a hymn from a leaflet instead OF
applauding with their hands
Evening star., 1924-12-06
'MillionaireO Orphan
Dies as His Fiancee
Waits With License
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 6.-Private
funeral services will be held today
for William NJ. McClintock, known
as the millionaire orphan" who
died as his fiancee waited at his
bedside with a marriage license.
1t was a race between death and
love, and death won-the latest
time death has snatched away the
MeClintock millions before they
had been long enjoyed by the
holder.
McClintock and Miss ISa belle
Pope had been sweethearts since
school days. He attended Dart
mouth College, but. stopped his
academic training to take up busi-
ness courses to fit himself for ad-
ministration of tlfe $6,Oo0,O00 es-
tate which had come to him only
seven months ago.
Evening star., 1924-12-06
$500 FINE PROVIDED.
Bill Offered for Traffic Breaches on
Military Roads.

A bill making it a misdemeanor to
violate traffic .rules on the military
roads leading from bridges on the
Potomac River to Arlington and Fort
Myer was introduced yesterday by
Senator Wadsworth of New York.
The bill provides that any person
Violating the regulation laid down by
the Secretary of War shall be guilty
of misdemeanor, with fine of $500,
Imprisonment of six months or both.
The measure was referred to the COM
mittee on military affairs.
Evening star., 1924-12-06
Prison Official Resigns.

ATLANTA, December 6.-Deputy
Warden l.. ]. Fletcher of the United
States penitentiary here last night
announced that he had rendered his
resignation to Attorney General
Stone. to become effective January J..
Mr.. Fletcher stated that he had ac-
cepted an offer to become president
and general manager of an ice man
ufacturing company at Miami, Fla.
Evening star., 1924-12-06

One-half of the farming land in
the French devastated area is again
bearing crops.
Evening star., 1924-12-06
STUDENT ENDS LIFE.
Swallows Poison in Union Theolog'
ical Seminary.

NEW YORK, December 6.-Edgar
Reading, rs, of Niles, Mich. a divin-
ity student, committed suicide in his
room at the Union Theological Semi
nary yesterday by swallowing poison.
In two notes, one to the school au-
thortties and the other to his mother,
he explained that his act was due to
jIl-hea1th
Evening star., 1924-12-06
800 GIRLS FLEE FIRE.
Short Circuit Causes $4,000 Blaze
at Wellesley.

WELLESLEY, Mass, December g.
A fire last night in the basement of
Casenove Hall, Wellesley College
Dormitory, forced the majority of the
800 students to grope their way
through smoke-filled corridors when
the lights went out from the same
short circuit which caused the blaze.
Damage was confined to the base
ment and the loss did not exceed
$4,000.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-08-21

He was a doctor, and not such a
young doctor either. That is to say.
he had been practising for nearly ten
years. An interesting event happened
in his family and he found himself
the father Of a very fine girl. his first
born.
A patient who happened In about
three days after the event didn't have
a great deal of chance to talk about
his particular ailments because the
father was very eager to tell all about
the child.
'T've helped to bring lot OF chill
dren into the world" said the doctor.
land know lot about them; but
/ want to tell you that this Is about
the finest I've ever seen. Now that
may seem to you merely to be the
enthusiasm of a father. but really
know it's So" He went on telling
about the merits Of his offspring, how
she was finely formed child and
embraced all the projections.
He had turned over the duties OF
attending to his wife and child to
another doctor, as the custom is more
or less among physicians. This was
the reason for one thing the doctor
said:
''one afternoon when the baby was
only three days old she sneezed. Some
way or another that made me nervous
and so decided to call up the doctor.
at happened he wasn't at home
and nothing would do but that must
tell his wife all about It over the
telephone. She just laughed at me
and that sobered my excitement.
"Afterward thought how angry I
might have been had some one OF my
patients called me up on foolish
matter like that It just goes to show
that this sort of thing is done right
along by folks who ought to know
better
The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-08-21
Purifying Drinking water.

It is probable that eiectrts purinca-
ton of drinking water viii soon be in-
trodaced into the home. This method,
already used by number Of municipal
water works In Germany, is based upon
the germ killing effects OF ozone, which
is oheaply ensendered by electricity. II
an electric discharge takes place be-
tween two glass tubes, one inside the
other, whose surfaces facing each 9TH
er are coated with metal. ozone is de-
veloped in the space between the tubes.
Electricians have tried in recent years
to simplify the means of electrie ozone
development for purifying water. The
ideal apparatus would be one which
housekeeper could put up in the kitch-
en-, and by utilizing the electric current
of the common electric light wires. pur-
lily every glass of drinking water, In
fact, such an apparatus seems to have
been successfully made by Mr.. Otto, a
French engineer.
This apparatus is of very simple con-
struction and takes UP little space. II
consists principally Of small. closed
box, the metal cover Of which is made
conductory with the bottom. In the
box is an ozone developer, an inter
rupter and a tin tube. Through the lat
ter the ozone. which first has to pass
through cotton stopper to free il from
dust and germs contained in the air, is
conducted into the water and mixed
Herewith. If much ozone has been abb
sorbed, the water becomes phosphor-
escent In the dark. The most impor-
tant part of the apparatus is the mix
err" action of which can be interrupted
at will. The apparatus Is capable Of
purifying about 60 gallons Of water In
an hour. and the cost per hour Is about
the same as that OF an ordinary cleo
trio incandescent light. Chicago News.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-08-21
OLD AGE PENSION IN WALES
Has Markedly Increased the State
Debt.

Among the claims made for the New
South Wales old-age pension act. prior
TO its passage, were that FIRST IL
would lessen the number OF INDECENT
persons In the various state institu-
lions; (second) it would remove much
worry on the part Of people growing
old as to provision for the future;
third 1t would have tendency to
encourage relatives to assist in the sup
port of the aged. thereby avoiding the
reflections usually cast upon them when
aged relatives became objects of char
ity, and (fourth) it would ultimately
diminish the taxation required uncer
the old system The act was passed
and has been in operation five years.
The labor members Of the federal par
lament, desiring to pass similar laws,
appointed commission to inquire into
the results obtained from the New
South Wales act Among those who
testified before this commission was
the director of government asylums for
the inflrm in New South Wales. who
stated, in substance, that about six
months after the act came into iorce
600 old people secured their pensions
and left the benevolent asylums; that
the majority returned TO the institr-
lions and surrendered their pensions,
there now being almost as many in
mates as there had been prior TO the.
passage of the act; that the reasons
given for returning were that they
were better cared for In the institute
tons and could live more comfortably
there, and that the annual cost OF
maintenance per inmate at the asyiums
was $50 From a statement made BY
the state treasurer 1t appears that the
amount expended for the oid-age pen
sions last year exceeded ee,60o, geo,
while the amount necessary to support
the iufirm was greater than ever be-
fore, yet the population had not mate.
rally Increased. -Bsooklyn Eagle al
The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-08-21
| Freehold Defeats
BOrdentOWn Nine

The Freehold Baseball Clud defeat
ed Bordentown of the Burlington Coun-
ty league in the rubber game of three
game series by a score of to 8 at the
Freehold Grounds on Sunday.
Bordentown scored first in their
half of the initial frame. Penny walk
ed McGrath was safe on Lukens error
Kraemer flied to Williams and Penny
scored on Horns single. Freehold
tied it up in the fourth on Meyers
singled, Neumans sacrifice and Debos-
keys two Dagger to right.
Freehold took the lead in the sixth
scoring. twice. Williams singled. Meyers
reached FIRST on Neisenoff's wild throw
OF his bunt. Deboskey doubled, score
ing Meyers. Lukens reached first on
Sheeley's error but Deboskey was nab
bed at the plate. Rhodes lined out to
Horner.
The visitors scored once in the seventh
Shelly grounded out, Horner copied
out. Cantwell singled, scoring Cantwell.
McGtath famed
Freehold scored their last run in the
eighth on single by Moulten followed
by Williams double.