Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-09-11
DIR. NJ. F. Rice of De-
troit Finds in Junk
Material for En-
lig hteEing Talk
MISSION TALKS
IN AFTERNOON
The Church and War
is Discussed by Pres
ident Samuel PlantZI
of Appleton

OF Appleton
Thursday afternoon of the con-
ference was largely devoted to an
niVersary meeting of the VT M
S. and the w. H. M. s. Mrs. W.
F. Tomlinson was chairman of the
session devoted to the former or
ganization and Mrs. E. E. Horth
Of the second. Mrs. Tomlinson
spoke of the needs of missionary
work, especially i'll India and China
The speaker and her husband have
travelled much and are deeply in
terested in the work. Mrs. F. I.
Johnson, president of the Ohio
branch, spoke of the growth of the
work in an extensive survey.
Mrs. Horth as chairman of the
w. F. M. s., also told of the needs
of the organization. With Rev
C. E. Weed presiding, there was
a program by the children of the
Italian mission in Madison. They
gave recitations, songs, and other
numbers on an interesting pro
gram.
The Church and War
Rev. Samuel Plantz, pastor of
the First M. E. church, Appleton,
delivered an address Thursday af
ternoon on "The Church and War"
Quoting Marshall Foch as deolar-
ing that war in and for itself is
the greatest crime in history" he
said the war would not be ObClish-
ed before the christian church ceas
ed to look upon it as legitimate.
He spoke of a measure now icing
considered in Geneva, proposing
that nations which en.er upon an
aggressive war be considered as
outlaw nations, and including in
such a treaty the provision of
bringing economic preserve to bear
against warning nations. He also
spoke approvingly of the PROPOSE
ton to draft both capital and labor
in event of war-that labor should
not use it as an occasion to boost
wages, nor capital to profit by it
that it should profit no one. He
believes that the Christian church
should endorse the world court.
Lecture on "Junk"
On Thursday evening there was
an interesting musical program,
preceding the lecture on Junk"
by DR.. M. F. Rice of Detroit
In introducing Dr. Rice, Presi-
dent Plantz of Appleton said that
the speaker Of the evening was a
combination of John B. Golf and a
Kansas whirlwind. The two have
been longtime friends.
Dr.. Rice divided his subject into
three topics:
Junk things.
Junk time.
Junk life.
In opening his address he spoke
of the many things that are cast
away which are often recovered
and used again. Articles some
times leave the rear door of home
and come back under a new guise
through the front door. The truth
is that things and men gravitate
to the places they are wanted. In
making a study of the subject, he
found that junk men classify. the
articles they collect and in that
way make them of greater value
from the valueless to the valuable
in the world.
He declared that the most inter
esting things in the world were
junk. He also said that the sin
of riches is extravaganza and that
this nation is the most extravagant
nation on earth. Last year 80
percent of the farm products was
wasted, II percent of eggs lost, and
other things wasted on an equal
scale. DR.. Rice said that he had
never purchased a pencil but pick
ed up the stubs which had been
thrown away, declaring that 10
million feet of good lumber is lost
annually in this country in this
way. He would have lead pencils
shorter so there would not be so
much waste.
He gave an. excellent lecture on
cry of life from waste places. He
the value of time and of the recoV-
held it is the duty of everyone to
do what is possible for the rest of
humanity, especially those who are
unfortunate in birth or station.
DR.. Rice could have been made
a bishoD at the last general con-