The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-19
MOVIES, COMIC
STRIPS BLAMED
FOR DEPRAVITY
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OF the Bible and its teaching. Might
it be possible that the outrageous
conditions now existing there come
from this fact?"
She gave a number of statistics on
the present comparative ignorance Of
the teachings Of the Bible and of the
Ten Commandments in particular, de-
claring that "scven out of 10 child
rem in the United States today have
never heard of the Ten Command
ments."
Students Lack Honor
The lack of honor among students
of the present day also came in for
comment by Miss Palmer, who said.
students cheat in their courses every
time they get the chance. AS re
suit, many of(them, when they go
to the state universities where they
are unable to cheat, cannot even get
through the freshman year
She also said that stealing was be-
coming prevalent in many schools,
some of the larger institutions even
finding it necessary to place steel
lockers in their buildings. "But what
barrier is padlocked steel locker
to students of today, who know gen
eral science, mathematics and other
kindred subjects?" she queried.
Ignorance Of the Bible and it's
teachings was given as the cause of
the present decadence. In closing,
Miss Palmer declared week day re-
ligious education was the coming
thing" and declared that sit will be
necessary if we are to maintain our
position as leaders of the world"
At the close Of her speech, Senator
Dell Patterson, Renville county, an
nounced that he was going to soft
soap the steps of the capitol to-
morrow" and Senator j. +. East
gate, Grand Forks county, suggested
that Miss Palmer had gone at the
wrong side of the family. He ad
vised that closer attention by wom-
ems clubs to the training of child
rem might do much to mitigate the
Juvenile tendencies of which Miss
Palmer complained.
Club Women Scored
| eff the women in these clubs would
take couple of years off to teach
the Sunday schools instead of going
out to bridge and tea parties and
letting the children play in the
street. we might get some results
he declared.
Senator Patterson raised the only
voice against the bill, the six main
speakers all speaking in favor of
the measure.
Patterson declared that the proceed
ing speakers had talked about every
thing but the bill itself" and de-
clared he would speak at length
against the bill if the group wants
to talk business, but if you plan to
turn this into a play party, I'll pass
The meeting was opened with Sen
ator Alfred Steele presiding and the
first talk was given by Senator p
O. Satire, Steele county, who in
troduced the bill. He devoted most
of his time to refutation Of the
charge that the measure was sun
constitutional" and denied that il
lowered the barriers between church
and state.
Ministers Favor Bill
Reverend Meyers of Wahpeton, q
high officer in the Norwegian Luth-
eran church, spoke briefly on the
measure and approved it in the whole
although he expressed some slight
fear as to whether it would be prac-
teal.
Reverend F.. w. Corbett Of Leith
told how the religious education mat
ter was working out very satisfac-
torily" in South Dakota, where IA bill
similar to the one proposed here has
been adopted. He has charge Of sew
eral congregations located over the
South Dakota line.
c. A. Armstrong of Fargo, secrc-
!, tary of the North Dakota Council of
churches, was present at the meeting
and delivered Il brief address on be-
half of the measure. He stated that
nine of the important denominations
in North Dakota had endorsed the
bill: the Methodists, Presbyterians,
Baptists, Congregationalists, Nor
wegian Lutherans, Free Lutherans
| English Lutherais, Episcopalians and
Evangelicals.
Reverend c. A. Stephens of the
First Baptist church told how the
plan had worked successfully in Kan
sas City, Kansas, and Reverend Wal
ter F.. Water Of the McCabe Metho-
dist church endorsed it as "the OPEN
ing of door of opportunity" He
laid the responsibility for the alleged
weakened moral conditions of today
at the door Of the home, although he
declared he could not get into the
thing whole-souled because l think
we haven't quite measured up, but
we've done our BEST"