Evening star., 1934-10-18
BUDGET
REDUCED $110,63O.
Church, However, Must
Raise S7O4, ,043 More for
Forward Movement.
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT,
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

ATLANTIC CITY, october 18.-
The fifty-frst triennial general con-
vention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church yesterday grappled with its
budget problems, but debate was
neither as lengthy nor as colorful as
had been expected. BY sundown both
the House of Bishops and the House
Of Deputies had approved the report
of the Joint Committee on Budget
and Program, submitted by Right
Rev James NJ. Maxon, bishop CO.
adjutor of Tennessee, and strongly
supported by Right Rev. James E.
Freeman, Bishop of Washington.
An emergency schedule for 1885.
recommended by the committee, speci-
fed expenditures of $2,313,115, as op-
posed to the National Councils pro-
gram of S2,7o0,000. A saving Of
$110,630 was effected through a 27
per cent cut in the allowance for four
departments and other overhead items
at the church missions house, New
York.
Must Raise $704,043 More.
But, in line with resolution offered
by Bishop Freeman, the National
Council will have the power and the
responsibility for revision in view of
expectancies, provided that any in
crease or decrease be on a fiat per-
centage basis, the appropriations re-
manning in the same relative proper
tions'
The church, the committee indi-
Gated, must raise a total of $704, ,043
more than it did this year If it Is to
protect its work abroad and at home
through 1885. A new forward move
ment, designed to revitalize the
church in all its branches, was urged
as the solution of major problems,
spiritual and material alike.
In the House Of Bishops a drive
led by Right Rev. Paul Matthews,
Bishop of New Jersey, to table reso-
luton indorsing restricted birth con-
troll was defeated by a heavy vote.
The matter was placed on the calen-
dar for future action and may be the
occasion of vigorous debate.
Approve New Calendar.
The bishops approved a reform in
tended to stabilize the date of Easter
on April 8 in new calendar; voted
to substitute the word auxiliary" or
assistant" for 'coadjutor"' and "suf-
fragan" in the titles of auxiliary bish-
ops and to grant those affected by
the change the privilege Of voting;
decided af1irmatively on a proposal
to hold future general conventions in
September instead of October, and
passed a resolution calling on all
States of the Union to prepare legis-
lation requiring previous notice of in
tention to marry.
bitter attack on the movies by Rev.
Clifford G. Twombly of Lancaster,
Pa, who insisted that producers are
"only pretending" reform. There Is
need, the speaker argued, for regu-
latory action by Congress. =.
Francis B. Sayre, Assistant Secre-
tary of State, was one of the speak
ers at mass meeting of the Com
mission on Evangelism last evening.
In an address to meeting of the
Church League for Industrial Democ-
racy, Rev. Julian Hamlin of Boston
charged 1.-The World War could have
been stopped in Is months instead of
81 months had it not been for the
efforts of the armament makers to
prolong it."
Bishop Freeman, recovering from
his illness of the past week end, was
engaged last night in committee
drafting pastoral letter.