Evening star., 1935-06-05
HOLT ASKS CHURCH
TO BACK SECURITY
Senator-EIeCt Defends Old
Ace Pensions at Meth
odist Conference.

Predicting the administration So
Cial security program, in substantially
the form passed by the House. will be
approved by the Senate during the
present session and become operative.
Senator elect Holt. Democrat. of West
Virginia. this afternoon called on
members attending the Baltimore An
nual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church to support enact
ment and operation OF the program.
"Old-age pensions, unemployment
insurance and other features of this
program are economically and morally
sound" Holt declared Il believe their
adoption by the present session OF
Congress is assured. The benefits from
the program will not be confined solely
TO those receiving direct aid. but will
be reflected in a stablliZation OF busl-
ness and a general leveling OF eco
nomic conditions.
At the same time. the young West
Virginian Contrasted the value re-
ceived in supporting program OF
this sort as compared with like eX-
penditures on war. In supporting the
security system. he pointed out. en-
phasis will be placed on saving lives
rather than destroying them.
Bishop Hughes Presides.
Holt'S address was delivered before
a luncheon session of the Conference
Commission on Social Service. AT
the morning -ession of the conference.
with Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes pre-
siding. matters of interest 10 the
church in the Baltimore region were
discussed. About 300 were in at
tendance. among them Rev. Charles
Winterfeld Baldwin, 95. retired. OF
Baltimore. The sessions are oelng
held in Foundry NJ. E. Church, SIN
teenth street, with DR.. FREDERICK
Brown Harris, pastor. as host.
DR.. Harold c.. Moulton, president
of the Brookings Institute. was guest
sneaker at an anniversary meeting OF
the Womans Foreign Missionary So
cietv following the luncheon period
Mrs. Joseph M. NJ. Gray presided at
this session.
Later in the afternoon Rev. Edwin
Lewis, professor of theology at Drew
University. was to speak on The An
cient Faith and the Modern Church.
Pilgrimage Is Planned.
At $50 pm. those attending the
conference were to make a pilgrimage
to the Asbury statue, Sixteenth ana
Mount Pleasant streets, in commem-
Grafton of the 150th anniversary OF
oF hn cfnnp M
Cokesbury College by Bishop ASbury.
Ministers and wives of ministers then
will proceed to the home of Chancel-
lor and Mrs. Joseph M. M. Gray OF
American University. where a buffet
supper will be served.
Senator Nye. Republican. Of North
Dakota. will be guest speaker of the
conference tonight. the evening ses-
sion to begin at 8 o'clock.
Memorial services for ministers of
the conference and ministers wives
who have died during the last year
were held last night as the opening
ceremony of the session. DR.. James
c. Nicholson of Baltimore presided
and the address of the service was
delivered by DR.. Frederick Brown Har-
ris OF Foundry Church.
EuIogies Delivered.
Those eulogized were DR.. John Will
liam Hamilton. former bishop of the
church. and Rev James l.. McLain,
Rev. George C. Harris. Rev. William
D. Beall Mrs. Solomon German. Mrs.
Edward L. Hubbard. Mrs. S. Reese
Murray and Mrs. Frank R. Isaac.
The conference will continue through
Monday morning. On Friday and
Saturday the eighth annual Young
Peoples Council will be held at Ham
line M. e. Church, Sixteenth and
Allison streets. On Saturday the an
nual meeting of the Baltimore Con-
ference Methodist Brotherhood will be
held at the First Baptist Church, Six
teenth and o streets.